The work before the blessing!

We decided before the blessing to basically do everything at once! We decorated our downstairs bathroom and got that all cute and we wanted to paint a wall in our kitchen red as you can see. We got some pretty plants for inside our house to add a little more green. We also landscaped our backyard! The landscaping Chad and some guys did all day the Saturday before. It looks amazing now! I will take a picture of it and post it on here! The kitchen took a while just because we had to do about 3 coats of paint on it. We pretty much wanted to do all of this before the blessing to have a motivation to get it all done or else it would have taken us FOREVER to get it all done!! So i am very excited that it is all done and over with!! We love our house now for sure!

Andrew's Blessing

I know it took me a long time to get these up but I finally was able to get it done! I am retarted when it comes to hooking our camera up to the computer, so i have to wait for Chad's help! Here are some pictures of him in his cute blessing outfit! Chad dressed him before church and forgot the little bow tie to it so it's missing but everything else is there. It was a little big on him but he still looked so dang cute. Chad gave an amazing blessing! Of course I cried! Andrew was asleep for the whole thing until the very end where his binki fell out of his mouth and he started to cry. But other than that he did great! We had a lot of great friends and family that came to support us in this event! We also had a lot of family bring food and treats and thank you all for that help! We were so glad that the weather was good for us! Our house is too small to have such a big event inside. We have a big grass area with a playground and pavilion in the back yard and that's where we had the food and everything after the blessing. It turned out just perfect! Thank you for those that were able to make it!

Here are some of our family pictures that we took two weeks ago!

One month!

Well, here we are and Andrew is now 1 month old! Time sure goes by fast when your having fun and being busy! Today we got in the tub together and he loved it so much that he decided to poo about 3 times and so it wasn't any longer a clean tub. So then we got in the shower to wash off and he loved it so much! He could have been in it forever! He is doing so great with sleeping. Last night he slept for about 4 almost 5 hours! I didn't think he would sleep that long but he sure did and he was still tired after he got done eating. It was nice for me to get that sleep! He is starting to make more noises now! It's so dang cute! He is getting blessed in two weeks and i am going to find him a tux looking suit! I will put pictures up after the event! Anyone is invited to his blessing. It's May 4th at 9:00 a.m. at out church in American Fork! There is food afterwards at our place! Let me know if you are coming!

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I know it took us a while to post pictures up but here he is! Andrew Michael Atkinson! He was born March 25th at 5:27 p.m. He weighed 8lbs 6oz 19 1/2 inches. Big boy! He has a lot of hair and it's blonde with a tint of red to it! So cute! He has very long fingers and toes! I don't know where he got that from! He was in the ICU for all 3 days we were there. He had fluid in his lungs and wasn't breathing well. They had him on oxygen and a I.V. He was able to come home with us on Thursday night very late. But i'm just glad he came home with us! We had him on oxygen and on a monitor here at home but we went to the doctor yesterday and he said to take him off of the oxygen for 24 hours and he has been off and doing so well! He is one strong boy! He is such a major blessing in our lives! I love being a mom and Chad loves coming home to his little boy!