MICHAEL IS HOME!!! YAY!!! Okay well he came home on the 13th, so he has been home for awhile now. I was so excited!!! I got to pick him up at the base and then since it was so late we decided to forgo the dinner plans and just get pizza and eat at home. So after feeding Adelaide and putting her down we gorged ourselves with pizza and pop! (: It was really fun! I missed him so much! Sadly the next day he had drill at 6 am! He didn't get home until about 5pm so I stayed home all day and just cleaned up and napped. (: We went out for dinner and dessert with some friends while Mimi(Michelle, mikes mother) watched Adelaide for us. That was actually really nice. It was fun to feel like a couple, not that I don't love my daughter to pieces but sometimes its nice to get out and not have to worry about her needing a diaper change, or her fussing, etc.
Sunday rolled around and we had to be at the lake for the Marine Corp Family Day at 9 in the morning! WHEW!! I dont even have to wake up that early for church! LOL Anyway, I was so excited to see Ethan and his parents! We hung out with them the whole time. Which was pretty fun, because Ethan loved to run around and play on the big people swings. (: The last time I saw him he wasn't walking, talking or even running! But now he is just a running machine! He can say "ball", "uh-oh!!!", and "daddy", which is adorable! I'm sure there is more he can say but I just didn't hear it. We just hung around the lake, although we didn't know we were able to get in the water so we didn't wear swimsuits or anything, and ate lunch. It was a little frustrating because there were tons of kids there and this event ran from 9 to 4! Well we didn't have any A/C, and it was in the high 90s and all the kids that needed naps got really tired but didn't really have anywhere to sleep. Adelaide loves the heat but when it gets too hot she doesnt sleep well and thats exactly how it went down. And ever since then she has only done 30 min power naps during the day. All in all, it was fun but I wish it didn't go for so long. And yes, we did HAVE to stay the whole time. We couldn't leave whenever we wanted. Later that day we had a pre-birthday celebration for Michael's step-dad, Tom. It was fun, we did a nice dinner with an ice cream cake. (:
Well now it's back to normal. Adelaide not sleeping and Michael working. :( BUT!!!.....we have less than a month before we move to IDAHO! We are leaving August 22nd and plan on getting there on the 25th. I am beyond excited for this!! (: Anyway, just an update on what we have been up to.

Addi loves sticking her tongue out at us (:

Family Pictures

A couple weeks ago we had family pictures done. We know some friends who have a photography company and they gave us a great price. The bad thing is that it was about a million degrees when we did them so we didn't last very long. And Adelaide was being fussy most of the time so we didn't get a lot of pictures that involved her smiling. And she smiles all the time so it was very tragic! But nonetheless they turned out great! If anyone needs pictures done for pretty much any occasion I suggest Erni Family Photography!!!

This of course isn't all of them, but most of them. (:
Michael has been gone since the 30th of June, which has been just awful! I miss him terribly! He has been in California for annual training with the Marine Corp. I am so excited for him to come home this friday!!!!!!!! I really appreciate everything that he does for me and for Adelaide. I have realized more so in the past couple of weeks what a great provider and a great Father he is! We never thought he would be the patient one in the relationship, but that's kinda how it turned out. He is so patient with Adelaide and I miss that so much. I have had bad days with her and its just nice when he comes home and takes her and she immediately calms down. Everyday I would look forward to him coming home for lunch and then for dinner. I think the hardest thing has been sleeping alone! Who knew!? The last time he had AT for two weeks we were engaged so we weren't living or sleeping together. And man its stinky when for over a year I have had someone to share my nights with and then suddenly I don't. I probably sound so sappy but I miss him like crazy! He needs to come home!! So I am planning a little surprise for him when he does. :D
Also, when he gets home we have Family Day with the Marine Corp that same weekend. I am so excited because 1. I get to see Ethan Nadeau and his family ( I used to nanny Ethan), and 2. I get to see and interact with the people that Michael interacts with at his Unit. I like to see how the military works and what not, it makes me feel like I can be a small part in something Michael decided to do years before he met me. So that should be fun!
Adelaide has been growing up so fast! She has been smiling so much! She is such a happy baby! I love her so much! I remembered the other day that before I found out that she was a girl I had a dream that were were going to have a girl. In the dream we went to get an ultrasound and they said it was a girl and then the nurses said that they had a new software that could show us what she would look like in the future. So they printed out pictures that looked like ultrasounds and but Adelaide was much older! Like 4 months, and then 6 months and then 1 year. Well the way she looks now and how she looked in my dream. In my dream I looked at Michael and I said, " she looks exactly like you and she is the most beautiful girl I have ever seen!" It was truly amazing to have that dream! I am so blessed to have her! She has already started changing so much! She has started to grab at the little rings I have on her carseat! Hopefully this weekend I can buy her a little play mat.
Until next time folks,

newborn (4-23-12)

