Giggles!

There are very few things that will make this girl giggle really hard - sticking her feet up by her face is one of them. Last night she was giggling so hard it was the cutest thing!

Don't mind my little tuting noises. :)

I Am Thankful...

I love this time of year. I love the weather. I love the beautiful colored leaves that fall on the ground. I love the cool, crisp air. I love wearing long sleeves and boots. Most of all, I love the feeling I get around this time of year. I love spending time with family and close friends. I love Thanksgiving .. and then onto Christmas. I am so thankful for so many things and have been blessed with so many things. I just wanted to list a few of those things.

- I am so thankful to be a Mother. I love my little baby girl Rylee Laurel Giles. She is such a blessing in my life and I am SO blessed to have her as my daughter. She makes me smile more and more everyday. I love smiling at her and her smiling back at me. When she talks to me I just have so much joy and feel so grateful to have her beautiful little face in front of me. I don't know what I would do without her. She has made our family a family. She has made mine and Kelly's relationship so much stronger and happier. We love our little girl so very much!

- I am so thankful for my home. We were blessed to be able to buy our home a year ago and we have loved making it ours and decorating it to be a wonderful and fun place to be. I love being there and cooking and baking in OUR kitchen. I love climbing into bed in OUR room. I love being able to put Rylee to bed every night in HER room. I just love our home and am so blessed we have it.

- I am so thankful to have Kelly as my husband and him as Rylee's Father. I feel so very blessed to have such a strong, hard working, loving, kind, and caring man as my eternal companion. He works so hard for us everyday. Right now he is so sick but has been working 6 am till 8 pm. He has been working so hard so that I can stay home with Rylee. He is so motivated all the time. One day 2 years ago he came home from work and told me he wanted to start his own business. Since then he has been working hard and strong and his business has since grown a lot and he is doing so well! I am so grateful and so proud to say he is my husband. I LOVE HIM MORE AND MORE EVERYDAY.

- I am so thankful to have such a wonderful job. Yes, I am quitting December 1st but I am so grateful to have it. I will sorely miss all the wonderful people I work with but so blessed that I will be able to stay home with Rylee all day.

- I am so thankful for the job I just got! I am the new ICU night shift secretary at Utah Valley Hospital. I don't HAVE to work, but we will need insurance since I am quitting my job now and instead of paying for our own private insurance plan I decided to try to get a night job at the hospital and work for insurance. Plus, it would be a better insurance plan that way anyway. I feel SO blessed that they selected me for the job and I am so excited to start! December 6th. Yes, I know it will be hard working nights, but it is only 3 nights a week. If I decide it's just too hard I will quit.

- I am so thankful for amazing friends. I am so blessed to have the friends I do. Right now being back to work for 30 days I have awesome friends (Samantha and Heather :) just to name a few) that have been so willing to help out with watching Rylee. You will get something in return I promise!! I just feel so blessed to have such kind and loving and amazing friends.

- I am so thankful for my amazing family! I am so blessed and so grateful for my family - and I am one of the luckiest girls because I have the most wonderful in-laws! I am so close to them and I feel so blessed that they don't feel or act like they are my in-laws - they act like they are my actual family. Grandparents, cousins, aunts, uncles - everyone.

- I am so thankful for the gospel. It has helped me through so many things and I am so blessed to be a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. I am so blessed to be a temple recommend holder and be able to attend the Temple and feel the spirit so strongly whenever I want to. I do, however need to attend more than I do! Having a baby has made it a little more difficult to do so.

There are so many other things I am thankful for, but these are just to name a few of those things. I am one blessed girl and I am so very grateful for everything I have!

Welcome Home Elder Giles!

My brother in law Mitch got home yesterday from serving a 2 year LDS mission to Ventura, California! It is so good to have him back! We were all best buds - we all hung out together ALL THE TIME. Me, Kelly, and Mitch. We would stay up late watching movies or just hang out.

So excited to do all that again!

Everyone at the airport! There were tons of people! Definitely enough to overwhelm him haha. :)

There he is!

Hugging his Mom
Rylee was wore out from all the excitement. As soon as we saw him everyone cheered...she cried. It scared her! Poor thing.
The yard was decorated all cute thanks to Kelly and Ashley!

That night for dinner we had sandwiches, noodle salad and chips.

Rylee decided she wanted to try the chips.

She was totally hilarious with the bag and wanted to get it sooo bad.

WELCOME HOME ELDER GILES!!!

