Just some more...

Here are just a few more I took for his 3 month shoot.

I love these pictures in color because his red hair really shows!

The BEST Birthday!!

It was the best birthday...I woke up this morning to the beautiful sunshine, my husband lying next to me in bed and my sweet, beautiful son cooing in his crib! It can't get better than that!!

We celebrated by going out to eat Thursday night and getting my favorite meal in Helena...a Wrangler Sandwich from MacKenzie River Pizza, YUMMMM! Then last night Hubs let me open my present...an IPod Nano! He also got me Costco's butter croissants instead of a birthday cake...he knows me too well, I hate cake!! Then this afternoon we invited some friends (Heather and Nick) to go ride the carousel with us and then get ice cream. I got apple beer instead!

HAPPY SPRING!!!

YAY, it is the FIRST DAY OF SPRING!!!

Spring is my favorite season, although I may be a bit biased since my birthday is in Spring and my middle name is Spring!

However I am not quite sure I like the way Montana celebrates the first day of SPRING...it is not with beautiful daffodils or tulips or yummy smelling blossoming trees!

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It is with a brand new coat of snow on top of all the dead brown grass...

are you kidding me!

I am SO in LOVE...

...with this boy!!

My favorite is the middle one!

These are his actual 3 month pictures!

Look at his cuteness...

Well here he is on his actual 3 month birthday!

(I am going to take better 3 month pictures tomorrow.)

These are the two faces we see most of the time. Mac has turned into such a good sweet baby! He loves to suck on his fists. He laughed for the first time today (too bad it was for a total stranger (too him)). He is very ticklish. He holds his head up so well. He loves playing under his little gym and sometimes he even is able to grab the little fishy hanging above him. He has also managed to rub a bald spot on the back of his head, it is so cute! he has totally grown out of everything that is 0-3 months and is even wearing a few things that are 6 months. He is also enjoying his car seat way more, and it is cute to watch him look out the windows now. Oh and the cutest thing he does it stare at his fist, it is always cracking us up!

We love this boy, if you couldn't tell!

And here he is in some of his cutest jammies!

These jammies are for 6 months, but he fills them out pretty good, although the pants are still a little on the long side.

Birth Announcement...

Well, I got MOST of these sent out, I have just a few more. I ran out of supply's and still need to get some to finish the last few.

Sorry, these are not the best pictures, I don't have a scanner so I just took pictures of them.

This is just a little insert I put in with it.

3 Months old TODAY...

but these are his 1 MONTH pictures!

I never posted these because I wasn't sure which picture I was going to use for his birth announcements.

They are not the best, the lighting was way too harsh. I was playing around with my external flash and the new diffuser I got for it.

Craft...

I made these for a friends baby shower this week.

I made a cute pink version for another friend a few weeks ago, but i didn't think to take pictures of it.

Warmth, Sunshine, a walk...

...and a really nice quick visit with "C"!

The weather was beautiful yesterday! It got almost to 60 degrees and the wind was hardly blowing, so it actually felt like it was almost 60 degrees. We just couldn't resist a walk! This was Mac's first time riding in the stroller. He did really well and I think he liked it, he didn't cry anyway.

C was in town with a friend and she stopped by for just a few minutes! I always love seeing her! She looked great and really seems to being doing great! That makes me so happy! I can't even express how much I love this girl!

Mac's first stroller ride!

Just trying on hats before we went on a walk.

All still just a little too big!

He looks like a little boy not a baby in this picture!

The FACES of Mac!

Can you tell he makes these two faces alot!

There are even some like these in his 12 weeks shots a few posts down!

I love to kiss these cute cheeks, yummy!

What Mr. Mac has been up to...

He has found his hand and can stare at it for quite awhile! It makes us laugh!

I don't have a picture of that yet, but I hope to get one or at least a some video.

Working on holding his head up during tummy time.

Getting chubby!

Looking Handsome!

Fighting nap time, and eventually giving in to his tiredness!

DROOLING! And NO I will not take him in public with a bib, that is one of my pet peeves! He just wears them at home on his drooly days.

12 weeks...

(...yesterday!)

I really can't believe that Mac is already 12 weeks old, and that next week he will be 3 months. Time has really flown by! Oh how I love spending my days with this little guy!

He is so interactive and smiles everytime you smile at him. He always has a fist in his mouth and I just think it is the cutest thing (except for the part of it making his hands stinky!) He is just now starting to be ok with being on his tummy. Part of it is that we started doing his tummy time on a boppy (that my SIL so kindly gave me). He is even getting more tolerant of his car seat and he loves being in the front pack!

Isn't he just so handsome...

Update...

Well I just found out that the Temple will be closed when I would like our sealing to be. Hubs's mother is out of town until the middle of August.

So the NEW approximate date for Mac's sealing and blessing will be end of August or beginning of September.

(So now my family has a little more time to save up money to come for it, YAY!)

Our Oregon Trip

Photo and video editing at www.OneTrueMedia.com

Trip in Review...

Day 1: Prepare for the flight to Portland. Mac was great on the plane. Get to Portland at about 6:30pm. Rent our car and get REALLY bad service from the very company the Hubs works for, very frustrating! Head to John and Amy's (Really good friends from our Ward in Tigard) house so Hubs can pick up something from John and I can surprise Amy. Amy wasn't home, so no surprise yet. Head to Shannon and Jared's (Hubs's sister and her family), the girls were waiting up for us. Mac was very cranky because he was super tired. And we went to bed.

