Shed

Chris has took on a huge project of building a shed! he has never done anything like this before.. but he is loving it. and he is doing awesome, i'm really impressed! and it is going to be SO nice to have a place to put boxes and baby toys cuz man they take up a lot of room!

Me and Samarah hanging out outside!! Caught her smiling!!!!!

RAndom

I don't know why but I think this is such a cute freakin picture!

I am going to put up some random ones i've taken

She likes to fall asleep with her arms up!!

She has started to grab her feet!

4 month old!

I have a 4 month old baby today!!! (well not the day i'm posting this.. on December 4 she was 4 months) In some ways it has felt like forever, and in others it seems like only yesterday I brought her home. here are some pics on her 4 month old day.. look at that dimple!!!

 Ok so this next pic is just funny. Chris likes to play the play station and is into gaming.. So he was holding Samarah on his lap and got her to like 'hold' the controller and he just thought it was awesome. lol

Thanksgiving

I got a few pics with my phone on Thanksgiving.. Mostly just of us and the baby...We just went to my parents house (Chris family lives in Ohio, Sadly, so we don't get to spend holidays with them)

It was an off year where my nieces and nephews were at their dads house or other grandparents.. so it was just a few of us and we ate off fine china and drank out of goblets ha it was awesome!!! My parents have beatiful dinner sets that we never use so it was fun to use it!

Doesn't she look so much like him already? this is my new favorite pic! even though her face is blurry dangit

Got one with Casey (my dog) actually looking so it made a good pic! Casey is doing much better with Samarah these days! not so jealous!

Having a baby has made me so grateful for so much more.. has given me such a bigger/new perspective..

But some things i'm thankful for are...

HEAT! (electricity too)

A house

A wonderful family and husband

A good job

Food

Vehicles that work

Good Health

A beautiful healthy baby girl

And the list goes on... and on...

Little Things

Its the little things that make all the difference sometimes. I came home from work one day and found this on the wall under our deck...

And at a family dinner, my sisters and I were talking and I looked over and found Chris spelling this out with Legos....

These were such small things but they made such a huge impact on me! I love him!

Family dinner

So I don't hardly take any pictures and I don't ever take pics of me and Samarah.. But at our family dinner today, I had my niece take a pic of me and her and she got a way good one! I'm excited.. I need to get more of us :)

This one is blurry but she was smiling so big! She was a happy baby tonight it was so fun!!

And one that was just cute of her sittin with my mom

Dimple

So once Samarah started smiling we noticed she has one dimple! on her right cheek... well come to find out Chris has one dimple on his right cheek too! I never knew that and we've been together over 4 years! Hairy face has something to do with that... I tried to catch it in this pic today!

This is our makeshift Bumbo! the thing that helps kids sit up on their own. She is trying to be a big girl and she loves to sit and stand so we made her a ghetto bumbo. LOL. She liked it though!

Smile

My beautiful baby girl!! I took this a few days ago and caught her smiling when we were on our walk, its so cute I love it

I just learned something SO awesome! I have all these pics on my phone (basic phone not smart phone or fancy phone) and I want so bad to post some of them.. and i just figured out i can send them to my email via text message!! YAY!! i can put them on the computer then delete them on my phone. i'm so excited. Cuz i capture some good pics with my phone cuz i don't have my other camera with me hardly ever. I am SO excited!

Birth details

I'm still trying to get the hang of this blog and I accidentially posted that without more details! I wanted to give a full description of her birth and everything but it would be far too long, so i will make it super brief. Samarah was born on August 4, 2011 at 11:43 pm. She was 7lb 6oz and 20 and 1/2 inches long! Her due date was July 31st, and let me just tell you.. every day past your due date feels like a lifetime!

I labored all day at work then checked in to the hosptial at 4pm and was dilated to a 5 1/2. I wanted to go natural... but contractions hurt so freakin bad! They are like nothing that can be described, women are amazing to go through it. I made it till i was dilated to a 7 1/2 and the contractions were no longer giving me a break, about 8 pm. I wanted to go natural cuz women did it for thousands of years and survived just fine.. but it is hard when you know being pain free is just a needle away! But i did last quite awhile!!

I pushed for 2 hours, she was posterier (sunny side up) she didn't budge, we used forceps and she finally came out!

 We didn't find out what we were having and it was so awesome to push and have Chris announce it! If I ever have any more kids (Which I can't even think about contemplating right now!) I don't want to find out what any of them are! it was so fun. I don't want to make this crazy long. I'll add more details in the next post!

last prego pic! (above)

She is all arms and legs! Lanky baby! one of her first pics! (below)

First pic with mommy

One of first pics with daddy

she already looks like him!

"Jam"

This is a disguise! If I saw it, I would think Raspberry, or strawberry jam. Right? Well, I went over to a friends house on friday night to make jam. It is jam, but its fake jam! We made green tomato jam! Brandi said if I had leftover green tomatoes from the garden, that we should make green tomato jam. I was super skeptical But went over and made it. It is so super easy way easier than regular jam. And I had my first taste of it this morning. It is SO YUMMY!! it tastes like raspberry freezer jam. I don't think I will ever make regular jam after learning this nifty recipe!!!! And there are always green tomatoes left over. Brandi's daughter and husband watched Samarah. I had a blast. Thanks Brandi!

Samarah's baby blessing

On Sunday October 9, 2011 we got Samarah blessed! She did so perfect! She slept during church and through the blessing! My dad blessed her, I'm so glad that my dad is still around to do it. We came back to our house and had pork on rolls and desserts. The day was gorgeous!! It turned out absolutely perfect. But I was super stressed and running around like a chicken with my head cut off when we got back. I didn't get hardly any pictures taken! But here is what I got

Samarah getting a bath on blessing day!! caught her smiling!

My dad was so cute. After he blessed her he started walking back with her to give her to me and when he was almost to me, he turned in midstep and went and sat down with her.

He gave her a great blessing

Too much to say!

I feel like I need to start from the beginning of my life up to now! that would be way too much. I haven't figured out really how to use this blog yet so pictures and fancy things are going to come later. But lets see. Life. I guess  I feel like where my life begins was getting married.. That is one of the most significant things thus far in my life! I got married to Chris in April 2008. I love that man so much. We bought our first home in August of 2009. We just had our first baby, a baby girl Samarah, on August 4, 2011. And wow how life has changed!
I will probably continue to just do little updates here and there till I get this thing established then I will make it more about my day to day life! I know the blog is boring right now! it will get there don't worry.
Oh, and it was in the 80's last week, and its freaking snowing today, like a lot. This is so lame.

Giving in

Well... I think I am one of the only people left on the planet who does not have a facebook. So, I decided to give in to the blogging storm.. Its a social outlet, yet nothing like facebook. So I think I will survive :) ha. I enjoy writing in a journal and I think this will be a fun mini version of my thoughts, feelings, and life events that my friends and family can look at if they want. I can post pics and keep people updated. I am writing this one handed cuz my baby fell asleep in my arms..so there will be more to come!