4 Month Check Up!

Today Rylee had her 4 month check up. A little late since Dr. Anderson was out of the office last week! My little girl is growing! She is now 14 lbs 2 oz (57th percentile) and 25 1/2 inches (81st percentile)! She is as healthy as can be! She was so good at the doctor but was so mad when the nurse had to take her temperature and had to measure her head and her length. She just looked at her and started crying. It was so funny. Her umbilical hernia is getting smaller and healing up thank goodness! She kept rolling over on the table. Silly girl. She did good with her shots. Only screamed for a second and then I picked her up and nursed her and she was calm in 2 seconds. She fell asleep as soon as I put her in the car and is still asleep an hour and a half later.

I love my little growing girl!

I really don't know why her pictures at the doctor always rotate when I upload them! It happened with the last picture I uploaded of her at the doctor when she was 5 days old! Weird...oh well, here she is all happy at the doctor!

Rylee's First Halloween!

I have always loved Halloween. I just love dressing up, our annual chili on Halloween, and just having fun with friends and family. This year was even more fun because I had a cute little person to dress up! Deciding what to dress Rylee up as was a tough decision! I kept changing my mind. She was going to be Tinkerbell, then an indian, then a ballerina...but then I just decided to have her be a black cat! That way she would stay warm in her sweatsuit AND look so dang cute all at the same time! She was the cutest little black kitty!I made Rylee a little mouse bag to carry all her candy! I dressed up as a black cat too and Rylee was my kitten! Kelly was Joe Dirt!Kelly's parents costumes always crack me up! My cute little kitty!

My niece Halle was Pippy Longstockings!

Haha! Had to try the wig on Rylee.

My nephew Sam was a member of the SWAT team.

Joe Dirt

My sister was a Pirate

My sister and nephew

My parents were Superman and Lois Lane

My family

It was such a fun Halloween weekend. Kelly and I are the activities committee chair for our ward. Friday night we had our trunk or treat. We couldn't have picked a better night for it. It was so so warm! We had donuts, hot chocolate and tons of candy! I am not gonna lie, taking Rylee around trick or treating kinda felt really dumb! Everyone knew the candy wasn't for her. Oh well, it was still fun! Every year Kelly's family has chili and rolls so Saturday night we went to their house for chili. It was yum yum yum! Sunday night my parents had a fun dinner full of teeth, tiny bugs, and mummy's. It was a delicious dinner! This year's Halloween was tons of fun...except Saturday night a nasty cold/sore throat/cough hit me HARD. I think Rylee may be getting it a tiny bit but today she is happy. I had to stay home from work today. Stupid stupid sickness! As soon as I go back to work I get sick...awesome. Oh well!

Days without Mommy

As I sit here at work bored out of my mind thinking about my baby wishing I was home with her I am thinking...I am thinking about all those other Mom's in the world that HAVE to work full time and can never be with their children during the day. It must be so HARD for them. I have only had to do it for 4 days so far and it has been the hardest 4 days! I feel so LUCKY that I only have to work for a month and then can be with my baby all day again. I miss her so much. It is so FUN every night coming home and seeing her. She looks at me and smiles really big and then just snuggles with me till she gets fussy and is ready for her bath! I bet all day she is wondering where I am because she was with me 24/7 for 4 whole months! Thank goodness I have great friends and family and DADDY who can watch her! This morning she is with my good friend Samantha. I just got this picture at work. It is so cute! Rylee and Zayda will be such good friends. :) Rylee's face cracks me up! Cute little girlies!And this is Rylee and Milo on Tuesday. Both me and Milo's Mommy were working so they spent the day with their Daddy's. They both zonked out going on a walk. They are so cute!

After today is 4 days down and only 22 days to go!

Guess who is 4 months?!

Yep, that's right! My itty bitty baby Rylee is 4 months old today! And I am not there to spend the day with her. Today is my first day back to work. It was SO hard leaving her this morning. Looking at her in her crib sound asleep and so sweet...it made me want to cry. BUT I am only working for a month and then quitting. I have to work at least 30 days or else I would have to pay BYU back about $4,000...that is the money they paid for my insurance while I was on leave. I decided it would be worth it to just work the 30 days and then quit rather than pay back 4 grand out of our pocket!

Daddy is with Rylee most days and then will work in the evenings, so that makes it so much easier leaving her. Ever since she was born I would pump and give her a bottle at least once a week to just get her used to it. Well, yesterday she would not take one in the morning and I was getting so nervous! But we just waited till she was super hungry and she did just fine. Thank goodness! So she is just eating the milk that I have frozen and I am just pumping a couple times at work because I DON'T want to stop breastfeeding. No way Jose.

Anyway...back to my post about Rylee. :) She is getting so BIG. She thinks she is big stuff that's for sure! She is the cutest baby EVER and I am so blessed to be her Mommy.

Some fun things about my little girly...

She loves loves loves bath time. I have said it before, but it is by far her favorite time of day.

