Week 3

I found the cord for my phone!  We are slowly getting a little more organized around here.  Now if only we could find our clubhouse key to give to our renter...

So here are a few pictures of sweet Edie that I have taken with my phone!

 Here she is a few moments after she was born,

and here's Whit the day after she was born :)

We had such a lovely time in the hospital, she just ate, slept, and looked pretty!

 and when we brought her home she just did more of the same!  She is such a good sleeper and I appreciate it so much!

 this picture doesn't do it justice, but her hands and feet are huge!  And she loves squirming around and grunting in her sleep.  She makes the funniest noises :)

 She spends a lot of time in her swing while we play around her.  winston is still learning to leave her alone while she is in the swing though.  If I'm not quick enough, he tries to climb in there with her!

 He has started walking around though!  He has made a lot of progress this last week.  He is still wobbly, but he can get pretty far before he falls.  It's been fun to see.

 And you can almost see Edie's cute dimples in this picture.  She has the cutest smile ever!

We did venture out a bit this last week--we took Edie to Target, her cousin's baptism, and to sacrament meeting.  I'm really hoping the weather will get warmer soon so we can try out our double stroller and take her and Winston out for a walk.  Keep your fingers crossed!  :)

Week 2

Edie was born on Monday, we came home from the hospital Wednesday, and we moved on Saturday!  It was an eventful week.  Whit's parents have graciously offered to let us live in their basement apartment in exchange for Whit's help around the house.  We thought that deal was too good to pass up!  So we found a renter for our townhouse, packed up our things, and moved into their house.  Whit's step-sister and her family are currently living in the basement apartment, and they are remodeling the house that they just bought.  They haven't quite yet finished or moved out, so until that happens we have put all of our stuff in the "bonus room" above the garage.  This is a huge play room that all the grandkids love playing in when they come to visit grandma and grandpa.  So we have all of our stuff in boxes at one end of the room, and we are staying in a couple of bedrooms upstairs for now.  Needless to say, we are looking forward to moving downstairs and being able to unpack!  :)

 Winston is loving having more room to play around and explore.  He has started taking a few steps and every day he gets more adventurous!  Grandma Christensen even taught him how to climb down the stairs so he is quite mobile now.  If only he would go where I ask him to :)

 I spent a few days at my mom and dad's house.  Whit took 4 days off work so he could paint our townhouse and get things ready for the renter to move in.  So I took the kids and headed down south for a visit.  It was so nice--my mom took care of Winston so I could just enjoy holding Edie.  She even let me sleep in, it was so heavenly!  One morning my cousin Kari-lynn brought her kids over and we had breakfast. It was super fun to see her again :)

 I have been awful at taking pictures of Edie.  It's just too hard to try to wrestle Winston and take pictures of her at the same time.  And when Winston is down for a nap, I use that time to shower and feed Edie.  But I did take a couple one morning :)

She is such a great little girl!  She eats and sleeps like a champ and has the cutest smile in the world!  I have taken a few more pictures and some fun videos of her squeaky hiccups, but they are on my phone.  I can't download them to my computer without the cord, and unfortunately it is packed somewhere in a box!  :)

Edie's Here!!!

We are so happy to finally have our sweet little girl here!  Edith Jane Anderson was born at 2:37 pm on Monday, February 11.  She weighed 6 lbs 5 oz, and was 18.25" long.  I was induced Monday morning around 8:30 and had a fairly easy labor.  Easy until she was ready to come, and then we found out the doctor wasn't at the hospital!  They told me I couldn't push yet, so I had to hold her in for about 1/2 hour.  That wasn't fun at all.  But once the doctor came, I only had to push about 5 times and there she was!  We had so much fun welcoming her into the world.

Whit's mom Julie came down early that morning to stay at our house with Winston.  Once Edie was born, my mom and sister came down to the hospital and Whit went to go pick up Julie and Winston.  We had a great time visiting and holding little Edie.  Later Whit's parents Jim and Karyn came, and so did Whit's brother Brady and his family.  My dad came after work and everyone oohed and aahed over little Edie.  It was great to feel so much love and support!  Sadly, I didn't take any pictures, but trust me--we had a lovely evening together :)

 Since Edie was born near Valentine's Day, the hospital gave us a special dinner the next night!  Whit went to work that day and I was alone with Edie all day long.  We had a nice day, but Edie sleeps alot (which is wonderful!) so she doesn't make a great conversationalist.  So I was really happy when Whit came back after work and we could sit down to this nice dinner together.  Really, the food wasn't that great, but it was such a lovely thought :)  They even gave us some chocolates and those were absolutely delicious :)  Made up for the bad food!

