Easter!!

Ok, so it's a day later than yesterday, but here is our fun Easter :)


Kyleigh's new butterfly towel! I accidentally bought the giant towels to make this with, so she will be able to use it til she's about 6 or 7, AT LEAST!








Hangin' out with daddy. This pic is so cute, it had to go on here :)

Great-Grandma Schiers! We were so excited she could come and see us :) Mostly because it wasn't planned, and we didn't know that she would be able to come from Boise to spend Easter with us. This is Kyleigh's first picture with her other Great-Grandma.







Still hangin' out with daddy. She is so much a daddy's girl already, but I'm so glad she knows and loves him so much.






Uncle Jeff! Ky is the first Grandchild on my side, and therefore also the first niece. My brother loves little kids, and he is the first to come and take her away from me when we walk through the door. This last week was so fun! Kyleigh got to spend lots of time with her uncles, Jeff and Jared. They really didn't want me to take her home. :)






Our snow storm! Those flakes were about the size of golf balls! The storm lasted for about 4 hours and dropped about 4 inches of snow, on top of the foot and a half already there. The snow hill in the picture is about 7 feet high. Idaho had lots of snow this year!

To invite only, or not to invite only....

I've been thinking a lot about what Chante' said on her blog, about it being an invite only blog. I guess I'm looking for opinions, but as I've been thinking about it, there are A LOT of wierdos on the internet, and I'm not sure about how much I want a bunch of weirdos to know about my family, especially my babe, ya know?

In the meantime, Easter was so fun! We spent it in Idaho with my parents and my brothers and sister and her hubby. I won't have pictures to put on here until sometime tomorrow (Kyleigh and I got to stay for the week) but we got some super cute ones, so I'll put at least a couple on here, including our blizzard that came around on Wednesday! That's Idaho for you!! But its still March, so there ya go...

Anyway, until tomorrow then :) Hope you all had a great Easter!

I should have known...

Ok, so my blog on Tuesday was just the beginning! Kyleigh's roll-over wasn't an accident! I should have known better-nothing she does is an accident at this point, because she's learning. It's so much fun though :) I walked out of the room this afternoon to make her a bottle, and when I came back she was about 6 feet away from where I left her. IN 2 MINUTES!! I was impressed, but it means I really need to get my bootay in gear and get to baby-proofing, or at least baby-safetying my house. That's not a word, I know, but that's really what I am going to be doing.

I love this growing up thing, but I'm a little sad too. I still want her to be tiny, but she is so much fun. We went to the nutritionist yesterday at the WIC office and got official permission to start big-girl food, well, sorta. But her new favorite, 2 days running, are those Biter Biscuits. She likes juice from a cup too, but we are still figuring out the cup thing. And her favorite veggie is the mashed carrots with rice. We've tried squash and sweet potatoes, and she'll eat them, but she inhales the carrots. What a mess! I love it! :)

Those blue eyes are killer! She will be able to get away with just about anything!

Staying at home, with some stuff on the side...

I figured this would be the easiest place to answer this question, then everyone who wants to know will know, ya know?
I am a stay at home mom, and I love it! I can't stand even the thought of having to find a babysitter or daycare for my babe (I worked in it too long, and even though it's not a bad place for them to be, parents miss out on too many things). Needless to say, I don't want to miss anything, so going back to work is the worst thought to me.
But, since I need a little extra every now and then, I am doing hair at home. Thank heaven for a big kitchen! Eventually I would like to have my own house that has an unfinished basement so that I can put a little salon in it, but for now, the kitchen is great! And I can stay at home and not miss a thing. It's fabulous :) My awesome Grandma has also offered her kitchen every month to do hair for family, so that will bring in a lot, I hope, because they are all over the place! Thank heaven for Grandma's too! The fun part with that will be spending time with all of my fam every month. They are all close, but I just can't see them often enough. :)

Too Fast!

Well, we've hit the 6 month mark! It's come out of nowhere! It really doesnt seem like this little angel has been with us for 1/2 a year already. It was just yesterday we were headed to the hospital. Kyleigh has been growing so fast. She's doubled her weight, and added 3 inches to her length. She rolled all the way over for the first time yesterday, but I think it might have been an accident, she was watching me. She's kinda started the clingy thing so I can't go too far :) We've graduated to size 2 shoes and size 3 diapers and although she still fits in some of her clothes, we will shortly have to upgrade to 6-9 month clothes. She loves to play, is learning to sign, and is trying to figure out my toys (i.e. the camera, hence the look of "What is that thing?" written all over her face, teehee) She's a gorgeous girl, and so happy that most people can't tell when she's not feeling well until she coughs or sneezes. She is so much fun! I love watching my little girl grow!

