3 Months

I can't believe our little flower is 3 months old already. That we've spent 12 weekends with her... time goes by way too fast. I love watching her grow and change and learn new things and skills everyday. I never imagined I would be a stay at home mom. When thinking about my future, I always imagined I would work because I really do enjoy working and contributing to my family, but our plans for our lives aren't always what is meant to be.  I've had to adjust my point of view and realize that I am still contributing to my family, but in a very different way. I do feel truly blessed that I am able to spend my days with Eloise, and I wouldn't trade it for the world.

At 3 months, Eloise is:
➳ Loving her hands. They are always in her mouth, moving, batting at toys, and pulling on my hair
➳ Almost rolling over
➳ Talking so much, she tells us all about her life
➳ Wearing 0-3 months but is already in some 3-6. She's really long so all clothes fit her funny.
➳ Keeping her head level when pulled to a sitting position
➳ Sleeping about 4-6 hours straight at night
➳ Not really napping during the day :)
➳ Holding her head up when we hold her or help her sit
➳ Noticing Lucy more and loves when we sing to her

I am taking her picture every month on my Great Grandma's rocking chair so we can watch her grow.

Christmas Card 2015

Now that our family has grown we thought we should spend some time and thought on our Christmas Card this year (and actually send one out consistently). We live in a really beautiful part of the desert and wanted to capture that in a photo to remember how lucky we are to live here.  A lot of people hate 29 palms and dread being stationed here, but we truly enjoy it. There isn't a lot to do here as far as shopping, eating and theme parks like there was on the coast, but Joshua Tree National Park is so beautiful and we seriously go every weekend with or without visitors. So of course, we took our christmas card picture there, and it was quite the adventure.

We got ourselves ready, picked a cute outfit for Eloise (you can't even see it in the picture) and drove into the park with Lucy in the back. It took a while of driving around to find the perfect spot, and once we did, I set the settings on the camera and set-up my tripod (we don't know many people here and decided to take the picture ourselves). As soon as we took Eloise out of her carseat she started screaming :). So, I fed her, and it was actually perfect timing with the lighting by the time she was done and ready.  We set the self timer to take bursts of 10 pictures each time and after about 100 pictures, we found 2-3 that could work. If you can imagine trying to get a dog and baby to both look decent for the camera... it isn't easy. 

I usually use Shutterfly for all my photo projects, but I decided to try out minted since the price was comparable. There are so many beautiful options for cards and it was really hard to choose.  I love how our Christmas Card turned out and will definitely be using them again!  

Merry Christmas! 

Xo