Mother's Day

I had such a wonderful first Mother's Day. It was so much fun being pampered and spoiled. It is such an amazing thing to finally know what it means to be a mom. I love it. Every day Abby gets cuter and cuter and even though I am with her all day, I feel like I still can't get enough of her. Every time she smiles, giggles, cooes, or anything of the sort, it just melts my heart. She has been such a blessing in mine and Phillip's life and I can't thank my Heavenly Father enough for sending me such a beautiful and wonderful baby girl. She is like my best little friend. We do everything together. She is just always smiling and such a happy baby. (Except of course when she is hungry or tired.) :) haha. I am so proud to be her mother and that she made my first mother's day so special. Phillip let me sleep in on Mother's Day and I woke up later to breakfast in bed. He made me the cutest card with a picture of Abby the day she was born. It was sooo sweet! Then I got to open presents! My mother and father in law gave me a brand new digital camera!!!! I was so excited! They said that for the first Mother's and Father's day they like to do something special. It was so nice of them. So now I can actually take clear pictures! And it takes short video clips too. I have been having sooo much fun playing with it and taking so many more pictures of Abby! Then from Phillip he gave me the option of picking one of three different Vegas shows!!!! We can either go to Blue Man Group, Stomp Out Loud, or Mama Mia! I have been saying ever since we moved here that one of the things we have to do before we move again is to go to a Vegas show. I am so excited! I have been reading reviews and trying to decide which one to go to. I think I am going to pick Mama Mia because from opinions of family, friends and reviews I have read on line, that one has gotten the most consistently good remarks. So anyway, I get to go see a Vegas show and take many more cute pictures of my cute baby! Needless to say, I had a great first Mother's Day!!!

Swimming!!!

Last Saturday Phillip's cousins were staying at the Golden Nugget Hotel for the weekend and invited us to come swimming with them. We had a blast! It was Abby's first time swimming and she loved the water! It was such an amazing pool and I was sooo sad that I forgot the camera! We took a couple pictures with our phone, but they didn't do the pool justice. It is a circular pool with a huge fish and shark tank in the middle! There is also a huge water slide that goes down through the tank into the pool. It was awesome!!!!!

I had to get this bathing suit for her! :)


If you can tell, that is a shark swimming in the tank right behind Abby!!!!

These are some pictures of the pool that I found online just to show how cool it really was.

Wii Golf Battle Continues...

So the battle of Wii golf between Phillip and his brother Jared continues. Now they have golf tournaments over the phone. They take turns to see who shot it farther, who got closer to the green, who got a better score, etc. Anyway, so Phillip finally reached Jared's score of -10! But of course that did not satisfy his competitive side so he continues to play and has now gotten -11!!! I have taken pictures of both for physical evidence. Good job Phillip!

PS-he also got a perfect game in bowling....a 300! He is crazy!!! :)

Sorry the picture kept coming out black. Oh well, you can still see it somewhat.

Photo Shoot Again

Some friends of ours (Ted and Emily) came into town this last weekend because they were photographing a wedding. We were lucky enough to have Emily take some pictures of Abby. It was so much fun getting her pictures taken since her last photo shoot she was only a couple days old! Anyway, I just thought I would post a few while the others are still being worked on! :)

New Beginnings

Discovering her feet, and trying rice cereal. So far, she likes her feet better. Surprising, considering how she loves to eat! She just can't quite figure out how to swallow yet, but I know she'll figure it out soon, and then that will win! :)

Our Cat That Roams Freely

We have a cat, at least I think we do. We have had this cat for over a year now. He is not a typical indoor, cuddle on your lap type of cat. He LOVES to be outside. Ever since we have had him, we would always make a mad dash to get outside...hence his name is Dash. So when we moved here we decided to let him outside since we would be living here for awhile. (Last time we let him out where we lived, he didn't come back for over a week and we were just about to move.) So now he loves to be outside and all the neighborhood kids love to play with him. He has his name and my number on his tag, which we have received many calls from people thinking he was lost. Anyway he just loves to climb trees, chase birds, explore, anything outside. He comes back to eat and occasionally sleep at night. The other day he was outside of course and we were just getting back from somewhere. I could hear him meowing, but didn't think much of it. Phillip told me to come outside, and sure enough, he had climbed up our tree, onto our roof and of course could not figure out how to get down. I had no idea how we were doing to get him down since we do not have anything but a step stool. Luckily people across the way had been painting for new people to move in and had a ladder. So Phillip had to climb up and rescue the ever so curious cat. Anyway, I just thought it was silly. And as soon as Dash was on the safe ground again, he scurried away, and a couple minutes later was climbing up the tree again. Crazy cat!

Our cat when we first got him, mischeivous as ever....

Not sure how to get down????
Going up?
And running away....

The Wii

Phillip has been playing golf on the Wii for days now. His brother just had to tell him that he got nine under on the nine hole course. So...Phillip was determined to at least score the same. He would start playing as soon as he got home, and would play it while he fed Abby or whenever he could squeeze in a few games. If he didn't get a birdie on any one of the first few holes, he would start the game over. Anyway, one day I was upstairs getting ready, and he called me down because he had something to show me...

YAY!!! He finally got 9 under! Congrats Phillip!!!!!!!!!!!!
So he called his brother and told him the good news. A few hours later, his brother calls to tell him he got 10 under...and the quest continues....yay....hahaha