Fast Forward

On Sunday we were planning on blessing Brinley the first week of June. Then we found out we have Stake Conference that day so we decided we would do it on May 31. Then today Doug calls me and says "What if we bless her this weekend?" Huh?! His sisters are coming from Utah for Memorial Day Weekend. So in two days I've lost two weeks in getting ready for her blessing. Which is totally fine, I just have to my tail in gear to get ready for the "after party". I love planning parties and I probably go a little overboard for these kinds of things. Self induced stress, and for some crazy reason I enjoy it.

Don't give up on me!

I told myself that I wouldn't get behind on blogging after baby. Guess I was wrong. I just don't know where the time goes! This baby, 3 weeks old now!, likes to be held. And she isn't "out"until 1:00 am. I'm averaging 4-5 hours of sleep nightly. If I hold her she sleeps, as soon as I put her down I've got time to brush my teeth before she is awake. During the day is better, but if I don't get a nap my family pays for it. We're trying, I almost got all of the laundry folded today :) Emily has been so sweet with Brinley. Today she was starting to cry just as I was getting out of the shower so Emily was singing to her.

"Brinley, it's okay.

Brinley, it's okay.

We love you.

We love you.

We love you so much!"

The other day it was Rock a Bye Baby. It's so fun watching the kids fuss over her.

This evening was beautiful. We sat outside and ate creamies and then watched the kids ride their bikes all over the place. So nice. Doug turned on the sprinklers just after 8:00, Emily disappeared into the house and came out with her swimsuit on. She has been asking for weeks to be able to run through the sprinklers. I wish I'd had my camera. The kids had so much fun getting wet.

Tomorrow I'll try to do more catching up, I'm done typing with one hand for tonight. And because you can't have a blog post without pictures here's a couple Doug took tonight. Isn't my baby beautiful?

What a week!

I can't believe she was a week old on Monday. She is precious and we are loving her so much. I just want to sit and hold her and stare at her sweet little face. Housework can wait, right? Unfortunately it's time for things to get back to normal and for Mom to start acting like Mom again. Brinley has been such a good little baby. Her only serious cry spell was the night we came home from the hospital and the day I ate too much chocolate. I guess that's off my diet for a while. The kids are constantly "checking" on her for me and are so cute with her. Katie wants to hold her constantly and has even offered to change the poopy diapers. She is such a little mom in the making. And she'll be 9 on Sunday. Yikes! She's growing up too fast. Nathan has come around and is right there if she loses her plug. Emily likes to show Brinley her toys, very close up. We're working on not putting toys on Brinley's face. They are all very soft and sweet with her. I took these pictures of her on Monday. (Sorry about the sideways one, my computer takes too long to load them for me to go back and fix it.)

It was fun. I used to take pictures of the kids all the time, but slowed way down this last year because I'm so far behind on organizing my pictures now that I'll never catch up. I guess I'll just have to get more behind. I've got to have these pictures. Anyone have any ideas on how you've organized your pictures? Time to go see if I can catch a little nap while Brinley is asleep and before it's time to go get Katie. Wish me luck ;-)