We Love Janet!

My good friend Janet came out to Arizona for my birthday this past weekend :) We had so much fun! Janet and i have been friends since we were 2. She lived right across the street from me. No matter how much we have changed or how far away we live from eachother, we always seem to get together at least twice a year and things are just as they've always been :) Max loves hanging out with Janet too. They laugh a lot and joke around whenever they get together. I KNEW Lydia would love Janet too lol Right when Lydia saw Janet, she just stared at her and talked to her. She loves her and it was so sad when Janet's time was up and we had to take her back to the airport :/ It went by way 2 fast but we were so glad that she took the time to come out here and see her little niece hehe

We took some pics of her and Lydia together so we can put one up in Lydia's room. We had a lot of fun taking pictures :)




Lydia just got her first 2 teeth in less than a weeks time! She's always holding her mouth weird and putting everything she can in her mouth to chew on.
Janet got chewed on a bit too haha


thanks for coming, Janet! We miss you already!

Weird Thought...

A year ago tonight, i found out i was pregnant :) i remember taking a pregnancy test for about the 13th time in a 2 month span lol) and fianlly saw a super faint line! I came outta the bathroom and just smiled at Max hehe He asked me what was going on and i showed him the test. He was so excited but the line was so faint that he didnt want to get his hopes up lol I told him that there was no such thing as a false positive on a pregnancy test. I even looked it up online and it said exactly that. So i texted my best friend, Lindsay,and said "Hi, Aunt Lindsay :)" She wrote back "dose this mean what i think it means?!" haha It was so much fun finding out we were going to be parents :) We didnt want to tell family until we were outta the scary danger zone with the baby lol
We had NO IDEA at that time how much we would love that little baby! i even had a few scares while i was pregnant and cried everytime cause i couldnt stand to lose the little baby growing inside me that i didnt even really know yet. My best friend got a lot of calls and texts from me (some late at night, sorry!) just to ask if something was normal in a pregnancy lol Its so strange cause the moment that little baby was born, the moment we saw her, we both loved her more than anything in the world. Max and i have talked about the moment she came out, our whole lives had shifted. of coarse we loved her while she was in my belly, but you just cant explain that moment you first see your baby. its magic :) we're just having so much fun raising such a sweet girl.

My 4 Month Old...

Welp, Lyddie is 4 months old! She has gotten so big just in the past month! We also...(ready for this?!)...have her sleeping through the night! She's actually been sleeping trough the night for about 3 weeks now. It wasnt very hard at all. She pretty much went along with anything we did :) She gets tired around 6:30 or 7 and so we put her to bed after giving her a bath and feeding her. then she sleeps til 5:30 or sometimes 6am! Its so much nicer being able to get our sleep lol She only cries for about 5 minutes when we put her to bed and then shes out. i was really nervous to start doing it so i got a video baby monitor (which i highly recommend and i got it for super cheap on ebay) and it helps give me that peice of mind that she's ok. We were going to wait until she was 4 months to train her but she was doing so good at getting up just once at night, we slowly cut out that time at night :) She wakes up SO happy and she's happy most the day now!




She talks all the time now :) Whenever she's with her dad, she talks up a storm! its so funny! Its like she's telling him about her day :) i managed to get it on video the other night which is very hard to do cause she dosn't do anything with the camera out lol but i hid it pretty well so she had no idea :)

Lydia and her boyfriend Luke

We loove going over to my best friend, Lindsay's, house. We always have so much fun over there. Lydia loves playing with Luke and just listening to him talk to her :) He always talks in the sweetest voice to her and Lindsay and i just love watching the 2 of them together. I love that they are gonna grow up together!




He's always kissin' her and givin' her hugs :)


He hates when she cries and always trys to comfort her


Shes loves her Lucas :)


I love this video cause he just wants to play with her SO bad hehe and it shows the way he trys to talk to her and entertain her :)

Whatta u think?

I think my little Lyddie looks just like her daddy :) But i think that might be because im around both of them all the time haha What do you guys think? As i was uploading these pics, im even more certain that she's just a girl version of her dad hehe (obviously the 1st pic is Lydia lol)

What's been goin' on

It's been awhile since i've posted so i thought i should update. Father's day went pretty well. For one of Max's gifts, Lindsay took pics of me and Lydia and we picked our favorites and put them in a really cute collage frame :) Here are some pics from that shoot...



Lydia has been getting SO big lately! She has now discovered her voice. It is the cutest thing to see her gibber-gabber and try to talk to us :) She's always trying to copy the sounds we make (and she's getting pretty good at it!) She also does this thing where she shows off by kicking or moving her legs really fast lol She always looks real proud of herself after she does something haha Here's a video that has her talkin and showing off

2 Years!

It seems like i JUST posted about our 1 year anniversary lol It also seems like this has been a long year cause its been all about trying to get pregnant, being pregnant, and then finally having our sweet baby girl :) We have had another awesome year and have been SO blessed. I couldn't ask for more in life. i have an amazing husband that i love more and more everyday. I'm always thinking 'how did i get SO lucky???'. Last year we decided that for our anniversary every year, we will go and stay at the hotel we stayed at for our honeymoon. We did that this past weekend and it was awesome :) We got to just spend time together and enjoy our time together (not to mention getting sleep lol) My mom watched Lydia while we were there and that was so helpful. It was hard to leave her but we definitely enjoyed ourselves. I cant believe its been 2 years! I love my husband and love the little family we have so far :)



P.S.
Lydia had her first shots today cause she turned 2 months yesterday. It was SO sad :( She was acting so happy before they gave her the shots which made it even worse knowing that they had to poke a happy girl :( But she was a trooper and only cried for a few seconds. And she has been my happy girl the rest of the day :)


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And now, she's just zonked out on my lap :) I cant get enough of this girl.