2mths

Birth control, shots, and School

Welp, I did it! Im in the clear for at least 5 years!!! This past friday I got it put in. I know alot of people are against birth control but for me, I don't really like worrying all the time if I'm pregnant or not. Although I am happy with the outcome, surprises make for stressful pregnancies. I realized that I am really no good with taking the pill. I can never remember to do it even if I set an alarm or something. So with mirena I dont have to worry...EVER! It was very quick and painless. I had heard some horror stories so by the time I got to the dr office I was shaking, literally. But, it went really quick and the next thing I knew I was on my way out. (: So needless to say I am pretty darn excited! Mike I want to have a ton of kids just not right now. 

Our friends Patrick and Julia had us over for a swimming/dinner get together on Saturday.  So we put Adelaide in her swimsuit and sunglasses and headed for the pool!!! (: We quickly found out that they don't make swimmers diapers in her size. You have to be at least 16lbs. BOO!!! So she couldnt really get in the water with us. We dipped her little feet and legs in the warm baby pool and she seemed to be okay with it.

We did family pictures after church this past Sunday. We had some friends who have a family photography business that did them for us. I am so excited to see them! We have to wait about a week to get them but I am really excited! I hope they turn out good because it was 90 degrees and like 80% humidity when we did them. So we were all sweating like crazy and gnats kept getting in our eyes and stuff. Adelaide for some reason didn't like doing pictures at all. I felt like most of the time we spent calming her down to get like one shot of us. It was tough but I think we got at least 20 good ones. I will definitely post them when we get them!

Yesterday I had to take Adelaide to the doctor. It was her 2 month checkup. The dreaded dr appointment where she gets her shots! It was crazy! I had to feed her right before the appointment which was at 10 15. So I ended up being 15 minutes late! Then it was super busy there but thankfully they got me in right away. They weighed her, measured her and checked her lungs, ears, blah blah blah. Well Adelaide has been scratching her face a ton lately so I asked the doctor about that and she said that Adelaide has eczema. :( She said its just really dry and that it bothers her because it's itchy. She has it on her face, behind her ears, and on her chest. So I had to switch shampoo and lotion and got a prescription for her. I was using Johnson's shampoo and lotion which is only like 3 bucks with my Kroger card, BUT I had to buy Aveeno. And that was 5-6 bucks with my Kroger card! It's ridiculous how much baby stuff can be! Thankfully insurance covered Adelaide's prescription because that was almost $50! So after she told me that I felt terrible because this whole time I thought she had allergies. Well, then it came time for her shots! And she has had a couple before but it wasn't terrible. I could calm her down pretty easily after it happened. Well she had two shots, one in each leg. And I have never seen her cry like that before. It absolutely broke my heart! Her face went all red, and she didn't even make a noise because she was crying so hard. I was holding her hands and trying to comfort her and she just was so mad and hurt. And me being such a bawl baby started crying with her! I felt so helpless and I knew it hurt her. It was awful. Well then she had to do the second one and the guy did it as soon as I got her calmed down from the first one. So I had to calm her down again which took alot longer. It was absolutely awful. I think next time Mike should take her to get her shots. So about 10 minutes later I finally got her calmed down but she was just so sad the rest of the day. She was really sensitive. If I looked at her wrong she would start to fuss. :(  I hate shots!!!! Needless to say she was pretty sleepy the rest of the day. 

This weekend Michael is leaving for two whole weeks! He has annual training for the Marine Corp on Saturday and it's all the way in California! :( So he is going to be gone on the 4th. What am I gonna do?! We haven't been apart for a holiday before!  So he leaves early early saturday morning and then comes back on the 13th of July. I feel really bad for him because where he is going it isnt supposed to go below 100 degrees the whole time he is there. Poor thing. "MARINE COR!!!!"

Michael finally got to register for classes for BYU-Idaho!!! YAY!!!! This whole moving thing is finally feeling real! We are both so ready and very excited to move out there! I miss Idaho so much!

