Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Irelyn and I had a very eventful St. Patrick's Day! We started the day bright and early at my parent's house helping out with their yard sale. I was amazed at how well it went for being a bunch of junk out of their basement! On a whim, the night before I took down all of my kitchen decorations to take over with me to see if I could sell them. I've had the same kitchen decor since we got married, and I am so ready for new! I ended up selling most of it, so I guess I get to redecorate! My kitchen is so sad and bare right now. I hadn't even really thought about what I wanted to do, so I have a big job ahead of me!

This little princess was a trooper all day. She was happy and smiling at all of our patrons! She was all decked out in her green for St. Patty's day. Her face in this pic just cracks me up! She is such a character!

 After our successful yard sale, my mom made our annual St. Patrick's Day dinner. Corned Beef, Cabbage and little red potatoes....it was absolutely amazing! I was going to take a picture, but was famished by that time and just started devouring what was on my plate!

My brother's kids were up there as well so we made a trip over to the park. It was Irelyn's first time playing at the park, and I think she loved it! She went down the slide with Saige several times, and took a swing with mommy. When we were done and I put her in her stroller she fell asleep almost immediately! The park tuckered her out!

 

Loved this pic of Saige. She posed and asked me to take her picture in the tree!

  All in all it was a fabulous lucky day!

Irelyn's First Christmas!

Wow, what an amazing day! As everyone says, Christmas is so much fun when you have a kid! We didn't get done with our Christmas Eve festivities until 2 in the morning so the first thing our Christmas consisted of was sleeping in! Then the fun began!

Irelyn was happy to see that Santa had found her! I have to toot my own horn for a second about her stocking...Growing up at my house we always just got to pick out stockings from the store whenever we outgrew our stocking, so I wanted to just buy her one. However, Billy had one that he has had since he was little, so he thought I should make her one. So, I decided to attempt to make her one. Using his as a template, I made Irelyn a stocking! I have to say, I love how it turned out! It is so much cuter than I expected it to be, and I am so glad that Billy talked me into making it!

Irelyn & her Toby dog

She wasn't too happy when I told her she was on her last present!

That is until she found the ribbon, and of course it went straight in her mouth!

Can we say spoiled!?!

Exhausted after a long day, had to sleep with her dolly AND her bunny!


All dressed up in her Christmas dress ready for church! 

That afternoon, I was lucky and was asked to speak at church. (If you can call that lucky :) I was a ball of nerves all morning!!) I had to introduce one of the Christmas hymns we sang. I got to chose the song, so I chose O Come All Ye Faithful because after reading through all the hymns it was the one that truly brought me the Christmas spirit this year. I want to share a little excerpt from my talk so I can remember it!

"This song tells the faithful follows to come to Christ and adore him. I never fully understood what it meant to adore until Irelyn was born. To see someone who so recently was in the presence of our Lord, brought entirely new meaning to the word adore. To adore was not only to ohh and ahh over my beautiful daughter, but it was a love and adoration so deep that it brought undeniable joy, and a feeling of such peace knowing I had been given such a special gift from our Lord. I think this must have been how those faithful followers felt when they came unto Christ in the manger, knowing that they were in the presence of the greatest gift from our Lord, our Saviour, Jesus Christ."

We had such an amazing Christmas, and I feel so blessed to finally have Irelyn in my life! I know the fun is just beginning with her, and I can't wait! I hope everyone else had an amazing day too!

Irelyn's First Christmas Eve

Irelyn was pretty spoiled for her first Christmas! She's so lucky to have so many people who love her and love to spoil her!

We started our Christmas Eve at my mom's house. There we were lucky to have a visit from Santa himself! The kids were so surprised that he would take time out of his night to come visit! Irelyn was really good the previous two time she sat on his lap, but she wasn't having it that night! She was so sleepy and only wanted her mommy!

She didn't quite get the concept of opening present yet, but she wanted to put them all in her mouth!

After all the excitement at my mom's house we went out to Painter's house for midnight brunch, and of course she got spoiled out there too! She is the only grandkid on that side so all eyes were on her all night!

