Personal progress night

for a few months i have been planning a personal progress night for the young women of the stake. it was fun planning but this week ended up being a little crazy and i couldn't wait for my activity to get here!

 the young women were supposed to come in anything P so there was a lot of pink, purple and plaid pajamas!

 i gave a talk on personal progress. why we do it and what it can help the young women acheive. i had pictures of some of my girls that i had in young women that are now married, graduated from college and mothers. showing the girls where they will be in 5 years or so. the blank picture frame in the middle is for them to picture themselves! it was really cute!
Pres. clark also talked to the girls about how much time they can invest in their personal progress and still get it done with all of the other things they have going on.
i planned 3 activities for them to do after the talks.

 one was painting their fingernails in the value colors to remind them to do their personal progress and to live the young women values.

 they had fun with it!

 then we had them make a craft. i printed out pictures of the temple, painted 5x7 boards black and then they glued them on and tied on a ribbon

 they also had a goal station, writing down their goals for the week, the month and the year

 then we had P desserts, pie and popsicles. the chocolate haupia pie is missing from the picture, i bought a ton of pies and we had 3 pieces left. girls can eat!

 i think i also had over 50 popsicles those were cleaned out!

                                               hanging out eating

                                                            the example for the temple craft
we had about 75 people there, about 60 young women. it was a great activity that i think the girls enjoyed. can't wait to do it again next year:) (one year from now!!!)
marj, jen and kepa, thanks for the help!

faces of ellie

i'm a little down today. my friend holly has been in the hospital sick for weeks and has only gotten worse. hopefully in the next few days some of their measures will benefit her so that she can get a little stronger.it's hard to be so far away and not help someone!

 i decided i needed a dose of ellie to look at! i see her once or twice a week and miss her so much in between. i haven't taken a ton of pictures though because she is always just asleep but last sunday night she opened her eyes for a few min. and had the cutest faces!

 she has started to lose her hair on the sides a little, but she looks adorable in her headbands either way!

 yes, i even think this is one is cute because she never does it, this last for 2 min. probably because someone picks her up but she is generally pretty happy

it is so hot right now and she has a terrible heat rash. we will be happy when it starts to cool down and she can actually wear clothes!
love you ellie baby!
p.s. tommorow (sunday) we are fasting and praying for holly if you want to join us!

loved

It's hard to believe ellie kai has been here a whole week and a half.in some ways it seems like she's been here so long and other times it seems like she was just at the hospital. caleb wants to know what she's going to do next ?! :)
i pulled out a picture i had to make a little frame for ki with her and ellie's picture and me and her. i wish i could get more, they are just in a rubbermaid with stuff on it, i just need to pull them out!

                                      

 they look nothing alike but kiley hardly looks like her own baby picture. all her dark hair fell out and came in very blonde. i hope ellie keeps her beautiful blonde hair!
ellie is so very loved. she has 2 wonderful parents, 4 grandparents, 6 great grandparents and 1 great great grandmother!! she has a loving uncle and 4 sets of aunt's and uncle's on scotty's side. she has a great aunts and uncles on ki's side, my sister and brother and matt's sisters and brother and brother and sister in laws and lots of cousins on scotty's side! that is just our immediate family! what a lucky baby!

 scotty emailed me a few of their pics from her birth. this is my favorite and is now framed at my house!

our friends isaac and sara had their reception last weekend. ki didn't want to miss it so they came with ellie for a little while.

caleb and jack had to take turns holding her. jack(amber's boyfriend) likes babies too!

ki sent this to me this week because during the day she is just happy awake and content. when i get there she is sacked out, not to be woken for anything so i never get to see her eyes. she is such a cutie. poor thing has gotten some acne which i think is really heat rash since it is so hot but i'm sure it will go away soon.
she is such a good sweet baby!

baxter meets ellie

     we have wondered how baxter would act when ellie came. he gets a lot of attention and gets very jealous like when we  hold a baby at our house. we took him over to ki's last night because we were taking some things out to set up for isaac's reception today. just so everyone knows, i do know baxter's a dog and i was cautious with him around her. we don't let him by her face or alone with her.

                                          she is always just sleepy, she is in her baby comma

                                   grandpa trying to get her to open her eyes. telling her "ill always have gum!"

 ki and scotty moved their matress to the living room floor where it's cooler. while we played with the baby he went and layed by ki to get some attention. he just wasn't sure what was going on.

 he would come by us and we would let him sniff her toes, he wasn't much interested but definitely knew something was different.

 she opened her eyes for a little bit but it almost looks like she's trying to hold them open!

                       matt and ki just hanging out looking at ellie, baxter just wanting to be close!

 they have a great bassinet for her that she seems to do really well in, she looks so cozy

                                she looks so small in it though when you see the whole picture!             
 awwww, just love her!!

adorable

i got to see ellie for a little bit yesterday, it was feeding time so i didn't get a lot of  pictures but it was fun to see her in clothes at home!

 scotty sent me this picture of caleb at the hospital with her. he is so in love! he goes to ki's house everyday because her misses her! im thinking he's going to be a good daddy!

 she has been a good little baby, she has her fussy times and sometimes gets frustrated eating but for the majority of the day she is sleeping or content. they were a little worried about some jaundice but she seems to be ok.

 she lost 5 oz. in the hospital but she has gained it back and is back at her birth weight. look at those little arm rolls, so cute! doesn't she look like a doll?! she loves laying on the right side of her head, she is always on that side!

 sept. is our summer and it is hot. poor little baby can't even be wrapped in a blanket, it's just too sweaty.

                                                               she's simply adorable!

mesmerized

today is ellie kai's 2nd day in this world. she was a little startled by it yesterday, today not so excited by it. she ate and slept! we wanted to see her eyes open but she wasn't having it. she was so sleepy and content.

                                          basically we sat around staring at her sleep!

 checking out how long her fingers are, how deep her nail beds are and how long her nails are

                 ooohing and aaahing over her silvery blonde hair that sticks off the back of her head

                                    she is finding her fingers when it's not time to eat

                                 will she be a thumb sucker? look at those fingers! she's 2 days old. piano player?!

                                              what a doll with the most content face

                                     caleb had to drive back from hau'ula today to say hi to his favorite neice

 she is pretty good at nursing but she falls asleep as i'm sure most 24 hr. old babies do but when you take her away she starts up again!

scotty is very good with her, not at all afraid to get in there, change a diaper, or settle her down which he can. he's a good dad already!

                                     we got a little peek at her eyes open, that's it!

                                              stop taking pictures of me please!

                                         ki's view outside her hospital window

               and just for fun i hadn't posted the lion tag toy i made for ellie when i saw it on pinterest
i know i'm obsessed, it is so fun to be able to make baby things!!
i don't see her until wed. and i think i'll miss her!