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Guess who's 2 months old today? This girl!

The new bishop of the BC 3rd ward! Congratulations dad, we'll be praying for you ;0)

Jordis Barber's Blessing day 08.01.2010 Thanks to all of you who came and participated in her special day! It was perfect.

Here's what's new. Somebody got to take a bath... finally. It took a little over 3 weeks for the entire cord to fall out. She loves, loves, loves to take a bath. And I love her bath tub made by  Puj . I also can't get enough of this picture! Some of the new things Jordis is doing are: * Smiling (a lot) * Laughing * Singing with mommy * Sleeping amazingly at night * We think she now weights about 11 lbs. In other " new " news... I will be attempting to learn how to sew. Thanks to my beautiful sister-in-law,  Shari . She gave me this here sewing machine, but I can't remember how to use it. I think the last time I used one is in 7th grade home economics :) The plan is to make our Halloween costumes this year. Here's to hoping! I will be a new student this year at Weber State! I'll be studying  vocal pedagogy . If any of you know me well, you know how much I love raisinets. I tried out the new  cranberry raisinets and they are delicious. I highl...

... what's left when you take away unhappiness. We tend to think of happiness as something “out there,”  waiting just beyond some future achievement or change in circumstances. This makes our happiness contingent on factors we cannot directly control. If we think of unhappiness (or unease)  as a function of how we are relating to the present moment  — whatever it contains — then we always have an opportunity to improve the quality of our moment. This way power over our quality of life resides with ourselves, and not with luck, status or other externals. My facebook status the other day was: I am happy. Truly, I am. Chris & I have been making a huge effort to be happy (or positive) all the time. It isn't the easiest thing to do, but we're doing our best :0) This is what makes me happy. Jordis spit up what seemed like her last two meals all over (that's why they are both topless!) The situation had potential for Chris to be very upset and anxious, but instead he...

She can't be 2 weeks old already!  Everyone always says that time goes by so fast and they grow up so quickly. Did I believe them? No. I figured time already goes by so fast, how can it go any faster?  I guess I was wrong.  I thought I would share a few more pictures of our little peanut. Enjoy We hope you all have a fabulous 4th of July!

Where to begin!  First off, sorry this is a few days over due. But, so was Jordis . 8 days as a matter of fact. I would like to share with all of you our most wonderful, exciting, and glorious experience of the birth of our first child. Or, you can skip over it and look at her pictures ;) The last picture of me pregnant. Boy do I look huge. I left you off in the previous post that we would be heading to the hospital Wednesday the 16th to see where my progress was. Well, on Tuesday night, I started having contractions! They were 30 min. apart so no big deal. At about 4:30 a.m. on Wednesday morning they were about 15 min. apart so I could no longer sleep. I decided to call my doctor later that morning and he said to come in so he could see where I was. I had progressed to a 2 and 70% effaced. The good news was that I didn't have to go to the hospital to be started that night. He said to plan on going in at 4:00 a.m. on Thursday the 17th to start on pitocin . As luck would have it,...