6 MONTHS OLD!

Wow I can't believe it has been 6 months already! How time flies. Well, as I have mentioned, Ally is getting quite the personality. One of mine and Samantha's favorite things to do now, is make Ally laugh. I can always make her smile, but making her laugh...that is Samantha's department. Samantha is a pro at getting her to laugh. So here is a little clip of Ally laughing at Samantha while in her new favorite thing: her Jumperoo.

(This is only 40 seconds long)

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pigtails

So my sister put Ally's hair in pigtails and it was too cute! I didn't have my camera, so the good ol cell phone camera had to do...it is so cute....Ally's hair is getting lighter....and she is just getting more fun by the day!!!!

Oh I just love this sweet face!!!!! She has also developed this habit of sucking on her bottom lip...hopefully that doesn't make her get an overbite when she is older!

Happy Father's Day

For Father's Day, I have been making a little slideshow for Samantha's Dad, John. I did this for all the help he was to me during my pregnancy last summer. He helped fix quite a few things around the house and made my life less stressful during a stressful time. How many ex-husbands do that?? It took a long time to get to this point, but I'm so glad we are good friends now.
Anyway, the video started out to be a cute short one, but then as I have been getting baby pictures done of Ally, Samantha commented on how she wished I would have done pictures like that of her when she was a baby. Well, I literally make 5 times what I did when Samantha was a baby. Yes, I was THAT poor and couldn't get as many professional type pictures done, but we did take a lot with our little camera.
So my slide show to John also turned into a tribute to Samantha as well. I made this just as much for Samantha so she would know how much I have love her and how many people love her too. And although I couldn't put the HUNDREDS of pictures I do have of Samantha on it (the video would be way too long and boring for that) I put a few for each year of her life and all the people that have been in her life over the years.

It is 10 minutes long.....I put this on a DVD to give to her dad today. I hope he likes it! And now everyone who visits my blog will get a glimpse into Samantha's life over the years....(p.s. Samantha's dad is a redhead, and anytime you see a redhead in the slideshow, it's someone from HIS family...lol)

For Samantha and John:

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VEGAS!

We went to Vegas this past weekend for my friend's Jenny's and her daughters baptism. So Ally had her FIRST plane ride!! I thought Ally would do great since she is SUCH a good baby and never cries, I take her to movies ALL the time and she is fine. Well....she wasn't so happy on the plane ride. She wasn't screaming, but she got fussy towards the end of the flight. I didn't know about air pressure and babies...no one tells me these things. But I figured a 1 hr flight was better than a 6-7 hr car ride each way being trapped in a car seat.

We stayed with Jenny and her family and they have a pool so Ally had one more first while in Vegas. She wore her FIRST swimming suit and went in a swimming pool for the first time.

Jenny's and Kate's baptism went well and Ally did much better for the plane ride home.

Here is a little video of some of the trip....

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5 MONTHS (yesterday)

Okay, Ive been totally slacking here...and I don't even have the MOST pics scanned in yet...but here are most of the pro pics that were taken of Ally...from 5 weeks, and 3 months...so I'm going back in time a little..but at least they are getting posted....

Ally's developed some very cute quirks. Lately she has been sucking on her bottom lip, its making her look like a cabbage patch doll! And she will only do a poopy diaper in a DRY diaper. Yep, that means right after I change a wet one, minutes later I get a nice surprise...DOH!

She does NOT like rice cereal. She gets fussy everytime I try feeding it to her. I will have to post video on that one too.

She is one of the best babies, and I can still take her to movie's and card night at friends' house, and she is just as good as good can be! Me and Samantha love her so much!

Shiba Inu's!

My sister's dogs are Shiba Inu's. They recently had puppies and Ally just loves them! Here are some pics of the puppies and some with Ally...

a funny video for mom's/happy late Mother's day to everyone

Which one is which???

Can you guess which one is Ally and which one is Samantha?? How did I get so lucky to have 2 such beautiful babies???!!!!

4 Month Checkup!

Well, Ally had her 4 month checkup yesterday and I'm happy to say she is perfectly healthy! She weighed in at 13lbs 3 oz (50%) and was 24 1/2 inches long (50-75%). Once again, she was happy sitting there all unsuspecting of what was to come. Samantha couldn't go with to this appt because she was in school, so she wanted me to video it to see if Ally turned her freakishly dark red color again and did the car alarm cry. Well...she didn't but here is what did happen....a little video for those of you who may not have kids and haven't been to one of these appts before.

