So it's August!!!

I cannot believe it is August!!  I last posted in the middle of April, so I guess we should get caught up.  But first a cute pic!!!

Such a cute girl!! At the end of April, Samuel's nanny and long time family friend, Heidi got married.  We were lucky enough to be part of her special day.  Chris and Parker came up to Temple Square to watch Amilee, so we could attend the sealing.  It was really nice.   Here are some pictures I took of Heidi and Don

Jolene also came for the wedding! She watched Amilee while I helped with Heidi's dress and took some pictures!!! Here are so pics!!

We also went to see Tanya and Trevor and Abby!! Here are a couple pics of all the girls

 

At the end of April, I started back to school for Spring semester, so life got much busier for me.  The first few days felt like torture because I wasn't used to leaving Amilee for those long amounts of time.  I really enjoyed Spring semester.  It was great!!!

Aunt Michelle and Cousin Daniel came to visit with us also.  Daniel and Amilee are one month apart and so cute together.  Here a few pictures!!!

They love each other!!! Daniel is so cute, and so much bigger than Amilee!!!!

May went by pretty uneventfully.  However, for my birthday, we spent the day in Park City and did some shopping and that was really fun.  I got a lot of Bath and Body Works stuff, which I love, some new tennis shoes, a new bag and a few other little things.  My mom and dad got me nail polish, which I wanted, and a really cute picture frame and we had a nice dinner at my parent's house to celebrate mine and Chris's birthday.  It was really nice.  Samuel worked outside for grandpa during the day and worked at PJ's at night, while I just went to school and did homework.  

Jolene came out in June, while Katie and Rylea were at EFY.  We had a great time together.  She helped me get started on a quilt for Amilee that I just finished a couple of weeks ago.  Jolene, Samuel, Grandpa and Amilee went to Antelope Island one day while I was at school.  Here are some cute pics!

They had a great time!! I really enjoyed my time with Jolene!! In June, Chris got his mission call to Korea!!! He leaves for the MTC August 25!! I am so excited for him, but I will miss him a lot!!! it's a bittersweet moment, since we are so close!  Amilee also went swimming for the first time.  After she got used to the water, she loved it.  She got an ear infection at the beginning of the month though, but it didn't really phase her, so that's good.  

Amilee also learned how to crawl and pull herself up onto everything!! She is way fast and can do the stairs and basically everything.  She walks around everything too, so someday soon, she will figure out walking~!  We are in trouble!!  She says dada and it is so cute!!  

July has been a bit of a crazy month for us.  I went to the dr because my knee was really bothering and found out I needed surgery.  So on July 9th, I went in for knee surgery.  I got a lateral release done and it has been a slightly rough recovery.  I am doing physical therapy and things are coming along.  We couldn't really afford for Samuel to take off work during my surgery, so my little brother came and stayed with me to help out with Amilee and while I needed things.  My visiting teaching companion Jena came too.  I am so grateful to them.  I am also grateful for my visiting teachers because they brought dinner the first couple of nights.  It helped out so much.  Oh in June, I also finished up Spring term and started summer, so while having knee surgery, I still had to keep up with school, and I think I did okay.  We went swimming last week with Daniel and Michelle, but I don't have the pictures on my computer yet.  It was fun and cute to see them splashing together.

In a couple of weeks, we are moving to Lehi in with my parents and we are really excited for lots of reasons.  We need some change and are grateful for this opportunity!! I hope all is well!!!  

So it's been a while!!!

Well, it has been a couple of months!! so sorry, but goodness, it seems we are so busy.  Since my last post, a lot has happened.
On February 14th, Amilee was blessed by Samuel.  My nephew Daniel Aedo and my niece Abby Hood were also blessed.  The blessings happened here at home all together and the whole family was here.  It was a wonderful experience!!

What a blessed day!!! it was great to see everyone and have the baby cousins together to be given a name and a blessing!!  Samuel was really excited to give his daughter a blessing from the Lord.

The rest of February was just school and work for Samuel.  Not too much going on.  That keeps Samuel pretty busy and I am pretty busy with Amilee.

In march, it was school and work everyday again.  But our friends from Nashville, Scarlet and Chris, came to visit Utah and we were able to spend some time with them.  They have a little baby also, named Grayson.  He is one day older than Amilee, but he is so much bigger than her.  He was a cutie and it was so good to see them.  We hadn't seen them since their wedding in Dec 08.  So it was good!  Amilee started discovering her voice this month and started babbling so loud.  It was so cute.  She talks all day every day and smiles so much.

