not really an update :(

So Abby is 4 months now and starting rice cereal which has been an adventure. She is growing up so fast, but she is still so small. Only in the 5th percentile for weight! I wish I had pictures and video to show you...but Kyle keeps taking the computer with all of the pictures on it to school. All day every day. He is kind of a computer hog. So to entertain you while you are waiting for an awesome update (becuase I know you all are) please visit my moms blog here to read about my awesome little brother. He really has the world figured out.

Orem and Salt Lake City

After Roosevelt we drove out to spend a couple of days with Grandma and Grandpa Call. Grandma call makes the most delicious food! She kept us well fed, and we have been dreaming of rootbeer floats and french dip since we left. We had a great time relaxing and visiting with them.

We spent the last part of our trip with my dad's brothers and sisters in Salt Lake. We stayed in the Little America hotel right in downtown. I don't have very many pictures but we had a great time. The only bad part was when we all went to go to Training Table for dinner and we found out that it no longer exists! I will never have cheesy fries or a ranch burger again. It was devastating!!! We went and watched the movie in the Joseph Smith memorial building. The next day the rest of the family went to a water park but we stayed in Salt Lake with Abby. I really wanted to take a tour of the conference center so we headed over there. The tour was only supposed to take 45 minutes... it ended up taking 2 hours. It was very interesting but by the time it was over we were so tired we didn't have the energy to do anything else! That night we went to the Old Spaghetti Factory, then watched the little kids swim at the hotel while we talked. It was a perfect way to end a perfect trip!

This is all of the grandkids on the Jenkins side + Abby the great grandbaby

Our little family in front of the temple.

It was a crazy trip and we were all over the place but it was an awesome trip. Abby did great, she is such an easy going little baby. As long as her tummy is full we are good to go! Thank you to all of our wonderful family who let us stay with them and gave us such a great trip. Hopefully it won't be to long until we are able to visit again.

Roosevelt

We spent a couple of nights at my Jenkins Grandparents house in Roosevelt

Kyle spent a lot of time golfing with my grandpa, he loved it!

We of course had to stop and eat at Marion's.

Isn't Roosevelt beautiful?

Abby got another 5 generation picture. This is my dad's Grandfather Lynn Labrum. I'm named Natalee Lyn after him. He was very proud of little Abby, it was really fun to see him!

Utah Trip Part 1 Nelson Family Reunion

We spent the last part of July in Utah. Originally we were only going to be in Utah the last week in July for the Jenkins reunion. But my wonderful father-in-law gave us some buddy passes so that we could fly to Utah so we decided there was no point in waiting around and we went up a week and a half early for the Nelson reunion too! It was a perfect vacation. Next summer we could be in the process of moving and we might not be able to make it back for summer reunions for a few years so it was really nice to be able to relax and soak up family and Utah for 2 and a half weeks.

We started our trip visiting Kyle’s Aunt Lori and her wonderful family. I hadn’t met all of Lori’s family so it was fun to meet them and introduce Abby. We had a fun barbeque and played on a HUGE slip-n-slide. Aunt Lori had an AMAZING house with huge windows and a beautiful view. We are so grateful they were willing to let us hang out with them for the day!

Then we met up with my dad and he drove us out to Ioka for the Nelson Family reunion. That was so much fun! Last summer my grandparents were on their mission and they were missing from the reunion. It was so much fun to have them back! We ate more Rhubarb pie than we could handle! We sat around and enjoyed each others company, played badmitton, and took lots of naps!

We took lots of walks down my grandma's lane. Abby loved being outside and I loved being able to take her outside without worrying about how hot it was!

Kyle went wakeboarding, he is pretty amazing and ridiculously good looking!

We did Yoga with my cousin Ashley and Kyle was better than the rest of us combined.

We took a drive up to Stillwater Dam. There is so much water in the lake that it is spilling over. It was beautiful!

Kyle is the one in the blue and white striped shirt

We saw some pretty incredible storms

We were even lucky enough to be there when my grandma's brothers and sister the Hubers got together for lunch. It was fun to show Abby off to even more family!

This is all of the grandkids minus me, Kyle, my little brother Carson and Jason's little girl Lynlee. Little Abby is the first great grand baby in the middle!

And we took naps

A lot of naps

It was so relaxing to be in Ioka. We had so much fun spending time with family and eating some amazing food!

Up next Roosevelt, Orem and Salt Lake City!

