Happy Halloween

Halloween is one of my favorite holidays. I think it is just going to get better and better. Mason was really too young to enjoy it this year, but next year will be awesome!!



















We started the night off at Grandma Woolsey's House for some chili and Witch's brew punch.
Mason had fun playing with his cousin Gilbert.

Then we took Mason, Sira and Noah trick or treating. Mason got to ride in style.

Dinner Time

Yummy, Mason loves his green beans! Mason is eating solids now. He transitioned really quickly. I think he just really likes to suck on the spoon, but if it works it works.

Morning Fun

We love waking Mas up in the morning. He's so cute. He roles around during the night and usually manages to get out of the blanket.

This is my favorite morning pose. Good think he didn't suffocate though. I guess we should start putting him in a sleep sack so that won't happen

Spit-up Be Gone

As you can see from the picture, Mason has a spit-up problem. He pukes buckets all day long. It makes me feel so bad. We go through about 4 bibs and burp cloths a day and my carpets and clothing get drenched. It's gross. Well, no more. I was told that milk and dairy products could be the cause and if I stop consuming those types of things the spitting up would stop. Unfortunately for me it worked. I haven't had any uncooked dairy products for about 5 days now and Mason didn't spit up yesterday or today. It's awesome that he doesn't spit up so much, but I just love dairy. It's going to be hard to go a month without, but I can do it. It's only until November then Mason will be 6 months and I am going to stop nursing.

I'm only going to stop, because I want LASIK and I have to be nursing free for 90 days before I can get a consult and I have to have the procedure done before my Flex spending account goes away in March. Yes, it's selfish, but at least I made it to 6 months. That's a lot better then I thought I would do.

I am Iron Man!

Founder's Day BBQ?

Hey everyone, I was thinking it would be fun to have the annual Founder's Day BBQ at the Woolsey residence. Founder's Day is June 27th. The fireworks start at 10:00 so I was thinking we could eat around 6:30 or 7:00. It will be Bring your own meet this year and then we can have everyone bring a side dish. I would like to make homemade ice-cream so maybe we could get a few people with ice-cream machines to bring stuff to make their favorite flavor. Nate and I will make mint chocolate chip.
Let me know if you are interested so that I will know how many people are coming and who is bringing what.

Donation Option

It's really hard toblog one handed. If only my baby would sleep in his crib.
Anyway, I am participating the GREAT STRIDES walk to raise money to help find a cure for Cystic Fibrosis. I am suppose to raise $150.00 by Saturday but I have been to busy to do any fund raising. If you or any one you know would like to donate, please go to the Great Strides Web Link on the side of my blog under fun links and look up Shelley Dopp and donate under my name. Even a dollar would help. Thanks. http://www.cff.org/great_strides/FundRaisingSummary/

Welcome to the World Baby Dopp

It has taken me a while to get around to finding some free time to add some pictures of our little baby. Isn't he so cute!

























We had a ruff start but I think things are slowing starting to turn around. If we could just get breastfeeding down I think everything would be wonderful. Any helpful hints on how to get a proper latch would be very welcome. I have no clue how mothers breastfeed by simply holding thier babies in their arms. I tried that yesterday and it was a disaters. I am confind to a chair with pillows for support. I hate it, but it is important to me to continue to try so I will, even though my nipples are killing me and I basically have the lactation specialist on speed dial and my copy of "What to expect in the first year" next to me at all times.

Other than the breastfeeding he is an exceptionally good baby. I usually have to wake him up to feed him. This was when he was a week old. I'm getting ready to change his diaper so that I can feed him.

Even better, he sleeps about 4 hours at night. He only wakes up once. It's awesome! I hope that never stops.
I think I would have gone crazy without Nate. He took work off for the first two weeks and let me rest. He did the dishes, the laundry and cleaned the house. It was fantastic. He even watched the baby in the mornings so I could shower.

Thank you!

Thanks to all my family and friends for the fun baby showers. You guys are awesome! Between baby showers gifts and hand-me-downs we didn't have to buy anything. I'm sure we will figure out what we are missing when the little guy arrives. If he ever decides to be born. But for now I think we are all set. So again, Thank you all so much for your love and support.

Check out all the awesome stuff!

Thank you to the Department of Workforce Services. You guys really now how to throw a party!

It seems Nate's work friends know him well.

I just thought these were some cute pictures of Nate. Isn't he going to be a wonderful dad.

Nate's family had a wonderful shower as well with some great company and wonderful food. Thank you so much!

Look at how much fun my friends had at the shower they did. Thanks guys!

Our little boy is rich thanks to their bad memories. They had to put money into that piggy bank every time they called someone by their real name and not their fake shower name.

This was Mike's first baby shower. Nice of him to come in place of his wife.



Again, Thank you all! We will let you know when I finally have the baby. Hopefully it will be sooner than later, because I am getting pretty uncomfortable.

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday to Me, Happy Birthday to Me!
I'm 27, how crazy is that!
I had a great birthday. Actually, I had to work on my real birthday but we celebrated on Thursday and Friday. Nate is so great. He always has some big fun suprise plans to make my birthday special.

