Peytons 1st Thanksgiving

I love Thanksgiving! I am one of those people who refuses to think about anything Christmas before Thanksgiving! I think it is a very important time of year and it makes me sad that it always gets overlooked. I often say that Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday because it has all the things I love... Great food, wonderful time with family, many blessing to be thankful for and unlike Christmas I dont have to spend a bunch of money on presents LOL! (Don't get me wrong I love Christmas and I love giving gifts) Anyways I am a big fan of Thanksgiving and I was very excited to have Ms. Peyton enjoy her first Thanksgiving this year. So we took our annual trip to Nebraska to spend the holiday with Blaine's side of the family and this year we were able to spend a week up there which was nice since Peyton hasn't gotten to spend a lot of time with his side of the family since she was born. So we drove up Friday and enjoy the week getting things ready for Thanksgiving, watching football, visiting with friends, and just enjoying sometime together as a family! We spent Thanksgiving at a church in Gretna with all of Blaine's family as well as his sister in law's family and had a wonderful time fellowshipping together and watching all the kids play together! It's so much fun to have so many little ones running around now! Then Friday we did our annual Black Friday shopping and it was a lot of fun as usual but man I was exhausted and so glad to drive home and sleep in my own bed after a week away! Once we got home a baked some Pumpkin pies to take to my family's thanksgiving which we had on Saturday! It was a wonderful day cooking and spending time with the family I love all the opportunities we have to get together. The highlight of my day though was the fact that my Dad finally held Peyton. He is not a holding babies kind of guy and likes to wait till they get a little bigger and can hold their heads up so when he came right in and took her I was so excited and grabbed my camera right away!! It was a wonderful moment! To sum it all up we had a wonderful thanksgiving filled with family, friends, love, and food and it really just doesn't get any better than that! So I'll leave you with a few pictures from our wonderful holiday! 

Papa Dee holding his girl for the first time! 

The older kiddos taking a picture while Peyton took a nap. We figured she'd probably get crawled on anyway!

The Finley clan... can you imagine just going out to dinner together! It is quite entertaining! 

Peyton and Tempey in their matching 1st Thanksgiving outfits with little Ethan peeking in the picture!

Month 2

Wow tomorrow my little girl will be 2 months old and I can not believe it has been 2 months already! So many things have changed in the last 2 months it just completely blows my mind whenever I think about it. She has grown so much and changed so much and learned so much just in the last 2 months! I feel like I'm going to miss something if I blink somedays! She smiles so big now and its my absolute favorite!! Just watching her grin brighten my days no matter what the rest of the day has been like and I love it! She is holding her head up so well now... its still a little wobbly and she gets tired after a little while but she is getting a little stronger everyday. We're still working on her being content just by herself and not being held all the time but its a work in progress... somedays she does great and others there is just no use LOL! We are also trying to work on the transition into her crib but again that is a work in progress. She is a stubborn little girl just like her momma but we'll get there. We started going back to church a couple weeks ago once she was old enough to go into the nursery... and man that was the longest hour of my life when we first took her. Its better now but that first time was very very hard for me. I finally understood what it was like to be the momma during drop off instead of being the teacher and let me tell ya... it's easier being the teacher LOL! But she has done wonderful in the nursery and all the volunteers in there are wonderful and just love her to pieces! And of course they do... why wouldn't they she is just amazing! I am absolutely amazed by this little person and the fact that she came from me. I like to think that she has the best of me and the best of her daddy and its just so amazing to think about the life that she has ahead of her. I promise her everyday that I'm going to give her the best life I possibly can and everyday I try to think of just how I'm going to do that. We are all super excited for all the holidays coming up and all the family time we're going to have. I am a holiday lover every year but this year it all just means so much more because these are her very first holidays and I just couldn't be more excited! We are going to be dedicating her at church in Decemeber and I'm excited to say that she is going to be dedicated right along side our best friends little girl who is just three months older. These little girls are going to give us a run for our money when they get older I'm sure but I'm so excited for her to have a little buddy to run around with right from the beginning! And I'm excited to stand in front of our church and our friends and family and dedicate our lives to raising her up the way God would want us to. Its just one of the many ways I know that I can fulfill my promise to giving her the best life possible. Well now that I've rambled on about a little bit of everything I will leave you  with some more adorable pictures of what we've been up to this month!

