Mother's Day

I want to start off by thanking my family and friends for the presents, cards, e-mails and/or phone call, I really appreciated it! I felt so loved and only thought I would be wished from Nate and Elyse, so thank you so much!!! For the past 26 years, I've spent Mother's Day celebrating my mom. Besides Nate, she's my best friend and I love her so much. Now I'm thankful for my little girl that hopefully I will be just as close to. However, yesterday was an extra special Mother's Day. The reason is because I not only celebrated my mom again, but got to spend the day celebrating myself as a mom for the first time. I was looking forward to this day for the longest time. It means so much to me to be a mom. Don't get me wrong there are hard moments, but I would NEVER want to do anything else!!! Well, my anticipation for the day was not disappointed. Elyse (Nate) gave me a wonderful Mother's day! Nate, Elyse and I went to church together, headed to my mom's for a family lunch and then spent the night hanging out; to top the day off I constantly heard my daughter say, "Mama". Elyse (okay Nate) also bought me this beautiful personal bracelet that I will forever cherish. I thank God for giving me the gift to become a mom. I hope all you mothers had a wonderful Mother's day as well.

8 Months Old

Nothing new, I just wanted to say, "Happy 8 Months Old Elyse!"

Clap Your Hands

Last week Nate and I noticed while playing patty-cake with Elyse that she started to do it by herself. We then began saying "clap your hands" instead of "patty-cake" so she would understand what she was exactly doing and not think patty-cake was the correct words. Don't worry, she still will play patty-cake because she'll see you clap your hands together. By Saturday she was a clap your hand pro and we love making her do it.

Sunday Life Group

Last night Nate, Elyse and I had our last life group for the 08-09 season. We finished this year with a barbecue at our house. It was a lot of fun to hang out with friends, watch the kids play together and eat some good food! We feel so blessed to have them in our lives. We do plan on seeing them throughout the summer, but we take the summer off from the study. The babies below are all within 1 month apart. I think Elyse just looks much bigger and older, Nate says it's because she's closer to the camera, I just think she's that much bigger :) Side note: Elyse is wearing her hat just for Sarah

Willow (8 mon), Mariana (8 mon), Mason (6 mon), Elyse (7 mon)

Hey, Uncle Steven...

I know you like to dress like me, I know you like to act like me, So I was thinking now that you're 24, you may want to act your age.

Out with the Old, In with the New

OLD: NEW: Since Elyse's old car seat was a older Graco Snug n'Ride, it only had two slots to raise the straps. Therefore, since she is getting so long we knew for her safety and comfort it was time to get the next size car seat. Plus getting her in and out with the old one was really getting harder and harder. We found this one at Babies R'Us and love it! It's an Evenflo Symphony and goes all the way to a booster seat at 100 lbs. As you can see from the picture below, Elyse loves it too.

By the way,does anyone know why a child has to be rear facing till 1?

Just Keep Swimming

On Saturday, Elyse attended her first birthday party. Her good friend, Aiden turned one and so she got to go to his pool party. She had lots of funny playing with other kids, watching Aiden so nicely eat his cake and go swimming. I think swimming had to be her favorite thing. She loved it from the moment she got into the water. She cried when it was time to get out. We may just have a future swimmer on our hands.
Kiss from the b-day boy, must have found her cute in her swimsuit. Having a blast. She was kicking her feet and moving her arms. Sharing her duck and having girl talk with Aiden's cousin, Teagen.