Such Sweet Sounds!

Addy laughed for the first time tonight and we were lucky enough to get it on camera! Such a sweet little girl!

Pigtails, BYU, and Sunday Best!

These are just a few pictures of Addy that we have taken lately. I started putting her hair in pigtails and she looks so grown up! Her hair is quite the sight when the pigtails come out after the day is over.
She loves watching the BYU games with her daddy!




























Tyler says she looks like an old church spinster with her little sweater on. I think she looks adorable!

My First Day

I started a job yesterday! It feels good to be more active in the morning and actually have a reason to leave the house. I am working at the "J" aka Mittleman Jewish Community Center (MJCC) here in Portland. It is about a 3 minute drive from my house. It is the perfect job for me! I am working at a drop off daycare for 3 hours (from 8:15-11:15 am) Monday through Thursday. Just 12 hours a week. I am able to take Addy and she has been a doll so far! She will play when we first get there, then sleep, then eat, and then play some more. I think it will be more fun for her when she gets older so she can have some friends to interact with and such. My good friend Marissa got me the job and I am so grateful for that! I work with Marissa and Malorie (both their husbands are dental students as well, and we have become good friends over the past year). I feel so blessed to have this job. We have been praying for something that I am able to do so that I can be there for Addy and not have to leave her at a day care while I work.
With the job comes a free membership to the MJCC... so Tyler and I are able to go work out for free! I hope that once we get into a good routine in the fall that we will be able to take full advantage of this. They also of a climbing wall there and Tyler is so excited because he has his own shoes and would love to go! I'm excited for him. The J also offers free classes if you are a member, so us girls might just start going to a kickboxing class. I think it would be fun and a
great workout!














Addy has learned to hold her bottle! How cute! This is her hanging out at the "J" having a mid morning snack. All of the kids are so interested in Addy because she is a baby. They are learning to "be gentle" with her.

3 Month Old Baby Girl!

Addelyn has changed so much this past month! I cannot believe that she is already 3 months old. The time is going by so fast! I am amazed by how much of a person she is becoming and of her little attitude. Here are the updates:

~She is sleeping through the night! She started this last Sunday night... she will sleep anywhere from 8:30-10 pm until at least 7 am... if not longer! I am loving it!
~Addy rolled over for the first time on the 20th of August! I have not been able to get it on video yet because she does not want to do it for the camera... of course! But, she does it quite often now.
~She finally enjoys tummy time! She can hold her head up really well and will be content for awhile.
~Addelyn has started rubbing her eyes when she is tired. I think this is pretty cute and it helps us know when she is getting tired.
~She is definitely getting an attitude! When she is hungry she gives a couple warning cries... if I don't feed her within her small time frame she will scream until she gets it. She screams loud and makes herself hoarse from screaming. Pretty pitiful.
~She can sit up really well in her bumbo. She has learned to hold her head... but she is still a right leaner. We need to keep working on getting her to lean to the left.
~Addy is definitely a smily little girl. She will smile for strangers when they talk to her and smile. She is also a little talker. When we talk to her she talks and smiles back. It's so fun!
~Whenever she nurses she has a burp rag by her face and she holds onto my shirt. I think it is a comfort thing for her. Now... when she is tired or fussy she like to hold on to her burp rag and keep it close to her face. It is pretty adorable.
~I know you are all dying to know that she is now a regular pooper! haha

We are having so much fun being parents. It is getting more and more fun now that she is getting more interactive everyday. It amazes us how fast she is growing. We love this girl so much!

Bi-Annual Bendixsen Family Reunion

We had our first bi-annual Bendixsen family reunion in Sunriver, OR. It was so great to see Tyler's siblings that we hadn't see in forever and just hang out as a family. I married into a great family and love them all so much!
While we were there we did a lot of eating, playing games, family activities, golfing (the boys did), walking, and talking. Mom and Dad had everyone do a devotional a morning that we were there. I will admit that I wasn't very fond of the idea at first, and I don't think any of us were, but it turned out to be my favorite part of the day. Everyone shared such great thoughts and it put our day to a start on the right foot.
Some of the activities that we enjoyed were: water balloon volleyball, whack-a-cracker, putt-putt golf, and frisbee golf.






Thanks for a great vacation mom and dad! We had a blast!

Utah Vacation

We were able to go to Utah for a week to visit my family during Tyler's 6-week break! I'm so glad that we were able to make it. My whole family was together again... which hasn't happened since our wedding 1 and 1/2 years ago. Crazy! My grandparents also came all the way from Georgia. We loved being able to see everyone and having Addy meet some of the family that she hasn't yet met. She loved her aunts, second cousins, and great-grandparents.
While we were there we played some games, ate, hiked to Timp Caves, hiked Bridal Veil Falls, took family pictures, and visited with family and friends. It was so nice to be able to go out and do active things with the family! I like that they live in Utah now.
Thanks Mom and Dad for such a great time at home! We really enjoyed it and I am ready to come back again already! Love you all so much!

