Introducing Jenna Hope

Here is our beautiful baby Jenna. We love her som much! She has brought such a beautiful, warm, loving spirit into our home. Andrew's sister Rachel took some pictures for us. They turned out great, now we just need to go through them all and choose some for her birth announcement. Here are a couple of our favorites. :)

I love the one where she is holding Andrew's finger. Andrew is such a good daddy, he and Jenna are very cute with each other. :)

We Had A Baby!

We had our baby girl! She is so amazing and loving and sweet! She is everything we could have possibly hoped for and more. She was such a trooper through our long delivery process. And she has been so patient with Andrew and I as we have been learning how to feed,change, bathe and soothe her. She has such a strong, beautiful, loving spirit and makes our home feel so warm and wonderful. We love her so much. I never could have imagined feeling such an immensity of love and all at once as I first laid my eyes on her. Parenthood is amazing. Also, we are making our blog private. So if you would like access to it please leave your email address and your blog if you have one as a comment.
Thanks!
-Kim

Autumn, Birthday and Camera Happy Andrew

We LOVE the season of autumn. The beautiful, vibrantly colored leaves, the cool crispness in the air, the smell of hot apple cider, wearing warm, snuggly sweaters. Oh, it is so wonderful! Even when I got pretty homesick for a while in Minnesota, as soon as Autumn came, I perked right up and couldn't stop smiling. We took a drive through the canyon the other day and enjoyed the red, orange and yellow leaves on the trees in the mountains. Our camera is kind of lame and I do not have a photoshop program so unfortunatly we were not able to catch the actual vibrancy of the colors but here are pictures of some of what we enjoyed.

I also had a Birthday! Yay! It was on a Sunday and it was very nice and relaxing. My mom made me a crazy large, rich cake. It had chocolate, cream cheese and reeses cups.

I only have 4 weeks left until the due date. I am so anxious and excited to nest. I hope I can get at least somewhat organized before the baby comes! We are planning on moving into our own place in two weeks! :)

Andrew took another prego picture of me today. He also took some pictures of me while I was crocheting. He called it 'capturing a classic Kim photo' :). He's a cutie. I love to crochet! I have made a couple of little beanies for the baby to keep her warm. I have also been crocheting flowers to put on the beanies. The picture of the beanie with the flower still needs a button in the middle but yeah. I think once I attach the button the little hat will be so cute! I am excited!

This little baby girl is already so much fun. She wiggles around so much! It is so fun to feel and watch! We are excited for her to come. I just really, really, really hope to be able to nest a little bit before hand so i can get things a little more prepared and organized for her. :)

Happy Fall!

What's In a Name?

Ok, So we are in the process of choosing names. We have some ideas but are open to more. Anyone got any good ideas? When you picture a little Kimandrew girl, do any particular names come to mind? Please share. Some of the names we have been thinking of are Jenna, Lilly, Lindy, Lynlie, Kayla, Lila, Millie, Emmy, Ava, Marissa, Autumn, Taylie, and I really like Skye but Andrew is not so keen on that one sadly. Let us know what you like and any other ideas please. Thanks!

8 Months, Rug, and Cabin

Here I am at 8 months pregnant, I forgot to take a 7 month picture, sorry about that. The picture of a rug is the rug we bought for our family room to go in front of our fireplace. I'm excited! The chair is just a cool chair that I like and think would look cool in the room with the rug and fireplace. It was super expensive so we didn't buy it. Kind of random but I wanted to post something since I haven't posted anything in a while. For Labor Day Weekend we revisited our Honeymoon cabin, it was so much fun! It is so beautiful up there near Island Park and Yellowstone. I will post those pictures soon too. I don't think we took any of us though, Just of the cabin and its surroundings. On our honeymoon we saw a mother moose and her baby in the stream right outside our window! We didnt get that lucky this time, but we did have lots of fun fond memories. :)

Picture

Here is my 6 month picture, I forgot to take a 5 month picture and next week I will need to take a 7 month picture. :) Time flies! I love being pregnant.



Also, I think I need to take this idea, modify it some, and put it in my nursery. :)

Update on life in Utah

Well, in the past two months we have moved from Minnesota to Utah, spent 4 weeks away from each other :( both got jobs in Utah :)spent tons of time with family and friends including BBQ's, birthday parties, outdoor hikes, Bee's baseball game, Spanish Fork rodeo, kareoke, lots of games, lots of dinners, etc. It has been a blast! We LOVE being back in Utah, it just feels so good and right. I am trying to track down all of thepictures we have been taking. I will post them as soon as I find out which camera/file, etc. They are on. I forgot to take a 5 month picture, but we did take a 6 month picture and I will post that soon too. I am 6 1/2 months pregnant! Crazy! It's a lot of fun. However, I have noticed that I overwork myself way too much and my body has been telling me, so I am going to force myself to take it easy today and hopefully I can recooperate. :) And yeah, that's what is going on with us. Life is very busy and stressful, but it is SOOOO much fun too! We are loving our lives right now! :)