Addison had this thing, and sometimes still does, where she liked to put here had over her eyes whenever she ate. I couldn't tell if it was to say, 'I am so tired', or 'leave me alone', or something like, 'being a baby is so hard'. But it sure was cute.

Newborn

Here are all the rest of the Addison's newborn pictures. I think. I tried to organize all of the pictures I have of her so if a few stragglers pop up in the next couple of posts, I apologize. Addison's 'younger' pictures aren't my favorite but considering how 'well' I felt, I am just glad that I have some. And if there are duplicates in these next couple of posts, lucky you right?

Lately, I just keep taking more and more pictures of Addison and keep getting more and more behind. So I am just trying to group everything together and get them all posted! Have fun looking at the new love of my life!

Fed and asleep. What more could a newborn want?

Addison is a HUGE spitter upper. Every feeding she spits up, oh, at least 3 - 6 times. Still even today that happens. I am now quite used to spit up being all of my shirts, couch, carpet, carseat, anywhere, you name it. But I did try to keep Addison dry for awhile with a bib. That is why a lot of her pictures she is wearing a bib. I got tired of changing her SOAKING clothes. However, she still spits up on herself today but at least it dries before she goes back to sleep.

Almost and a Happy New Year

Well I didn't make my goal of updating my blog before the new year. Having to give a talk at church tomorrow kind of put a bump in my schedule. However, I guess that just means that I will have a whole bunch of new posts for January!

I want to end this year with my favorite picture, here is Addison sleeping.

The picture says it all.

Happy 2011 and here is to a fabulous 2012!

Long Time Coming

So I finally have all of my pictures from the summer together and I am ready to update my blog!!! A Christmas miracle? I think so! My goal was to have my blog updated by the end of the year so there will be many posts to come in the next 24 hours. Um, on a side note, I also have to write a talk for church on Sunday so if someone would love to help me and write that for me, They would be the best!! Any takers...

Here are some more pictures of Addison in the hospital and mainly of all of our visitors. We had so many great family members and friends that came up to visit our new little package, she is lucky to have so many people that already love her. I didn't get pictures of everyone but here is a great number of her visitors.

I love this pictures because it was taken a few hours after she was born. She is definitely my little chubbers here.
She is awake!

Addison's New Trick

As of November 8th Addison can roll over. It is only from front to back and it takes her a couple of trys. But she is slowly becoming a pro!

Before

After

Addison's Blessing

Here is one set of pictures from this summer as I play catch up. I am not going to have the Internet for this next month so if you don’t hear from me for awhile; I have a good excuse this time.

We blessed Addison on August 7. I don’t remember a lot about the day because I hooked up on some seriously great Oxycontin but I do remember the most important parts like family, the priesthood and Addison. We were so grateful to have so many family members there, especially since they came from everywhere. Brighton did such an amazing job with the blessing and I am so grateful for his priesthood authority. Addison is so lucky to have so many worthy priesthood holders in her family and I am grateful they love her so much.

Afterwards we had a light luncheon in my grandpa’s backyard and enjoyed some great family time. As I look back at the pictures I realized that they were the last pictures we ever got with my grandpa. He passed away about a month and a half later and so I am grateful for the tender mercy of having those pictures.

A quick funny story about her blessing dress. When we, my mom and I, went to pick out her dress the lady at the store said that if she spits up on any of the dresses we have to buy it. So we grab a bunch of dresses to try on Addison and the very first one we put on her she spit up in. However it was just a tiny bit so we tried on all of the other dresses. We had narrowed it down to a couple of dresses and started trying them on her again. We put the first one on her again and she spit up ALL over it this time. So my mom and I decided it was a sign and we took that dress. If we didn’t understand what she said the first time, we definitely got it the second time around.

Prepare to be overloaded in pictures.