Rora

MY BABY IS SOOO BIG! Both chubby and in age. she is already over 3 months old! still peeing in the potty, still being an angel baby in every way. lucky mee! she likes to suck on her fists and she is getting more and more into her toys. always laughing and smiling, all of this is old news, especially the fact that she is so adorable! she can stand up for hours if i let her, she is very strong, her eyes are an olive green and her hair is auburn. i am sure that will change, but for now that's her coloring.

playing her her giraffe and rattle. (and sitting half nakie)
HAHAHAH half nakie AGAIN! she likes to be diaper free!
love me them heart shaped lips!
she had a bow in her hair and ripped it out, stinker

crazy faces
i have a baby picture making this same face
big girl.

fall decor

So i decided now that i have a house that i need to start collecting my holiday decor. I started with Halloween. I saw on one pretty thing a post with these bats

I love them and i wanted to do then outside my door coming out of some cornstalks but 1. i had no corn stalks and 2. no one would even see my door. so instead i did them inside. i used black construction paper but later read that they are to be made out of black felt. oops! o well. my ma found me some cornstalks so i might do them outside too just for fun.

this really isn't a fall decoration but i have been wanting to get sticks like this for this basket since like 4 years ago and while in Utah for conference i grabbed some from homegoods. i SOO wish we had a homegoods here. ( these were an anniversary present to myself) mom and i added the flowers

We got some cute wooden letter from joanns, painted them black and covered them in glitter. SPOOOKY eh?

Found these cute fake pumpkins super cheap at walmart! 5 dollars each, i wish they had more! the pumpkin on the left is real and is already rotting, i have only had it a few days. its all mushy and yuck!

i plan on finding some cute leaves and preserving them like we did last year in wax but only this year in mod podge because that is just an all around better way to go! this is just a start to my collection

Blessing Flashback

Tonight ( Brad's Birthday) We blessed little Aurora Lynn. She wore my old blessing dress. Complete with 5 pounds of ruffles and lace. She enjoyed sucking on the strings and pulling the skirt over her face. She was such a good girl during the whole thing, as always. <3 Check out the cuteness.

The priesthood that stood in: Paul Raisch, Bradley, Levi Walker, Grandpa Kim, And Brother French


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Updates on us

So our little Aurora is 7 weeks old. She is getting sooo big! She is super strong and can stand up for a long time. She smiles ALL of the time and sometimes she even laughs. Her papa bought her a swing at a garage sale for a dollar the other day and she LOVES it. My Live-in babysitter. She falls right asleep once she gets in it. We have been keeping busy with family coming in from out of town and brad's sister will be in town with her little boy this Sunday, so that's two more weeks of being busy with family! I don't have many updates on the baby except for that she is like 10 lbs now and very happy and adorable.

Bradley's Mother came to visit for TWO WEEKS!

We spent a lot of time with her and the rest of brads family. We also had lots of bonding time with her cousin Ireland.

A week after Susanne went back to Vermont, my sister and her family came to visit. Aurora went pee pee in the potty (aka bowl) for the fist time!

The kids loved her soo soo much especially Meg. I hardly got to hold my baby the whole week!

We visited Flathead lake and i was the only one who swam....party poopers.

The rest of these pictures are just cute... this is how she sleeps, in her bassinet.

This is how she sleeps, on the bed....

This is how she sleeps in her boppy...

And here...

This is how she smiles :)

And this is what she looks like when i wake her up for pictures.She likes to lick my hand...

The rest of these pictures are the one Judy took for us. There are about 10 more she still needs to edit but these are the ones i have now.

I spend my days mostly at home day dreaming of all the improvements i would like to do to my house some day, Playing with Rora and visiting grandma and grandpa.
Brad is loving his job at LHC driving their concrete trucks, he was recently called as First counselor of the Elders Quorum,under Levi Walker and he is excited about that too.

We will be going down to Utah for conference the beginning of October and then the very next weekend we will be traveling to Oregon for Eddy's baptism. I am excited to get out of town for a few day and to show of my baybay.

Something new...

So my wittle babe has been out of the oven for two whole weeks now. She seems to be adapting to the world nicely. It feels like she has been here forever, sometimes I forget she is only 2 weeks old!

