Countdowns!

23 days until Aubree and I fly to WV!
31 days until we go to Disneyland with Rob's family!
33 days until I turn 28!
52 days until my mom, sister, niece, and nephew fly here to visit!
53 days until we make another trip to The happiest place on earth!
56 days until Aubree's first birthday!
70 days until Rob turns 30!!

April and May are going to be WONDERFUL!!

New York!

My brother lives about 3 hours from NYC, so while we were in WV, we decided to take a day trip to the city.
Of course the only day it decided to rain while we were there was the day we decided to do this. Oh well! We still had a great time. All 15 of us! :) None of us had ever been in the city before so it was a wonderful time for everyone. Luckily, we manage to keep everyone together too. I thought for sure we'd lose a kid before the day was over. Ha. Since it was just a quick day trip, we weren't able to get out and see everything we wanted, but we did cover some good ground in six hours.

update

sooooo far behind blogging. Here's a semi-quick update. 

September

We took a quick trip to WV in the middle of September. I was very happy to see the progress my mom had made. It was so great to see her walking again. One of my very good friends from back home just started photography, so she took a few family pictures for us while we were there. I think she did a great job for never having worked with a big group like ours before. I loved just being home with all the family. Here are a few pics from the trip..

mom, grandma, Aubree, me

Rob & I with Brooklyn

my family!

Cousins!
Aubree (4 months) Cohen (5 months) Carolina (3 months) 

October

Some shots of Aubree's first trip to the pumpkin patch and her very first Halloween. 

November

I had my first flight alone with Aubree in November. We flew back to WV for a week visit. I was nervous flying without Rob, but Aubree did a great job and we had a fun, relaxing trip. We stayed in Napa for Thanksgiving and had dinner with his family. It was nice having everyone together. Oh and I made my first apple pie. Actually, my first pie ever. Ha! 

Aubree with her cousins in WV

my sweet baby girl

she loves her bath

Happy 1st Thanksgiving!

Daddy loves to put me in my night cap :) 

December

We took Aubree to the Jelly Belly Factory to see Santa. She wasn't afraid of him at all. It was pretty cute. We celebrated Christmas with each other and Aubree on the 17th and then had Christmas with his family on the 18th before flying to WV on the 20th for a week and a half. Christmas was so much fun. I loved spending all the time that we did with Rob's family and mine. It was so fun watching Aubree try and open her presents as well. She was really good at tearing the bows off the packages and she didn't do too bad at ripping the paper off, but she got tired of it after about two gifts. We had a great time in WV, but I'll post more about that later.

@ the ward Christmas party

with Santa

Aubree and Grandma Ginnie

Aubree with her cousins again

opening one of her presents

Christmas morning before church

So that's part of what we've been up to the last few months. I do want to be better about keeping up with my blog, but who am I kidding? I'm sure that won't happen :) 

aubrees book

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Photo books are the perfect gift for any occasion.

so messy

This is pretty much how Aubree looks after every cereal feeding. That is why a bath is a must when we are all finished. By the way it looks you would think I let her feed herself, but I promise I don't :) And I also promise that some of it does make it into her mouth (maybe.) Ha! 

Oh how she makes me smile.

Labor day

After waking up Monday morning, we decided to go to the zoo. We wanted to try one we have never been to before so we headed to San Jose. 

My thoughts: 1) very cute park 2) not much of a zoo 3) waste of money (for now)

It was a cute place, but a waste of money for us. It's not really what I would call a zoo. I think they had about 5 animals. Okay, I may be exaggerating a little bit, but honestly no more than twenty. The park part of it was nice though, but good for parents with children at least two years of age. So..not so good for Aubree. Ha! It was pretty much a flop for us, but at least we now know. We will probably go back one day, but at least not for a couple of years. I did take a few cute pics of the babe though since it was her first trip to the zoo (sort of.) 

a week of firsts

Aubree has let out a few good giggles for a little while now, but I finally got a really good one recorded on Tuesday. I had to do it sideways, because if she sees the phone she quits doing what I want. Seriously. It drives me crazy. ha. *Don't judge me on the sounds you hear coming from me. Moms will do anything to get a cute giggle :)

She had her first taste of rice cereal on Wednesday. It was a mess, but she seemed to enjoy it. Did she have to have a bath right after? Oh yes! *Oh and I did take a picture, but it's not on this computer so therefore it's not going on the blog. It's more effort than I'm willing to put forth just to put on this blog post. Yes..you can call me lazy. I'm okay with it :) 

We went to visit Carla on Thursday and her adorable girls got more giggles out of my baby girl. It was pretty cute, so I took a quick recording again. 

Aubree does not like tummy time. Like totally hates tummy time. It makes me laugh when I try to give her a little. BUT she loves to be on her back on her play mat. She will stay on it happy as can be for hours. The past couple of weeks she began rocking back and forth and came very close a couple times at rolling over. Thursday night she managed to accomplish it. I was in the kitchen cleaning and when I walked back into the living room, she was on her tummy. I was so upset that I had missed her first roll over, but I turned her back over and she did it for me again. I was so excited (as you can tell in the video) so please, just ignore that part of it :) 

Aubree slept in a rocker next to our bed until about a month ago when we switched her to her crib. It was not an easy switch (for me) but I kept at it every day. Friday night she slept from 11-9 without any waking up. Wow! I was proud, but I'm not sure if I slept any better because I continued to get up throughout the night to check on her. 

This is not the picture of her sleeping through the night, but it is a picture of her the day after she learned to roll over. She now chooses to sleep on her side. I guess she thinks she's a big girl now since she rolled over from back to belly and it's okay that she sleeps like this :) HMMM...now if I could get her to roll back over from belly to back because she finds her way to her tummy now and starts crying. Oh she cracks me up. I love this little girl of mine so much. I'm having a love/hate relationship though with the whole growing up thing.