Smiley Sue!

Every morning I have to try and resist taking pictures of this cutie!! As you can probably see, I give in to the temptation most of the time! She is just always so smiley and happy in the mornings that I have to take a picture! It is so adorable, I love her more and more all of the time!

It is so fun to just sit in front of the computer and watch the screen saver with all of our pictures on it!

Blair Martin Family

This is Jeremiah's brother, Blair and his family: Paige, Sterling and Parker.



They came and stayed at our home from Friday night until Sunday after we had dinner at mom's house. We had a lot of fun with them and I am so grateful that they were able to be here.

Saturday, Paige and I had to go and get something black to wear for pictures that we were taking later that day so we went to Old Navy and Sears and found some good deals. Then we went down to Freeman Park and Kali took our pictures. Jeremiah said that they have not had a professional picture taken of their family since he was 3 years old so I am glad that we were able to do that. Blair's daughter, Randi was not able to come so she is not in the pictures, but all the boys families were there and everyone did a pretty good job in their pics. I will have to post some of those later.

After we took pictures, we went to Chuck-a-rama to eat and then Dixie and Clyde went home and the rest of us came back to our home and just hung out, held Wren and chatted. We went and shopped some more at Sears where Paige bought some very cute outfits for Wren and a pair of tennis shoes that are SOOO adorable on her! Then we went and ate at Red Robin and got our food for free because the service was just terrible and the waitress actually argued with us! Sterling stayed at home and played the Wii while we went shopping and I believe that he was up until almost 3 a.m. playing Super Paper Mario! I'm glad that he had fun on that! :)

UNDER ARREST!!!

Wren's first run in with the law!!

This is her Uncle John Martin. He was called in to work but was able to come to the blessing before going in. We were all so glad that he was there!



I am loving that bow!

Uncle Kevin

Everytime that Kevin has held Wren she has either given him crusty looks or started crying!


She has FINALLY forgiven him for whatever it was that he has done to her!

Can you tell that he is so relieved??

Wren's Blessing

Wren was so great for her blessing!!



I was not so sure that all was going to go as well as it did. She started her day off waking up at 9:30 a.m. Well, I had to wake her up because she was just soooo tired!! Then she ate and got dressed and off we went to church an hour late! Luckily we have reverse schedule so we hadn't missed the slot for her blessing. She was so tired from eating and riding for 10 minutes in the car by the time we got to the church she was screaming her head off! So, Jeremiah went down to the clerks office to do the paperwork needed and I walked around trying to get her to sleep. She never really went to sleep and was pretty fussy up until Jeremiah took her to give her the blessing. Then she was perfect. Jeremiah said that she just laid there and looked around at all of the people who were there to see her.

A lot of people came to see her, those who stood in the circle were: Jeremiah Martin, Mike Hathaway, Clyde Martin, Kevin Hathaway, Scott Hathaway, Justin Hendricks, Blair Martin, Kent Roberts, Aaron Roberts, Tom Brown, Dave Hathaway and Bishop Pete Demitropolis.

The blessing was beautiful, Jeremiah did a wonderful job. I was so happy and grateful that everyone was there for us. I know that it has been a long hard road getting to where we are. I have had a lot of moments in my life that have been rebellious and I have not understood all of the challenges that have been put in my pathway but I am so very grateful for where I am now and I know that I am the person that I am today because of those challenges and roadblocks and the way that I responded to them. I am so grateful to my parents for always being there for me and believing in me. They have not always agreed with my decisions but I have always known that they love me even though they could not accept the things that I was doing. I hope to do as good of a job raising Wren, and any other children that we are blessed with, as well as my parents raised me. I am also so very grateful for the gospel in my life. I am so grateful for the gift of repentance and for the love of my Heavenly Father. I am so thankful that Jesus gave his life that we all might have the opportunity for eternal life and to Joseph Smith for being the boy and man that he was. I am also so very grateful to Jeremiah. He is such a strength in my life and I love him so much. He is so patient with me and with Wren. He is such a wonderful father and I know that Wren loves him so much. He does so much for us and I am proud of him for going back to school and being committed to making his life and our lives better.

Blessing...

Hey everyone, we are blessing Wren on Sunday and all of you are invited!! :) Our sacrament starts at 10:50 a.m. and the church is on S. Boulevard between 8th and 9th!

2 Months Old

I just get cuter and cuter!


6/1/09

Wren had her two month appointment and weighed in at 9 pounds 6 ounces! She is gaining like crazy!! According to Dr. Bennett she is still a perfect baby and we are inclined to agree with him.

We have found out some interesting things about Wren these past two months... For one, she really doesn't love it when I eat lots and lots of peanut butter M&M's. It makes her break out in a rash. Now, when I say lots and lots, I mean that they were my main food for several days! At first I thought that it was just baby acne and that it would go away but I found that as soon as I stopped eating the M&M's the "acne" would go away! Poor poor me! Another thing that we have learned is that she is a morning girl unless she is cuddling with her mom and then she will sleep for an extra couple of hours as long as I pull her into bed with me before she is STARVING to death! I really don't mind her being a morning person because she is so cute in the mornings. As soon as I unwrap her from her swaddled blanket she starts stretching and does that for about 3-5 minutes, then she is so "talkative". She ooh's and aahh's and coo's and really mostly sounds like a cat mewling most of the time!

The car still doesn't really soothe her, she would rather have someone holding her!

She loves to have her face cuddled right up next to my neck to go to sleep and this position also soothes her when she doesn't think that she is full but I have no milk left to give.

We are still falling more and more in love with her daily and everyone that she meets seems to fall in love with her as well! She is such a smiley happy baby and I appreciate the fact that she is such a wonderful spirit to have around. It is so easy to be happy with her and Jeremiah in my life. Sure, we still have problems, but the big picture is so beautiful that it is hard to look away!