Blessing Day

Emrie's Blessing was actually on August 2nd, but I keep forgetting to put up pictures. Grandma Kay made her gorgeous dress! She looked so sweet and she was so good. It was the first Sunday I didn't have to take her out during Sacrament Meeting. The blessing Chad gave was beautiful! It was a very moving and spiritual experience to have your own daughter blessed and listen to special blessings that are in store for her. We were very lucky and one of the ladies in our ward wrote down the blessing for us, so we could have a copy of what was said. Here are some pictures of the day:

The top had ribbon criss crossed and flowers at the crossing points. I did make her bow...looks kinda big in the picture but it looked cute :D

This is a full shot, the dress was really long and the bottom was pleated in vertical sections then below that horizontally. It really looked beautitul!

The family there that attended. Mine and Chad's family. We missed Makenna, Jason, Rochelle and Whitney!

Here are all the men! What a good looking bunch, Don't you agree? :D

Sleep = Happy and Wedding Dress-up

I have found since becoming a mommy that sleep is a very special and precious thing! My little bundle doesn't like to take naps very often during the day. She's very stubborn and will do a half sleep where some part of one or both eyes are always peeking a little to silently warn you that if you put her down she will wake up with in 10 minutes. We've gotten it down to where she will usually take one good 1-2 hour nap once during the day. But, I can't complain because she does decent at night. Her latest schedule seems to be down around 9pm- about 1am then from 2:30-4. once 4am hits though she won't sleep in her bed anymore and the only way to get her to sleep longer is to put her next to you. So I hate to admit it but I have caved into the tiredness of allowing her to sleep by me...and nursing laying down has become one of my best friends :D But I have found that when she gets in a nice nap in the morning she will give me some nice smiles...so here are a few I was able to capture.

Mom and I were able to go watch Kara try on some wedding dresses to decide what she liked on Saturday. We missed Lauren, Rochelle and Makenna...so I thought I'd give you the preview. If you click on the picture it will enlarge so you can see the detail better.

Kara liked the way this one switched between beading and scruntch on top.

She liked the diagonal skirt change on this one.

We thought the top was cool on this one, but decided it extends too far down and after a hem with flat shoes the skirt would be too short

Very pretty lace on this one...especially the bottom I thought.

This was our favorite neck line on her...looks very nice.

Also like the lace on this one...they have such cool bottoms to the dress.

We thought the bottom of this dress was awsome. It was pleated...I've never seen it before. Anyways, there's a little preview, you'll have to give some opinions. She really looked good in everything she tried it seemed. Can't believe the last one of us is getting married! How exciting, congrats Kara and Chavis!

More pictures!

Happy late 4th of July! We got our first family picture together, which actually ended up being more challenging than we thought...Emrie wasn't the happiest camper at the time. But, she did pretty well this last week with the camera. We tried to do our own "professional" looking photos of her nudy :D Some turned out quite cute and some really need cropping, but here's a little preview.

Emrie Jane Andersen

Well here she is, the newest light weight contender, ready to battle it out for head of the Andersen household. Weighing in at 7lbs 14 oz with 21 inches of cold hard punch, there is no question if she can win this fight. It will take a miracle for mommy to retain the title now. She is tough, fit, and is at the top of her game. Also don't be fooled by the nice princess look! She has already used it to win Grandma Kay's and Andersen's top grandchild in June match. So beware Rhett, Graham, and future Reynold's contender! With the title match of Grandma Kay's best grandchild of the year on the line, things are bound to get a little ugly...

Well it's true, Emrie sure has come into this world with a lot going for her and her mommy and daddy sure love her. Emrie was born on Saturday, June 20th and 3:04pm. With only having to push for 30 minutes things moved along faster then we expected. She is cute, cuddly, and is the best thing that has ever happened to us. She is definitely a blessing to have around and has sure flipped our world in the right direction. So as we have enjoyed her, we hope that you all will too!

Jury Duty

So, I had the "opportunity" I guess to attend Jury Duty, and it was actually kind of an interesting process...I don't know if anyone else has ever actually been called to show up, but I got lucky and got to go right here in Gilbert instead of traveling to Phoenix. We went in as a group and had to sit on the benches in front of the prosecution and defense and get asked questions by the judge ( which they actually refer to you as, in my case, "Juror #5" ha ha)...then they actually called a few of us in to ask one on one questions and I was one they had come in. I was actually all nervous even though i wasn't on trial or anything. But they had you sit in the chair up by the judge with the microphone and the prosecution and defense took turns asking you questions they wanted clarification on...anyways it was a DUI case and in the end I didn't get picked to stay, which was fine with me. But after going it would've been kind of interesting to get picked and go through the whole process. I felt like I was on that show Run Away Jury...I know silly. :D Out of the blue post, but that's been my interesting experience lately.

Belly Shot

I keep meaning to put up a picture, but once I take one I don't get around to posting it until it's old, so I wait to take a new one and the cycle starts over. So i figured even though this picture is 4 weeks old it's better than nothing :D This is at 30 weeks the day of my baby shower..

It's wierd to think that I'm only 6 weeks away now. I had my Dr. appointment yesterday and he said she's turned head down now, which made me pretty happy...don't know why but I kept worrying she wasn't going to turn on her own. Everything is going good and I'm so excited (and nervous) :D I'll try and get an updated picture up as the day gets closer.

Daisies for the baby!

Finally done!! I finished a very time consuming project. I started working on this blanket last summer for a family reunion auction and didn't finish it in time, so I put it aside. Well, once I found out I was having a sweet little baby girl I pulled it back out and started working on it again. Needless to say, I was a little happy I didn't finish it in time to give away, which sounds a little selfish I guess, but oh well :D This is the first blanket I've done that I've actually kept, so I guess it's okay to be selfish. They are a bunch of squares of daisies. I'm hoping to decorate the nursery in black and white checkers with bees maybe and have red and white and yellow gerber daisies. I'm still trying to talk Chad into the idea though, so we'll see what happens. But whether or not it matches her room I can't wait to take her picture on it with a little daisy headband on her! I'm very excited and am now trying to find other fun projects to occupy my little time after work.