2 months

Emma is 2 months old! oh my goodness, its flying by! What in the world did we ever do without the cute lil stinker!! We love u Emma!

*She is so... strong. holds her little head up like such a big girl!
*Is Smiilin up a storm
*went on her 1st camping trip and was such a lil trooper
*Is sleepin the night, most nights anyways
*loves to hold her little rattle
*sucks anything and everything (hands, arms, clothes, car-seat straps etc.)
*i'll post her weight and height when i find out next week :)
okay so she was 23" in the 65% and 12 lbs 13 oz. in the 85% :) lil turkey's growin!

4th of July Weekend!

for the 4th of July weekend Randan I and miss Emma went Camping. we got there Friday night around 1:00 and looked for a camping spot near the twin lakes in Bridgeport CA. it was packed!! after looking for 2 hours we gave up and slept the night in the truck. Saturday morning we found a perfect spot inbetween Lake Tahoe and Yosemite. It was perfect!! so we set up camp and went to Sonora Pass. oh my goodness it was beautiful. The next day we went to Yosemite National Park. There were waterfalls EVERYWHERE! for sure one of the prettiest places I've been. and the next day we spent the day at Lake Tahoe. We had an absolute blast. Tahoe was having fireworks over the lake that we were so so excited for but they weren't until 9:45 and we were an hour away from our camp so we decided to just head back. kind of a bummer but we still had a blast!
The 4th of july is such a special holiday to me. for sure a day to be celebrated! it used to just be a fun day of fireworks and BBQ's but with Randan being in the Military it really makes me appreciate what it celebrates, which I'm so thankful for! its also the day Randan proposed (just a side-note :) I'm so thankful to all those in the service and to those who have been in the past! I'm thankful for all the freedoms I have and this wonderful country we have to live in! Thanks hun for all you do! hope you all had a wonderful 4th of July!

update on the Woods

So the 11th was the Marine Corps Ball. its normally on November 10th for the Marine Corps Birthday but since 3/5 was gone they did it in June. We left Emma with my parents and drove to Vegas. It was Randan and Mines first ball in 4 years. Every year Randans been doing some kind of training where he hasn't been able to go. We weren't there long we just went for the ceremony and dinner and then left. we were anxious to get back to Emma. who was an angle so my parents say.
on the 12th Randan I and Emma headed for California. Randan has a friend who offered their spare room in their house. they are so nice. they have a 20 month old a 6 month old and a dog and still were more then happy to have us. Emma and I have LOVED being in the same state as Randan. although it is pretty hard living with other people with Emma so who knows how long it'll last. But on the 18th we went to Sea World! I have never been. And because Randan's active Military we all got in Free! we had a blast. We didn't ride any of the rides but we walked around and went to the shows. Emma was a doll, pretty much slept the whole time. and when she woke up and started fussin we were ready to leave anyways!
So thats that! Just a little update! hope you're all doing well! :)

Emmas a month already!!

oh my goodness my baby girls a month old, and a few days :) I can't believe how time flys. and look at me bein a mom doing my monthly posts about my babe :) crazy
So many things that both Emma and I are learning! (poor thing has to be my lil ginny pig) so many firsts!
-She is SO strong she'll hold her little head up squeeze fingers and push with her lil legs.
-She didn't like pacifiers for a long time until we found the one she liked, now shes quite fond of it!
-She had her first bath and didn't quite know what to think of it, everytime. she just kinda sat there. ha ha until I took her out.....
-She hates being cold
-She LOVES to sleep on her tummy. I know they aren't supposed to but i figure if its gone back and forth between sleep on tummy no sleep on back, no sleep on side... it doesn't matter a whole lot. however bein a first time mom I am pretty paranoid, Randan gets annoyed that I have to check on her a million times a night. ha ha
-She LOVES to eat. oh my goodness. (I could do a whole post on this, but I'll leave it at that ha)
-She loves her carseat, and rides so good in the car. we even took our first trip to SLC, with much help from my amazing sister and she did SO good!
-She really is such a good baby! My family keeps telling me its not fair I have such a good one. (i was.....not so good ha ha)
-She is 21 3/4 long in the 75%, and 10 lbs 15 oz in the 93% ! Such a lil chunk! ha!

