Asheville

We ventured to Asheville to take our first stab at Camping with a baby. We left Thursday evening and spent the first night in a hotel because of our late arrival. Saturday morning we hit up downtown Asheville. Keeley playing with the flowers in downtown.

I couldn't pick just one.

Then headed to Chimney Rock. Matt and Keeley in front of the Chimney Rock.

The Three of us on top of Chimney rock

Then we took a short hike with Riddle to a waterfall. In front of the falls colors at the waterfall.

Then we headed back down to find our campsite which was located just off the Blue Ridge Parkway. It was incredibly beautiful.
We passed this church on the way and Matt wanted to get a few pics.
Thanks to google we got lost. The directions took us to an entirely different location so fortunately my brother lives in front of a computer. He is a student at University of Idaho studying landscape architecture so he spends countless hours in a lab. HE finally got us pointed in the right direction and they rain started to fall. By the time we got to the camp site it was dark, foggy and very wet. The three of us in front of the fire, but what looks like smoke is actually fog!

Keeley did great even with the rain pounding on the tent all night and the frigid weather, she only woke up once. Keeley and Mom still in the tent in the morning. Don't we look nice!

It was me who threw in the towel when I thought about all of our soaking gear and trying to clean bottles with all the mud. So we packed up in the morning and made our last stop at the arboretum which was having a bonsai expo.

All in all it was a great trip. The fall color were beautiful and we are hoping to make it back sometime in the spring. Maybe without any rain I'll last for a few nights.

A New Favorite

Look at me I'm jumping!

Conference Weekend

For general conference this last weekend we headed to D.C to stay with Mark, Gail and Simon. We had a great time. We visited the National Arboretum. Matt got to see his all time favorite bonsai. Keeley slept through every session of conference. I'm not sure how we got so lucky. But, we felt pretty blessed to listen the the prophet and apostles while Keeley took long naps.

Keeley and Grandpa. She was a good sport but finally threw in the towel after seeing hundreds of bonsais.

Keeley and Grammie

Keeley and Simon, I think they have the same look on their faces, "like really your going to make us take another picture."

You really have to hold to Simon or he might just disappear.

Keeley showing off her pea coat. Ohh, how we love new clothes!

First Feeding

Keeley had her first bite of real food, if you count rice cereal, yesterday. She was really funny. She didn't want to wait for me to get another bite up to her mouth so she would fuss. She opened her mouth when the spoon got close and used her tongue but then she would spit it back out. She did eat most of it but as you can see it also ended up all over. I'm hoping that if she will fill up on rice cereal a few times a day it will slow down our Nutramigen bill.

4 month Check Up

So we made it 4 months, hooray! Keeley is wonderful these days. So we visited the doctors and here are her new stats- 25.5 inches and 13 lbs 7.5 oz. So she is still growing but the great news is that her weight is catching up to her height. The little red circles indicate where she is now. At least her height is on the charts this month.

As for formula, I'm afraid we will always be on it. Doctor didn't suggest we take her off of it until 6 months. Then we will go to regular formula. So much for using all the breast milk I have stored in the freezer. Maybe I can sell it Baskin Robins for their Breast Milk Ice Cream. jk If you haven't heard that story google it. Below is a picture of Keeley before our run this morning she was pretty cute all bundled up.