Slow down!

Savannah is growing up so fast... too fast! She is 6 1/2 months old now... where has the time gone? I still remember when I found out I was pregnant with her. I was so excited, nervous, and thrilled. Now she is here with us and she is already 6 months. HOLY COW!

She is rolling over, eating solids, sitting up, laughing, smiling, cooing, clicking her tongue, puts everything in her mouth she can get a hold of, loves attention, loves her jumper, loves being held, recognizes Mommy and Daddy, etc.

I love this age! I can tell Savannah is going to be such a sweet girl. She is also a little shy at times. She will smile and nuzzle her little head in your shoulder when someone is talking to her.

She weighs 17 pounds which is in the 65th percentile for weight and is 27 inches which is in the 95th percentile for height. Me and Stephen always get a good laugh about that one because neither of us are very tall. We think she is going to be tall and skinny like my Mom!

She is getting bigger everyday! It is so fun to watch her grow and hard to believe how fast it is going!
I need to cherish this baby as much as I can because before I know it she will be a toddler!!!

One year older and wiser too!

When I was young I would count down the days until my birthday... and the night before I would always be so excited for the next day. Since my birthday is towards the end of August I always felt like the month went by SO slow. This year I didn't even know what day of the week my birthday was on... and the month of August went by SO fast! haha Regardless I am now 22 and it feels weird. I just feel like yesterday I was 19 and getting married. Now Stephen is graduated, I have one more semester until I graduate, we live in Orem, and we have a baby. It's so fun, crazy, and exciting to think of... so much has happened in the last 2 1/2 years.

I had a great birthday!

I woke up to these cute flowers from my sweet husband!

And spent my afternoon with this sweet, smiley girl!

That evening my family came over and we ate pizza, ate YUMMY cake, opened presents, and played Phase 10. It was a blast! I had a great birthday!!!! Thanks everyone for all the birthday wishes, texts, and fb messages! :)

On another note:

We gave Savannah her first banana to eat all on her own. It was so funny watching her. We were cracking up. She made a mess... seriously there was banana everywhere... even in between her toes. She was loving every minute of it though, it was so cute!

She is sucking every last bit off her fingers.

So So yummy!

*Thanks Maleen for the Bumbo tray... it has become very useful!

My little jumper!

Savannah cracks me up when I put her in the jumper. She LOVES it! When your strapping her in she knows whats coming and her little legs just start kicking like crazy because she is so excited. Her personality is SO fun. She is such a sweet girl and she is such a happy girl. (As long as she has a full tummy ;). When she is in her jumper she opens her mouth real big and squeals at the top of her lungs. She loves when people watch her jump and she will give them quite a show... she can jump so high. Here is a lot of pictures with her big mouth grin! I love my little jumper!

"MOM... look at me... I can do it!"

Calling all Moms!

SO I need some advice. Savannah used to be such a good sleeper. She would go to bed at 8:00 and would wake up around 5:00 to eat and then would go back to sleep until 8:00 or 9:00. For the last two weeks she has been waking up every 2 hours and just wants to use me as a human pacifier and then goes right back to sleep. I know she isn't very hungry because she doesn't eat long at all. I just don't want to create bad habits of nursing to sleep. I need advice from all you lovely mother's out there. Is this normal that she is waking up so often now? Is it just a phase she is going through?

Thanks! :)

Happy Monday!

Anniversary # 2!

2 years down... ETERNITY to go!

Today is Stephen and I's 2 year anniversary. It is so fun being married to Stephen. He is the most thoughtful, caring, sensitive, and giving man. I feel so blessed everyday to have such a wonderful husband and such a sweet father to Savannah. I could go on and on about how much I love him but I will spare you all the sappy love talk... I am sure you will all appreciate it!

So this year I told Stephen that we shouldn't spend anything on our anniversary gifts we should just do something creative... like write a sweet letter or something. He agreed and thought that was a good idea. So here was my cheesy/funny letter to him!

It says:

To my Mr. Goodbar,

I might be an Airhead but I'm no Dumb Dumb about how lucky I am to have you.

When we first met it was a Shocker... I thought Oh Yeah what a Hot Tamale. You always make me Laffy Taffy and you are such a Sweettart. With you it feels like PayDay everyday. I love it when you Whatchamacallit it sends me to the Milky Way! I love you Hubba Bubba... you are my Sugar Daddy! Love Jenaca

I know I know... cheesy right but I thought we were doing something cheesy like this and inexpensive for our anniversary gift.
Well apparently Stephen had something else in mind and got me THIS sewing/embroidery machine. I was SO shocked... I wasn't expecting it at all. I had mentioned how it would be so fun to have a sewing machine one day... but I did not think it would be this day and I surely did not think it would be this nice. Stephen spoils me... he is so sweet to me. I can not WAIT to finally sew some cute dresses for Sav, make some fun summer skirts for me, hem up Stephen's jeans that are too long and much more!

Here are some pics of our FUN timesL

Our wedding day... this was seriously the best day of my life. It couldn't have been any better. I never wanted that day to end... it was such a happy happy day!
Us on our honeymoon. This pic still cracks me up.

Stephen looks like he is 10 and I apparently got implants!

Hanging out in my old apartment getting ready to

go to Orchids wedding. Isnt Stephen so handsome!?!
We always had so much fun together dating.

Good ole memories in Rexburg! We were engaged in this picture

and were counting down the days till we were getting married.
Playing some volleyball in Rexburg one evening.

Stephen would drive to Rexburg every weekend to see me...

I lived for those weekends with him!
This was the first concert we went to together. It was

the Kalai concert. He sang "our song" at the very end.

Which is called "Divide Me."

I feel like we look so young in this picture... don't you?

Happy valen-birth-ersary Stephen! We say that just to make sure we got the right day!

I LOVE YOU STEPHEN... can't wait for many more years to come!

Summer Fun!

WE have had such a fun summer and I can't believe there is only one month left!! This summer is flying by. Although we haven't gone on any vacations or traveled anywhere we are loving all the little things we are doing with our little family!

Savannah loves her Uncle Spencer! She is fascinated by that

good looking face as you can see in this picture.

Something she is not so fascinated by is green beans.

This was the face she would give us after each bite.

She is saying, "Seriously mom? Out of all the great foods

out there you feed me this?"

She sure does love going on walks with Mom though.

Mom enjoys them just as much! It is nice to get out of the house and

breath in some fresh/dry/hot Utah air.

This is the smile I wake up to everyday.

Doesn't she look so mischievous... haha I love it!

Although she isn't a big fan of green beans she

LOVED rice cereal. I couldn't feed it to her

fast enough!

I could kiss those chubby cheeks all day!

Savannah is just chillin in her Bumbo while

Mom and Dad get some yard work done.

Can't forget to satisfy my sweet tooth every now and again.

I don't feel to guilty about eating these because I am eating a fruit

covered in chocolate... not just plain chocolate. ;)

Whelp... there ya have it. That is our summer. Nothing to exciting but it has been nothing but fun! Stephen and I love our little girl and our lives just revolve around her!