I Can See Clearly Now

So I have a confession...I hadn't been to the eye Dr. for over 5 years. When I got my new Driver's license over 2 years ago I barely passed the eye test at the DMV. Maybe that scares all of you who may be on the road when I'm out there...in fact the Dr. said "I hope you didn't drive here". :) I had been stretching out my contacts to get by, but finally I forced myself to get an appointment. So the contacts I had been using they actually stopped making that kind 3 years ago so that tells you how old they were. I really like my new eye Dr. and the appointment went great and the best news is - I CAN SEE NOW! It's like a whole new world has been opened up to me. I can see road signs, people's faces from across the room, and I can even see the time on my clock in the bedroom from the bathroom! One of these days when I have enough money I would like to get lasik, but until them I love having contacts in the correct prescription!

Sunday we went to our new ward for the first time. We LOVE it! It's nice to have a smaller ward, and because we are all new to the ward, everyone has been great to get to know each other! The best place I got to know some of the girls in the ward was in the mother's lounge during Sunday School. A group of us had a fantastic time talking and I know this is just what we need to make some new friends!

Another project we completed this past week was switching out Lexie's wardrobe. She has outgrown all of her 0-3 month size clothes so we had to switch them out with her 3-6 month's clothes. We had already gone through and labeled the boxes with the sizes so that wasn't hard, but we did have to wash them up and sort them by undershirts, PJs, outfits, dresses, etc. It was kind of sad to say goodbye to the cute, small outfits, but it's fun to look at the new outfits she will be wearing also. Lexie is getting really tall, so some of the 3-6 month outfits with feet in them she can barely even fit into at just barely 3 months old. She's just growing up way fast! Here are a few pictures I took today in one of her new outfits...thanks Colette!

Looking Good!

What a Sweet Face

Lexie with her Bunny Friend

I hope you all have a great weekend and a wonderful Thanksgiving! I can't wait!

3 Months!

I can hardly believe our little Lexie is 3 months old today! I'm going to apologize in advance for the amount of pictures on this post, but I just couldn't choose so I hope you enjoy them all. Lexie is such a happy little girl. She loves to babble all the time now and gives us lots and lots of smiles every day! She is growing so fast and is now somewhere around 13 lbs (we don't have a scale to get an exact measurement) and she's over 24 inches. She hates "tummy time" and will roll over just about every time you put her on her stomach...unless she is too tired then she just gets really mad. She loves music, and singing time is always a hit. She likes a lot of songs her new favorites are "5 Little Ducks", "Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam", and she loves the songs from Mary Poppins which she just recently discovered, especially "Steppin' Time". She also likes reading stories and she will probably be getting new books for Christmas. Yesterday she started putting toys in her mouth which she hasn't really done before. She LOVES to put her fist in her mouth and has just recently discovered her thumb which we hope won't become a habit we will have to help break. We are so happy Lexie joined our family 3 months ago and we look forward to continue watching her grow and learn new things.

Our Smiley 3 Month Old!

Her Serious Look

Just SO Cute!

Proof of how much she loves the thumb. She will pull out her binkie and stick her thumb in her mouth while still holding the binkie.

Lexie kind of got Christmas early. She inherited some of Jen's baby toys like this farm toy. She loves to whack the rings that hang down and make the music play and the cow move. She also likes playing with the things on the side like the black and white ball you can see in this picture.

The Big Split

So today was kind of exciting because our HUGE WARD FINALLY SPLIT! Actually, what happened was they took part of our big ward and part of another big ward in the stake and created a new ward. We just happened to barely make the cutoff and are in the newly created ward. They couldn't really do the split based on geography because of priesthood requirements and everything so there are little chunks of houses in different places that are in the same wards now. We are super excited because our ward has been so big that it has been impossible to get to know people and we keep getting asked if we are new even though we have been in the ward well over a year now. This means that Bryan got released from the EQ presidency, and it will be interesting to see what new callings we might get. Because our ward is new, the only callings there are at the moment are the bishopric members. Oh, and we are changing buildings from the church close to our house to the new stake center which is a really nice building so it should be fun...but we'll have to leave 5-10 minutes earlier to get there on time!

