Merry Christmas!

 

I LOVE THIS FACE! She is so amazing and we love her so much. Life got 10x harder when she came along, but it also got 20x more funny, exciting, and joyful. I am amazed at the Lord's hand in our lives. We are SO THANKFUL for our Savior Jesus Christ for all he has given us so that we could live, and live together forever.

 

We hope you all have a beautiful christmas season.
Merry Christmas from the Davenports

National Adoption Month

Just wanted to recognize national adoption month once again because it's changed our lives! We're so grateful for all the birth mothers and adoptive families and caseworkers out there. We're so thankful for this little blessing:

We're also excited to say that we are putting our paperwork in for another little miracle, so keep us in mind when you think about adoption!

ONE

We can hardly believe our baby is 1! She is SO MUCH FUN!!! She is starting to be little miss independent. She is the biggest blessing we've ever been given. We got to spend her actual birthday in Las Vegas with my brother's family and then had another birthday party with all of our family here when we got back. Lucky one year old got 2 cakes! Speaking of cakes; I am not a cake decorator. Her care bear cake was actually scary and it was an adventure to get one made! I thought Hailey might start crying when she saw the face on the care bear, but she just stared at it in a stupor of thought. We had such a great time celebrating her first year.

Backyard Water Fun

Who knew a garden hose could provide so much entertainment for us? Don't mind the loud mama laughs, sometimes I forget I have the camera right in front of me. Hailey seriously played with the hose for about 30 minutes and was pretty cold and soaked when I finally turned it off! I can't believe summer is almost over. :(

Official: Part 2

Here's some of my favorite pictures from the temple. Isn't Hailey gorgeous? She was so smiley while we took pictures and loved eating ice out of the cooler. Thanks everyone who helped us have such a great day and everyone for sending us your love!

OFFICIAL: PART 1

What an amazing day we've had today! This morning we had our court case for the adoption finalization, this top picture is Hailey and Jeff waiting for the judge to come in. The hearing went smooth and well...other than I lied about my age on the stand! When the attorney asked me my age for the record I said 29 and everyone looked at me funny and I realized I'm only 28 and quickly corrected myself. Glad they didn't toss me in the slammer for it. :D When the judge granted our adoption and started signing the papers Hailey started clapping. It was hilarious. She was very excited for our picture with the judge and gave us a classic Hailey shout.

We went to the temple this afternoon and were sealed to Hailey and it was awesome. She looked so perfect and beautiful. It was honestly one of the most amazing days of my life. I feel so incredibly blessed to have Jeff and Hailey as my family, sometimes it seems unreal. My best friend Kim took pictures for us at the temple so I'll post those pictures after we get them, but for now here's our official Miss Hailey Ray Davenport!!!!!

Growing!

It has been so long since I posted anything! I don't have all of our pics downloaded yet, but here's a few of our growing little girl. She liked being out with daddy in his new "woodshop" out back...she only got scared a few times of the loud saws!

Hailey is the best napping partner. She always has a huge smile waiting for you when she wakes up, I LOVE her smile! She has also gotten her top two front teeth in and is getting a 3rd bottom tooth. Honestly I wish I had a picture of her top teeth, they are so stinkin cute! Right now there is still a little gap while they're growing in, so she totally looks like a Davenport. She also won't stop grinding her top and bottom teeth together. It drives the mama absolutely crazy -like fingernails on a chalkboard- but I don't know how to get her to stop. :(

Hailey is also crawling all over the place, which I love. She is so happy now that she can scoot around and we frequently hear her laughing at how much fun it is to move. Consequently, she is now into everything and loves dumping her treats all over the floor. She loves to stand at the tub and knock the shampoo bottle in, she loves to stand at the door, play in the tupperware drawer, play the keyboard, climb stairs, climb our kitchen shelf, climb people, climb anything, "bark" at the dogs and pet them, get chased by mommy and daddy, and most of all she loves to just be outside. Jeff and I have been surprised at how big she's gotten and how quickly. It still seems like last week we brought her home from the hospital. She is such a miracle. We also have our court date set for the finalization and the temple date to be sealed together; July 28th! We are so excited!

Life, Las Vegas, and Buffalo Wild Wings

We took a trip last weekend back to Las Vegas to visit Buds family and see our old friends. We had a great time! Hailey did so good on both flights, she was very hot which made her cheeks stay nice and pink the whole time, and of course she loved playing with her Vegas cousins. She is also very happy that the weather is nice here in Pocatello so she can be outside swinging or getting her toes licked by Sadie. We definitely have ourselves an outdoor gal and can't wait to go camping!

Buffalo wild wings, how do we live without you here in Pocatello? We HAD to make a stop there and Jeff missed it so much he decided to take the blazin wing challenge with Bud and little E. It was the most entertaining dining experience I have ever had. They were all so excited and pumped to start, then they had to sign the waiver and got a little nervous, then they saw the stack of 12 blazin wings and got a little more nervous, but they pushed through the incredible amount of sweat, tears, burning and pain, and they got their photo on the wall! I still can't look at that picture of Jeff without laughing. He was sweating like crazy and if you look you can just see the tears all down his face and the skin around the sauce starting to burn. Oh, we love you Buffalo Wild Wings and miss you terribly.

Casa

I finally took a few pics of the new casa. This is the view from the street. Beautiful huh?

This is the 2nd garage which is back behind the house. The driveway is like a mile long.

