You know you're a mom when...

You know you're a mom when you it's noon and you're starving because you forgot to eat worrying about your daughter

You know you're a mom when you cry as they poke her little arms to get blood and they can't so they poke her 4 times and she screams.... and you cry...

You know you're a mom when you rather stay up at night just to watch her breathe

You know you're a mom when you're rushing to get dinner done, but she gets hungry just as you begin to cook it...haha

You know you're a mom when you want things for her for you're Christmas gifts

You know you're a mom when you think about getting your husband's lunch made so he'll have enough food to eat and miss out on your chance to get a shower that morning... ha ha

I love being a mother

SO.... I wrote this blog like two and a half or maybe 3 weeks ago just never posted it... I haven't been really into blogging much since she's been born, and it stinks because I haven't been good at journaling... but I remember things, she smiled first when she was 5 days old and everyone tells me it wasn't a real smile, but I believe it was....she was born with jaundice and she's been struggling with it the entire time, but it's breast feeding jaundice so it's not dangerous anymore and it'll just be a couple of months before her eyes turn back white ( they're yellow with jaundice) I have taken tons of video of her, but it's too hard to put on the blog, and this past Friday she was more awake than ever and started to react to me a little and coo... and it was so sweet. I love this sweet little baby and she's my heart and my soul. I'm so grateful for her and the blessing it has been to have her. She's such a beautiful little baby. Here are a ton of pictures that people have been waiting for and I'm trying my best to put them in order from her age:

more pictures to come soon

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October 20th, 2010

After 18 hours of labor

Layla was born October 20th, 2010

She was 6 lbs 1 oz

She was 18 inches

She had brown hair and big steely gray eyes

She is gorgeous

We love her so much

More to come...

And FALL begins!

So Fall begins and This is my 33 week picture! I have to say I wish I had my hair curled in all my pictures I've taken, it just looks better haha... so this girl can be born in the next 3 to 5 weeks... wowee!!!! ( well I'm actually about 34 weeks now so 2 to 4 weeks.... although I did have a dream that the doctors told me they changed their mind and were going to let me go FULL TERM... I got worried ha ha... )

So right before school started Alex took me camping for the very first time! I had never been and really wanted to go. This is him working at the fire... it was really hard to get it going...

BUT ALAS!!! We did!!!

It was fun being out there with my best friend. Man I love that boy.

We set up our tent and got all snuggly inside the tent, but then I got scared.... We were camping all by ourselves with no other couples and the camp ground was completely empty with no one else there and I just thought.... what if we get killed in the night!!!!!

SO we packed everything up and camped in our living room, but ya know I still feel like I got the camping experience, I really did lay down on the ground.

So then, My great friends Nicole and Kelsi threw me a baby shower for the girls in my ward!!!! It was sooo cute!!! They decorated sooo well and the food was sooo yummy!!! I was really blessed and had a lot of support there from the sisters in my ward and received awesome things for our little baby girl!

yummy food!!!

me and all those gifts!

So this is our baby girl's nursery! This below is the changing table

This is a view from the inside of her crib with the pretty bumper and the adorable mobile that Al's mom got for us!

So if you look at the bedding set and the valance, the wall hanging all those things were made by the one Mrs. Patty Randall, then most incredible woman! She's soooo good at sewing it's crazy!!!! She was so sweet and made this bed set for our baby!!!! Then if you look below at all that furniture! We were soo blessed! I know so many people that just deal with the bare minimum when they have their baby, but my Dad and my in-laws were sooo sweet and bought and gave all this stuff to us!!!! We are reallly really blessed. I am so grateful for my family!

Here is my hottie husband puttin together the baby furniture like a man!! OOoOO He's sooo handsome!!!

This was a picture from his first day of school. He's wearing his orange cheap shirt. He loves his cheap shirts soo much! We got like 5 of them for a buck 25 each!

A New place called Sammy's just opened and on the opening weekend we went both Friday and Saturday. They do live music on the weekends! It's such a fun place. AL fell in love with the place. He just thought it was so fun. Good food and Good music... who needs more??

Sammy's

There we are the other night we were there!

Our friends Chandra and Schyler came with us. We love these two they are soo dang fun!!!

Last but not least my Mom-in-Law, Lahni, and two of my best friends Jaclyn & Sarah threw me a baby shower!!

It was tons of fun!! There below is Lahni measuring my belly. I was about 33 weeks then and I measured 40 inches around!! COOL HUH??

There was the yummy food too!!! I'm so spoiled!!! Two awesome baby showers and an incredible husband and soon to have a cutie pie baby!!! I'm so excited!!! WAHOO!!!!

There will be more updates to come!