Addy 4 months..and Pumpkin Patch

Addy turns 4 months today! I can't believe how fast time flies! All the Rose grandchildren went to the pumpkin patch yesterday..so we finally have an updated pictures with all the grandkids! Here's some cute pics from last night.The first pic is Shawn and Tosha's kids.

3 month photo shoot

Addy is 4 months tomorrow...but we just got these pictures that we had taken at 3 months. Chris's sister took them for us.

Bow making Frenzy!

About a month ago, I learned how to make hair bows. I didn't want to buy something at the store that I could make for so much cheaper. Well, needless to say I've been hooked ever since and have close to 30 bows now. I've given some away as gifts already..and have been thinking about selling them now. It's so much fun, plus you can customize them to match outfits! Let me know what you think!

8 Things List

This is the first time I've done this whole tag thing on blogging, so I decided to give it a try, because Lynette tagged me..and I love her!

8 TV shows I like to watch:
~Friends
~Prisonbreak
~House, M.D
~The Office
~The Biggest Loser ( I feel like I should be on the show right now)
~American Idol
~So You Think You Can Dance
~Private Practice


8 Things that happened yesterday
~fed Addy at 2:30am, 6am, fed Chris at 7:30am...went back to bed
~helped my mom can applesauce
~curled my hair...usually it's just in a ponytail
~cleaned up and sorted Chris and I's room and Addy's
~found a sweet deal on a jumper thing to hang in the doorway for Addy on Craigslist ($8!!)
~had lunch ready for Chris when he came home for lunch
~went to a Mary Kay party at Hayley's ...way fun!!!
~came home and cuddled with my husband and Addy

8 Favorite places to eat
~Johnny Corino's
~The Cracker Barrel
~Red Robin
~Friendly's(Connecticut)
~Texas Roadhouse
~Coldstone :)
~Puerto Vallarta
~P.F Chang's


8 Things I am looking forward to:
~ living in a place for more than 6 months
~ having a house..might be too far off to look forward to:)
~ being out of debt
~ springtime!!..i hate the cold
~ having more kids
~ being done with school and summer alarm systems
~ fitting in my pre-pregnancy clothes
~ 4 years from now when hopefully we'll get a new president that is not one of these two idiots running right now.


8 Things on my wish list:
~ a house on a ranch set up with horses and lots of land
~ a big family
~ for my kids to go to private schools...public schools are so bad now!!
~ to meet the prophet
~ travel, travel, travel!!
~ to serve a mission with Chris
~ Lasik eye surgery!!
~ to look like Lynette after I have kids:)

Our Little Lady Bug

We found this awesome costume, brand new at Once Upon A Child. I had originally found a little bear costume there, but when I went to get it, it was gone...and this was there instead! Which Chris and I both liked better anyway. We went to a party a couple weeks ago and dressed her up, so here are the pictures from that night.

Daddy's Girl

One of my favorite things ever, is to watch Chris with Addison. He is so cute with her, such a good Daddy. When she was just a newborn, one thing that never failed to put her to sleep, was for him to sing to her. It's so sweet to watch her stare up at him with huge eyes while he sings..it fascinates her. She definitely has him wrapped around her finger. Here's a few pics of them together.

Grandpa's Little Girl

Living with parents definitely has it's pro's and con's. We weren't looking forward to it all when the summer came to a close, but we were only planning on doing it for a few weeks until we moved to wherever Costco would hire us. Since the plans have changed we worked out a deal with my parents to continue staying here until April while we save up and Chris goes to school. It's the last time we'll ever do this, and we're so grateful to my parent's for all their help. Along with the "contract" so to speak that we have with them... they get the bonus of having Addy here. My parents love coming home from work and seeing her waiting with a big smile. Here are a few pics of her and Grandpa.

