7 MoNtHs...

Baby girl turned 7 months this past week.. She is getting so big and i tell her everyday i don't feel like i have a baby anymore, i've got a BiG girl.. You are such a busy body, you are not a fan of being held in one spot,your always squirming around and just wont sit still! At 7 months some of the things your doing are...

- weighing in at 17.5 (we had a check up at the dr's for your dang ears)
- Eating 6 oz of normal forumla every 3-4 hours
- Eating baby food 2-3 times a day!! you still love your bananas!
- We introuded baby cookies, yogurt melts and baby puffs to you and you love them all but you LooOVVee your cookies!! so cute to watch you feed your self!
- You get to drink a bottle of juice when ever you want, you kinda like this (haha)
- Wearing size 2 diapers,but i'm thinking size 3 here pretty soon
- You wear 6 month clothing and 9 month is jammies and onsies cause your so dang long
- You want to crawl SOOO bad, you get up on your hands and knees and then you don't know what to do, so you kinda jump forward then fall.. It's so cute!
- You still love the water, you sat out in the pool for atleast a good hour with me and the girls today.
- You LOVE LOVE LOVE your brothers (tito and belo) it's the cutest thing in the world!
- You have your two bottom teeth and your top left tooth is trying to break threw and your hating life!! you get the runniest nose ever when teething.
- You hold your own bottle like a champ
- You sleep anywhere from 9-11 hours straight at night time

You are such an angel Brynlee and we truely love you more then anything in this world!!!

DiEt/NeW LiFe StYlE.....

Oh how i hate the word DiEt!! So i've been trying to stay "i'm starting my new life style" haha
I have ALWAYS been over weight for as long as i remember.. Never known as the "fat" girl, but never felt comfortable with my body.. When i got pregnant i was FAR from my ideal weight to get pregnant with, but it happened and i was exastic i got pregnant so fast.. During pregnancy i only gained 15 pounds , which was amazing.. After brynlee was born i actually got below my pre pregnancy weight by like 3 pounds, it was amazing.. I started weight watchers back in like may and i lost 15 pounds in like 2 1/2 months.. I did it and stuck to it and it felt SOOO good being able to fit into jeans i hadn't fit into since highschool and buying some pants i tried on in the store i couldn't fit into.. ( now there baggy) It was seriously the best feeling ever.. Just about 3 weeks ago i cancelled weight watchers and wanted to see if i could do it by myself, well i just stayed the same and didnt loose.. But the motivation just wasn't there.. I decided last minute i was going to run a 5k with my friends and that would motivate me to run! i HATE running but i am trying to run atleast 3 times a week and i have seen improvement.. last night i ran a mile and a half. hahah i know that is nothing, but coming from running 2 mintues and dying this is amazing =)
I started "my new lifestyle" yesterday and it felt good.. The first day though of course my work brings in schmidts cookies for everyone, but i was strong and didn't eat one.. =) I did my excersise and it felt great as well, i really hope i can contiue this drive i have cause i would LOVE to loose 30-40 more pounds. awww fingers crossed for a healthier happier vanessa...

My BIG gIrL...

This past weekend Bradon and I took Brynlee to get her ears pierced.. I have been SOOO nervous to get them done.. I didn't want it to hurt her or irritate her at all.. I finally decided to do it and so happy i did.. She was a champ and hardly cried.. She looks so dang cute with them..

I just love this picture.. i couldn't stop laughing after i took the picture.. I told her to smile for getting her ears pierced and this is what she did. haha


On sunday we went hiking with our friends Lisa and Garrett.. Holy cow you don't realize how really out of shape you are until you go hiking.. I was sweating like a crazy person!! We took belo to my mom and dads since he's a fatty and can't even walk a mile =) I think tito enjoyed it, he's kinda a weirdo with water and would not drink out of the rivers or ponds so he looked like santa clause the whole time cause he was foaming so bad. haha.. I was going to try and tough it out and carry brynlee in the hiking carrier, well that lasted like 2 minutes.. i felt like i was 9 months pregnant with triplets haha.. So my sweet husband took her and carried her the whole time.. Brynlee LOVED the hike.. It was seriously adorable.. She fell asleep the last 10 minutes on the way up, then on the way back down she pretty much sang/talked the whole time!! Such a sweetie!!



Brynlee has been sleeping a little weird the past week, her pediatrican told us we needed to let her cry it out and let her learn how to soothe her self back to sleep..It was hard cause she has a little cough and it would always wake her up. Well the reason she has not been sleeping so great is because my BiG stinker is cutting her TWO bottom teeth. It is soooo cute.. I can't believe she is big enough to be getting teeth!!

This weekend we are going to starvation for bradon's side family reunioun.. I'm excited to take Brynlee camping and to see how she does.. I have to miss my neice and nephews birthday party though and i'm REALLY sad about it!!

HaLf A YeAr OlD.....

My BaBy is half a year old.. OMG... I cannot beleive how fast 6 months just flew by.. It freaks me out knowing that in 6 more fast months i will have a 1 year old.. As i say in every post you are the MOST precious happiest baby ever!! Your smile can light up anyones day!You have the most precious giggle ever and you talk non stop!! I love hearing your sweet little voice in the morning when you wake up, you definatly help mommy get over her morning crankyness =)

