Santa Clause

My parents ward had their ward Christmas party on Saturday the 5th and Makenna and I went to it. Chris couldn't come cause he had to finish his homework. They had a photographer there taking pictures with santa so we took the oppurtunity and got some photos. She was so fascinated with Santa Clause and loved to stare at him. It was cute when I went to pick her up she pulled on his beard, she is already curious. Merry Christmas everyone and I hope everyone has a safe and wonderful holidays.

A little Update

Eating her rice cereal

Chilling with Mommy

Nothing too exciting to post about lately, but I thought I should write something since I haven't posted in a month. Chris just started a new job last week and seems to be getting the hang of it, he is just trying to figure out there system and how everything works. He is also finishing up another semester of school this week and this semester has been crazzzzy, he is so ready for it to be over, I think he just took too many classes this semester, crazy boy. He is a hard worker and I think he will get awesome grades this semester. Nothing new for me except for being a mom and still learning how to handle everything and not go nuts. Makenna is so much fun but also already has her own little personality. Makenna is now 5 months and 1 week old, it is going by fast, slow down. She has had her first little cold this week which hasn't been fun but she is doing pretty good, she has been a little congested and had coughing attacks. I tried her on rice cereal back when she was about 4 1/2 months but it seemed to upset her so I layed off, I started her back on it at the beginning of this week and she seems to be doing better with it. I love to watch her grow and learn new things. She is fascinated with looking at other people but not having other people hold her, she has become quite a momma's girl. I like it when other people hold her because then it gives me a break. Well that is about it right now, we had a great thanksgiving and can't wait for christmas. I will post more as the holidays approach cause then I will have more to show.

Four Months Old

Our little girl is now 4 months old, it is crazy how fast time goes by. So here is the info on her percentages.

Weight: 12 lb 5 oz, she is in the 20 percentile
Length: 24.5 in, she is in the 63 percentile
Head: 40.5 cm, she is in the 37 percentile

She is a tall and skinny girl. We love her so much and she is so much fun. At 4 months she is smiling a ton, laughing a little bit, rolling from her tummy to her back, likes to try and talk, stand up supported, try to sit on my lap, scream when she gets excited, suck on her fingers or her whole fist, suck her thumb, pull her binky out of her mouth and chew on it, eats like a champ (she gets a little mad when she is in the middle of eating and I pull the bottle out), she smiles really big when I sing to her and will make noises as well, sleeps through the night at least 10 to 11 hours most nights she had a bad week last week though, and she like to spit up on daddy. She is also on reflux medicine, we think she might have a mild case of it, she would spit up a ton and sometimes it would bother her, she doesn't like the medicine if I put it directly in her mouth, but if I mix it in with her formula she will take it. We have many nicknames for Makenna, some of them are stinker bum, kenna wenna boo, kennars, booger, sweets, kenna, and pretty girl. Those are the ones I can think of right now but I think there are more.

Allred Halloween Party

So on saturday the 17th my parents had there halloween party for the grandkids and adults. It was really fun dressing Makenna in her costume and seeing my nieces and nephews in there costumes. Makenna is Minnie Mouse for Halloween and I think she looks pretty cute in her costume. My mom planned some fun things to do, the first thing was a fun dinner. She gave each of us a menu with all sorts of weird things on it, there were three courses and you had to decide where you wanted each type of thing to go, so for instance for your first course you might get only a fork, knife and spoon and no food, or you could get one type of food, a drink and a knife. It was pretty entertaining to watch some of the kids eat with only a knife. I got my fork and spoon and dessert first, it worked out great. After dinner the kids carved pumpkins, and then they frosted sugar cookies that my mom had made. It was good times and so much fun to hang out with my fam, chris couldn't come cause he had a cold and needed to do homework, we missed him. I love that my parents have made a tradition of this, it is so much fun, I can't wait till Makenna is older and can enjoy it as well.

