Those Teeth!

Zoey has been teething pretty badly for the past few days and it is the worst. Poor kid. Before that new tooth pops through, I really wanted to do a little tribute to her two little teeth that she currently sports. I have to tell you, guys. Those little bunny teeth melt my heart. I'm going to be pretty sad when those teeth get their new neighbor.

I love that cheesy little two-toothed grin. Just stop growing up, baby girl. Just stop.

Summertime with the Adams

It has been a long while since I updated our blog and I figured that it's high time to share what's been going on here with us.
We have had such a wonderful (and busy!) summer. In early June, Zoey and I went out to Utah to visit family. It was a week and a half of non-stop fun while we partied with family. I was so excited to take Zoey to the Hogle Zoo. She mostly didn't care, but in her heart of hearts, I know that she was having the time of her life. Or something like that. We also took Zoey to the park, which is one of her favorite things to do. That girl could swing until the cows come home. Zoey also took her first real swim while we were there. She wasn't too sure about it the first time, but when we went back, she had a ball. It was especially fun while our cousins splashed her. It was so fun to see her around all my little cousins. They were so sweet with her. It made me miss them extra.

Grayson, Zoey, and I also got to go with my Dad's family to Maui. We had such a great time. Seriously, guys. It was the best. Grayson and I are still talking about how much we miss it there.  If there was a way for us to be able to live there and not be homeless, we'd do it in a heartbeat. Hawaii is like Heaven on Earth. I'm getting sad sitting here thinking about how wonderful it is. Oh Maui, please take me back!

Grayson spent a lot of his summer busy with Scouts. Hours and hours and hours of Boy Scouts. I'm certainly glad that's over. I missed him a lot while he was gone. And so did Zoey. But none of us missed him more than Rascal did.
My mom and Grandma were able to come out to be with us for a week during August. All of us ladies had a fantastic time together. It took Zoey and me a week to recuperate from all the fun! We shopped, shopped, shopped, did all the church sites, did some hiking, and went to Niagara Falls. That was especially fun since I had never been before. We got adventurous and took Zoey on the Maid of the Mist. It was WILD. I probably wouldn't recommend this for people who have babies that aren't wild and crazy like mine.



We are so excited for fall and all the fun this season brings. Hopefully it will be just as wonderful as our summer. With our cute Zoey Bear, I'm sure it will be!

Anniversary in Review

Anniversaries before kids:
Relaxed dinner, enjoying each other's company, leisurely eating your food, rushing home to bed to celebrate another year of marriage.

Anniversaries after kids:
Restaurant is too crowded to be in with baby, wait for what seems like an eternity because baby is heavy in your arms, worry about noise level in restaurant and hope it doesn't disturb baby, take baby to the bathroom to change wet diaper and there is nowhere to do it, end up changing her in her car seat because there is not another option in sight, get seated but table is too small to sit at with a car seat so you get put back on the waiting list, get seated a second time and sit down, realize baby is only wearing one shoe, search high and low for it all over crowded restaurant with no luck, baby starts crying so you check her diaper and discover that it needs to be changed again, undo diaper tabs and begin to change her again but WAIT! it's a blowout diaper, frantically look for a place to change her while diaper continues to spread up her back, spot a bench in the back you can use as a changing table, realize you have poop all over your sleeve, run to bathroom to wash it off while panicking because EW, roll up wet sleeve, spend several stinky minutes up to your elbows in baby poop while you clean her up, change her clothes, wash your hands, wash baby's hands, clean up mess from diaper, take shirt off and put on jacket, go to table and order food, find baby's shoe wrapped up in her blanket, play with baby to keep her entertained while you wait, get her to fall asleep, eat dinner, rush home to bed because you're exhausted.

True story.

As we were leaving the restaurant, Grayson turned to me and said, "I'm going to take the blame for this one. It was a bad choice of restaurant. Who knew the motorcycle crowd wouldn't be family friendly?" I died laughing.
Happy Anniversary, Grayson. Here's to 50 more.

Our Little Love Bug

It has been a very long time since I last posted anything on here. I'm sure there is someone, somewhere out there wondering what it is that we are doing these days.

Zoey is such a sweet little girl. She is the best baby, for real. She hardly ever cries. A wet diaper or a very hungry belly are the only two things that really ever upset her. I have a hard time figuring out when she is ready to eat sometimes because she's too busy smiling and playing to be able to give me cues that I pick up on. (We're working on that!) Zoey is very close to sitting up by herself and can roll from her back to her sides very well, especially to her left side. She holds her head up like a champ; we are definitely out of the bobble head stage. One of her favorite things to do is to scream, which is both alarming and funny. Sometimes she startles me with one of her shrill eeeeEEEeeeEEEEEeees. She sleeps great during the day and at night, eats just like she's supposed to, is gaining weight at exactly the right pace...there's not much that isn't going fantastic with this little lady! I'm already starting to mentally prepare myself for the next one because I KNOW that we aren't going to get this lucky more than once.

This girl loves to hang out in the nude. It's hilarious. She gets so excited when we take her clothes off. We will stick her on a puppy potty pad and just let her relax for a while and air out her little leg rolls. :) She is the cutest little naked baby. (I am smiling to myself right now thinking about how much that last sentence will horrify her when she's a teenager.)

 After Zoey gets out of the bath, she is all about getting in some good snuggles. She loves taking baths and showering. It is probably her favorite part of the day, other than the first hour after she wakes up in the morning. She is definitely a water baby. We can't wait for summer time so that we can take her to the pool. I have a feeling that she's going to love it.

