Julia's Baptism

 Julia was Baptized at Bethel Lutheran on May 29, 2011. We were married in this church and Pastor Matt is a wonderful and caring man, we are so grateful he was able to christen Julia for us.

 Julia's dress was made by my mom using her wedding dress, its such a beautiful, meaningful heirloom.

                                                               Her face is priceless!

                      A nice picture with most of our favorite little people...Owen was sleeping!

Julia's Godparents, Lindsey & Uncle Chris

 Great Graggy Hardie and Great Auntie Catherine were visiting from Scotland!

 My Godmother Karen and her daughter Lindsey, who is my Goddaughter and is now Julia's Godmother!

Fun in the Sun!

We're home from Palm Springs & Phoenix after spending almost a month visiting the Snow Bird Grandparents! We had such a nice, relaxing time with awesome weather. You can see all the pictures from our trip by clicking on the link on the right side of this page under Julia.

I don't want to grow up

I don't want Julia to grow up, okay I do, but I can't believe how fast she is growing.  I love every little phase of her life and how happy our little girl is. We were at the San Diego Zoo yesterday and she is just soaking it all in and was so good since she didn't get a nap at all. Then we got to the monkeys and she thought they were hilarious swinging from tree to tree. It was a priceless moment, she couldn't get enough. I tried getting a video of it but the video camera became more of a distraction. My parents think its funny how much Julia smiles and laughs since the first couple months of her life she did a lot of frowning...its not her fault she has really expressive eyebrows!
Julia has mastered her impression of a Lion because she does a killer roar that usually gets a lot of attention from her parents and grandparents and we think she is also working on her impression of an Elephant because she makes this funny noise that sort of sounds like a trumpet mixed with the noise you get when give someone a raspberry. Finn Brenan visited us a couple weeks ago and he was very good at the "raspberry" so I think Julia learned it from him!


Side note: Why is blowing on a tummy called a raspberry?


California pictures soon!

Family, Friends & Food in February

February (and the start of March) were so busy, I have no idea where all the time has gone. We have had so many activities, visitors and playdates. Julia loves watching all the activity around her, she really seems to enjoy having people around.
I cannot believe our baby girl is 6 months old this week and has started solid foods! She loves the spoon and so far anything I put on it, I just wish there was one resource that told me the best way to introduce food to her, there is way too much contradicting info out there. We started her on rice cereal then added apples and bananas a couple days apart, we then realized our darling little girl had stopped pooping for over a week! I have never talked to much about poop than I have in the last month and plan on limiting my poo talk once this post is complete! However I did learn that "10 a day or 1 in 10 days" is totally normal but still 1 in days days seems so wrong!
I was given a great website (www.wholesomebabyfood.com) that I think I will make my baby food bible and try to limit any other info so my brain won't explode. I thought introducing solids would be so much fun but it has definitely caused a lot of stress. Anyway we took a little food break but now we're back on track and she loves gobbling it up.....and pooping!!!

I have added some pictures to the link on the right side under "Julia pictures"...don't worry there is no poo in any of them!

Smiley Baby!

My beautiful friend Lisa took these beautiful pictures of Julia. She's such a happy girl, we are very lucky!

Pat and the Cat

Pat says to me one day that he thinks Sophie likes him better because she smiles at him, I then turned around to this!

Trying out her Jumperoo from the Dick Clan - she's one happy girl!