"Serious" Music Video

Hey everyone Lucy Angel (you know, my gal Emily's band with her mom and sis) has released their first music video "Serious"! It's sooo good! I'm so super excited for them. Watch it below but then go to Youtube and "like" it! You can also "like" it on Facebook.  The video should be playing on GAC and CMT pretty soon and they'll be coming to AZ to visit KNIX and Camel Country next month. I'll let you know so you can call the stations and start requesting it. Really hoping we can put together a show while they're here too. They have some other exciting stuff in the works but I'm keeping it on the downlow for now. I'll spill the beans when I can. :) But I'll tell you it's going to be beyond fabulous. You should all be excited, even though you don't know what it is yet.
Loves to all!


You'll probably need to turn off my blog music :)

The First Month

I wanted to post when Hadley turned one month but we were in Utah enjoying family at our reunion.  So here it is a few days late. :)

This past month has been so much fun. Hadley is such an amazing gift. I'm so anxious and excited for her to grow, I can't wait to see all the fun things she'll start doing but at the same time it breaks my heart. She's already gotten bigger and I want to cry. I want her to stay my tiny baby forever.

I always thought that newborns slept the days away in their crib or swing or car seat.... not our Hadley.  She hates all of those things. She cries alot. ALOT. And nothing seems to sooth her. She's gotten better the older she gets. The better she can see things, the happier she is. She always wants to be held. Mostly by me. The good thing is I absolutely love holding her so it's just fine with me. There does come a time when I need to get other things done though. :)   She thinks I'm a 24 our buffet, always wants to be eating. I've never wanted my kids to use pacifiers  but because she has this constant need to suck I figure for my sanity I need to give her one. But of course she hates pacifiers. When you put it in her mouth she loses her mind. She gets so pissed off.

She does however sleep amazing at night. Granted she sleeps next to me.  She loves baths.  Giving her her nightly bath is so much fun. I wash, Tanner rinses :)  She started rolling over at 3 weeks, when she's happy she smiles and makes all kinds of sounds. She loves to be sung to. She can be screaming her brains out but if I can get her to nestle her face in my neck I start singing and she'll be asleep in seconds. It's pretty funny. She's probably the most photographed baby ever. Every time I turn around someone is taking their picture with her. I guess when you have as many aunts as she does its bound to happen. :)  Being a mom is better than I hoped. Even with her as fussy as she is I still love every minute. We are so blessed to have her as our baby girl.

At the hospital

Driving Home

At Home

In her bouncy chair

Bath Time

One Look? One Look!?!

At the Dr. He said she is "perfect". She weighs 8.11

Sh....

She LOVES Tanner

One Month Old.

E-mail Hacked

I guess my e-mail was hacked or something, don't open any mail from me,  I'm sorry if you already did. I'm looking into it. I deleted all my contacts so hopefully nobody receives anything else.  Sorry about that. :(

More Pics

Here are a few more pictures of Hadley.
Thank you so very much to my fabulous friend Sara. Sara you are amazing! Love you girl. She is trying to focus more on newborns but does all kinds of pictures, family, wedding, engagement.... If you are looking for someone to take pics for you, you should hire her. Like I said, she's amazing. Her website is saracoral.com Check it out. Loves to all!

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Come One Come All

So a few days ago I sat down and wrote out her entire birth story..... it took a while. When I was done the computer wouldn't let me post it. I knew it had been saving it as I went along so I just closed the computer and figured I'd post later. Well later came and when I tried to open the file it had only saved the first few lines. I wasn't thrilled as you can imagine. So it might be a while before I take the time to write it again. I had mentioned that some things went wrong or not as planned. Some people were worried but let me assure you all is well. I just ended up having pitocin, an epidural, an episiotomy and forceps were used. Not what I wanted :) I'll tell you all about it some time. For now here are the pics of Hadley with family and friends.

This was taken a little while after she was born, but she was this alert when she came out. I loved it.

Hadley and Dr. Messer. I love her, she's been amazing the past 9 months.

Tanner

Grandma and Grandpa Stradling

Grandma Stradling

Grandpa Stradling

Aunt Molly

Aunt Bria

Aunt Jenna

Grandma Wootan

Grandpa Wootan



We can finally say Uncle Ty and Aunt Heather. Congrats you two on finally achieving those titles. :)



Broc



Savannah



Broc, Savannah and Leah

Aunt Savanna and Logan

Aunt Kristen and Uncle Keli

Aunt Kylee and Uncle Josh



Tara



Katie

Marla and Ty





Jenn and Cosmo

Janae. James was there but I guess he didn't make into a pic. :(

Uncle Dan and Aunt Leah

Aunt Andrea

Aunt Laci and Uncle J-Red

Great Grandma and Grandpa Kleinman

You might think that's a lot of people, it is. But Miss Hadley still has 13 cousins to meet, Uncle BJ and Aunt Candi, Aunt Melayne and Jeff and Aunt Ciera.




Thank you to everyone for showing us so much love and support. We've had people over helping us every day, bringing us food and meals, offering to run errands etc. We know how lucky we are to have such amazing people in our lives and are so grateful you are all apart of Hadley's life too. Loves to all.