Our new {HOME}

Well we have lived in our new home about 3 months now and have finally been able to get some things up and put together after the holidays! We absolutely love it here and so excited for warm weather and to be close to family!

Several distant friends and family have been asking to see pictures of our new home and I am FINALLY getting around to posting some! Moving is quite the task, especially with a little one running around :) We still have a long ways to go to get it how we want it, but we are off to a good start!

~Front of the house~

 We are LOVING having the 3 car garage! SO much extra storage and space :) Jordan is able to have his work stuff in the 3rd bay too so it doesn't take over our whole garage. Yay!

Our backyard is hard to get all in one picture! It is a big rectangle shape with 2 huge side pieces and it backs up to a couple horses in the pasture. It also has stairs down and a cement pad. Sunsets are amazing too! So excited to spend lots of time outside and BBQing when warmer weather comes!

~Entryway~

~Office~

Jordan was so excited to have an office all to himself and a space of his own. Look at those fancy degrees hanging on the wall! He is so proud to be where he is at right now! Such a corporate stud :)

~Living Room Area~

We love the open floor plan in the center of the house!

~Kitchen & Dining Area~

~Hallway & Bedrooms~

~Guest Room~

~Guest Bathroom~

~Adalynn's Room~

~Master Suite~

~Upstairs Bonus Room~

This will eventually be my studio in the future :) For now it is organized chaos of all my photography equipment and my scrapbook room! I LOVE being able to work on pages while Adalynn naps and then leave the mess upstairs to come back whenever!

~Mud Room & Laundry Room~

We are thrilled to be in the Meridian/Boise Area! Here is to a new year and new opportunities!

Oh and P.S. Come visit us :) We will show you a good time!

Adalynn is {EIGHT MONTHS}

Probably sound like a broken record, but I just can't believe how fast our little girl is growing! She is always changing and doing something new or learning things. She is quite the big little baby now! Put a little clip in her hair and a cute outfit on and BAM! She looks so stinkin grown up! Time for pictures and stats!

Here are her 8 Month pictures :) Yes they are getting down to just a few pictures unfortunately... So hard to get her to smile AND take the picture AND keep her confined to one area. But just the same I still managed to get some shots that are to die for <3 We love you so much Adalynn Claire!!

{Physical Stuff}

-Weighs 22lbs 14oz

-No new teeth, just the bottom two. Sharp little things! She thinks it funny to bite you with them.

-Crawls EVERYWHERE. She loves to go sit in front of the fridge and see her reflection, then make faces and give kisses. So funny so watch her laugh and squeal when she can see herself!

-Still comfy in 12 month pants and onesies

-Refuses to wear shoes, kicks them off and then chews on them

-Chews on EVERYTHING, she is fast! Goes straight from the hand grabbing into the mouth

-Always talking, making noises, spitting, and trying to make new sounds

-Mom and Dad had to lower her crib to the very bottom due to her crawling and pulling herself up shenanigans!

-Hair has at least doubled since last "monthly" post. So many curls! Crazy to say that "doing" her hair daily is now a reality. Her curly hair is to die for though! It is so adorable. Everyone always comments how cute her and her hair are!

-Her hand eye coordination is so fast! Especially when picking up food off her high chair tray

-Still majorly "blowing" out of diapers no matter what the brand. We have tried them ALL! Best so far is LUVs and that isn't saying much... Always have to bring a bag of "stuff" when we go into town that includes a few outfits just in case!

{LOVES}

-light up toys that play music

-animal sounds and nursery rhyme songs

-her puppy doll that sings songs and you can press buttons on his heart, hands, and feet

-to make all sorts of sounds and spit with her mouth

-sticking her tongue out, especially when she smiles!

-crawling into mommy and daddy's room.. She thinks that is so funny! Who knows why?!

-going under the reclining foot rest under the couch. Daddy jokes that she loves to go in the "cave of wonders".

-getting caught doing something. She crawls faster and giggles so loud if she knows she is getting caught doing something or going where she isn't supposed to be!

