Thursday, June 10, 2010

2 whole months


Our little dude is 2 months on the 8th! Today was his check up and his immunizations; such a fun time. The doctor said that he's a perfect baby totally healthy. He is 13.19 lbs in the 82nd percentile and 25.5 in in the 99th percentile.

He smiles so much now and I love it. He even gives tiny little giggles which totally make my days.

Sunday, June 6, 2010

For Memorial weekend Steven, Dexter and I headed down to Provo to visit with Micah and his family. Brianna took a bunch of pictures of Dex and his cousins and a few of them can be seen HERE

Dex is on the verge of laughing these days. He is so smiley and happy the majority of the time. He has been fun to watch change and grow. It makes me sad to see him get bigger though and not be my tiny little baby. He'll be 2 months old on Tuesday and I can't believe how fast time is going. I also can't believe how I hardly remember what life was like without him. If anyone is thinking about having a baby, I highly recommend it!

Sunday, May 16, 2010

To Uncle Carl

I meant to make a post last Sunday after Mother's Day for Carl out on his mission but we got home late and I forgot. So hopefully you're checking this week because these are for you Elder Yeip!
He looks like a little old man and I love it!







My little meebling
This is one of my favorite pictures I've taken of him. He looks just so sweet
Zonked out with his pants pulled real high, so great!

Oh and Steven graduated! Hooray!

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Sorry Steven, but I'm in love with another man


This has become my most favorite face in the whole world. Whenever I close my eyes, this is what I see. I can't even say how much I love this little guy. Dexter is so sweet and so content. He cries when he's hungry, fusses when he's tired or getting his diaper changed and cries during tummy time. All the rest of the time he's so perfect and pretty easy to take care of.


One of his non-crying moments of tummy time.

His first at home bath. He looks like a little ewok!

This was just yesterday when he was completely zonked out on the floor.

Sunday, March 28, 2010

4 days left! But probably more.

So my pictures are in no particular order here but oh well. I wanted to add this picture of my niece because every time I look at it I laugh. She looks so crazy and I love it!
This is one of the few pictures I've ever been able to get of Guster looking right at the camera without an owl-like glow in his eyes. He'd been sleeping on one of the baby blankets I left draped over the banister to dry after washing. I'm hoping he's realizing what's going on and adjusting. He loves to look into the crib and carseat and sniff all the clean baby clothes.
This was just a couple weeks ago, I can't remember when exactly, but that's a little smaller than I am right now.
I needed practice on diapers and this teddy bear was my volunteer. I am pro at diapering stuffed animals now. I here the real thing is a bit trickier, but we'll see.
My diaper bag. I got it all packed up tonight with extra everythings and baby's coming home outfit. Hopefully it fits him or he'll be coming home naked!
Since we only have around 4 days until baby boy makes his appearance, we decided it might be time to organize his room a bit. This is just a glimpse of how it started.
This is it in the end looking much nicer. We don't have all the furniture or bedding just yet, but all his clothes are organized and clean, no trash left on the floor, and nice and tidy. We got the bassinet all set up in our room yesterday and I've been surprised not to find Guster snoozing in it yet. We're getting pretty excited to meet this boy of ours! I can't wait for the day of labor to be done with and I can just be a mom.

Saturday, February 27, 2010

Pizza and apartments


Steven and Eric decided to try out the Fox's Pizza challenge of eating an entire 30" pizza in 1 hour between the two of them. If accomplished, the winners get a free large pizza every week for a year.



This is no easy feat and not for the faint of heart, or stomach.

Unfortunately, they didn't quite make it. Steven ended up throwing up the last couple slices he ate. But he does what to try again sometime. He doesn't take personal defeat well!
And in other Yeip news, we moved! We got to the point where we realized it would be easier to move than to try and clean that old house we lived in. So we found this nice 3 bed, 2.5 bath townhouse for rent and jumped at the chance. It was a very spur of the moment type of thing but we're really loving living here. I have a dishwasher for the first time since I was 19, so that's great! We have a 2 car garage, even though we only have 1 car. It's so nice not to have to scrape our car off in the morning and to not have to run the car for a while to get some heat going! I already don't know how we lived for this long without these amenities!
This is our kitchen, (obviously)
Dining area with Guster
and our living room. The living room is really small which is pretty much the only downfall of this place, but we made it work for us. All the bedrooms are still messy from the move so I don't have pictures of those. We have a nice huge master bathroom with a shower we can actually stand up in which is great. There's also 2 walk in closets for us! Guster has his own bathroom so it's great not to have to smell kitty litter every time I walk in to get some clothes. We're working on getting the nursery set up. We got a great deal on a crib (which in Steven's eyes was still too much money) which is still sitting in our garage but we're excited that in just one month we'll have a reason to have all this stuff!

Sunday, January 17, 2010

Houses of Center Street

Steven and I live in right by the "historic" part of Logan. There are some really beautiful houses that line Center Street and over the summer, Steven and I took a walk and took some pictures of the nice ones. I really love houses. I'm always looking at what's for sale around here and I sometimes look at what's for sale in Ithaca area, in Maine and in Oregon as those are all my favorite places. But here are some of the more lovely homes of Logan:






This little house Steven and I looked into renting but by the time I got a hold of the landlord, it was already taken. It was quite cute on the inside with hard wood floors, lots of windows and cute built in cupboards and shelves.

This place looks so out of place in Utah. I think it belongs more in Florida what with the Spanish Tiled roof and stucco siding.







I really just love how this house is covered in cobblestone instead of siding or brick. So unique and cool.


And this is my favorite house in all of Logan. There's 3 different views of it here because it is just so immensely huge you can't really get the full essence of this house in just one picture.


The towers are so pretty and I love the nice huge wrap around porch.


There's several little balconies all around this place and some really nice features around the windows. I actually daydream about this house and always wonder what it's like on the inside. I'm sure it's full of wainscoating and crowned molding and I bet there's some really nice fireplaces. I would love it if one of those rooms with a tower on it is a library where you can sit in the circular area with a really comfy chair, a lamp, and a great book. This house is owned by the Needham family and anyone who's ever lived in Logan knows who they are. They're the jewelers where a lot of people buy engagement rings.
I definitely complain about Logan quite a bit about how cold it is, the wonderful inversion, the way it smells like kitty litter and cows, how they NEVER plow when it does snow, how bad the drivers are, and many other things, but these houses are something that I really do love here. I drive by them everyday on my way to and from work and I always look at them as I go by. So hopefully now you can like what I like about living here!