SOME PRETTY ADORALBE PHOTO'S

I know I know so many posts and photos about Macie but I don't care I can't get enough of this little girl. She has stolen my heart and her Daddy's too! But I mean look at that smile who wouldn't adore a face like that.

HOMEMADE BLANKETS!!

I kid you not this little girl got more homemade blankets then any other baby on the planet. 16 in total from everybody we love and Macie will soon love. I love each blanket for a different reason and wanted to post a picture of Macie with each one so we can remember who gave her all of these beautiful blankets.

Kari Swendson will be used for when she is a little bit older as it is very long

Audrey Gurney (I am a little biased towards this one as it matches the colors in Macie's room perfectly) Use it as her bedding right now

Lara Gibb The most adorable pattern ever and I love that the letter M is on it

Sis Kathy Hall (My sister Terra's mother-in-Law) I use this one the most for now

Aunt Shirley love the pink polka dot one for traveling, and the other one for cold nights so warm

Aunt Rose This one has the most sentiment behind it too long to explain how though

Aunt Rose Also love this one for traveling and cold nights it raps around her perfectly


Kim Berryman

Grandma Clara

Corrine Shipley This one was for her blessing day and is put away for safe keeping it is beautiful

Kalina Hunsperger (yes that says Kalina it is Mark's niece) saving this one for when she is about 2 will love to snuggle with it I think

Diane Hunsperger Just received this one yesterday love it and will find a place for it for sure

Bethlehem Butler use these one's a ton too to rap her in at night time and in her car seat when we leave the house.

WEIGHING IN

Well our beautiful Macie keeps growing everyday and reaching new milestones. Her Doctors appointment yesterday had her weighing in at 12 lbs 2 ounces and in the 34% for her weight and 25 inches being in the 90% for her height. She also got her very first prescription for her very annoying goopy eyes. All day long I am cleaning her poor eyes so I really hope this helps. She has also started to giggle a little bit for us, the best way is if you sit her in her chair and sing to her "If your happy and you know it" she loves it and smiles the whole entire time and even gets in a couple of giggles. She also has started to go in her exersaucer and loves to play with the toys and look at all the fun colors.

STORY TIME!!!

Macie one of your favorite times in the day is when we read stories to you, you love to look at all the pictures and hear Mom and Dads voice.

And so it begins.....

The training for my wainwright half marathon on Saturday July 14th. I am so stocked and scared all at the same time. Scared that I will put in all this training and not have the energy to finish, scared that I will not be able to run the whole thing, and scared that while I am training my milk will start to dry up and I will have to stop. But oh so excited about those beautiful 21 km's I am training to run and when I do cross that finish line what a huge accomplishment it will be. Ever since I started training for a tri-athalon 2 years ago ( which I still have yet to do) I found this huge love for running, I seriously wake up every morning thinking can't wait to get my run in today. I am so lucky and blessed that I have found a love for it as it helped me loss a lot of weight 2 years ago and has helped me keep it off and stay fit and healthy. My goal is to run a full marathon buy next summer. So let the sore muscles and fat burning begin!!!

3 MONTHS!!!

Holy Moly today my little girl is 3 months old, how crazy fast it has gone bye. I want time to slow down so I can remember every moment with this little girl but at the same time I can't wait for new milestones. In 3 more months she will be eating food, getting ready to crawl, soon she will be giggling I can't wait she is almost there, and the many more exciting things that come with getting older. For now though I want to cherish every moment with this little girl and soak it all in.

Macie at 3 months:

- Smiles lots everyday, her smile is so adorable and she acts almost shy when she does it. I love trying to see how many times I can get her to smile in a day.
- holds her head up amazingly well
- hates tummy time but will do it for a little bit to please mom
- loves to be held so she can see the world
- loves to read books with mom and dad her favorite is "All Kinds of Kisses"
- she stands extremely well and I think might be an early walker but a late crawler. I see her being one of those kids that takes forever to crawl but then walks very soon after crawling.
- Is not sleeping through the night anymore but will still sleep for 5 to 6 hours wake up eat then sleep for another 3 to 4 hours. still pretty good for a 3 month old and I can't complain.
- Loves her Daddy so much and starts smiling when he gets home from work
- Her favorite time of day is bath time, I can honestly get her smiling the whole entire time she is having a bath.
- Still hates being put in her car seat and as she gets older and her cry gets louder it honestly sounds like we are torchering her when we put her in it, but I promise we are not.
- loves to play with her toys, if I hold them in my hand and sit her on my lap she loves to pick at them.
- she also loves putting her toys in her mouth and slobbering all over them.
- she is pretty darn fantastic, amazing, wonderful and the most amazing little girl ever. You completely rock your mothers world Macie and I just can't get enough of you.

Kalinda
- is feeling great and loving every minute of being a mom, even those hard moments as they make you appreciate the good moments that much more
- has got back to my pre-baby weight but still has a lot of toning up to do
- has been reading a ton of books as breast feeding gives me many moments in the day to do so. I read the Hunger Games and Catching Fire in 4 days and was able to read The Book of Mormon in 3 months. I hope to read it two more times this year.
- has to admit that besides being able to read when breast feeding I am not a huge fan of it, although my goal is for Macie to be a 100% breast feed baby and no formula. If the milk keeps a coming I am not a stopping.
- is excited for spring and summer to make its arrival so I can start getting out of the house more and go on walks and to the park with friends.

