Dallee's 1st Week

10.12.09 4 days old

It's tough work babysitting!

Trace ADORES Dallee 10.13.09

10.14.09 Dallee 6 days old. Grandma Oliver goes back home to Colorado. Thanks Mom! We would not have survived the week without you!

Megan thinks Dallee is giving evil eye already here.

10.15.09 Dallee 1 week old! She weighed 7 lbs 13.5 oz at her 1 week check up.

A Big Weekend

October 10-11, 2009
I know this is all way in the past but I want it for my records so I am once again back tracking.

My mom arrived on Wed, literally moments before we were scheduled to go to the hospital to be induced. Steve's parents showed up on Thursday, the day Dallee was born. I am so thankful for all the help. My poor mom got lost everytime she left my house and she had to leave my house alot! My kids are all over the place. Thanks for sticking with it Mom! Dallee and I came home Friday night and on Saturday my dad and my brother and his wife Kristi and their adorably cute boys Wyatt and Lancer came. We loved having everyone even though it was crazy. Dallee being late kind a messed up my plans! Chase turned 12 on September 24. Our parents couldn't make it up here that weekend. We wanted his Grandparents to be a part of him receiving the Aaronic Priesthood so we scheduled that to happen on Oct 11. Thinking the baby would be at least a week old. Yea well that didn't work out so well. But we got it all done anyways and blessed Dallee too! Our Bishop was kind enough to come to our home and allow us to do the blessing and ordination here as half of Twin Falls was sick with H1N1! It turned out very special. Chase and Dallee both received very special blessings.

Handsome Father & Son

Crazy story about Dallee's blessing dress. Ok so at the last minute we decided to bless Dallee when Chase was ordained and family was here so they didn't have to make 2 trips. Beings I was so miserably huge pregnant I didn't want to go shopping for a blessing dress. So I turned to the internet. Well I found one. Said it was brand new and a 0-3 month size. They promised to get it shipped here in time. So I ordered that one. Well it finally showed up Sat evening. It was HUGE! My baby was brand new and I didn't even try it on her, for sure it would swallow her. Besides that it felt all scratchy and I was afraid her skin being so new it would just be miserable for her. So she was blessed in a sweet little white, comfy soft night gown!

Our whole crew 1st picture together!

Dallee with her Grandma Diana and Grandpa Alvin Mayo

Dallee with her Grandad Eddie and Grandma Glenna Oliver

My Dad with my sweet little girls

Trace, Megan, Wyatt and Charlee

This is a favorite picture of mine...my daddy and my baby

To add to the festivities...Steve's birthday was October 10

Mom and Dallee 2 days old

Wyatt and Lancer

Lancer wants more ice cream!

Trace and Uncle Morgan

Trace's humorous attempt at a birthday present for his dad

No photo but another crazy event of the weekend was Chase had a football game on Saturday the 10th. He hadn't been feeling really well for a few days before. The day Dallee was born he showed us a sore spot on his forearm. After his game on Saturday his arm was hurting and red and swollen and feverish. So back to the hospital he and Steve went. After a fun time in the ER Chase was given a round of antibiotics and pain killers. He was battling a staph infection in his arm.

Cousins

November 21 & 22, 2009

Our Bangerter cousins and Aunt and Uncle came to visit us and meet Baby Dallee. We love any time we get to spend with these girls! (and guy!)

Steve, Chase, Megan, Stephanie

Dallee, Rebecca, Sophia

pouty Trace, Catherine, Charlee, Uncle Shane

Sweet Catherine turned 9 on November 22.

How lucky were we to get to celebrate with her!

Our other Mayo cousins live in Texas and it's been a long time since we've seen them and we miss them lots. Our Oliver cousins live in Colorado and we don't see them very often either and miss them too. It's nice our Bangerter cousins live in Utah and are fairly close. We love them all!

Family Photo Shoot Fall 2009

We worked on getting some family pictures for a Christmas card. With a new baby we didn't want it to be too cold so we did these early November. We had a fun time. There are quite a few here...probably not too fun to look at unless you are one of our Grandmas! but I had a hard time picking which ones to leave out...each one seemed to show one kid's personality or another!

Dallee was 1 month old! 11.08.09

Loved this one of Megan

Trace cracks me up. Love how sweet Charlee looks!

Trace was obviously on one that day!

I sure love my girls!

and boys!

This one turned out to be my favorite.

Pretty Megan 14 years old

Who can resist climbing a tree?

It's amazing how fast time goes...it's already been 6 months since we took these and seems like last week. My kids are all already 1/2 a year older than they were when we took them!