I can't believe John and I have been married for 3 years. In my mind it feels longer because we've known each other about 7 years now!!! Wow when did that happen? Crazy! Anyway, although our anniversary was on the 5th, we celebrated on the 31st of January because John had an open schedule that day. My parents watched Deja while we went and saw "Saving Mr. Banks" and ate dinner at TGIF. It was fun having a date night :)
On the day of our anniversary John had his first test for school, so he was pretty stressed about it. Luckily he passed and I made a special dinner for us before he left for work. For dessert we ate our favorite "Love Potion #31" ice cream (another reason to love February)! We decided this year that I would be in charge of dinner on our Anniversary, and John could be in charge of dinner for Valentines day and whoever was in charge of dinner would also receive a small gift. So for our anniversary John gave me the Lion King game for the Super Nintendo. Why yes, we do own a Super Nintendo, but the game was more of a sentimental gift because the first time we held hands we were playing this game at his apartment. Ha, that sounds super nerdy, but I don't care :) I'm grateful we held hands that day and that we also got sealed in the temple for time and all eternity.
For Valentines day John had a short day at school and then we were able to spend the day together. It was so nice just having him home! We were invited to go to his parents for dinner, but John fulfilled his "dinner duty" by surprising me with Cafe Rio for lunch. Can't go wrong with Rio :) For my present to John I gave him the expansion pack to "Settlers of Catan." We got the game for Christmas, but it's rare for us to play it with less than 4 people, so the expansion pack is a must! After dinner with Grandpa, we went to my parents house to visit my Sister and her family. They are visiting from Canada for a week, so we talked and ate ice cream. It was a perfect Valentine's Day!
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| Love that goofy smile :) |
These last couple weeks I've been working on putting together the letters John and I wrote back and forth during his mission! It's been so fun reading the letters and is basically a journal for that time in our lives. It's definitely my new favorite thing. Now to start on the e-mails... :)
My little sister is pregnant and due March 1st, so we through her a big family baby shower a couple weeks ago. It was fun having lots of friends and family over to celebrate. We did soups, salads, and desserts and everything was gluten free!!
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| Deja and her cousin Lyla |
My cousin brought her daughter who was born 10 days after Deja, so it was fun comparing the two! Deja seems so much bigger to me, but my cousin insisted they were pretty close, haha.
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| Majken and Deja |
My mom thinks Deja is already as heavy as Thomas, Deja's Cousin, who is 3 months older than her! I love my big baby girl :)
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| Deja, Grandma, and Thomas |
We also finally got Deja a crib (from her Grandpa Southwick). We put off getting it because we didn't want to deal with moving it from Sandy to Taylorsville, but we probably should have done it sooner. Deja probably should have been out of this tiny bassinet a month or two ago, haha.
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| Last time in the Bassinet! |
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| First night in the crib! |
I was so nervous to let her sleep in the crib that first night. At one point I heard her rustling and waited a minute to see if she would fall back asleep on her own. After 5 min or so she started to cry so I got up to help her out. As I looked into the crib she was on her stomach, but when she saw me she flipped right over to her back again and started smiling. I think she thought it was play time or something, haha. Other than that, she hasn't really had any issues in transitioning.
Other new things with Deja include:
- She finally gave us a real life Giggle!!! It actually happened on our anniversary while we were both home, so that was pretty special :)
- She used to do this throaty, moan when she started to cry. It kind of sounded like a baby Chewbacca and was hilarious. I wanted to get it on video, but every time she did it, I was too busy laughing at the noise coming out!! Now her sounds are more like squeaks, which is cute, just not as funny.
- She loves playing with her toes or socks when she lays on her back.
- She has definitely started having "Stranger Danger." This actually started in Mid-January, which I thought was surprising because she was still pretty young.
- When she wakes up from naps she's a quiet one. When I notice she's awake she's usually busy playing with her toes, or examining the edge of her blankets inquisitively.
- She's very interested in whatever we're holding.
- She's not a fan of loud noises and will usually start crying if she gets startled by something too loud. Ex: Blenders, Vacuums, Shredders, you get the idea :)
- She likes sitting up with the help of pillows :)
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| Our little Princess! |
