The Burrs

Sunday, June 24, 2012

Life with a Newborn

Emily dressed for church.

Our pretty pink princess

Emily hanging out with her buddy June Jolley... we like June's parents too!

Cute as can be!

Miles of smiles

Our new family

Saturday, May 26, 2012

On Thursday, May 17 I started having contractions at about 1am. We finally headed to the hospital at 8:30 that morning when the contractions were three minutes apart. This is how I looked right before we left... I was probably having a contraction while the picture was being taken.
P.S. The reason there is a 'Happy Birthday' banner in the background is because my birthday was two days before. Our birthdays will be two days apart!

At 1:41pm Emily Mazel was born: 7 lbs. 5 oz. and 19.5 inches long. She had a little fluid in her lungs so she was taken to the NICU. Although we were sad she couldn't be in our room, we were so happy when we finally got to hold our baby girl.

Rachel and Mom Burr came to visit Emily in the hospital. As you can tell, Emily loves visitors.

My mom also came to visit Emily. Our families were wonderful to help us out with the arrival of our new baby girl. In photo: Mom Flake, me, Mom Burr, Rachel, and Greg.

Here is my mom holding her favorite 22nd grandchild. Do you like the hat that the NICU nurses put on Emily?

Emily had to stay in the NICU for almost 48 hours. We finally got to take her home on Saturday, May 19. We dressed her up all cute for her big day.

...And we haven't really stopped dressing her up! It's too fun to have a baby girl. She is so adorable!

On Monday, May 21 Dad and Mom Burr came for a visit.

On Thursday, May 24 Grandma and Grandpa Burr came for a visit. FYI: Emily is named after Grandpa Burr's mother.

It's a little tiring to have a newborn, but we sure love her.

Especially her daddy!

We love having Emily in our family. She is our little miracle.

Friday, May 25, 2012

May Milestones

On Wednesday, May 2 we had our big Pre-K Spring Program at school. My class sang 'Rockin' Robin'. They were a hit! Everybody loved them! I was proud of them for doing so well.

On Saturday, May 5 we drove to Cedar City to celebrate Rachel's graduation from Southern Utah University. Of course we mixed up the time change and totally missed her graduation, but it was nice to spend some time with family. In photo: Dad Burr, Mom Burr, me, Rachel, Greg, Aubry, Joel, and Jesse. We had a picnic in the park, played some games, and had some nice talks. In this picture I am 38.5 weeks along.

Mrs. Burr, Pre-K teacher at the Las Vegas Day School

I work in this building. Welcome to the Kinderschool!

After working at the Las Vegas Day School for 9 months, I am quitting so I can be a stay at home mom. Having this job has been a tremendous blessing and has better prepared me to be a mother.

Here I am on my 28th birthday. Greg made me chicken cordon bleu, homemade rolls, veggies, and yummy rice. He is such a good husband!

He even made me cookie cake with 28 candles. I'm so old!

Here is proof that I blew all of them out!

Being 28 isn't so bad!

On May 16 (the day after my birthday) I reached my due date!! 40 weeks has just flown by (j/k)...

Sunday, April 29, 2012

April Fun


On April 15 Greg turned the big 2-8. If you look closely I made him a cake with music notes on it. I was so proud of myself for being so thoughtful!


Greg's parents flew in for a surprise birthday visit. ALL week I had to keep it a secret. I guess I did a good job because Greg was totally surprised to see them!


He blew out the candles and got some great gifts. Of course the best gift was the visit from his parents.

On Monday morning he took them hiking at Red Rock Canyon while I went to work.

They had a great time!

Then I met up with them after school and we went to Smash Burger. Awesome people, awesome memories, awesome times! We hope they come when he turns 29 too!

On April 19 the staff at my school threw me a Baby Shower. There was lots of food and fun! I am very lucky to work with such wonderful people. All day I wore a pink award that said: 'Mom to be!' You might say I'm a little excited to meet our baby girl.

These women all teach Pre-K with me. In photo: Deborah, me, Christine, and Nancy.

On April 21 the women in the ward threw me a Baby Shower too. This is a picture of SOME of the women who came. People are so good to us here!

Here is a picture of the Young Women who came! They are awesome!

Sister Snow was the woman in charge and did a great job! Thanks!

On April 28 we had Youth Conference. We went on an 8-mile walk to the temple. It was pretty fun and exhausting (I only did part of it). In this picture the youth are all pointing to 'F.P'. F.P. stands for Francisco Park Ward---the ward we belong to.

It was a hard walk, but we had some great talks along the way.

And we made it to the temple!!! Arise and shine forth!!

Sunday, April 8, 2012

The Best Two Years

On Saturday, March 24 we went over to my cousin's house for parties. I have three cousins that live in Henderson with their families (about 25 minutes away). In the photo: Troy, Adam, me, Brooke, Sarah, Jordan, and Emily. We celebrated Brooke's birthday and then Greg made his famous homemade pizza. It was a great time! FYI: Emily is due ten days before me.

On Sunday, March 25 we hung out with our friends, the Jolleys. Heather's due date was one month before mine, but the next morning she had her baby. So lucky. It's fun that our babies will be so close in age. Maybe that's why we had an immediate friendship.

On Monday, April 2 it was our 2 year anniversary. Since we were both on Spring Break we decided to do something outdoors. We went to Red Rock Canyon and went hiking. I got some pretty interesting looks seeing as how I'm almost eight months pregnant...

My attractive husband. . .

likes to show off!!

We went on two easy hikes and found a "waterfall", which was really a spring...

I was so proud of myself for doing the hikes with my belly. That night we went to Olive Garden for dinner and then went clothes shopping using one of my gift cards... even Greg had fun shopping.

On Thursday, April 5 we decided we wanted to go to a show since we probably won't be able to once our baby comes. We splurged and went to see 'Donny and Marie Osmond'. We knew it would be a clean show (and that is hard to find in Vegas). Even though we had never heard any of their music before, they did not disappoint. They were so good.

We bought the cheapest seats possible, but after we had been seated for about five minutes, an usher came up to us and asked if we wanted better seats for no charge. We said sure. He took us to the FRONT ROW. It was awesome! Even our little baby was going crazy! Donny danced on tables and sat on people's laps. Marie put on dark red lipstick and kissed men on their foreheads. I had no idea they were such a big deal!