Just Because

I have been experimenting and trying to improve my photo skills. I am feeling the itch to start up my "classes" again now that it will be spring soon. Besides, I always have an adorable (although not necessarily willing) subject. So I thought I would share some of the photos. Tell me what you think.







I think this is my favorite.


This is just her playing.

A Look Back

Six months may not seem like a long time, but Olli has changed so much that it seems quite momentous. So I wanted to take a look back at her short (but long) life so far.

Here she is in the hospital only a few hours old. It is surreal to think back to that day. I find it quite charming that she looks and acts like the same baby that we met that day.

Here she is at two weeks and we thought she was so big. We didn't know what was coming.

I love her blessing dress/ pictures because I think she looks like an actual doll. By this age she was sleeping through the night. What a sweet little angel.

At two months old we thought she would want to stop being swaddled but we were wrong. She still gets wrapped up every night. Here she is in her little swaddle blanket.

She was 3 months at Halloween and we loved this glow-in-the dark skeleton, even if she only wore it once. She would get frustrated about hanging out in her chair because she couldn't do anything.

At 4 months she started to grab and reach for things. Now anything in her reach goes straight to the mouth.

She also celebrated her first Christmas at 4 months, which she could have cared less about, but a least she looks cute in her new clothes.

She took up drooling and yelling at 5 months and hasn't changed in that department.

Now she can sit up and jabber to us all day. She loves her new independence and being an involved part of the world.

The first six months have been so great, I can't wait to see what the next six hold.

Yum Yummmm

I can't believe it but our little girl is six months old! She weighs 19 pounds (!) and is 25 inches long . Basically that means that she is average length and super (like off the charts) chunky, but that is how she has always been. Today was her first taste of real food. We decided to start with carrots. She didn't dislike them but she wasn't necessarily scarfing them either. She did manage to eat them all so we will keep it up.


I feel like this look is saying "Really mom? This is a total invasion of privacy".


Her favorite part was chewing on the spoon because she chews absolutely everything and is usually covered in slimy drool.


My *FAVORITE* picture is the carrot goatee. It looks absolutely disgusting, and hilarious.

Tomorrow I will post some pictures of her over these past six months. And I promise I will start blogging again.

The Land of Warmth and Sunshie

This past weekend we decided to take a quick "get-out-of-the-crappy-winter" trip to St. George. It was a great mini *vacay*. We loved being in the sun and able to breathe clean air. You can see how blue and beautiful the sky was.

Is she not the cutest thing ever? I had just bought those glasses at the outlet and she wore them the whole trip. She must be little enough to not care yet. But it does make me wonder what she must think happens when her world goes from colorful to tinted. And we didn't have her sun hat, which is why she is wearing a beanie, but it did the job.

We went on an easy hike. O loved it. She was cooing and gooing the whole time.

It is kinda hard to tell but we are up pretty high on the rocks. I was glad Scott was carrying her and not me.


Notice our little Sack Girl in the bottom corner. That is what she looks like to me in this pic. And what do you think of the new hair?