Loves her Aunt Whitney

One of her favorite parts of opening presents!

Not quite sure what to think of her new animal train!

We are so blessed to have the families we do, and that they are both so close to us so we can see both of them on Christmas! Christmas Eve is always such an amazing night with delicious food, fun family traditions and as you can tell, getting spoiled! It was so much fun this year sharing it with my daughter!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Meeting Santa

Irelyn had the chance to sit on Santa's lap at our annual Daley Family Christmas Party. I was certain that she wouldn't cry because she is always so good to go to whoever wants to hold her! Sure enough, I was right! She was so enamored by him and his beard! 

Our little Family

Irelyn loves her little cousins, and they LOVE her!!

Just hanging out with Great Grandpa Daley

Anatomy of Eating Rice Cereal

In an effort to help our pretty girl learn to sleep more than 2-3 hours at night we decided we should see if she would start eating rice cereal. It was quite comical watching her reaction to the different texture of the cereal. She wasn't quite sure of it! So here it goes...the anatomy of eating rice cereal:

Ok Mom, I'm all ready! Such a big girl in my Bumbo!

What is that strange stuff you're mixing up?

Okay, let's give this a try...

Ugh, I'm not sure about this mom!

I think I'd rather just eat my hand! I can probably get the whole thing in there if I try!

Oh, maybe I can just have both my fingers and cereal!!

Ok, let's try this one more time...

Ugh REALLY MOM?!? This stuff is terrible!

Needless to say, it didn't go too well! She didn't like the texture at all. I ended up making it so runny that it was almost just all milk, but she just kept spitting it out!!

This past week I ended up mixing it with a little milk, and applesauce. She seemed to like it a little better. It still got EVERYWHERE, but at least most of it made it in her tummy. I don't know if the cereal has anything to do with it, but she FINALLY slept thru the night for the very first time the night before Thanksgiving!! 9 whole hours! I just wish that Mommy would have slept the whole 9 hours instead of laying in bed fretting about why her baby girl hadn't woke up, and checking on her 3 or 4 times :) Hopefully I can get over that, and she will start sleeping longer!

She did get a taste of sweet potatoes at Thanksgiving, but she did not like that either!! I'm thinking we will be holding off for at least a few weeks before we try with veggies again!

This is one of the only pictures I took of Thanksgiving, but it is adorable! Irelyn with her little cousins!

Fall Festivities

This year was fun having my own little one to drag around to all of the fall festivities! Irelyn loves hanging out with her cousins, and the Country Farm Fest was no exception!

Irelyn spent most the time asleep but did wake up in time to take some pictures!

Look closely to see how Irelyn felt about taking these pics :)

For Halloween our sweet little Irelyn was an adorable Mermaid, with her little side kick, Toby the Lobster. She wasn't quite sure what to think of him!! 

It certainly is a lot funner to dress up your own little one for Halloween! I had such a fun time making her costume! She, on the other hand, did not really love wearing it!

 She had to dress up two days in  row because she has this super cute witch headband!

Our fall was such a blast, it made me so excited for Irelyn's first Christmas!!

Trip to the Red Barn

A Fall Favorite of everyone I'm sure... A hayride to the pumpkin patch at the Red Barn! I've never actually gone and done this before, but it was such a fun time! My nieces and nephew loved it!Kanyon loves tractors! I think it was probably one of his first words ever. So to be in a place where there were tractors EVERYWHERE, he was in heaven!

They have everything set up so cute out there that I couldn't help but have a little photoshoot with the kids!

Once we made it to the pumpkin patch the girls were so excited to do the maze and pick their pumpkins, but once again, Kanyon was enthralled with the tractor, so we did another photo shoot!
We took advantage of all the fun places for pictures! The girls were getting pretty annoyed with me by this time :)
Finally we let them go pick out their pumpkins! They had to check out every pumpkin in the patch, but they ended up with some good ones!

The must have shot from the Red Barn pumpkin patch

One last pic just to make you smile! Afterward we had a picnic in the park, and we were entertained by this little monster! Kanyon has become quite the character!