Getting ready to head home.  Yay!

 Edie came home from the hospital the next morning.  My mom had been staying at our house taking care of Winston.  She stayed the whole week to help me pack and get ready for the move.  I don't know what I would have done without her!

 On Valentine's Day we got Edie dressed up and tried to get some cute pictures.  We love how she has this cute little baby face, and old wrinkly grandma hands!

 Whit's old office was so sweet, they sent a vase of flowers to the hospital to tell us congratulations!  Whit hasn't worked there for 6 month, but he still keeps in touch with his co-workers there.  They are so thoughtful!  Whit got the beautiful roses for me.  The lilies took a few days to open, but they are beautiful as well.  So pretty!  And his new office sent the cookie bouquet to our house.  Everyone has been so nice!

  

 

Winston can be so sneaky!  We have to keep a close eye on him, but overall he has been pretty good around Edie.  I am sure they will grow to be great friends!

 I love Edie's hands.  She does the funniest things with them.

She has been such a great little baby.  She eats well, sleeps well, and is sooooo light to carry around!  She makes Winston seem even heavier than he already was :)  We have loved having her here and are so grateful that everything went well and she is here safe and sound.  We love you Edie!

Happy 2013!

It's about time for the Christmas report, don't you think?  I'm slowly starting to get organized and back to normal life!  We had way too much fun over the holidays :)

 We took Winston to see the lights at Temple Square, when Whit went with the youth of our ward.  It was super cold, but Winston loved looking at the lights.  I was experimenting with my camera, trying to get some good shots of the lights.  But I failed!  There were soooo many people that I felt silly setting up my tripod, so all of the pictures turned out too blurry.  Oh well.  You'll just have to take my word for it that it was beautiful!

I got to quit my job!  I was only working two days a week, but now I get to stay home full time.  Hooray!  To help me celebrate, the day after my last day of work my family came over to play.  Dallin played Christmas songs on the piano, and we girls made sugar cookies.

My Auntie Lauryl was in town, visiting from Tucson.  She, my grandma, and my mum decorated all of these cookies for me to take around to our neighbors.  It was the best!  All I had to do was wrap them up and then take them around to everyone.

I made stockings for us, since we don't have any of our own.  Whit thinks they are too small, but they worked for us this year since I didn't even think about getting anything to put in them!  Sometimes I wonder where my mind is :)  I've definitely spaced out on quite a few things lately.  Like showing up an hour and a half early to my doctor's appointment today :)  But anyways,

This is our family Sunday shot in front of the Christmas tree.  Hopefully for the picture next year we can get Winston to smile on command.  He's so cute when he smiles!

Right?

Christmas Eve we went to the Fife family party at my Aunt Jo's house.  Winston was a little unsure of their dog, it was funny to see them react to one another.

Every year we do a white elephant game and this year did not disappoint.  It's a great Fife tradition :)

 After that party, we headed up to Farmington to the Anderson party at Whit's sister Katie's house.  They have a cousin gift exchange and the boys were so excited for Winston to open up his present.  It was really cute!

Then the Anderson girls did their Santa Lucia song.  They turn off all of the lights and come in by candlelight, singing a song.  It's adorable!  And one day our little girl can join in the ranks, don't you think a little Korean girl would fit in just right to this Swedish tradition?  :)

We got back to our place late that night and opened up a present, our new blue ray player!  Whit's wanted one forever so we finally used some amazon gift cards that I had saved up and got one.  What big spenders we are!  :)

Christmas morning we helped Winston open up his presents, all 3 of them!  :)  I love this picture, he's slurping the ribbon like a piece of spaghetti.  He loves the silliest things!

 Later that morning we headed down to Spanish Fork to spend some time with family.  My mom and dad put this letter in my stocking, it was some things I wrote I would give to Jesus as a Christmas present.  I was 11 or 12 when I wrote it, so it was fun to see again.

