London is ONE!

Happy 1st Birthday to our beautiful, fun London

Part of the birthday set-up! My sister's BIL had this sign made for London! Thanks Patrick

 Fun party decorations!!

I love this girl!

We had a taco truck come! It was a hit!

My little family!

Sweetest girl!

London loves her great Aunt Kay

London is SO funny!

Some of the delicious food!

Her first juice box! No, she has not had one since! 

Always SO happy!!

Love my Dad!

London's grandmas!

We celebrated ALL week!!!

Grandpa was giving her a smoothie and she LOVED it!

A bit of help getting messy!

I loved having all my sisters with me to help celebrate our girl!

Passed out after a fun party and warm bath!

London slept for 12 hours!

Cousin Avenlie & friend Jaylee

London's little oasis

Mmmmm...quesdialla!

It has been such a FUN & FAST year with London. She constantly brings us so much joy & excitement. She is always laughing and loves to get into EVERYTHING! She is in the 94% for height and 50% for weight! We love our tall girl! I wish I could give you a list of her favorite foods, but the fact is that this girl LOVES IT ALL! She loves trying food. Indian, Thai, Japanese, Mexican...she has had it and loves it! We are actually really HAPPY that she is not a picky eater! She sleeps like a champ and is always happy when we get her out of bed. She loves going to daycare and loves when we pick her up! Recently she has starting roaring at people! She thinks she is a lion....what can I say!? We just got a Zoo pass and she is loving that. We can't imagine life without her and love every second that we have with her. We really aren't sure what we did before her, who we stared at or who made us laugh! We love being parents to London!

This girl......

We like really LoVe her! London is so, so funny!

Some fun things about her:

• She is always telling us stories, loves to use her hands when she talks!

• The girl can crawl like a champ!

• She loves clapping, eating, saying Dada, Dog, Hi & waving. Sometimes if I am lucky she will say mama.

• She will be sitting  by herself and just start craking up! It is just about the cutest thing in the world!

•  She will eat anything!! She will also crawl over anyone to get to anyone who is eating! Awesome!

• She LoVe's people (I am so proud).

• She loves going to & getting picked up from Daycare. It is seriously the high light of my day when I walk in the door and she gets the biggest smile and crawls right over to me! We are told that all the kids follow her around and she follows all the kids around! It's been so great knowing she goes to the best daycare where she is loved!!

• She loves to look at books

• She loves the pool! Yea for water babies!!!

• She is starting to explore every drawer and cupboard in our house!

• She flaps her arms like a bird when she gets excited! Hilarious!

• She has 6 teeth, 4 on the top and 2 on the bottom

• She still sleeps thru the night!! (since 7 weeks) Thank you, London

• She has a smile that will melt your heart!!!

• She is VERY social and VERY curious! She has to know what is going on all the time! I think she gets that from her mama

• She will only cuddle if she is tired. It makes me a little sad but it’s so fun to see her grow.

• She doesn’t have one toy or blanket that she is attached too. Well, maybe it’s the I-phone that she is attached too. Great.

• She has the world’s longest baby legs!! We are hoping for a tall one!

• Her hair is growing more everyday and its goes from dark blonde to light blonde to red to a combo of all 3

• She has the most gorgeous blue eyes

• She is always going with the flow of her wild parents and never complains. Like riding in a short school bus for 10+ hours to California! Hollar!!

• She can party until the end! Definitely our girl

· She is just overall HAPPY all of the time! She definitely makes life more fun!

It is breaking my heart that she is coming up on her first birthday! I was just reading the posts I wrote while pregnant and it really seems like yesterday. She has brought more joy into our life than we ever thought possible. She is so happy all the time, I am constantly being told: do you know how rare this is? Rare or not, we LOVE it and we LOVE our perfect, happy little (big) girl!!

London's 1st Easter

The Easter Bunny came!!! He brought London practical things!!!


She loved them!

Our family! Yes, I did wear that fabulous head piece to church!!! I am sorry you are jealous!

My adorable, happy, sweet baby girl on her first Easter in our tulip garden!

And another one!

We had a fabulous Easter. We had a lovely Sunday brunch with Swedish pancakes, eggs, hash browns and juice. Then we went to church, then headed down to Sundance to be with Jordan's family. I can't wait until next year when London will be running around picking up eggs.