First BYU Shirt

This is a fun collage I created of pictures of Makenna and me with our BYU shirts. We love our COUGARS!!! Also there is a couple of pictures of Makenna and her cousin Hailey having fun watching the game. They are about 5 weeks apart and are going to be great friends. I love this little girl, she is so much fun and just learned how to scream when she is excited, soon enough I think she will be laughing, I can't wait!!!

Three Months Old

Our little girl is three months old today!!! I can't believe how fast these three months have gone. It has been fun, challenging, exciting, and crazy all at the same time. I love being a mom to this adorable little girl. As you can see from this top picture Makenna has found her thumb, it is so cute but I don't want her to get into a habit of sucking her thumb. We will see if it continues or if she just stops on her own. At three months old Makenna is smiling a lot and recognizes you when you talk to her. She loves to be talked to and be read to. She is sleeping pretty good at night. Most nights she wakes up once but she has done some nights where she sleeps the whole night, which is so great for me. I am excited for this month to see the new things she discovers.

Makenna's Blessing Day

Makenna got blessed this Sunday by Chris and he did such a fantastic job. Thank you to all of our family that came to support us. Thank you to Dani my sister in law who let us use her house to have a get together afterwards. It turned out to be great having it at her house because our place wouldn't have fit everyone and there wouldn't have been anything for kids to do. Makenna looks so adorable in her dress, we borrowed the dress from my nieces, I really didn't want to buy a dress cause they are expensive. Makenna is such a joy in our lives and we are so grateful to have her with us. These are just some of the pictures from the day, I love her expressions in all of the pictures, priceless.

Happy 2 Months Old and Checkup

Our baby girl is two months old today, I can't believe how fast it has gone. She is so much fun to be with and it is so much fun to see her learn and grow everyday. The picture was taken about a week ago, I love how she is smiling now, it is so cute. She had her checkup today and our little girl weighs 10 lbs 8 oz and is 22 inches long now. She is in the 50 percentile for weight and the 36 percentile for her length. She has progressed so much from her two week check up at that appointment she was in the 4 percentile for her weight and the 16th percentile for length. She had her shots today and it was kind of sad but she did pretty well, I have been giving her baby tylenol to help with the pain. I hope she does well the next couple of days. We sure love this girl, she is so much fun.

Makenna's First time on a Train and what's been going on

This was Makenna's first time on a train at Lagoon. We went there for my parent's stake Lagoon day. She kind of liked the ride. She is becoming more alert now, so she likes to look around and see everything.

She loved sitting in grandma's arms and chilling.

My nephew Logan who is 3 loves to hold Makenna!! Whenever we come over he is always saying I want to hold baby. He sometimes forgets her name and gets her mixed up with my niece who doesn't even live here named Emma. We always ask him what's her name and she says Emma and we say no Makenna. It is so funny!!


We took Makenna to the park a couple of sundays ago and had a fun time playing in the stream and just enjoying the great outdoors. Yes that is my daredevil husband holding Makenna while standing in the stream, I was telling him to not drop her.

In this picture it looks like she has such a hard life.
I would like to phrase it as It aint easy being beautiful.

These are her cool Newborn sunglasses that look
huge on her.

My daughter is so cool

Now with this onesie she is wearing there is a joke behind it. So when we found out Makenna was a girl I asked Chris what should we name her and he said how about Dixie? I said that sounded like a dixie cup and he said well it's better than Trixie like a ho name. So as a joke we started calling her Trixie and it caught on with my co-workers and some of my family. My mom would shake her head anytime anyone called her that. So my sister in law had her friend make her this cute little onesie with the name on it, I had to have her wear it once.


My dad is in love with Makenna and can't get
enough of her. I love this picture, it is priceless.