I can't believe the little sweetheart is ours, we're extremely blessed! Randan left on the 31st and we're missing him so much. Its so fun to see him with Emma. He already is such a good daddy and I'm so thankful he's mine. We're still working on chasing after him :)

-i have to add, today 5/6 Emma rolled first from her tummy to back and then from her back to her tummy! So It looks like it doesn't matter a whole lot which way I put her. told u she was strong :) ha ha girls determined and gonna do what she wants. (wonder where she gets that) :)

Sand Hallow/Emmas Blessing!

Saturday we got together with all Randans family and went to Sand Hallow! The weather was really nice minus the wind! Emma did really well the wind didn't even bother her! We had a great time. played in the water, got a nice farmers "tan" burn, ate a good lunch and had great company! Its so fun when we're all together!
We decided to bless Emma Sunday 5/29 since Randan has to go back tomorrow and we weren't sure which weekends he'd be back. It was so nice, Randan did such a great job! I'm so thankful that he holds the Priesthood and was able to bless Emma. Its been wonderful having Randan home and Em and I are not excited about him leaving. We might just have to chase after him :)

She's here!!

I came home Sunday night from California and and Monday I had a doc appointment. My due date was the 6th, however I wasn't progressing and my blood pressure was up a bit so doc said he didn't feel comfortable waiting till the 6th and asked how fast Randan could get here. I called him and he got things worked out so he left monday night. We scheduled the c-section for Tuesday May 3rd! we went in at 5:00 a.m had my spinal at 6:30, started the c-section at 7:00 and precious Emma Kay Woods was born at 7:08! she weighed 9 lbs 14 oz and was 20 1/2 long, with lots of dark hair! Everything went so smoothly. Emma was healthy as could be! Doc said it was a good thing we did the c-section, besides being big she was way way high (was no surprise to me, I have felt her in my ribs the past 2 months ha ha) we had to spend 2 nights at the hospital but since being home were all doing so good. What an amazing thing it is being a momma and just in time for mothers day! She is so fun. It couldn't have worked out better, 3/5 gets 30 days of post deployment leave so Randan will get to be home the whole month of May!

SFW banquet

What a great weekend we had! at the beginning of the week a guy from my ward knocked on my door and said that the SFW was having a banquet which he was a chairman for and they wanted to honor Randan at it. He told me a little bit about it and what was going on. He wanted to keep it a secret from Randan, so I told Randan as little as possible as I could to get him here and in his dress blues. so Saturday we got there at 5:30 Randan was so so nervous of what was going on. we ate a great dinner and then they had a slide show of this amazing "hunt for heros" program that they put on. They send Military Heros on this amazing hunt on the northern Canada border just south or the Arctic. I sent some pictures to the guy in my ward and he put together a slide show of Randan and just told about him and his hunting/military experience. they gave Randan an awesome gun and then called his dad up to join him and said they were sending both Randan and Fred on this all exclusive 12 day hunt, the one on the northern Canada border south of the Arctic!!! Wow!!! are people really that generous??? AMAZING is all I can say! then as the night went on they had a auction and a drawing and Randan won another gun! and to top the night off Grandpa won a safe and 4 guns! ha ha, what a cool night!
I don't know if its the pregnancy hormones or what but every time I think of it i just about bawl! Really makes me realize how good people are. Randan has earned and deserves every bit of it but its so so neat that people who aren't his wife think so too! I'm so proud of Randan! He's been on such a high and probably will be for a while! I have to post some pictures, this was the first time I've ever seen Randan in his blues, and man did he look good!! ;)