She is such a happy and smiley baby.  April marked conference weekend and Easter.  We went up to my mom and dad's for the weekend.  The boys were able to attend the Priesthood session in SLC Saturday night.  They had a really good time. Sunday, we watched conference and celebrated Easter.  Amilee got some new toys and some clothes and we got some money and a subway gift card.  Yum!! We also celebrated my little brother, Parker's birthday.  He turned 15.  It was a really nice weekend!!

Today I took Amilee to the doctor because it was her 4 month check up appointment.  She is doing so good!! She also is starting to roll over.  It's fun!! She eats rice cereal and does really well with it and we will be introducing new solids to her next month.   I am super excited for that, but not for the stinky diapers.  Wednesday is Samuel's last day of school for the semester and he is so happy about that. This semester was hard, but good!!  

Last Thursday we had a really neat opportunity. Samuel and I and my brother Chris, along with a few other students from the Business College had the opportunity  to meet with Sister Dalton, the general YW president and her counselors.  We sang the business college school song to her for her birthday and then we were able to be taught by her.  It was so awesome.  It is cool to hear her speak in conference, but this was different because she was speaking directly to us and tailored her remarks to us, rather than the whole church.  It was great!!!  

Samuel's mom is coming to visit this weekend for a wedding and we are really excited about that!!!

Next month, May, I will be going back to school.  I am super excited to get back into the swing of things!! But that's about it for us!! Lots of love!!

Pictures!!!

our christmas picture!!!

bath time!!

i love my bouncer!!

my pink dress!!

I will be making our blog private tomorrow, so please leave email if you haven't already!!!  We are loving Amilee so much.  Poor thing has a cold right now!! it's sad.  Samuel and I have both been sick as well, but I think we are coming to the end of it!! We are blessing her on the 14th of Feb and we are getting very excited as we will get to see a lot of the family!! Can't wait!!

So it's been a while!!!

So life has been a little crazy since Amilee was born and with all the holidays and family, we have been very busy!!!

After Amilee was born, we enjoyed a nice week or so at home.  I took finals the week after she was born and did really well.  Samuel was so great to watch her for me.  We went up to my parents a few times and let the dogs check her out and Skip loves her so much.  He always wants to lick her, but the other two don't really care about her too much.  Since then we have stayed the night a couple of times and we just take her bassinet with us.  We have yet to get a pack and play, but we really need one.  It's really nice to go there because my parents help out with Amilee while we sleep a little more.  It's great!!

Steve and Jolene and Katie came into town for Christmas and it was so great to see them.  They helped out a lot with Amilee and they love her so much.  Jolene always wanted to hold her, so Amilee got to spend some time with her Grandma Hood that way.  Steve helped out at my parent's house working on the base boards for a couple of days and I know he enjoyed that.  They really appreciate/d all his hard work as well.  It was really nice.  Christmas eve we celebrated her at Grandpas with all the Bezzant side that was in town and with my family as well.  Christmas morning we went to my parents for breakfast and had our Christmas with them. Then we saw Sherlock Holmes with the whole family.  It was a lot of fun and a great movie.   And Amilee did really well also.  We really enjoyed having Samuel's family here.  I always love spending time with them.  We had a really good Christmas and a nice break from school.

Samuel started school this week and likes his classes a lot.  He missed Amilee a ton while he was at school though.  He has been really sick as well and Amilee is kind of congested...poor thing.  She  has a lot of mucus and we can't give her any medicine or anything.  It's sad.   I have been home with Amilee this week getting adjusted to Samuel going to school and working and me trying to keep the house running.  It was a rough week because none of really felt good.  I hope it gets better from here.  And I am sure that it will.

We are blessing her in a couple of weeks and we are really excited for it because 1) the whole family is coming and 2) our baby nephew is also being blessed on the same day.  We are so happy because we have not seen John in over a year and Michelle since the summer and we have not met little Daniel yet.  It will be great.

We are enjoying life and loving little Amilee.  She is wonderful.  We are looking forward to the many adventures with her!!!

Also, our blog is going private in February, so if you would like to keep reading, please leave your email!!!!

Baby Amilee is finally here!! :D

Baby Amilee is finally here!! She came four days early from her due date on December 10th, 2009 at 5:55 pm.  She was 6 lbs and 5 oz and 18 inches long.  She has a lot of beautiful black hair!  She is so little and cute. She has been very alert and smiley since she was born.

