24th of July

For the 24th of July we went to the Bountiful Parade on Thursday night and watched it. It was so hot we had to be there an hour before to get our spot. Alyssa loved every minute of it and watched the whole thing. She was intrigued by all the sounds and people. I don't think she even realized it but here is her first picture with a clown.

On Friday we had a BBQ at my sisters house with family. The kids enjoyed the slip n' slide and pool while the adults sipped homemade root beer. My sister kimberly brought bracelets that light up when you bend them and all the kids loved them as well as Alyssa.

(nephew Rhett, Lance and Alyssa)

We ended the night with fireworks out in the street and it was good times had by all!!

Our New House!

Well we did it- we bought a house! We moved in a week ago and are loving it. We have been busy cleaning, painting and getting the yard back to life. We will try and be better about posting. Hope everyone had a good Holiday over the 4th. It doesn't seem real but very nice to have a place we can call home! Here are some pictures.

The guest bedroom -from what we hear guests won't be staying long this room is like a furnace the sun beats on it in the evening and then it never cools down.!

If you can't tell this is Alyssa's room

This is the Master Suite-hahaha! This is the after picture we painted the walls.

Master bed and some of the bathroom. Like the PEACH walls- we didn't.

Laundry room- nice to have a sink in.

Kitchen

Family room (Top)

Backyard with sweet shed very helpful for a lot of junk!! (bottom)

Front of house

4th of JULY

HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY

So for the 4th of July we traveled to Logan UT. To celebrate and have a BBQ at some friends house. It was a lot of fun, and a lot of good food! Of course we watched the fireworks and they were actually pretty good once they got them going.

Don't we look so happy!

Alyssa first 4th of july party, of course she slept through the whole thing

You want pictures! here ya go.

here are some pics of Alyssa being happy.

Lazy sunday afternoon

So its time to update everyone! First off we have moved to the land of bountiful about three weeks ago, and are living in katrina's sister basement! JOY! We just bought a house in north salt lake and we will be able to move in two weeks. This is a picture of our small living space for the time being, lots of privacy.

Alyssa is growing so fast and changing everyday she just started talking "baby talk" two days ago its so fun especially with the way she uses her tongue. Here is a video of her talking to us, she is starting to teethe to so dont mind her hands in her mouth.

3 months old!

So time has flown by as Alyssa gets bigger everyday. It is so fun to see as her personality starts to come out. I have started back to work which really sucks and she is going to a daycare at the hospital which they are really good but I would still rather be at home with her. On April 12 (Easter sunday) Alyssa and cousin Landon were both blessed by there dads and they both did a wonderful job. It was great to have both families here to participate in this great event. After blessing we went to a park for a luncheon and thank heavens the weather turned out good that day.

All the grandchildren on the Rutz side! (Keri, Landon, and Alyssa)

Family picture outside of the church not the best but it will do!

My sister had someone up north make these cookies for the blessing they did an excellent job very detailed and were so cute! Thanks- they were delicious to:)

Alyssa with a pretty good smile, it seems every picture we get she has a bib on oops! She likes to spit up a lot and I get sick of changing clothes and doing laundry.

I was up north a week ago visiting family and stopped to see my sister. Kari likes Alyssa but she doesn't want to change her diaper- I wonder why not!!

So on Friday night my friend Kim and I took our little girls swimming at my work. Alyssa's first swim in a pool. Thanks to grandma who gave us this floatie she and Annie both loved it. How cute is she! She seemed to like it but she was hungry. She was just chillin on the tube. I love this face she is making!

Annie in the floatie she loved it! We had a good time wasn't long but for these two cute girls it was plenty. Then afterwards Kim and I treated ourselves to ice cream at Dairy Queen- YUM!

Lance got a new job at Diamond Ranch Academy working with troubled youth. He likes it for the most part but the hours suck. He came home Saturday morning after work and I fixed Lance and Tyson breakfast. Uncle Tyson with Alyssa he loves playing with her.

Bath time! Alyssa loves the bath can't wait for her to be able to play with toys in the tub she will love it.

I took Alyssa to church today by myself. It was an adventure of course she had to eat in the middle of sacrament and she had a poopie diaper. But look how cute she looks in the dress Grandma Rutz gave her. I love it. She will be able to wear it awhile we had trouble keeping the pants on.

New Arrival--- Alyssa is here!!

Ok so I know it has been a long time since i posted but a lot has happened. The end of January I got put on bedrest because I had preclampsia and my blood pressure was high. I was on bed rest for a week and lets just say it was the longest week of my life or close to it. I am not used to being so lazy and unproductive. I went into the doctor on February 4th and he decided he was going to induce me the next day. I arrived at the hospital thursday at 930 in the morning and lets say this was only the beginning of a very long adventure. I was hooked up to everything you could imagine and was not dilating very fast at all. By 5 pm I got my epidural and still was only dilated to a 4. Still no progress. By Friday morning at 730 am when the Dr. came in he was surprised I still had not delivered and of course he was going out of town and a different doctor was taking over for him. I was finally pretty much all the way dilated. By 11 am I was able to start pushing and did so for 2 hours with no progress. When the Dr. came in to check me after a little break from pushing he told me there was no progress of the baby moving so they would have to do a c-section. Lets just say I was not very happy about this.
Well Alyssa was born Friday, February 6th at 2:46 pm weighing in at 8lbs 2 oz and being 20 1/4" long. She had some complications at birth to top everything off and ended up in the NICU for a week with swelling on her skull, blood sugar lo
w and she had an infection. Needless to say she is now home and doing well and is such a fun little one that I love. Me in the hospital in labor hooked up to everything!

Alyssa in the NICU in an incubator, she had jaundice so she is under the lights, cute sunglasses huh?! Look at all the lines she is hooked up to poor little girl.
Finally all lines gone except an IV in hand, her first outfit she got to wear that the hospital put her in.
She loves the boppy pillow and will fall asleep in that before her crib. We are in trouble! She loves to sleep until it is time to go to bed for the night and then she is wide awake! We got some work to do that is for sure to get on a schedule before going back to work!!