new year's resolutions

So I finally gave in and decided to give this blogging thing a go. After an elightening lunch with some of my favorite former co-workers I made "being a blogger" one of my New Year's Resolutions. I had hesitated on doing this for so long for several reasons...one important one being that I am NOT a writer and tend to ramble (so you may want to stop reading now and just look at the pictures). Also because I don't have the computer skills like my hubby and have been working on setting up this crazy thing for like a week now...and I still don't like how it looks! I really wanted to start this when our sweet Mayzie was born but needless to say the first 3 months of her life consisted of me rocking, feeding and praying that things would get better and by the time they did it was the holidays and well here we are. Our precious baby girl is already 5 months old and we think she is the most brilliant and beautiful baby in the whole world. Here's my quick summary for up until now:

As I said before the first 3 months were pretty rough. Mayzie didn't like to sleep unless she was in one of our arms, which we now know was causing a lack of good quality sleep which in turn caused one very fussy baby most of the time. See below:

This was our life for a while. For real...

Things started to look up for us past 6 weeks...this was taken around that time. Uncle Evan got to meet her for the first time here and she was starting to get a lot better!

Around three months we went on our annual famliy trip to Gatlinburg and had a great time. Things were really starting to look up at this point...

Our class at church was in charge of Trunk or Treat this year and since things were getting so much better we decided that we would reward her by dressing her up as something so cute we could just EAT HER UP! (I know right? but she looked so darn adorable we couldn't help it!) We LOVE lobster!

By four months and one horrible week of sleep training later we were loving life. Our baby girl was happy and when she cried we knew she was either hungry or tired. She started smiling and recognizing us (which is the BEST!) and giving me an occasional 'sleep through the night' which I thought would NEVER happen!

December was a fabulous month for us! Mayzie was sleeping well and happy as could be!

We got to meet Santa at Cookies with Santa at church!

Then her sweet new friend Emory was born!

She had her first snow...

Yum!! Loving that cereal!

And then got to celebrate the best Christmas the Slaughter's have had to date!

Now that it's almost midnight...ha...I'm finally done with this ridiculously long post. Hopefully from here on out things will be much shorter! New Year's goal number one CHECK!