Hangin' out with her old man

Bumbo

She's not quite big enough to sit in this yet. This was a test run.

Photo Shoot Give Away!

There's an awesome photographer whos giving away a free shoot! Everyone go comment on her blog HERE for a chance to win!

Preggo Photo Shoot

Ok this is a little late, but I just got my pregnancy photo shoot pictures back and edited! Here are a few of my favorites :)

Weird, that was really my belly?

Stormy Weather

One thing I really miss about Texas is having thunder storms. Especially at night. The sound and smell of the rain, the sky lighting up so bright it looks like day time, even the loud booms. I love thunder storms. The plains of Texas sure got good ones too.

Here in this little valley the mountains steal all the storms! I always see them up at the top of the mountain, pouring away, but they must run out of juice before they pass those rocky peaks.

Well last night a few sneaky clouds did make their way down to us, and it was awesome!

It only lasted about 30 minutes, at about 12:30. Good thing I cant sleep at night or else I would have missed it!

Tatum has been sleeping in her crib the last few days so I have the baby monitor on. Her window was cracked just a little bit, and when the storm first started up all I could hear was this crazy noise through the monitor. It scared me for a second. Tate had never made a noise like that before. But then the rain came down harder and I could hear it through my window too. We got a few big booms and I thought for sure she would wake up, but she slept soundly through the whole thing.

What a good baby :)

Update for Grandmas

Tatum loves it when I sit her up in this chair and take her picture :) First pic is Tate modeling her witch tutu... I have since trimmed it down so the foof dosnt hit her in the face.

Next is Tate modeling her cute fall shoes that Mimi won. They sort of stay on her feet if she is wearing socks. I think by the time we visit MD they will really fit.

On Sunday she fit into her first church dress! It was really cute! She had a green bow in her hair for most of the day, but these photos were taken late that night.

Enjoying a soak in her whale baby tub. She loves this better then Dad baths.

Tomorrow is my six week postpardum appointment, its been 6 weeks! I cant believe it, but I can. Everyone always says its so sad their growing up to fast, blah blah blah. I like her better the older shes gets.

Holy Cow!

I was watching the news and saw this story of a 19.2 lb baby born to a women in Indonesia the other day... it is huge! I cannot believe that a baby can get that big in 9 months! Luckily he was born via c-section. This is the only pic I could find on google images of him, the other baby looks like a little burrito next to the 19 pounder!
While googling him I found these other whoppers....
This 17 lb girl was born to a women in Russia

And this boy was 15.7 lbs, born in Poland.

I thank my lucky stars that Tatum was only 6lbs!
The biggest baby every on record was 22.4 lbs

I won!

Today was a looooong day. Tatum has been so fussy, I dont know why some days are fine and others are let's scream all day long days. She is a mystery to me.
Anyways I entered into a drawing yesterday for this sweet headband:

And when I went to check the results my name had been drawn! It made my whole day better seeing my name up on the screen!
The creator is a girl named Ariel whos blog I have been following for a while. She has the sweetest little girl named Serena whos just a few months older then Tate. She started making these headbands to keep her busy being a new stay at home mom, and she just opened an Etsy shop up...

Check it out here
Serena Bee Frills and Fancies

One Month Birthday

The official pic :-)

Tatum had a pretty fun one month birthday yesterday. We started the day off with a nice soak in the tub. After many a screaming session we finally figured out what was missing in Tatum's baths... Dad! That's right. Stick her in the tub alone, chaos. Stick her in the her Papa and she's happy as a clam. Then we got Emily and Talia and went shopping for their Halloween outfits for the little witch day at Gardner's Village. We bought tulle to make their witchy tutus, and then went on a search for baby tights and black onesies. I dont think anyone makes a plain black onesie. Please let us know if you know where to find one.

For the evenings event we went up to Heber to the Wasatch High homecoming game! It was really loud, and rained on us, but Tate stayed sound alseep. She was nice and bundled in many blankets, sitting in her carseat. I think Tate must be lucky because this was the first game I've been to where the Wasps actually won! At least we think they won. We left at half time with a 42-7 score.

At one month Tatum is working on holding her head up and making cute baby noises.

She wants to make a shout-out to all her awesome Grandma's and let you know she thinks you rock!

The outtakes:

Almost Fall

Im so excited, the air has started to cool down and the leaves are changing in the canyon. It has been perfect at night. Hopefully soon we'll be able to go out on walks during the day and not come home dripping with sweat.

I put Tate in her crib for the first time today... she looked so small and sweet in that big old crib! She usually takes a looooong nap in the afternoons, but she only slept for 30 minutes in the crib. Hopefully this means she'll be super tired tonight and take her long shift then.
Cute cousins :-)