Addison Blythe White

My friend Karen and her husband Lance had a little baby girl on October 18th. She was 7 lbs and 6 oz, 20 in long when she was born. I was so excited to take pictures of her. I finagled a camera from someone in our ward and took photos of Addison when she was just 12 days old! Enjoy!

Halloween

Just look at that bottom lip...

She likes to eat her mom

This was just a cute picture from Scott's phone

This year, I did our pumpkin all by myself.

Hopefully you can tell it's a tree

Our "family" costume

Addi's original ladybug costume was from Grandma Jadwin. But when we tried it on, she was too long for it. So I had to go to the thrift store and pick some up. I bought two-the ladybug and this monkey one. The monkey outfit fit her better, but it was too boyish. So she got stuck with the larger ladybug costume.

But she did look stinking cute in this one.

She really liked it too.

Like I said in my previous post, I have never really experienced a real fall. So I'm the creeper/tourist pulling over on the side of the road taking pictures of trees. Yes that's me.

These two above and below are along side the parking lot of our church. So beautiful. The pictures don't even do it justice. The saturation and the sun coming through was breath taking. Like I said, the pictures don't do it justice.

Fall

Addilyn sitting in a high chair for the first time.

One of our biggest things that we've done since we've been here is...eat! What better way to get to know a place than to eat their food. And that food? It would be BBQ. We went to another place recommended to us last Friday. They serve both kinds of BBQ. Now you may be wondering, what do you mean both kinds? Well, here in NC they have Lexington and Eastern BBQ. Lexington BBQ is vinegar based sauce and Eastern is tomato based. You will just have to come and try for yourself which one you like best. But one thing both have in common? They are always, always served with hush puppies!

Cabo riding with us to pick up Scott from work.

One thing I can definitely get used to around here is the fall. Growing up in Washington (also known as the Evergreen State), you hardly see a real change in the season from summer to fall. There are a few trees that change colors, but nothing too major. But here, there are like no Evergreen trees. Just tons of changing colors all around. It is so beautiful. This is one of our trees in our front yard.  

Notice all of the leaves on our front deck.

Another thing about the fall here is that it's been in the 70's up until yesterday. Today it dropped to the 50's and will stay in the low-mid 60's for the rest of the week. (I'm not complaining!)

Addilyn Meets Addison

Lance and Karen White moved into the ward a week after we did. On their first Sunday we sat next to each other and was asking questions about who was who- but both of us didn't know- and then we realized we were both new. Karen at the time was very pregnant (in fact, her due date was today) and Addilyn was just a few months old. I'd say we all had it in our minds that we were going to be friends and our girls were going to be BFF's (best friends forever) since they were going to be about 5 months apart!

Yesterday Addilyn and I went to the hospital to meet her new best friend. Karen and Lance were like us with the name, they didn't tell anyone what it was going to be. They knew all along that their names were super similar and in fact they would share the same nick name- Addi. It was destiny. Addison Blythe White was born October 18 at 7 lbs 6 oz and 20in long. Addilyn was so cute because she was so fascinated by Addison once she realized there was a baby in the room.