Christmas time...

I really haven't been in the Christmas spirit this year but I finally got around to getting my Christmas decorations out this past weekend and it seemed to liven my mood.  It just seems like every year, Christmas just keeps coming faster and faster.  And now with Kaycee, time is just flying by, especially since her birthday is a month after Christmas.  That is still hard for me to believe!  Any way, things are starting to turn around and I'm now getting excited to have Kaycee open presents even though she's not going to understand what it all means.  It'll be more for us this year than her.  I'm also starting to get excited because Cody and I are going to take a trip to Las Vegas just before Christmas for a mini vacation and to see the Utah Utes plat Boise State in the Las Vegas Bowl.  I can't wait! 

Here are just a few pics of Kaycee and me:

My little nugget

Love this girl!!!

Just reminiscing...

Is Thanksgiving really next Thursday?!?!?  Seriously, where has this year gone?  All I can think about is that in 4 days Kaycee will be 10 months old, then in a month will be Christmas and then she'll turn 1!  She is getting so big and moving all over the place, she is now standing all on her own and I just know that any day now she'll take her first steps!  I just hope I'm home to see it.  Working nights has been rough this time around, don't get me wrong I love working graves but now with Kaycee it's so different.  I'm not able to just sleep in and get the sleep I need except for on Wednesdays when my wonderful in-laws watch Kaycee all day for us.  But I have realized that I am able to function with 4-5 hrs of sleep.  But those 4-5 hrs have to be without interruption or else I am super ornery!  Poor little Kaycee, she's going to think that all her mom does is sleep, lol.  I just keep thinking about how I was pregnant this time last year and I could wait until she got here.  We still hadn't officially decided on a name (which by the way I think is one of the hardest things to do, pick a name for someone else) and I was leaning towards Brooklyn and Cody wanted to name her Ashley.  When we first found out we were going to have a baby we picked out the boys name right away, Carson.  But if it was a girl we were totally stumped!  So I pretty much knew that we were going to have a girl because we couldn't come up with anything.  Then Cody was looking through our atlas, don't ask me why, when he came across a city named Kaycee in Wyoming.  We both loved the name and kept in the back of our minds and when she was born it was clear that she was a Kaycee.  I love her so much and am truly blessed to have her in my life.  Here is a cute some little pictures of her when she was first born.  Love my little ladybug!!!

Little Stinker

Kaycee was not happy with her Halloween costume (she was a skunk!).  It lasted all of maybe 10-15 mins at a time on her.  But I think she looked very sweet!

Here's a few pictures of her in a little Halloween outfit:

Wow, November already, really?

I can't believe that Halloween has come and gone.  It's already November, soon it will be Thanksgiving, then Christmas, then Kaycee's 1st birthday.  Wow!  It doesn't even seem possible that this year has gone by so fast. I look back and think this time last year I was getting to that uncomfortable stage of my pregnancy, no position seemed to work when I would try and sleep.  She was kicking me all the time and especially at night but I always thought it was cool to watch my belly roll all over the place.  And now here she is, 9 months old, getting ready to take her first steps!  I've been reading through some other blogs lately about some very courageous mothers and some very trying times that they have had to go through and remind myself that when I'm having a bad day and I'm starting to get frustrated with Kaycee because I'm just so tired, I need to be thank that she is here and that I'm able to be frustrated with her!  These other mothers have lost their little ones or are about to and I just don't know how they are surviving and making it through day by day.  But then I see their tremendous strength in God and I'm just floored by it.  Makes me think that I need to check my faith and make sure that it's still there.  I know what I believe and I'm not going to sit here and preach it to you but sometimes I do forget and I know that I shouldn't.  I do thank God all the time for this little bundle of joy, she is my whole world and I wouldn't change a thing! 

9 Months old

Can Kaycee really be 9 months old already?  It just doesn't seem possible!  She's growing up so fast and crawling all over the place!  She is such a joy and blessing in my life.  She is such a good baby, she loves to play and just be with people.  She is only fussy or cranky when she is hungry or sleepy which has been great!  She has also been sleeping through the night since she was about 6 weeks old, which I'm sure my parents aren't too thrilled with since I never slept through night until I was 3 years old, haha!!!  Before I know it she's going to 1 year old, then 2, then in school and then dating!  How is Cody going to handle that I wonder?  Well I can't wait for the holidays because it's going to be her first Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas and even though I don't think she'll understand what's going on, I'm going to enjoy every minute of it!!!

Happy Halloween

Here's my cute little pumpkin.

Learning how to post a picture

Isn't she just a little stinker?!?!  

I love her so much, don't know what I would do without her.

It has begun...

So I have decided to start a Blog.  I never thought would happen but I never thought I would get a Facebook page either and look what happened with that!!!  I figured if I started a Blog, those without Facebook would be able to check in with my family and see what's been going on in our lives.  You will all have to bare with me as I learn the ins and outs of this thing until I get the hang of it.  I intend to post pictures and try to keep as update as possible.  I'm switching to graveyards so that might actually be possible!!!  So here we go, it has begun, I am now a blogger.  Wish me luck.