i did it!

so some friends of mine bought me this flower and a scarf for my birthday.
i hadnt had the chance to wear the scarf, but i had been struggling with this flower. id do my hair, throw in the flower, look at myself for a few minutes, then think it looked funny so id take it out...

but today was a NEW day! i did my hair and put the flower in a few different places. this is where it ended up and i wore it!
love it... maybe im turning a new leaf with this whole accessories thing. could be a problem... especially if you saw my last post with the necklaces and earrings.

wishes...

i wish i could get away with wearing some of these (and i had the cash to buy them):
And I would almost consider taking out my plugs for these...and theyre only $18!
It was a bad idea to look at the Anthropologie site...grrr!

3 years...

...and counting!

on january 13th, steven and i celebrated our 3rd anniversary. it has been an amazing three years. full of laughter, happiness, joy, craziness, and a baby! we celebrated that weekend by going out to dinner and had planned to see where the wild things are at the dollar theater but they switched the movies out the night before. so we picked up frozen yogurt, rented a couple movies, picked up evelynn and had a night a movies at home.

thank you LOVE for being such a wonderful husband...and papa! i love you MONSTEROUSLY!

like her mama

as she gets older i see more of myself in evelynn. for instance, she sleeps like her mama.
slobber at 2 weeks old and now she is sleeping with blankets on her face at 4 months old!

four months flew by

ok. so ive realized that it has been about 4 months since ive really updated the blog. here is a rundown of the last four months of our lives:
- evelynn was born july 27th- spent the better part of august and september waking up in the middle of the night to feed the baby and being sleep deprived
- in august we started to get random smiles from evelynn and she met her great-grandma- evelynn started to smile in response to silly things in september- i took evelynn on her first plane ride in october out to so cal for her uncles 20th birthday.
- first week of october evelynn started sleeping through the night which meant i was a happy, well a happier mom!
- evelynn was a hot dog for halloween thanks to her grammy martha
- we traded in the truck for a chevy impala...a more family-friendly car
- evelynn had her first play-date with her friend lucy who is 2 weeks older than evelynn
- we took evelynn on her first roadtrip to so cal for thanksgiving (thats a whole other post!)
that brings us up to date for the most part! im going to try and do better to keep this updated.

already looking forward to the big shabang!

mendonsa...party of three!

ok ok! i know its been almost two weeks since evelynn graced us with her presence, but better late than never right!? :] so here is a little story about our day...

so i didnt want to go to church for fear of having to answer the question of why evelynn was still in my belly. so steven went without me. when i got out of bed and was letting towbie out, i experienced something like my water breaking, but only a little bubble. so i paid attention to what was going on and told steven to call in between services. he eneded up coming home for fear that it was TIME. we hung out at the house for a couple hours just waiting. pains were getting a little more constant but not worse. so we got our stuff together and headed to the hospital at around 2pm, calling my mom and sister on the way to tell them we were a go.

we pulled up to the hospital and it felt weird. when the lady asked if she could help us, i was like "i think its time to have my baby." kind of awkward... so they put me in a "flashy" hospital gown and in a bed. they hooked me up to the heart and contraction monitors. then they did a test to see if it was actually my water that had broke...indeed it was! so at that point we were admitted.

my whole plan was to have the baby naturally, but not be discouraged if i ended up with an epidural. i lasted until 10:30pm. i realized id be too tired to get her out. so i gave in to my fear. once i had the epidural i was GOOD! :] i was able to relax and get some sleep...considering it was so late too. my mom, sister, and dad made it in time for the big show!

so after a little pushing and laughing (yes laughing!) our little girl joined the big bad world outside of the bubble...

she was born at 1:56 am, weighed 7 lbs and was 19 1/2 inches long...