We hope everyone had a wonderful Easter!!

Neighborly Love

Last night as we were finishing up our family birthday dinner (it was Stephanie & Joe's bdays) we got a knock on our door. It was our sweet neighbor who had a big Market Street bag in her hand filled with hot clam chowder, bread and two salads. She said it sounded good to her, so she picked us up some too!!!

I was so grateful! Jordan will be working late all week so this food will be so nice to have already in our fridge ready to eat!!!

I am so grateful for wonderful neighbors & yummy food!

1st Tooth

Our girl got her first tooth! You would have thought I won the lottery when I found it, I was so excited!!

On Thursday our best daycare lady called me to tell me she thinks London is coming down with a cold. When I picked her up that night, she told me she may be teething too. London has been gnawing on her bottle. London has been drooling and putting everything in her mouth since December so this was pretty routine. Then when I was sitting chatting with my gf's on Friday night I decided to check London's mouth....well there is was!!! A TOOTH! Seriously, I was so excited! I love being a mother and all these new milestones! Each new milestone is so fun!!

We can't keep our fingers out of her mouth because its so fun to feel the little tooth! She is started to lash out at us know when we do it!! We will calm down.....I hope!

I honestly don't know what I did to deserve such a wonderful baby! But our girl is a gem! The only teething signs she showed us were super red cheeks, drool and putting everything in her mouth!!

Pictures to come!

London's Shopping Cart Debut

This girl was in heaven while we shopped on Saturday!! She is finally big enought to sit up in the shopping cart. She didn't miss a thing!! We love seeing the world through her eyes!!

This week!

London is trying to crawl so badly!! She gets up on all fours....rocks back and forth....moves an arm forward and then face plants!! She is our constant entertainment! We LOVE her!!!!

Londy Lou

This is how we find London every morning and when she wakes up from her nap! We love this girl!

My little yoga baby!

My little Valentine

My little lover girl!! London is such a sweetie!!

These past couple of weeks she has learned to laugh at herself and scoot backwards every where!! We are constantly pulling her out from the furniture! We are definitely in the FAST lane with her!

Our Birth Story

I want to just start out by saying I LoVeD being in labor & giving birth! Seriously!!!

On August 2nd @ 2:30 am I woke up with what I thought was just a routine bathroom break! I got up went to the bathroom and went back to bed. About 20 min later I woke up again with the same pain....Great I am sick! Got up again and went back to bed. The pain came back again and then I realized that this is what labor is. I decided to not wake Jordan up and just tired to sleep through contractions. Finally @ 6am I got up and called my gf Devry and asked her if I could be in labor. She obviously told me the obvious. So I finally told Jordan that I was in labor but that I was going to go to work because they were like 15 minuets apart, I was bored & couldn't sleep. Jordan put a stop to that and I called into work.

Let me just say that my biggest fear was being in false labor. I didn't want to call off of work to be in false labor! Good thing I was in real labor.

About 8am I got out of bed, showered and got ready between contractions. At this point they were probably like 12 minutes apart and my doc told us not to come in until they were 3-4 minuets apart. Jordan and I decided to go for a walk around the block. A few times I had to stop to breath through a contractions. We got home about 1 hr later and I vacuumed and Jordan worked in the yard. I tried to relax but had so much adrenaline I couldn't' really sit still! Jordan came in and made me a small lunch and then I called my sister Stefanie to see if I what I should do! At this point I thought my contractions were about 5-6 minutes apart. (I was logging my contractions with my I-phone app) While I was talking with Stef I had to hang up a few times to work thru a contraction. She told me that I should go to the hospital but I was still resistant because I didn't want to be sent home!!

It was about 2:15pm and I told Jordan that I wanted to go for a drive because I was bored! I know, I know!!!! At that time I had a pretty good contraction and we decided that it was time to go. On the 15 minute drive to the hospital I had a few good ones. We got to IMC about 2:30 and we walked in. Now I hadn't shed one tear of pain or anything until I walked into the hospital and they asked me my name & why I was there and then the tears came!!!! I am not sure where in the heck them came from but there were flowing!!!!!! Jordan finished speaking for me and they took me back to get checked. I changed, got comfy in a bed and then they checked me....I was @ a 4! Success!!! They were not sending me home!! We are going to have this baby! At that time they moved me into a labor and deliver suite! It was awesome! We had a great view of the mountains and a tv.

