Daddy and son

I took these pictures for the photography class I was doing. I LOVE the way it turned out.

Update

So, we are all doing well. As you can see Atticus is sleeping through the night, which means so am I! I! I never thought this day would come. We officially have a thumb sucker, he almost never takes his pacifier, but he loves his thumb. It is sooo fun being a mom. Everyday we work on sitting by ourselves, standing, playing with toys, and so much more. I love watching him grow and develop. Yet, I am almost sad to watch him grow so fast. I feel like my baby is going to be gone before I know it, so I am treasuring every day with him.

I am currently staying very busy. I have a new calling in church, that I am loving, I am the Young Women's Secretary. I think my other calling in life (other than being a mom) is to be a secretary. I was the Relief Society Secretary in our last ward and I had a job as a secretary for about 2 1/2 years in Rexburg. I love it so I am definitely not complaining. I am still participating in the knitting club at DMU and loving that. I have learned so much already and hope to continue learning more. I started getting more into photography again and there is a girl in my ward who is teaching some classes which is great. I NEED the refresher, I feel like I have forgotten almost everything. I have also been working out more (trying to lose that baby weight). I do aerobics on Mondays and Wednesdays and I go walking about a mile or two almost every day. I am still having a hard time with losing it though. I want to start learning sign language, but I need to find/make the time. There is a deaf woman willing to teach me and I can't wait to learn, but I am just now feeling like I might be able to make the time with my son, so I think I will email her soon.

Brodi is doing well. Not a whole lot to report with him. He is doing very well in school and I think he is enjoying it, at least as much as he can. It's hard to believe he is almost done with his first year. He is finished the last week of May and then we are going to head out to Idaho for the month if June. We are very excited for this trip :)

That's our life in a nutshell for now. I will write more as things change.

Sleeping

Atticus has started sleeping through the night!!! This is how I see him pretty much every morning when I go to wake him up to eat. He is so precious :)

In the hospital

These are the professional pictures we had taken when he was 5 days old.

Becoming a mom

This first week of being a mom has been really tough, but very worth it.

Atticus Bradon Smith was born last Sunday, January 31st at 2:32pm. He weighed 8lbs 11oz and was 21in long. My water broke around 1:00am and we headed for the hospital. We have a fantastic friend who was able to be my nurse the whole time, which meant a lot to me. I don't know how I would have done it without her. There were no complications so we were able to go home on Tuesday. The first thing Atticus and I did at home was take a nap :)

He has been a really good boy for his mommy, other than sleeping at night. Most nights I get about 3 hours of sleep and that is at half hour intervals. Last night (Monday night-Tuesday morning) I was able to get 5 1/2 hours of sleep and 4 of the hours were consecutive. I finally felt like I could do this. As much as I love sleep and miss it greatly, I wouldn't take it back for anything. I love my little boy more than anything in the world and would give up everything for him if I had to.

I am trying out this blogging stuff because everyone seems to do it. We will see what happens, but my goal is to update at least once a week. We'll see how that goes...

Sewing Machine for sale $75

This is a Shark Euro Pro sewing machine. It was originally purchased for about $140 and I am trying to sell it for $75. I have been using it for a little over two years and it has worked fine. I just paid to have it tuned up so it will be in great shape for a beginning sewer. The reason I am selling it is because I have been saving up and purchase a new machine for about 5 times as much as what this was originally. This is a great machine for a beginning sewer. it has 60 stitch options, a one-step button hole, easy to set, automatic threader, and I am throwing in some bobbins and extra feet as well as some other accessories. It comes in it's original box and I am willing to help you learn the machine as well as I know it. According to the box there there is a 25 year limited warranty. If you have any questions on it please email Dana Smith at smith.danamarie@gmail.com. I am having problems uploading pictures, so for now if you would like to see more pictures please email me and I will send them right away.