Lainee's Blessing

Little Miss Lainee was given a name and a blessing by her daddy a few weeks ago, on August 13th. Surrounded by her papa and uncles he blessed her with a desire and strength to follow the commandments and understand the gospel, a desire to learn secular things and the ability to excel in life. To be a light and example to all sot hey feel her love for them and she can help bring people to the gospel. And an ability to recognize the Spirit.

She looked so beautiful. I had her dress custom made by a lady in Pheonix and she did an amazing job. It was exactly what I wanted. 

This girl is the sweetest ever. We are just beyond obsessed with her. 

She is adored by her sisters and brother. 

These pictures of Harley just kill me. He was so over pictures...he was not having it. 

These sisters are going to be the best of friends. I love it. 

You are so loved baby girl! Never ever forget that. 

Kogan Reunion

Somehow I missed blogging about the family reunion we went to in July. So here we go. We headed to Ely Nevada for our every other year Kogan family reunion. This is one of our favorite reunions, we always have so much fun. Even though we knew Lainee was only going to be 2 weeks old we knew we had to go!

Lainee got to meet loooots of family. 

And these guys played non stop. I didn't even know where Emery was at least 80% of the time. She was so busy with cousins it was amazing. She would swing by now and then when she was ready for a meal, and then she was gone again. There were so many aunts, and uncles, and cousins, and grandma's around keeping an eye on them though I didn't worry. 

My dad and grandma gave Harley these little deer after one of the games and he loved them. He had them fighting with their antlers. 

Having Lainee with us made the reunion pretty low key for Jake and I. We didn't go on the long off roading rides or the hikes. We tried to go on one but a lot of the other little kids weren't going and Emery and Macie begged to not go and to stay with their cousins, so we didn't! 

Parts of our family tree. 

On our lasy day there we took the short drive over to Lund where my grandma is buried and visited his grave. Sure do miss that guy. 

What would we do without Amber...like for real. She is the best cousin ever and these kids adore her. They follow her every where and she is the absolute best sport. 

Some of the girls cousins, we know how to do girls in our family that is for sure. These is only from about 4 families, so there are oodles more girls. There are only 4 boys total. 

Until 2019! Yay!

July

July came and went so fast I'm not even sure what happened. But here are a few pictures from day to day random happenings.

Our little Pineapple.

If I needed to sum up our summer in 2 words it would be outside and OtterPops. 

She loves her daddy. 

Harley absolutely loves his baby sister!

Emery decided to steal some scissors and chop off her hair. I may or may not have cried....My friend Julie came over and fixed it, she did a great job, and it is really cute. But we still really miss her long hair!

I laid Lainee down in her crib one night and then went in to read books to Harley for bed while Jake read to the girls. I finished and went in to see how much more they had left and saw this. He loves his girls! 

Lainee is 2 months

Our sweet little Lainee is 2 months as of yesterday. I'll spare you all the cliches about how it goes so fast, and I can't believe it, etc....buuuut seriously...why?!? I just want to cuddle my newborn forever. We are all obsessed with her. Even Jake said to me the other day, "You're my favorite person in the world, but Lainee is a close second..." haha! She seriously has stolen the hearts of every one in this family. 

Lainee loves to be held, cuddled, and fed. But also doesn't pretty good when we put her on the floor to play. She smiles a lot, especially when she has just woken up. She get's up twice a night, at 2 and 6. But goes to bed at 8 and gets up between about 8 and 9 (let's pray she keeps that schedule!!) She is in a mixture of newborn to 0-3 month clothes. This onesie is newborn. She is in size 1 diapers. She weighs 10 pounds 2 ounces and is 22 1/2 inches long.