Caught on Camera! I love when I get to the Camera in time! Which is really only like 30% of the time. Most of the time she is being cute I RUN to get the camera and by the time I get back she is done! Or she gets too mezmorized by the shiny-ness of the camera right infront of her face!! But in these photos I CAUGHT HER!! Enjoy . . .
I love this one ! Her face is so adorable!
She does this ALL the time! She loves her hands infront of her face! Almost like she is plannning something!! Duh Duh Duh . . .
Dad got her ready in the morning before heading off to Auntie Amy's! And she just looked too cute to pass up the camera!
YES . . . We have a Thumb Sucker!! She Loves her thumb! She will even be sucking her bottle and as she is holding it she slips her thumb in at the same time!! (I still need to get a picture of that!!)
So this was adorable!! I take her to work with me on Tuesdays. This Tuesday she was taking a nap in her carseat and woke up and started to squirm. So I took her out and put her in her Bumbo up on my desk so she could see what I was doing. I started working on the computer and then looked over and she had fallen asleep again! Slumped over in her Bumbo! She was Sooo Tired!
Here she is at Grandma Lee's house while I was at work! I got this picture Text in the middle of the day and it just made me soooo happy!
DeLa LOVES to lie on the bathroom floor!! WHO KNEW? The other floors in our house not so much . . . but the bathroom floor is SOOOO FUN to her!
In her sleep it looked like she was praying! Hahaha . . . Maybe she was!
Extreme Close Up! Look at those eyes! Beautiful!
Yep she holds her own bottle! And she does a great job at it too!
Can't wait to catch more on camera!
So we started feeding DeLa bananas regularly! (I can't belive she is old enough to start real food! AHHH!!)
Every night before she goes to bed we feed her bananas and she LOVES it! As you can see by the expression on her face.
She is pretty good with a spoon and is learning fast. Most of the time she stays pretty clean . . .but this time she DIDN'T! So we HAD to take pictures. . . Enjoy!
YUMMY!
Bella likes Bananas too!!
And DeLa loves to share!!
I love Weekends! No Work . . . Get to be with family . . . Relaxing! But for the past like 5 weekends it has been GO GO GO. Usually We have a busy weekend followed by a chill one, so they even out. Not recently. We had a wedding of a friend a couple weeks ago (which was beautiful) and it was kinda busy. Lots of events to share with them that kept us driving all over!
Next it was Easter the following weekend and another driving adventure to the cabin! Which (being at the cabin) you figure you will relax but by the time you get home you realize how even though it was lots of fun . . . it was also tiring.
Then the following weekend was a baby shower at . . . of course MY HOUSE! Which I was
SOOO excited for! I LOVE having parties at my house. But I really should learn to start cleaning the whole week prior so I'm not racing the clock to get it all clean before people start showing up. But I did PROCRASTINATE and of course was cleaning all Thursday and then up late Friday and up early Saturday to clean some more. It was a wonderful shower though. And all I really had to do was Clean . . . the food and setting up decorations was all done by Matt's sweet cousins. But after the shower as I'm passing out and finally relaxing . . . my mother in-law calmly kneels down next to me and says, "Do you have your talk ready for tomorrow?" Thank heavens she remembered!! . . . Cause I might not have!! Hahaha . . . Yes, Matt and I both had speaking assignments (15-20 minutes each) in church the next morning at 9:00 am!! So I decided to take a nap now (cause DeLa was!!!!) and write later. Needless to say procrastination is my life!! (Which I am not proud to admit, but hey all I can do is try harder next time!)
So THEN . . . we stay up till 2:00 am writting our talks! Okay . . .
I stayed up till 2:00 am writting my talk and Matt was kind enough to keep me company. . . Matt was done at about 10:00pm - I don't know how he does it! He glances at the material and could speak for an hour from just his thoughts and recalling scriptures, he is too Amazing! NOT ME!! As much as I love to talk and could talk ANYONES ear off!! In front of a crowd I have to be SOOOOO PREPARED or I am SOOOO NERVOUS! But by 2:00 am I felt I was . . . and hoped that in my exhausted state I was making sense and that it would still make sense in the morning! So we get to bed at 2:00 am and usually DeLa sleeps till 7 or 8 . . . But NOT THIS NIGHT!! (Oh the joys of Motherhood!) Sweet Girl had a hard night and was up a 4:00 am, then again at 6:00 am! Hahaha! THEN . . . I had a meeting I had to be at before church at 7:15 am! By this time I am loving life and everyone around me could tell by the way I looked. I don't even think I was completely awake driving to the church for the meeting. But hey I think I was there!
I get home and there is my sweet sweet Husband and sweet sweet baby passed out together on the recliner! Sadly enough I had to wake them up and we all had to get ready and head to church.
Thank Heavens for Grandparents who live in your same ward!! They took care of DeLa for us as we sat on the stand waiting to speak. I was so tired but as I gave my talk I got a surge of energy and I really felt the spirit so strongly! Through it all I was glad to speak! It was on member missionary work and it touched my heart! (I'll have to post part of my talk later!)
Too bad the energy left soon after I sat down because by Relief Society Meeting I was dragging, and though the lesson was wonderful I could barely keep my eyes open. THAT was probably the most tiring weekend! And I haven't really been able to catch up since!