Abigail's Blessing

We blessed baby Abby on July 3rd 2011. It was a perfect day. I am so grateful for a wonderful husband who is worthy to hold the Priesthood. He gave a beautiful blessing. I prayed all week that Abby would sleep through the blessing. So far she has been very anti sleeping during church. Which I have decided is a good thing, you shouldn't sleep in church :). But luckily she did sleep through the blessing and the rest of sacrament meeting which was a wonderful fast and testimony meeting.

We had a really special thing happen at Abby's blessing. My Great grandparents, Abby's great great grandparents were able to attend the blessing. My great grandfather blessed me, so it was really neat that he was able to bless my daughter. The rest of Abby's circle consisted of my dad, Kyle's dad, both of my grandfathers, My Uncle Jason and Uncle Brent. My Great Grandfather also stood up in sacrament meeting and bore his testimony that he knew Christ was our Savior. He also encouraged us to continue to stay strong in the gospel that he knew to be true. How many people can say they have heard their great grandfather stand and bear his testimony? It was really neat. Below is Abby's 5 generation picture.

My parents with Baby Abby

Kyle's Parents

My mom's parents. I didn't get a picture with our camera of my Dad's parents, but they were there too!

This is my Uncle Brent showing us how excited he was about the delicious dinner we had. It was homemade Cafe Rio. We had salads, and burritos and tons of different salsas. It was very yummy!!

It was also my birthday, blessing Abby was the perfect birthday present. But my mom also took me shopping and got me this delicious birthday cake!

It was a wonderful day and we had so much fun! Thank you to everyone that was able to make it, and we missed all of those that were far away! Kyle blessed Abigail with some very neat things. We are so excited to see this little baby grow and see all of the wonderful things she will do!

1 Month

1 Month Stats

Weight: 8lbs 13 ounces (25th percentile)

Length: 21.75 inches (70th percentile)

Head: 14.5inches (30th percentile)

Dear Abby,

This first month of your life has been such a fun adventure! You have your parents wrapped around your cute little fingers. We have had so much fun getting to know you and learning how to be parents. Since we have brought you home from the hospital you have been sleeping really well at night. The shortest amount you sleep at night is 4 hours and the longest you have slept is just short of 8 hours. When you do wake up you eat and go right back to sleep. During the day you like to take little cat naps and spend the rest of the day eating and playing with me. Nursing was very rough at first and I almost gave up. Luckily you knew more about what we were doing than I did and we are getting to be pros at it. You have been giving us social smiles since you were two weeks old and it has been so much fun. You love to watch baby mozart, which gives mommy some time to get ready during the day. You look so much like your dad, its so cute. I think I can claim your nose and that is about it. During your first month of life you have done so many things! We went to Cars 2 and 17 miracles in the movie theater. You did great and slept through both movies, which was a miracle because you don't usually take such long naps! We've been out to dinner twice, and you did great. You love to have people to talk to and things to look at, so we try to keep busy. You're only a month old and you don't like to snuggle anymore! You like to sit on our laps and look at what we are looking at. When you are awake your little arms and legs are constantly moving. As soon as you can start moving I don't think we will ever get you to hold still. Your favorite place to take naps are on your Daddy's chest. You refuse to sleep laid out on your back, you like to sleep in your little sleeper that lets you curl up a little bit. I like to spoil you and rock you to sleep. I could hold you in my arms all day long! We are having so much fun with you and we are looking forward to seeing your little personality develop more and more. We love you little Abby!

Love,

Mom and Dad

June so far

Its been a busy and fun month so far. Abby is almost 3 weeks old and she is doing great! There have been a couple of nights that she has slept 7 hours straight, but usually she sleeps 4-5 hours. She is all smiles when she wakes up in the morning and we love it. Kyle has been busy studying for the DAT that he takes next Wednesday. I am so proud of how hard he is working. He is going to be very busy here pretty soon because he just got a new calling! And its not primary! Kyle was set apart on Sunday as the 2nd counselor in the Elders Quorum Presidency. We'll see if he likes it more than primary.... :) We are very excited about this calling and we are looking forward to all of the opportunities to serve that it will bring. I've been busy with baby Abby. We are starting to master nursing, it was a rough start but we're getting the hang of it. I could hold her all day long, so I don't get much else done :) She is beautiful and such a sweetheart.

Here are some pictures that my mom took of her. There are about 100 more, and we keep taking them. We can't get enough of her, we may be biased but we think she is the most beautiful baby EVER!!