The living room aka Hailey's play room. The decorating style is really fisher price in here. No decorating yet.

Finally, the kitchen. Our fridge is built in to the wall, which I think is totally awesome. We hung our first thing on the wall today...a keybox. :) We also started painting Hailey's room and it's looking pretty cute. I'll get a picture up when it's all done. Well, now you've seen our house...maybe you should all come visit it!

More Swimming

Hailey really is a little fish! She loves to be in the water...well except when her whole body and head go under!

Hailey's Idaho Adventures

Hailey started eating some food. She wasn't too big a fan of the rice cereal and kept reaching for her bottle! Next try was peas and she's doing pretty well...not sure she really likes them though. She likes to eat her "mum-mums" though, I think it makes her feel like a big girl to hold it in her hands like mom and dad.

Hailey loved living with her cousins Emily and Griff for a while. Emily was always entertaining her and making sure she had enough toys to play with. Hailey loves to bounce, read, play, talk, chew, and the greatest part...she's a wonderful sleeper!

Not a day goes by that we aren't in awe of her. She is so beautiful and full of love and wonder. She is one incredible little girl and we are SO lucky to have her in our home.

Family Pictures

Here are two of the pictures we got from Anne today, that I LOVE! Hailey has the most gorgeous blue eyes. I'm going to have a hard time choosing pictures to hang with this batch. Oh ya, Hailey is sick again. :( She has a double ear infection and a nasty cough. You'd never know how sick she is by the way she acts...still smiling and chatting away. She loves to "talk" right now. Her talking isn't typical though, no "ah-goo" or sounds like that, she does this little high pitched scream of delight. It's pretty cute for a little while, but I think I'll enjoy when actually sounds or words are coming instead of screaming. Silly little beautiful girl.

New Photos

Ok, so I'm not ambitious enough to actually go find the camera and download pictures yet, but if you want to see some cute pics of Hailey go to www.annepearsonphotography.com/blog to see the most adorable little girl. Her pictures are titled Little Miss H, New Toof Drool, and So Loved. Oh my heck, I love this little one. She is SO MUCH FUN! I think she's starting to get sick again...happens a lot with kiddos huh? I'm still not unpacked; holding out for new shelves in my closet before I put clothes away!

Moving..again!

Yep we're moving again. Only this time it's to our very own HOME! We bought a house on Ebony in Pocatello that we both loved the first time we walked through and we'll be moving in on Monday, even though we close on it today...long story. I feel like life has been extra crazy this year and hopefully things will start getting back to normal for us soon. Sorry we still haven't posted any new pictures; we are borrowing everyones computers.
Here's a list of all that Hailey has been up to that I wish I could show everyone:
She got her first tooth!
She started rolling over.
She started laughing-oh my goodness it is like music!
She tries to "run" when we hold her up.
She loves her little activity saucer.
She laughs every time her cousin Emily jumps on her bed and sings.
She has 3 adorable cousins all the same age that she loves to lay by and smile at.
She finally has rolls on her thighs, oh I could just eat them up!
She is growing so fast we can hardly believe it.

We made it!

We're here! After a very long 12 hour trip, we pulled in to Chubbuck at about 10:00 last night. We were exhausted! Hailey did great on the trip, she pretty much slept while we were driving and ate every time we stopped so our stops took a little bit longer than normal. We also got to stop in SLC to see our niece Ali at Primary Childrens. She is so cute, I can't wait for Hailey to meet her! It is freezing here, of course, and I am already sad about that. It seems a little wierd to think we aren't just here for a visit for a few days...more like visiting for a few years! We have a lot of work to do today and tomorrow we start looking for houses. Thanks everyone for all the help loading, cleaning, babysitting, packing, driving, calling, feeding us, and everything else you've done.

Leaving Las Vegas

Well, I can't believe we only have 4 more days here in Las Vegas! It all seems like it's coming so fast. I haven't written too much about moving and some of you have wondered why we are leaving, so I'll try to jot down some of the thought process that went into this decision. Both of us have always said that one day we would like to end up in Pocatello or Idaho somewhere and we even talked about Jeff working home health so that I could live my dream of summer in Idaho- winter in Las Vegas; but that would be hard for Hailey. Really, I think we just felt like we were ready for something more and Jeff had his dream job offered to him at the right time. That makes it sound like it was easy to decide, but it was much much harder for us to decide to move than either of us anticipated. It took us a LONG time...almost 2 months to decide what we needed to do. We have loved Las Vegas and would have loved to raise Hailey here, it is such a great place with great people, but we felt like we needed to be back in Idaho. Anyway, the memories and growth we have had here will always have a tender spot in our hearts. We learned so much, grew closer to each other, relied more on our Savior than ever before, and of course our greatest miracle happened here: Hailey.

So we are enjoying the last few beautiful sunny days here (although we're mostly inside packing) before we hit the cold winter of Idaho. I told my dad I'm going to spend all day tomorrow in my swimsuit, but I just realized it's already packed along with the shorts. Guess I'll settle for capris and a t-shirt! We hope Idaho is ready to have us back....see you soon!

Oh, and of course no post is complete without a picture of Hailey :)

I just can't resist!

Seriously, who can resist these smiley faces? Hailey is smiling SO MUCH now, we love it. I swear she laughed at me the other day too. We love this little gal more than we ever knew we could.

By the way, we are totally not ready to move to Idaho. I have 7 boxes packed...7. Wish us luck!