-grabbing everything within reach when riding in the cart in the store. She also LOVES to ride in her cart cover with toys hanging on it. That makes shopping life a little easier :)

-playing in the bath! Now that she can sit up and not be too wobbly in the tub, she loves to play with toys, chew on her rubber ducky loofah, suck on her turtle sponge, kick, and splash!

-showering with daddy

-finger foods on her high chair tray. Her newest favorites are flavored puffs, baby yogurt, and chicken sticks

-to mimic any sound you make. She will go back and forth with you saying the same sound over and over again

-to take "selfies" and see herself on the phone camera screen. She automatically lights up and laughs and smiles. Oh boy we are in trouble!

-playing with cell phones and the TV remote. She DIVES for them! They are her favorite!

-playing peekaboo with dad

-when daddy comes home and when grandpa makes funny noises

-rolling over or crawling and then posing while looking back at you

-chewing on her socks

-swimming in the pool

-drinking from a sippy cup

-snuggling with blankets

-sleeping on her side and stomach

-daddy throwing her up in the air

{HATES}

-getting dressed

-sitting still

-not being fed fast enough

-not being able to touch/grab some things

-seeing you have/mix her food when she is hungry

-wearings shoes and being bundled up in jackets and hats

-getting her face and hands wiped after eating

-getting buckled in her carseat

{QUIRKS}

- She has sooooo much attitude now! We have seen glimpses of it up until now, but seriously it has exploded. So many grunts and sounds and sadly she is learning the tantrm. She is such a good baby, but she definitely can hold her own!

-when she gets excited even when she is being held, she kicks her legs so fast in excitement! her legs and feet are always moving!

-When she wakes up from her naps or in the morning, you go into her room to get her and she is always sitting up grinning from ear to ear and laughing as you come in the room. Melts my heart EVERY time!

-Before we lowered her crib to the lowest setting, she grabbed the camera down from the rail of her crib. My monitor went blank and of course I went in there worried that something happened. I go in there to find her holding the camera in the corner of her bed, sitting up and giggling so funny while holding the camera in her hand like it was her prize! I was relieved and all I could do was laugh! It was so funny! Never a dull moment with our princess!

-She cackles like nothing I've ever heard before! You can't help but laugh with her and be so in love with her sweet little being

-She has learned to "squirt" her bottle nipple at you while she is eating. Of course then she gasps because it is all over her face too and it surprises her, Silly girl! Be prepared to wear her food no matter what you are feeding her!

-It never fails, she will find any cords that are plugged in and within her reach and crawl super fast over to them and then try to eat them. Who needs toys?

-When mommy is in the kitchen, she has to be too, Whether it is watching her reflection in the fridge or playing with whisks and measuring cups. She has always got to be where mommy is during the day. Then daddy comes home and all bets are off. She loves to play with him and ride airplane and get thrown up in the air.

It was a {Merry Christmas} and a {Happy New Year}!!....and a few other things :)

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!! Wow we ended 2014 with some great memories and milestones :)

Christmas time was so much warmer that we were used to! The  beginning of December we had several days in the 60s and it was beautiful! Didn't feel much like Christmas with that weather, but we couldn't complain with the sunshine!

The middle of December started the sick bug at our house..... Jordan wasn't feeling good thanks to a co-worker passing on a nasty sickness! We tried to Quarantine him to just our bedroom and me and Adalynn stayed FAR away! We went to do some Christmas shopping and out  to eat while Jordan was resting. She kept the whole food court entertained with her smiles, squeals, and noises :) So cute! I just want to eat her up!

Jordan still wasn't doing so great and was getting worse and worse everyday. The next day we went into the doctor to find that he had a bad case of Bronchitis! Yuck! The doctor filled him in on all his meds while Adalynn and I documented it with a picture. Go figure!

Just a few random snaps of everyday life....

I'm pretty obsessed with pictures of her sleeping! So cute and peaceful and just adorable....

  Nothing like a lazy Saturday morning playing with toys by the fire!! She loves toys!!

Can't forget a little play with the tree and lights... She takes off for the bows on the presents and then gets distracted by the lights :) Such a perfect Saturday morning well spent!

Who knew bath time could be so much fun?! She loves showers with daddy, but she also loves kicking in the bath! Such a cutie!

