Happy New Year!

Happy 2008!! We had a great time over the Holidays. We drove all the way to Utah to be with family over Christmas and the New Year. While we were there we had a lot of fun. We mostly just spent the time hanging out with our family and playing games. We did get to go to a Ute Basketball game and go snowboarding, which was a lot of fun. On our drive to Utah, Abe was able to go to the BYU bowl game. Adeline and I couldn't go because it was too cold. Abe even ran on the field by himself when the game was over!! The week and a half that we were in Utah, it seemed like Adeline grew up so much. She is sitting up a lot better (not on her own), she is getting better at eating her rice cereal, she is talking a lot, and she is super happy! Here will be a medely of pictures once again. Hope you all had a great Christmas!

Adeline with her cousins Emma and Audrey

The three youngest cousins: Adeline, Stella and Mayzee on Christmas Eve

Roni and Adeline on Christmas morning

Abe taking Lily-Kate and Jake sledding behind the 4 wheeler

Grandma Smart (De-de) and Addie at the Smart party on Christmas night

Alicia, Cannon, Adeline and I

Eating breakfast with Grandpa Smart


My mom, Amanda and Adeline at the Utah Basketball game

After the game, it was so cold outside that we zipped Adeline up in Abe's jacket. It worked pretty well!

Me, Maria and Adeline

Me and Abe snowboarding at the Park City ski resort!

We spent New Years at Maggi's house (Abe's sister) with a lot of his family. We just ate food and played Guitar Hero.....except there was also a microphone for singing and drums. It was quite entertaining. Abe got so into it that he took of his shirt!! Haha


Highlights of 2007
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-Going to Oahu, Hawaii for our "babymoon"

-Amanda and Mason getting married. Another brother-in law, woo-hoo!!

-Adeline's birth on August 3rd, 2007 (5 days late!)

-2 week trip to Utah when Adeline was 3 weeks old to see the Barker and Smart families. We also got to spend time at the cabin. Adeline was able to meet her Great-Great Grandma.

-Birth of cousin Stella (Maggi's baby)

-Thanksgiving in Palm Springs. Had a ton of fun with family and Chloe almost died!!

-Abe got accepted into AFIT and we will be moving to OHIO!!!

Week with Grandma and Grandpa Barker

This will probably be a medley of pictures because I wanted to take lots of pictures since Grandma and Grandpa Barker were in town and plus.....I got a new camera!

Grandma Barker and Addie

Margie and I went and got our toenails done while Grandpa Barker babysat!

Grandma and Grandpa Barker stayed in a little condo by Pismo Beach, so I went and visited them for the day. We walked down the Pier and saw the Christmas tree, and then we went to lunch at Splash Cafe. It was a lot of fun!

Later on, we went to San Simeon and saw the elephant seals. They are huge!




Here is Adeline getting ready to go see Santa!

Addie and Santa. It is dumb because they wouldn't let me take my own picture. So here is a picture of the picture.

Last night we got to go to Abe's work party while the grandparents babysat. It was a lot of fun!

Promotion and Baby

On Friday we attended Mike Hoadley's promotion to 1st Lt. Mike is one of Abe's really good friends here in Santa Maria. Of course we had to go support Uncle Mikey!!


I know that we have already shared pictures of Adeline trying to eat her rice cereal, but here are some more. She has been so funny lately because when she eats, she gets all excited and ends up spitting her cereal everywhere. She is also starting to stick her tounge out all the time when she is happy or excited.



Grandma and Grandpa Barker are in town this week, so I am sure that we will have lots more pictures to share by next week and more fun times :)

So big

Adeline turned 4 months about a week ago, so we were able to start feeding her rice cereal. She is getting really good at it and it is making me feel like she is getting really big!

Daddy and Adeline after a bath

We are trying to teach Adeline how to sit up. She is not quite there yet. Lets just say that she needs lots of support or she just flops right over.

Last night I was making dinner and set Adeline on the floor by the Christmas tree and the blinds. The blinds because she likes to kick them, and the tree because she loves the lights (and tries to eat the presents). I came to check on her since she was hidden by the couch, and Chloe was sitting next to her. Adeline was grabbing her skin and feet and Chloe was tolerating it. I thought it was pretty funny.

Last but not least, the funniest thing that happened this week was walking into Adelines room and seeing her hand sticking out the side of the crib. Yes I know, my life is not that exciting, but it was pretty funny!

4 month Shot Day

First of all, I had to show a couple of pictures of Adeline on her tummy. In the morning yesterday, I found her on her tummy. I didn't think she could roll over when she was wrapped up like a burrito, but she can! I also found her on her tummy during her nap. Guess she prefers her tummy!

Adeline had to get her 4 month shots today and it was the sadest thing. She was very happy on the table until the Doc stuck 4 shots in both of her legs.

She still had some smiles for me during the day and actually did pretty well

Weekend in Newport

We went down to Newport this weekend and had Aunt Amanda watch Adeline while we went to the temple.


Aunt amanda and Adeline

Daddy and Adeline at the bowling alley

We put Adeline in Johannas Saucer and she loved it!

Here is cute little Jo Jo walking around. She has the cutest little walk and is getting around so well!

Here is uncle Mason babysitting Adeline. Good job Mase :)

Thanksgiving :)

What a weekend! We headed down to Palm Springs for Thanksgiving to be with family. Times are usually pretty relaxing when we go there. We did have a couple stressful things happen however. It took us 8 hours to get there because of traffic when it normally takes 4. By the time we got there, I came down with Mastitis and was sick. That night, Chloe (our pug) got really sick. She was throwing up and had weird bumps all over her. Not too long after that, she was not responding and was about to fall over when she would try to get up. So on Thanksgiving, we took her to the emergency vet and she went into shock. Her heart rate was down and her body temperature was down. The vet began to tell us that Chloe was really sick and she was going to die if we didn't leave her there. 24 hours, IV's, Plasma, Shots, Heating mechanisms, an incision and $1400 later, Chloe is ALIVE! Holy cow, it was crazy.....and expensive :)

We had a blast with the family though.

Check out my slideshow in the next post. We took some family pictures!