4 Month Old Finley!!!

 Our little Finley Sue Sue turned 4 months old yesterday!!! To start off the day we gave her rice cereal for the first time...haha as you can see she wasn't a big fan! We will keep trying though!

 She is absolutely so much fun! I can't believe that it's been 4 months since she was born!

 She is such a happy little baby! She has learned to giggle and it's so cute when she does! She has also found out that she knows how to scream...really loud...I like the giggling much better haha.

 As you can see her luscious hair has sort of fallen out since she was born. I'm hoping it will all grow back soon!!

 She is interested in everything and I love it! She loves to look at books and watch us get ready and eat our food. She just discovered her feet which are her new favorite thing to play with!

 On Halloween she figured out how to roll over! I put her on the floor to change her diaper and when I came back with a diaper she had rolled over! She is becoming a pro now!

 We absolutely love being parents to our sweet Finley! She is oh so good! I still can't believe how pretty she is! We love you miss Sue Sue!!!

Oh...and Kevin "picked me up" for a date last weekend and brought me these pretty flowers!! He's the best!!

Our 3 month old Finley!!!

Our 4th of July baby is 3 months old today!! Finley is so much fun and we are so happy that she joined our little family!!

 She is such a happy baby! We have been so blessed with such a good baby.

She loves to sit up in the stroller now and look around when we go on walks!

 Kevin's favorite thing to do when he is getting Finley ready for bed is to keep her shirt on her head and call her a "Nubian princess"...haha

 She's always poking her tongue out whenever she gets the chance. I love her smile...I've decided she's one of the prettiest baby's ever!!!

 One of my best friends Gretchen had a baby boy a week and a half before me...his name is Corbin. Once a week we get together and the babies play while Gretchen and I make a yummy treat! They love playing together and smiling at each other.

I can't believe Finley is already 3 months old! I'm so glad I'm not in the hospital anymore delivering her!!!

Here are some things that we love about our miss Finley Sue Sue

-She loves to talk to you (Kinda like her dad) :)

-She sleeps through the night...yahoo!!! In bed by 9 and awake at 7 or 7:30!!

-She is starting to giggle...we love it!!!

-She has the prettiest little face

-Her legs and belly are getting chubby

-She loves taking a bath...my favorite is pouring water over her head and she blinks with the water in her face, it's so cute!

-Kevin loves to kiss her fat cheeks a million times...sometimes she starts to cry because of so many kisses haha

-I love taking naps with her on the couch

-She's the favorite baby in our ward

-I love that her hair still sticks straight up!!

We have so much fun with Finley! We are excited to see her grow and change!! 

Finley is 1 month old!!

Our sweet miss Finley Sue Sue is 1 month old today! The last month has gone by so fast! We are so in love with our little girl...she makes us so happy! 

-She is reacting to us and smiling when we tickle her cheeks

-She has the cutest dimples when she smiles

-Her hair...in words...un-ruley, beautiful, spikey, soft like a kitten, fluffy!

-When she is awake she loves to be a part of what you are doing and facing forward so she can see what's going on

-She laughs in her sleep! Like real full on little girl giggles...they are so cute!

-Sometimes she will grab onto her binky and throw it

-She has the strongest little newborn neck. She can hold her head up for so long.

-When you are burping her she likes to give your cheeks kisses

We love you Finley Sue Sue!!

Our apt/Finley's room!

I've been meaning to do this post a long time ago, but since we had Finley it's been a little bit harder. This is our new apt that we moved into about 4 months ago. It's a four-plex right next to the park and we absolutely love it! It's a mansion compared to our last apt! We love living here, especially because they let us paint and decorate it however we please! 

We love when we can find cool bargains at the D.I. and make them look cool by just adding a bit of spray paint! Our entertainment center...$8 and absolutely ugly before! $4 for a can of white spray paint and...tada!! Looks like we paid $350 at Crate & Barrel for it!

Our table...my grandparents dinner table when they first got married. We snagged it from a closet at my house in Washington. Our chairs...from an antique craft store here in Rexburg. We were going to buy them and then one of our good friends decided to buy them for us for our wedding!

Now to my favorite piece of furniture in our house. Our hutch/buffet/dresser/or whatever you call it. When we lived in our old apt the owners took us down to the basement and said we could have it. It was just plain wood until about a month ago. We debated on painting it mustard yellow, mint green or red. We decided on the red and I'm so glad we did! 

The print in our frame is actually a piece of an old rug that we had. We were foolish and thought that we could wash it in the washer and the edges came out shredded...whoops! So we decided to cut it and put it into our big frame and I'm so happy with how it turned out.

We love our new apartment so much and are so glad that we found it. Hopefully we get to stay here until we leave Rexburg!

Now...Miss Finley Sue Sue's room!

We waited for this crib to get into stock for about 6 months because we loved it so much. We decided to do her room mostly white with little touches of champagne and sage.  

A couple more cans of spray paint and our frames are all white now and our stool that we found at a garage sale is sage.

Kevin got me this chair from Ikea for my birthday while we were in Washington visiting my parents.

We were so happy with how Finley's room turned out and we are so glad that she is here! We love her so so much!

And for your viewing pleasure...our sweet miss Finley

 

Happy Fathers Day!!

We almost had an "official" Fathers Day this year! Since Finley is almost born we decided to count it anyways. We started out the morning complete with a handmade card & breakfast in bed. Homemade whole wheat pancakes, scrambled eggs, fruit salad & green drink! It was delicious!! We tried to get a wide eyed picture, but it was just after he woke up. 

Kevin is oh so excited to be a dad! He is going to be an amazing father to the new miss Finley of our family. Every day he asks her when she is going to come out because he can't wait to meet her. I decided the other day that Finley is going to replace me and get lots more kisses and hugs. Thank you Kevin for all that you do!!

Trip to Washington!

Right after my parents got home from their mission in NYC Kevin and I headed down to Washington for a week. My family wanted to do a baby shower for me before miss Finley came so we hurried down to Enumclaw! It's a 13hr drive from Rexburg and being almost 8 months pregnant I was a little nervous for the drive. Shockingly it wasn't bad at all! We had so much fun while we were there seeing family!

We even passed a place in Washington named Finley!!

Paying for gas in Washington wasn't ver much fun though :(

The saturday after we got there we went and watched our nephews baseball tournament all day long. It was lots of fun watching them play! Mckay is the catcher on his team and Tanner pitches, they are awesome!! Everyone got nice sunburns from sitting out in the sun all day too.

We got to finally meet our nephew Ryan (Scott & Kelli's boy)!!! He is so so cute!!! He has the cutest hair that flies straight up and the biggest cheeks! He was a lot of fun to play with.

Kevin wanted to see some real forests up in Washington so my parents took us up to the mountains. Kevin said it was "good for his soul". He loved it. We also got to see a big giant tree that was 700 years old! It takes about 10 people to fit all the way around! Then we went to our favorite place and Wapiti Woolies and got huckleberry milkshakes!

We also went to Seattle for the day with my parents. We went to the Ballard Locks and got to see lots of fancy boats go through.

We also went to my favorite seafood restaurant The Crabpot!! Kevin had never experienced real seafood so my parents and I had to show him how it's really done!!! At the Crabpot they dump big buckets of seafood (crab, clams, muscles, shrimp) on your table and you just dive right in! It was so so yummy and Kevin loved it!!! 

We had so much fun while we were in Washington hanging out with family! Now we are back in Rexburg waiting for miss Finley to arrive! Only 4 1/2 more weeks!! We even got a stroller....weird!!!