Kalianna's Blessing

Kalianna's blessing was yesterday and it was a wonderful day! She looked beautiful in her big white dress and Matt did a great job with her blessing. We had lots of support! Kalianna had 15 men in her circle. I don't know how they would have all fit if everyone had been able to make it! Some people had to leave right after sacrament meeting, but the rest of us stayed and enjoyed the rest of our meetings. (Several years ago the first presidency asked that when blessing a baby or sending off a missionary, etc. you attend all three meetings and not skip out after sacrament. I am a very blue personality in that I like following the rules and it bothers me when other people don't.) After the church block we headed over to our house for lunch. We visited for awhile with family and close friends before everyone took off. I think Kalianna was getting tired of being passed around so much. She started getting fussy towards the end. Then when it was back to just the three of us, she was all smiles! We had a great day! Thanks to all those who came to show your support!!

Most of the guys who were in the circle.

Kalianna and Daddy
Our beautiful girl

Happy Independence Day!

3 Months!

Kalianna is three months old today! She is getting much better at holding her head up, though she's not all the way there yet. She is also completely sleeping through the night now, a good 7 1/2-9 hours a night! (Its okay, I know you're jealous.) Kalianna has been focusing on the things around her more. She enjoys watching Sobaka and Kutse, but her favorite things are lights and fans. She loves music! But she prefers upbeat tempos to anything slow. And she continues to be the happiest baby. She will just talk and talk and talk. She is getting closer to laughing and we can't wait to hear her when the giggles start!
**As a side note: Kalianna had her appointment with the cardiologist yesterday and everything looked perfect! Her heart murmur is completely gone. And Matt and I have decided to go with the bow for her blessing. Matt liked the bow and I liked the headband. After the votes kept pretty even, we decided to put her in the blessing dress and we both agreed the bow looks better with her dress than the headband. Thanks for all the votes though! (except the one person who voted for the bonnet. Whats that about?? =) )

Blessing Headwear

Kalianna's blessing is coming up in July. I bought her the most beautiful little dress! I love it!! Well the dress came with this bonnet:I'm not sure I really like it, especially cause it looks so big on her. So please help me decide if I should have her wear the bonnet, a white headband, or just a simple little bow on her head. Vote for what you think would be the cutest in the right column. Please just vote once. Thanks for the help!

80's Party

Saturday night was Suzy's birthday party. The theme...80's. We had so much fun! Although it was pretty scary when we went shopping at Ross and had a good selection of 80's clothes to choose from. Honestly, whose idea was it to bring the 80's look back?! We didn't even have to buy anything for Kalianna's costume, she already had the leggings and headband and someone gave us her 80's style shirt as a gift shortly after she was born.

Our cute 80's baby
Stylin' mommy
Don't you just love Matt's ensemble?

Our little 80's family

Uncle Bryan
Me, Suzy and Breezy. Although we were all born in the 80's, we were never old enough to wear these clothes.

Suzy's doughnut birthday cake

Suzy opening presents

Playing one of the funnest games ever! Matt and I won the first time we played. Go team Carroll! Then for the next game we thought it would be fun to put all our names in a bowl to draw partnerships. Bryan and Matt won the second time around. Which means Matt rocks at this game! How you play is everyone gets four pieces of paper and they write down a word or a phrase or something on each of the pieces of paper. Some examples from our game were "Don't drink draino" or "99 red balloons" or "policeman handcuffing Suzy" or even just one word "water". Everyone folds their papers and puts them in a big bowl. Then you go around the circle and each partnership has one minute to get as many of the papers as they can. Round one: You try and get your partner to guess what is on the paper by describing it. No actions and no saying any of the words on the paper. Like Catchphrase. You keep going in a circle, each partnership getting one minute at a time until all the papers are gone. Count how many you got and then the papers all get re-folded and put back in the bowl. Round two: Each partnership gets one minute again, but this time there is no talking allowed. You can only act it out. When you run out of papers, count them up and put them back in the bowl again. Round three: You can only use ONE action or ONE word (can't be on the paper) to get your partner to guess what it is. The fun thing is this is your third time playing with the same papers so you have to remember what a phrase could be by one simple action. This game is so much fun!! If any of you have a party coming up, I totally recommend playing. And if you invite me, I will demonstrate how to play! =-)

Fun Adventures

I keep meaning to post about all the fun stuff we've done the last couple weekends. I have a lot of catching up to do, so I'll just give a brief overview.

Two Thursdays ago we celebrated my sister, Theresa's, birthday by going to her sister-in-law's dad's swimming pool. The weather decided to be a little chilly and the water was pretty cold, but we still had a blast! Kalianna looked adorable in her little swimsuit! The water was too cold, she didn't really care for me putting her feet in the water, so we sat by the edge and watched everyone else play. It was nice just sitting by the pool and enjoying a day with the girls. I love summer!Then two Saturdays ago we went to the air show at Hill Air Force Base with several people in my family. We were afraid the super loud jets (is there any other volume for a jet?) would scare Kalianna, but she just slept through them. I guess it pays to live in Layton since we hear the jets all the time anyway. It was cool to watch the different jets and planes; we had a good time!The first Sunday of the month we went to my cousin's daughter's baby blessing. Its always fun to get together with family and eat yummy food!

Then this last Friday night we had a picnic dinner with our friends Brian and Anna. It was perfect weather and after eating we (okay so I held Kalianna and watched, but everyone else participated) went long boarding in the church parking lot. Then we went back to our house and watched MST3K. Aka: Mystery Science Theater 3000. They are so funny! If you've never watched one, I recommend them for a good laugh! They are especially fun to watch with a big group of friends. We joked about making our own MST3K with the movie Twilight (Brian and Anna thought it was as dumb as I did).

Saturday we went to the Scottish festival at Thanksgiving Point with our friends Nate and Melissa and their son, Craig. We really enjoyed the music and watching the activities and competitions. We also had fun wandering the different booths and, of course, tasting the food. We didn't get very many pictures though.Sunday we had our monthly dinner/games with Matt's family and then Monday night we had a barbecue with my old roommate Stacy and her husband Spencer and two kids.

So we've had some pretty busy weekends lately! And there are more busy weekends in the future!

Best Book Ever

My mother-in-law gave me this book for mother's day and I've really been enjoying it! It has some really fun and cute ideas, as well as some really good perspective on being a mom. Written by an LDS mother/daughter team. Even if you don't learn anything from it, because you are already a perfect mom, its still a fun read. I highly recommend it to all!