We spent Thursday night in the Presidential Suit at the Anniversary Inn in Salt Lake. It was nice room with a great view. The picture below is from our balcony. Unfortunately, it was freezing cold so we didn't spend much time out there.


















We spent all day Friday visiting old historic mining/train towns down by Tooele.

OPHER, UTAH http://www.ghosttowns.com/states/ut/ophir.html.
Opher was the funnest. It looks like people still live up there in the summer time. They have some cool old mining stuff to look at. You can visit this link for more information on Opher

























MERCUR,UTAH http://www.ghosttowns.com/states/ut/mercur.html
If you go to the Mercur link it will tell you that ther is nothing left, and it is true. The whole area is just one big strip mine now. Pretty lame!
However, there are still a few remains left in West Dip which was a suburb of Mercur.

WEST DIP, UTAH http://www.ghosttowns.com/states/ut/westdip.html
On Nate's map it said the town was just a mile up the road from the cemetary so we thought it would be nice to take a little walk. We took the wrong road, but it was a nice walk, except I was really slow. It's pretty tough to walk up hill when you have a big prego belly. All we saw on that road was a few blown up mines and one that was gated off. Jerks won't let us have any fun.
When we got back in the car we drove down the road a little ways and drove right to West Dip. The picture below is what is left of West Dip.


















TOPLIFF, UTAH http://www.ghosttowns.com/states/ut/topliff.html
Topliff was our next destination. We actually never found it. We must have driven past it without noticing it so I guess there really wasn't anything too great left. What we found was two abandoned houses next to a railroad. We assumed it was Topliff so we stopped to explore. Lucky for us the locks on the doors had been broken off. It appeared that the houses were abandoned sometime during the 70's.


Nate has a whole list of historical places and towns he wants to visit. We would love to have some company if anyone is interested in coming along on our next adventure.

Nate and I went for a walk around our neighborhood after the last snow storm. We thought it would be fun to take some pictures. .
Even if you hate the winter, you have to admit that the snow makes everything look beautiful. It even makes central Ogden look pretty.

Baby Bump

These pictures are for Heather.

The first picture is really slimming. I like that one. The next picture is more true to life. I am getting pretty big. My belly gets bigger and bigger every day. It's been pretty fun though. I love feeling the little guy move around, and he is moving a lot these days. I can't believe that I only have 6 more weeks left. CRAZY!

Watch My Baby Grow

Last Chance Vacations Continued

Ok, I have decided that I am not a blogger. I took me like 3 days to do the last post about our trip and I hated every second of it. I just can't get my pictures to space out properly and I

keep deleting pictures and it makes me so frustrated. I say this because I want everyone to know that my blog site will never be fashionable. But I appreciate all of you who continue to look at my posts. Thank you!

Her are some cute picture of Nate and I were deleted from the last post and I was too frustrated to try and put them back in.

Puerto RicoMe getting ready for our formal dinner while Nate is Napping. He doesn't have to work as hard to look good. There was a cocktail party before dinner on the formal night. Probably would have been a lot more fun if we drank. This was our second formal night. I had to make my dress look different.

Last Chance Vacations

As part of our Christmas this year Nate and I decided to go on one last adventure before the baby comes. My Cousin Heather invited Nate and I to go on a Caribbean cruise with them. Heather and I discussed details and got everything all booked. Well, about a week before the trip we realized that I had booked my cruise a week before my cousins so we each took the same trip just a week apart. I blame it on pregnancy. I think my brain has stopped working so more blood can be sent to the baby. We had a great time on the cruise. I will try not to bore you all with an over abundance of pictures but I would like to share some of the highlights.

We thought this was pretty fun. Nathan's middle name is Arthur and these two stores just happened to be next to each other in the Atlanta Airport.

Departing from Fort Lauderdale, Florida - December 6th

We sailed on the Carnival Splendor of the Sea. The ship was really nice and really big. The video below is of the lobby area.
Are first day, Dec. 7th, was spent at sea.

San Juan, Puerto Rico - Dec. 8th

At one time San Juan had I think 13 entrances into the city, but this is the only original entrance that still remains.

Nate and I in front of Fort San Felipe del Morro. El Morro was constructed in the 16th century to protect the town from attach by sea. I think El Morro was probably my favorite attraction on this cruise. I'm glad we made it. Our boat docked in Puerto Rico at 5:00 PM and the fort closed at 6:00 PM.

Luckily Castillo de San Cristóbal stayed open until 7:00 PM so we were able to run over to it before it closed. Castillo de San Cristóbal was built by the Spanish in 1783 to protect against land attacks.

Unfortunately, We didn't have time to see the whole fort but what we did see was really cool. Both forts were huge. I would love to go back and spend more time in Puerto Rico.

We had a taxi take us to a restaurant called the Latin Star in Condado. A lady that Nate works with told us we had to go there and try Mangu which is fried mushed plantains. I had Chicken Mangu and Nate had Turkey. It was actually pretty good.