This next part was a not so good milestone for our family....

Despite our efforts to seclude ourselves from Jordan and his sickness, it spread with vengeance and Adalynn started to get sick. She is such an active and happy little bug so when she will only go to mommy and wants to do nothing but snuggle and sleep, it isn't good!

We hoped it would pass quickly, but instead, it got really bad, really fast! She wasn't breathing too well, wasn't very coherent, and had a really high fever. After trying several other things, we decided to head into the ER on Sunday night because she was in really bad shape. She was admitted with a 102.3 fever and really low oxygen levels. Her heart rate was also very high. How scary! I was panicking and in tears while they ran several tests and placed her IV. Probably the hardest thing other than birth is having to watch your little baby suffer and you can't take it all away!

Not so fun milestone to have your first ER visit at only 8 months old! Poor girl was miserable and wouldn't stop crying and moaning. They even gave her a little butterfly cast so she couldn't bend her arm with the IV in :(

 After running several tests and after several hours in the ER, it was determined that she had an upper respiratory infection and Influenza. Several meds to get her better and we headed home to get her on the mend and daddy too!

The next several days were nothing but snuggles, relaxing, and cuddling!

My 2 sick snuggle bugs.... How freakin cute is this?!

The next few days were just relaxing at home and having fun while getting better :) Jordan was still down too!

Lots of warm baths for this sick girly!

She even tried scrambled eggs for the first time and LOVED them.... Can ya tell?!

Ohhhh so many faces from this little girl! That smile of hers is priceless though :)

 uggghhh She is so cute!

and back to silly faces just like that!

One of her new tricks that has mom and dad quite nervous is this... because sucking on just the nipple is too mainstream! What a silly girl!

Sorry for the graphic content! If you know anything about miss Adalynn, she has always been the blowout queen! Several a day most of the time regardless of every brand of diaper! A powerful little messy booty that never ceases to amaze! Yuck!

Starting her out young with several trips to Target! Feel like a celebrity when I go into stores. So many people stop us to comment on how beautiful of a baby she is and her curly hair and blue eyes... Yes we will be in trouble when she grows up! She is so pretty!

Ok so let's talk about Adalynn's addiction with "selfies".Sounds funny right? Well it's the truth! It is so hard to get her to look to take a picture of her, but the minute you use the back camera and she can see herself, BAM! She laughs and giggles and is enthralled with seeing the picture of herself. Ha ha! We went with Jordan to the Chiropractor one morning before he went to work. We waited out in the waiting room, but Adalynn started getting restless and spitting. Yes you read that right spitting. So I whipped out my back camera and captured this cutie in her true colors... tongue out and all sass! One of my FAVORITE pictures of her!

But first, lemme take a selfie...... See what I mean?!

Well the sickness had went from Jordan to Adalynn and eventually hit me.... problem was that since I was the last to get it, It was so close to Christmas that I was miserable and wasn't able to do much of that "holiday" stuff. BOO!!!!

I also had a severe case of bronchitis! Went to the doctor and they refused to give me anything. Since it went untreated, it later developed into a full blown sinus infection that I had to be on antibiotics for a month! The xray was gross and I was furious to be dealing with such horrible sickness just days before Christmas! When I went to the doctor, Adalynn just happened to blow out with Jordan while I was gone and I received this cute picture on my phone... Little missy blew out so bad that she required a shower with dad. Good thing she is so cute!

I joked for a long time after we moved to Kuna how bad we needed a McDonald's to feed my Dr. Pepper foam cup addiction....and low and behold they started building one! I was thrilled!! I would call jordan all the time and give him an update as I drove by like "they have lights now!" and "The drive through is almost done!!". Yeah lame I know, but when you are a Dr. Pepper freak, this is a big deal. I even told Jordan, all I wanted for Christmas was for the new McDonald's to have foam cups! Well it opened and BAM! Merry Christmas to me!!!

