Here's Hailee laughing, Lance and I have been having a little competition to see who can get her to laugh first and I won! Woohoo! sorry about the snoring :) You have to watch the whole thing because she starts laughing and then gets scared of me at the end! ha ha

Here's Hailee at two months. I made this blanket for her while I was bored over the summer. I'm hoping she'll love it like the boy on Charlie Brown loves his blanket, I don't know how to get her to, but hopefully it will happen. She's getting pretty big it's kinda sad, I used to never see babies smaller than her and now I do, but she's so fun and I know it will just get more fun.

We went to the jazz game with Megan & Neal and Kelly and his new girlfriend Kelli. We were on the very very last row because the boys bought scalped tickets right before. It's a lot different going to a game with a baby. We had to figure out how to warm up her milk because the bathroom sinks only had cold water, so we asked some guy and he took us to his break room where there was a microwave. I spilled a little and he insisted that he cleaned it up! Gross for him! Then I got it too hot so I had to go run it under cold water. After finally getting that over with, somehow she peed on my lap! Even though it was a little tougher with a baby, we had a way fun time and the forever away seats made for good pictures.

Isn't that the funniest little face?!

We went to my parents to watch the superbowl, our church doesn't end till 5:30 so it was nice that it was only a couple hours for me, I think that's about perfect. It was fast Sunday so I decided that I needed to do something to keep my mind off eating since our church is so late so I made this little football headband. She wore it with a tutu to church, poor girl, I have so much fun dressing her up!

Here's just some more cute pictures of Hailee I love this one of her face close up.

Too many pictures!

I know I have too many pictures on here, but we just got a new camera for Christmas and I read the whole instruction manual . . . well almost, my family kept making fun of me for reading it, but I never know what all the functions are, so now I do, and I can't stop taking pictures, plus I have such a cute little baby!

We had such a fun Christmas break, my sister came from Oklahoma for a few weeks and it was so fun to hang out with her and her baby. We went to about 50 family parties, and just had fun with our first Christmas with Hailee. Then after Christmas Lances family came up and we were able to spend time and have fun with his side too.

We had Hailee's baby blessing last Sunday, it was fun to see family and friends. We had to re-pose these pictures today since we didn't take one picture of her in her blessing dress the day she was blessed.

Here are my high school friends, we still try to get together a lot, it's so fun to be able to stay in contact with them and see how our lives are changing!

I think this is the funniest little picture, this is Hailee and her cousin Oriana, I'm sure they'll be mad at us later for making them pose half naked together! Don't you love Hailee's face?

Here's Ana in our sink, I love this picture, thanks Michelle!

Hailee, Oriana, and McKenzie, my cousin's daughter (I don't really know what that makes her, my second cousin twice removed, who knows!)

Hailee's so smiley now, I love it! We can pretty much always get her to smile when we want now :)

Cute Baby Pictures

Usually for Thanksgiving we're cruisin it up somewhere fun, but this year we decided to have a baby! We were jealous of all our Living Scriptures friends all warm and tan, but having little Hailee was so much fun! We got to go to Kanab for Thanksgiving and had a great time, Lance's sister is a photographer and took tons of cute pictures of Hailee, thanks Michelle! So here are a few . . .

Here is Hailee with her cute cousing Kyle, he was so cute with her!

Hailee and her Grandpa Brown,we need to come up with a name for my dad since his last name is Brown too!

This is Hailee right after she was born on the top. Her brand new cousin Oriana is the other baby. They are just two weeks apart, can you believe they are cousins?! (Oriana is 1/2 Samoan)

Hailee Morgan Brown 8 pounds 3 inches 20.5 inches So here's the whole labor story:

We went in at 7:30 in the morning on November 19 to be induced. I was so nervous and excited. Here I am right before getting on that comfy hospital bed where I'd have a baby! It was weird knowing that I would be having a baby right there.

They gave me the iv with the stuff to make me go into labor, they just kept checking me every couple hours to make sure I was progressing. I progressed just really slowly. Before I went in I wanted to try to go as long as I could without an epidural just to see how bad it would be. The contractions started hurting at 2 and finally at 4 I gave in and got the epidural. I was so happy after that! It was the best decision, I don't know how you could do it without!!! Anyway at 11:15 I was finally ready to push and ended up having to push for two and a half hours! So it was a pretty long day, 18 hours! But she finally came at 1:41 in the morning, a strong and healthy baby.
Here I am after the epidural, I was so happy to have that thing.

