Just Because

So I haven't posted for some time...I am just such a slacker!

Today I decided that I was going to make my own header. So using photoshop I did just that. It was fun to make, I thoroughly enjoyed making it. I am grateful for the skills of the digital world that my mom has taught me!! ***Tell me what you think***

In a little over 2 weeks Our Little Girl will be 2 years old. I cannot believe it. She has the cutest little personality, with some strong"I am the only child attitude" mixed in. She is quick to scowl and stomp her foot at anyone who is doing something she doesn't approve of :)

Some fun facts about the two years that have flown by since our little girl was added to our lives: ~We lived in a camper for the first 8 months of her life!

~The hubby and I have worked for the same companies the whole two years.

~Pais learned to crawl at about 11 months old, and learned to walk at 14 months old.

~We have gone through 3 male wiener dogs, had 2 litters of the cutest puppies you've seen, goats, ducks, geese, lambs, one horse died we bought another one, chickens, gotten bunnies - had two litters of bunnies die, and I am sure many more animals I cannot think of.

~We got in a car accident, totaled our car, and had another car given to us.

~We have had weeks when I haven't cooked a homemade meal at all, and also had 2 weeks straight when I cooked each night never fail.

~There have been days when I let Pais terrorize the house because I couldn't put down a book.

~We have been on countless fun trips out to the city :)

~The whole family has been out of the state of Utah 3 times: 1 trip to California with the Cranes, and 2 times to Ft. Bridger Wyoming. I guess you could say 4 times if you count the trip we took to Nauvoo when I was pregnant.

~Lee and I have changed phones around 6 times, but only changed numbers twice. We have the worst lucks with cell phones :(

~Paislee has been bitten, scratched, burned, thrown down the stairs (wink, wink), even rug burned, and has very few permanent scars!

~Lee and I talk all the time about what we used to do with all of our free time?????????????????

4 Months

This past Sunday, Paislee Jo turned 4 months old! We went to her check up and got all of her measurements and the "OK" to start solids, aka rice cereal!

Weight: 13 pounds 13 ounces (50th percentile)

Length: 22.75 inches (10th percentile)

This was taken on her 4 month birthday in her cool Canada sweatsuit in honor of her dad's mission to the Canada Halifax Mission.

Speaking of her father, I worked last night and she got to stay home with dad. This was all fine and dandy until feeding time, PJ would not take her bottle for anything. Lee called me in hysterics and said he would not watch our baby again unless she started taking her bottle! I told him to let her cry for a while and then try again when he and her were less frustrated at each other. For the next 30 minutes at work, I was out of my mind with worry, I didn't know how I was going to keep my License, because my working days were over. Then I got a phone call, and all was well at home, she settled down and took her bottle like the great girlie she is. I was once again able to concentrate on work, phew! Maybe things will be better when she eats solid foods when I am gone to work my one day a week.

♥Lee ~Angie ~ Paislee♥

Cutie Pie

Can I just say what a talented mother I have!

These pictures were taken at the Target Portriate Studio and Paislee did great! She stayed awake and was pleasant but not very smiley.

This is her blessing dress that was made by her aunt Kim and Granna.

Seeing her in the little white dress made me think of that song about the 3 white dresses of girls. We are on dress 1 of 3 - blessing dress, baptism dress, then wedding dress - it will be a few years before the other dresses come along! She is just the joy of our lives! It is hard to remember what it was like when she was not with us all the time.

Her cute round body makes the best "O"
This idea was borrowed from the photographer and her "special" pages, but mom - your picture is way cuter if I say so myself. It will be so fun when she can sit up on her own!

Our holiday experience was loads of fun! We went out to the city for a quick visit with the fam, a trip to Lagoon - it rained and rained and rained - still very fun. Then it was back home. A half shift of work, and celebration fun! There was fire works and food, and good company! Paislee did not enjoy the loud up in the sky fireworks...so we enjoyed the show through the window. Then we celebrated my 21st birthday. Complete with home made ice cream pie! Thanks Lee!
I guess our little family is doing well!

♥Angie♥

Forever Mine, Forever Strong

This morning I was talking to Pais and she started smiling...So I grabbed the camera. Then she didn't really want to smile anymore.

She yawned,

she cooed,

she made an angry face, and

finally...

I caught a Paislee smile on camera!