Our boat didn't leave San Juan until Midnight so we spent the rest of the night exploring the city of San Juan. It was fun to see all of the Christmas decorations. This is the Mayors house. We were tyring to get a picture to use as a Christmas Card for next year.

Capilla del Cristo was constructed in the 16th century because a guy was racing his horse down this street and he ran off the cliff. There are two different stories behind why the chapel was constructed. One says the guy lived and the chapel was built to commemorate the miracle. The other story says the guy died and the chapel was built to block off the cliff so no one else would fall

The Catedral de San Juan was built in 1521 and is the second oldest cathedral in the western hemisphere. This was the first thing that people would see when they entered the city through the red door. Supposedly, the remains of Ponce de Leon are inside the cathedral.

St. Thomas, Virgin Islands - Dec. 9th

There was an excursion offered by the ship that would take us to this beach for some snorkeling. I think the ship exertion cost somewhere around $30.00 or something like that. Nate and I, thanks to the help of some locals, found a bus that took us to the same beach for $2.00. Look at all of those other suckers who paid a bunch of money. Ha Ha....

The snorkeling was pretty good. We saw all kinds of colorful fish and cool sea creatures. Well worth the $2.00. It did rain on and off, but it wasn't too cold.

St. Thomas was really pretty around the resort area, but the city and domestic areas looked about like the Dominican Republic. You would think the United States would take better care of it's property.

The pretty view from our ship. We are just waiting to leave St. Thomas and head for the Dominican Republic.

La Romana, Dominican Republic - Dec. 10th

Here we are in the D.R. Nate and I decided to go on our one adventure again instead of paying the outlandish Cruise excursion prices. It would have cost us $65.00 a person to do what we did for $20.00 a person and that included being ripped off by a very cleaver money exchanger.

AS you can see by this picture, the Dominican's do not care too much about historical land marks. Pretty sad, but it is cool that you can get into all these old places for free. That never happens in America.



We rode a bus for 2 hours from La Roman to Santo Domingo. We only had 4 hours to see all of the history that the first Colony in the New World had to offer.

The guy standing by Nate in this picture decided that he was going to be our tour guide even though we told him we didn't want one. We eventually paid him to leave us alone.

The building at the end of this street was the first University built in the new world.

(You gotta love the power lines in third world countries.)

This is the was the first hospital built in the New World.

The building directly to the right side of Nate was the home of Diego de Colon, Christopher Columbus's son. He came to Santo Domingo when the Queen forbid Christopher Columbus to leave Spain.

(Once again, I loved all of the Christmas decorations.)

This is called Panteon de La Patria. It was the first Jesuitas Church built in the New World.

This is Fortaleza de Santo Domingo. We didn't have much time to fully explore the fort, but what we saw was interesting.

We visited Santo Domingo on the day of Dia de la Patria which is similar to our Veteran's Day so there were tons of solders all over the city and they had these cool guns on display at the fort.






This is Catedral de Santo Domingo, the first Cathedral built in the New World.

There was an incredible sunset as we were sailing out of the Dominican Republic. This picture is pretty, but the real thing was like a hundred times more beautiful.

Second Day at Sea - Dec. 11th

I had a cute picture of Nate and I on our way to dinner, but I keep deleting pictures and then it my whole set up gets messed up when I add a new picture so I am not going to try to add it gain. I will put it in a new post.

The Bahamas - December 12th

When we got to the Bahamas we had two options. One was to take a taxi to this resort called Atlantis, (see the first picture) but we were sick of being raped by taxis so we decided to spend the day walking around town. I think we walked about 8 miles by the end of the day.

Of course we had to walk through the cemetery.

And take a picture of us kissing on Lovers Lane. How cute!

The Fort in the back ground is called Fort Montegue. Unfortunately it was locked so we couldn't go inside.

But, that didn't stop Nate from taking a peak.

We also went to fort Fincastle and looke around. There was a little farmers market in front of the fort and we wanted to buy some suvaniers, but street sellers in Bahams are not into bartering like the venders in Central America. We offered a guy $5.00 for this small little statue and he just scoffed at us like our money was no good. Of course it is the Bahams and I am sure that people will pay outlandish prices for things.

Nate explains the secret of aiming canons in the video below.

We were definately on the wrong side of the Island for Snorkling. We tired to snorkel at this beach and all we saw was seaweed and murky water. Oh, but Nate did find a plastic spoon.

The Bahams were definately my least favorite stop, but we still had a good time exploring the town and we saw some pretty cool things. Plus, we got some much needed exercise.

The moon looked so amazing. It was huge and bright. The camera did not do it justice at all. We later found out that the moon was as close to the earth as it gets during it's whole oribit. Sadly The Bahamas marked the end of our cruise. When we woke up in the morning we had to put on our pants and hoodies and that was in Florida.

Look at what greated us when we got of the plane in Salt Lake City.

But, It always feels good to come home, no matter the weather or how great the vacation.