That's about all that's new with us. Just about every week at church a stranger will come up to us and tell us how cute Lexie is...they go on and on and well, what can we say...she is a little cutie! Bryan is thinking about legally changing her name to "Cute" or "Cutie" since she basically thinks that's her name because everyone calls her that. Here are some new pictures of her we took today.

Bryan calls this the "Alfalfa" picture because of the hair. It had been a long day at this point in time and the curl was going a little flat.

This is Lexie's "Model" pose

I love this picture because Bryan was playing with

Lexie's hands to get her to smile. So cute!

Tagged...More than Once

Ok, I'll admit that I've been tagged several times and never filled them out because I'm one of those people that when I get forward emails I delete them and don't send them to the amount of people it says you should, lest you be cursed...they just kind of annoy me. So the tag thing is kind of the same. I see that I've been tagged and think well, maybe I should fill that out but then I just don't. Well, Colette tagged me on one that says the 7 weirdest/quirkiest things about yourself and I thought I might as well do this one so here we go. I know I'm breaking the rules by not tagging 7 people, but I don't want people to feel like they have to fill this out if they don't want to so I'll share mine and if any of you want to share yours on your blog who haven't already, go ahead. I think it's a fun way to get to know people.

1. I really stress about a lot of things, especially money. Oh, and it really bugs me when my bank reconciliation is off even a penny...I can't rest until it is perfectly reconciled. Maybe this comes from my years of working in accounting.

2. My toenails have to be painted at all times. When I was pregnant and couldn't reach my toes, Bryan was kind enough to paint them for me. They were a bright blue when I gave birth and my Dr. kept teasing me about my bright blue toes!

3. I absolutely HATE shopping. Going to any store can really put me in a bad mood. I especially get annoyed when everything on my list is gone off the shelves at the store like everyone had the same ideas as me that day. The only shopping I enjoy is online shopping for Christmas presents etc.

4. I LOVE watching sports! Football, Basketball, and especially the Olympics...I really get into them. However, Bryan does not enjoy watching sports so it's something I have to do without him. I got this love from my Mom and the two of us like to talk about sports so that's fun.

5. I have this weird thing when I do the laundry. The color of the shirt or pants has to color coordinate with the hanger it's put on. I know, a little OCD and weird.

6. I have a really sensitive nose and always have. I can't wear perfume or handle Bryan wearing cologne because it makes me sick. Imagine how good my nose worked when I was pregnant!

7. I keep in touch with a lot of my friends who now live all over the country. It's funny because some of my roommates are all in contact with me but not each other, so I'll update them on how everyone else is doing. The blog thing really has helped a lot of people re-connect though so I love that!

I hope you don't all think I'm too weird!

Lexie's 1st Halloween

Friday, Lexie celebrated her first Halloween. This year she was a cute little glow-in-the-dark skeleton. She got to go to Daddy's work so all of the people there could see how cute she was, and she also went trick-or-treating at SUU to visit some of Mommy's friends. Then we went over to visit Grandma and Grandpa Hoyt and some of the aunts and uncles where she got to do more trick-or-treating. Here are some pictures of Lexie in her costume looking cute!

This picture is of Lexie wearing her Halloweeen bib that Grandma and Grandpa Lyman gave her. It says "Too cute to spook!"

Thanks G & G Lyman!

This is Lexie and Aunt Jennifer (dressed as Snow White) trick-or-treating at Great Grandpa & Grandma Hoyt's house.

Here is our little family on Halloween!

I hope you all had a fun and safe Halloween! We had a great weekend and a lot of fun dressing up our cute baby. Now we are looking forward to the next holiday...Thanksgiving!