Ashley Madsen Photography

My friend Ashley is doing this pretty amazing giveaway on her photography blog right now. Go check it out! She is super talented and really fun too :)

She took some pictures of me not too long ago and seriously she did an awesome job!

100% Boy

Merrick and I have been in Utah visiting Shannon and Davis for the past few days. We are having so much fun relaxing and being with good friends. Tonight I put Merrick down on the grass to roam around. He immediately found the dirt! He dug right in and I had to grab the camera.

From Mostly Merrick...and sometimes his Mom

From Mostly Merrick...and sometimes his Mom

From Mostly Merrick...and sometimes his Mom

From Mostly Merrick...and sometimes his Mom

From Mostly Merrick...and sometimes his Mom

From Mostly Merrick...and sometimes his Mom

We've had a lot of fun catching up with Shannon and Miss Davis, how cute are these two in the back seat?

From Mostly Merrick...and sometimes his Mom

Daniel, the Kiwi, served as my "baby holder" for most of the weekend. Good thing Merrick loved him!

From Mostly Merrick...and sometimes his Mom

And I became an AT&T salesperson and convinced Justin and Shannon that they HAD TO HAVE iPHONES...way cuter than the Blackberry, don't you agree?

From Mostly Merrick...and sometimes his Mom

We had fun up in the mountains, it is GORGEOUS in Utah this time of year!

From Mostly Merrick...and sometimes his Mom

Look at those beautiful blue eyes!

From Mostly Merrick...and sometimes his Mom

I swear Merrick had something un-edible in his mouth every time I turned around...

From Mostly Merrick...and sometimes his Mom

From Mostly Merrick...and sometimes his Mom

From Mostly Merrick...and sometimes his Mom

From Mostly Merrick...and sometimes his Mom

Eatin' him some toes...

From Mostly Merrick...and sometimes his Mom

Auntie Birdie, she's pretty sure she wants twins now...haha :)

From Mostly Merrick...and sometimes his Mom

From Mostly Merrick...and sometimes his Mom

From Mostly Merrick...and sometimes his Mom

Merrick is always best friends with whoever will give him food!

From Mostly Merrick...and sometimes his Mom

From Mostly Merrick...and sometimes his Mom

From Mostly Merrick...and sometimes his Mom

Therefore, he LOVED Bird this weekend :)

From Mostly Merrick...and sometimes his Mom

From Mostly Merrick...and sometimes his Mom

From Mostly Merrick...and sometimes his Mom

From Mostly Merrick...and sometimes his Mom

From Mostly Merrick...and sometimes his Mom

He's Mobile...

My little man is fully, completely, 100% mobile...talk about wanting to go crazy! He thinks he can conquer the world now that he can get around! He is so cute though. If I lay on my bed, he will crawl over to it and pull himself up so that he's barely looking over the edge and he can see me, and then when he does see me he gets this huge grin on his face and kinda laughs. And then he gets a little over-excited and usually falls :) But even though he is into EVERYTHING lately, I am just loving him to death and having fun watching him learn and grow. We went to the doctor the other day for his very first check up since he was born. He weighs 19 pounds (seriously, you could have fooled me...I was betting on at least 25) and is in the 90% for height! He's a Hutchins alright! Here's a few pictures from the last month or so...

From Mostly Merrick...and sometimes his Mom

Look at that cute hair and beautiful skin! He has the cutest rosy cheeks I have ever seen!

From Mostly Merrick...and sometimes his Mom

All dressed up and ready for church, so GQ

From Mostly Merrick...and sometimes his Mom

This is my favorite face in the whole world!

From Mostly Merrick...and sometimes his Mom

Merrick hasn't really decided wether or not he loves the swing. It's been a "I'm freaking out but everyone is looking at me and being happy that I'm in here, so I don't know how to feel" kind of experience for him I think...
We are going on a little vacation this weekend! Merrick and I are headed to Provo to visit Shannon and Davis for a few days. I'm sure there will be plenty of cooking, shopping and nonstop mom-style partying :) Can't wait!

Yeah for me!

So I got an amazing new job a few weeks ago! I'm an associate event planner at this great company called Outstanding Occasions. If any of you know me (and if you're reading my blog I hope you do...no creepers! However, blog-stalkers are accepted since I am one myself) anyway...if you know me at all, then you totally know that this kind of work is right up my alley! Not only do I get to have fun and plan weddings all day, but I get to stay home more often and play with Mr. Merrick. (Who, by the way, is a full-on crawler now! I yi yi...) It literally is going to be a dream job once I completely get into it. The girls that I work with, Jennifer and Heather, are super cute and fun and we have some truly amazing weddings on the horizon. Check out our website and see some of the great work they've done in the past. And you can also check out our fun little blog, In the Know with OO. It's got all kinds of fun wedding snippets and even if you're not into weddings, some of the stuff we have on there is dang cute anyway. Today was my first post so make sure you stop by and read it. And feel free to leave a comment, add a button onto your blog, whatever floats your boat :) Most importantly, tell all your friends! I am so excited to have this great new job, I'll have to post all the fun stuff that we get to see and do!

A little motivation please...

