Pioneer Day (Weekend)

So Pioneer Day was last Saturday, and I am SO grateful that I live in Utah during this splendid holiday to celebrate the Pioneers! Stephanie hadthis great idea to go to the "Days of 47, Pioneer Day Parade" I thought it might be a little crazy, it's the biggest parade in Utah, the floats are like totally Legit, and people CAMP OUT along the parade route the night before (Well, they get there at like 6 am on Friday morning, the parade is on Saturday!). CRAZY, but Steph and Jarom stayed the night with us Friday night, and we left at about 7:30 in the morning to see if we could find a decent spot. We totally did, and it was SO COOL!!! I am SO glad we went! There were a ton of CRAZIES at the parade though, some funny/entertaining, some just plain Annoying...but what can you do? Everett was a trooper!

Pres. Uchtdorf was in the Parade!!!

All the floats...there were so many, and they were ALL so cool, so click on this pic to see them a little bigger :)
Saturday night We stayed at Ben's and on Sunday we went on a picnic in a Canyon like 10 minutes from Ben's house! It was beautiful! we ate yummy food, played cards, and Dylan Poo'd in the woods for the first time...I know...memorable. (Later we found a real potty, like 20 feet from our car...lol...we didn't tell Dylan though!)

his facial expressions kill me! LOL!!!

Steph and Jarom, if you haven't heard they're expecting a BABY! YEAH!!!!

We are so excited for them!

hahaha, okay I thought Kaci would be super excited to hold the baby, I mean, when I was her age, our neighbor had a baby (Katie Kimball) and I was over at their house ALL the time wanting to hold her, but Kaci said she doesn't really like babies because they pull her hair LOL!!! I reassured her that Everett was too little to pull her hair yet, so she held him :)

Dylan was really cute with him though, always looking at him, toughing his little fingers and toes...cute. The kids both liked it when I told them stories about when they were this small...cute

John is su cute with the baby, melts my heart every time!

Just Can't Get Enough!

So Everett is over three weeks old, but I'm just now getting my act together to post these pics. I promise I'll update about real life too, but for now, just some eye candy, per grandma LeAnn's request :)

Does anyone else think babies are so cute when they cry? I feel bad laughing at him, but he's just so cute!

Okay, now this hat, booties, and bib were made for Everett by John's mom, Grandma Debbie :) Had to get some photos before he grows out of them :)

In this one with the bib, I think he looks a bit like a clown, and the way the lighting ended up above his head, kind of triangle, like a party hat...

Sticking his tongue out...funny boy.

A little update, I'll post about Pioneer day tomorrow, it was so fun! And yesterday I was on the news for myfirstbaby.com ... I'm waiting for the story to get posted on their website so I can link it here so you can see it!

Everett slept 7 hours two nights ago, and six and a half last night. Lucky me!!!

Two Weeks, NAKED baby!!!

First of all, a SHOUT OUT to my mom. She stayed with us for 11 days after the baby was born. My mother is a saint. First of all, she is like...my best friend. We have the same sense of humor, and we are both ahem...hilarious. So, spending time together was the BEST! She taught me a lot about this newborn and how to be a good mom, and she took SUCH good care of me! She brought be food and was always shoving water in my face to make sure I would produce enough milk and stay hydrated...it became the big joke, when she left we were both worried about who would fetch me my water?! She cleaned, I mean really cleaned. You know the kind of stuff you know you need to do, but it's hard to get around to it? Like clean the hand grime off the front door, and light switches, she did it. She organized my tupperware drawer! One day I turned around to find her standing on my bed cleaning the fan blades on the ceiling fan. Mom, you're the best. We both SOBBED when she left...and Everett is missing his Grandma Snuggles! THANKS MOM!

SO on Thursday I scheduled a photographer to come to the house and take pics of the baby...she never showed! I was so ticked! I even did my hair...ugh. So, we decided to play photo shoot anyway. Hopefully she will reschedule with me!!

hahaha, he was just posing like this, with his shoulder out and his fist under his chin...so debonaire!

I know this is alot like the ones that were taken before at the hospital, but we didn't buy those, so I tried to re-create it a little...

Anyway, happy two weeks old little prince!

My first baby dot com

So, there's this NEW website called myfirstbaby.com and it's for new mom's to go to and get advice and post videos and watch videos of other first time mom's and share experiences etc. Once a week on a show called "Better" some of the video's are aired on TV... what does this have to do with me you ask???

I was chosen to be a "first time mom" for the website! A couple months ago my mom heard about this and called and told me to email these people my picture and tell them I want to be a part of the program, but she couldn't really remember or explain exactly what it was. I thought she was silly and I didn't send in my picture, but she kept nagging me, so I did. They wrote back to set up a phone interview, and that went great. They asked me to send in a video of myself to see how I looked/acted on camera. Then, they picked me and sent me a FREE FLIP video camera, and a FREE Graco CARSEAT & STROLLER!!!! Now I have assignments of what I need to take video's of and share my experiences :) (some of them are really silly/ weird that I'm trying to give advice on things that are no-brainers! LOL)

Now you can go to myfirstbaby.com and search cblance and see my video's and profile, and COMMENT on my videos, I don't have any comments yet...a little help??? :)

Anyway, NEATO eh? They also contacted me this week saying they liked my video's and wanted my local news to do a piece on my involvement...cool :)

Video, one week old

here's some video I took of Everett, you might think it's boring, don't feel obligated to watch, i just want to capture him at every stage

;)

And 5 days old

HAPPY SABBATH

A little something to brighten your already happy Sabbath :) Everett and I didn't go to church today, BUT we did dress up, I wore a dress because well, it's the most comfortable item of clothing I fit into, and Everett is sporting this ADORABLE onesie with a bowtie attached, a gift from one of the sisters in my ward, I think he likes it, and I can't stop giggling about it...enjoy the fruits of our photoshoot :)

LOL!!!! Cross-eyed! He does this often, it always cracks me up!

P.S. I looked down at my feet yesterday, and they were COMPLETELY normal!!! As in, NO swelling whatsoever!!! I can see my ankle bones, my veins, and the tendons or bones or whatever on the top of my feet! They are a beautiful sight to behold, I'm so weird, I can't stop looking at my feet and SMILING! LOL!! hahahahahaaaa Welcome back feet, now I can wear more than just my one pair of reef flip flops! (My feet haven't looked normal since beginning of December!) YEAH!!! A small but meaningful celebration of getting parts of my body back! (My tummy will never be the same, but hopefully I won't look 5 months pregnant for too much longer, any special work-out/ eating healthy to get your body back tips??? I am all ears!

At the hospital, and then coming Home

So, here's a video of some cuteness at the hospital, and then coming home from the hospital, he's already changed since then, and he's only 5 days old!!! I'm glad I have been video taping him, I don't ever want to forget how precious he is at every stage...I love being a mom

Labor and Delivery

So I could type up my hospital experience, but we video taped periodically at the hospital, and when I watched them, I was cracking up at myself, so tired, and loopy...but anyway, this was the process of labor for me, I was induced beginning at about 10 pm Friday night, and had Everett at 12:58 pm the next day...enjoy the video :)

Don't worry, I didn't film the ACTUAL delivery ha ha ha...gross.

more photos!

Follow this link, you won't be disappointed :)

Everett

Then click on "Bella Baby"

Then click on "view my photos: login"
enter: 0703everettlance

too precious :)
I'll write more later...too tired!

He's Here!

Everett Michael Lance
Born July 3, 2010 at 12:58 Pm
9 Lbs. 1 Oz. 21 Inches

Mom and Baby are doing great!