My first taste

We finally broke down and started rice cereal. I have been wanting to wait until she was 6 months to the day since that is what I teach as the new recommendation at WIC but she seemed soooo ready. Poor girl was salivating every time she watched us eat.
We have so much fun feeding this little fireball. She gets so wound up, starts flapping her arms, spinning her angles, grunting for more, grabbing the spoon from us and gulps it down. Needless to say, she is so ready for something new in her life ;)You would think we had starved the poor girl by the way she goes after this yucky stuff.
Mallory is so much fun. We can't wait to see what she will do next. Today at church I was in the foyer with her and there was a little 2 year old boy out there running and jumping around. Mallory found this quite humorous and laughed hysterically at this little boy for over 20 minutes. Her laugh was louder than I had ever heard. She was seriously busting a gut laughing and could hardly took a breath. I was crying because I was laughing so hard just watching her laugh. I love how children have no worries, live each day as it comes, live life to the fullest, and need their mamas! Being a Mom is the best!
Countdown... 3 more days of work :)

One quick tangent...
Heck with this "new" stuff. I want my "old" stuff. We got a new computer... now it is not compatible with our webcam. I can't attach photos (only files) to emails, and our new camera program is not compatible with the computer either. Then, we got a new TV, and of course, our lovely bunny ears pick up less channels than before! I spent 1 hour Tuesday night with Porter running cords through the house, around our nativity scene, out the door, up on our lamp, etc, trying to get our bunny ears to pick up the Biggest Loser Finally. Oh, and another thing.. we bought a new camera just before having Mallory and because it has more megapixels all the cute videos I record on it (like the one of her eating cereal) is too large of a file to attach to email or the blog, so what good is it?
So, I want my old stuff back! It at least works!
I will stop complaining, life is good :)

Relief!!! at last

I QUIT!!! (my job)

These past four months have been a doosy...

Porter in his Senior year at ASU taking 16 credits
Porter working cleaning pools
Domini (and Mallory) working full time at WIC
Domini taking an Nutrition course
New baby
Church callings
Family events
Moved to a new house
Holidays
3 baby blessings

Dispite being so busy we have had so much fun and made so many memories. We couldn't have made it without all of the support we have recieved.
We have had a lot of help from family and friends to get through this busy and fun time in our lives. Thank you!

Oh, did I mention... I PUT IN MY 2 Week NOTICE At MY JOB TODAY!!!!! I still can not believe it. I feel so relieved!!! It has been challenging working with a newborn. As Mallory got older I could tell it was getting hard on her. We felt it was time for me to quit and I finally got the nerve today to do it. I know I will miss my job, but I am so excited for this special time with my sweet baby girl. It is scary quitting a job in this economy but we know things will work out. The Lord is always taking care of us.

We really enjoyed a relaxing weekend. I don't think we have ever been so excited for Thanksgiving break. It was much needed.

Our little family

Our first family pictures. A cheap-o version we did by ourselves turned out alright... Here are just a few. Thanks for taking them Britt and Aaron.

Firsts

I just love how little things we do with little Mallory is a first for her. We had so much fun dressing her up for her first Halloween. We had fun spending Halloween in Snowflake with family. Marti and Josh blessed their new baby, Brewer. It was such a special day for him. Oh, and we were able to help Mom and Dad (or Flo and Moe) get ready for their Halloween party. Dad was a Woman (Flo) and Mom was a Man (Moe). I have never laughed so hard. I love the pictures of Malli with her crazy grandparents.

Halloween Festivities Have Begun

(Thanks to Britt!) Britt and Aaron had us over for a fabulous Halloween Dinner on Monday night and for pumpkin carving. Here are some fun pictures of the big event. Brittney is amazing... every holiday is sure to be eventful with her around. Look how cute our dinner plates turned out. We had witch fingers, monster mashed potatoes, mummy dogs, squash, homemade root beer, worms in dirt and a mummy braid for desert. Thanks sis.
Then on Tuesday Mallory and I dressed up for our costume staff meeting at work. Malli was the cutest little ballerina and I was trying to be something, not sure what, either an 80s girl or a hippy. After leaving the house I realized my costume was exactly what the girl was wearing that pierced Mallory's ears on Saturday. ha. We had a good time though and can't wait for more fun to come this weekend in Snowflake.

Update

These past few weeks have been busy as usual. My Grandparents from Utah flew in to meet little Malli and my parents came down too. We had so much fun spending time together. Porter's parents and Gunner also came to stay with us on the weekend for Gunner's last appointment with the heart Dr.! Mallory had fun with a full agenda of events. This little one sure is used to being on the go.
Yesterday we decided to brave the ear piercing experience with Mallory. Poor baby. It was so sad to watch but she is doing good now and looks oh so cute!

Fun with the Fam

This past month we have been able to spend a lot of time with family dispite the fact that life has been super busy! For my birthday we spent weekend in Snowflake and all of Porter's siblings were visiting. It was fun to have all of the grandkids together. We finally got some pictures of all the Caldwell grandkids.
Then over confernce weekend we headed up to Vernon to camp with my family. With 6 adults and 3 babies with one small camper in cold and wind we were bound for an adventure. We sure did make memories. Babies crying and waking each other up, cold and windy weather, flat tires, and more. I love my family so much!!! We went home exhausted but it was worth it. Mallory was quite the camper, she did so good.