Just playing on my mat while daddy takes my picture!

She loves sitting in her bumbo chair

Our little owl all dressed up for Halloween

Our family photo!

Out enjoying so halloween festivities in Edmond!

A little update

Well I just figured I would write a little update about how life with our little princess is going since she is keeping me awake at the moment but refusing to fall asleep... at least she's happy in her swing... maybe it'll lull her to sleep but we shall see. She is a night owl it seems and I can't for the life of me figure out where she got that trait because both mommy and daddy greatly enjoy their sleep and are not night owls at all! Anyways... for the most part she is sleeping well (once she goes to sleep) and we took our first road trip with the little one this past weekend which was so fun! And I dont mean that sarcastically... we had a really great time and she did so well in the car. We went to Kansas City to visit Blaine's grandparents and aunts and uncles so they all could meet Ms. Peyton and they all were instantly in love with her of course! I think she got held pretty much all weekend and she wouldn't have wanted it any other way!

We didn't take a ton of pictures but here is one of four generations of women! I really can't say enough how blessed I am to have married into such a wonderful family and I'm so glad that Ms. Peyton will now have this wonderful family to enjoy as well!

Here is Peyton with Great Grandma Spencer. She has tremors but Peyton didn't seem to mind. In fact she seemed to really like it... go figure she loves being bounced and rocked and such! 

And of course we can't forget Great Grandpa Spencer!! This will be Peyton gets her height!

The day after we got back from our trip I underwent oral surgery and had my wisdom teeth removed plus another molar that needed to come out so Blaine stayed home with me and Peyton the past two days to help take care of her while I recovered but it has been a very easy recovery thus far and for that I am very grateful! Soon I'll be able to eat discomfort and pain free and I am so excited! It has been a long time coming! Peyton and I really have enjoyed having Daddy home though!!! We really try to do lots of different activities as a family! Tonight we carved a pumpkin all together (Peyton slept through most of it LOL). 

This weekend Blaine's sister and brother in law and our adorable little niece Tempey are coming to visit so they can finally meet Ms. Peyton and we have lots of fun things planned!! So excited to see them and get to spend sometime together and for Peyton to meet the last little bit of family. Especially her cousin who I'm sure will be a wonderful friend throughout the years to come! 

Well I think that about wraps up what we've been doing.... not too much but after this week hopefully I'll have another update to write about. But for now I'll leave you with some adorable pictures that our friend Joseph took when Peyton turned 1 month old! 

I really can't get enough of that beautiful little one!! I am so very blessed!! 

6 years and counting

Six years.... wow! I can't believe that we have been together for six years. It has been an amazing six years and looking back I wouldn't change a single moment! Now we have a beautiful little girl and a lifetime of memories still ahead of us and for that I am so very thankful! Here are a few photos from some special days in our six years together! 

This picture was taken the night we first met. We were friends from the day one and it has been an amazing journey right from the start. 

This picture was from our first date.... we had been together for about a month but had never gone on an official date until this night. We went to red lobster and I think we saw a movie although six years later I couldn't tell you what movie it was. 

 This was taken the night we got engaged. This is not the moment that he actually proposed but since he proposed on a carriage ride he got out of the whole getting down on one knee thing so I made him pose for a picture :)

And finally a picture from our wedding day! One of the most wonderful days of my life right next to the birth of our daughter! I've loved every moment and every memory we've made together and I can't wait to see what the rest of our lifetime together has in store.