So last June (yes, as in 1 whole entire year ago) I bought this super cute little dresser on a Saturday morning and took it home and had all kinds of romantic, decorative ideas about painting it lavender and putting cute Anthropologie handles on it and it was going to be just perfect in my little girl's room...*sigh*. Then by Sunday morning I realized I was lazy, fat, unmotivated and pregnant and then not too much later I found out I was having a boy...cute dresser dreams (as Jim Carey would say) "chk, chk, deleted!" So it sat on the back porch and then one day I painted it blue. And then it sat for a while longer and I put a clear coat on it. The end result was terrible! I will never try and do anything that requires patience and artistic ability when I am wretchedly pregnant again! Needless to say, the dresser was too horrible to bring indoors, it really needed to be redone! And so it continued to sit on my mother-in-laws back porch. Until the other day I finally went and picked it up, and I am sure that she is deliriously happy that it is out of her sight! Kristen and I started sanding it the other day and I have yet to decide what I am am going to do with the thing once it's ready to paint. I just thought I would post a few "before" pics and maybe that will give me that extra bit of motivation to get this little project done and out of the way. So before you know it, I will be posting "after" pictures, right? As long as you pay no attention to my track record...

Here's the little beauty. Loving the Tiffany Blue, but the clear coat is totally yellow. Couldn't possibly be from sitting on the back porch for a year, right??

Here's Kristen getting some work done! If anyone is highly motivated in this project, it is most definitely her...it's on HER back porch now!! Haha

Kristen really rocks at projects like this though. She just re-did her kitchen table and it is totally cute. I am so glad she (and her paint sprayer) are going to be helping me with this :)

And this desk is the next project. The crackle...not so much. Maybe someday we'll get around to this one!

We Heart Summer

Our pool is finally warm enough so me and Merrick took it outside today and tested out his new floaty seat that I bought him forever ago when I was dreaming of hot weather. He was so adorable! I thought he might be scared of the water but he wasn't at all! He kicked himself all over the pool completely on his own. He didn't even care that he was far away from me, he is so brave. He loved it when he would get splashed by the boys and he just kept laughing and having such a good time. Needless to say, we will be doing this way more often in the next few months!

Teeth X 2!

Make that 2 teeth! His other bottom tooth has broken through also. And what a joy the last few days have been...

Grosgrain Giveaway

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"Break through"!

Merrick has broken his very first tooth!! Woohoo!

I think we are officially at the stage where EVERYTHING goes in his mouth...

And Merrick has started sitting up by himself! He is so cute when he wobbles all over the place! It makes me so proud of him :)

I know, I know...

It's been a little crazy-busy around here lately! We are so due for an update! Here's the last 2 months in pictures. Merrick is growing like a weed, we measured him the other day and he is 26'' long. I swear I am constantly just having to find bigger clothes for him on a daily basis. He has really started laughing and playing and he makes the cutest noises when he wakes up every morning.

Merrick and Maddy are really starting to like each other. By 'like each other', I mean Merrick doesn't immediately cry out of fear whenever he sees her coming anymore :) Maddy totally has that "older sister" instinct with him and she loves to pat him and she is learning to be "soft" with him. It is so cute when she tries to pick up his carseat and carry him around! And seriously, could Maddy get any cuter? Her favorite words are "sooommme" and "dat" (for that) and more recently "day do" (for thank you).

I love this picture because we actually caught him smiling! As you will see in all the following pictures, Merrick hates the camera! He gets so upset the more we try and take pictures so when I get one like this, I really get a little over-excited.

This is Merrick's 'before' shot. He had the worst mullet and right on top of it was his little baby bald spot. So we had to buzz it all off so it could start new.

Merrick is finally getting to the point where he is liking toys and loves to play. He is in love with this jumper thing we got him. It plays music and he gets to bounce around so he will keep himself entertained for almost an hour at a time with this thing! Okay...I love it too :)

One night after work, I got to Kristen's house to pick up Merrick only to find that she was trying to change him into a girl. Okay, not really. He had spit up on all his clothes and Kristen had nothing to put him in except Maddy's clothes. I was so funny to see him in all pink! Poor kid, he will hate that I put this picture up someday...

Here we are on Valentine's Day

I am totally determined to get a tan, and I am totally determined to make sure that Merrick gets to love being outside. We usually lay out everyday. Seriously, stop by and you will find us out in the middle of lawn every morning. Laying out in March is why I LOVE ARIZONA!!

I've been giving Merrick some grown up food a little bit lately. I fed him some peach yougurt the other day and he totally loved it.

Of course, we are getting him into volleyball early on. Every time we take him to one of my brother's games he just stays glued to the the game, it is so funny! Nothing will distract him from watching the game.

And here are some of the most recent pictures that I took just this week. He is getting so grown up already, he's nearly 6 months old!

I am really going to be a better blogger. It has just been a little crazy lately. And, after making this post, I realize I need to be a better picture-taker too! As for me, nothing has really changed, except I have jury duty for the next 4 months (no, that is not a typo...4 months), I am going to be helping out at Villa Siena (where Brock and I had our reception a few years ago) and learn how to be a wedding coordinator, and ...

I got bangs...

THE END.