Andlie's Room

Okay, those of you who have been to our house know that Andlie's room used to be our office/room where we stored everything miscellaneous. Well, now it's turned into Andlie's room and I love it! It's my favorite room in the house!

Andlie's bookshelves where her toys will go (at least until they don't fit which will probably be in about two months). Thank you so much to Kay and Kacie who gave us this for my shower. We love it!

I saw this quote in August last year and knew I wanted it somewhere in my baby's room.

In case you can't tell, the frames are Andlie's hand and foot prints. Definitely my favorite.

Andlie loves her crib!

I made the curtains and the bow hanger straight from scratch. Not the armoire though.

And there you have it! Andlie loves her room, too and spends about seven hours per night (uninterupted) in her crib!

Family Pictures

It was hard to narrow it down, but I've uploaded my favorites from our family photo session. Enjoy!







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Valentine's Day

For Valentine's Day, Bryan left work to find his car plastered with love notes all over! Then, when he got home from work, he found a nail tied to our front door and a house full of balloons tied to Diet Coke (I know my audience) waiting for him to pop. Inside of the each of the balloons was a Valentine especially for him. He found a letter from me, a letter from Andlie, both of our handprints, family photos for his wallet, and tickets to see the Utah Jazz play!

When Bryan got home from work, he had me get in the car and put a blindfold on. I took my blindfold off to find a beautiful table set with candles, confetti, roses, and complete with music playing in the background. Bryan had set up a romantic dinner for two at the Alumni House at SUU!

Daddy also got Andlie a Valentine: Two adorable red bows that she loved!

Andlie also got kisses from Mommy! We love our sweet girl and we're so happy that she celebrated her first Valentine's Day with us! We love you, Andlie!

AND, she got a ladybug from Shennie and some toys from Grandma & Grandpa Goodwin! She loves them all! She is so thankful for such wonderful family close by and loves all of you so much!

Happy Valentine's Day to everyone! Again, I am so thankful for Bryan and the amazing, thoughtful husband that he is. He was so sweet to plan such a perfect evening for me. Thank you, Bryan, for always making sure that I know that you love me - - not only because he says it at least once each day, but because he shows me in so many ways each day. I love you, Bryan! Here's to another wonderful Valentine's Day and many more to come!

Today I Feel

Today I feel tired.

Today I feel like my Daddy can put me to sleep by hanging me in the air.

Today I feel like I've been in and out of the carseat too many times.

Today I feel like nothing in the world could wake me up.

Today I feel like I do not like what Daddy is trying to watch on the TV. . .

. . .but I feel like I do like what Mommy chooses.

Today I feel like I would like to stay in the swing, Mommy. Thanks for asking though.

Today I feel like I will be the boss of Mommy and Daddy forever. Just try and stop me.

These Are A Few of Her Favorite Things

From now on, most posts will probably consist of several darling pictures of Andlie and facts about her because she is clearly the cutest baby girl to ever grace the earth and is making us smile all day long! We sure LOVE HER! Here are a few of her favorite things.

Andlie loves growing! At her one month check up, she weighed 8 pounds, 14 ounces (35%), was 22.5 inches long (90%), and her head measured 15 centimeters (70%)!

Andlie loves being out of her mommy. Okay, maybe that is one of my favorite things.

Andlie loves to wear a darling bow each day. *See each of the following pictures. This may also be one of my favorite things.

Andlie loves to learn new things. She has spent a few minutes in her Bumbo learning how to sit up and, surprisingly, doesn't hate it. She loves to look around and I'm pretty sure she loves her house.

Andlie loves to smile! *Remember the post about how she licked her own placenta? She has recently found her tongue and licks everything in sight. We love that she spends an hour in the morning talking to us and smiling at us, after, of course, she spends half hour making not so delicate grunting noises trying to wake up. She's adorable. Period.

Andlie loves to have her picture taken. Okay, maybe another one of my favorites.

Andlie loves to sleep with her sleepin' buddy, Daddy! She sure seems comfy on his chest.

Actually, Andlie loves just hangin' out with her Dad and especially enjoys watchin' TV with him.

Andlie loves to have her hands free. Unless it's night time, her hands are free and available for play at all times.

Andlie loves to have baths and especially loves to try and drink the water when it gets close enough.

Andlie loves to sleep and is even slowly, but surely, learning how to sleep at night! Yay!

Andlie loves to be in her carseat and usually enjoys a leisurely ride in the ol' Cavy.



As you can see, we think that each and every thing that Andlie does is miraculous and deserves a quick pic! We are so grateful for her in our lives and can't believe how much a Mommy and Daddy can love our Andlie!

We Love Andlie

We can't believe how much we love our Andlie! She makes us smile every single day and we feel so blessed to have her in our family!

38 Weeks Plus 4 Days!

Okay, we obviously didn't last a full 40 weeks, but me and Andlie sure did last 38 weeks and four days! As Bryan posted, Andlie Grace was born on January 5 - - a whole ten days early! I couldn't just end the week by week pictures without one final one, so. . .

36 Weeks. . .

. . .and 38 weeks plus four days!!

Bad Blogger

I am the worlds worst blogger. I am sorry that I have not kept this thing up to date like I implied I would and wanted to. I guess that is what happends when life changes drastically. Any-who, here are a couple more pictures. I swear I will get the rest of them posted eventually.

Sleeping-only during the day unless being held by either Chandi or I while sitting in the recliner.

Back by Popular Demand

Okay, so based on the amount of comments asking for more pictures, here you go. The first one is from last night. For some strange reason she likes to hold on to her binki really tight. She doesn't want it to run away I guess. The last one is right after birth. There will be more pictures later. These are just the ones that I got off my phone. There are a ton of pictures from our camera that should be up this evening. ENJOY!

Andlie Grace Allen

Well, Chandi is home recovering and taking care of our new beautiful little girl and we don't have internet at home so I will be doing most of the post for the next few days. Our little girl was born on Jan. 5th, 2009 at 12:52 pm. She wieghed in at an impressive 7 lbs even, and she stretches 20 inches long. She has a bunch of dark brown hair, and has a very cute little button nose.

Chandi is doing great. We went in at 4:30 in the morning and the baby was born a little over 8 hours later. Chandi had an epideral and she loved it.

Sorry the post is a little scattered but I haven't slept in 2 1/2 days so...