1 Month.... slow down please!

This adorable little princess is one month old today and I just can't believe it!!! I'm going to need time to slow down and stop flying by so quickly! She is our whole world and we love her more than words can ever express and I just can't believe she's already been with us an entire month! She is growing and changing everyday and is just a bundle of joy and we are so so blessed! I don't really know what else to say except that I love my little princess even if she is growing too fast! And I'll leave you with one more adorable picture that is from after our evening bath!

3 Weeks already?

Your whole life you are told that the older you get the faster time goes by and when your younger you can't really imagine life going by any faster because you think it already flies by... but then you get older and you realize that they were telling you the truth all these years. I can't believe how much faster time has gone by in these last three weeks. Sometimes I swear I'll wake up and still be pregnant it just really blows my mind that Peyton is already three weeks old. She changes a little bit everyday and I love watching her changes but I sure do wish I could keep her small forever because I know these days are going to be just a memory the next time I blink. She is getting bigger every time I look at her I swear.  When she looks at me now I can tell she is actually looking at me...no more glazed over look LOL and she can follow things she sees with her eyes. She also makes faces at us and has even seemed to copy our faces a little. She is working on holding her head up a little bit each day and just keeps us laughing and smiling. She is sleeping pretty well at night for the most part and eats like crazy during the day but hey whatever she needs. It really just amazes me how much things change in such a short period of time.
Now as happy as I am I can honestly say that I've just never been more scared in my whole life. I want to protect her with every fiber of my being and I just can't imagine what I would do if something bad happened. Now I know I can't be paranoid and scared forever but its just such a new feeling for me. Some of this may be exacerbated by all the problems we had in the very beginning some of which we are still dealing with. Wednesday we take her to a physical therapist to see about getting the shape of her head fixed a bit... its not causing any neurological issues but I just really don't want her to be self conscious about it her whole life. So we're going to try this and see what happens. I can't help but feel like its somehow my fault and I have to do everything I can to fix it. Now I know in my heart that its not my fault but I just can't help but feel that way.
Well thats my little 3 weeks update... I will leave you with a picture of how we are spending our saturday evening.... watching football with daddy!

Mommy Fail #1

Well it only took two weeks for me to have my first mommy fail. And to say I was disappointed in myself would be an understatement (thanks hormones). Ok so here's the story. Blaine's brother and sister in law and two of their boys came down to visit us this weekend and meet sweet baby Peyton. Since the fair is still going on we thought it would be fun to take them and I've been feeling pretty good and Peyton has been doing great so off to the fair we went. It was smooth sailing for the first 3 hours or so, everyone was having fun walking through the buildings, seeing all the animals, and just enjoying being out and about. Ms. Peyton just snoozed away in the stroller and was the center of attention... everywhere we went someone stopped to look and tell us how beautiful she is (Proud Momma here). Well after about three hours as were in one of the buildings making our way through the aisles Peyton wakes up and is not a happy camper! So Blaine takes her out of the stroller and carries her through the last part of the building as we beeline for the doors so we can get her changed and I can figure out a place to sit and feed her (interesting thing to do at the fair). Well the line for the women's restroom was super long as usual so Blaine took her into the men's room to change her only to discover that little miss had had a blowout! She was in a disposable diaper that was given to us since we use cloth diapers but I figured I had them and it would be easier than the cloth while we were out... well these diapers just didn't fit her as well and so the blowout occured. Now to the mommy fail... since she had a blowout her entire outfit was ruined to wear and what did I have in the diaper bag for a change of clothes... a long sleeved and footed PJ outfit... WAY TO HOT for that! I mean we were all sweating it was hot even in the buildings! So she spent the rest of the time we were there (another couple hours) in nothing but a diaper and covered with a real light blanket. I felt terrible... then feeding was not super easy and it was hot and she was hot and I was hot and the nursing cover made it even more hot. I almost had a small breakdown at this point because I felt like a terrible momma and at this point I wanted nothing more than to just be able to give her a bottle! But I have a wonderful support team in my hubby and in my sister in law so I held it together without breaking down and we enjoyed the end of our fair trip. Lesson learned... ALWAYS have a onesie in the Diaper Bag! This will be a mistake I don't make again!