Adelaide Grace Godell:

newborn-8lb 2oz, 19 in

1 month-9 lb 13oz, 21 in

2 months-11lb 6 oz, 27 in

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Fathers Day

Fathers Day!!!! I had such a fun time planning and preparing for Michael's first Father's Day! We are on a pretty tight budget so I had to do something a little bit different than I would normally do. I was looking for weeks in advance on the web for different DIY fathers day gifts. I found this interesting thing called Pinterest!! LOL I am always on that website looking for new crafts to do or new meals to make. Well I found this cute little craft called 52 Things I Love About You and I decided that I would do that. Well I didn't feel like that was good enough so I also found another idea with a tie. Now Mike has TONS of ties but I just couldnt help myself on this idea. So When Nana came into town we both went out and got all the stuff for these little projects I decided to do. Now I am NOT creative in anyway but I thought I could try these and see how they turn out.
 With the 52 Things project I got a deck of cards, d-rings, cardstock, and address labels. I printed out 52 things I love about Mike on the address labels and stuck one on each card. I also printed out a couple of wallet size pictures of us to put on the beginning and end card. I think it turned out pretty good for me!! I was so excited to give it to Michael because I worked pretty hard on it.
With the tie, I just bought a white tie, fabric paint, and fabric pens. My mom came over one day and helped me paint and then stamp Adelaide's feet on the tie. I was going to do hands also but she would not unclench those suckers!! All in all I thought both of these projects turned out pretty good. (:
So Father's Day morning Adelaide woke us up at around 7 45. I fed her and then hurriedly started making Michael's breakfast. I didn't think I would have enough time to get ready, feed Addi, make bfast, bathe Addi, and do Father's Day presents before church. So I made Michael sausage, eggs, and chocolate chip pancakes with Cran-cherry juice. (: While he ate I brought up my presents for him. The bad thing he knew exactly what he was getting. :( Oh well....I still tried. I just can't hide anything from him!! He wore his tie to church and everyone loved it! It just so happened that he was giving a talk that day too! So it was noticed a little bit more. After church we headed straight over to my parents house to celebrate Father's day over there. We had a delicious dinner and fun times! Sadly Addi and I weren't feeling very well so we headed home a little early. But we still had a good day! (:

We also decided to go on a shopping spree for Adelaide. There is a consignment store here called Once Upon A Child and it seriously is the best thing ever! I don't know why I ever shopped anywhere else!! We bought her a bunch of winter clothes for the move to Idaho and a pair of shoes, sunglasses, and a Bumbo seat! I have been wanting a bumbo seat for a while now but they are just too expensive. Well at this store it was only 20 bucks!! So we of course bought it!

So Adelaide has started cooing and partially squeeling! Usually after she is fed she will just talk like crazy! It's so cute!!! I just love her so much! We have her 2 month check-up on Monday which I am not excited about because she will be getting shots this time and I hate that! She is growing up so fast!!!
Well we bought a new truck!!! We traded in the Jeep for a Toyota Tundra. We are very happy with what we got! It has an automatic starter, a nice sound system, the back window rolls down and a bunch of other stuff. It is sooo nice!! We love her so much! (:

Lots of Love

So this past week I had my 6 week check up. I was a bit nervous but everything went great! I even qualified for Mirena, which I am so stoked for. Sorry, no more surprises for awhile guys. I love my baby girl to death and I will have more kids but hopefully not for at least 2 years.
Also, Nana (Grace Godell) came to visit us! Yes, we did name Adelaide Grace after her. She is one of the most kind and gentle people I know. We are so blessed to have her. She flew in on the 5th and was here until yesterday, the 10th. Sadly Mike had to work all week but I got to spend some quality time with her. It was so fun getting to know more about her and Great Dzia Dzia (jaw-jaw). I really wish I could've met him. We went shopping and we ate out alot. It was so nice to have a car and to get out of the house for a week. Adelaide did pretty good most of the days we went out. Although one day she did not wanna be anywhere but home. So that was hard but we still had a good time. We were sad to see Nana go but we had such a good time together.

A couple weeks ago we ran out of Pampers Swaddlers in size 1. But we have Luvs, and a couple of knock off brands. Well we had these ones called Pampers Swaddlers Baby Dry. I have to let everyone know, they are the worst!!! In the past 2 days Adelaide has pooped up her back at least 10 times, not including the two times when I was feeding her and it got all over my hands. It's so gross because her poo is very runny, seedy and yellow; so it stains. I just want everyone to know not to get those diapers. I thought that since it said Swaddlers on it that they would work just as good as the real ones. NO!! They hardly absorb anything too. But, we didn't wanna waste them and decided to just finish them out because we only had 30 in the package. I am happy to say that we only have a few left until we can move into a different diaper. I hope the LUVS aren't as bad. I have had bad experiences with them so we will see.
Along with being pooped on several times these past couple of days Adelaide has been spitting up all over me. Literally. It's not just a little either, its a good bit. Mike jokes around because I will be feeding her and she will start pooping, and then I can feel it all over my hands and then I will burp her over my shoulder and she slides down and then proceeds to puke all down my chest...oh lovely. Oh the joys of motherhood! No, I really love my girl she is amazing but sometimes I just get hit with everything at once. It seems like Mike gets the better end of the deal sometimes.

