Precious Baby Kisses...

I LOVE this smile! I just can't get enough of it! She makes me smile every time she grins...
She is getting to be so big already! I can't believe how big she is. She's starting to show lots of personality and she grins and giggles at us all the time. It's so fun!

If you put your face by hers she will give you an open mouth kiss. It's a big, wet, slobbery, but oh-so-precious baby kiss! And Talen loves to be the recipient of these kisses...

The project I FINALLY finished!

I have been waiting forever to finish this project to complete Tessa's room. It is a "window" that has magnet boards. I think it turned out pretty cute if I do say so myself! Also- I found these really cute metal flower magnets to go on the boards and they match perfectly! Thanks to Meisha who helped me- I really needed help with the measuring :) and to my mom for buying the cute magnets!
These are some previous pictures that I posted of her room....

Still Lovin' our Baby!

So- we still just can't enough of our baby. Everyone still clamors for her attention, begs to hold her and smothers her with kisses every single day. These are just some of the fun pictures I have taken recently.
I just LOVE her smile. She has two small dimples- one on her right cheek and one on her upper left cheek kind of under her eye. We will do anything to make her smile at us. Sometimes we act really silly trying to get the attention of a 7 week old!

Here she is "talking" to us...

Her biggest brothers playing with her...

What a chub... She is seriously so chubby but we love it! You can see her mouth cyst in this picture. We meet with the ENT again on April 29th to schedule her surgery. Boo hoo-- I am so sad that she has to have surgery!

She is such a happy baby! She loves her bouncer seat...

I love this picture- it looks like she is contemplating something...

She is just so stinkin' cute!

Bummer! Our swing broke! All of our kids have absolutely LOVED the swing. In fact, I'm embarrassed to admit it but our boys all slept in their swing at night. Oops! Well- Tessa loves the swing too, but unfortunately, it broke darn it. Who wants to replace something like that on their last child? The boys had a great time destroying the old swing though! They were actually sitting in the swing. I guess it can hold a little more weight than the suggested 25 lbs.

Daddy putting together the new swing... What a cute handy man I have!

Ah- she's a happy girl again... Too bad it took $109 to make her that happy!

If you couldn't tell we are having SO much fun with our sweet little girl. We all love her to pieces and we are so happy that she's in our home. Now... if we can just get her to sleep through the night (yea, that might be a while)!

Tessa's Blessing

Tessa was given a name and a blessing on March 28, 2010 by her daddy! She looked absolutely beautiful. She was a little angel and slept through the whole thing-she never made a peep! I am so thankful to be married to such a great man who holds the priesthood and was able to bless our daughter. He gave her a beautiful blessing....
Papa got to our house a little early and held Tess while we finished getting ready. I think he's smitten with his first granddaughter... what do you think?

My three handsome little men...

All four of my beautiful kids... (I love how Talen is sitting- it cracks me up!)

Mommy and Daddy with our little princess...

Our whole family.... I don't think I got the memo that I was supposed to wear white :)

After a long day she was exhausted but she did great- what a little angel!

After the blessing we had a luncheon at our house. We are so thankful to be surrounded by so many good friends and our awesome families. Tessa is one lucky little girl to have so many people who love her. We're so thankful that everyone was able to take some time out of their busy lives to spend some time with us on Tessa's special day. Thanks everyone!

Tessa's New Born Pics... Love Them!!!

We had Tessa's pictures taken when she was a week old. I think they turned out so cute!! She's a pretty cute baby if I do say so myself :) There were just too many cute ones to choose from so here's some of my favorites....

How cute are these pictures????

Spoiled Girl...

This baby of ours isn't loved at all- can you tell? She has been so much fun to have in our home. We all adore her and can't get enough of her! Her brothers constantly want to hold her! We actually have to set a timer so that they can each get equal amounts of time holding her. Tess had her two week check up yesterday and she is exactly back to her birth weight at 7 lb. 10 oz. I thought she would be a little bigger but we're happy she's gained weight and is doing well. She has a cyst on her gums that has to be removed when she's about 8 weeks old. I am NOT looking forward to that at all! She will have to go the hospital to go under general anesthesia and we are working with a great ENT (ear, nose, throat) doctor who will do the surgery. Poor baby- they said the hardest thing about the procedure will be her i.v. and the anesthesia- not the actual procedure itself. Still- as a mom you never want to see your baby have to go through anything like that! I am still crossing my fingers that she'll get Tray's skin coloring!
I love this picture! We're now pretty sure that Tessa will have blue eyes like her big brother Tegen. Although I don't think they'll be as light blue they are a deeper darker blue almost like charcoal grey. They're gorgeous though!

Okay- I don't look so hot here but I had to throw one of me in here too!

She's gonna be a daddy's girl....

Wow- she actually got to lay on the floor without being mauled for a minute ;)

Talen is still the most obsessed with her. The poor girl gets smothered in kisses by her big brother Talen all day.

She's so cute and so much fun! We are all thrilled to have her here with us! She is still a perfect little baby too. She still doesn't cry and most nights she will do a 4 to 5 hour stretch before waking up to eat. She is definitely a precious gift straight from Heaven and I am enjoying each and every moment with her!

Tessa...

PICTURE OVERLOAD!

Well we are home from the hospital and doing great. Tessa is slightly jaundiced so we had to go back to the hospital to do a blood test because she almost had to have the bili-lights for jaundice but thank goodness we narrowly escaped that! Talen had to have the biliblanket and it was a huge pain in the you-know-what! So we were very thankful that she didn't have to have it. She has lost almost 10% of her weight and came home weighing 6 lbs 15 oz. although you wouldn't know it by looking at her chubby little cheeks. Otherwise she is completely healthy. This was our last night in the hospital. Our hospital does a Stork Dinner for the parents. It's a nice gesture of them. We had sparkling cider, a nice salad, chicken, corn and some yummy cheesecake.
I love this precious little angel so much already. Each time I have a baby I am overwhelmed with how much you can instantly love each one of them so much. She has captured my heart. She is so absolutely precious. She hardly ever fusses. She doesn't even get very mad when we change her. I have to say I am LOVING having a girl. She is so much fun to dress up ;) This is when we came home on Sunday. How cute is she?

This was her first bath and she hardly even cried. Our boys would scream whenever we got them naked but she just stretched out like she loves it. It's so funny. I guess she's loving being able to stretch out after being so cramped up in my belly!

Look at those chubby cheeks... I could seriously just kiss them all day long- oh wait.. I already do that!

We can't decide what color her eyes are going to be... sometimes they are blue, sometimes brown. I guess we'll just have to wait and see.

Doesn't this look comfy? We had to take her to the hospital for her blood draw and this is how she looked when we got home. Silly girl!

All she does is SLEEP! She is so good! I truly hope she stays so mellow. Her first night home she was awake the whole night! She just wanted to be held so we were thinking "ah oh"! Her second night home she only woke up at 2 a.m. and 5 a.m. to eat so I'm hoping we're on the right track. Only time will tell!

Her brothers love her so much! Talen holds her about 50% of the time. If he is home he wants to hold her. He will even do 45 minute to hour long stretches of holding her which is pretty amazing for a 5 year old. Her brothers adore her and I think it is so cute. Can you imagine when she is a teenager with 3 super-protective older brothers? The poor girl will never get a date!

We have had so many visitors and SO many people bringing her presents. I am overwhelmed with just how lucky and blessed we are to have so many awesome friends and family! I know that everyone is just as excited as we are that our precious little angel has finally arrived!!! Thank you so much to all of you! We sincerely appreciate every one's generosity and love!