This is a picture of Aurora today at 2 weeks. ( I dropped my camera and broke it yesterday so for now on we will have to live with the camera phone pictures)
Rora is soooo teeenie weeenie she only has about 4 things that actually fit her right now. Most of them were passed down to me by my sister-in-law Jessica. Good thing she is around and has a little girl just 2 months older than Aurora so we get hand me downs almost every time we go to visit! Also she loves to shop, unlike me and finds me fun things at the thrift stores such as a brand new diaper bag for 2 dollars and I love it! It seems like she has two of everything and always give me one too. Love her! <3

On day 12 our good family friend Judy Petterson did a photo shoot for us that lasted a whole 4 hours! Baby girl didn't cooperate for most of the session but I hope we got a few goodies. Pictures are soon to come!

Unfortunately I have none of the pictures 0f Aurora's first few hours (They are on my mom's camera) but she was born at 7:04 AM 7lbs 7 oz and 19 3/4 inches and cute as a button.

She had a lot of trouble nursing for the first week mainly because my milk took a whole week to come in! Can you say annoying? But now baby is nursing as we speak and eating allll the time. I cant get anything done with this one attached to me! Despite the constant eating she is still the same size. No fat on her arms legs or tummy! only in the cheeks. I figured she would have a fat roll or two by now which is a little disappointing.

She seems to love being in her car seat which is really handy for me, she loves her pink bink and to have her hands on her face at all times, which results in lots of scratches :( She watches herself in the mirror while she takes a bath and cries when its time to get out. (Also handy that she loves bath time) She loves being able to visit Grandma and Grandpa every single day since she has been home from the hospital. She likes when I sing the Sesame Street song. Believe it or not but she already smiles at me and also when she is pooping, it's very cute I wish I was quick enough to get a picture of it. She has a freckle on her eyebrow just like her daddy. Other than that I have yet to find a birthmark. She has the cutest cry and sometimes sounds like a baby goat...o and she screams at me but its super cute.

Daisy dog doesn't pay too much attention to Rory which is nice because I don't have to fend her off of the baby and keep her from licking. But she DOES show signs of love by sniffing her and staring at whoever is holding her to make sure they are being nice. Someday they will be the best of friends

Although here it looks like daisy is growling and about to eat my baby, she really is very gentle and just happened to move while I took the picture.

Here are some pictures exclusive to the blog....so you can feel special no one else has seen them yet :)

Hopefully I will have the pictures from our photo shoot back soon, that will be the next blog.

Anyways..welcome to the world Aurora! we love you to pieces!

Blogidy blog

So...this is my baby room. Pictures taken with the cell phone so sorry if they are bad. It is quite cute in person.

This clearly, is her crib and cute paper lantern type things we found on sale at Joann's. They just so happen to be the right colors.

This shall be her changing/feeding area. We sprayed that little table and lamp white and covered the lamp shade with fabric. I painted that rocking chair white back in April when Brad got it for me for my birthday, it took a loooong time. The pink dresser was black and has been very versatile for me ever since I have been on my own. It still needs the handles put back on. right above the changing table is where I would like to put some sort of vinyl saying but I just cant think of the right thing to say. Maybe just a big Princess Aurora will do. We decided not to paint the room for now. It seemed like way too much work and mom and I have done our fair share of painting in the last few months.
This is a shot from the hallway. All i need is a wee baby to finish the room. And maybe some curtains.

The Cuteness

I discovered "The Cuteness" at Jack and Jill's second hand store in Kalispell for only $15 ! I thought it was cute and was sure I could do something to make it even more cute. Its perfect for the baby to sleep right by my side until she starts sleeping through the night. SO EXCITED! Now I just need the baby so she can test it out! It was a fun project to keep me busy for a few days. All I had to do was make a longer skirt and replace the ribbon/bow. I went ahead and got some foam for a new mattress and bought some red flannel to make little sheets out of eventually. I have extra of the checkered fabric and I am trying to think of something fun to make out of it. It will probably just end up being a blanket for the bassinet. But if you have any fun ideas for it let me know! Friday I will be 6 months and starting my third trimester. It has gone by super fast! We close and get to move into our house on the 31st so I will be very very busy for a while. Laying down floors and painting walls and such. Then we are off to Utah shortly after! can't wait to see everyone! Love, Sara

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