Well everything is going good and life is just going along. Chris just finished his first term of school. He is going to Utah State through the extension program so all of his classes are online. He has really liked taking classes. He hopes to get his bachelors within three years. He is going to be burnt out by the end cause he is doing school full time and work full time. He is an awesome dad and an awesome father, he can do anything he sets his mind to. I am so proud of him he got A's in all of his classes for this term, Good Job Honey!! He has three weeks off now so we are hoping to have some fun and play while he is off. As for me I no longer work for Marriott and am an official stay at home mom, life is great. I will miss my friends at Marriott but I would much rather stay at home with this cute girl. Life is great!!!

Makenna's One Week Old Photoshoot

We had Chris's coworkers wife take Makenna's one week old pictures. She has a studio in her basement and does a really good job. It was so much fun getting them done and can't wait to make copies to put up on the walls. I am so glad we took these pictures. She has changed so much since those pictures, it is so crazy. I will post some recent pictures soon. Enjoy!!

Update on Our Lives with the Little One

My sister in law Dani took some pictures of her, they turned out
adorable.
My little smiley girl
We think she belongs in the movie Zoolander
she totally has the Magnum face. It cracks me up.
She loves her bath time, hates it when I
take her out.
At the Zoo for the first time


So the last couple of weeks have been crazy, fun, sleep deprived, interesting and all other sorts of things but I LOVE IT!!! I love being a mommy to this adorable little girl. I am so grateful she came to us and is a sweet little angel. It is so much fun to watch her grow and to see her start to discover the world around her. I am grateful that I can stay at home with her and be there for all that is going on. Just a little update when she went to her two week appointment she weighed 6 lbs 3 ounces, that means she had gained almost two lbs in two weeks, that's our girl. She is healthy and happy. They had to do the PKU test where they prick there heel and then squeeze out the blood, it was so sad I cried during the whole thing, it was pathetic. At her two month appointment they will do her shots and I told Chris he has to come to that with us because I don't handle shots well and I don't think I will handle watching her get shots. I will let you know what her stats are then. Above are some recent pictures of the mini peanut.

Slideshow with Pictures of Makenna's Birth

Here is a lovely slideshow of the pictures of Makenna's Birth. Thanks Dani for letting us use your camera to capture this wonderful event. I hope you all enjoy!!!

Makenna Marie has arrived

She is here. Our little angel arrived on June 25th at 3:09 in the morning. She weighed 4 lbs and 4 ounces and was 17.25 inches long. So here is the story of how it all came about. So on monday I went in for my normal appointment and they were a little worried because I had a little bit to much protein in my urine and my blood pressure was a little bit high. They sent me home to do a 24 hour urine draw, I brought it back the next day and dropped it off. Well on Wednesday morning I was in the shower and got a call from my doctor, he left a message to call them back which I thought was a little odd. I called back and spoke with his nurse and she asked me what I thought about having a baby that day. I couldn't believe it, they were worried about the urine draw they did and didn't want me to go any longer with the pregnancy cause they were worried I had the beginning stages of preeclampsia. So I called up Chris and told him what was going on and he came home. The hospital called and we got all of our bags ready to go and headed to the hospital. They got me checked in and checked me and I wasn't dialated at all still so they started me on the drug that makes you dialate. They had me hooked up to the monitors so they could monitor her heart rate and my contractions. They didn't start me on the pitosin to induce labor for quite a while because I was having contractions on my own and I was dialating with that drug. Finally around 9:30 I was feeling really hard contractions with a pain level of between a 4 and a 5. They started me on pitosin at that time and also gave me an ephidural because it was hurting. Once they gave me the ephidural I felt great, around between 12:30 and 1 they checked me and I was dialated to a 9 and I was 100 percent effaced, wow I was shocked and so was my mom and mother in law. They called my doctor to come in since he was the on call doctor, which was great. When my doctor came in I was dialated to a 10 and she was bearing down, they had to call in the anestetheologist to give me a higher dose of the ephidural because I was feeling intense pressure from her bearing down. Well I started pushing and pushed for about an hour to an hour and a half. It went really smooth, after she came out it was a little scary for a bit because she was having a hard time breathing, she also came out with the chord wrapped around her neck once. They put her under the lights and a bunch of people came in to help her out. They finally got her breathing and I heard a little cry from her, it was wonderful. My doctor was so glad that we got her out then because he was afraid if we waited any longer my placenta wouldn't have lasted much longer, it was small and old looking. We are so grateful our little angel is here and healthy. For how small she is, she is really healthy and does really well. We will keep everyone updated on how she is doing.