This was after a bath (:

Well, the time has come....to get rid of our Jeep. I have wanted her for so many years. She has been an amazing car, despite all of her dis-functions. I will miss her greatly! Mike and I have realized that buying our Jeep wasn't the best decision we have made. She needs alot of work and it's getting really expensive. Also we have realized that for some reason she is having trouble going uphill. Now, we can't have that considering that we are moving to Idaho. So we are going to buy a truck. Both mike and I have always wanted a Dodge Ram but we are figuring out that what we want may not be best for Adelaide. :( We have found a really nice one within our price range but we have also found a toyota that is well within our budget and will be really good. It's just not really what we have always wanted. But sacrifices need to be made.... :( So Mike and I are going to Roswell later to test drive this Toyota and if all goes well we will come home with a new(used) car!!!! YAY!!! We have been together for almost two years(counting the dating period) and we have already bought two cars together, this will make three. I'm so glad mike has good credit! LOL
Oh goodness how could I forget to blog about our Anniversary!!!!!! We celebrated our 1 year on the 3! It was so much fun! Mike's mom and step dad bought us a gift certificate to a place called The Chops and said they would watch Addi for us. It is a super duper nice restaurant!! Like they wipe the crumbs off the table for you nice. We had to wear sunday dress and the cheapest on the menu was 13 dollars. I tried Lobster tail for the first time. It was okay...not the best. They had the best steak I have every tasted!! Nothing will EVER compare. LOL After the dinner we decided we had time to kill and went to see Snow White and the Huntsman. That was okay. Definatly not as good as the Avengers that we went and saw the day before. We had such a good anniversary! (:

This was our bread pudding. MHMMMMM!

Graduation (:

This past weekend, memorial weekend, we went to Michigan for Taylor's (Michael's sister) graduation. It was a very last minute kind of thing so we weren't able to make it for the actual graduation. However, we did make it for her open house. We made it a weekend trip. 

We were kind of nervous how Adelaide would do on a 13 hour drive up there and on a plane flight back. But, as luck would have it we were blessed with an amazing daughter! She slept almost the whole way to Michigan! She woke up around 4 times and then just went right back to sleep after she ate and was changed. Once we finally made it there I fed her and then she went to sleep and only woke up once that night. I am continually amazed at how awesome she is!

We arrived in Michigan at about 1:30am on Saturday and slept. We didn't want to wake anybody up so we just went right to bed. Adelaide woke up at about 6ish and we didn't really go back to sleep. So at around 7-8ish we went inside and got some breakfast when everyone woke up. They were all so excited to finally meet baby Addi! They all loved on her so much! It was a crazy day though because they had Taylor's open house to get ready for. No one knew we were coming in except for Mike's dad and step-mom. So we had surprised Taylor, Nana and Tia (and everyone else up there too). 

Taylor's open house was really cool! We are so proud of her for graduating! She is going to Michigan State University in August to be a vet! She is so smart and we all know that she will go far in life! We love her so much! 

Me, Dzia Dzia, Adelaide

Gigi(granny panty) and Addi

Taylor and Addi (:

Dzia Dzia (Mike Sr.), Nana (Grace Godell), Adelaide Grace, and Mike Jr

Congrats Taylor!!! (:

Mike being silly(:

haha mike took this (:

On Sunday we cooked out and just hung around the house with everyone since we had to leave the next morning. It was so much fun spending the weekend up there! We got to the airport and waited for our flight. Adelaide slept the whole flight until the last 45 minutes. So I fed her and she was very happy and content until she got a full diaper. (: We were glad to be home but missed everyone in Michigan.

AWWW (:

Aunt Taylor (:

Since our Memorial Day was spent traveling I would like to thank all those who died for our freedoms we have today! We are so blessed to live in the country and to enjoy all the freedoms that we have when there are so many around us who don't have what we do. I am blessed to have a husband who is willing to serve his country. I hope we all realize that we are so blessed.