first christmas

Our first CHRISTMAS with the three of us was

so wonderful and so busy!

Berklee did not like the fact that I wanted a picture first thing when she woke up haha

We were able to have a Christmas morning just our family and then we headed up to my families for brunch/talking to Elder Winegar/games/presents and then headed to Jesse's grandparents to have Christmas with his side!

It is definitely true what they say about Christmas being more fun when you have kids. Berklee absolutely loved the wrapping paper and she could have torn that apart all day long and be totally content!

Being able to be with both our families was great and we are so grateful to both our parents that are there to support and love us! We got lots of fun things but one of the most amazing gifts I got was from my mom, she had taken time to get pictures of Berklee, me, her, my grandma, my great grandma and my great great grandma around the time we were 20 (except for Berklee of course) and get them in this amazing picture frame. It is so cool to see all of my grandmas and mom around my same age!

We were also able to spend time with our extended family at Christmas parties which are always fun and such a great time to see each other. I didn't take lots of pictures at most Christmas parties but I was able to get a few pictures of the game we played with my mom's side.

Ever heard of Minute to Win It? Well we've played a few games with just my family but we decided this year to have my mom's whole side of the family join in. It was so much fun for the kids AND adults!

Happy Birthday

Happy Birthday Twiners!

My brother Cade and sister in law Tiffany gave birth to my beautiful niece and nephew on 12/10/10!

They were born at 23 weeks and 5 days.. 16 weeks and 2 days early!

Baby boy Crew came first and weighed in at 1 lb 9 oz followed by sweet baby girl Tessa at 1 lb 4 oz. Cade told us Crew yelled at them after he was delivered and was trying to breath on his own. :) They were able to get breathing tubes in both and they say Tessa is a little feisty one and keeps trying to breath on her own even though they are doing it for her! (relax little girl) They are thee most perfect little babies I have ever seen! Every little thing about them is just amazing. What a miracle they are. They still have a long fight ahead of them and we just pray that they will keep fighting!

We are praying for them and their parents! It is a very difficult time for everyone!

We love you twiners, welcome to our amazing loving family! Everyone loves you so much!

Crew Cade Winegar

Tessa Winegar

i just gotta say...

i love this girl!

her latest most favorite thing is...

walking!

yes, you read it right, walking!!

that is all and I mean all she wants to do the moment she wakes up until its time to take her nap and then back to walking when she wakes up and the cycle goes on and on and on until its time for bed at 8:30 and both mom and dad are exhausted! :)

I love seeing her face the second she pops up off the ground, its an immediate grin from ear to ear! We wanted to get a little video of when we walk with her and then set her down because she usually starts crying and holding her arms up for us to come give her our fingers but its hilarious in this video because she just goes straight to her next favorite thing...

patty cake!

she has started moving her arms/hands up and down when we sing patty cake to her and then she's recently puts her arms clear above her head for when we sing "throw it in the oven for baby and me".

I have just loved watching Berklee learn new things, she is such a smart little thing! And again I am just so grateful for my amazing husband, he works so hard for us so that I am able to be home with our sweet girl! Being a mom is the best!

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This is a little late... but better late than never I guess!

Berklee is 7 months old!

I have absolutely enjoy every second with this girl.

I love seeing her smiling face every morning.

I love seeing her grow.

I love watching her learn new things.

I love watching her face when she's concentrating so hard on doing something.

I love watching her little hands and fingers grab things.

I love watching her try so very hard to crawl.

I love seeing her different expressions

I love watching her when her daddy walks in the door.

I love when she gives us kisses, wide open mouth and everything.

I love that she loves food.

I love that she loves her family.

I love when she sleeps.

I love her laugh.

I love her cry.

I love her.

Sometimes I wish we had a way to understand what is going on in baby's minds. Like when I watch Berklee stare at something and you can just see that the wheels are turning inside but I just wonder what exactly she is thinking. I just hope that she knows how much me and Jesse love her. Every night when I put her to bed I look at her and wonder what I ever did without her. I am so grateful for my little family and am so so grateful for how hard Jesse works for our family so that I am able to stay home with my little girl.

