Swimming, Football and Rolling over!

Well, we have had a busy weekend this last week, especially McKaylee! It's showing today too, she is just sleeping and sleeping! Hopefully she'll still sleep tonight :). The most exciting (or frightening) thing is McKaylee has taken her first step to being mobile. Last week she decided she was ready to roll over and she just hasn't stopped doing it. She only goes from her stomach to her back, but I know the whole 360 degree roll over isn't too far away. I thought for sure she'd do it once on accident and then probably not come upon the idea again for a day or two but oh no, she figured it out and rolled over and over and over. She probably rolled over 6 times on the first day! I was shocked. Now she does it almost on command. She really doesn't like being on her stomach and now I'll never get her to stay there for more than 30 seconds before she's rolled to her back.....it sounds like the end of tummy-time to me. Hopefully she'll still figure out how to crawl, maybe when she figures out how to get the rest of the way around. Here's a movie of her big move:


Friday night we took McKaylee to the rec center for the first time to go swimming! She loves her bath and doesn't seem to mind water at all, so we thought she would enjoy the pool. We started out slow, just putting her little feet in the shallow water but she seemed to like it and two minutes later we were in up to her waist! "Enjoy" is kind of an understatement of how it went.....she loved it!! We put her in the water and she just smiled and splashed and played. She was fun to watch. She especially loved going around in the river and just playing in the water while dad, Scott and I took turns on the water slide.



After playing for a while though, she got cold and so we wrapped her in her bathrobe and she fell right asleep, all worn out. So we put our feet in the hot tub while she took a snooze.



Our next big adventure was the University of Utah football game! Trevor's friend, Christian Cox got us tickets for the game in the "parent's" section. Wow, I have never had such good tickets! We were on the 40 yard line 5 rows up. It was amazing. We could actually see the players and not just little action figures running up and down the field. We were brave and decided to take McKaylee with us, with the resolve that if she wasn't good, I would just take laps around the stadium. Well, she didn't seem to mind the game at all. She loved all the lights and movements and was actually really good the whole time. She took a couple naps, played around, ate a bottle and was just the perfect little Ute fan. Everyone kept commenting on how cute she was, I am really glad we took her. Here's our little Ute!



Check out that view! Oh, and Big T Thurl Bailey was sitting just a few rows in front of us, that was pretty cool!.

And I just have to throw this one last picture in because it's so cute....I think she's going to end up like me, sleeping anywhere, anyway and anyhow she wants when she'd tired....

Three Month Pictures

I'm a little bit slow getting these pictures posted, McKaylee is already 3 1/2 months, but we were a little late getting the pictures taken and then I wanted to test out my Photoshop skills and see what I could do with the pictures. I honestly had too much fun playing around with them. I had my friend Anne come and take the pictures, she did an amazing job and just had so much fun with McKaylee. McKaylee wasn't the biggest fan of getting put in all kinds of places, but thankfully she gave us quite a few really cute ones amongst all her screaming. Well, happy 3 months McKaylee!!

Bradley Family Reunion

Well, I'm a little bit late getting this post up, but two weekends ago we had the Bradley Family Reunion up at Pineview Reservoir and Z-Park. Trevor and I were in charge this year and wow, it takes a lot of work! But I think it turned out to be lots of fun.

Thursday Aug. 12 we spent the day at Pineview. We rented some wave runners and hung out on the beach. It was a little bit chilly for a day at the beach, low 80's, but we couldn't have asked for a more beautiful day.

McKaylee loved putting her toes in the sand and letting the water lap up to her. She loves being outside and it was even more fun when there was water to watch on the beach. Of course, she didn't love it the whole day, and was very tired by the end, but it was a fun day over all.







After the beach we all went home and slept in our own beds and then Friday headed up to Z-Park. We had lots of fun there playing games, doing crafts, slip-n'-sliding and floating the river. It was beautiful weather up there as well and tons of fun to spend some time as a family. We can't wait for next year!

THE ping-pong table...
Our beautiful artwork:

Trevor and McKaylee taking a nap after a long day...
Abby on the rope swing
Eric and Thomas loved throwing rocks into the river

Coming back from the ride

And all the boys loved seeing who could get the farthest sliding down the slip-n'slide. There were some pretty sore bottoms after this adventure! Even the little kids had fun on it, though it went a little fast for some of them.

Caught Smiling!!

Well, we finally did it. We finally captured McKaylee smiling with the camera. Took long enough eh? She's been smiling for a while now, but every time the camera would come out, curiosity would take over and alas... no more smiles. Well, here's her great big smile!



This one was almost a smile...but I thought it was cute.

I can't believe how much she's grown, look at the difference in these two pictures...the first taken at one week old, the other at 2 months.

McKaylee's room

Last week my mom helped me do some vinyl lettering for McKaylee's room. It helped make her room look so cute and definitely added a girly feel to the room. Thanks Mom!!!





And here's some updated pictures of McKaylee. She's now two whole months old! I can't believe it! She's started smiling like crazy lately, but unfortunately she seems to be a bit camera shy and I can't seem to get a picture if her beautiful smile...so I guess we'll just keep working on that one.

McKaylee's Blessing Day: July 4th, 2010

McKaylee Jade Hatch was blessed on July 4th, 2010 by her father Trevor James Hatch. It was a beautiful blessing and I am amazed daily by the blessing these two are in my life. McKaylee looked so beautiful on her special day and it was so much fun to show her off to everyone. Here's some pictures of the most beautiful girl in the whole world!





She looked so pretty all day long. Here's some pictures of the family after the blessing at Grandma and Grandpa Hatch's home.