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Yay for family pictures. We got ours done today and I love them. We actually went to the mall which I never thought I would do. I have always felt mall pictures looked really cheesy and overwhelmingly tacky. I now have a different opinion and hopefully you will too. They turned out so good and we only payed $100. We really hope you like them as much as we do.


Plus the pictures turned out to be a great reason for some new fall boots. Love them.

What else is new?

Our baby is stinkin cute. What else is new. Here are a couple new funny photos of the bug.

Bentley loves sitting up by herself. Although she tends to fall over on occasion still and sometimes smashes her face. (Grandpa Mecham):)




I have to get creative when I need to take Bentley and other things up/downstairs. She doesn't love my creativity.

Love the bumbo. Definitley buy one.

At the airport waiting for Aunt Shonnee to get home.

Tummy Time. Bentley rolled over from her tummy to her back at 2 weeks old but now refuses to do it except on rare occasions. Instead she lays there and cries with her face in the ground until you roll her over.

Little Miss Natalie

Natalie Mae turned 5 this month. I can't believe she is growing up so fast. Her mom and dad threw a super fun party for her many little friends. They had crafts and water games and a yummy cake.

Natalie playing water games.

Bentley and I

Blowing out the candles

We were so glad we could see Natalie turn 5 especially since they moved to Oregon this month. We will sure miss them and already can't wait for them to visit. Happy Birthday Mae Mae.

We Tri'd

Dan and I have done a couple of triathalons recently. (Unfortunately, as you can tell from the photo, the wetsuits are not particularly slimming.) We did the Saratoga springs and Kokopelli sprint triathalons in august and september. It was fun to do something together that neither or us had ever done before. Plus I won the $4o prize for taking 1st place in my age group. (Even though I actually took second. Not sure what happened but I took the money and ran with it.) I'm having a hard time deciding if I love triathalons or not. So far, the best part is that people seemed to be really impressed with the idea of completing a triathalon. Little do they know, they could probably do it just as well as we do. But I don't mind seeming impressive.

The first tri we did with a bunch of friends from the ward. Notice I'm the only female. We will have to get more wives on board I guess. But it was fun and I didn't mind being one of the boys for a day. Our second triathalon was in St. George so we got to see Dan's sister Jan and her family. They came to the race to see us finish and took some great pics. Hopefully I will remember to add them when I get them from her. Stay posted.

Lately...

I've been thinking a lot lately and there are a lot of things I need to do better, or just do period.

1) Be more grateful for what I have. I think I'm grateful inside but I should definitely be more vocal about it. Everyone knows I'm vocal about lots of stupid stuff so I'm going to try to be more vocal about important stuff.

2) Take more pictures of Bentley. I spend all day everyday with the girl, thinking about how adorable she is and loving her smiles and laughs and funny little faces but for some reason I fail to take hardly any pictures of such things. What kind of mom am I?

3) Enjoy myself. I kind of stress a lot. Like way too much. About really stupid stuff. I don't think I seem that way to other people but in my head it's crazy. I'm crazy. I just want everything to be perfect for Bentley and not have anything messed up. Crazy I know.

4) Be more positive. I wonder if I come off as a negative nancy. Usually I just say I'm being realistic but I want to be more optimistic. Yea, that would be good for me. and for everyone else.

5) Be more patient. I love my schedule. love love love it. Before bentley i never veered from my schedule at all. not for anything. unfortunately babies don't love schedules like i do. at least mine doesn't and from what i hear most other people's babies don't either. Its been a tough transition. I need to be more patient and just accept that she is never going to sleep at the same time or wake up at the same time or do anything at the same time that she did it the day before. It's. So. Hard. but I know we'll get it eventually.

This little gal is 4 months old this Saturday. Can't believe it. Love her.

For Jan

Dan's sister keeps asking me to post pictures of Bentley's room and I finally got around to it. It's cute but simple. Hope you enjoy:)

The flowers used to be centered but we had to move the crib to fit the swing in her room and I still haven't moved the flowers. I'm Slightly Lazy.

I've had this dresser since I was like 12 and it just matched the crib perfectly.

Window treatment my mom and I made. (Mostly my mom.)

The glider, my absolute favorite part of the room.

Changing Table and quilt that we made. I've also had that shelf since I was a kid. We were lucky to have everything come together and I'm lucky to have such a great mom who helped me a ton with everything!

Catch Up

Once again it's been awhile since I've posted anything. Whenever that happens I tend to be less and less motivated to post. The pictures keep coming and I just have more and more to post which makes me avoid blogging altogether. To catch up I'm going to do a quick rundown of the past several weeks.

First of all we have great friends. Practically everything in this closet was a gift. Bentley is a lucky girl. Plus we had so much borrowed to us. 2 bouncers, a swing, a bassinet, and a stroller. Best friends ever.
A trip to Logan to see Dan's Grandma. She just turned 91! Bentley is the newest grandchild, but not for long. This Group of 6 will be 8 by the end of the year. It will be so fun for Bentley to have so many cousins close in age.

Bentley's first Easter. Didn't mind the dress...

...hated the bunny ears her daddy got her.

Finally starting to see this enough to not feel like a zombie.

Other than that we've just been hanging out.

Baby Bentley

Geez 9 months is a long time! Bentley finally came on March 23. She weighed in at 7 lbs 10 oz and was 19 inches long. It was a long night, especially for Dan. We got to the hospital at 5:30 on Tuesday night and she didn't come until 4:16 the next morning. Dan spent most of the time with headphones and his hood on because it was all a little too much for him. He finally calmed down and was very helpful the last 2 hours of the pushing. We sure love her and are so glad she finally came. We'll post some real pictures soon but hospital ones will have to do for now!

The big 3-7

37 weeks. 3 to go. woot woot.