It's the Holiday Season!

Ok, so I have way too many pictures from the months of November and December to post that I'm not going to write a whole lot. Besides, what else is there to say other than, I love the holidays and we had a BLAST this holiday season.

So these first few pictures aren't actually holiday pictures but they're from the day before I went into the hospital to have Gabe. We had a girls day in Park City to get some holiday shopping done.

These are from Thanksgiving!

My two beautiful sisters, and the beautiful lady that made us, my mom!!

Grandma Kelly and Gabriel.

These are from Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.

Christmas Eve posing in our jammies with the whole fam-damily.

Um ya, neither Cairi nor I were ready to wake up so early to open presents lol!

Ciara's Birthday! December 27th.

Lauren, Ollie, mom, and C.

Everybody after we pigged out at Texas Roadhouse.

So in a nutshell we had a really fun holiday season. We had new baby Gabe to celebrate with and Ciara and Brett bought a new house! We were super busy but had a lot of exciting stuff happen.

Hope you all had a great holiday season too! This was our Merry Christmas card that Ciara  designed for us.

Baby Weight

Soooo, I'm going to do what I have seen a few other mommy's do and blog about my progress with losing the dreaded "baby weight". With my first pregnancy I gained 60 lbs. -no joke, and learned my lesson there. I didn't really have a chance to lose it all before I got pregnant again so I'm really excited to get in shape after feeling "big" for pretty much two years. Don't get me wrong, I love the prego look, but I forget what it's like to just be average size, lol. After Cai I was able to lose about 40 lbs. over the span of a few months. With Gabe I gained that 40 lbs back (but thank heaven it wasn't 60) and have already lost about 30 of it. However, to get back to my original weight before I ever got pregnant with Cairi, I need to lose about 25 more lbs. I'm really excited because I've already lost a good deal in just over a month but I know its those last 20 that always take the longest. I'm eating A LOT better than I ever have and exercising. I just started the exercising part since I had a C-section and wanted to be careful. My goal is to be confident in my swimsuit come this summer season so hopefully blogging about my progress will keep me on track. Having two kids has definitely kept me on my toes so I hope this time around I'll be able to lose the weight even faster. So far it's been successful! If anybody has any awesome tips let me know!

One Month and Christmas Lights

Christmas Lights

This past Wednesday we went to P.F. Changs and saw the Temple lights with mi familia. It was so much fun and extra special because it was our first big family outing with Gabe. Not to mention we're getting over strep and other infections so Wednesday was kind of the first day we'd all been feeling good and it was so nice to get out for some family time. Last year we went to see the lights and ended up coming back to Layton because it was such a blizzard and we couldn't find any parking. This year everything went off without a hitch. We were much warmer, it was way less crowded at the restaurant (no one hour wait), and we actually found parking!

Gabe at the restaurant...sleeping.

On our way to the lights.

Gabe at the lights, still sleeping.

One Month Old

If you thought time flew by with one kid try having two! I feel like my life is on fast forward and just at a time when I would like it to all happen in slow motion. This past month has been one of the happiest times of my life. Gabriel is growing up SO FAST. I swear Cairi didn't even grow up this fast, or was it that I just had that much more time to savor it when it was just her and me? Well, whatever it was I can't believe my little Gabe is already a month old. He has grown leaps and bounds already! At his two week check up he already weighed 10 and a half lbs. and had grown a whole two inches bringing him to 22 inches. He can hold up his head like a champ and is cooing SO MUCH! I still haven't got him sleeping through the night, but he is such a great baby! Having him and Cairi have brought me and Chris so much closer, if that's possible, and I can just never say enough what a blessing it is to be a mommy. I told Chris we'd wait two years for our next baby but it's very tempting, lol!

Cairi and Gabe just watching some T.V.

Cairi is really starting to want to hold Gabe and interact with him. So cute!

So peaceful.

Getting ready to lift his head up.

This is what me and Cai are like by the end of the day. Pooped!

Family Photos

These are just a few of our beautiful family photos that Ciara took. I'll post more when I get them. They're so festive and it's so nice to have a family picture with Gabe in it! Thanks Ciara!