Our Big Girl!!

Hello Blogging world! Sorry I have not updated my blog in forever! I hate turning into one of "those" bloggers. My sister has come home from her mission=) =) =). She looks GREAT! I can tell she was one fabulous missionary.

Saydee is four months old!! Tomorrow we take her in to get her shots, poor little buddy. She is quite the big girl now. Let it be known that Saydee flat out refuses a bottle. I have only attempted to give one to her all of four times in her whole life. She struggles with the whole bottle concept. She licks and chews the nipple. Once she realizes that it is still mom's milk she decides to give it a try....well those days are over. We went to the MoTab Christmas Concert and I left Saydee with my aunt. When we got back my aunt told me that Saydee refused her bottle, but instead drank her milk from a cup. BIG GIRL!!!

Saydee is now sitting up in her stroller. This makes for much more fun walking.

You Know You are Redneck IF...

You ask your husband to watch the baby and this is what it looks like.

The Holidays Have ARRIVED!

I love Richard for many reasons. One of those reasons is that he put the Christmas tree together for us this year. He even decorated it for us too. That is quite a nice thing of him to do especially since he is color blind and the red and gold ornaments that are on the tree all look the same to him.


Here is a picture of the stocking that I made. I made enough for my cute little
family, plus a few extra for any extra children that may come along in the future.


Saydee in her swing. She loves to pull on her pant legs. I know this quite possibly could be a picture only a mother could appreciate....but DANG isn't she cute.


It is no lie, Christmas is my favorite time of the year! I love the cooking and baking and crafting that comes along with it. I am quite proud of my $20 Christmas set up. I got a 6.5 foot pre-lit tree, a tree skirt, wrapping paper, and ornaments all for $20 last year. I went to one of those fancy after Christmas sales. I am sure glad I did, cause cute lil' Saydee used up quite of bit of our money with her grand entrance this year.

I made my own Christmas stockings with my friend Shyanne. I am quite proud of how they turned out because I am a horrible seamstress. In fact, I don't even know that it is appropriate to refer to myself as a seamstress. That might be like calling Satan a Christian.

Father of the Year!

This was taken back in March. I am kinda thinking this was the last time I did my hair and put on make-up. I was 18-weeks pregnant with Saydee.

Well, lil buddy gave us a slight scare today. She had blood in her stool. I didn't freak out or anything, but it did concern me. Richard took her to the doctor while I went to work out (see father of the year). Anyway, they took some samples and did quite an invasive exam. Saydee was great and smiled and charmed the nurses the whole time, even during "the exam." Apparently, I ate something spicy. She is apparently on a mad dash to weighing 500 pounds. She weighs over 15 lbs and just shy of 3 months. What I want to know, is why do the chubby thighs look so much cuter on her? I have never seen such a cute cottage cheese bum either!!!! (Nope, not talking about mine).

Yummy Yummy in My Mouth

A couple of weeks ago I went to Boise for my brother's soccer tournament. I slept with Saydee in my grandparent's pool room in their basement. I get quite thirsty while nursing, so I always fill up my trusty water bottle and put in on the night stand next to me. Then, I can quench the middle of the night thirst! Well, as usual, Saydee woke up at 5:00 am. You must understand that during my college years (yes all 7 of them), I didn't go to bed until 5 am. At anyrate, I woke up to feed Saydee and took a big swig of water. I felt a little floaty in my mouth. I was a little worried because I myself, had filled up the water bottle sans floaties, and couldn't quite figure out what would be in the water. I decided to investigate and spit out the water. No sooner than I spit the water out, than the little EARWIG I attempted to swallow hurried off. I was horrified not only because I almost swallowed an earwig, but it was ALIVE!!!

If you notice in the picture, my water bottle has a lid and a straw. That must have been ONE determined earwig. Also, not pictured, is the nightstand that my water bottle was on. That little earwig crawled up the nightstand, up my water bottle, UP the straw and back down it. I am not sure if he was waiting for me in the straw or if he was taking a midnight swin. Either way, his determination paid off....only if he was suicidal that is. As soon as he scurried off, I smashed him with Saydee's wipes. In the words of my cute nephew Carson, "Bye Bye Earwig."

