Happy Thanksgiving!!

Maclain is getting so big!! This is the same outfit that he has a pic in a few posts back.

He is such a happy baby! This is his Thanksgiving outfit. He is smiling now all of the time! It is hard for us to catch him on camera. It's like he knows that we are trying to take a picture so he stops smiling. Then we give up and put the camera away and he will smile more! He is such a good little boy!! We love having him around.

My sisters, mom, and I always do a day after Thanksgiving craft. We did presents this year and they turned out really cute!!

The final product!

We finally got a birth announcement made...now I just need to send them all out!

Mac is an Aggie already. He has gone to all three basketball games this season. This last Friday was the USU vs. BYU game. Mac wore his Aggie gear of course.

Matt and Mac with Big Blue. P.S. USU WON!!!

Happenings

Mac is growing so fast. He is now weighing in at 9 lb. 12 0z!!

Meeting Kaizley for the first time. She loves Maclain! Every time she see me she knows there is a baby in tow and runs to see/poke him!!

Meeting Kyron

Meeting Kambree

We went to a wedding this last week and got to stop by Gma & Gpa Rhodes house! It was lots of fun! Plus Maclain got to meet cousin Braden for the first time! They were so cute together!

Meeting Grandpa McClain for the first time!

He was a skeleton for Halloween!

This is his first bath! He loves to take baths!!

Maclain at one week! Time is already flying by!

Whoever said, taking pictures of newborns is easy... lied. This kid would not stop moving or close his eyes for more than a blink every now and then. He is so alert already and is constantly trying to figure out this place... and his parents.

Maclain Matthew Rhodes

Saturday Oct 15, Maclain Matthew was born at 12:05. He weighed 7 lbs 11 oz and is 19.5 in long.

Daddy has taken lots of great photos!! He is a good eater and sleeper!! (thus far)

Getting his first bath from Dad.

Wes holding him for the first time.

Grandpa holding him.

Tia holding him.

Kass holding him

Grandma Rhodes holding him.

Grandma Elder holding him

Family anxiously awaiting him to come to the nursery window.

Me getting to hold him for the first time.

Not so happy about what just happened.

My water broke at 10pm on Friday night. My body wasn't doing anything so they started pitocin on me. I labored for 12 hours and never made it past a five so I had to have a c-section. I was really scared to have major surgery, but everything turned out just fine. This is us just before going back to the OR. We are so excited for this little boy to join our family!!

Lake Powell!!

Two weeks ago we went on our annual Lake Powell trip with my family! It is always so much fun!! This year was a little different for me, being prego, but was still awesome!!

Matt and I floating... I did this A LOT!

Matt on the SkySki. My little bro has almost perfected a back flip!

Some of us girls reading in the tube. I also did this a lot!

This is the view from our houseboat. It was a great spot, shade on the boat all day and out of the way from the more popular places!!

Of course it wouldn't be a trip if Matt didn't catch some living thing, here is a toad.

The water was high enough to drive right up to the sand dunes. We haven't been able to do this for years! Matt tumbled down the hill, this is what he looked like when he got to the bottom!

It is a tradition to paint EVERYONE'S toes (boys included) and take a pic.

We had some family pics taken. They turned out really cute!!

Matt doing a back flip into the water.

We were here over Kaizley's 1st birthday, so to celebrate some of the boys jumped, dove, fell in to the water just for her. Matt is the cool swan dive on top!

My Latest Project

We got these chairs from a garage sale. They were not so cute and too tall. With help of my sister we redid them. Matt cut off the extra height.

We recovered the seats with this cute fabric.

I primed them and fixed some dents and dings.

My sister painted them.

Here is the final result. I really love them! They turned out really cute!!

OUR HOUSE!!

OK, so I haven't blogged in a really long time...so here is the catch up of what has been going on. Warning there was lot of catching up to do. We got to move into our house last weekend. I am so glad to be in!! Here are some pics. It is so messy because we are still unpacking boxes, but I was excited to post some pics!!

This is it!! It turned out even more beautiful than I expected!!

This is part of the mud room. Our washer and dryer are in here as well as a "craft table".

A view from the dining room of the family/great room.

This is the back deck. It has a great view of the west mountains!!

This is my kitchen!

This is the entry way. I want to pain this room also...

This is the upstairs guest bathroom. It is basically the only clean and decorated room in the house! Matt even likes it!

This is half of the master closet. I don't have any good pics of the master bedroom so there aren't any. I love the closet!!

These are the master bath. There is no shower wall and door yet. They will be in next week. I love the tub!! It is so nice to relax in! There is a separate toilet room(not pictured). Paint will be coming to this part of the house soon!

I didn't put any pics of the nursery...because it is just white walls with nothing in there. We are going to start it soon, so I will post before and after pics!