The Mommy Update

Hi friends,

Thanks for your emails and blog comments. I really appreciate your support and love. I am doing well and enjoying being a mom. Sometimes its hard to believe its real. In some ways, its seems like we have always had Sage. She is a very good baby. She's already on her own little schedule and typically eats about every 3 hours during the night and morning. During the afternoon, she takes a couple even longer naps. She is eating well too. However, it will be nice when my body can figure out exactly how much milk she needs. The poor child can barely keep up when we start nursing! We typically get up a couple of times at night and then I just sleep in the morning when she does. So the day typically doesn't get started until about noon. But we both need to sleep, right? A friends of mine said "Take care of yourself for 6 weeks and you'll feel it at 6 months."

I am feeling pretty good overall. Just taking some Motrin. It sounds like the tailbone is a slow heal, but I guess it just kind of heals by itself. My stitches and tear are doing better as well.

I really do enjoy being a mom and feel a lot of peace and joy and that we are starting a new phase in life. It has been really great to have Eric here with me for the first two weeks. I have had a few post-partum, weepy moments where I cry for no reason at all, but he just listens and lets me get it all out. I've also started to relax a little bit and not run to the crib even time she hiccups (for some reason, you feel like if you're not with them every second, they'll stop breathing :).

Anyway, Eric is with me the rest of this week, and then I'll have a week on my own, and then my mom and family will come out. Hopefully by then, we might venture out of the house a little!

I love you guys and hope each of you are doing well. I can't wait until we can have a reunion sometime.

Our Summer

Since this is our last summer in Utah, Dallas and I made a list of things we wanted to do before we moved. Some of the items on the list were very small like 'Go to Jamba Juice.' Others were a little more time consuming like 'Hike Mt. Timpanogos.' I think by the time we move we'll have been able to do almost everything on the list. Unfortunately, Dallas' backpacking trip to the Uinta Mts. got canceled. (I am okay with that!). Here is just a quick summary of the things we've done- with a couple pictures attached of some of them.

1. Visit Temple Square and Salt Lake Temple- strange to think that I got married there and had never done a session there- I really enjoyed going and walking through the grounds.

2. Watch the Joseph Smith movie at the Joseph Smith Building- excellent film.

3. Go to IKEA- the store opened in Draper at the end of May- I really enjoyed the trip and found lots of cool things to decorate my house (as we try t sell it) and future things for my apartment in NC.

4. Camping/hiking Mt. Timp. I know Megs has done this and probably more of you- but that is quite the hike- especially if you take a wrong turn like we did! I had never heard of the Glacier that you slide down but it was lots of fun.

5. Visit Zion's Nat'l Park. Luckily my mom had a family reunion there so we were able to do both- we did a hike through Orderville Canyon (similar to the Narrows) and saw some very beautiful slot canyons.

6. Go to Bear Lake- lots of waterskiing..... the waterskiing part is mostly Dallas' doing... I still get butterflies in my stomach every time it is my turn! I will spare you and not post pics of that!

I hope everyone is having a great summer. Miss you all!

Lauren