Nuggets Game

We went to the nuggets game last night to celebrate Daniel's birthday. (Sarah's husband) It was absolutely freezing and snowy and icy and it took a long time to get there, but it turned out to be fun. We road the TRAM and had everyone very bundled.
I think Mackenzie was actually quite comfortable in her big snow outfit!!

The Pepsi Center was packed and Mack loved having so many things the listen to and look at.But her favorites were Mimi's scarf and picking at her Dad's arm hairs. She did so well at the game. She hardly cried at all even though it was way past her bed time. But there was no sleeping going on because whenever the Nuggets made a basket and the crowd cheered she would get a little startled and look all around.

By the way, the Nuggets won by like 20 points.

Looking forward to Christmas

I am so excited for Christmas. We are going to have the whole family together for the first time in a while. That includes Sarah and Daniel! We hardly ever get to see Daniel so it should be nice to get to know him better. We have some fun things planned and I am just excited to have more people around and things to do.
We took some fun pics of Mack yesterday in her Christmas outfit, there were so many cute ones!! I especially love that her hat is way too big!!!

At our ward Christmas party Santa came to visit so we got a picture of Mack with him. She was just content and didn't mind at all. I think Santa really enjoyed it!!

2 months

Mack is 2 months old. She weighs 10 lbs 12 oz (30%) and is 22 1/2 in (50%). Right now her favorite things are her bath , her swing, going for rides in the car and stroller and keeping her mom up at night!

Smiles!!

This is just a cute picture of Mack.
These 2 are of Mack in her Holiday dress. Travis got her to smile really cute and I happened to get some pictures of it. She is smiling more and more all the time!!!

In the one below Travis got Mackenzie to actually giggle a little. It is so fun to see her learn new things!!

Welcome to Our Home!!!

Our little family in front of our beautiful house. Now I will show you some pics of my favorite rooms in the house.
In the basement we have an awesome movie room packed with candy and a popcorn maker.

On the back patio we have this nice fire pit to sit around and chat even when it is cold.

Me just chillin' and reading a magazine in my spacious great room. There is also a great view from this room.

Travis eating some freshly made cookies in the kitchen. Sorry you can't see more of the kitchen.

Relaxing on our bed!

Well, that is our house!!! Feel free to come visit us any time, we have a pretty sweet guest suite in the basement.

Well, it is just our dream house that we will probably never get, but we go to visit it a few times a year just to dream about what it would be like.

Baby Blessing

On November 8th we blessed Mackenzie Renea. She looked so beautiful in her little dress that Leah was kind enough to let us borrow. We had so much family come up for the weekend. We really appreciated the sacrifice people made to come!
She almost looks a little drunk!

Our little family!

I just thought this was a pretty good picture of us.

My sister-in-law Carrie, me, Sarah and Anna

Me with my 3 sisters. And who says we look alike?!!

Carrie's fiance Nick (who we are excited to be part of the fam), Travis and his Dad.

Little Pumpkin

Because it was both Halloween and Mackenzie's one month birthday we had a little photo shoot. It was also partly because we were given a couple Halloween outfits and we had to have her wear all of them!
It turns out to be pretty hard to get a baby to pose!

She is with the little stuffed witch that talks and laughs and it scared her a bit! I thought it was a little funny! (I know, bad mom!)

My mom goes by Mimi with all the grand kids so there is less confusion having 2 grandmas. So this is Mack and Mimi.

This is just my sweet little pumpkin!!!

I needed some pictures of me with my sweet little girl. I have not been allowing many pictures to be taken of me yet.

Thank you Oprah!!

So, I have not owned snow boots since I was probably 10 years old and really wanted some of my own this year. Thanks to Oprah and doing her one day of everything at Payless Shoes 50% off I was able to get some good snow boots for an awesome price! I also got a fun snow hat, sunglasses and a belt. Everything 50% off. That pretty much made my day yesterday!!!

Snow, snow...snow

This last week it started snowing and kept snowing for over 2 days straight. We got about 25 inches. School was cancelled for 3 days (that would have never happened when I was in school). The first day I did not get out and exercise and was going crazy, so the 2nd day Travis, my Mom and I decided to shovel.
Travis got his work out pushing and pulling this snow machine. It is really heavy.

This is my Mom shovelling!

I only did about 1/4 of the driveway and had Travis come snow blow because the snow was heavy and I was already tired!! It turns out that shovelling snow is a really good work out!!!

Since when do we get this much snow in October? The best thing is that it will be back in the 50s and sunny all next week!!

It's a good day!

Today my little girl is 1 month old, it is also her Grandpa's birthday (happy birthday Carl!) and it stopped snowing. (I will have to tell you about the snow later) Also Mack decided she LOVES the bath, which makes me happy because it really calms her down to just sit and relax in her little tub. She has already started to try and drink the water! Her head tipped to the side a bit and she got a taste of the water so she kept trying to tip over and lick the water!! She is really starting to get a little personality.

The update

We seem to be doing much better lately. My hormones are slowly regulating and I am starting to accept the fact that Mack will not breastfeed. I hate pumping but I will keep going as long as I have some milk--which probably won't be much longer. She is starting to wake up more and we love to see her eyes. She is just such a good baby. So quiet and easy. I know that I am blessed. I still don't get much sleep because when I do get a few hours to sleep I can't sleep even though I am exhausted. I will have to learn that trick. Mack got her sleeping habits from Travis! We set her on a cold counter and she just stays asleep, it is amazing. Just like the other day we had the window open and it was literally raining on Travis and he slept right through it! I am totally jealous of that talent.

Any way, we are trying to decide when to start going to church and taking her out more. With the swine flu all over the place we are just not sure. She has gone to the store and that is about it. Well, I don't want to bore you with writing so here are some cute pics.

So far Mackenzie has not repeated a single outfit there are just so many cute ones to choose from!
She had her first real bath and hated it, but loved being rapped up in the towel afterward.

I just think these shoes are adorable so I took a pic of her feet. I love baby shoes!!

2 weeks...already?

Travis loves these pics because it looks like Mack fell asleep while praying! I think it looks pretty cute. When she is asleep we can do pretty much anything with her and she stays asleep!! Last night Travis put her on a cold kitchen counter as a last resort to get her to wake up and eat, well she didn't even flinch!

For the title I put already with a question mark because it actually feels like it has been a month already, but it has only been 2 weeks. Just the long days and lack of sleep make it feel that way I guess.
This is just a sweet picture of Mack's face.

All the rest of these pics are Mack's 2 week photo shoot. I love this little outfit and she will only fit in it for another couple days most likely.

She is showing off how well she can lift her head!

Exhausted after the photo shoot. I just posted the pics I liked the best. No need to bore you with all of them.