 Since there was so much snow, we took Winston in the back yard to see how he'd like being pulled on a sled.  He didn't like it one bit!  We sure got some good laughs out of it though :)

 The whole gang in front of the tree.

 And we finished off the night with a rousing game of speed Rummy-O.  What fun!

And sadly I didn't take any pictures after that.  But the day after Christmas we got to go to the airport to welcome home Whit's parents!  They have spent the last two years in Lebanon and Jordan, on a service mission for the church.  It is so great to have them home again!  It was quite an exciting time at the airport.

For New Year's we went up to the Anderson cabin for a lovely weekend of games, movies, and lots of food.  Some of Whit's family was up there and Winston had a great time with his cousins.  It was so cold that we didn't spend much time outside, but we had tons of fun just hanging out together in the warm cabin.  I love that place!  Then we came back and hit normal life full force.

Now my days are spent trying to learn how to menu plan, keep the house clean, and keep Winston from opening all the cupboards or going up the stairs!  My goal is to get lots of meals in the freezer and get the house all organized before baby girl gets here.  It's getting close and we are soooo excited.  Happy New Year everyone!

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...

But first I'll need to catch up on the past month :)  We had an awesome Thanksgiving weekend!  Whit is currently serving as our ward's Young Men president, and he organized the first annual ward Turkey Bowl the Saturday before Thanksgiving.  

 They had a great time playing football, and Whit was even on the winning team.  That made him especially happy!

 We also got this little walker for Winston, and he is getting pretty good at walking with it.  I'm sure it won't be long until he gets confident enough to walk without it.  Then we are really in for it!  :)

 Sadly, this is the only picture we took on Thanksgiving :(  Whit spent the morning cooking, while I went to our clubhouse and worked out while Winston was sleeping.  It was so nice!!!  Then we got ready and headed up to Bountiful to Julie's place (Whit's mom) for Thanksgiving dinner.  We had such a fun time with family there, it was great!  Winston loves watching all of his cousins play.  Then we stopped by my Aunt's place in Woods Cross on the way home.  It was fun to visit with family there for a bit.  Then we headed home and put Winston to bed and crashed on the couch.  It was such a nice day.

 Friday Whit went into work, but only worked for a couple of hours until he realized that no one else was coming in!  So he stopped by a Black Friday sale on his way home to pick up some scouting supplies, and then we headed down to my parent's place in Spanish Fork.  We took down my aunt's couch for them, she was kind enough to give it to them.  It took Whit and my dad about an hour to figure out how to get it in their basement, but they eventually got it down and got the old couch up and loaded in the truck to take to DI.  My parents dropped it off and then were kind enough to watch Winston so Whit and I could go see the James Bond movie!  What a treat.  A real date on a Friday night, complete with dinner at the Pita Pit.  It was an awesome night!  We spent the night there in Spanish Fork and in the morning we all went up to the church to play a bit of basketball.  Then we hung out together for awhile, gave Winston his first Oreo, and we all made pies.  It was such a fun day.

 Our post-pie bellies!

 Whit's birthday was the next weekend, so he took Friday off work! 

His birthday present was these headphones that he's been wanting for a long time.  He was excited to finally get them :)

 Then we headed up to Jim and Karyn's cabin to spend the night.  Saturday we went up to the Uintahs to cut down our very first Christmas tree!  Here is the tree we found, it did make me a little sad to cut it down.  It was so pretty up there in the mountains!

 My mom and dad came too, and got a tree for themselves.  My sister Kira was nice and stayed at the cabin to watch Winston, so we didn't have to drag him out in the cold.  It wasn't too bad, but we did have to wear our snowshoes and I was glad we didn't have to worry about him getting cold in the backpack.

 We got home that night and set up the tree.  Whit started putting lights on the tree, but only covered half of it when we ran out.  So he got some more lights on Monday, but by then I had caught this silly cold and was pretty much out of it!  I've learned the hard way that you don't want to get a head cold when pregnant, they just don't work well together!  But after almost two weeks, I finally was able to breathe through my nose at night and slept the whole night through.  Yippee!  I'm sure recovery is now close behind.  And we did finally finish decorating the tree.  I love it.

Christmas time is here!