Delaney's Blessing

I have been so busy this month that it has been hard to have the chance to post blogs. So this one is about our little Laney Bug. She was blessed earlier this month 12/7/08 by my father Scott Richards. The blessing was short but sweet and it made me think of all the things to come in the future. I only want the best for my kids and it is so hard to be able to provide everything.

The blessing dress that she is wearing was my blessing dress. So just in case you don't know how old I am, this dress was used almost 25 yrs ago. It was really nice of my mom to keep this dress for me so that my daughter could wear it. Thanks Mom, I love you!

Here she is Delaney Jessalyn Mattson

More family pics

Mom and Dad with all of the grandkids: Emma, Orion,Olivia, Ethan, Ella, Harper, Samuel and Delaney

My sister Erin and her husband William and son Samuel

Me and Danny with Harper and Delaney

My sister Rebecca and her Husband Nate with Emma, Ethan & Ella

Rebecca's family again

Johanna did a great job! Thank you for being so patient with all of us.

Family Pics from 12/6/08

Recently my family had the opportunity to have someone take some professional pictures for us and they turned out great! I wanted to show everyone the best family picures that we have ever had!!
Melissa with her kids, Orion and Olivia

The whole Richards family

All of the Richards kids

The Richards kids

The whole Richards family

To Danny

Today is my Husbands birthday and it is a big one today! He's 30...I would like to say Happy Birthday to Danny. I love you and know that you are a good man. Thank you for you!

Sam and Delaney

This is a picture taken last week of Delaney and her cousin Sam. Sam is 4 1/2 months and Delaney is a few days shy of 1 month....Look at the size of this kid! He could roll over on Laney and you wouldn't even know that she was there! Sam is my sister Erin's son, and she has to wear a brace on her wrists because she is having pain from the weight of carrying him around. Don't get me wrong, he is VERY sweet and adorable but he is also a hefty boy.

Laney Bug's Room

After a month of our Little Laney sleeping in a bassinet by my bed I decided that she needed to have her own crib in another room so that I wouldn't constantly hear her moaning, groaning and stretching all the time. I needed some peace and quiet! Laney has a bad habit of being very noisy when she eats and then carries it after the feeding to when she lays down to go to sleep.

So this weekend Danny and I cleaned the house and took the couch out of his computer room and moved it to the living room and set up her crib in there. I then got to decorate one side of the room to be girly. Here are the pics of her new room. The bed theme is brown and pink polka dots courtesy of the best seamstress ever, Pam Price! Thank you so much Pam!! And the rest of the room is Lady Bugs which have dots on them, so do the dragon flys on the light switch.

The reason I chose lady bugs is because her nick name is Laney Bug, as I am sure you already caught earlier. She is a cute little bug and I just love her room, I can't wait to do a whole room as cute as this someday when she gets her own room.

Halloween

This year was Harper's first real year of trick or treating, last year we took him but he was only 9 mos old so he didn't know what was going on. This year Harper got to be a turtle, and he looked so cute! My sister Rebecca let Harper use it because she knows my obsession with turtles that I have had since 6Th grade. I couldn't have asked for a more perfect costume.

This is him after he was done trick or treating, he was already to eat all of his candy and when I wouldn't let him have another piece he went ape and had a fit. What's new?

This is his very first house that he went to. My parents neighbor Sis.Nelson who I have known for the 20 yrs that we lived next to her. He wanted to go in her house like many other houses.

This is Danny having to carry Harper off of the play ground equipment so that he could do the costume parade at the ward trunk or treat. He was so mad because he wanted to keep playing.

This is Harper and I walking around the circle in the costume parade. Seconds after the girls behind me (who shall be left nameless unless you know who they are in the pic) had just run over my heal with the stroller and I was in pain because they got me real good!

It was really fun for Danny and I, we enjoyed watching Harper have so much fun and it was one of those moments, you know....Our little boy is getting so big, I can't believe that he is already almost 2 and he just looks so cute....etc....

I can't wait until next year when I get to dress Delaney too!