I started having contractions about three weeks ago, and I started slowly dilating. This past weekend, the contractions got pretty bad and I started having back labor.  On Monday, I went to the doctor and I was 3 cm dilated, 90% effaced, but the head was all the way down.  The doctor said she would be surprised if I didn't go into labor this week.  The contractions worsened over the week and on Wednesday night they started getting pretty bad.  Around 2 am, they were 8 minutes apart and kept getting closer and closer together.  Around 5:30, or 6 in the morning, Samuel woke up to go to the bathroom and I was in so much pain.  He said we were going to the hospital even though I didn't want to.  We packed some clothes and I took a shower and off we headed to the hospital.  We got to Labor and Delivery and they checked me and I was at 4 cm dilated with my water ready to break, so they decided I could stay and to admit me. I decided to get my epidural ASAP because I had been toughing out the pain long enough. It really helped.  I kept dilating even more and I got to a six and a half and was kind of at a stand still because my water was still not broken. We finally went and got the doctor and she broke my water and it started to go pretty fast from there.  I started feeling too much pressure, so I got some stronger medicine.  It worked for a little bit.  Then the pain just got worse and worse and I could feel everything, so they gave me more medicine and it didn't even touch the pain.  It was then time to push and I could feel everything because my epidural started to wear off.  I even started to begin to feel my legs.  But we started pushing after the doctor got there, and having the worst pain of my life, we pushed for about 10 min and baby Amilee arrived into this world!! It went very fast and hurt terribly.  But she is so beautiful.  She was very alert and already smiling and has been ever since!!

The past night and a half, we have been working on getting her to breast feed. She is getting the hang of it, but has to have a little bit of formula supplement to keep her blood sugar up.  She is really healthy though and we are all doing well.  We are just very tired, but eager to go home tomorrow!! We are so thankful for our bundle of joy!! And we are thankful for our family and all the help they have given us!! We love you all!!

Almost here!!!

There are a lot of things that are almost here!! This is a very exciting time for us. 

Amilee Grace is due in two weeks, but could be here any day now, and that is very exciting.  This last part of the pregnancy has been very tiring for both of us, but especially me, since I no longer get good or even decent sleep and I am just uncomfortable all the time.  I started having contractions about a week and a half ago and I have started dilating, so that is a good sign, but we wish she would just hurry up and get here. 

Samuel has one week left of school.  I still have a couple more, but I am glad he is almost done, and so proud of him.  He took 18 credits this semester, so it was rough a lot of the time, especially since he was working as well.  I am glad he is going to be done before me, so that when Amilee gets here, we will only have to worry about my finals and not his also. 

My family is moving to Saratoga Springs, near Lehi, this weekend, and we are happy that they will be close again.  We love Texas, but it is just so far away for us, that it is hard to get there, and expensive. We are poor college students, so it's hard to afford to go to many places, so it is great they are just right up the road.  Plus they want to see their first grandbaby a lot.  My dad has been up here the past month and half working and he flies home to bring up the family this weekend.  It will be fun.

Things seem to be moving right along for us.  We are excited for all the new adventures that we are about to have.  We can't wait for this new chapter of life to begin.  We are happy.  We love each other, and are trying our best to follow the Lord in all things!!!

New Camera!!

I can't believe that it is already the middle of October. Man, how time flies!! The past few weeks have been crazy. Samuel's grandpa had a knee replacement, and he is in a care center getting better, meanwhile, leaving us in charge of the house. We have been winterizing everything, since it has froze a few nights. Samuel's, Aunt Julie came over during conference weekend and realized there was a whole patch of tomatoes we hadn't picked yet, so that next week, we went out and picked all the tomatoes we had left. There were so many. It was ridiculous there were so many!! We decided we were going to make some more homemade spaghetti sauce and can it, and we ended up doing 30 jars of spaghetti sauce!! It was a lot!! Oh man!! And hard work too!!

Samuel and I were able to watch conference together and Samuel had the whole weekend off. It was so nice!! We never spend Saturdays together. We really enjoyed conference as well. There were so many great things said. Samuel's uncle Bill was in town the week of conference from Saipan, and we got to spend some time with him and that was really nice. We also bought a new camera, a canon Rebel t1I and it came in that week. Bill is really good at photography, so he showed us some things with our camera!! it's so nice!! I will post some pictures we have taken at the end of this!! We also went to a cool devotional at LDSBC. Susan W. Tanner, the former YW general president came and that was very cool. She was the president most of the time I was in young women.

We are heading to California on Wednesday and we are so excited!! it's just a short trip, but its a trip nonetheless and we can't wait!!! Things are going really well. They have been very busy lately!! But things are great!! Here are some pics we have taken!!

Our friends Meg and Chase

Almost 32 weeks!!!

Fall Colors!!!

And so we love our camera and can't wait to do more work with it!!! :D