Day2: Hubs got up and went to his work meetings. And I stayed and hung out with my nieces and nephew. Hallie got to stay home from school for a few hours so we could spend some time together. We played games and took some super cute pictures of Sam (which I will post soon). In the afternoon when Hubs got back we headed down to my parents house to surprise them. When we got there, Hubs went in first while I stayed in the car for a few minutes. And check out the video for the surprise. It was fun to finally be there. We got to see Mylisa and we all went out to dinner at this yummy Tai Restaurant in Sweet Home where my parents live. Mylisa wouldn't go to sleep that night because she was all excited.

Day3: Got up early to head down to Veneta to Surprise Hubs's parents. His parents were at the Stake Center for Stake YW basketball. And they were excited that we were there. Hubs had another meeting in Eugene so I stayed and then went home with my Mother in law. We then spent the day at there house and Hubs's brother Spen ended up coming and his sister Steph and her family came down from Corvallis. The kids were so excited to meet Mac. We then headed back to my parents house late that night.

Day4: We got up and got ready to go to 2pm church in Tigard (our old Ward). And when we got to church I snuck up on my friend Amy and sat down next to her where she turned around to me and said really loud in the chapel "oh my heck!" Then her and our other good friend Pam started crying . It was a great surprise. We just stayed for Sacrament meeting so that we could go and visit our other really good friends (and Hubs's mission companion) the Weinbergers. We got to visit with them for a little while then headed back to the John and Amy's house for our old tradition of Sunday dinner. The kids were excited to see Mac. We hung out at there house until it was time to get back to my aunt and uncles house where we were staying.

Day5: My mom and I got up and went to WalMart to get some groceries and then we all just hung out, until it was time for Hubs's flight to leave to go back to Montana. He left and Mac and I stayed behind for another week.

Day6: I got to go spend another day with my best friend Amy. We got to go do a little shopping at a REAL mall. I was able to get to The Children's Place where I was able to buy some white slacks and a white dress shirt for Mac's sealing/blessing outfit. (My aunt Elaine is going to knit a white sweater vest for him to wear). My aunt Glenda came down to see us, well the baby, all the way from St. Helens.

Day7: We headed back down to Sweet Home in the morning so I could get down in time to get settled in at my parents house and take a nap before I headed to Corvallis to go visit Hubs's sister and her family and see their house that they have been slowly working on for a couple of years. I hung out and ate dinner with them. Then it was back to my parents house.

Day8: I was beat from all the traveling so we just stayed at my parents house all day. We made one trip to WalMart and out to eat for lunch and the rest of the day was just spent doing nothing.

Day9: We headed down to Springfield/Eugene. And were going to go and visit my parents neighbors from Thurston Road, but that didn't work out and so on the way down there we stopped and saw another family friend the Z's. We then headed down to Eugene where we met my Aunt Judie (Dad's sister) and had lunch with her. After that we headed to the mall for a little while and stopped by Hallmark (where I used to work) and see my old bosses and then out to my in-laws house to see them one more time. And then back to Sweet Home.

Day 10: We got up and I packed all of our stuff and we headed back up to Portland so that I could go visit Hubs's other sister Shan and her kids one more time. I was able to do that and then go to dinner with my Mom and my best friend Amy to the Olive Garden.

Day11: Got up and got ready to head to the airport for my flight to leave at 10am. I had a 3 hour layover in SLC, Ut and had my SIL Anna and my nieces come to the airport so they could see Mac. It was so fun to see them. And my 18 year old niece just ate Mac up! We then got home with out any major problems and Mac was perfect. It was so great to be home, because I was beat. And it was so good to see my handsome husband. Hubs had dinner all made and we went to bed early out of exhaustion.

So that was it in a nutshell.

There were so many more people I wanted to see and some things I really wanted to do. But that will have to wait for when we are there this summer for Mac's sealing and blessing.

It was a great trip but very exhausting trying to get around with an infant to see everyone!

Mac's FIRST airplane ride!!

Both Hubs and I were expecting the worse! But Mac was PERFECT on the plane! He only ever cried when we would first get on the plane because we were always holding out on him so he could have a bottle for take-off! The plane trip was definitely easier with Hubs with me, but the flight home by myself was pretty great too. Everyone was more than helpful!

Aren't my boys cute!

SURPRISE!!

Well, here is the story!

I have been bugging Hubs to let me go to Oregon and visit with Mac. So then Hubs ended up having to go to Oregon for some work meetings and we decided to splurge so Mac and I would go with him. But we decided to just tell everyone that Hubs was coming and we would surprise everyone with us being there. I did everything I could so that my mom would be surprised. I even posted a lie about Hubs being gone and Mac and I were home alone. We made plans with my parents for Hubs to stop by because they had Mylisa and Hubs hadn't seen her since we moved to Montana. Hubs went in first and I waited a few minutes before I knocked on the door.

This video tells the rest of the story!!

Be back soon...

I ended up flying with Hubs to Oregon and surprising all of our family! I will be back on Sunday and as soon as I have time I will post a great video and some pictures. I have missed blogging (although it has been nice to not worry about!) and have only been able to a little, but I will get back to all of you who have asked questions and there have been alot of blogs I have wanted to post on. So see ya soon!