Some fun things Berklee has learned and done over the past month:

-Learned to give kisses (I still need to get a pic of this)

-says da da da da da

-turns round and round and round on her tummy

-still rolls around constantly

-will be sitting and wants to get to her tummy so she just face plants it (with no tears usually)

-loves visiting the cute baby in the mirror and giving her kisses

-still loves her very loud high pitched voice

-she's learned to fall asleep without getting rocked to sleep (hallelujah)

-learned that she is getting a boy and a girl cousin from her Aunt Tiff and Uncle Cade

-learned to do funny noises.. I don't know exactly how to put them in words cuz they're not words so you'll just have to watch the video :)

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It takes about a minute into it before she does her trick :)

Not the best video but you'll be able to hear a little of Berklee saying da da da da with a little bit of come get me screams! :)

Visiting the very cute baby in the mirror

Cade and Tiff cutting into the cakes to find that its a boy and a girl!

SYTYCD

One of my many favorite shows

So You Think You Can Dance!

This is my second time seeing the SYTYCD tour! Last year my mom got me tickets for my birthday and just her and I went and so this year we thought we'd invite all the girls! Tiff and Sarah Jane hadn't ever seen the show before but we knew exactly how to get them hooked! They are going to be avid watchers now! :)

We of course started out the night by going to Tepenyaki steak house (if you haven't been there I HIGHLY recommend it) and then we raced to get to the show!

Notice anyone missing from the first picture to the second????

Don't ask me how you don't notice that Tiff was in our group she was sitting RIGHT next to Ashley! Weird waitress lady.. but don't worry we had the lady at our table take another!!!

So we show up to our 12TH ROW seats to find that someone is already sitting in them and they proceed to tell us that they over booked a lot of seats and that we were like the 14th people to come and tell them that these were there seats! SO BUMMED! So we moved back and still had a wonderful time but still... how do your over sell tickets!!!!

The girl in this picture was the winner for this season! Yay Lauren! Loved her!!!

(me, Mom, Ash, Tiff, Sarah Jane)

Can't wait for next year girls!!!

afraid of the dark

Just a little fact about me:

I am so scared of the dark!

Ya know how most girls have the fear of spiders or heights or something like that.. yeah mine is the dark! And not just the when your little scared of the dark. I truly hate it! I get that wrenching feeling in my stomach, my heart starts to race and I start to get all hot! ew just thinking about it... ugh! I hate being outside in the dark I hate being inside.. no good can come from darkness!!!

Jesse left early, like in the middle of the night early, tuesday for his deer hunt. It probably took me an hour to go back to bed after he left and last night it took me til 1 in the morning to actually want to go down to bed, and even after I did I go to bed I slept with my lamp on, and the hall light on with my sheets pulled up far enough to cover my ears!! (not that it really made me not hear the noises) Every little sound would just freak me out! Now Jesse knows I have this fear because even when he's here I wake him up so he can listen to a sound with me and tell me if its someone in the house! I know what am I 10? I have been scared of the dark forever... but he still leaves me! :(

When I was single I would fall asleep to a movie every single night! But after getting married that was one thing I had to work on and let me tell you I am still working on it! Some nights I just wish we had a tv in our room! I love love love falling asleep to a movie or to the tv.. it drowns out all the other sounds that may happen!

anyways... I sure do hate when Jesse's gone! He makes it so much easier to sleep at night! I was very very tempted to go get Berklee last night and put her next to me in bed... but what would that have done? Woken her up (probably), and with her noises she makes at night she probably would have woken me up numerous of times in the night (making me have to listen to noises in the house trying to fall back asleep)... good thing I didn't go get her!

Wish me a better nights sleep tonight!

jazz, birthdays and halloween!

What a busy month October has been... I can't even believe its over

first off jazz season begins baby!!

As most of you know my family are huge fans of the Jazz! Now so far we haven't started out great but we still support and still hope for the best! :) I love our family jazz parties! We have done these for as long as I can remember...

She loved watchin the game :)

Berklee and Ryder sure do love each other! Ryder loves giving kisses and Berklee can't take her eyes off him when he's in the room!

I'm sad I didn't get a pic of the whole group... next time!!

next up.. birthday!

My dad's birthday is actually Nov. 4th but we got together for his birthday on Halloween this year so we could have most everyone there to celebrate his birthday and have our kids together in the cute costumes!

Everytime we have a birthday in the family we go around the room and everyone gets to share one thing (which usually turns into 3 or 4 or 5 things) that we love about that person! Honestly we could all go on forever about my dad! He is such an amazing dad, husband, grandpa, advice giver, provider, worker and so so so much more! I love you daddy! I'm glad we could all be here to celebrate your birthday!

