Mr. Mobile

Here's our little crawler. There's no audio, but he's still adorable.

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Picture updates

So here is our cutie pie and what our family's been up to. Not too much, but we are livin' up life in Mesa. O is getting so big! He's still a small baby, but he's already 10 months old. Bryan and I were just planning his 1st birthday party! Geesh... but he's lovin' his new front tooth. (Only 1 on top has come in.) So he loves biting into things... like berries. Obsessed.


Ha. He looks fat here. But this is the best angle for an optimal tooth shot.


Since O FINALLY decided that crawling was the cool thing to do, he loves to pull himself up onto things now. Which also means he now is a lot more whiny and pulling at my legs to be held. He follows me around like a lost puppy. But O's in the picture with his second-cousin Sloan, who I watch 4 days a week. She is such a cutie and it's like I have an older daughter.
Now for some older Easter pictures. He looked so dapper that day.
He loved getting the bright Easter eggs. His cousins were a little faster than him though. He'll catch up one day.

And this last picture is up because O's aunt Aubrey moved to Utah to start on her own. She is going to a hair school in Provo. But we love and miss her and hope she has a blast! I loved my school days in Provo.

Smores, tents, smoke and dirt

You gotta love camping! And the fact that we can do it here in Arizona already!!! (Sorry about the snow UT peeps.) A couple of weeks ago we went a little down south and whipped out the camping stuff. We went with my mom's side of the family, the Caffrey's. They were a blast to camp with. And the Caffrey's are all about food, so we were eatin' well. Here's our lovely campsite. (Had to drive through a creek bed to get here!)


Nice and deserty. The only problem was that you had to watch where you were doin' your business so you didn't squat on a cactus :) But this was O's first camping trip and he did a fabulous job! He loved chillin out by the fire. (Not too close...)


But his bed was the best. It was FREEZING at night and I didn't want him to wake up. So I wrapped him in 3 layers of clothes and multiple blankets made up his bed. He was so toasty and didn't wake up all night, even though the wind was SOOO loud and no one in the whole camp slept!!! Plus that was the night that he cut his first tooth! Go O!


Here is a cool time-lapse picture Bryan took of our tent at night.


And here are my boys with O's ugly hat that served its purpose... no sunburn.


My nephew Miles digging for treasure...


And O and I. Don't judge.... I am allowed to look scary when I am camping. :)

Good grief...

My last post was when O was 3 months old?!? Gag me with a spork. He's now up to 7. So I've decided on a new tactic. I changed my background to something that I will have to change at least when Easter is over so I HAVE to get back on to do that. Maybe it will remind me to blog.... It's a long shot but worth a try.

4 months of back blogging.... That could be very boring. So to catch up on the BKO Illguth family I shall do some picture highlights until I get caught up to the present.

Start with Halloween. Our party was way fun and everyone had a great time dressing up and eatin' grub. I love the mandatory dress-up rule. We got some good costumes.
Our family dressed up like hill-billies. I didn't get a good picture of all of us. But Bryan was a hoot and O got to wear a flour sack :) This picture didn't quite capture how much the kids LOVED our Halloween treasure box!

Next was Christmas in Utah. It was O's first Christmas and he got to go on his first roadtrip. He did ok on it, except for the fact that he was kinda sick. Poor guy. This was how he spent his Christmas morning. It was so fun to see the Illguth family though!

Hahaha. I love my husband. He dressed up with a snowman kit we got from Steve and Jacque.


Other than those holidays, not too much has happened to us as a family. But Baby O is growing up fast! Rolling over was a big milestone and he conquered that one a while ago. Now he's a steamroller on the floor because he can't crawl yet. He started sitting on his own a couple of weeks ago. He's already had two haircuts. Not because it's growing too fast, but because it was this nasty old-guy comb over looking thing. Here's after his first one.

And this was just an adorable older picture of him!

But here's pictures of what he looks like now. And he's sportin' his new teeth in these pictures! He got them at 6 1/2 months, so a couple weeks ago. So nice to have them in so he can sleep through the nights again!

So there's a tidbit for now. I have some other stuff but I don't want this post too long. And I'll have to figure out how to add some videos....

3 Months Old!

Dag nab it.... I missed my one post in October. I totally thought that since I was staying home now I would have all of this time to get on here more often..... Guess not. Oh well.

So here are some pictures of Baby O from the past couple of weeks. He's 14 weeks old today, 3 months. But first, here are some little updates about him.
*He started smiling back about a month ago so now we get to see his adorable smile!
*He is so close to giggling because he is SUPER ticklish. (I'll see if I can get a video of it.)
*If he could lay under his mobile or a fan and watch them go around all day long, he would. He just can't help passing out :)
*Hooray!!! He finally took his first bottle and drank some of it about 2 days ago. He hasn't been too fond of them or binkies. He would make the funniest faces.

CHEESE!!!

Squirt is just ONE of his many nicknames.


He wasn't too fond of Tootsie's kiss.


He tries to stay awake with Dad for as long as possible since he doesn't get to spend too much time with him because he's at work all day.

Just yesterday he had barfed EVERYWHERE and as you can tell by his face, he felt so much better. Bryan thought it was nasty, he was holding him, and I ran to get the camera :)

A New Chapter

So this is the next chapter in our book of Life. We get to start our family! We now have the titles of Mommy and Daddy and we have an adorable little boy who is already a love in our life. It's amazing to me how quickly you can just love the guts out of something so fast. We feel so blessed with this new addition in our lives.

So Bryan put up the last blog and it didn't have too many details. So I'll give a couple before I plop in some pictures.
My whole birthing plan was thrown out the window when I went to my last Dr. appointment on August 11th. I had started feeling itchy a few days before, but by then, I had developed a full blown rash call PUPP. (Stands for something.) Nasty booger that covered by whole body and was super uncomfortable. The only way to get rid of it was to have your baby, so the doctor scheduled me to be induced. At the time I wasn't so thrilled because I had wanted to do most of my laboring at home, but looking back I am glad it happened how it did because I wouldn't have been able to go another day with my rash and how inflamed it was. Plus, I now knew exactly when I was going to have Owen!!!
The pitocin worked quickly on me when they finally got my IV in. After they started me on it and broke my water, he was born about 8 hours later. I wasn't able to handle the pitocin induced contractions as well as I had hoped. I went into hospital at a 1, got to a 3 with the contractions camel-backing, and then ended up getting an epidural. So we'll see how my next pregnancy goes.
So our little cutie was born at 2:59 am. He weighed 7 lbs 10 oz and was 20 1/2 inches long. Nice and normal sized. But the HAIR!!! We have no idea where he got that from. We were both blondies. So these first pics are shortly after we brought him home. Can't believe he's already a month old...

Here's some more recent ones.
Owen's first time going to church! He was such a good baby. Passed out for all of sacrament meeting. I sure do have two good looking studs :)
Bestamor came to visit for Labor Day weekend and we got to chill out with her. Grandbaby #6
Who would have thought that we would go through hundreds of diapers in just a month??? (Brandon and Val, just wait. This will be DOUBLED!)
Sunday naps are very much looked forward to. I guess I should say ALL naps are looked forward to!

Owen Is Here!

Here are just a few pictures of the new miracle in our lives and the smiles on Mommy and Daddy's faces.

Owen Bryan Illguth
Born: August 14th 2010 at 2:59 am (and he's doing great!)