the month of june! san antonio status

well, jon drove from arizona to san antonio straight through. we didn't get home until 5am the next day. he literally drove for like 20 hours straight. we knew our drive would require lots of stops with this little baby. she'd sleep, wake up and cry so we'd pull over, feed her and let her get fresh air for awhile then get back in the car. she did so good!! our final stop was to feed her and put her in her jammies around 8, her normal bedtime. that's about when i fell asleep too and jon drove solo until we got home. i would not recommend that, my friends. sketchy, but hey-we made it.

this was the day after our long drive. hard to believe you'd be tired after sleeping for almost two days straight!!! when we got home she started to say "bah bah bah". she went to sleep not knowing how to say it, and when she woke up that's all she was saying. it is so amazing to see this child literally learn something new every day. 

this was also around the time that she really seemed like she was going to crawl. i recorded her so much thinking i'd see her just get up and go. little did i know, it would be weeks before she actually did.

i stare at her while she sleeps. this little thing is going to break my heart. 

see what i mean?

started getting more hair than we knew what to do with!!!!!!

swimming with daddy at nobu. this pool is pretty cool, but she always did really well. it would take her a minute to get used to the temperature then she'd be fine for awhile until she started to shiver and we'd go home!!! she and i spent quite a few days there sitting on the ledge behind jon. it wasn't really hot enough to get in every time. 

here she is playing with ice in her bumbo on the deck. she loved doing that. 

she started doing this weird fake smile/grimace and it was so funny! this is the best picture i got of it. i swear she would do this when i would be trying to make her laugh and it simply wasn't funny. she would do it a lot to people she didn't see very often as well. it was like a sympathy smile for at least trying to get her to laugh. 

you guys, i can't. this is when she was still sleeping with us in the mornings and napping probably once a day in our bed. this was before we sleep trained her, so i would have a hard time getting her to fall asleep. she would almost always fall asleep if i cuddled up next to her and pulled the comforter up by our faces. this is also around the time i posted a photo of her on her photo stream wrapped up in lots of blankets. i got a firm talking to not only from my father in law, but from my step mother in law the next day. sometimes she wouldn't fall asleep until i bundled her up in blankets! she'd almost always fall asleep within minutes, then i'd go in and take all the blankets off of her (mostly so she wouldn't sweat to death) and let her sleep next to pillows so she wouldn't roll. needless to say, she stopped sleeping in our bed pretty soon after this :( 

jon got primmy a little jacket to match his. he's really into patches right now and jackets that have velvro areas to attach the patches! it looks so cute on her and the little kid patches are smaller and have brighter colors. she doesn't appreciate them yet, but she will. 

the draper temple where we got married. the middle is an image i bought for us before we got married ."love you so so so much" and the one on the end i bought for her a few days before she was born. "and baby makes three". 

wow, i can't even explain how much it rained this month. it just rained. and rained. and rained. fortunately, there was no damage done to our house or property. a lot of other people northwest of us were not so lucky. 

our little 7 month old angel baby!

lizzie got this dress in Vanuatu. how cute??? it looked amazing on her and was unfortunately the only time she got to wear it. it was so stuck on her that i had to cut the underarm seam in order to get it off of her. that was traumatizing. if teeny is a girl, i'll put this on her when she's much smaller to avoid what we all went through.

we worked so hard on this! we painted over it probably ten times. jon liked it!

father's day twinnies.

LOOK AT THIS!!! i was getting ready while she was at my feet, and she grabbed my leg and started licking it. i am so obsessed with her.

at the end of june we went out to Jacob's well with our friends, the vinton's. it was so cool! in the last picture you can see the well, the middle spot where i think it's about 25 feet deep. people would cliff jump from the top. the rest of it was around 4 or 5 feet, really slippery with moss and pretty cool water. prim baby liked it, she was good in the water and out of the water. also, jon got braces!! his retainer broke while he was in the MTC and his teeth have been shifting ever since. rachel (pictured above) has a brother in law orthodontist here and he is pretty inexpensive so she referred us there. i'd been wanting jon to get braces for awhile because he was self conscious of their shift and why not while he's in school? the ortho said he'd have them on for 4-6 months, hopefully he was being truthful.........

January 2k15

at this point in Prim's life, most of the pictures i took of her were her looking cute in her outfit of the day since that's pretty much all she could do.

i got this little outfit out just in time! katie got it for easter thinking i'd have a little baby like hers. nope! her happy easter (with a bunny on the bum!) fit three months early.

i got two gender neutral shirts at my baby shower that said things like 'just arrived'. a couple weeks before she was born, i returned them and got a different gender neutral shirt and this very girly shirt.

little booties from her great grandma woodbury! she wore those all the time.

dressed up for church.

sitting out back with the puppies. it is so beautiful here.

her two month check up!!!! she is such a little dolly.

10 pounds 6 ounces, 95th percentile for height and 25th for weight!

she started smiling a lot around this time and i loved it so much.

my watch from jon when he graduated!!!!! it was lost for 5 months and jon thought it was gone for good but i kept praying it was around here somewhere. we were cleaning behind our bed and he found it on a box behind the bed. i am so happy!

can you even?? she is simply pleasant.

lizzie and i decided to train for a 5k together. we worked out together in different states when i lived in california and it actually helped to have a motivator. this was day one of my couch to 5k and it was hard and felt amazing!!!! i am so proud of my body. i kept thinking "if my doctors could see me now."

jon and i are part of a museum club and they were having a picasso event a night jon was at school so we decided to go. everyone there complimented me on how well behaved Prim was the entire night. the picasso pieces were enormous tapestries paid for by Rockefeller which don't sound interesting but actually really were. they filled up the wall floor to ceiling and prim would just stare at all the colors. 

hehe i always thought she looked like baby grinch when she would cry. once we started feeding her formula, she only cried when we would burp her halfway between her bottles. rarely ever any other time.

jegggggins

we went on lots of walks together for fresh air and exercise. she looked particularly lovely this day in her little summer outfit.

Primmy's little area of of our room (while packing for dallas):

we bought her furniture at ikea a couple months before she was born and had so much fun putting it together! the pictures- top left: a frame i bought before she was born, middle top: another frame i bought before she was born knowing i wanted to frame her little feet. silver right: from jon's aunt karma and grandma (picture every month of her first year). two left pictures: funny little framed pictures that were in our bedroom growing up. middle: painting from nana (jon's mom) to primmy for christmas. middle right: a picture of my mom, who prim was named after (teresa). left bottom: painting amanda made me for christmas. it said "all is well." because my granny used to say that to us all the time. every time she wrote me a letter or ended the conversation on the phone she would say "and i hope all is well with you guys.." bottom middle: from kim bird! I am a child of God. Bottom right: a cross stitch kathy made for Prim with her blessing date on it! everything is so special to us.

the top of her wardrobe is covered with stuffed animals that people sent us and gifted prim. the chevron painting is from kaitlyn that was at my baby shower. the wood blocks are another gift from kim. the gold picture is one i bought right before she was born. a little girly, i'd say. ;)
pink piggy from lyndsi and silver from aunt karma and grandma. teddy from brittany that smells like a baby nursery!

this is the chalkboard mal made prim. it hangs above the dresser from my gran's house. and i put the picture of jesus there so that she could see him every day.

and to end, are you serious? here we are all ready for our 5 hour drive to dallas. i can't believe how beautiful she is.