Still battling being sick, I had had enough of a runny nose one night and resorted to this lovely picture... A nose plug it is! Nothing more annoying than a runny nose that won't quit! Cute right?! No idea why Jordan wouldn't have a thing to do with me... I guess he just doesn't dig tissue nose plugged women lol

I was feeling a bit robbed of the Christmas season beings that our family had been in hibernation for 2 weeks from being sick, so I doused the house in lysol and decided to do some Christmas baking. No way sickness was going to steal the fun things of Christmas!

Yummy Salted Caramel Pretzel Bark!!!

One of my favorite things about Christmas time is getting all the Christmas cards! We made a pretty good haul this year :) Love all the pictures and seeing what all our friends and family are up to!

I had a few last minute things to pick up before we headed off for Christmas vacation so Adalynn and I hit a few stores and went and had lunch together.

Such a messy eater, but she thought she was pretty hilarious! Everyone sitting by us just laughed at all her funny noises and cackles :)

We headed off to Twin Falls to spend Christmas with a TON of family! I headed out mid afternoon and Jordan headed down after work. With a little one now AND hauling gifts, taking 2 cars was a must!

While waiting for Jordan to get to Twin, we went and dropped off presents at Grandma and Grandpa Morrow's house. Of course she had to play a little with Grandma's toys and take a bite out of her presents :)

Christmas Eve Dinner was at Grandma Rice's house along with a fun gift exchange and the long time tradition of acting out the nativity!

Not sure what it is about Grandpa Morrow, but she LOVES him! No matter what is going on, when she sees him she laughs and laughs and sticks her tongue out and smiles. So funny!

 All ready for the gift exchange!

Gma and Gmpa Rice

Merle and Eric

Sherri and Justin

Trent and Sherri

Gmpa Rice, Dad, Mom, and Merle

Justin scored to open some gum!

Gma was thrilled to get a Cafe Rio Gift Card

Funniest gift of the night! Trent got a sign that says, "It is what it is". We were all laughing so hard when he tried to open it and found that it was just that sign! He later used it to play his traditional role as the Inn Keeper in the nativity. Hilarious!

Sam got a Sonic gift card

Sherri scored some Biolage shampoo :)

I was thrilled to get Sea Salt Caramels. YES!

Eric chose the perfect gift and ended up with a ball shooting gun!

After doing the white elephant gift exchange, Our little family opened gifts with Gma and Gmpa Rice since we wouldn't see them for long on Christmas! They got Adalynn this super cute beach chair and a light up toy! She loved her chair can ya tell?!

Jordan got a huge pack of pepsi, I got some awesome hairspray from the beauty supply, and then we both got this picture board for our new house!

Last but not least of the Christmas Eve festivities, the annual nativity!

Every year, whatever family is visiting acts out the nativity and reads the story of baby Jesus' birth.

Look at that cute wiseman!

My dad read the nativity story out of Luke :)

Even Scooter helped out as a sheep!

The shepherd and his sheep

No room for Mary and Joseph at the Inn. As said by the Inn keeper, "It is what it is!" ha ha!

Trent as the Inn Keeper

Mary, Joseph, and Baby Jesus. Why does baby Jesus look so familiar?! lol

Look at those 3 wisemen! What studs :)

  

Mary "great with child"

Ahh I love Christmas traditions! We headed back to Jordan's mom's house to get some rest and for Santa to visit Adalynn!

Daddy played with Adalynn for a bit in her Christmas jammies before putting her to bed so Santa could come. We were so excited!

 Adalynn's Santa gifts :) Quite the haul for her first Christmas!

Aaaannnd here comes the picture overload! Adalynn was so funny! At first she didn't know what to think about all those toys, and then she had to lay IN all her toys and ROLL around in them. So funny! We were cracking up! She had to soak it all in I guess :)

She was so spoiled with tons of clothes, toys, books, a water floatie, bath toys, and much more!

She really just wanted to eat the paper and bows :) lol

Adalynn loves Aunt Kerin!

After opening gifts with Jordan's family, we headed over to my family's house to do presents and eat with them. This Christmas was special because my cousin, Riley, is on a mission in England and we got to Skype with him!

His companion is from Africa and is likes doing Rap, so he did a little show for us :) ha ha! So funny!

He looks so good and we all were cracking up over his accent! Oh good ole England!