This weekend was busy too (Not as busy as last) Thursday, Friday and Saturday I had to be up in Park City for a Parent Baby Massage class! It was really fun - and DeLa LOVED it! My sister in-law was taking a class to be certified to teach these classes and I was the class that the class was learning to teach on (if that makes sense). It was really fun! But a LONG way to travel 3 days in a row. Then Saturday we had our Family pictures taken and DeLa's 3 month photos taken. (on a post coming to you soon!!) Next, Matt wanted to go to an Antique Shop Liquidation that was going on in Salt Lake and we spent the day up there and in Park City too! So it was a lot of driving AGAIN, and even though driving is just sitting there doing nothing . . . I almost feel MORE tired after I get out of the car on a long drive.
DeLa through all of these past weekends has been so sweet with putting up with her parents! I feel bad when I get too over tired, because she is the one who suffers! But she was our ray of Sunshine through it all!
WOW!! I know there are people with lives much more busy/stressfull than mine . . . but some times it gets a little much! Matt and I agreed that this next weekend it is VEGE-time! We might leave the couch we might not! Who knows?! Hopefully nothing pressing comes up . . . but hey That's LIFE! Hahaha . . .
So this weekend was conference and Matt's Family has a tradition of going to the cabin in Mt. Pleasant and watching conference there! It is so fun and we haven't been to the cabin since we found out we were pregnant with DeLa, so we were really excited to go! Plus it was DeLa's first vacation! She did so good, especially on the trip down their and sleeping in a new place! She is so wonderful!
Here is the DeLa Bug in her cabin garb! Grandma Lee got her these cute jeans and a cabin onsie with trees and moose and cabin stuff all over it! She looked adorable! And it was flannel and kept her nice and warm since it SNOWED while we were up there!
Here is Matt with TayTay (Matt's sisters youngest son) He is so cute and gives such great hugs! Such a snuggley kid!
HELLO!!
Just chillin on the couch with Dad! Listening to conference!
Here is Grandma and Grandpa Lee cooing at DeLa as she coos back! They love her so much!
Here is Matt with Abby . . . Bella's Arch-Nemasis! Bella is not the fondest of Abby! But Abby LOVES Bella and was harrassing Bella to play with her all weekend! Bella at one point even got in the cupboard to hide from Abby! Hahahah . . . Her safe haven was atop the back of the couch on anyones shoulders she could find! She made it through the weekend though . . .and in one piece! Below we forced them in a picture together! You can see Bella trying to find a way out!
Caught Grampa sleeping as he held DeLa! SOOO TIRED!
Here is Matt Coloring Eggs! We had so much fun! I have to admit I . . . think mine were colored the best!
THE EGGS!
Matt's eggs are the back 2 and mine are the front 3! Rainbow and Tie Die! Im sooo good! The pink/purple one I dedicated to DeLa
This is Amy's egg (Matt's older sister) It was her dedication to Matt! So Appropriate!
ALL THE EGGS!
I tried to take cabin-esque photos with ALL of Grandma Lee's cabin trinkets!
EASTER MORNING!
The Easter Bunny visited us at the cabin and brought DeLa lots of presents!
Silly Face! I love when I catch these on camera!
She was loving this bunny that Granma gave her!
Here are her presents from the Easter bunny! She got some new Jam Jams in Easter Colors and a spring outfit and like 6 rattles! She was loving life!
The Little Lee Fam Easter Morning!
Don't judge my tired face! DeLa woke up every hour this night! I think she was trying to catch the Easter Bunny in action! Hahaha! MAN was I tired!
Easter Coma! She was so excited (or maybe so tired from no sleep the night before!) She Zonked out!
Here is daddy putting on DeLa's snow outfit! She looks like our little bunny! It reminds me of Christmas Story! "I can't put my arms down!" Hahaha
First time in the snow . . .Doesn't look so happy! I think the Bumbo was a little tight with the snow suite on! Still so cute!
A Little happier! hahaha. . . Oh how I torture her for a picture!
The Family in the snow! This is just after we took her 4-Wheeling for the first time! She drove like a pro!! HAHAHA . . . no really though - we took turns holding her and getting pulled in a sled by the 4-Wheeler - SHE LOVED IT! All the bumps and noise! She was in heaven! I will have to load the video we took and blog it later! It was fun!
My 2 little marshmallows!
Mommy and Baby girl!
View from the cabins!
This is the cabin!
This is the cabin from a lower view through the brush!
This is the field where we go 4-Wheeling/Snowmobiling
After the cabin we drove home and spent some time with the Hickmans (My Family) for Easter too! DeLa had had a very long day and was a little tired and fussy at my parents house, so my mom suggested feeding here bananas! I immediately said No she's too young and my mother quickly corrected me saying its time to start her on actual food! I can't believe she is already old enough to start FOOD! Well I was a little skeptical but my mom mushed up some nanas and added a little rice cereal and sure enough DeLa LOVED IT! And it only took about 3 tries for her to learn how the whole spoon thing works! What a SMART girl! My little baby is growing up! Her first try at food was Easter Sunday! Yay!
What a wonderful ful weekend! On top of all the fun we he had, he also had the opportunity to listen to general conference and hear the prophet and the 12 apostles speek! I always love conference! Especially when it is on EASTER! This year was a little harder to listen to with the baby and being tired! (Thank goodness they have a whole Ensign dedicated to it so I can read what I missed!) But through it all I love listening to conference. One thing that continued to stay in my mind was (I can't remeber who said it but) when it was talked about how EVERY relationship we create here on earth we are creating it for eternity! It made me think of all my friends and especially my family! I am so glad to know that FAMILIES ARE FOREVER! I am grateful for all my wonderful friends! And I am grateful for my Savior! Those are the relationships I can't wait to have for time and eternity! I am so grateful for my Savior for breaking the bands of death that we can have eternal relationships and that one day we can return and live with our Father in Heaven! I love my family and I love you ALL!
HAPPY EASTER!