The other day Grayson and I taught her to make a noise with her lips. She watched us do it a few times and then would try it herself. She doesn't have it down perfect, but it is so funny to watch her do it over and over again so that we will both say "Hooray Zoey! Good girl!" to her. We were showing off her new trick to my mom and sister via Skype and Zoey would do it, let Grayson and I tell her how smart she is, then look to the computer screen like "Aren't you two going to tell me that I'm awesome?" Funny girl.

 On the 18th, she did her first real laugh. We were eating in a super noisy restaurant, so I couldn't really get it on video. BUMMER. She started doing this funny giggly laugh every time I would put her pacifier on her lips. She got herself laughing so hard she snorted. A LOUD, manly snort. I was cracking up. I think the noise even surprised her a little. It was the day before our anniversary, so it was a very sweet gift from her to me. :)

For our anniversary, we went to Syracuse to hang out at their AMAZING mall. It is the biggest mall I have ever seen and has so many cool things to do. We had a really good time walking around together. We ended the night at the super noisy restaurant I mentioned before. It was so much fun to spend a day together as a family. Grayson has been saving the money his parents gave him for his birthday. He spent it that day on a fancy new juicer. We tried some juice the other night and I have to say, it was not delicious. I guess I am too used to overly sugary drinks because it was not my favorite thing I've ever had.

The winter storm Nemo came blowing through here a few weeks ago. It was crazy! We got a ton of snow. Our door was frozen shut when I tried to let Rascal out that morning. I had to go wake Grayson up and get him to pry it open. The snow was taller than Rascal, which he was not fond of. Surprisingly, our little wussy dog doesn't like the cold snow. Go figure.

These are Zoey's 2 and 3 month pictures. The little stinker was not having it when we were taking the 2 month photo. She had enough that day, I guess. She is usually so smiley and happy. I love the 3 month photo of her because that's exactly what she looks like most of the day. So happy! She will be 4 months on the 9th of March. She looks so chunky in these pictures, but she can still wear most of her 0-3 month clothes. The sleeves on some of her long-sleeved onesies are a little short and some of the pants are like high waters, but she's a pretty petite little chunker, if I do say so myself. She is definitely starting to teethe. She is slobbering like a fiend and tries to bite everything. I'm surprised how much it hurts if she gets my finger! For having no teeth, the girl has got a mean bite!



Other than that, we have been keeping it very low key here. There's not much excitement, but I like it that way. We are just chugging along, living our simple lives and enjoying every second of it.

You'll Shoot Your Eye Out!

Unfortunately, no one received a Red Ryder BB Gun this Christmas.

However, we still had a fabulous Christmas full of decked halls, fa la la la las, and gay apparel. (Hooray! New clothes!) It was especially fun considering we had a little Zoey to spoil. And boy, was she spoiled by parents and grandparents alike.

We arrived in Salt Lake VERY behind schedule. The three of us were exhausted and ready for bed after traveling for 13 hours. My mom and sister met Zoey for the first time in the airport. It was a special moment for everyone. We hurried home so that we would be able to get up in time for church the next morning. I was really excited because I couldn't wait for Zoey to wear her Christmas dress.

My mom's family has a huge Christmas Eve party every year. The dinner was delish and the entertainment chaotic, as always. The little kids do the Nativity (or as my cousin Jordan calls it, "the whatchamacallit with the angel." Don't worry, he's 21 years old! Ha!) and can't make it through without some sort of incident. My favorite part this year was when Mary, played by Baylee, got pushed off her donkey, played by Carson, by an angry shepherd. Our Nativity is a little more wild than spiritual, but those kids sure are cute to watch and create funny memories for all the adults watching. Zoey got to make a cameo appearance as Baby Jesus at the end (she wasn't actually IN the Nativity since it wasn't really safe for her to be carried by Mary riding a donkey on their way into Bethlehem. Case in point, Mary getting roughed up by a shepherd.) and we took some sweet pictures of her with Baylee as Mary.

Christmas morning was spent with my Dad. We had such a fun time opening gifts together. Grayson got his best gift ever: an iPad! He was so surprised and excited about it. To anyone else, he probably looks only semi-excited. For Grayson, that was a full-on meltdown from excitement. He's a mellow guy, what can I say? He also got a Craftsman ratchet set and was thrilled about that as well. I will have to add the photos and video later when I get them from my dad.

After opening gifts at my dad's, we headed over to his fiancee's house fora yummy brunch and to open some more gifts. We had a good time being together as a new, big family. 

We headed to my mom's for Christmas number two and had a fantastic time. Brady and Katie were spoiled AGAIN and Grayson and I got a very exciting gift: a Nikon camera! Zoey got a play gym; she loves it so much! It was definitely her favorite gift.

We got to go to Temple Square with my mom, sister, and brother. It was a great experience. I really wanted to go because Zoey loves to stare at lights. I was so excited to bring her, but she fell asleep and wouldn't wake up. When we were in the parking garage getting ready to leave, suddenly she was wide awake and couldn't stop staring at the light in the ceiling. Oh, Zoey. 

We also got to visit a lot of family members and introduce them to Zoey. It was really special for us to get to bring her to family.

We had a great time getting Belgian waffles, eating at Cafe Rio, seeing movies in real movie theaters, and hanging out with family, and shopping. We had a really nice time in Utah and are so grateful that we were able to go out there for Christmas.