The Allen Family

Saturday, January 23, 2016

2016 Daily Blog

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Wednesday, January 9, 2013

2013 Daily Blog

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Wednesday, May 23, 2012

You might notice that I've been a little absent from this blog. I finally came clean with myself and realized that the list of a million bazillion things I want to go into detail about is probably not going to get blogged because I'm too much of a perfectionist. If you're super anxious to keep up with our family, you can follow us at our daily blog here.

Friday, January 6, 2012

Andlie's Birthday Quotables

We decorated the house after she went to bed before her birthday. After coming into our room to wake us up - "Mom, what did you do??" "I put balloons in our house for your birthday." "Oh, wow! Thank you, Mom and Dad! Wow. It's not your birthday. It's my birthday!" Then she sang "Happy Birthday" to her self.

"I just love my [Rapunzel] dress. Let's watch Rapunzel ('Tangled') that matches my dress."

Then we made the tradition number 3 pancake, but this time - it was blue - at her request.

"It's my birthday. WAHOO!"

Then we made cupcakes for her "cupcake tower."

Then we went to the park. It was 60+ degrees on her birthday. What the??

Daddy brought her some Pop Rocks & a candy necklace at lunch. She kept saying, "These (Pop Rocks) will crap and crap! And then I will eat them and they will crap in my mouth!"

"I love my cupcake tower!"

Then we had a small party with family. Three year-old with cupcakes, Rapunzel dress, and ring pop = happiness.

Granny gave her a trike for her birthday. "It's just my size!! It was wheels that turn!"

Then we read books. This one was called, "Smelly Socks," and got laughs from both Daddy & Andlie.

Then it was time for bed. "I DON'T WANT TO!"

When I tucked her in, we sang, "Happy Birthday," and "I am a Child of God." Then I told her, "I love you, honey." "I love you too, Mom." "Happy birthday, Andlie." "Thank you, Mommy." Melt my heart.

We love her so much and more & more every day! Happy birthday, Bug! We love you!

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Since June

Instead of trying to blog every event/thing that I want to (and trust me, I have a list and it's long), I'll just start at August and give a few updates.

Haze Andrew Allen was born on June 16 at 9:03 AM and weighed 7 pounds, 9 ounces and was 21.5 inches long. Labor & delivery went pretty smoothly (even though it hurts a lot a lot). The short version of the story: My water broke at 11 PM on June 15. We didn't know if that's really what it was since I wasn't swimming around in a puddle and flooding our house like the movies, so we Googled it. Went to the hospital at 1 AM. Epidural at 3ish AM. Baby at 9 AM.

In my journal I wrote, "I felt immediate love for Haze. I remember rubbing his little head over and over and holding his hand. He just stared at me and cried once in a while. Bryan looked at me & Haze over & over. He was crying when I would look up at him. He also stroked Haze’s hair and held his little hand. What a spiritual, happy, exciting moment to get to see and touch your baby. He really was perfect. We both immediately noticed his little nose. We were both in love. Bryan told me again how great I’d done and how much he loved me. I really can’t describe the moment except to say that it was just filled with pure love. Love for each other, love for baby Haze, love for the Gospel and for our new little growing family."

Andlie's been the best big sister! When he's crying, she says, "Hazey! Hazey! That's enough, little buddy." She's always making sure he's around and is very sweet with him. I'm just happy there haven't been any face kicking or pushing off the couch episodes like people warned me about.

Shortly after Haze got here, we had a little family photo shoot. Thanks, Lenzi! You can see more of our family shoot here and more of Haze's newborn shoot here.

Andlie & Daddy went on their first Daddy-Daughter date to "Cars 2!" She has had a rough time taking off her "Car Mator" shirt ever since.

Bryce came home from Honduras! Our camera died shortly after we made it to the airport, but we were there! (And so was he.)

We celebrated the 4th of July! Andlie rode in the firetruck during the parade! She loved it until the end when she told Bryan, "I don't want to wave any more, Dad. No thanks."

We tried potty training. Tried. After two days and pee everywhere in our house except the toilet, we decided we'd try again later.

Andlie fell/jumped off a wall during play group and pushed her tooth back and up into her gums. Poor girl. The only thing that made her teeth feel better was the "big bandaid" on them.

Tooth incident meant that she had her first trip to the dentist! She did great and we've even been back since and had the little pearlie whites cleaned with no crying fits!

We spent some time at Woods Ranch at the mountain.

We blessed Haze. Well, Bryan did. He did an excellent job.

Here's little man in his blessing attire.

We've spent lots of summer nights at the park!

Haze has learned to smile!

We celebrated five years of wedded bliss!

Andlie is learning and growing more every day! She speaks to us in full sentences and keeps us laughing and happy all day long. She has such a fun personality. She loves swimming, running around, being outside, and climbing.

Haze is growing like a weed! At his 2 month appointment, he was 12 pounds, 4 ounces (64%) and 24 inches (96%). He's a pretty happy baby except at 9:00 each night. He loves being held, eating, pooping (sometimes), and looking at Bryan's hair.

I think that covers it! I'm sure I've missed some pictures/events since I just loaded 904 pictures to the computer from June 16 - August 1. We've sure had a full summer, but it's been full of fun and love. Though we haven't gotten much sleep this summer, (and I now put my makeup on at 3:00 PM every day and sometimes our house smells of old diapers and breast milk) we feel so blessed to have both Hazer Man and Andlie in our family and can't believe all the fun we're having with them every single day!