1 Month

This precious little man has changed our lives! The love that a parent has for a child is different than any other love they have felt before.  This love is piercing.  You would give anything, do anything for this tiny little one that has come to steal your heart. 

Harlow has taught me about love.  I feel as though I have a glimpse at the intense love our Father in Heaven has for us, His children.  It's unconditional.  It doesn't matter how many times he poops on his outfits, how often he goes potty on me, how long he cries - I just can't get enough of him.  I want to dry his tears, be his comfort, and make him smile.

Harlow my love, You are the biggest, sweetest blessing that the Lord has given us.  We stare at your tiny hands and feet and are amazed at the complete miracle you are.  Your face has us mesmerized.  Your expressions make us laugh with joy and your sounds make us giggle.  Your Mommy and Daddy love you so much!

Photos by Becca Laing

St. Patricks Day

Happy Day of Green!!

Harlow looks like a little chameleon 

Pizza Pie Cafe with all us siblings

Harlow and Paisley 

Cute little cousins

Meeting Baby Harlow (Rasmussens)

Grandma and Grandpa Rasmussen used Presidents Day weekend to come meet their newest grand baby.  Harlow is number 16 on the Rasmussen side.  (three grand babies will be added to the Rasmussen family this year Paisley, Harlow, and then Becca's baby when it comes-that's a big year for Grandma and Grandpa)  Of course Whitney and Great Grandma Rasmussen came up to squeeze on our precious little Harlow too.  Whitney said that she had been carrying a baby doll around in her arms all week, just dying for Friday to come so she could hold the real thing!  :)  After all, he's getting his middle name after her ( *Whitley ) 

Whitney said that Harlow officially stole her heart and I have to agree, he has completely stolen mine as well

He is a beautiful baby!  I know beautiful is usually reserved for girls but it is the best word to describe him...he's just that BEAUTIFUL!!

It was nice to have Mom and Whitney up here to help me as I am healing.  You're pretty sore after having a baby and I'm so grateful for all the help I have received from all those that love me.  Its kinda hard not to be able to just do everything yourself anymore.  And when you try to do all you want your body has to tell you to "calm down!"

 Oh my gracious!  I have the most adorable, beautiful, and perfect baby in the world!!

My Mom's so beautiful!

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Harlow loves to be swaddled and better yet to be cuddled!  He is the happiest little guy when he's in your arms.  All wrapped up and squishy...its almost as if he's use to that, haha!  It was so fun to feel him moving around inside of me but it is even more wonderful to hold your own little baby in your arms! Finally!  I could sit and just stare at him for hours and never get sick of every little move and facial expression he makes!

Daddy kissing on his little boy!  

There aren't many things more attractive then seeing my Honey love on our little Mr. Perfect and being the best Dad for his very own son

Little perfect feet

4 Generation picture!

Great Grandma: Nadine Farr Rasmussen, Grandma: Kathryn Larsen Rasmussen, Mom: Elizabeth Rasmussen Andersen and Baby: Harlow Whitley Andersen.

Being a Mom is the most incredible thing!  It is impossible to describe the power feeling of love you feel for the miracle that has just come into your life!  you would give your life, you would pay any price.  He is a complete joy and is the center of Nathan and my hearts, lives and world!  

We love our little Harlow! 

Hehe!

Home!

It felt so good to be home and bring our little guy with us!  

We are a family!  

That's a wonderful feeling!

 Skin-on-skin time with Daddy!

 This is the wrap Nathan bought me for Christmas and I absolutely LOVE it!  I get to have him close but I also get to have my hands free to fold the laundry (which I have tons to do all the time now), make dinner, and such.  Harlow loves it too!  It snuggles him up tight and he gets to be right on me.  We take walks in the wrap and he is one happy, snuggled up baby boy.  

I know I must be a little bias as his Mommy but I feel like I am the luckiest Woman in the word and have the most beautiful baby I've ever seen.  He is good-natured, low maintenance, loves to cuddle up close to his Mom and Dad, and is just as sweet as can be!  We have been so blessed as his parents to have him in our home and lives!  How can you love someone so much!?

Harlow Whitley Andersen

Our Valentines Baby

Harlow Whitley Andersen

Born February 14, 2012

(exactly 1 1/2 years after we were married)

Time: 5:35 pm

weight: 7lbs 1oz

19 inch long

3 weeks

I went to the Dr this last Friday and he said that I was a finger tip dilated, 70% effaced, and at a -2.  He said I looked really good for only having about 3 weeks until my due date! That's crazy!  Its already here!  That visit started my weekly visits from here on out and then the big day will come, whenever it decides to come and we will have a little boy to bring home in our arms!

Yesterday we received a great big blessing.  Nathan has a good buddy, Travis Call, who was up here visiting family this weekend.  Well Travis called Nathan last night when they were about to head back home to St. George and said that his older angel of a sister Sonja had some baby stuff that she wanted to give to us and that he would be bringing down shortly.  (Sonja had 3 boys, no girls, so she had some boy stuff to give us.)  They met at a freeway entrance to make the switch.  She gave us a bouncer, a floor play mat, and a HUGE bag of clothes that are all in very nice condition!  I was shocked and filled with gratitude as opened the bag...she hadn't just filled it, she had stuffed it! 

Nathan and I have been so tremendously blessed in our lives!  We were talking about this on the way home from Becca's house last night.  We had wondered, before we got married, how things would work out and how people would tell us that they just would. 

Well they have and are!  The Lord is blessing us more than we could have imagined!  

Are we perfect...absolutely not, far from even, but we are trying to live our best and obey the Lords commandments.  The Lord asks us to be our best, our very best, knowing we can't be perfect.  And we are trying.  The Lord does bless us in our daily efforts and though they seem small, ordinary, daily acts of faith they help mold us and move us closer to our Savior.