If You Have Gone Private

Hey, you know me, I am totally nosey! I love checkin out your blogs. There are few that I can't get into anymore. Also, when I got married, I changed my email. So if you wouldn't mind re adding me to your private list. I would be so grateful. Please send an invite to oldham.jenn@gmail.com

THANKS!!!!

Saydee in the Leaves

My friend Shyanne took some pictures of Saydee in my front yard. They turned out so cute. Saydee is two months old in these pictures.

Who Does She Look Like?

I need to get a picture of Richard, but until I get one, this will have to do? This is my baby picture and one of cabbage patch, of whom I think Saydee resembles. Whaddya think?

My Favorite Little Girl

Saydee is getting big!! She is starting to sleep 7-8 hours at night, which is SO NICE!!! She is smiling a ton and starting to laugh. From what I hear she is a very alert baby=). I finally have all my canning done. I canned applesauce this past week. I actually having some plum juice and apple juice (from the apples I canned) that I need to turn into jelly!

Conference Weekend

This past weekend we went to Utah to attend Richard's mission reunion and spend some time with his family. Well the exciting news from this past weekend is that Richard got his first deer
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WITH OUR CAR!!!!! Yup, that is right we hit a deer coming home from Richard's mission farewell on Friday night. Let me first back up and tell you that on the way to the reunion some random guy backed into us at the gas station. He was a very nice guy who left his information with us should we find something wrong with the car. On the way back we were driving up Highway 6 (Spanish Fork Canyon) and going about 50 MPH. There was a deer and his/her buddies that decided to jump out in front of our car. Luckily there was just one deer in our way. It was either hit the deer or the oncoming semi (we chose the deer). In the words of my grandpa, "You gotta hit the damn deer." That we did, we hit bambi. Actually it was a big bambi. I was just grateful that we were okay. Richard was good and kept his head on straight and hit the "damn deer" straight on (without swerving and rolling the car). Actually, we hit it with the front right of the car. We take the car to the doctor to get fixed today. Thank goodness for Richard and thank goodness for insurance, and thank goodness Heavenly Father sees fit to keep us around longer!!!!


P.S. This is not the first time I have been in TWO wrecks in ONE day! Back in the summer of 2004, I was rear ended 2 times within 20 minutes. Lovely. Who on earth gets in two wrecks in one day....TWICE??

What is With My Tomatoes??

Seriously, I feel like some sort of pervert growing these tomatoes!

Fun Boise Weekend

Saydee and I took a road trip this past weekend. We drove to Boise to hang out with Melanie and her family before they move to Denver for Dave's new job. Also, they blessed baby Drake. My adorable nephew Carson says Saydee's name just right, but sometimes he got a bit confused as to what her name was. The result....baby Simby. LOVE IT.

P.S. Poor Saydee has a cold. It is just a stuffy nose and that is it. But considering we had some family in town last week with colds, and my entire family got it (mom, Richard etc....) it is understandable Saydee would get slightly stuffy. I thought since I was exclusively breastfeeding, she wouldn't get sick. Well, the compromise is a slight cold I guess. I will take it.

Saydee's Blessing

Saydee was blessed on Sunday. She was beautiful and very well behaved. Rich did a great job and it was fun having our families and friends there to support us.

Some Picture of Saydee

We are just getting ready for Saydee to be blessed on Sunday. We are so excited to have Richard's family come into town!!!

I am still so in LOVE!!

I never knew how much fun it would be to be a mom!!!!! I am seriously loving it. I need to use my mom's camera to get some good pictures of her. For now, my camera phone pictures will have to suffice. Canning season is about to be in full swing. I have already done 30+ pints of green beans from my garden, and 10 or so quarts of tomatoes....now tomorrow it is on to PEACHES!!! Wish me luck with that with a 3 week old baby. Poor little thing, sometimes her tummy hurts and we are a bit fussy.