Mark
- Is still crazy busy with life and sometimes I feel like the both of us are in our own little world, me being a mom and Mark being a husband, dad, teacher, student, young mens president and working full time.
- Is so in love with his little girl and spoiling her rotten with hugs, kisses, reading books, and letting mom buy cute clothes for her. It was funny how when I was pregnant he would always say things like did you really need to buy that for her and wow she is costing us a lot of money and now he says well don't we need to buy that for Macie, and is excited to see the clothes I bought for her.

The Pets
- Are doing fantastic, Cobalt keeps ignoring Macie, Molly and Lily want to lick her to death but listen well to mom and dad when they say no. Lily is going to be such a protector of Macie as whenever she is crying, she gives us that look of Hello help her she is sad, and if she is in her room playing on the floor and I have to quickly go to the bathroom and she starts crying when I leave Lily will go lye down by her trying to comfort her.


Playing with Dad



Dead to the World


Her 3 month photo shoot with Mom's new awesome camera

OH THE MADNESS!!!

Of March Madness, one of my favorite times of the year. I remember growing up every year as a family we would order our pizza and watch the Final Game for Monday night Family Home Evening, Mark and I have been able to keep that tradition up as much as possible. This year I am even more pumped for March Madness as having T.V again we have been able to watch some of the games so I know a little bit a very small bit of what has been going on in the nation for college basketball. Also being home full time with baby I have been able to watch games all day long today and is probably what I will be doing the next two weeks. I also love that every year our family does an ESPN Tournament challenge I have yet to win but I feel pretty good this year as I have Kentucky winning it all without a doubt one of the best if not the best team in the nation. I guess we will see on April 2nd who really is the best. This year we also have a tournament challenge with the Harkers and a box of smarties on the line for the winner so Bring it Harkers can't wait to eat my smarties :)

FIRST ROUGH NIGHT!!

Macie has truly been a breeze when it has come to sleeping at night, her 2nd night in the world she slept for four hours and pretty much from then on would sleep 3 to 5 hours every night get up for a quick fed and then sleep for another 3 to 4 hours, then even more glorious at 5 1/2 weeks she started sleeping every night for 6 to 9 hours straight waking up for a quick fed then back to bed for another 2 to 4 hours. maybe 5 times since she was 5 1/2 weeks did she get up after only sleeping 4 hours and want some food. It has made it so easy on me as a new mom and I am hardly ever tired. Well last night was something different that is for sure, she did not go to bed until 10:00 then decided to wake up at 2:00 4 hours not to bad except I did not go to bed until 11:00 so three hours for mommy. She feed and went right back to sleep or so it seemed. I put her in her crib went to bed and 2 minutes later she started crying I thought maybe another quick snuggle would have her fall right back to sleep and we would be good, but nope that is not what Macie had in mind. She fussed and fussed and fussed and would not fall back asleep so then for an hour we played on the floor in her bedroom. She finally seemed tired and maybe a bit hungry again so I fed her and she started falling back asleep when all of a sudden she lost it cried uncontrollibly for a good 20 minutes then all of a sudden threw up all of her food, then proceeded to cry some more. It was now 5:00 in the morning and I had been awake for 3 hours and was exhausted. My sweet husband who I have told never needs to get up when he is on days on came out at 5:00 and said go to bed I will take over from hear. Thank you thank you thank you. He got her back to bed by about 6:00 and she stayed asleep until 8:20, giving mom a good 3 more hours of sleep. I have to say I have even so much more respect for those mothers of babies that are not good sleepers. Today will be a day of lying around doing not much of anything as I am so worn out and exhausted I can't imagine night after night being like that. I am also that much more grateful for Macie and the wonderful little girl she is. Thank you for being such a good baby.


some pictures to remind me of how incredible adorable my daughter is:

A VISIT TO GRANDMA AND GRANDPA

Today we had a branch temple trip, so with Mark being on days off and having no Young Men's on Thursday we decided to head out Thursday morning to spend the weekend with Mom and Dad and then go to the temple on Saturday together. It is always fun visiting mom and dad with many laughs, playing games and lots of relaxing, Oh and of course doughting on Macie. Dad definitely got Macie smiling the best with his funny noises and goofy faces. It was such a great weekend and I am excited for many more in the future.


FOUR GENERATION PICTURE:
Grandma Isabella Prive (Crawford), Aro Thomas Dudley, Kalinda Rose Hunsperger (Dudley) , Macie Ryan Hunsperger


After the Temple



Red Robins for Lunch

All work and no play ...

This is a very interesting article on children and I want to learn more and read more about it. What are your thoughts about what Dr. Neufeld has to say about our children and education, I would love to hear it.
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All work and no play ...

DADDY'S GIRL!!!

It's true Macie is quickly becoming a Daddy's Girl. Whenever Mark gets home from work he comes and talks to her and she lights up smiling like crazy. She also loves it when Dad reads stories to hear. It so so cute seeing them together they are going to be best buds. She is such a lucky girl to have such an awesome Dad.

Hello Cuteness!!