Happy Halloween

A couple of weeks ago in her already too-small footies.

And today, my tired little pumpkin.

Back when it was still just the two of us...

I am slowly going through pictures.  Even though these are from a while back, I just have to post a few because I love them!

Our home teacher is Joseph Brickey, who is known for his LDS art.  Check him out here.  Anyway, one Sunday afternoon back in August we (along with his awesome wife) decided to do an impromptu photo shoot before having a home teaching lesson.  John wanted to have some pictures of me and my big belly.  And they turned out so nice!  

We love the Brickey family.  They were so nice to do this for us.

By the way, these are totally raw and unedited.  I thought about trying to edit them but life is too short and I am already sleep deprived.

Two Months

I can't believe it has already been two months!

The First Few Days

It's hard for me to remember those first few days with little Anna because I was so drugged up.  I wish we would have taken more pictures and especially more videos for that reason!  Oh well.  This is one of the two we have from the hospital.  She had managed to get that one finger in her mouth and it was so cute!

At the Park

I'm trying to figure out how to upload videos to this thing but it's taking forever (I think my video files are too large or something) so in the meantime, here are some pictures of Anna at Ft. Tryon Park last Wednesday.

She loved laying on the blanket and looking up at the trees!

Anna May's Blessing

Anna May's baby blessing was on September 18th in our ward.  It was a special day for us!  My parents came all the way from Wyoming and Josh and Mattie also drove in from New Haven.  

John's parents were planning to be there as well, but were unable to come because they got in a terrible bicycle accident a few weeks ago.  John's mom especially needed to stay home and finish healing before coming out to New York to visit her granddaughter.  We were so sad that they couldn't be here but we are glad that they are alive and well.  (And excited that they are making up for it by coming to visit us at Thanksgiving!)

Anna's blessing dress is the same dress that I was blessed in 29 years ago.  My mom cut off the train of her wedding dress and made it.  John was so proud of the dress he told everyone about it.  Maybe Anna May will have her daughter blessed in it someday.

(These pictures are a little too bright to see the detail in the dress so I'll post some better ones later.)

Newborn Pictures

Here are some of Anna May's newborn pictures.  They were done by our friend Whitney Hardie and you can check out her website here.

These were taken when she was one week old!  She is growing so quickly and already looks really big compared to herself in these pictures.  

Enjoy!