GRANDMA's

Linnea loves to spend time with her two grandmas...and her Great-Grandma Spjut.


So dramatic :)

She is starting to smile and loves to stare right at Grandma :)

The two red-headed ladies :) So cute

Our Amazing Plan...

So I wanted to share Dereks and mine amazing idea for naming our kids. I don't know if any of you know the story behind why we named Linnea...Linnea-well she's named after my great-grandma who has this awesome story. She was from Sweden, but came over to the US all by herself when she was only 17 because of the persecution they were getting for being members of the church...her family and her saved all there money and only paid tithing so they could get their family over to Utah little by little (they had 13 kids) anyways so thats why we really felt that the name Linnea would be really special. So she was from Sweden as I mentioned, so Derek and I were saying that how cool would it be to name each kid a family name from each country in our background. So we have Sweden covered we still need Scotland, England, Denmark and Ireland. So we would name them family names, so it would cause us to do family history right...now this is the really fun part...after Derek and I make our millions someday we will take each individual kid to that country that there name came from and do this trip and show them stories of that family member...you know how fun would that be!!!! We were laughing and having fun with the idea...I'm sure we are already millionaires...Derek got three emails that said he won the Canadian lottery...all he has to do it give them his credit card and social security number and we're set for life hahaha...anyways that is our brilliant idea, even if we never can make the trips the family history part will be fun to do!

Just stuff...

Well things are great down in St. George...it's been up to like 55 degrees the last few days...it's been great weather. Linnea has been sleeping for big chunks through the night, last night she almost made it to five hours straight I just love it. She does like to stay awake in the day though and not let me do my jobs, so I'm afraid to say my housework is struggling, but she's so much more fun than cleaning the bathroom:). I've decided to eat whatever I want because it didn't seem to help me not eating anything, so that has made me a much more pleasant person to be around :) Derek and I have both started school...he really feels like this semester will be pretty difficult and he has to make some sacrifices from family time because he goes to school two nights a week, then he is studying the other two nights away from home with a classmate, and he is still debating if it is worth it to continue being a plasma donor cause that would take away another night, he says he struggles being away so often because he feels like he misses out...and trust me his girls miss him. I'm only taking one online class...this is the last class I need before applying for the program. It's going to be tough. It's anatomy and physiology combined and I have a harder time when it's online than when a teacher is right in front of me, but we'll make it I need a B to apply so I'm trying. Nothing else is really going on...I've started to really look for apartments up north so we can find a good place to move to in a few months. Linnea and I had to go out to WIC (we are on the program...a great blessing) and I hate to take her in there because there are usually a bunch of kids, and RSV is still out there, but they told me to come early in the morning so I could hopefully avoid a crowd, there were still a bunch of people...I'm proud to say that Linnea was the only baby who didn't cry the whole time...also she has grown two inches since birth and she is one ounce away from 9 lbs...so she is growing which is what we want :) she has an above average head size...so pretty much my daughter has a large brain hahaha. Anyways things are just wonderful, busy, but really good right now. I hope everyone is having a great January also!!!

NEW YEAR

I hope everyone had a good new years...Derek and I obviously had to stay at home and we just watched a movie :) Linnea is doing wonderful...she has been having some little problems it seemed like with gas or reflux, so we called her doctor and kind of explained what she acted like and he thinks it's probably something I'm eating and it causes cramps. I didn't know that if you nurse you still have restrictions on what you eat while the baby is still a newborn, cause the lady in the hospital told me I could eat anything I want, but they mailed me this list of foods that I shouldn't be eating and there are a ton of things... right now I'm trying to take out dairy products because thats what I eat the most and we'll see how if it helps her, but like I can't eat anything with tomato sauce or spices so I'm glad I have spaghetti and lasagna in the freezer, no pepper, no CHOCOLATE!!!! no caffeine, brocolli, peanut butter, beans...blah blah...so it's a long list. I hope it helps her if I change what I eat, but since pretty much all the food I cook is on the list it's been tough figuring out dinners haha.

Derek and I played photographer last night so we could order Linnea's baby announcements...these are some of the pictures...I thought they turned out pretty good and it was much cheaper of course :) Well I hope everyone is having a good time in 2009 and if you made any resolutions lets all stick with them hahaha it'll be a first for me :)

Well Linnea had her first outside experience. It was almost 50 degrees down here so my mom and I wanted to take her for a walk in the stroller, but of course we couldn't figure out how to unfold the stroller :) so we just carried her...we put a little jacket on her and a little hat and blanket and we went walking. She snoozed pretty much as soon as she felt the sun on her :) it was cute...Derek showed me how to unfold the stroller so I'm going to take her on a real walk today :)

Well things are going really good. Linnea has gotten somewhat more fussy, we think she has been having some gas or intestinal problems cause she gets really uncomfortable after she eats and cries a little bit, she's still a really good baby but I talked to the doctor about it cause she kind of started to spit up a little and I wanted to be sure she wasn't having a problem with acid reflux...so anyways the girl told me what to watch for then she asked me if I got the list of foods I shouldn't be eating...I told her no cause the lactation lady in the hospital told me I could eat whatever. The doctors told me all this food like pizza lasagna, baked beans, orange juice, and a ton of stuff are things i should avoid... it' funny the night before I found all this out I was feeding her and drinking orange juice...I've pretty much been eating everything on the list so hopefully if I take those out she'll start having an easier time digesting or with gas or whatever is making her uncomfy I hope everyone is doing great and has a happy new year.

(getting ready to go outside)

Merry Christmas!

I hope everyone had a wonderful christmas!!!! We had a great first christmas as a married couple and Linnea I'm sure had a fun first christmas...Derek got me this way nice glider rocking chair that is just perfect for the middle of the night feedings for the little girl :) Derek's big present from me, I'm sending him to this seminar for inventors and promising inventors, he really has good ideas and wants to make something someday so I thought this "camp" thing would be just perfect for him. He seemed to be really excited about it. Anyways I hope everyone had a safe christmas, I know the storm was really bad up north! Now I guess it'll be Happy New Year!!!

She Slept!!!!

I'm sorry I have to post my most exciting news...the baby only woke up ONCE last night :)!!!!! Yay!! She's been staying awake for like up to five hours since we brought her home so I was running out of steam pretty quick and last night I don't know what it was but she slept. She had a pretty rough day though so that might have had something to do with it, she had to go to her newborn follow up appointment and she did not like all those medical people messing with her :) Hopefully she decides to always sleep at night :) I hope everyone is having a great holiday I can't believe Christmas is next week how fun, well that is my highlight for the day, I just had to write about it :)