Mini Vacay with the BFF's

This past weekend was WONDERFUL! Friday night we went to a High School football game with Craig, Savannah and the adorable Miss Harper Rae. It was so good to visit with them and Liv was super happy to see Harper. Sat morning Chad and D went golfing (huuuuuuuge surprise) so Jo Addy Liv and I decided to spend the morning together in Liberty Lake (the best Saturday morning hang out). My lovely little nuggy bug woke me bright and early Saturday morning wanting to eat and although she went back to sleep shortly after I decided I should stay awake bc I knew Jo and I would try to get to the market at a decent hour. As I hung out, baby on my chest watching the totally adult appropriate One Tree Hill I got a call from Em. You see I love those phone calls that come at 7am bc you know it can only be one of two things, someone calling due to an emergency, or your dear friend just calling to have some good morning gossip :) As long as I can remember Em and I have had early morning phone calls. In fact I remember in Junior High and High School calling each other early early the mornings of the first snow. We would call each other and scream a few, "oh my gosh's", and a million,  "likes," and then proceed to talk over one another as fast as possible for twenty minutes. And yes that is how our conversations still go to this day. I think we will be a hundred years old still calling each other in the wee hours of the morn to gossip. I digress. So to no one's surprise, in spite of our usual attempt to get to the market by 9, we rolled in around 10:30 which thrilled Em to the core because she had been waiting at the Starbucks to meet us since 9...oops!!! We ended up visiting with some people from high school that we ran into, shopping the market, which really consists of one quick pass through the market and thirty minutes in front of the muffin stand just chattin away. Then Em went to run some errands and us momma's travelled over to Toys R Us to pick up some baby goods and then hurried home.

 Side note- I LOVE LOVE LOVE Toys R Us and Babies R Us, like walk in and get suuuuuper excited, like slight adrenaline rush, sweaty palms, I can smell the money burning a hole in my pocket excited.

We got home and packed as quick as possible because Chad, Jo, and Addy and D, Me, and Liv were all going to Chads parents to spend the day and night at the river and soak up some end of summer rays of sun. It was the most incredible 24 hours no exaggeration. We ate yummy food, swam, laughed a ton (per the usual) went for a boat ride had our own amazing morning church, listened to some awesome music, had amazing conversation, and played with our adorable little babies. The funny thing about our time with the Fowlers is it is sooooooooo easy!!!!! The Lord wrote the story for each of our families and in that story was each other. We had NO idea how much our lives would be intertwined, and how similar our lives would be. We have a bond and friendship that goes so much deeper than friendship. We have laughed nothing short of a million times together, cried together, prayed for each other, loved on each other's babies, shared many a meals, taken care of each other and made many many awesome memories together. You know your friendship is special when you spend time together and you leave feeling like you just had a week long vacation. Sooooo fun!!!! Sooooo blessed!!!! and soooo love our friends!!!

                                                                              

Too good to be real...except it is real.

The first few weeks of baby O's life was quite the whirlwind. So many moments seem quite blurry due to excessive lack of sleep, raging hormones, complete elation and the best natural high I have ever known. There are moments that I remember every smell, emotion, and sound, and then there are other moments where I sit and stare at the picture and can hardly remember taking the picture. Olivia has turned our world upside down in the absolute best way. A cloudy day is no longer depressing, every country song that even remotely refers to the love of a child or a parents relationship with their daughter instantly becomes the sweetest song ever sung, going to the grocery store is so much more fun bc I get to show off my baby, and quite honestly waking up every day is like the best most exciting Christmas morning over and over and over again! Life has taken on a whole new meaning and every little sound or face she makes is the sweetest I have ever seen or heard. It is safe to say I am certifiably OBSESSED with my child and my sweet little family of three and there are days where I am quite certain that my heart will in fact explode because it cannot contain the excessive love that I feel. I wanted to make sure that these first few hours, days, and weeks of my little nuggy's life were documented so that I could always remember how sweet and fleeting these moments were. Here are some of the many firsts for baby Livy.

FIRST CUDDLES WITH DADDY... this girl had an instant bond with her daddy, she is definitely going to be a daddy's girl and I honestly can't blame her I have always said that any child that gets to call D their daddy is the luckiest child ever!!!

FIRST OUTFIT AT HOSPITAL-

I couldn't wait to put you in this outfit I just loved it so much. I tried to put you in it the other day and it was more like capri's and a crop top which was equally and precious :)

FIRST PHOTO SHOOT- This was Liv's first of MANY (can you say crazy obsessed momma) photo shoot which took place in the hospital the day after her birth and I cried the entire photo shoot (again can you say crazy obsessed, highly emotional momma :) )

FIRST BINKY (which we later figured out you did not care for as much as the cute pink decorative one's. Liv has such great taste ) FIRST TIME IN CARSEAT AND CAR -we were heading home and per mommy, daddy drove 14 miles an hour and I rode in the backseat. One minute I was crying with overwhelming love, the next I was crying with overwhelming fear that the car in the next lane wasn't far enough from our car and would in fact hit our car and kill my baby, and the next minute I was laughing because I realized D was clearly driving the CrAzY train...haha poor man!!!

