Photo (or two) Every Hour | Father's Day 2017

7AM

it was a rough night with a teething tanner. my intent was to bring brandon his coffee before he got up, but instead he did it for me. on FATHER'S DAY.

man have I got a good one!

8AM

wakey wakey tanner boy!

9AM

sweetest little church girl holding her daddy's hand.

10AM

these good looking hjelseth boys!

... & a family photo attempt

at church they had maple donuts with bacon for all the dad's. harper tried a bite of brandon's and immediately said... "this is not good." 

so funny! 

11AM

so we made our way to the donut shop :)

12PM

N A P T I M E

1PM

... & so we drive :)

2PM

3PM

to nana + papa's house for a father's day bbq + some swim time

4PM

5PM

her second "pink ice cream cone" of the afternoon :)

6PM

how special it is to see brandon this father's day with his son.

such a precious relationship

7PM

literally 10 seconds in the car and he was OUT!

8PM

night night babies

then it was a little clean up around the house, but to the bonus room to lounge on the couch, and then we rolled into bed just shortly after 10.

happy father's day, Brandon!

thankful for all you are and all you do for us.

Xoxo

-Brittney

follow along on instagram @brittneyhjelseth

Tanner Ross || 11 months

tanner.

my baby.

how, oh how can it be!?

you're E L E V E N months old today and I honest to goodness don't know how we've even gotten here. 

boy you just bring so, so much joy to us all. 

such a happy camper, with a calm spirit. 

a mama's boy at it's finest + you are ever so dear to me.

sensitive, yet determined.

I dream about you and what your future holds so often. it's such a bright one ahead for you and I pray you will always hold your mama close to your heart.

sweet boy, it brings tears to my eyes as we're getting closer to closing in on your first year of life. it's been a year of challenges and you've taught me so much about myself. made me stronger. made me more patient + compassionate. 

this past year you've molded me into who I am.

though it is so emotional and breaks my heart a little seeing you get so stinking big, it also brings me the biggest joy and I couldn't be more excited to continue to watch you as you grow more and more into yourself.

thank you my sweet tanner boy.

mama loves you!!!

and not knowing it was possible to love you any more than I already did--- this month you've been soooo solid with your sleep and we've had daysss of you sleeping all through the night :) mama loves you baby, now keep it up!! ;)

age: 11 months

stats:

26 lbs
(from the scale at home)

birth: 8lbs 2oz  --  21 inches

2 days: 7lbs 11oz

12 days: 9lbs 1oz

1 month: 12lbs 4oz  --  23 1/2 inches

2 months: 15lbs  --  24 inches

3 months: 17.4 lbs  --  (from the scale at home)

4 months: 18lbs 13oz  --  27 inches

5 months:  20.4 lbs  --  (from the scale at home)

6 months: 21lbs 2oz  --  28 inches
7 months: 22.8 lbs  --  (from the scale at home)
8 months: 23 lbs  --  (from the scale at home)
9 months: 23 lbs 15 oz  --  30.2 inches
10 months: 25lbs 2oz

clothes: 12-18 month

diapers: size 4

Tanner name sign // Quincyjeanart

banner // hooray everyday

11 month things:

--tooth number 8 made it's way! (5/19) you've got quite the mouthful of chomppers and i just love how every time you smile and get excited, those little teeth are showing off.

--as soon as his little cold passed, we started off the month with some great nights! usually one quick night wake up and a handful of nights without any! and THEN about a week and a half ago, we've been going consistent with NO NIGHT WAKE UPS!

yahoo! praying I don't jinx that now ;)

P H O T O  D U M P!!

10 months
9 months

8 months

7 months

6 months

5 months

4 months

3 months

2 months

1 month

birth

Xoxo

-Brittney

follow along on instagram @brittneyhjelseth

Summer Fun List

we made a list like this at chistmas time and it was so fun to have for when we knew we wanted to do something, but our minds went blank. I can go from thinking about all these fun things I want to do, but then when we have the time to do the fun things I can't think of what it was we wanted to do! #mombrain

sooo having a list like this makes me put those thoughts/ideas down on paper on the computer ;) and then it's visual for me. and that makes allll the difference.

so here it is...

SUMMER FUN LIST 2017!!

some of these harper came up with and some I added too :)

--play in toy car in the backyard
--play in backyard swim pool (like the little mini plastic one) ;)
--watch a movie-- harper ;)
--go to country club swim pool + order lunch
--smell the flowers
--go to the zoo
--go to target-- again harper ;)
--blow bubbles/play with bubble machine
--go to the farmer's market
--lots of bbq's with friends in family
--fly a kite
--go to a rainier's baseball game
--run through the backyard sprinkler
--eat lots of watermelon and otterpops
--buy ice cream from the ice cream truck


so here we go! ready to check all these items off our list! & I'm so happy that we've already been able to do a handful of them!

we're ready to jump full swing into summer!!
(come on washington-- let's keep it coming!)

what is on your summer bucket list!?? share some with us so we can add to ours!
I'm planning to pack this summer full and enjoy every last bit of it.

Xoxo

-Brittney

follow along on instagram @brittneyhjelseth