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.