Berklee (cow), Whitney (bumble bee), Ryder (shark)

I sure am grateful for families and so grateful to be close to both mine and Jesse's families! Don't know how I'd live without! :)

Halloween...

Friday night we attended our ward Halloween party! It was so much fun to go and meet new people and to be with friends in our ward! I didn't get many pics but this one had to be taken.. This little (big) boy is a month younger than Berklee but he sure is a chunk... I feel that if Berklee wasn't as tall as she is this is how chunky she'd be. I love it!

Saturday night was spent with Jesse's parents and younger brother and sister (Joseph and Cailtin) and we attended their ward Halloween party. We had yummy chili and Joseph was in charge of a game that we had fun playing and then we headed back to his parents and relaxed around the fire and watch the Utah Utes win! go utes! (Jesse's family are huge

BYU fans.. so it was fun for me and Berklee to see the utes win)! :)

Happy Halloween!

i can't wait...

I thought I was going to be able to wait till I got all of Berklee's photos back to post... but I just can't help it! This first batch of photos are to die for!!! My amazing talented friend Trissy took all of these shots (a few weeks ago at my house) plus this past weekend took some outside shots (that I haven't gotten yet) and she soon will be taking our family pictures! She is just starting to get into the photography business and she has very reasonable prices (if anyone is interested go to her blog that I linked on her name or ask me about it and I'll give ya some info)!

Like I said... I couldn't wait! And there are even more pictures that I didn't post! I'm obsessed! :) Trissy did such an amazing job.. you wouldn't even know it by these pictures but Berklee was pretty grumpy the whole time! She was so patient and just snapped at the right moments! Thank you thank you thank you Trissy! I looove them!

Hope everyone enjoys as much as I do! :)

getaways

We have been so lucky to go a couple great getaways in the past month!

Over conference weekend we met my family up at my aunt and uncles cabin in Oakley after I finished working on Saturday and had a blast riding 4-wheelers, talking, playing games, yummy dutch oven dinner and just being together! The girls got to go on about a 2 hour 4-wheeling ride while the boys watch the kiddos! My mom and Sarah Jane headed back while Tiff and Ash showed me where they had gone the day before.. we had so much fun wheelin and going over huge jumps ;)

And this past weekend we were able to go to St. George for a much needed longer getaway! Me, my mom and Aunt were talking a couple months ago and wanted to get tickets to Tarzan that was playing at Tuacahn and decided it was going to be a girls night out to see the show plus my brother Cade that loves anything Disney! But it worked out nice cuz we had a personal photographer to take all of our group shots! The show was AMAZING and of course the music was awesome!! I had so much fun with my mom, sister-in-laws and Aunt (and Cade)! My husband seriously is thee best to let me have my me time with the girls! And of course he got his time on the green with the boys the next day! :)

Ash, Caitlin, me, monkey, Tiff, Mom, Aunt Jamie

We let Caitlin be right up and personal with Tarzan since all us girls are married :)

The rest of the weekend consisted of food, shopping and visiting! I seriously love St. George! I have grown up going there for these amazing little getaways and I hope they will always continue! Berklee did so great with the drive and the first night was the only rough one! :) St. George is the perfect distance for traveling! Can't wait to go back soon!

6 months

6 months old... seriously!

Where does the time go? It seems like just yesterday I was looking at this face

And now I look at this

And can't believe she's doing this by herself

I even got her to do this

(leaning up against something of course)

We love our little Berklee so much! She has such a fun personality and overall is such a happy girl! She is learning and growing so quickly and I just can't get enough of each stage! She still loves food and pretty sure she already realizes how much better big people food is than her own.

When anyone tries to guess her age they always say 9 months! Yes she is wearing 9 month clothes but she's only 6 months! :) She has leaned out in the tummy area but she just keeps growing like a weed!

Stats:

18.4 lbs 89%

28.5 in 100% (off the charts)

17.9 head circumference 99%

The doctor says she is just doing so great and is doing everything a normal 6 month would do... So all you people out there that try and hold her and she starts to cry cuz she wants her mommy... that is normal! :) Stranger danger!

look at that happy girl.. not knowing what is coming :(

She got three more shots plus the flu shot and she has to go back next month for the booster flu shot! Sad day.. but mommy and daddy get to get our flu shot then too so we can go thru the pain with her. :(

Lastly I just needed to get this cute pic in of her little piggys... She always crosses her feet and I just think its the cutest thing in the world!

(plus look at those stylin shoes)