Graduation

Garrick's graduation got a little overshadowed with the news of my grandma passing, but we still made it a special day. Garrick is the first kid to graduate from college in his family. He has put his blood, sweat, and tears into this school and has come out graduating with honors. I am so proud of him. These beautiful pictures were taken by my sister Kayla. We drove home to Iowa that night, so to say it was a busy day is an understatement!

April 2016

April was a busy month! Garrick was busy with school, graduation, packing up all of our stuff and getting ready to MOVE to Iowa for the summer. Life got a little crazy especially toward the end of the month when Grandma Beck passed away and we rearranged our plans to make it home for the funeral. We said a quick goodbye to our Utah home.  

Rosie's first Easter! We spent the day with the Beck Family at Mapleton which included our traditional egg toss and egg throw. 

This babe has officially outgrown her newborn clothes and now fits into 0-3months!

First time in the stroller and she's cute as a button!

Our little gremlin. 

This poor baby got an eye infection. She only took a pacifier the first month but anytime she isn't feeling well she'll take it. That's how I know something is off. It's too bad though, I think she is so cute with a binky, I wish she'd take it more often!

I try to get out of the house at least once a day with Rosie, whether it's going for a walk or laying on a blanket outside. I love it. 

 Rosie's three month update: She loves her hands, standing, talking, getting massages from daddy, off roading in the stroller. She hates going to sleep, pacifiers, being swaddled, and having the sun in her eyes. Can't believe she's already three months!

Before we moved we were able to spend some time with Garrick's family! It's pretty hard to get the whole group together so it was really nice to have everyone there. We even got to spend some time with his grandparents who had just moved to Utah. We've been very blessed to live so close to family for so long. We will miss our Gaffney family. 

We finally made it home to Iowa just in time for everything. It was hectic getting there but was worth it when we were all together. Grandma Beck's funeral was beautiful, she lived a life of faithful christlike service and will forever be an example to us all. 

Blessing Day

Garrick gave a beautiful blessing to our Rosie. I'm so grateful that he holds the priesthood. 

Rosie wore my mom's blessing dress. She looked so beautiful!

We had so many friends and family come to support us at her blessing. We had a fun picnic with these guys after church. It's the last time we all were able to hang out before we moved. 

Bits of February and March

Love this little teddy bear!

Waking this baby up is one of my favorite things. Gosh she's cute.

We were a bit crazy and decided to go to Kansas City for Family Day at KCU. Garrick was so excited to show us his campus. Rosie slept the entire 17 hour drive there and the drive back. It was a little rough spending the day on campus though, we had to cut the day early. We decided to spend the rest of the weekend in Iowa so my dad could meet Rosie!

We were also fortunate to spend some time with Grandma Beck before she passed away. Grandma loved holding Rosie, she never took her eyes off her. 

Garrick thinks they look like twins. 

This picture has a story to it. Feeding Rosie was the most stressful part about being a new mom. She was a little baby so she was very sleepy which made feeding hard, she had a high palate so she had difficulty latching, and she screamed every time I attempted to feed her. Anyway 3 lactation consultants later, after two weeks of constantly fighting her to nurse I decided to give up. During this process we fed her a million different ways, and I mean we, Garrick was amazing and was there with me every step of the way to figure out how to feed her. I was determined to give her breast milk so I was pumping around the clock. At her two month appointment the nurse suggested I attempt to breastfeed again since she was a little older and a little bigger. With no expectations we started seeing a new lactation consultant and miraculously she was able to nurse! We were a little worried about going on this road trip because she was still figuring out how to nurse but she didn't skip a beat and did amazing on the trip. I am so proud of the fact that I can breastfeed so here is my photo to prove it!

Our baby girl has learned how to smile!

Rosie's two month shots were TERRIBLE. She did okay at the dr's office, and then fell asleep. They told me that she'd sleep for a while and then might wake up in some pain-that's the understatement of the year! She slept for about 6 hours and then woke up screaming!!! Luckily Kayla was with me so I wasn't alone.  We tried giving her a bath and massaging her leg, tried feeding her, nothing stopped the screaming. Luckily I had bought tylenol on the way home from the dr's office, once I finally remembered that I had pain reliever I was able to stop the screaming. But after the screaming, came the no sleeping. I tried the whole day to get her to sleep but couldn't so we drove around, got donuts while we tried to get her to sleep, which of course didn't work. So we hung out the whole day. Notice her wide eyes haha.

 Rosie's first time in the mountains!

So.. There we were in mountains.. enjoying the fresh air and the sound of the river flowing.. next thing I know there is yellow mustard poop everywhere.. nothing was left untouched.. this is all that remains..

 Somehow Garrick convinced me to do some hiking in the snow...It was actually very beautiful and Rosie slept the whole time. All that mountain air really wiped her out!