Myah's milestones

Myah has reached some great milestones in the past week. First, we started feeding her her first solid food...rice cereal. It's a hit! I try to give her a little bit every day and she does really well with it. I've been feeding it to her for a week now and today when I fed her, she remember the whole spoon-in-mouth thing really well! I love feeding her and seeing her cute faces!

The other thing is that she's rolling over from her tummy now. She rolled over for the first time last Tuesday (Dec. 27th). What a big girl she's turning in to!

Of course I have to throw in some bath pictures! She really likes her baths...especially when there's a wash cloth or rubber ducky to suck on!

Our Christmas

We had a great Christmas weekend. It was extremely busy and felt like we needed a vacation from our Christmas vacation...but it was very fun nonetheless. Here's how it went:

FRIDAY:

We went over to the Tews for our huge Christmas family bash. Seriously, we go from one game to the next and barely have time to eat! It's really fun though! We always play memory (with pictures from our family), bingo with prizes everyone brings, the candy-bar game, white elephant gifts, and I feel like I'm forgetting another one! It's always a blast!

Here are my dad, Mabel, and Myah all looking at the ceiling fan!

All of the grandkids.

The crew trying to get all the grandkids to smile!

My sister twisted Myah's hair into two little horns (look closely)! It was pretty hilarious!

SATURDAY MORNING:

We celebrated our Christmas Saturday morning. It was fun to see what Myah thought about the wrapping paper and everything. She was more alert about it than I thought she'd be!

(You can see Myah holding on to one of her presents in her stocking! Cute!)

Playing with her new ring stacker.

Justin with the Gadsden flag Santa brought him!

SATURDAY AFTERNOON:

We went over to the Calders to celebrate with them. We played some rock band and rocked our socks off! We also ate dinner and opened presents.

Myah's first doll from her Nana and Papa!

Noah army-crawled his way over to Myah and started playing with her arm and hand...she wasn't so sure about it!

SUNDAY:

I played the piano for our ward choir for the Christmas program, so I had to practice with them in the morning and then had our Sacrament meeting. After church we went over the the Calders again to talk to Elder Tyler Calder (Justin's brother serving his LDS mission in Uraguay). We ended up staying longer and stayed for an early dinner. Justin's Nana, Papa, Uncle Scott, Aunt Jeni, and cousin Alyson were there too. After dinner we went to the Tews for a little bit before going over to my Grandpa Tew's house where we were going to see my cousins I rarely see on my dad's side and eat dinner.

The girl cousins on my dad's side.

What a fun Christmas weekend! I love this time of year. What a great Christmas season to remember what matters most and that our Savior was born.

Merry Christmas from our family to yours!

This year Justin's family decided to start a Christmas tradition of making a music video to a Christmas song. Each family will make their own music video to the same song and then Justin's sister will splice pieces of each together. This is our family's music video to Mariah Carey's "All I want for Christmas is you." We had a lot of fun making it! Enjoy! 

Here's the combined family video!

Christmas Village

This weekend we went to Christmas Village in Ogden with two couples we're good friends with-the Schultz's and Haws. It was pretty cold outside so we did a speed trip.

Myah was bundled up, but I felt bad for her little face poking out! Should have brought a baby ski-mask...if they make those!

Three couples and two babies in strollers. Fun times!

Christmas is coming!

This year I'm extra excited for Christmas because we have a new member of the family to focus on. Holidays are more fun now that Myah's here! We put up our Christmas decor last week (or the week before) and I think it looks great! It's always nice to have some extra twinkle lights to spice up our apartment!

So here's our tree and stockings...hung by the tree with care.

We tried to get some pics of Myah with the tree in the background but she kept craning her neck to look at the tree and not us! (These are probably cuter!)

Yay for Christmas!

This is Justin and Myah's new trick. Justin holds Myah's feet and balances her while she stands on her own! (He's careful!)

She just loves staring at the tree. She especially loves it when I let her touch the tree!

A bit Attached

Yesterday I went to Myah's 4 month doctor appointment and she weighed about 14 lbs and is 25.5 inches long. The doc said she looked perfect! Myah's obviously growing (which is good), but I didn't know I'd get so attached to Myah's clothes!

She's pretty much in 6 month clothing because of her length, so it was time to pack away the small clothes...and it was sad!

Myah's room looks like a bomb went off, but I'm in the process of getting it more organized, so it will look better in the next few days! In this picture I'm showing Myah the onesie we brought her home in from the hospital...memories.

Happy Thanksgibing back!

For Thanksgiving day we spent it with my mom's side of the family-the Porter side.

My mom has a huge family so we had it at my parents' church Stake Center. After our feast we set up Volley-ball nets and played. Good times! (Jess, I'm using your pictures since I forgot my camera! Hope you don't mind!!)

Myah and cousin Mabel looking deep in conversation!

On Friday we went over to Justin's family for another Thanksgiving bash. It was also so fun!

This is Justin's sister, Katie, holding her sweet baby, Porter. She had him only 4 days previous! You go girl!

Nana with the 3 grandbabies...each baby is 4 months apart. Noah (middle)-8 months, Myah (right)-4 months, and Porter (left)-4 days!

If you look close in this one, you'll see Myah spitting up! Good timing!

And here's the crew either taking pictures or trying to get the babies to look! How many Calders does it take to make a baby look? ...aparently 5!