Mollee's Blessing

Today we blessed our little girl. Mark gave her a beautiful blessing and we were lucky enough to share the day with many of our family and friends.

Here's the gang enjoying some food after the meeting.

Two of Mark's closest friends...Thank you Mark A. for coming all the way from AZ!!

Our little family :-)

Grandparents

Great Grandparents.

She shared some tender moments with both of her great grandfathers. (I snuck these photos when they weren't watching)

Mollee has been such a wonderful baby these past two months. I am so grateful for her in my life. She slept through her blessing which pretty much fits her personality perfectly. She is so mild mannered and gentle. We love her so much and are excited for all of the adventures that are in store for her.

Halloween

This year our little family's costumes had a spider theme to it. We got Owen a spooky spider costume a few weeks ago and Mark and I hadn't really intended on dressing up but we were invited to a family activity that required us to dress up as well.  I told Mark to come upstairs and help me get costumes picked out but when he took WAY too long to actually get upstairs - I took the initiative and picked his costume for him out of old costumes my mom owned.  So that is how he came to be Venom.  I think he should be grateful for this choice - the other costume I had in my hand was a whoopie cushion :-) To complete the trio, I went as a spider web. 

Owen meeting Spiderman (his cousin Hayden)

Me & my spooky spider

We came across these menacing pirates - arrrhhh!! 

Venom & Spider - Mark worked out for weeks to fill this costume out :-)

We wore this little man out

Mollee was a little leopard. Quite a cute little kitty if I do say so myself

Brother & Sister together :-) Hope everyone else had a fun Halloween!

The Corn Maze

Corynn, Jer, Clay, Dad, Mark & I took Owen to the corn maze on Friday night. It was so much fun and Owen enjoyed every second of it.  

This was a big hay pile that was made for kids to jump into. Owen isn't the steadiest on his feet yet, so Mark helped but he still loved the thrill!

Riding on the wooden goat....Mark and I will probably construct one of these babies for our new house - who couldn't use a wooden goat?

This slide actually went faster than it looked.  I was pretty surprised Owen wasn't terrified, but he went 2X - once with Mark and once with me - we have a brave little boy :-)

This was on a little train they had set up that went around a small pond.  I think this was probably Owen's favorite part of the evening. He was so amazed by the train. What is it with little boys and trains anyway???

There was also a small petting zoo filled with these little goats. 

It was getting pretty late by the time we actually made it to the entrance of the corn maze.  But here we are just getting started.

After the sun went down, it got pretty chilly so we bundled Owen up....he wasn't thrilled with it, I don't think he could move his arms but he was warmer!!

We made it out of the maze in decent time - about 30 minutes. I have to give Corynn credit for that since she was our navigator and obviously made very good choices when it came to which way to go.  It was a fun evening - we are looking forward to going again next year!

Carving Pumpkins 2009

For the second year in a row, my parents have hosted FHE where we get together and carve pumpkins. Last year, Mark and I did a fabulous job carving a pumpkin only to have some hoodlums in our neighborhood smash it to bits on Halloween night.  RIP 2008 edition of our pumpkin.  This year, we are hoping our pumpkin pulls through....

Here I am supervising Mark carving the pumpkin. I traced the design on the pumpkin first and then he cut it out. I obviously had the more challenging task, but someone had to do it!! :-)

Family photo (minus Mollee - she was still in the NICU) with our freshly carved pumpkin. 

Our finished pumpkin. Can you tell it is a fake pumpkin? Hope everyone else has their pumpkins on their porches as well!

Miss Mollee

It has been so wonderful having this sweet little girl home with us. She has been so good natured and we find her spending most of her time looking like she does in the above picture.  Of course, I am a bit tired from being up every 3 hours throughout the night - but it comes with the territory :-) She continues to grow and hopefully will fit into her newborn-sized clothes soon. 

We gave her a tub bath for the first time which I think she loved...probably felt right at home! 

Owen is so enamored by her.  He wants so badly to touch her (which I haven't let him do yet) and is always pointing at her and saying "baby." We can't get him to say "Mollee" yet, but we are working on it. 

She definitely has Mark's feet.  This picture makes them look tiny (which they are) but compared to her body, they are quite big!! Hopefully she will be able to wear normal sizes when she is grown up and won't have to suffer like I have!!! :-) 

More pictures and posts to come!

Our Talented Little Boy

Owen has been learning his animal sounds. I thought I would document them while they were still so adorable to listen to (well, I think they are adorable :-)...Listen closely for his "snake" in the first video.

He is really into dogs & will bark at any that he sees around town or in a picture. Good thing we already own one!!

She's Home!

After 18 long days, Mollee finally came home from the hospital today. She now weighs 4 lbs 12 oz and is doing great. Here are some current pictures of her. She is a bit sleepy and it's hard to get good ones of her with her eyes open, but we will keep posting new ones as she gets bigger & bigger :-)