Out Door Fun and My First Mothers Day!

First Time Playing in the Grass

She actually really loved the grass, but not was not so sure about touching it with her hands

Aleana and her little friend Kaylee playing together

First time at the Zoo

Last Saturday May 4th we took Aleana to the Willow Park Zoo, She could not see very well from her stroller so we carried her. She really enjoyed seeing the animals.  

Here favorite were the monkeys and the bob cats because they we both up and moving around.

She also really liked the turtle and wanted to grab it.  He was a very friendly turtle.

 We hope to take her to the Hoggle Zoo sometime this summer and let her see a lot more animals.

First Barbeque

On Friday night we went to Adams park for a barbeque with our friends the Sanchez's, they were running a little behind so we enjoyed some time together.  The weather was so nice.  

 Look at our matching outfit!

What a big girl!

And yes her cute sandals are crocheted, but they only stayed on for a few pictures.

My First Mothers Day!!

I am so blessed to be the mother of such a sweet little girl who loves me and to have the best husband whole world. I love you Curt and Aleana Thank you for a wonderful Mothers Day. 

 I also wanted to say thanks to our wonderful Birthmom Jesica who gave me the opportunity to be a mother.  We gave her a similar necklace except instead of  pink and purple hearts it was a pink little girl and a green heart for her and Aleana.  Saturday was national Birthmothers Day, so we went and visited her and took her the gift and a bunch of pictures.  Both Jesica and Aleana's half sister Brooke were so happy to see her.  I think we really made Jesica's day!    

Here is a Card that Curt helped Aleana make for me for my first Mothers Day!  

Curt traced Aleana's cute little hand 

If you Can't read the card it says "Roses are red violets are blue your flowers are pink and purple and our birthstones are too! You are my mommy and I just wanted to say your the best mommy ever I love you and Happy Mothers Day!

 

Then Curt had Aleana help him hold the pen while he wrote her name.  I just thought it was the cutes thing ever.

 

 Here are my pink and purple flowers from Curt and Aleana

 Here is the necklace Curt put together with Aleana and my birthstones

 I love the necklace and flowers.  I will wear the necklace all the time and I hope I can keep my flowers a live for a least a few weeks :)

 

After Church we went to my parents house for dinner, which Curt helped to prepare.

My mom gave me so pink flowers and I gave her a salt down print of Aleana's little foot print.

I love my mom and I am so grateful for all she has done for me.  She always believed I would be a mother someday!

Here are some cute pictures we took in my parents back yard after dinner 

 

 

 

 

 Some adorable pictures of me and Aleana on my first mothers day!

 

 

 

Fun Family pictures, I love my little family

 

Aleana and daddy chilling in the grass

 

 Aleana and my parents

 

 

 Aleana with my sister Debbie, who might be winning on favorite aunt!

 Aleana and my brother Brian, they have fun playing together!

I love my family and they helped me have any even better mothers day!

Sunday May 26, 2013

   Aleana has done a lot of fun new things since she has turned 7 months.  She now has 6 and ¼ teeth, she will probably have her front 8 before too long.  She has started reaching for us which is so much fun.  She is also saying mummm mummm and daddd daddd, she is even started to associate it with us.  I don’t think she completely has the mom and the dad thing down yet but it is so fun to see her learning.  There was one day that she was me walk into the kitchen and she rolled in front of the door way so that I would see her when she walked out and reached up her hands and said “mummm mummm”,  it was the cutest thing and I could not resist picking her up. 

I had my first Mother’s Day.  I love being a Mother and I truly love Aleana so much.  Curt and Aleana bought me flowers and a necklace with a purple heart charm and a pink heart charm for Aleana. They also gave me cards; one was from Aleana that Curt made with Aleana’s help. He traced her little hand and wrote mommy on the front and wrote on the inside and then had Aleana help him her name. On the inside it said, “Roses are Red, Violets are blue, your flowers are pink and purple and our birthstones are too! You are my mommy and I just wanted to say ours the best mommy ever and Happy Mother’s Day!  I love it and will treasure it forever.  

Earlier in the week we went to Callaway’s for dinner and on that Sunday we went down to my parent’s house for dinner. I am so grateful for Curt and for all he did to help us bring Aleana into our family and allow me to be a mother.  I am also so grateful for my mom who sacrificed so much for me over the years. 

See loves making music; she will roll over to the tile by our front door or the laminate in our kitchen and pats them with her hand or toys to experiment with the sound.  We have started giving her Tupperware containers to use as drums and she has loved it.  She still loves her piano that Brian gave her.

Aleana thinks that she wants to learn to crawl,  she has been lunging forward to get toys and has almost gotten into the crawling position a few times, but her she gets stuck on one leg and then topples over when she gets enough momentum to get her self over her leg. I bet she will be crawling by the time she is 9 months old.

Aleana got to meet the dogs and horses at Grandpas house this weekend.   She was a little weary at first about the dogs trying to lick her toes but by the end of our stay she wanted to get down on the ground and play with the dogs. She diffidently favored Coley over Fred because Coley was more calm but she never acted scared of Fred even when he Aleana kisses.  When she is old enough she will be sneaking out of the house with Hannah to play with the dogs.  She pet the horses right off, but later on was not to thrilled about petting them but never really acted scared.  She even sat up on the horse with Grandpa’s horse all by herself and took a couple short horseback rides with Curt and me.  She also saw the kitties and she wanted to grab it and pulled its ear.  I was surprised how comfortable she was around the bigger animals.  I told Curt that one of these days he will have to by Aleana a dog.  I think that he would be just fine with that.
 

Aleana is also starting to figure out how to pick up the puff cereals and put them in her mouth.  She does still drop them a lot or get them into her fist so that she can’t get them in her mouth but she does occasionally get them into her mouth.  Grandpa Snelgrove was helping her learn how get the puffs out of the container and how to eat them.  It is fun to see her learning to be independent.  She also kind of learning how to feed herself her bottle and Sippy Cup, most of the time she does not get much milk or water out but she is figuring out how to hold it on her own. 

We also went up to Rexburg on Thursday for a job interview for Curt.  It is for the athletic director position at Madison High School.  Curt felt the interview went really well, but he is trying to decide if it is the right job for him. It was really fun to visit with Ryan and his family.  The girls loved seeing Aleana, Becca loved holding her and playing with her and the other girls especially Marianna loved playing with her on the floor.  Marianna kept finding toys and saying this is for Aleana. It would be fun to be close to them and have Aleana grow up around her cousins, but it would also be sad to leave cousin Layla and all of our family down here. I guess we will have to see if they even offer us the job.