month pictures

Berret got me this huge calendar for Christmas to take Hallie's pictures ever month to watch her grow. Here is the beginning...

working hard

Hallie's dad works soooo hard. He is taking 18 credits this semester to be able to finish up in April. After long days at classes and tending to other responsibilities he can't wait to hold his daughter even if he is still doing homework.

We are so proud of him!

hallie is home

She fits right in doesn't she?

we love this little girl

We absolutely love having Hallie! She is so fun to hold and watch her make all of her cute faces.

watch the video to see her cute yawn

She really likes to snuggle with daddy :)

Tonight at the hospital we had our stake and shrimp dinner for too to celebrate Hallie's birth. There was a ton of food and it was nice to have dinner with Berret and actually eat the same thing at the same time.

Hallie has been doing really good and her and I are starting to get better with nursing. She is just so beautiful and Healthy. We will be leaving the hospital tomorrow to go HOME.

Hallie Amorett Harris

Hallie was born. She weighs 7lbs even and is 19 1/2 inches long. She is beautiful and healthy. Her middle name comes from Berret's great great grandma.

cute bow!

BYU-Idaho!

Cousins! Hallie with her cousin Danielle that is two months older.
Flowers
Our Door was decorated by a nurse that took care of me last year when Brooke was born. She came to visit the day Hallie was born and she aslo brought the flowers shown above. She is such a sweet nurse!

Grandma and Hallie

(I am so glad my mom is here to help with what ever I need!)

extra ultrasound

I had a full ultra sound today to check on the baby. At my appointment Friday I was measuring a little small so they just wanted to check things out. Everything looks GREAT! They can measure alot more in an ultrasound and she is actually right on in her size. The tech said that today she would probably weigh in the upper 6 or lower 7 pounds and she will have another week to get even heavier. We also found out that she does have some hair!!
The c-section is scheduled for next Tuesday the 6th (the day before Berret goes back to school). My mom will be flying in Monday night and Berret and I are really excited to have her here to help out. We have most everything we can think of ready for the baby and are just anxious to meet little Hallie!
They don't normally print out pictures when the ultrasound is extra but the tech said this is one of the best foot shots she has ever seen this far along. You can see all 5 toes!

christmas

Chrismas was lots of fun!

37 weeks and 1 day

the stockings

our apartment decked out for Christmas

35 weeks and 3 days

yes, I'm ginormous

a few more pics

Carly posted a few more of my maternity photos to her blog. Check them out. http://blog.carlycarlson.com/

new pictures of the belly

Today was a great day. A while ago I won a mini-session with an AMAZING photographer, Carly Carlson. Today was our session and she did a great job. Check some of our pics out at http://blog.carlycarlson.com/ .

I didn't realize how much my belly button was popping out! It was really fun taking pictures with Carly and Berret had fun playing with her little girl. If anyone out there needs some updated photos you should seriously consider Carly. Thanks Carly!

childrens sewing-jacket

I didn't think this project was ever going to end. I had to spend 4 hours in the sewing lab on a Friday night...lame! Most of the contsruction of this jacket was done inside-out so it was really confusing to look at and really hard to understand how all of it was going to work. I learned alot of things with it though.
*Fleece stretches easily and my lining fabric didn't budge so that causes some problems but you can ease in fleece quite well.
*Fleece is horrible to unpick because the stitching just sinks right in and you can hardly see.
*The feeddog has trouble grabbing really slick fabric like my lining.
*Ribbing can be a pain but it isn't that bad to work with.
*Lastly with all of my sewing classes I am no longer terrified of putting in zippers even invisible ones. The outside and the lining were assembled seperately then sewn together inside-out. The entire jacket was then turned right-side out through a hole in the seam of the sleeve lining. All raw edges are enclosed in the jacket.
My zipper was just a little short of reaching all the way up to the hood. To solve the problem I added a tab and button to fill the gap and it turned out to be a nice detail. Genius right?
Well I just wrote a bunch of jibberish about this jacket that probably doesn't matter to anyone but this jacket was alot more complicated for me to make than it looks.

30 weeks and 4 days

I just keep growing...

new niece!!!

Warren and Allison had their baby Sunday November 2nd at 10:17 AM. Danielle was 5 pounds 1 ounce and 18 inches long. She was born about 5 weeks early but is doing great. She is being kept in the special care nursery and is progressing really well.

Allison looks like she is doing great. Doesn't Allison look amazing after having a baby!?!?!?!?

Danielle is so BEAUTIFUL!!!

and Danielle has a little bit of dark hair

Congrats Warren and Allison!!!

our halloween

For halloween I dressed up the tummy as a basketball and Berret was a basketball player. My ridiculously bright orange shirt is from DI and I cut a basketball out of felt and sewed it on. We had easy and comfy cotumes this year.
On Thursday we had a ward party that turned out great and was alot of fun.
For the Office fans here is Dwight and Angela actually its Jilliann, Berret's cousin and her husband Chris at the ward party. Oh and Jillian is wearing a pin that says R.I.P. Sprinkles.

And on Halloween we went to Brad and Ally's for a little party. Ally had a shirt with a Bun in the oven while Brad was the baker. Zak and Sam were also Dwight and Angela but we didn't take many pictures at the party except of Hunter. And heres Hunter the lion.
Hear him ROAR and MEOW!!!!

(sorry they are so dark but Hunter sounds really cute)

tuesdays and thursdays...if i'm lucky

So I get the opportunity to watch Hunter once and a while. He is so much FUN. The pictures and video are actually from tuesday today we didn't get to play...but tomorrow is Halloween!

He gets into EveRYthInG it is so funny to see what he finds interesting. He is just so dang cute.

He also really likes to run around the ottoman he goes around and around and AROUND. The video was taken towards the end of one of his strolls. Oh and he found all the belts and played with all of those so he is still wearing one of them.

just another project

In home decor sewing we finally finished our linen project. I made a tablecloth others in my class made runner, placemats, and napkins.

It was a simple project but it was kinda big and took a long time to iron my thick fabric with the double fold evenly. Just look at my beautiful mitered corners though...too bad they are on the back side.

not a whole lot going on

So there isn't much new with us. We just go to school and then Berret does tons of homework and I work on cleaning and various other projects. I recently got some of my sewing projects back from my classes. Take a look...
This is the sleeper I made in childrens sewing. Other projects I've done for that class have been booties, a bib, and a t-shirt. We are now making jackets.
These are the pj pants I made for Berret in clothing contruction. There are tractors and hay all over the fabric. This class goes quite slow the only other thing we've done is a pillow case. We are now working on button up shirts.
Floral arranging is a really fun class because I get to come home with flowers every week. Left-triangular arrangment Top-bud vase Bottom-corsage

Couple of weekend ago Berret and I went to Utah and had tons of fun. We got to go shopping at IKEA!!! It was really fun seeing Collette and Laura. This is a pic of Collette's house in the first snow of the year. Cute huh...

and i'm growing

get good pics!

Anyone need pictures done? My friend Carly has a photography business and well she is basically AmaZiNg. Check out some of her work at http://www.carlycarlson.com/ her site is very clear with rates and such. After seeing her work I'm sure you'll be wanting to schedule a session.

classes...

Berret and I have been pretty boring lately. We are both just in school and Berret has tons of homework all the time. My classes have been fun we have accomplished a few small projects in my sewing classes. Floral design has been actually interesting even though its been 2 full hours of lecture each class. Today though we finally got to work with the FLOWERS!! We learned how to properly put the wire through difffernt types of flowers and used the floral tape. Then we got to work more on bows that I find extremely frustrating. Put it all together and we have some corsages. Below are 2 corsages I made today.