We opened presents with Grandpa and Gma Dutry, ate a yummy Christmas feast, and opened presents with my family too!

One of my most favorite presents for Christmas! A blanket with our pictures on it from this year!

The boys got one too :)

NaJean and Grandpa

Our family gave Eric the Big Bang Theory CLUE game. So fun!

Adalynn got a Vtech music bear from Great gma and gmpa Dutry. As you can see she was so over opening presents for the day!

Trent and Sherri

Dutry's and Eric

Justin and Dallin

Just us hanging with Sami

Mom and Dad

More presents for Adalynn! Who woulda thought ;)

Daddy and Adalynn! She sported her onesie that said "Best gift ever!"

Sami learned how to make some cool Christmas Tree Napkins for dinner!

We love seeing so much family in Twin, but it is nice to have a little date with just us! The day after Christmas, Jordan and I snuck away to lunch and Adalynn just happened to sleep through it all. AMAZING! Best lunch ever....

We had to do a few returns and a little shopping the day after Christmas and Adalynn kept everyone entertained as usual! She is just so stinkin cute! Can't help but snap a few pics.... and the amount of pictures I have of her in a Target Shopping cart, we just won't discuss :)

With all sorts of fun family in town, we decided to go swimming in Hagerman. Oh how much fun we had! Lots of cousins and aunts and uncles :) Even Gma and Gma Rice came too! Adalynn LOVES the water! She is quite the little fish and loves to kick and splash like crazy! She got a new floatie for Christmas to use in the pool so she was so excited to swim around in it :)

Every time we go to Hagerman, we always try to stop by the local icecream shop there. It has switched hands a few times, but has the BEST homeade icecream EVER! We all got different flavors and they were so yummy :) They also have fresh cream, cheese, milk and yogurt.

Well beings that we have a rather large family who all love basketball, we got everyone together for a game! Jordan's sister's boyfriend and his brothers also came too so there was enough to play a full court game! Everyone else came to watch and cheer them on.

Of course Sami loves time playing with Adalynn and Adalynn loves her too. So cute!

Since we were in hibernation for the 2 weeks before Christmas (literally) from being sick, Adalynn got to wear her Christmas dress in Twin Falls while we were there! How did I get so lucky to have this stud for husband and this gorgeous little girl as a daughter??!!

Christmas vacation was so fun, it was hard to come back home! It is a little easier though being 2 hours away instead of 7! Back to Kuna we went :)

Our little princess turned 8 Months old on December 30th! Holy cow time flies! 8 Month stats to follow with post :)

She is pretty excited can ya tell?!

New years fast approached and my family came up to our house to play games and ring in the new year! Of course there was good food and snacks involved. Such a must for New Years shenanigans! We didn't document very well, but we did get a few snapshots while they were here :)

Adalynn LOVES playing with Justin!

Snuggling with Grandpa of course, jammies and all!

 There is a new pizza place in Meridian that we are kind of obsessed with. It is sooo good! We had to take my family there when we came and have them taste the awesomeness! YUM!

We started off 2015 in Kuna with some seriously cold temperatures! Needless to say, Adalynn and I enjoyed a cozy lazy day inside by the fire playing with toys :) Can't resist that cheeky grin and 2 pearly whites!

and the cuddling and keeping warm continued that night...don't mind her crazy bedhead, it was a bow-free day at home!

So we had played so hard together all day that this happened....Photo courtesy of Jordan :)

Yeah not the most flattering picture, but hey, it was a priceless moment. Being a mommy isn't always glamorous or flattering, but that sweet girl right there on my lap is perfect! We just love her to pieces!

She is such a fast little crawler now and is everywhere all the time! I set the garbage bag down for 10 seconds before I took it out and I came back to find this... #busted! She giggled like she was so funny!

Well to wrap up our beginning of the new year adventures, we decided to have a little family date for frozen yogurt at Menchies. YUM is an understatement! Adalynn knows exactly how it works and shows you right where the spoon belongs, in her mouth!

Well Whew! That wraps up our year! So much fun and so many memories :) Can't wait to see what 2015 holds for our little family!

Love,

Jordan, Elise, and Adalynn