She loves standing up (still) and looking around. She is the most observant baby. She looks at people and things like she is trying to figure them out. It is so so cute.

She still has stranger danger most of the time but is getting better.

She can fall asleep by herself now...well, most of the time.

She rubs her eyes so hard when she is tired. I just think it is the cutest thing EVER.

She constantly sucks on her fingers/fist and even her lip. She is teething. And sometimes she will bite her gums together. It is so funny.

When she isn't getting what she wants or you aren't doing something right she will throw her arms and head back and fuss and then stop and look at you and do it again. She is quite the drama queen!

She giggles quite a bit but it takes quite a bit to get her giggling. She does however fake cough ALL THE TIME. It is hilarious.

She constantly uses her hands now. She grabs everything. Especially my shirt when I am nursing her. All the necks on my shirts are stretched out...haha. I have to be careful when eating with her on my lap or else my plate will be on my lap along with her.

She does SO much better in the carseat now. Only cries when it is 8-ish and she is ready for her bath and bed. Other than that she just either sits in the carseat not making a peep or she falls asleep.

She can sit by herself so much better now. She used to freak out when I would put her down but now she entertains herself. Being able to use her hands has helped SO much. When she is laying down she tries to sit up it is so funny!

She loves being outside. I wonder if she will still love it when it's super freezing? Maybe?

She is getting so close to sitting up! She can roll from front to back. She is such a strong little girl. She could even hold her head up the day she was born.

She loves being where there is lots of action going on. She just loves looking around. She loves noise.

She gets startled super easy. She was kinda squirming one night in her crib so I went to check on her and move her back to the middle of the crib and I scared her so so bad! She started screaming. I felt terrible! She had no clue I was there.

She scoots herself all over the place now. I will put her on one part of the floor or in her crib and I will come back and she will be on a completely different part of the floor and will be turned the opposite way and at the end of her crib. It is so funny.

She ALWAYS sleeps with her hands above her head.

When she wakes up in the morning she just lays in her crib talking to herself. I love to just listen to her.

AND...TODAY MY BIG GIRL ROLLED FROM BACK TO FRONT!!!

There is so much more about this little cutie of mine but I won't make this post any longer than it is. I just LOVE her little developing personality and watching her get bigger and bigger. Being a Mom is the biggest blessing in my life and I am so grateful I was blessed with my baby. I can't wait to be with her all day again!!!

Who Does Rylee Look Like?

Mom...

or Dad?

Wheeler Farm

So, I totally feel like a blogging loser. No one ever comments! I know I blog for myself, but I never get comments and it makes me sad! :(

BUT...I still blog. I guess my blog is just lame?

So here is post #2 of the day.

This evening I went up to Wheeler Farm with my sister, her little boy Sam, and Rylee. It was fun! Even though she is so little, we still had a blast. We went on a wagon ride and she loved it. She just looked around as we were driving and just enjoyed the outdoors. When we saw the animals she just stared at them like what are those things? It was so cute. It was such a fun day and I am glad I finally got to hang out with my sister. She lives in West Valley City and so we never really get to see each other.

Here are some pictures of the fun evening. I am sad we totally forgot to get a picture of the 4 of us!

Here is me, Rylee, and my nephew SamSam on the tractor!On the wagon ride!Rylee loving the wagon ride!

Sam playing with the goatsI guess that wore her out! I had to turn her around cause she was falling asleep!

My Scariest Moment

This morning was probably one of the scariest moments I have had being a parent...possibly ever. Rylee is always has a pretty stuffy nose in the morning so every morning I suck it out. This morning I started sucking it out...nothing was coming out and she was getting mad so I stopped. Then all of a sudden she gagged a few times and then she wouldn't breathe. I think some snot got stuck in her airway and made it so she couldn't breathe out of her nose. She wouldn't breathe out of her mouth and couldn't breathe out of her nose. She just sat there trying so hard to breathe and kept getting more and more spit in her mouth and it was all over her lips. Thank goodness Kelly was there because I was panicking and crying and didn't know what to do. He grabbed her from me and was trying to help her and I just kept saying, "Are you ok?! Are you ok?!" and crying. He said we need to take her to instacare! We live right around the corner from it...good thing. We ran to the garage and were about to get into the car and then she started breathing again. Oh my gosh I can't even say in words how scary it was but it was terrifying. I can't even imagine what I would do if something happened to Rylee. I am so glad she is okay...and I am scared to death to suck her nose out ever again. And pretty sure we need to take a CPR class because it has been forever since we both took one and need to be refreshed on it cause we may need to do CPR oneday...especially now that we have a baby.

This is her smiling and talking to Daddy this morning right after she woke up. Just had to share cause it is so cute. :)