Black and White Days

 A long standing tradition in the Bagley Family is attending Black and White Days in Richmond, Utah. Here is a website explaining a little bit more about it. http://www.richmond-utah.com/bwdays.html

Even before Autumn was born, Michelle bought her and Hayden a cow outfit. I couldn't wait for her to wear it. When I was thinking about her actually being born and looking forward to having her, I would always get excited to think "wow...when Black and White Days is here, I will finally not be pregnant and will have my baby!" Well it has now come and gone and my baby is almost 7 weeks old! It is crazy how time goes SO fast.

We arrived to Logan on Friday evening after Spencer took a long nap. Because he works construction he is always so exhausted! We met up with the family and stayed the night at the Harper home (they are on a mission and they let us stay at their home sometimes)! We ate pizza and watched the new muppet movie. The next morning Spencer and his dad headed over early to the Bagley home in Richmond to help put up new doors for his grandpa--they have been slowly re-modeling their house. I fed Autumn a couple times and then we headed up! We were greeted by several cousins and aunts and uncles. I was able to introduce Autumn to so many people! I felt so excited to show her off to family. They all loved her of course.

Autumn and Hayden 

 

This is one of my favorite pictures! Such a perfect face. 

Meeting Great Grandma Bagley for the very first time!

We ate lunch and then headed to the fair. Lots of little vendors and fun toys for kids to play on. I took Autumn in a little carrier we had bought the day before at Target and it worked great! Michelle looks forward to Black and White Days more than she does Christmas, so she was the ringleader at the fair. We do what she says and she wanted us to get on the train ride! It was so hilarious. I thought Autumn's head was going to fall off because it was so bumpy!

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Cousins 

Christie was hilarious!

Cowtail

Meeting Aunt Janice!

After the fair we got ready for the parade and took a family picture. Look at little Hayden! 

Gotta love the cow vests...courtesy of Michelle of course!

Spencer and Autumn hanging out at the parade. Autumn soiled her cow outfit so we had to change her.

Oh well.

I forgot sunglasses so I borrowed Autumns. Thanks little girl! And Grandpa Bagley was the mayor so he got to ride in the parade. We all love the parade because they give candy out. A TON OF CANDY!

Spencer worked practically all day on the doors so he got a little dirty. Usually we would go to the horse pulls that evening but we decided to head home instead since it was a late night already. I definitely will look forward to this again next year! We will have to get Autumn a new cow outfit! 

Autumn's 1st Swim and Smile

When my brother Dustin is in town for work we like to go to his hotel and swim! This is the first time I had been in a hot tub for a really long time. It felt so good! 

Up in the hotel room we got a couple great pictures of this cute girl smiling. She is now smiling all the time!

Sorry these are all sideways! I tried to switch them but they won't switch. HMMM...

Autumn's Homecoming

Autumn was born on Tuesday morning and we came home Wednesday afternoon. 

I know that sounds like I didn't stay very long, but considering I went into labor on Sunday, we were ready to go home. Plus, I went into the hospital on Monday night so it seemed like I had been there longer. After coming home though, I realized I probably should have stayed one more day at the hospital to rest and heal up. Coming home was nice, but the room service food stopped and that in and of itself would have been worth the extra night stay. 

We dressed Autumn all up in her BYU gear and headed home (which was only 5 minutes away). Christie and Ben met us there to see the baby for the first time. It was so cute watching Hayden (her cousin) and her meet for the first time! 

(I love the binkie in this picture)

Meeting Aunt Christie for the first time

Hayden at 6 months. Such a cute baby! He was so intrigued by the baby.

Grandma Connie so in love with her new granddaughter!

Uncle Ben!

Pink and Blue

The first few days postpartum were the hardest. I didn't realize how exhausted and overwhelmed I was going to feel. People told me I was going to be tired, but I didn't realize just HOW tired I could get. Plus, breastfeeding was such a challenge at first. My nipples were so sore I felt like giving up. Luckily, I met with a lactation specialist the first week back and that helped a ton. She gave me different techniques and a couple tools to help things along. We went to get her checked on at the doctors on Friday and they said Autumn was losing weight and they were really concerned. She weighted 8 pounds 9 oz. when she was born and weighed in at 8 pounds when we left the hospital (which was normal). But on Friday when she got weighed she was at 7 pounds 9 ounces. So we had to use a little bit of formula for a day to get her weight back up until my milk came in. When we went to get her weight checked the next day she had gained 4 ounces. I was so relieved! And proud that all that feeding the day before had paid off. 

Now she is healthy and getting chunkier every day!

A couple days later grandma and grandpa Bagley came to meet her!

Brad and Michelle with Autumn Michelle

Look at how little she was! Oh my goodness so precious. 

Happy daddy!

He is so in love with his little girl!

About a week after she was born some very close friends came to take a peek at the little bean nut 

 

 

I can't believe how much she has grown since then!

Some day this picture will be in their wedding slideshow. Right Chelsea?

Little did you know that Andrew enjoyed sucking on both binkies that night. Such a cute little boy!

Not sure what to think about this one!

Happy Mama!!! 

And then a few days after that we moved! Here is Uncle Richie (Richard) meeting Autumn for the first time. I felt so bad because I couldn't help Spencer pack up anything or move anything. I was worthless! Luckily I have a great husband who was willing to do everything for me and let me rest. It was pretty stressful moving though. Next time, we will NOT be moving the same month I have a baby! The Bagley's came and moved all of our stuff out of the house. It was so nice of them I couldn't be more grateful for my family.

Just hanging out with her mom's keys