But WARNING! It is sad!

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I've been tagged....(6 things about me)

Okay so I guess I will FINALLY get around to doing this....don't know who interesting it may be but here it goes. Most of it I'm sure most of you will know anyway.
6 things about me:

1. I play 4 instruments and have been in 4 bands: 2 bands as the bass player, and 2 bands as the keyboardist (piano player).
2. I love to travel and here is some of the interesting places I have been so far OUTSIDE of the U.S. : Amsterdam, Paris, Costa Rica, Bahamas (I guess that's technically U.S. boundries), Puerto Vallarta
3. I'm pretty adventurous- I've skydived, rock repelled, and river rafted and also like to snowboard and waterski when I get a chance.
4. My favorite food is SUSHI!! (Thai is a close second)
   
5. I love a good Chess game
6. I've split my eye open in the same spot twice and have had to have stitches both times.
   

4 MONTHS OLD!!

Ally is 4 months old today and I can't believe how time flies already! She has almost slept through the night...once..so I'm still getting up 2x a night..but that's okay! She is going to bed earlier..so technically, if I went to bed as early as her I would be getting more sleep, but there is just too much to do!
I got her pictures taken at Faces photography...I will be posting the other pictures soon...but the black and white one is from when she was 5 weeks old, and the color one is her 3 month picture taken a couple of weeks ago.....

Busy busy week

So this has been a very busy week (taxes, Samantha had a major project for school due today and didn't tell me about it til wed-we did finally get it finished late last night..., doc appts, never ending housework) and I have been behind on the posts I had meant to post. Ally went to bed early tonight so here I am. We will start with last weekend....

The girls and I went up (down?) to Layton to visit Ally's dad's family and to watch Ally's aunt Isabella in a play she was doing..."Willy Wonka". Isabella was Oompa-Loompa #2 and we thought she was the best Oompa-Loompa! :)
Later that night, Samantha got a 100% on Medium on a song on Guitar Hero 3 (596 note streak). Woo hoo! I don't know why I take pride in that...but for all those who play that game, that's pretty good! Especially since we don't even own the game! (I didn't get a picture of it)

Then on Sunday, it was beautiful weather so we took Ally to the park for the first time! She seemed to really enjoy herself. I put Ally in one of those baby swings even though she was a little too small. Her uncle Preston (who is only 3) helped push her in it.....We then went over to Ally's Great-Grandma Alexanders house for dinner and had a nice visit.



And finally.....Happy Birthday to Marianne (Ally's too-young-to-be-a-grandma) on Wednesday (April 16)!!! She spent it at Isabella's play and I hope everyone had a good time!!

A little humor on tax day

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!!

Just a cute little picture of me when I was about 5 or so....now I'm.....well....can you guess??? By the way...those bangs are from my mother's attempts at cutting hair...lol

too exhuasted to think of a clever title

I've started putting Ally's hair in little pony tails and bows...and she has discovered her thumb...but she sucks it in a funny way :).

Well, it's been quite the while since I've posted last. I have been back to work for 2 weeks now and boy has that been quite the adjustment. My day usually goes as follows.... Alarm clock goes off at 5:50am. I hit snooze til 6:10am...then finally get up at 6:20. (Ally still isn't sleeping through the night...occasionally I get a straight 4 hrs in there), I get ready, then I get Ally up, change her, dress her, nurse her, then load everything up in the car: Ally in her carseat, her diaper bag; diapers, wipes, a change of clothes in case of any mishaps, blanket, burp cloth, previously pumped breast milk, formula in case she is still hungry, and a bottle. Next, my electronic breastpump with a clean bottle to pump into, an ice pack to keep it all cold, 2 bottles of water, one to drink, one to rinse the breast pump horn part thingy after I'm done pumping, my purse, a lunch for me (if i'm doing really good but most of the time I forget) and we are off to drop Ally off to the baby sitters. Then I'm off to work. Get off of work, pick Ally up and her stuff, get home, and now for all the other fun mom stuff...helping Samantha with homework, dishes, laundry, dinner, yardwork etc...needless to say, the non-critical things get set aside for later.
Ally is doing well...Marie (her babysitter) says Ally is a really good baby that hardly ever cries. So I'm happy about that. It's been an adjustment, but we are getting the hang of it ;).