We Have a Little Chunk on Our Hands!

Addelyn had her 2 month doctor appointment yesterday. She weighs a whopping 14 lbs and 1 oz! And she is 25 inches long. These combined put her in the 95th %ile. She has so many fat rolls and she's just too cute!
Addy is getting so much more interactive. She smiles lots and talks back to us. It's pretty darn cute! One of my favorite things is when I get up in the night or morning to feed her I turn on the hall light and she instantly stops crying. When I go to pick her up from her crib she gives me a big smile. It just melts my heart. I guess there are some positive things about getting up at 5:30 to feed her.
On Saturday night Addy slept from 11pm to 9:30am! Amazing! I was actually awake before she was, which never happens! I need to find out what I did that made her sleep that long and keep doing it!
Addy definitely has a favorite toy! She will spend hours on this playmat that I got off craigslist for $10! New these things are like $65, so I was so happy when I found it. I didn't think that she would love it as much as she does, but she really loves it. I was surprised when she would swat at the little toys then smile and talk... I thought she might be too young still, but she's getting so big! Addelyn is also starting to love looking in the mirror at herself. Another thing that she is learning to like is her bumbo (it's a soft chair that helps them sit up). I can put her in it on the counter when I do the dishes and get ready in the morning and she just watches me. She also loves her swing more and more. I am glad that she will entertain herself for awhile so I can get some things done during the day.
She is such a good baby and I love her to pieces!

Hermi Town Rodeo

Friday was Tyler's last day of school for six whole weeks! We are so excited to have him home with us! We celebrated by taking a trip to Hermiston, with our good friends the Smiths, for the famous Pro Circuit Rodeo. We had a blast!
Saturday morning was a cutest baby contest at the fair... of course we had to enter Miss Addelyn. There were about 130 babies there from Umatilla County. Addy was one of 15 finalists out of the 130+ babies. She got a cute pair of sunglasses for a prize. She was so good and cute for the judges! The men were out golfing during this activity. :)After a nap and some relaxing at home we headed back to the fair! We rode a few rides and looked at the neat things! We had some delicious fair food including: deep fried cinnamon rolls (sooo good!), frozen strawberry lemonade, elephant ears, and kettle corn! Yum!
We had such a great weekend and were so glad that the Smiths were able to join in the fun! Tyler's parents absolutely loved Spencer! What's not to love about this face?!


















And they of course loved having their granddaughter around. She was all smiles and talk for them... some of the time! Again... what's not to love about this face?! (This was Addy after she had her hair in a pony tail all day! ... nice faux hawk!)


















Thanks Mom and Dad for being such great hosts and hanging out with us!

My Baby Girl is Two Months Old!

I can't believe that Addy is now 2 months old, as of yesterday! The time has gone SO extremely fast. It seems to go 5 times as fast now that I am not pregnant and have a new baby. I love being able to stay home with Addelyn. She is so fun to watch and talk to. Addy has grown and learned so much in these past two months. She is good at holding her head up, using her leg muscles to stand on my lap, smiling, kicking her legs, and talking. Her favorite thing is definitely still sleeping! She is actually starting to really like her swing! She will stay in it longer than just a 1/2 hour now. On Saturday she was awake maybe a total of 2 hours in 24 hours time. Silly girl! Addy has also started sleeping longer at night!! The past two nights she has slept for 7 1/2 hours or more. I am so glad. I just hope it's not a phase and she decides to keep it up.
Here are a few videos that I took the other night of her being oh so cute! I am so excited for our families to see her in these next couple of weeks!




Some mornings Tyler gets Addy up while he is getting ready for school so I can sleep a little bit longer. I love that he does this! A lot of times she will smile and talk to him like she does in this video. When he brings her to me, so he can leave for school, he has the hardest time leaving his little girl! It is pretty cute how he says he just wants to stay home with her! He is such a good daddy and his little girl loves him so much!

Oregon=U-Pick Farms

Saturday could have been extremely boring as Tyler went up to the school at 9 am. However, a few of us wives, of diligent dental student husbands, decided to take this opportunity to pick some fresh berries! Yummy!! We drove out to Hillsboro to a U-Pick Farm that is 99 cents a pound for all their berries. Can't beat that price! It is blueberry season and there was a plethora even though we saw several people with a million buckets full. I got a half a bucket... but now I'm wishing I would have picked more. It was just kind of hard with Addy on my front. We ate a few raspberries that were still left... but there weren't quite enough to pick and keep for a purpose other than eating.

















We had a great time picking berries with our friends and Addelyn was just as good as ever. Slept the whole time of course!
On our back from picking berries we stopped and got lunch for our husbands and took it up to the school so we could eat with them. I think appreciated it and it was fun to see them and give them a break from their crowns.