April 2012

Hanging out at home :)

Happy {1} Month old Dezlee

Spunky Charlize is obsessed with being a kitty lately - so today she got a tail :)

April has come with little miss {D}growing the love in our family :)

Grandpa Craig got baby chicks and C is making sure she's a good chick 'mama'.

She also enjoys helping dad at work

Cousin Robbie came to visit so we went to Jump 'N Jacks :)

The Art Festival - fun with Cousin Addison

Easter Egg coloring and hunting with cousin Addi and Brecken

Sweet baby Dezlee, checking out her hand (trying to suck her thumb) and I even caught a smile :)

Dez snuggling with Daddy :)

Easter bunny brought some fun treats, bunny socks and we had a yummy breakfast

March 2012

The rest of march was filled with Charlize's dance competition, having cousins over to eat Popsicles in the back yard and new baby chicks!

I made new pillows for our master bedroom - even figured out piping!! :)

Easter coloring contest at Dillards :)

Photoshoots

attempting my own photoshoot of a newborn and 3.5 year old, well, it was harder than I expected. I did get a few that I adore :)

Cassidy Miller came when Dez was just about 2 weeks old 

and we had a newborn session in our home. 

 

 

at 3 weeks I was able to get a white shirt session in ~ love these two so much!

and my favorite :)

 

Baby Dezlee's first week at home!

Good morning sweet girls! :)

March 6th - we went to see the horses and Lucky Boots was certainly interested in that little. Charlize had fun being out too - picking flowers and playing in the dirt

March 8th - Dezlee was snoozing on the chair and Charlize wanted to watch cartoons with her sister :) She crawled up on the chair with baby sister and ended up falling asleepSweet sleeping baby Dezlee :) These are images from Charlize's camera - yes I'd been busy taking pictures of the baby so she was thrilled when it was her turn to go around and take pictures of anything she wanted. Remember I had less than a week old baby and the house was certainly not picked up and I didn't care to have pics taken of myself but she was sooo proud of taking them and I was thrilled she was happy taking them! Like her self portrait on the bottom row? :)

March 3rd and 4th, 2012

Having her at almost 9:00 was a late start to a new chapter of our lives and since we weren't completely prepared, I didn't have my cell charger and of course keeping track of those hours of contractions killed my battery. Nate ran home to change, grab a few things and my charger and we spent one night in the hospital and Nate even stayed this time (urgh - those chairs for the husbands are HORRIBLE! why can't they get better ones??) and sweet baby girl just slept and slept! We just waited around for her test results to come back and make sure she ate again or else she was going to have to go to the NICU - you better believe we worked hard to wake her up and get her to eat. I did not have my nice camera at the hospital, but these snapshots mean so much to document that day and heading home....

Aww, at home! :) Charlize is enthralled with her baby sister and such a sweet girl taking care of mommy and checking on baby sister.

Such a proud big sister - o what beautiful girls we have!And the morning of March 4th... first thing was to check on sister!