Berkley's First Birthday!!!

Yup! Our little princess isn't so little anymore...SHE'S ONE!!!

On January 3rd, 2011 at 4:06 AM this beautiful girl came into our lives forever! She weighed 7 lb 1.6 oz and was 19.5 inches long! At one year old she weighs 19 lb 4 oz and is 29 inches long! It's amazing to me that she has grown that much already! What is even more amazing is how much my heart has grown over the past year! I love this little girl SO much!!! She is truly amazing and SO precious to me! I can't imagine not having her wonderful self in my life! I am so thankful to be her mommy and I look forward to all of the wonderful years to come...hopefully they will pass by more slowly than this past year did though! I LOVE YOU, BERKEY BOO!!!
She makes such a cute Birthday Girl!

Her cake was SO yummy!!!

Our awesome friend and photographer, Kaylee, took these perfect pictures for us and I absolutely LOVE how they turned out! She captured so many "Berkley" moments and I will treasure these pictures forever! A BIG thanks to her!

Berkley was all grins when she woke up! It was as if she knew it was her special day! She had some confetti pancakes for breakfast (YUMMY!)...

...and opened some presents from mommy and daddy! Then we all got dressed and went down to Utah county to have lunch with the grandparents!

We got to Macaroni Grill a little bit before everyone else so we just waited in the car and let Berkley pretend to drive! She LOVED it!

She got to eat a yummy chicken and pasta lunch and open more presents! The opera singer came and sang "Happy Birthday" to her and then we were off to Build-a-Bear!

Berkley was so curious and excited while we were there. We let her pick out her own bear (she picked the confetti bear of course!) and she got to hold it while we waited to get it stuffed!

She picked out the heart for her bear all by herself and even pushed the pedal on the stuffing machine! After getting a cute outfit from grandma and making a birth certificate for Sprinkles we were done! She sure does love Sprinkles!

When we got home she got to play with some of her favorite "aunts" and "uncles", Ryan, Ashley, Nate, and Josie! She looked so stinkin cute in her cupcake birthday PJ's! Happy Birthday, little princess!

Her party was on the 7th, a Saturday, so more people would be able to make it! It was nice to have it on a separate day from her actual birthday so we were able to just have a relaxing and enjoyable day! This was the setup for the party! I made the BERKLEY banner all by myself! It was a great turn-out with over 40 people to party with her!

She LOVED her cake! It took her about 20 minutes to eat all she wanted of it and she was SO adorable and SO covered in cake afterwards! It was PERFECT! We don't have pictures of her opening her presents but she got a TON and LOVED opening them and she LOVES to play with them!

Her party was EXACTLY how I imagined it and I think she had a great time...I know we did!

Crazy Fast January!

January went extemely fast for us! It's crazy to think that Berkley has already been 1 for almost a full month! Her birthday post will be separate because there are a lot of pictures and details!

We love every day with our little princess and our little prince is growing fast too! I'm already 18 weeks along (as of the 30th) and loving being pregnant! It's way easier and faster when you have a cute little toddler to entertain and chase around all day!

Happy New Year! It was Berkley's first New Year's celebration and she stayed up the whole time! What a champ! For her last meal as a baby she got to have french fries from Dylan's! SO YUMMY!!! She loves having a bowl of Cheerios for breakfast! She even drinks the milk when the cereal is gone! She's growing up so dang fast!

Berkley FINALLY has enough hair to do something with it! She didn't even have her hair done for the first time until she was 1! SO CRAZY! I painted her toenails and my fingernails the same color and it was so cute! She learned how to take off her pajama pants and she loves to do it! Cute little stinker!

Our little princess is super silly sometimes! We sure do love her!

...and how precious is she taking a nap with her pillow pet?! She melts my heart!

Berkley is a very loving baby! She loves to hold and pat any part of me that she can get to and she seems to find my leg most of the time! SO CUTE!!! She LOVES to feed herself and spaghetti was extra fun for her! Another favorite of hers is to pull the shoes out of the shoe basket and climb into it to play. It's so funny! I loved the outfit in the other picture so I had to share it!

Berkley loves to "help" me cook! She also loves lollipops! She ate that tootsie pop all the way down to the tootsie roll center! It was so adorable!

She got to have Wendy's for the first time ever (it won't happen often because I don't eat there and I haven't had any kind of burger or sandwich from Wendy's in almost 4 years!) and I caught a cute picture of her smiling through her binky!

Berkley smacked her head on the only part of our ottoman that isn't cushioned, the hinge, and instantly had a huge green indent on her head! It was so horrible!

