2 months old!

Mckenzie had her 2 month appointment with her pediatrician today!

She now weights 12 lbs 4 oz and is 23 1/4"" long

85th Percentile for weight
77th Percentile for height:

She also had to get 3 shots and one oral vaccine.  Poor thing screamed her head off, never have we seen her cry that hard! :( Thankfully she calmed down pretty quickly.

She is growing fast, I am still amazed at how strong her little neck is, it's been super strong since birth but she has no problem sitting on our lap and looking all around and moving her neck.  Tummy time basically consists of her rolling onto her back.  She is smiling more and more.  She is good at following our voices and moving her head to look at us :)

Now she's totally zonked out which is to be expected

December

So this will probably be really long with lots of pictures :)

Arggh! I tried multi-tasking with uploading photos and writing a blog, it didn't work so I'm re-trying all this and am not going to re-type ALL of it since it took me a while! Dang it! Oh well!

We spent 2 weeks in Oregon visiting family and friends!

My niece Savannah and Mckenzie

We went to our friend Dustin's for his annual white elephant party! I was so excited to see our friend Trish, because I found out the day before she got a job in Boise, which meant she was moving.  When I saw her I said Congrats on the new job, and hugged her, she then held out her hand....bling bling...she had a beautiful engagement ring on her finger...Bryan had proposed to her earlier that day! I've known for 6+ months that he had an engagement ring custom made...and was anxiously waiting for him to propose! :) She starts her new job on Monday and will be arriving here for good today!

Here's the happy couple!  

Much of the trip, Mckenzie spent snuggled on someone's chest

We celebrated Christmas early at Jeremy's grandparents on the 20th since his aunt, uncle and cousin were in town.  Here's our annual picture in front of the Christmas tree at his Grandparents.

And the whole family...

Christmas eve Mckenzie and I went to a Christmas eve service with my mom, Dan and Scottie.  We then drove to Forest Grove where we had dinner at his grandparents and then went to church where we got married.  After we came back and had dessert and relaxed we headed back to his parents house.  On our way, I realized we were supposed to go to our friend's Matt & Julie's house! So we turned around and called them they still had all their family over but said to come over anyway since they had something for Mckenzie.  They got her a cute sweatpant outfit, and us a cool Oregon Ducks ornament.  They also gave us this....

We were so excited to find out they were expecting! We knew they had been trying and at Dustin's party Julie didn't have anything to drink and everyone gave her the side eye but then she said "My period is due on Christmas..." I still gave her the side eye but didn't say anything.  I had met her for lunch a few days later and we had Mexican because she "was craving it..." I gave her the side eye again and figured she might be pregnant but I knew it'd come out sooner or later.  It was such a cute way to announce.

There is another baby boom! My friend Caitlin, Crystal, Felicia and Kelsey are all expecting next year!

Mckenzie found her thumb after a bath!

After she rolled over during tummy time, she is really good with her neck and most of the time rolls over instead of doing 'tummy time!'

With Grandma-ma!

Being held by Uncle Scottie for the first time! It was hilarious because I put her in his arms and he was a bit panicked because he had never held a baby before...I didn't even realize that but he did very good holding her ;)

Her Santa outfit from Great-Grandma Gracie

We spent Christmas day with Jeremy's parents and other Grandma in the morning.  We then headed to my mom & Dan's for an early dinner.  I was soo excited because my mom's best friend Connie---well she's my "Auntie Connie" and her boyfriend Eric had driven up on Christmas eve and we were planning to surprise my mom on Christmas day, so we stopped by their hotel and they followed us to my mom & Dan's house.  Dan asked if I needed help getting stuff out of the car, I told my mom I needed her because she had to help me get Dan's Christmas gift...she walked out and found Connie and Eric standing outside! She was so surprised and excited that they came up for the wedding.  They of course loved Mckenzie!!

The 26th, my mom & Dan got married and it was a beautiful ceremony and reception.  They served Kahlua pork, rice, chicken, salad, rolls and other yummy food!  On the 27th, they headed to Leavenworth & Seattle for a few days.

We went to Lincoln City where I went and did a glass blowing class and made my own glass float.  The city hides floats on the beaches every day but I have never found one before, so Jeremy's parents got me a gift certificate for my birthday last year.  I finally got over there and made it, the glass I was working with was 2,000 degrees and my float had to cool in a 900 degree kiln, otherwise it would have broke if it cooled too fast.  The glass studio is shipping it to me, and I hope to get it any day, I'll post a picture when it's done :)

On the 31st, we went and picked up our sweet puppy Bentley near Eugene! He is such a sweetie and does really well around Mckenzie.  

My parents made us some bells that we got for Christmas, at first I wasn't sure what they were...but she told me a friend of their's had something similar on their door and had trained their dog to nudge them when it need to go outside.  Bentley is so smart and picked up the concept right away and nudges them when he needs out.  Of course she had my brother paint the bells to be Oregon Duck colors :)

MIA!

I know I've been MIA! I have tons of pictures from our trip to Oregon which we just got back from last weekend!

