Stinky Face

So Riley does this new "stinky face"... and she does it all the time! Its so funny! Here is a video of her doing it when i was feeding her. (It looks like im shoving the food in her mouth but im not, she likes to close her mouth before the spoon goes in so i have to hurry and get it in there!)

There's a first time for everything...

1st time for ACTUALLY bringing the camera... MiRAcLe!
1st time for Riley's first train ride...
1st time for her first carousel ride... she didnt know quite what to do... I think it was overstimulation for her with the lights, the spinning, and the horse moving up and down hahah













All tuckered out from all the fun... snuggled up on grandpa's tummy! She sure loved that! She wasn't to thrilled when we pulled her from grandpa's arms...

Oh my goodness......

Im sorry... I know everyone has probably heard this from every new mom! But I have THE Cutest stinkin baby in the WHOLE UniVeRSe!!!!! I can't get enough of her! I got bored the today so I took some pictures so that the family could see how cute she is growing up to be!











Riley is growing so fast! she can sit up on her own but only for like 30 seconds max! She likes to "talk" all the time! And when I say talk I really mean scream! she is trying really hard to crawl... so not too much longer we are going to have to baby proof our house from a little girl on the move!

I know I say it all the time! But I love being a mom! I honestly don't think that there is any greater joy than that that comes from being a mom! I was cleaning my moms house yesterday and I was washing down the bathroom counter when I started thinking I should go check on Riley who was sleeping at the time! And then I thought, wait... do I really have a baby??? that is mine all mine!!??? I like had this flash back of being in Junior high and high school and all the saturdays I would spend cleaning my (parents) house and I would just think about being married and being a mom and having my own baby, and how I couldn't wait for it all to happen. All I have EVER wanted and dreamed of is marrying the perfect guy and especially being a mom!! I would always day dream about what it would be like! And how much fun I was going to have!! And then as I thought about checking on Riley I just got this huge smile from inside that I had a better life than I used to day dream about. I love my husband more than I could have dreamed about and I love being a mom to the most adorable little girl... I couldn't even make up in my mind when I was a teenager a baby that is as cute and wonderful as Riley!

Its a funny thing they say about Love.... And they all say, I'm sure you have all heard it... They say when your engaged.... "You are going to love your spouse more than life itself, more than anything!" and you always are like Ya i know!! And you think you know the kind of love they are talking about.... and then you get married, and you go through situations and disagreements and fun memories and EVERYTHING that goes along with marriage... and I think... MAN!! I really had no clue what people were talking about when they said that because I love Nate more than I could ever expain to him or myself! Its like the most perfect love you can imagine!! And then........ you find out your pregnant! AND EVERYONE tells you... "You think you know what love is now, but wait till you see that baby for the first time, your heart is going to grow a million times bigger, and you are going to love that baby SOOOOO much" And yet again, I would say " I totally know what you mean and I can't wait!!!" And then the day comes, after 9 months of discomfort, and you see that baby! and automatically your heart aches of love, becuase its almost so much love that its emotional, and spiritual, and pure. Its the greatest Love of all. Its so pure and so real. Ha im making myself cry here just thinking about all the love I have in my heart!! I love my little family with my whole being. And I can't wait till it gets bigger and bigger, so my love can just get that much bigger!!!

Spring Break

So Im pretty much the worst blogger and the worst picture taker ever! But anyways we went to California this past week for Spring Break! It was a ton of fun seeing the family and friends we havent seen for a LONG time! Riley was so good through the whole 12 hour drive there and the whole week and the whole drive back home! I know all new moms say it, but seriously I have the best baby in the entire world! She is SO easy! She makes being a mom a piece of cake! Literally! She honestly never cries, she sleeps through the night. She is always happy. If its her nap time or bed time I just stick her in her bed wide eyed and all and she will just lay there until she falls asleep! Everyone tells me to soak it all in because my next one won't be like this! If all my kids were like this, i would literally have like 12! Anyways back to California, while we were up there we visited Nate's school and the kids he used to work with! We hung out with the family, which was so much fun! we saw our friends, and I have no pictures to prove it! We did however go to six flags marine world on sat and I do have like 3 lame pictures to prove that!





Last night our friends came over for dinner and games with Riley's future husband! Ha they had their baby a month before us! So they are destined to be together! (they have already had their first kiss) And if they do end up together we have the funniest pictures and video's to show them haha! Riley was like spazzing out everytime she saw Gavin last night! I dont know what she was doing but she would like start shaking her body and she screamed once! Haha it was so funny! I dont know if she thought he was cute or she was just excited to see another little person! We tried to get a video of her freaking out but we pulled it out to late! But we have one with a part where she has a mild little spazm when she looks at him! And he was just having fun rubbing her feet!



But Riley is getting so big every day! I feel like I wake up each morning and she is a different little girl! She is so fun! and laughs and plays all the time! I LOVE being her mother!


I love when she looks up at me like that! I can't help but kiss her when she does!





Hopefully I will start taking more pictures so I can show you how dang cute she is!

sleepy....

Valentine's weekend

This weekend, me and Riley went up to the snow for 2 days with my parents. Nate could't go cause he had work... which was not fun! But here are some pics from the snow...



She got a little tired or maybe too comfy on grandma's lap...









When we FINALLY got home (it felt like we had been gone forever cause we both have never left Nate) I walked in the door and found this on the table! I love him!!!

What I get to wake up to...

This morning I woke up, tired as can be, to Riley fussing of hunger. (I say fussing, because she honestly does not really ever cry... she just fusses so cute!!) So I get up, make her a bottle, put her next to me in bed and start feeding it to her. then I look at her, and I just see this little baby girl who is so perfect in every single way. She was looking up at the light, and as tired as I was, and as badly as I wanted to just fall asleep feeding her, I could't stop staring at her. I just looked at her, with my brain racing of all the things she makes me want to be. And of how this little girl, who I have only known for three month, makes so much of who I am. I can't get over how in love with her I am. And how much she makes my life complete. I never could have imagined the way being a mother would have been. I did think of it, honestly probably every single day since I was 12, and I thought that it was going to be the best thing in the world. I did not know, however, and I could not comprehend how much I would love my baby though. And how spiritual as well as wonderful it is being a mom.




And then she pops the bottle out and looks at me with her perfect face. And I can't help but think I have the most beautiful mornings every day, because this is what I get every morning!

Our family's Journal Blog

I have never been good at keeping a journal, even though I would love to. So I have decided that I am going to use our blog as sort of a journal of our lives. So that as our kids grow up they can see it and look at the things that have happened in our lives. and the funny things that they do and say and things like that.

Ha I am also not good a blogging so this might be tough to do, but I would like to remember all the memories that we make, esp. now that we have started our family. So this could be fun for me! I just hope that I actually keep up with it, and remember to take pictures during the week!

So today I begin my attempt at journaling/blogging of our little family!

Family

We had an awesome first christmas together! We went up to California and had a BLAST hanging out with the whole family! Life has been good! Riley is THE SWEETEST baby in the entire world... she is so good for us! She already sleeps through the night and is SO happy during the day! We couldn't be more blessed! I love her so much, and I have so much fun playing with her everyday! She is starting to laugh a lot! and her personality comes out more and more each day! AHHH I just love her so much! I don't think that there are words to describe a mother's love! I just can't even stand it, I love her so much! Its kinda making me sad that she is growing up so fast! But it makes me so excited as well because she becomes so much more fun every single day! So we are just enjoying being a family!

My beautiful girly

PICTURE MASS OVERLOAD!!!!