She loves to love on her baby and scowl at us! Her scowl is hilarious! She's trying not to smile as she does it...I LOVE IT!!!

Berkley had her VERY FIRST pajama day on the 30th because she was so SICK!!! It was so sad!

She was so funny! She said, "HAHA" as she walked away from me! I about died laughing!

When it snowed on January 23rd we took Berkley out to play! We put on her cute pink boots with pom poms and her fun Roxy coat that she just got and she looked simply ADORABLE!!! She wasn't too sure about her daddy's gloves or the snow but she had a fun time anyways!

Berkley's first snowman and snow angel! She was such a cute snow baby!

Belly Pics Weeks 16, 17, and 18! My belly is growing!!!

PREGNANT!!! Baby #2 on the way!!!

Weeks 5, 6, 7, 8
Weeks 9, 10, 11, 12

Weeks 13, 14, 15

That's right! I'm 15 weeks and 1 day pregnant today! That means that I'm due on July 2nd, 2012! I'm going to Guy Cox at Ogden Nurse Midwives (and I LOVE him!) and I will be delivering at Ogden Regional Medical Center! Since early on in the pregnancy I have been the biggest BOOB! I cry almost constantly! Over anything and everything! It's kind of crazy and I get teased a lot for it! Interestingly enough, I have felt more sick during the second trimester than I did during the first. I actually threw up for the first time exactly one week ago, on Berkley's 1st Birthday! It sucked! The fatigue hasn't worn off yet...hopefully soon though! I have started feeling congested recently, which I had forgotten about happening with Berkley...it SUCKS! For the past several weeks I feel sick and short-of-breath if I am even slightly on my back which means that I have to sleep completely on my side and have had to for a while now. It kind of sucks. My waist has grown nearly 1 inch in the past 5 weeks but I don't look nearly as pregnant as I did with Berkley at this point. I still haven't had to wear maternity pants yet (YAY!) and I am going through TONS of toilet paper! I'm pretty sure I've had some Braxton Hick's contractions already, SUCKY! My hips haven't given me nearly as many problems as they did with Berkley by this point (ANOTHER YAY!) and so far I am just loving being pregnant!

We got the positive on October 28th! We were so excited (and kind of unexpectant!) and I instantly started crying! It was such a special moment to share with each other!

Our little pumpkin patch!

The baby's Halloween costume! The littlest Ute in our family!

Before making the announcement to our parents we wanted to double check! Yup! Still PREGNANT!!!

We gave this framed gift to our parents to announce the news on November 6th! I was almost 6 weeks pregnant at that time!

This was our very first ultrasound on November 8th (6 weeks 1 day)!

This was our second ultrasound on November 22nd (8 weeks 1 day)!

On Thanksgiving we decided to share our news with the rest of our families...then the Facebook world! I was 8 weeks and 3 days pregnant! Berkley doesn't look too happy about becoming a big sister but I'm sure she'll get used to it!

On Berkley's birthday (January 3rd) we decided to find out the gender of our baby so we went to Fetal Studio and...

here's the profile of our little babe at 14 weeks and 1 day...

and the face of our baby looking right at us...

and IT'S A BOY!!!

We are extremely excited to be having another baby and even more excited and blessed to be able to have one of each gender! We can't wait to meet this little guy!

We love you, little buddy!

P.S. We both felt that it was a boy when we first found out I was pregnant but I guessed girl and Aaron guessed boy! I guess that in the future I should just know that the baby is always the opposite of what I guess!

Lots of pictures in December 2011!!!

Dumping her food and making a mess, looking shocked, snuggling with mama!
Happy girl at the doctor's office, rocking her sweet pink pompom boots, "I'm no cotton headed ninny muggins!"

During December we decided to sell our dog, Allie. She was a sweet, obedient dog and we miss her but I definitely don't miss chasing Berkley away from her food and stuff!

We got to go to Temple Square to see all of the lights and Berkley LOVED it! She was so excited the whole time!

The middle picture is funny because she was pissed off at me for telling her no because she wanted to play with grandma's tree!

Cute girl at Christmas time! She's been good all year, just ask grandma!

Christmas Eve! All of us in our Christmas PJ's!

Santa's cookies before and after, the yummy rolls Aaron makes every year, and all of the presents under the tree!

Our Christmas dress clothes, our family ornament, and Berkley's First Christmas ornament!

She loves her daddy!

Kissing her baby, slurping spaghetti (she's a pro already!), standing up really well, and taking off her pants! Yes, she has already learned this bad habit! She's done it again since this picture too!