Weekend in North Carolina

This is the first of many "catch-up" posts.
The last weekend in September we headed up to NC to visit Jamin, Ann and crew. We are beyond excited that family is now a mere 5 hours away (7 hours if you count all of the 'feeding baby' stops). It was a wonderful weekend--filled with lots of showing off Abigail, playing with the kiddos, chatting, a visit to Wake Forest where Jamin is a professor, eating great home-cooked food, enjoying good southern food, and just hanging out.

Halloween Cuteness

Happy Halloween

One Cute Baby Girl

While in Chattanooga (to be posted) Abigail delighted us with her first laugh.

Moments Caught

Precious

It makes my heart melt and then wonder how I helped to create something,

someone, so beautiful, sweet and perfect

3 & 4 & 1 & 0

3: the number of garlic cloves added to make garlic mashed potates

4: the number of burp cloths Abigail spit up on getting it all out of her system

1: the number of outfits that were affected

0: the number of garlic cloves that will be consumed by her mother in the next 12 months

but at least she smiled through it all

$5 Footlong

Tyler is the scoutmaster in our ward. This gives Abigail lots of 12 year old admirers. One such admirer came up on Sunday, oohed and awwed and then said:

"Oh, she's so cute. She's like a $5 footlong."

Well, while we think she is worth much more than $5.00--we do agree, she is so cute.

Celebrating One Month!!

On September 14th we celebrated Abigail being one month old! And what a month it was-- full of new life, new adventures, laughs, cries, some not to well-slept nights, lots of well slept nights (hooray for a baby girl who sleeps 6-7 hours!!), lots of diapers, holdings and cuddlings, baby bouncers and baby swings, giggles, yawns, fussiness, awe, amazement, wonder, and more.

We are so grateful for our sweet Abigail.