FIRST MINUTES AT HOME IN HER NEW ROOM- after many many hours of rocking in her rocking chair and playing with her little outfits I honestly couldn't believe she was really real and really in her room, and I really had no idea what to do with her at this point!! I tried to figure out how to build a bubble and put her in it, I mean who wouldn't want to protect that teeny tiny little punkin?!? 

THIRD DAY OF LIFE... SECOND DAY HOME...SAAAAAD DAY FOR MOMMY... this day was Liv's first Dr.appt where we noticed she was gagging and spitting up mucus more that "normal" whatever that is. After watching her for a while they suggested quite bluntly and without sensitivity that she go to the hospital and get a tummy x-ray to make sure everything was okay. I was a WRECK I was quite convinced that my little girl was dying at this point, not something an over emotional under slept new mommy can process very well. Luckily after many tears (mine of course) we found out Baby O is just really gassy (like her father) and would need gas drops before she feeds (wish we could give these to her father ). Huge HUGE sigh of relief for me, and really the first moment I realized that I was a mom and this instinct to worry like crazy would never go away. I realized in that moment that I could spend my time as Livy's mommy worrying all the time or praying all the time, and I am opting for the prayer, and most days doing pretty well!

FIRST TIME CUDDLING WITH AUNTIE EMMY

FIRST TIME IN SWING WITH NEW CUTE BINKY

FIRST TIME AT THE PARK- 5days old...this day was also your first time at the Mall and Albertsons. I was a wee bit ambitious in the beginning, although this day was quite overwhelming for me...too many people wanting to touch Livy, this was one of those moments when that bubble I was talking about would have come in handy.

FIRST FAMILY DINNER WITH MIMI AND PAPA AND AUNTIE CRYSTAL AND UNCLE BEANER AND STINKERMAN

FIRST PICTURE WITH YOUR EYES OPEN

FIRST STORY TIME AT THE LIBRARY- clearly she loved it

FIRST TIME MEETING HER SWEET FRIEND HARPER RAE- this child is extremely blessed with amazing BFF's

FIRST PEDICURE WITH MOMMY AND MIMI- she loved it so much she pooped right then and there on my lap...now that's a good pedi

FIRST FARMERS MARKET

FIRST HILARIOUS PICTURE OF LIV THAT MAKES ME LOL

FIRST CRAZY HAIR PIC- I have a feeling it will be the first of many, crazy FULL heads of hair run in the fam :)

SHE LOVES HER AUNTIE- not really a first just love this pic for some reason

FIRST FARMERS MARKET BRUNCH WITH AUNTIE STINKERMAN AND MIMI(not pictured)

FIRST WEDDING AND DRESS UP TIME WITH MOMMY

FIRST FAMILY PIC TOGETHER (albeit not the prettiest or most flattering of mommy)

FIRST PICTURE WITH PAPA

FIRST PICTURE WITH AUNTIE ASH AND COUSINS SOFIA AND KELAN

FIRST PICTURE WITH HER AUNTIE NIKKI

FIRST PICTURE WITH UNCLE BEANER AND AUNTIE CRYSTAL

FIRST PICTURE WITH MIMI- My wonderful momma came and stayed with us our first few nights home to help us adjust and we loved every second of it!

FIRST BATH IN THE BATHTUB

this is the before the bath pic

this is the after- poor baby girl was hating life and her parents at this moment, but look how precious she is, how in the world can I already be sad and want to go back?!?!?!? I swear she is growing up waaay too fast :( Thankfully I can report she now loves the bath

FIRST PICTURE WITH NANA CONNIE - so SO grateful to have such a wonderful mom and mother in law, she is one blessed little girl to have two nana's to love on her and spoil her rotten...

FIRST PICTURE WITH AUNTIE EMMY AND UNCLE MATTY

FIRST TIME MEETING HER BFF ADDY JO- since this pic we have such fun pics of these girls together...more to come later :)

NOT A FIRST ... just love my tired no make up no sleep self cuddling on my baby, clearly having just fed hence the unhooked nursing bra. These moments are the moments I wish I could freeze.

FIRST TIME AT THE BEACH AT COEUR D ALENE LAKE

FIRST CAR RIDE W HER BFF ADDY JO- this was before both of them decided to scream at the top of their precious tiny little lungs. We have since mastered the car ride together the four of us girls and have become quite the travelers.  I am certain there are hundreds of road trips in our future.

FIRST CROSS EYED PIC - and can I just say this is one of my FAVORITE pics. I have SOOOO many pics of baby D and baby me that look just like this!

SECOND FAMILY PIC

There are sooo many more firsts but these are the first couple weeks that I captured on camera. I wanted my blog to be up to date but catching up has been haunting me, hence the week in between posts. This post caught me up at least a little bit. I know this is probably pretty boring to anyone but me, but someday when Liv is older running around with her 12 siblings ( I kid) wanting nothing to do with me or D I will be able to look back and relive these firsts, these precious, perfect, amazing, incredible, special firsts that I was lucky enough to be a part of.

Thank you Lord for these moments and the millions more to come!