Holiday Hiatus

Lots to catch up on...

{December 4th}

Andy and Carly were married.

Yay!

{Decmeber 15th}

Me and Jo celebrated our anniversary.

Three years :)

We walked the strip and ate at Maggianos.

I love my husband!

{December 25th}

We were all spoiled by our families.

Levi's first Christmas.

{New Years}

Love my cute family.

We ate dinner and played games at my dads house.

In other news:

Levi is 5 months.

Can you believe it?

He just keeps getting cuter and cuter.

He has been eating "solids" and his favorite so far is bananas and peas.

He hasn't rolled over yet but he is getting close.

He talks, smiles and laughs non stop, he is such a happy baby.

He is getting on a pretty good schedule where he takes a nap every 2 hours.

His naps will last anywhere from 30 min to 2 hours.

He wants to grab and touch anything and just about everything goes into his mouth.

Levi LOVES bath time now and has just learned how to splash.

He is such a people person. He loves to be the center of everyones attention.

He is getting better at sleeping at night and can soothe himself to sleep now - thanks to some serious sleep training.

He'll sleep about 8 hours, I'll feed him and then he'll sleep for another 2ish hours.

Jordan finished his first semester of law school.

We are so happy.

He has made some pretty good friends at law school. Some of which he grew the stache and beard with during finals.

I started Zumba in STG and have become a fan.

Love it.

I can't think of anything else so I guess thats all for now...

Levi and Paisley Jo

Levi and PJ's second time meeting.

We sure do love the McDonalds!

Halloween

Hope everyone had a happy halloween!

We sure did.

Levi was a puppy and I was a black cat.

Jordan? Animal control.

Thats what you decide to be when you don't want to dress up.

This year was probably one of the best halloweens I've had in a long time.

Mom and Aria came up for our ward's trunk or treat / chili cook-off on Wednesday.

It was my first trunk or treat and it was really neat to see what everyone decorated their car as.

Aria loved it as well. She was the cutest fairy out there.

Thursday night we headed down to St. George and on Friday we got together with my dad, Janice, Carly, Andy, Mike, Tonya, Grandma Tutu, and Sophie to make some Gingerbread Haunted Houses. That was a blast.

Our Haunted Church.

Dad's graveyard. Please notice Car's scary face in the back.

Mike and Tonya's Scary House.

Carly and Andy's Haunted house/ graveyard.

On Halloween (Saturday) we went to my mom's house and chowed down on junk, carved pumpkins, took Aria out trick-or-treating and watched a scary movie.

Love Love Loved it.

Can't want until Levi can go trick-or-treating!!

For Sale

For Sale.

Im selling some extra nursing covers that i've made.

This is what they look like:

and these are the different materials:

I can make any others if you'd like.

They are $25 bucks.

Email me: whitney.gardner@hotmail.com

Aria & Levi

Me & Levi took a mini vaca to STG Wednesday - Friday this last week.

We wanted to get down there to see family and Jordan needed some good studying time to finish a big paper so we headed down.

It was sooo nice to be down around family again, to have some extra hands to help and play with Levi, and also some great babysitters so I could get out of the house.

One of my best helpers was Aria.

Boy does she love Levi.

She calls him her baby.

And Levi loves Aria.

He is so entertained by her.

The nursing cover is something that gets a lot of attention from Aria.

I tell her that Levi needs to eat and then he stays under there.

She is always trying to sneak a peek.

So I asked Aria if she wanted to get under the cover and eat.

She got her sippy cup and hopped on my lap.

It was hilarious.

She stayed under there until she was done with her drink then lifted it up the top of the cover and said "I'm done Whitney."

She did not want to get out.

She was so content just sitting under the cover.
Oh I sure do love that child.

Our Budding Bud

I can see them; Levi's little teeth buds.

10 weeks old and teething.

Im sure it will still be a little while until they poke through, but now I see the proof.

Chunky Monkey

Look who is 2 months old!

What a little chunkster.
Levi has decided that this is the best way to sit.
He loves to be able to see everything around him.

I feel like he is getting so big already!

We had a doctors appointment today and found that he is up to 10lbs and 21 inches long. He is finally startig to fill out his newborn outfits.

He also had to get his shots, but my little brave man only cried for like 5 seconds before he was fine again. The doctor also told us that he thinks he might be teething soon since his gums look swollen and he is drooling A LOT. Yay, how fun. Not.

Levi's sleeping has seemed to have gotten worse the past couple days. Hopefully this won't last very long. At night he'll sleep for maybe 3 hours at first then wake up 2 hours after that and then be in and out of sleep until 7 am when I've decided its time to "wake up." I've come to accept that this is how my sleep is going to be for a while and it makes it easier to handle.

Mr. Levi has started to "talk." It is the cutest thing ever. He'll just look up at me and starting cooing. We'll carry on a conversation for a good 5 or 10 minutes. I absolutely love it.