4 Generations

This was taken a couple days after we brought Kyleigh home. We went to my Grandma's house and she and my mom insisted that we needed a 4 generation picture taken "Right Now!" So we did! I'm not really a fan of me in the picture, just because I really just threw clothes on that day, but for the most part it is a really sweet picture. That is my Grandma Brown on my right shoulder, my mom on the left, and then me and Ky in the chair. Awwwww...

Just to add a bit...

These videos are way fun, but I should mention that with little babies, I would definately recommend the baby videos. They are way simple compared to the others, SUPER simple! :) They are basic words that they do really one at a time to help little ones understand them. We have one of the videos for the bigger kids and its almost too fast for me right now. I'm sure the more we watch it we'll be able to pick it up, but yeah, anyway. The baby videos do one at a time, and the older videos do 3 or more at a time so you can use them in sentances. They are pretty fast, fun, but fast. :)

One of Our Favorite Things

At 6 months old, its amazing to me how fast the time is gone and how fast my babe is growing. I love being a mom! What a blessing she is to me and her dad! There are times I wish she was still my little tiny baby that wanted to cuddle all the time and needed me for more than she does now, she's becoming so independent, but at the same time it is so fun to watch her grow and learn! She is learning so fast!
One of our favorite things is the Baby Signing Time series. We were walking trough the mall around Christmas time, so Kyleigh was 3 months old, and we found one of those little vendors that was selling these sign language videos and the lady popped in the Baby videos for us. I still am amazed at how simple they are designed, but we got the first on for her for Christmas and she's watched it every day for the last 3 months, at least 1 time. She's learned that this is her movie and she gets so excited when she hears the songs, it is so fun! She's starting to watch me sign simple things like "fish", "milk", and "cat", and she recognizes what they are! She can't sign them back to me yet, but in the next couple of months I will keep you posted on what happens.
Honestly I would HIGHLY recommend these videos. They've won over 55 national parenting awards, so I think that was what really caught me. But she loves them! Also, although this might only matter to those of us that are LDS, they were created by Lex de Azevedo and his daughters, who are pretty big in the LDS music scene. His daughter Rachel is the "host" of the show I guess you would say, and she does such a great job at making it fun!
I'm going to try to create a link so you guys can see what they are all about. It starts with the Baby Signing Time videos for ages 3 months to 3 years, and then there are the videos for the bigger kids that are a little more advanced. Hopefully if Kyleigh can sign back to us during her toddler years we can avoid a few temper tantrums because she'll be able to tell me exactly what she wants :) Like I said, I'm going to try to create a link so that you guys can see what they are all about :)

Holidays!

2 Months old! We spent Thanksgiving down in Cannonville with Grandma and Grandpa Fletcher. That was a fun weekend, because Kyleigh got to meet her cousins Ryan, Will and AnnaCa for the first time, and that was fun for all of us!
This picture is so cute :) I wonder what she was thinking...

3 months old! We spent Christmas up in Idaho with Grandma and Grandpa Schiers. That was so much fun! Uncles Jason, Jeff and Jared were there and so were Aunt Nancy and Uncle Heath. We got lots of new pictures taken. Kyleigh got new jammies from Grandma, and an new baby that she sleeps with every night. Her favorite new toy was her GloWorm. He lights up and plays music, and all you have to do is push the button and she smiles and falls asleep so fast! It is so cute! That was such a fun week :)




Happy Valentine's Day! From our favorite little cherub! Kyleigh turned 5 months old in February, and she took some cute pictures to send to Grandmas. I can't believe how fast she is growing!

First Introductions

Our First night in the hospital. It wore us all out! But Bryce was so proud,

he took so many pictures. What new daddy wouldn't?

Hangin' out with Uncle Jared! This was taken the second day in the hospital. They were so cute :) Jared is so excited to finally be an uncle!

I wish that this picture had turned out clearer. This was such a sweet moment, because mom couldn't make it the day that she was born and this was the first picture we got

with just Kyleigh and her Grandma. Oh well, it's still such a cute picture; Ky was about a week and a half old in this one. My mom calls every week to tell me that

Kyleigh needs her grandma. I agree! We need to be closer! :)

Angel Baby!

These pictures were taken at 2 weeks old, and the photographer did so good we had a hard time choosing which pictures we would keep and which we would have to leave behind. Well, I couldn't leave any behind, so we took the option of being able to look at them online. And then I cheated! I downloaded them all onto my computer, so I have ALL of them! Yay! You just can't turn away pictures of this little angel, it's not possible :)

The Boys

We've had Ghost (black) for 3 years and Buster (white) for 2. They are like our kids, 2 little obnoxious, playful, cuddly boys. We love them so much, our house wouldn't be the same without them here!