Lucy's baby blessing

Today was Lucy's baby blessing in church. Ryan did an excellent job giving her a blessing. It was sweet and thoughtful and promised beautiful blessings. I am so thankful for my little family! My dad was also able to be present in the circle, along with the bishopric. Lucy only let out a small cry once, but was calm and content the rest of the time. Since she is so small though, her little outfit was kind of swimming on her and I wish I would have realized that her headband was on funky in these pictures, but oh well. It's crazy to me that even newborn clothes are big on her sometimes, but she's still growing!

I love this picture with my parents because it shows Lucy's cute dimple that she has.

Grandma & Grandpa Smith's visit

My mom and dad were here this last week and it was heaven. It was SOOO nice to be able to relax and have someone always willing and wanting to hold, soothe, rock, and change Lucy. I love doing all that, but it was amazing to have so much time to get some stuff done, get myself ready, and to just relax. We watched some Christmas movies, made sugar cookies, went out to eat, did some shopping, etc. My life felt a little more normal again! And I'm sure Lucy loved the constant care and attention from her grandparents. Thanks for all of the help, mom & dad! Please come again very, very soon!!

Lucy's first flight

Ryan always "flies" our nieces and nephews around (see here) and they love it. Well, now that we have our own child, he decided that even though she was only 3 weeks old, it was her turn! I think she liked it... well, at least she didn't cry. :)

Our little family

We ran outside really fast this morning and attempted to take a nice family picture of the three of us since we didn't have one. I think they turned out okay considering my parent's are not professional photographers and we did it in about 3 minutes or less. Unfortunately it was the coldest day of the season so far and was 13 degrees outside. Our poor little Lucy was frozen (and so were we!). Anyway, we saved the best one for our Christmas card, but here are some of the outtakes:

And here's Ryan just looking handsome. And keeping the baby warm in that big blanket we grabbed as we ran out the door. She's in there!

Faces of bathtime

Lucy

Now if only she would do this during the night... :) We love her anyway. I should have put a bow in her hair too. Oh well. We're lucky we already bathed today.

Thanksgiving

We had a small but nice Thanksgiving holiday here at our home. We didn't travel since we just had Lucy, but my mom and grandma came from Wednesday through Saturday and it was great to have company and extra hands to hold Lucy. :) We had a wonderful week and spent thanksgiving skyping with family, eating lot's of good food, setting up for Christmas, and watching Christmas movies.

Might I also add how awesome Ryan is? He made our entire Thanksgiving dinner almost by himself: the turkey, sweet potatoes, gravy, 7-layer salad, cheese ball, apple pie and berry pie. I made the mashed potatoes and my mom made the apple-cranberry salad. It was delicious and we were all impressed with Ryan's kitchen skills and how he made it all come together.

After we ate, we got started right away on setting up Christmas. I like to keep our Christmas tree lights on all day even if it's daylight just because it makes me happy and I love the holidays.