Some things you are doing at 6 months...
- You are weighing in at 15.3 pounds 40%
- You are a lean mean tall baby 26.5 tall 80%
- And you have a big brain the dr said. haha 17' head 80%
- You sit like a champ!!
- You roll from your back to your stomach like it's nobody's bussiness =) but still HATE rolling from belly to back!
- You talk all day long, SO much to say!
- You have the sweetest giggle ever and love to laugh when mommy or daddy laugh.. So cute!!!
- You rarely are cranky.. So when you are mommy and daddy instantly think your sick. haha
- For the last 2 months you have been sleeping anywhere from 8-10 hours straight.. but the last 3 nights you sleep for about 1 hour straight.. Dr lei said we gotta let you cry it out. =(
- You have been on soy formula since you were about 2 months and have done great but dr lei thinks it time to try to wing you off of it.. fingers crossed.
- You LOVE your baby food.. you eat sweet potatoes and bananas like a fat women eating cake. haha i love it!! and dr lei said you should start eating 3 meals a day of baby food.. your gonna dig this!
- You have a huge crush on your cousin gage.. Sweetest thing ever!!
- You LOVE to swim.. we bought a swimming pool this month and you love it.. and it makes you sleepy so it's good for mommy and daddy too =)


Your the sweetest little thing brynlee jo and your all mommy thinks about.. Nothing is better then being with you! I love nothing more then when you grab my face and give me a big open mouth kiss, melts my heart into a million pieces.. Everytime i hold you i thank my lucky stars for blessing me with the sweetest little girl a mommy could ask for!! I love you baby girl!!!

My BaBy Is 5 MoNtHs.. OMG

Brynlee Jo,
Can you please stop growing up so fast..Everyday i get cuddles and loves i cherish them so much cause i know very soon you will not wanting to cuddle with mommy. You are the light of my life.. I love hearing you talk ALL day long.. I love to just look at you and watch you grow.. You seem to amaze me more and more every day!!
We took you to the Dr last tuesday to check on your ears so we got a little update on your weight =)

So at 5 months you are:
-Weighing 14.8 pounds.. Aww getting sooo big..
-Last height measurements we got were 24.5 inches..
-You have been in the 50% for weight almost everytime and 60-70 for height.. So in other words your PERFECT!!
- You are still eating 5 oz every 3 hours..
- Dr Lei told us to slowly start introducing baby cereal/food to you. You HATE oatmal and rice cereal.. Haha it was so funny wathing you eat/no eat it =)
- You LOVE bannanas, and sweet potatoes.. And you HATE green beans.. Sooo funny

- You Love to sit all by yourself!! I'm so proud of you for doing so good at it already.. Dr lei was shooting for 6 months.. and you we're pro by 4 1/2.
- You LOVE to talk..
- You love to look in the mirror at your self.. you just giggle and giggle
- You love your brothers SO much.. Especially when belo trys to slip you some tongue =)
- You love cuddle/nap time in bed with mommy.
- You love sitting outside on the grass
- This past week has been kinda bad with sleeping.. you wake up about every 2 hours wanting your binki then you fall right back asleep.. hopefully your just growing or some teeth..

We love you so much princess and can't believe how big you are getting!!

GaLlBlAdDeR SuRgErY.. YuCk!!!

So as some of you might know, almost every month for the past 2 1/2 years i get REALLY sick where i pretty much feel like i'm dying.. Well me being me have just dealt with the monthly outbreaks and just kinda took it all in.. Well on fathers day i got it really bad and felt horrible the whole day.. It usually just last about 4 hours then it's gone.. Well this time it didn't seem to go away.. So monday morning i woke up still feeling ALOT of pain.. I have dealt with kidney stones since i was 16 years old and the sharp pain felt like that but not in my back, so i was kinda scared it could be appendicitis. My mom and dad told me i HAD to go to the er and see what was wrong with me.. So my dad took a half day off and came and picked me up and off to the er we went... We had to wait a good amount of time before even getting back to see a dr.. Once i got back they asked me all kinds of questions and i told the dr about my monthly outbreaks and the sharp pain in my right stomach area, she said right away " you have gallstones" i had look up gallbladder symptoms and the only thing that really fit what i was going through was the vomitting.. But the dr was set on that.. So off for tests i went and sure enough i had numerous gallstones blocking my bile ducts.. So they said i HAD to have my gallbladder removed.. Hearing i had to have surgery made me sooo sick!! i was kinda just hoping it was kidney stones again.. We requested to have the surgeon that did all the surgerys on my dad do my gallbladder since he is SO amazing.. We asked for friday and that's what we got.. I continued to be in quite alot of pain and they gave me pain killers to take but i couldnt take any until i got home cause i continued to work.. Crazy me!! Friday finally came and my surgery was at 7 a.m. My mom and bradon came with me and where there the whole time untill they rolled me back into the O.R. That's really when my nerves started going.. I don't remember anything after that.. I just remember waking up in the recovery room and had the hardest time staying awake.. Bradon has taken such good care of me and does anything i need him to do without a whine or anything.. My mom took brynlee friday and saturday night so we could sleep as good as possible!! It helped a ton!! The Dr said i had alot of scar tissue for how many "gallbladder attacks" i had without getting it removed.. I am WAY sore and definatly ready to start feeling better.. Hopefully this takes away all the lovely pain i've just dealt with for the past couple years..

Bradon's First Fathers Day

This was a special fathers day for bradon cause it was his first one with his baby girl!
It was a long day for bradon and i. I woke up around 6 a.m feeling really sick and bradon had been dealing with a really bad sore throat for about a week, so we both weren't feeling to wonderful.. He opened his presents from Brynlee and I, we got him a really nice tool set and some black shorts.. I ThOuGhT i was feeling good enough to meet my family at Mimi's for breakfast but once i got there i got really nauses and felt like i was gonna pass out.. So me and bradon had to leave.. I felt so bad! I came home and was super sick still then finally fell asleep for a good nap.. We went to bradon's grandma's for fathers day with his family.. All and all i think bradon has a pretty good fathers day.. I just hope he will always remember how much our family loves him and he's the most amazing daddy to brynlee and best husband in the whole world!!