Wednesday, October 31, 2012

A Few Firsts...

October was full of many firsts for Amelia Jo! Can I just say how much I love her?? It is sooo fun to watch her grow and develop. It is so fascinating to Jace and I! I am so happy that I have someone to share this love for her with. Every time something happens I just call Jace up and he is just as excited about it as me. Most people don't think it is that great when I tell them she is starting to reach for things and grab things, but if I tell Jace he gets just as excited. I think it is just so much different when it is your own. Everything is just so exciting! So here are a few firsts for Amelia this month...


1. Her first hair cut :)  Amelia was born with loads of hair!!! Who knew we would get a baby with all this hair? Jace and I were practically bald haha so we were shocked when Amelia came out. (P.S. I had no heart burn during my pregnancy, but everyone kept saying if you have a lot of heart burn that means lots of hair. I had no heart burn so I thought she would be bald.) I spent hours making all kinds of head bands and bows before she was born getting ready to decorate the baldness. Well I must say that she never wears any of the little head band flowers I made her haha her hair is just too cute that she doesn't need them! So her hair started getting a little out of hand this month. She has thinner hair in the back where her head rubs when she sleeps, but on the bottom it is still thick so it looked like she had a major mullet. Hair was hanging past her ears so we felt it was time to cut it. My friend does hair and so she trimmed it up for us :) 


       She did so good during her hair cut! She just sat in her little bumbo and chewed on the rattle. I was shocked. 

Ta-da!!

The bottom of her hair was seriously down past her neck haha this looks much better :)

2. Her first snowfall :) We woke up one morning last week and snow was just falling from the sky and all over the ground. Well Amelia has never seen snow before, so this was fun to introduce her to it. It was pretty early in the morning and we were still in our pajamas, so we didn't actually go play in in or anything, but at least we showed it to her! 


 


In this picture please just ignore me (scary larry haha), but she seems to like the snow! 

3. Her first Jazz game :) Ok, ok so I gave in. We were invited to a Jazz game by Ernst and Young (a company that is recruiting Jace to come work for them). I thought for sure we wouldn't be able to go because we have little Amelia and I didn't want to get a baby sitter for her again because she had just gotten baby sat the week before. It is still a little hard for me to leave her for very long. The recruiter said it the game would be in a suite though and there would be tables, chairs, food, and a back room to feed Amelia in. We decided to take her and just leave at half time, so we could get her to bed. It worked out pretty well! It was a lot louder than I had expected which scared her at first, but she got used to it pretty quick. She was so alert the whole time and loved looking at all the new sites and sounds. Mike (Jace's best friend) and Kim were there because Kim works for Ernst and Young. It was so fun to see them there! 


4. Her first Halloween :) We just had such a fun Halloween this year. We found a great deal on a costume at Children's Place for Amelia... a little sunflower! Since Jace and I are trying to be festive now we decided to dress up like farmers to kinda go along with the theme haha. We searched for overalls at the D.I. last weekend, but couldn't find any. Just FYI, the D.I. is packed the weekend before Halloween... holy cow we couldn't even find a parking spot haha everyone had the same idea as us. Our good friends Kara and Jeff invited us over for a little Halloween get together on Halloween night. She made amazing taco soup. We took pics, ate dinner, and chatted! We were gonna play games, but the babies were ready for sleep. It was such a fun night! 

As you can tell she hated the costume pretty bad, so it only lasted about 10 minutes... long enough for pictures haha. 

There's my cute little farmer :)... one handsome dude! 


Cute Kara, Jeff, and Miri 

BF's :) 




 Amelia also turned 4 months in October, can you believe it?! It is going by wayyyy too fast! Please stop time!


One of my favorite pics :) 

Well October was a great month, full of firsts! Such a good month. Can't wait for many more with our sweet little girl!! :) 












Monday, October 22, 2012

Pumpkin Time :)

So my new goal as a mom is to always be festive for holidays! I want to have traditions that we do for each holiday to give our children something to always look forward to. Jace and I are not fans of carving pumpkins because it is kinda nasty. It also makes a huge mess and they rot after a couple weeks. So our solution this year was to paint pumpkins! Well my solution... haha. Jace was a good sport and did it with me! After Amelia went to bed we stayed up for 3 hours painting pumpkins... yes 3 hours... haha we were not expecting that. It actually was a lot more fun than we thought! We tried finding Hocus Pocus at Redbox or Netflix, but it was a failure. So instead we listened to Halloween music on Pandora (a little creepy... haha). But it was a lot of fun! It is going to be our new Halloween tradition :)  Here is how they turned out!




Here is Amelia's pumpkin that we helped her paint haha

Here is my pumpkin

Here is Jace's pumpkin :) 


Happy Halloween!!! 

Monday, October 1, 2012

Welcome home Elder Chad Nilsson!

So I need to play a little catch up on the blog! I have been slacking lately, but I do have good reasons :).

So a few weeks ago Chad got home from his mission! He met Amelia for the first time. It was so fun! It is kinda crazy because Chad and I were in the MTC together. He left about a month before I did. I just remember it was really comforting to see him in the MTC when I first got there. When we said bye at the MTC before he left to Romania I just remember him saying "now don't marry Jace before I get home." He knew I would be getting home about 5 months before him. Little did we both know that I would be getting sent home a few weeks later for medical problems.... and then getting married.... and then having a baby! Haha sorry Chad!




Chad had never met Ashley (Tanner's wife) before either! They got married while he was gone, so that was fun! He came home to 3 new family members.