We had a fabulous trip that was full of excitement! I'll try to get caught up this weekend and post new pictures and about our trip ;)

4 weeks old!

Mckenzie was 4 weeks old yesterday!

Our insurance agent here in town was having an open house with Santa and reindeer as well!  She did so well! :)

She is doing wonderful! She is still wearing her newborn clothes but some are starting to get snug but she's too small for some of the 0-3 month stuff.  Still wearing newborn diapers, she's very slender and has a small butt so I think she might not move to the size 1's for a bit.  She is nursing great! We tried a bottle for half of her feeding today which she did good.  I am going to continue to nurse her but want her to take a bottle if needed, like when were in Oregon my best friend Julie is taking me to lunch and for a massage which will likely overlap with feeding time so I can leave a bottle for her, so we'll probably just give her a bottle sometimes so its not too hard when I return to work.

I went to a mother's group for breastfeeding mothers last week which was a neat experience and be able to chat with other new mom's in the same boat.

She is awake much more and is pretty content most of the time.  She only gets upset when she's hungry. She has rolled over 3-4 times during tummy time in the last 2 days.  She has been sleeping well and has been having 5-6 hour stretches of sleep at night! :)

We're headed to Oregon next weekend for Christmas which we're excited for! Most of the family hasn't met her yet so it'll be exciting!

3 weeks old!

Mckenzie is 3 weeks old today! She is doing great! She is doing much better with nursing and is sleeping pretty good at night, sometimes I have to wake her to feed her and other times she wakes up ready to eat.  All in all things are going well.

We had professional pictures taken at the house this week that turned out awesome! We got all the pictures on disc and can do what we want with the pictures, I think they turned out awesome!! Here's just a few from the shoot....of course we loved all of them!

Jeremy's parents came into town on Wednesday night and flew home this afternoon.  They had a great time snuggling with Mckenzie.

We've had quite a bit of snow that has stuck around, from people that live here they've said this is the most snow they've seen in years and the amount of snow is what they might see in 1 winter.  It's been hovering around freezing temps so a lot of the snow is still around.  We got about 6-7" last week and half of it is still around, I'm enjoying it though it's so pretty.

We're getting excited for our trip to Oregon in 2 weeks :)

And super excited that the Ducks won the Civil War game today! Go Ducks!!!

New camera!

I've been wanting a new camera.  I have an Olympus waterproof camera that works good but when I go to take a picture it seems to take longer then it should so it's annoying.  I wanted to get a nicer camera and mentioned to Jeremy I'd like a nice digital camera.

Little did I know he'd be getting me one for my birthday! It arrived the day after since he got it online....

Canon EOS Rebel XS 18-55IS

I need to pick up a good sized memory card...I have one around here from my old Canon digital camera but have no idea where it is.  I did find one that is a small memory card that must have came with my old Canon - I was able to use it to take a few pictures and wow what a huge difference in picture quality compared to my other camera! We also need to pick up a camera bag for it too.  I'm so excited as I know we'll be getting really good pictures with this! He also got me another lens to go with it too! Jeremy's parents are coming next week and his dad has a really nice Canon DSLR camera so he'll have to educate me a bit on when to use the different lenses and what not! :)

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone! 

Wonderful visit!

My mom was here from November 17-22.  She totally pampered us big time! Made me breakfast every morning, snacks, lunch and yummy dinners! She stocked up our fridge and freezer before she left.  She made up a bunch of freezer meals for us too.  Sunday we had a Thanksgiving dinner and made a delicious turkey.  Last year we tried something new from a cooking show we saw where they sliced up an orange and cut the top off of a bulb or garlic and put in inside the turkey with some rosemary.  We put salt, pepper and olive oil on the outside of the turkey...makes the moistest turkey every.  I think its the citrus that makes it so moist.  So we'll be eating turkey left overs this week.  We went to the Olive Garden yesterday for my birthday and my mom made a homemade carrot cake with cream cheese frosting.  She was going to make a chocolate cake but we read in my book that if your nursing to avoid chocolate...rats! The carrot cake turned out wonderful.  We had a wonderful visit with her, we did go to a Christmas Bazaar but mostly took it easy and watched movies and relaxed in front of the fire and all had snuggle time with Mckenzie.

She has been doing good, she is nursing like a champ! We usually do have to wake her at night for her feedings but does wake up before we wake her too.  She has been sleeping really well at night and the last few days we've noticed she's been more awake during the day.

We've had snow showers a few days but got a good amount that stuck and its been cold.

We'll be stay home for Thanksgiving this year since we weren't sure when Mckenzie would arrive.  We picked up a Honeybaked Ham to prepare :)

Jeremy's parents are coming into town next Wednesday and will be here until next Saturday.  Then we'll be headed to Oregon on December 18th and stay there until there until the 1st.

Mckenzie had a check up at the doctor on Tuesday and was back up to her birth weight! Her jaundice is also cleared up as well and is doing great! :)

We are also having professional pictures taken here at the house on Monday which I'm so excited for!