It was so neat to have that sweet little girl. Everyone tells me that you just love them instantly, I always knew I would but it is amazing how you can just love a little baby so much. I just go into her room and watch her in her little crib and cry because I love her so much (and probably because I still have a lot of hormones) Anyway, it has been so much fun to have her in our family. I'll keep you updated with new pictures soon.

Due Date!

Today's my due date for the baby, and she's still not here! I thought I'd give you the latest news on the baby. It looks like she won't be here today, but who knows. I have an appointment for Tuesday the 18th to be induced in case she hasn't come by then. My family had a bet on when my baby and my sister's baby would be born (she's due in a couple weeks), my bet was this Friday so that's what I'm hoping for. I have been feeling good, my only problem that's just come in the last couple of weeks is that my feet have gotten fat! But hopefully they'll go back to normal some day. It seems crazy that some time in the next week, we'll have a new little baby! We're so excited and we have the house almost all set up, we just need to get the blue sailboats out of the baby room! We're naming her Hailee (at least that's what we're planning on) we just need to fight a little more over the spelling. Lance wants Haylee and I want Hailee. I finished my teaching job on Friday so it's nice just to be able to relax a little and finally get ready for the baby to come. Hopefully next time I write on here it will be to tell you I have a baby!

Finally an update!

I guess there's a lot that I haven't posted on here. But I'll try to update you on what we've been doing for the past three months.

We finished our last summer selling Living Scriptures in Dallas. It was fun to visit a new place but it was also fun to be back in Utah. I think I'm going to miss being able to just pack up and move to another state for a few months, it's been fun. We've been able to see a lot of the country together.

After driving 20 hours from Texas, we stopped at Lake Powell and camped over night and had fun tubing and boating with Lance's family. Don't worry, I never fell off, and the baby loved tubing.

Lance and Kelly almost got struck by lightning when they were cliff jumping, a huge storm came right after.

I had to put this picture in . . . I thought it was so funny. The boat ran out of gas and we had to have someone tow us in and we started going and I had no idea where Lance was, I finally looked behind the boat and he was just hanging on the back! He said his arms were sore after, what a baby! ha ha

We had a lot of car problems this summer: I'll just explain a few. First off Lance's transmission broke, we were deciding if we wanted to fix it or just buy a new car, we decided to just fix it since Lance didn't want to be car shopping during the summer when he's supposed to be working the hardest. So we fixed that for 3,000 dollars! So while the car was being fixed I had to walk to work (it was just like a 10 minute walk) in the Texas heat and humidity! The car took forever because they accidentally put in the wrong part. While he was waiting for his car to be fixed he used my sisters that she let me borrow for the summer. While he was driving her car he got in a wreck and totaled her car!!! We had to use a rental car after that, finally we got back Lance's car and were so happy to have it back. About a week later, on our way home to Utah a tire blew we were happy that it was just a tire and not anything huge. We made it to Kanab and were so happy to be done driving for a little bit. After Kanab, we were on our way back to Sandy and after driving so many miles from Texas the car started making these loud noises, a couple minutes later something flew out the bottom of the car and the car stopped working!! To make a long story short, we ended up getting a ride from my dad in his truck back to Sandy. The car would have needed a new engine and it wasn't worth it! It probably sounds like I'm whining about the car problems, but we just laugh about it now, it just seemed crazy that that much could happen in one summer! But it really did help me to be able to just laugh about problems and not let them ruin my life. (sorry that was so long!)

Here's the good news . . . We bought our first house! It's in Lehi close to Thanksgiving Point. We're so excited and we should be closing on it hopefully next week. I'll have to put up more pictures when we get some. Lance just barely started recruiting for Living Scriptures now and I've been teaching a 2nd grade class while the teacher is having health problems. It's been fun because it's like having my own class but I won't have to go back after I have the baby. I'm there till November 7, I'm due on the 12th so hopefully I won't go into labor while I'm teaching! The baby should come in a few weeks and we're so excited! I'll probably post a pregnant pic on here next time, but if you can imagine my stomach 5 times its normal size that's what it looks like, it's getting pretty big :)