The labor and deliver nurse came in and introduced herself as Jenna! She was great!!!! After they hooked me up to the monitors I asked her if I was still contraction 4-5 minutes apart......I was contraction 2 minutes apart and just not feeling everything! Good thing I went into the hospital when I did!!! She asked me if I wanted my epidural, I asked if it would slow down my progression and they said no!!! So I said, BRING IT ON! They paged Dr. Farley (the anesthesiologist) and he came in. I told him that I wanted the lightest epidural that he could give me, I wanted to be able to move and feel my legs & feel when I needed to push. And he did just that! He gave me the lowest dose and gave me control to add more medicine as I needed/wanted. By this time (about 3:15pm) Hillary had arrived and then the fun started!

Jordan hooked up the computer to the TV so we could watch a movie. What were we thinking!! We turned the movie off and cranked the tunes. We all chatted and I sucked on grape flavored ice chips while Hillary & Jordan snacked on whatever the hospital had in the special fathers/visitors room! Hillary was amazed watching the contractions that I was having on the screen and I was amazed that I didn't have to feel a thing! Heaven! I did however push my epidural button one time because I felt something!!!

They came and broke my water about 4:30 ish. Dr. Ponder came in about 5pm to check me and I was @ a 5+. She told me that she probably wasn't going to be able to deliver me because she rode her bike to work and didn't want to ride home in the dark. Fine by me. I just wanted to know who was going to deliver me. She told me and said that she would come and check on me before she left.

Dr. Ponder came in about 6:10 ish and I told her I was feeling some pressure. She checked me and I was ready to go! She & the nurse had to get everything ready. My nurse had told me previously that new mom's usually push for about 2 hours.....OK! Whatever, I mean, that is what I was there to do!!! At about 6:26 I gave my first of 3 pushes!! London was born after 9 pushes @ 6:42 pm weighing 6 lbs 12 oz & 21 1/2 inches long!!!!!! At one point during my pushing was started to laugh because I couldn't believe I was having my dream delivery!!! The doctor told me to stop laughing because London was literally sliding out of me!!!

Best day of our married life thus far!!!!!! We couldn't have been happier with our new baby and how everything went!!!

I was so grateful for my wonderful doctor & nurses @ IMC. My experience there was the best!!!

I just cannot believe that it has been six months...today! Writing this all down makes me giddy! I can't wait for next time!!

London pictures

This girl is so much fun & has so many faces!!! We are obsessed!!!

London Times

Wow! My baby is 6 months today! I really can't believe how time is literally flying by! London has brought so much joy to Jordan and I. More joy than either of us could have thought possible. London is the happiest baby! She is a wonderful night time sleeper and occasionally she will take a really good day time nap or two. She loves everyone and everything! Jordan and I constantly are saying we can't believe that she is ours and are just in awe at how amazing she is.


At 6 months London loves:

• To TALK


• To Eat...she is eating oatmeal, rice cereal & prunes


• To blow bubbles


• To look at herself in the mirror


• To suck on her toes & anything for that matter


• To swim


• To play with toys


• Her Violet & her Sophie the giraffe


• To watch other kids play


• London loves to sleep on her side. And has to have her binki to sleep! It's so fun to watch her maneuver the binki into her mouth. We are so happy when she figured that out a few months ago


• She is very ticklish...just like her Daddy


• She loves to have a blanket by her face to fall asleep. It's so fun to watch her fall asleep.


• She is a becoming a champ at pulling herself up to sit!! The girl must have some great abs.


• She has to be looking around at everything and everyone! She doesn't want to miss anything


• London loves to cuddle when she is tired! Mommy & Daddy love it too


• Unfortunately she loves the dog that has been living with us for 6 months!!!

We are taking her to the doctor next week so I will update her stats then! At 4 months she was:

25 1/2 inc (80th)

12 lbs 8 oz (29th)

We have a tall skinny girl on our hands!!!

I am worried about how quickly the next 6 months are going to go by! I want my baby to be a baby! However, we really do love watching her grow up and learn new things daily. I am so happy that I get to be London's mommy!!!

Happy 6 months baby girl!!!