She is starting to interact more and more. She will coo and goo and smile and just be the best baby! But, she does have her moments like all babies do! Paislee is now 10 1/2 weeks old! At her 2 month appointment she weighed 11 pounds and 1.5 ounces (60th percentile) and was 21 inches long (20th percentile). She is short and chubby according to all the other babies with her birthday!It is so neat to know that she will be Forever Mine !

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Yesterday Lee, Paislee and I watched a movie! It is not a "feel good" movie...it is a "feel GREAT" movie (I stole that line from the extras). Forever Strong is the greatest movie I have seen in a while! I don't even care for Rugby and I enjoyed the show! I recomend it to everyone who needs an uplifiting evening! Then when you are through watching the movie, I suggest watching the extras. The real live coach Larry Gelwix seems like an amazing man! There is my tribute to the movie Forever Strong...watched it, loved it, wanna buy it!

♥Angie♥

One Happy Family

Our first Family Photo

Last Thursday was an eventful day! We showed up at the hospital at 8:00 am and my water was broken by the doc at 8:30. I was up and walking for an hour and a half and my cervix was not changing like the nurses hoped it would...Therefore Pitocin (a drug to induce labor or as I called it the mean drug that brought on the contractions STRONG and HARD) was started. By the time I was dialated to 5 cm I was dying! All the contractions were felt in my back and I could not get comfortable for the life of me. Even with Lee rubbing my back and holding my hand I was beginning to think I wasn't going to make it to 10 cm. At that point in time I asked for the epidural! I recieved the epidural at 2:50 pm and felt awesome. At around 3:30 pm I had the strangest feeling that I needed to have a bowel movement. (s0rry about the graphic nature of that last sentence.) I told my nurse and she said that was a sign of being complete! I was checked and low and behold I was 9-10 cm. They decided rather than exhausting me by pushing too early, to let baby rest and decend on her own. At 4:30 pm I began pushing. The doc showed up at about 4:35 pm and at 4:44 pm Paislee Jo Nelson entered this world (at the time we did not know if she was going to be Paislee or Madelynn). It was nothing less than a miracle to see her for the first time. There were tears in my eyes, and the nurse's eyes...I work with wonderful girls! Lee told me he would have cried...except for the fact that he lost his tear duct's in 'Nam. Just joking Lee even had a few tears at that amazing time. My funny story about delivery was the delivery of the placenta. I had the strangest pull from behind my belly button. I said out loud that this is what it must feel like to disapperate! I don't believe the doc understood but us Harry Potter fans laughed out loud.

What a sweet swollen little face

Her going home from the hospital photo

It was a good experience at the hospital...But we were glad to be going home! She meet almost all of her Nelson/Hunsaker family while she was at the hospital. Lots of pictures were taken and an enjoyable time was had watching Sponge Bob Square Pants by both Lee and I. Eventually we got to go home at around noon on Saturday. My wonderful mother and little sister got to come for an extended visit - Saturday to Tuesday. They were the best help. I don't believe that all the dishes had been clean in a long time at the Nelson home. And no one is better at getting rid of the hiccoughs better than my little sister, way to go CB.

To our surprise, she is quite a good sleeper. Only 2 out of 6 nights were spent up and bouncing around the room to soothe Paislee. I know she is going to be a daddy's girl though. Whenever Lee comes home from work and says "hello" she turns to look at him and smiles. She has been a blessing already! We have taken picture after picture of our beautiful baby and just love to watch her even when she is doing nothing but sleeping. Yesterday she got to meet her grandpa Harry, she slept a lot but he did get to see her awake for a few hours.

I am so grateful for all the help offered to us this first week she has been home. Dinners from the Relief Society Sisters, My mom and Chels helping out, Lee getting drinks of water for me and holding my hand when Paislee is fussing, and my second family which lives so close and can help out on a moment's notice. It is pure truth that our Heavenly Father knows and loves us just by the simple fact that she will grasp my finger when I put it in her tiny little fingers. What a joy Paislee (Little Jo) has been in only a week's time...And we get to have her for forever!

Our Baby Girl

♥My 3-D ultrasound went fairly well. She was head down, looking at my back...so this is the best the ultrasound tech could do! We think she is so cute! We just cannot wait to see what she really looks like! Only 46 days (give or take). During the ultrasound we even saw her sucking on her lips. It is all becoming so real. Seeing her face, feeling her kick, coming closer and closer to my due date, having a baby shower, and not fitting into my scrubs as comfortably as I would like :) I am truly so excited to become a mom, I am sure there will be times when I will have no idea what I am doing, but Lee and I are willing to learn and will be in it together. Thank goodness for forever families .♥