Update

For about a year, our plan has been for Chris to get hired on with Costco and move up into management there. He has great experience in Retail Management..and Costco is a great company to work for. We really wanted to get on with the Costco opening up in Pocatello this month since it's close to home, but not in the same town with all our family. Well, we never heard anything and we applied at several other locations..and finally we had to make a choice. We realized that maybe this Costco thing was so much what we wanted, but maybe not what the Lord has in store for us at this time. The new plans are for Chris to go back to school..get a degree in Business Management, and we'll go from there. Having that degree will put him at the top of the lists when he starts sending resumes out again. He'll start part-time with BYU-Idaho this January..and work full time while doing that. This decision also has us doing security systems again this summer. The money is so good, and will allow us to not work as much during the school year. We have felt so good about these decisions since making them.
Pres. Hinckley said this about education:
You are moving into the most competitive age the world has ever known. All around you is competition. You need all the education you can get. Sacrifice a car; sacrifice anything that is needed to be sacrificed to qualify yourselves to do the work of the world. That world will in large measure pay you what it thinks you are worth, and your worth will increase as you gain education and proficiency in your chosen field.

You belong to a church that teaches the importance of education. You have a mandate from the Lord to educate your minds and your hearts and your hands. The Lord has said, “Teach ye diligently … of things both in heaven and in the earth, and under the earth; things which have been, things which are, things which must shortly come to pass; things which are at home, things which are abroad; the wars and the perplexities of the nations, and the judgments which are on the land; and a knowledge also of countries and of kingdoms—that ye may be prepared in all things” (D&C 88:78–80).

Addison 3 Months!

Addy turned 3 months old on Sep 28th. She is now rolling over, laughing, squawking/cooing/squealing when she's awake and happy, pulling her binky out and putting it back in, going to bed each night at 9:00-9:30 and sleeping till about 2:30-3 on her good nights. She still has her days when she's awake every 3 hours. She has been such a good first baby, and I just can't get enough of her! She's going to be a lady bug for Halloween...thanks to Once Upon A Child, we found a brand new outfit there for $4.50! We're excited to start feeding her rice at the end of this month...with as much as she loves to eat we're thinking she's going to love solids. We have lots of little videos of her doing all this stuff, but I'm still getting used to just posting pictures on here:)

Addison Rose..First Couple Months

Addy was born on June 28, 2008 at 10:04am in Rockville, CT. She was 6.7lbs, 20.5 in. My water broke at 4:50pm on June 27th and almost an hour later my mom and I met Chris at the hospital. They gave me Pitocin to kick in the contractions, and it sure didn't waste any time doing that. The only problem was I wasn't dialating..so hours later I was having contractions one after another with no break in between and they wouldn't give me an epidural till I was dialated to a 4. Finally the doctor came to his senses and I got the epidural...slept for a couple hours and my body had finally relaxed enough to start dialating and the rest was pretty smooth. Nobody can prepare you for what you feel when you first hold your baby and all the days after. It is so overwhelming, and you feel all these different emotions..stress, anxiety, worry about doing everything right, "can I do this?", and then you pick up that little girl and you lock eyes with her...she smiles...she coos...and nothing else matters. Chris and I can worry about jobs, debt etc...but all of that goes away when Addy smiles at us, and when we can get her to laugh.

Connecticut!

My brother Jake has worked for Apx Alarms for a few years and recruited Chris and I to install security systems with them this past summer. Our office was in Connecticut, so we were lucky enough to drive out there and see the different scenery from the west to the east coast. We decided Ohio and Pennsylvania were our favorites. I was 7 months pregnant at the time, and we had many anxieties about going out there. We pressed forward with faith and were so blessed. We met so many fun people, and were in an amazing ward that helped us out so much. The birth of sweet little Addison went great..we had helpful nurses, and had an overall great experience at the hospital out there. My mom was able to fly out and help out with the baby..and I have no idea what I would have done without her. Chris worked so hard that summer and I'm so grateful for him and his perseverance in working through all the trials we encountered during those few months. We had a great time, but were soooo ready to come home. It turned out to be a financial blessing and we will be going out again next summer.

Cali Trip 9/07

Soon after we were married, we got to go to California for Jake and Alyssa's wedding. They were married in the Newport Beach temple. We rode together with Darik and Kristine's family..and it was so much fun!! We went to Laguna Beach and Newport Beach, rode the waves and brought back a van full of sand! We were also able to go to a Dodger's game for free! Sadly we have no pictures of that.