My brother coming home and an update on baby

So my brother Jake came home from his mission to Uraguay on Friday June 12th. It is so good to have him home, he is such an awesome brother. Here is a video of his return, I knew he would cry and that I would cry as well.



I am almost 38 weeks. I cannot believe how fast this pregnancy has gone. So I have a story about my last couple of visits. So when I went to my 36 week appointment they did an ultrasound to see how she was doing. She is still measuring two weeks smaller, which they said ok, she will just be a small baby. The only thing he was worried about is my placenta was looking to be two weeks older than it should, which could cause some problems. He said I would start having non stress tests twice a week to measure the amniotic fluid, and moniter her heart rate. I have gone to three tests so far and everything has been fine. Also at that appointment I was 70% effaced and she had already dropped, but I was not dialated at all. So on my appointment on the 15th we decided that he would induce me on the 29th of June because he doesn't want to let me go all the way to my due date or further. I hadn't dialated yet so he said after my next appointment on the 22nd if I haven't dialated they will have me come in on the night of the 28th and give me pills to soften my cervix, I will sleep there overnight and they will start me in the morning. I can't believe she will be here in about a week. I am nervous but so excited to see her cute little face. I will try to update again before she comes but if not that will be my next post, our new little bundle. Wish me good luck!!! Here are some pictures at my cousin Kimber's baby shower. She is due with her first baby at the end of July. We are both having girls, it is so much fun. I can't wait to see Autumn. I love my cousin so much and I am so glad we could be pregnant at the same time. It is kind of funny we are two weeks apart in age and have always been close. Our babies might be two to three weeks apart and I hope they can be close. I love you Kimber and I hope your last couple of weeks are great.

The Update

Mary and Tori at the Living Planet Aquariam

NEMO

Kelli Loves Nemo so much she kisses him

Red Butte Gardens On Memorial Day 2009

My prego belly at 34 weeks
So I finally decided to update my blog with some pictures and some information of how things are going. We have been doing lots of different things. My cousin graduated from the University of Utah last month and I was able to attend her graduation, it was awesome. I am so proud of her and all of her accomplishments, love you Erica. There were a couple of different birthdays in May between my family and Chris's, but most of the ones in my family don't live here so we didn't have parties for them. We had a new niece born on my side of the family on May 16th, we didn't know if the baby was going to be a boy or a girl and were so excited it was a girl. She is really cute and tiny. She was 6 lbs and 15 ounces, her name is Haley Corrine Allred (not sure on the spelling of her first name). I didn't get to see her the first week she was born cause I was sick, it was so sad. On the friday before memorial day my team at work got to go to the Living Planet Aquariam in Sandy for a team outing, it was a ton of fun hanging out with everyone and taking some fun pictures, I will miss my team members when I leave they are so awesome. On memorial day Chris and I went to the Red Butte Gardens in the morning for an hour. I had never been there before and wanted to go see it, we had fun walking around and enjoying the beautiful weather, it was great. A little update on pregnancy, things are going good I am at 35 weeks so only 5 more to go, I have had a couple of baby showers and am so blessed with things that people have got for our little girl. I am measuring a little bit small but my doctor is not worried and hasn't moved my due date so that is nice. I have an appointment with my doctor on the 8th of June which I will be at 36 weeks and then start my every week appointments, craziness. Well here is the update for now and I will update again soon after my brother comes home on the 12th from his mission.