Easter 2012

I have to admit, before this year, we've never really done a whole lot for Easter. I think having a baby to share it with makes the holiday so much more fun! While I, I mean the Easter Bunny, was shopping for Ivy, he just couldn't forget about a basket for us too! How thoughtful, that Easter Bunny. Anywho, I am so grateful for my little family. I am grateful for my Lord and Savior for making it possible for me to spend eternity with them. He is the reason we celebrate and I feel so lucky to be able to spend that time with the ones I love.

Here is my baby girl playing with her first easter basket. I think she liked it:

Pretty necklaces and marshmallows! She was having a blast..

Good morning sunshine..

After church, Ivy with her daddy. I love her squishy faced smile hehe:

After church we headed up to Joe and Emily's for an awesome steak dinner and games. Thanks for having us, guys! Afterwards, we were able to stop by Kari's friend's house where her, Mark, and the kids were staying for the week. SO fun to see them! Ivy couldn't get enough of her cousin Lilly. Pics to come later of our fun week with them...

Not a fan of the grass, hahaa:

I just love my pretty girl. She is growing up too fast:

Hope everyone had a lovely Easter weekend!

Quarter of a century

Man I'm getting old. haha! When I was younger, I remember 24 being the age that I thought sounded old. And 25 is beyond that. yikes. I won't bore you with any more ramblings of my thoughts on age.. I'll get to the fun stuff. :) This year, I decided I wanted to finally buckle down and learn to sew. *gasp* I knoow. I know. I always said I never really had a desire to learn to sew. Maybe I can thank having a baby for changing that. Or maybe all the ideas and tutorials on Pinterest. ha! (only half kidding).. Well whatever the reason, I'm already so glad I decided to learn. Sam found me the perfect sewing machine that I'm sure will last me a long time, at least until I decide to upgrade to a more complicated one in the distant future. Anywho, I had my first class and I learned a ton and am super excited for my next classes. Can't wait to do a some projects this summer! I haven't even sewn anything yet and I can already tell I might become addicted. hehee..

Ivy was so sweet to help her mama open her birthday gift...

Also, just wanted to include a picture of my new necklace that was sort of in between a Valentine's day and Birthday gift. I had lost my favorite silver necklace that I wore almost every day so I needed a replacement and felt like this would more than make up for it:

To celebrate, I told Sam I reeeally wanted to go to the Melting Pot in SLC, this awesome fondue restaurant. Some good friends of ours, Alainna and Stephen offered to watch Ivy for us so we could have dinner together. They live just near downtown so it was perfect! Dinner was super fun and so delicious!

Alainna also made me an awesome rainbow cake for us to come back and celebrate at their house afterwards. I just love the rainbow chip frosting. It's the best. Thanks guys for watching Ivy, the cake, and for hanging out with us afterwards! We don't get to see them very much since we live a little ways away but were soo glad we could hang out at least one more time before we move away forever! We had such a great time. I had a very, very happy birthday with people I love! It was perfect. Oh and thank you to family and friends for the cards, well wishes, etc. They were very appreciated. Love you all.

Sick Baby

(Sorry this is so long, feel free to skip. I just wanted to include it for record purposes) A few weeks ago Ivy came down with a little virus. Just a sore throat, so I thought.. no runny nose or anything, just a scratchy voice and a low-grade fever. We tried to take things easy for a couple days and by wednesday she seemed to be feeling better. However, Wednesday night her fever spiked to 102 degrees so I took her in just to be safe the next morning. Just as I thought, the dr said it was probably a virus of some sort and should go away within 48 hrs or so. But by Friday afternoon, her fever was up to 104 and she was not feeling well at all which made me pretty worried so I took her back in. She also had not been eating anything at all which was also worrisome. The dr was concerned as well and wanted to do some blood work to test for bacteria. Well the initial test came back positive so they wanted to run more tests to see where the infection might be. We ended up being there for 4 hours! And not to mention, Ivy was getting more and more dehydrated because she wouldn't eat very much or drink. She was pretty miserable. They finally gave her a shot of antibiotics and sent us home. The dr wanted us to come in the next morning to make sure her white count went down. Her white count was fine and the dr said that it actually might not be bacterial because occasionally stress can cause the test to look like bacteria... Or something. Haha. So long story short, Ivy got more antibiotics and by Monday morning was feeling much better. And the blood culture came back negative for bacterial infection. Soo strange. It just so happened that the virus cleared up the same time that they gave her an antibiotics. WHEW. That was all a little confusing. Sorry to write it all out but just wanted to document because we've never had to take her to the dr for anything that serious before or ever had tests done, etc. It was not fun. I'm just glad she is feeling better. And hope she doesn't get sick for a while bc it felt like forever! 8+ days is a long time to be sick for a baby... poor girl! 

Eating a sucker before getting her blood drawn.. Hoping to use it as a distraction while they had to poke her. Didn't really work, lol:

Poor girl was pooped. She fell asleep for like 40 mins while we waited for test results. She never sleeps on my lap. That's how lousy she was feeling:

What most of our days looked like:

It really is no fun being sick. She didn't want to do anything but sit and watch her movies with mama.. or her dollies, hehe.. Anyways, I'm just so glad she has been feeling better and that I have my happy girl back. :)