We are a happy family!

Look Ma....NO hands

When my sister found out that Chad and I would be having Kinsie join our family she was really quick to send me this... All it is is 5 yards of fabric that I warp around to create a baby carrier. The instructions are pretty easy and can be found on you tube. Anyway--Kinsie and I gave it ago today and these were our results. I can't tell if she likes it yet, but I sure do love the hands free aspect of it!

THANKS KARENA!!

Kinsie is 1 week old

At least she was yesterday. To celebrate the big day Kinsie decided it was time to start eating a full 3 oz. She kinda likes to rotate between 2-3 oz. which leaves us guessing how much to put into her bottle. We also decided to celebrate by having some visitors. Chad had to go into work yesterday, so we thought it would be fun to have grandpa and grandma come up for a few hours to spend some quality time with their newest grand baby. I think they really enjoyed the time they had holding her, feeding her, burping her, and changing her. Kinsie was a little stinker and decided she didn't want to wake up until my parents were getting ready to leave. I think out of the 4 hours they were here, Kinsie was awake for 45 minutes. Oh well, they still loved being with her and it was nice to have the company while Chad was gone.

Kinsie is getting to be such a big girl already. She loves picking her head up and looking all over the place. We caught her picking up her head while she was lying down the other day and decided to get some video of it. I was a little late and missed the first part, but you get the general idea.

Well, we're loving every minute we have with our sweet little girl and can't believe she's 1 week old. It will be so much fun to have her get bigger and to a point where she will start to laugh and interact with us, but I'm loving these moments with her while she's so little. I guess all I can do is enjoy the moment while I'm in it.

Can't get enough

Things at our home have been great. Kinsie is such an amazing little girl. She's so easy going and such a happy little baby. We enjoy spending every hour of the day just soaking her in. I'll admit that I'm completely exhausted, but I guess that comes with the territory. Besides, I wouldn't trade one minute of sleep for this precious little angel. She's made us feel so complete.
Well, I have a sister that lives in Iowa and she said she needs to see more pictures of Kinsie since she's so far away. I figured that both our parents and the rest of our siblings probably felt the same way. So, this post is for them. Besides, I can't get enough of her either.

Introducing...

Our sweet little girl, Kinsie Danielle. Isn't she the most beautiful little girl you've ever seen. We both think she's absolutely perfect. We went to LDS Hospital for the placement yesterday morning around 10:30. After signing papers and getting some nursing instructions we went in and saw Danielle and her parents. There are no words to describe that situation, so I won't even try. All I can say is that Chad and I absolutely love Dannie with all our hearts and feel so blessed to have been given such an amazing gift from her. She will always be apart of our lives and we've already tried to tell Kinsie how much Dannie loves her.
Kinsie is our little miracle and we love her so much. Neither one of us can stop looking at her. She's a great little girl and woke up only once during the night last night. She never cries and has tons of hair. She's been awake for most of the morning and has finally settled down for an afternoon nap. I could go on and on about her, but I'll let the pictures do the talking.

She's here

Kinsie was born this afternoon at 1:38. She's 7lbs. 1 oz. and is 20 inches long and from what I've heard she has lots of light brown hair. She's going to be staying in the hospital with just her birthmom for the first 48 hours then well go down for the placement before she is discharged from the hospital. It's been quite an exciting day. We're excited that everything went well and that both baby and birthmom are doing great. We'll keep you updated and get pictures posted as soon as we can.

A Bountiful Mother's Day

Look at what Chad got me for Mother's Day

A garden....along with some other stuff. I've been dying to get a garden planted since last year and it's finally happened. Chad was really good at helping me decide on how it should look, the size it should be, and what types of veggies to plant. We decided to go smaller this year with the option of building more boxes in years to come.
We finished the box and filled it with soil on Saturday and spent our FHE buying and planting our veggies. We have 2 tomato plants, 1 zucchini, 1 bell pepper, 1 row of green beans, 1 row of carrots, and a watermelon plant. It's our first go at a garden so we'll see how we did.
As we were putting in the finishing touches of marigolds our neighbors little girls came over to see what they could do to help. They were a little late to help with the garden so I had them go around the rest of my yard to water my other plants. Then they asked to see the babies room so I took them in for a little peek. I think they are just as excited as we are for the arrival of Kinsie.
As for an update: Danielle is progressing really well and should be going into labor anytime this week. We're excited and are rushing to get some of those last minute items. We had one baby shower, but Kinsie should be arriving before the second so we didn't have some of the necessities. Anyway- as you can imagine we've been really busy. I'll post some pictures of the shower once I have sometime to think. Hope everyone had a great Mother's Day!

Cookie Nut Creations

My sister just created a new blog with some free/costume backgrounds. She's just launched it and is still getting it started, so there are only a few backgrounds, but I thought they were really fun. Go take a look by clicking on the image above or the button on my sidebar.