All Smiles!

Today has been a great day!! Megan is feeling better and today we went to lunch with two of my coworkers. It was so nice to get out and great to catch up with people! Megan was awake for a little bit at first. That had me nervous because she used to cry if she was awake for very long and she never just fell asleep. Today she was awake and then she just fell asleep on her own...YAY!!!!!!! We got home and I changed her diaper and then she was so happy and smiley. I had to share!!





I just love my baby girl!!!!

Mesquite

This weekend was our first vacation with Megan. Jeff married Heidi in Mesquite and we went down to be with them. It went much better with Megan than I thought it was going to. She's such a great baby! She slept until Cedar City and then we woke her up. Then on the way home we made it to Nephi and then we woke her up. When we'd pull her out of her car seat she'd stretch and stretch...it was soooo cute!!

We stopped in St. George on the way down and visited my friend Jaclyn. It was so great to see her! We were college roommies and I miss her :( The iron man was going on that weekend in St. George. We stayed at a hotel with free breakfast and we'll just say that I felt really fat and out of shape walking by all those healthy people. The nice thing was there was plenty of pastries left for me :)

We had to do some shopping in St. George the next morning (note the "had"). St. George has the biggest TJ Maxx and More and I had to show my mom. It was a BLAST!!! We did need to get some things for the wedding from Costco so we went there too. Norman and my dad did some mother's day shopping while we were at TJ Maxx and met us at Costco. Later we went to Wal-Mart in Mesquite and Norman pointed out that this was his 5th store for the day. I had to take a picture to document such a feat of strength.


You see...he HATES to shop. In general there is a strict one store per day limit. It took me a while to get used to his shopping style, but oh wait...I didn't get used to it...I just leave him home when I go shopping LOL!!!!

We went to dinner at the hotel. It was fun!! Norman got the pasta and I asked him how it was. He said "It's ok...nothing I'd blog about." I told him I'd blog for him :) Here he is with his un-blogworthy pasta that I'm blogging about.

After that picture I had to take others too. My parents got the fish and chips (that wasn't good...too much breading...not hardly any fish).

Oh yah, and because I'm blogging what everyone got...I got the fried chicken. It wasn't KFC, but it was pretty good. We found that they had the best turkey there the next day though...yummy!! I didn't get pictures of that though...failure on my part....

Trish and Wendy came over the first night to party. Norman had already gone to bed and I turn around to see Trish running across the room and jump in bed on Norman. He squealed and I laughed! I told him I'm going to have to watch him because the minute I turn my back he has a lesbian in bed with him and that this is not Vegas...it's Mesquite...he just laughed. Here's a picture of the party...

Oh yah! That's right people...we are party animals!!!!

The next day we hit the pool. It was so nice to play in the nice weather!!! We played on the water slide which was pretty fun actually!! My mom took pictures of us as we slid down.

Norman

Me

Karley

Keelee

Jared

Amanda

A Ghost!!!

LOL!!! Actually she kept missing us going down. There are several pictures like this which I think is hilarious!!!

Megan was telling Trish stories.
Trish telling my parents stories
Keelee posing for the camera


We did however go down for a wedding so I should probably post pictures of that too. Heidi's dad is the director of a golf course and so Jeff and Heidi were able to be married there. It was a beautiful setting and wedding. I had been worried that Megan wouldn't want to cooperate, and she didn't disappoint. Luckily there was a side cut out thing I could stand in where no one could see me because as Jeff and Heidi were getting married I was nursing Megan...yup! I told Jeff that Megan had heard that weddings had excellent food, and he said he figures she thought it was an open bar...LOL!

So close to being hitched...

Yay! They're married! Kiss her!!
Megan didn't feel very well, but she was so cute in her yellow dress.



Trish and Keelee
I liked this picture of my little family

One Happy Mommy!!!

So Megan has been fussy fussy fussy. I thought we were just being punished for some reason and I'd read and been told that fussiness peaks at about 6 weeks. That's where we are so I assumed this was normal and just part of being a mommy. Yesterday (Tuesday) she woke up after an hour of sleeping which was normal for the day and when I picked her up her chest was so raspy and I could feel the fluid in her chest as she would breathe. We're headed to Jeff's wedding in Mesquite this weekend and I didn't want this to get worse so I called the Dr's office to see what they said. Luckily, they said to bring her in. I did and she cried the whole way there and all through the visit. The little stinker cried so hard it cleared her lungs. I was feeling so stupid for going when the Dr was asking about the "rash" on her face/head/neck. I told him I thought it was baby acne and that it had been clearing up. He said it's worse than just acne and looks like an infection. He also said that she shouldn't be crying like this (she was still screaming at this point) and that there was definitely some thing wrong. Boy did I feel like a dumb mom. I could tell something was wrong, but I didn't know what and I almost didn't go to the Dr. She's been on antibiotics for over 24 hours now and there's a HUGE difference. Holy cow!!! She's smiling up a storm, trying to laugh, sleeping and she'll just sit content now and try to talk to me. This is the life people!!!! Last night she even slept for 6 hours. I might actually survive being a mommy now.

My poor sick baby being held by grandma...

Her is sooo tired!!
Sleepy time!