Thanksgiving 2010

This year for thanksgiving we headed out to the Foster's house for a wonderful meal. It was great getting to see the family since it has been quite a while. Unfortunately I did not take many pictures because we were to busy chatting and having fun.

Ian was as always a ball of energy and had a blast running around with the other boys. As for Aaron he mostly slept the entire time -but notice his cute little smirk in the bottom right!
Aaron and grandpaThanks for having us all over -we know it was a lot of work but we had a blast. When we were heading home in the car out of know Ian said "That was fun mom!" It was priceless.

Let it snow!

The weather outside has definitely been crazy. The last couple of weeks we have had snow storm after snow storm. I think we got just around 2 feet of snow before thanksgiving and it did not seem like it was ever going to stop. We had a lot of warning for the first storm -they canceled school and told everyone to stay home because it was supposed to be a white out and quite nasty.

Ian watching the white out start to get thicker and thicker. By the time we were in the thick of the storm you could no longer see the other town homes or pavilion.

Ian was so excited. Because we had been telling him it was going to snow tomorrow. Now the first thing he says every morning, "Go play in snow." The best part is Ian's snow clothes from last year still fit -although last winter they were big and many would call his pants "floods." The dog on the other hand has apparently put on a little weight.
Ian remembering what snow is. Ian and Daddy built a nice big snowman

Surprising Ian was not a big fan of sledding. He did go down the hill a couple times (notice the tongue sticking out to catching the snowflakes). He also loved his hat covering his eyes...why? I don't know.

Ian absolutely loved his snowman but unfortunately a few hours after coming in our home someone had destroyed it. So Daddy and Ian decided to get creative and build a castle. They built the castle on our front porch -easier to guard and keep an eye on. Plus at night Tim would spray it down with a squirt bottle so that it would freeze.
Ian also loves to shovel. If he could shovel all day long I think he would. The only down side is he finds it more enjoyable to shovel the snow back onto the sidewalks. So solution...put him in the middle of the grass area and let him shovel away!

While now the snow is starting to melt because of the rain we have had (again crazy weather) we still have a blast. Below are some other picture from playing in the snow.
Here's to hoping we get a lot more snow!

Family Pictures 2010

We were lucky enough to have Lindsay come and take our family pictures. While we love outdoor pictures the weather has been crazy. We decided to snap a few outside and it started snowing so we headed inside. While I really could not decided which pictures to post these are a few of my favorites. Ok...maybe a little more than a few.



Thanks Lindsay!

November 11, 2010

1 month old!

I cannot even believe that Aaron is already one month old. It is crazy to think that he was due just over a week ago and yet we have now had him in our family for a month. He is a pretty relaxed and good baby! Plus he is finally getting a little better at sleeping during the night he usually sleeps 5 hours, then wakes up every 2 1/2 to 3 hours after that. He started to smile a little a couple weeks ago but the only person that can get him to smile is his grandma Diamond. Go figure. At his 2 week appointment he had put on a full pound making him 7'11 plus he was 21.5 inches long. I can't wait to see what his stats are at his two month appointment because he has definitely become more chubby and I love it!

As for who he looks like we still do not know it is a mystery!

Fall 2010

What's going on at our house!

There is never a dull moment, or even time to think about having a dull moment with two children. Ian is starting to get good at entertaining himself and playing on his own in his room which is really nice. However, he can make a gigantic mess! Thankful he is pretty good at cleaning it up. Well as good as a two year old can be!
Ian thinks it is hilarious to hide from us in Aaron's crib -I think it is scary. Thankfully Aaron is not sleeping in his crib yet. I am too lazy to walk down the hall 4-5 times during the night to feed him so Aaron still resides in our room. Aaron's room has been arrange so that Ian can't climb in the crib quite so easily.
Aaron is as cute as can be! Notice the little smirk as he sleeps. So handsome!
He still has some reflux but luckily he does not spit up -you can just hear it sloshing.
When daddy is gone to school Ian loves to have his friends over for breakfast, lunch, and dinner! Notice he made each of them a plate of food as well.
Ian also loves taking pictures. This is my old camera and Ian thinks it is fun to walk around and tell everyone to say cheese. He even tries to show you the digital picture on the back -even though it is not a digital camera.
Ian and Aaron playing with puzzles!

Last week we also pulled out the baby toys. Ian had way more fun than Aaron. But he loved surrounding Aaron with a million toys.Of course he wanted to lay in it with him as well!Had to post another picture -Aaron is just so cute!

Halloween Week

October 2010

This whole week was full of all kinds of Halloween related activities. Ian of course loves Halloween -but mostly he just loves any holiday! We decided to head out to North Logan Pumpkin walk. This was Aaron's first adventure out at 3 weeks old. Ian helped make sure that Aaron stayed all bundled up and nice and warm.This year the pumpkin walk was great because they tons of Disney movie displays -which Ian loves! His favorite was of course the Toy Story display. Plus we got to pretend to be Mickey, Buzz, and Jesse.
The next day we made Halloween sugar cookies. Ian is our sprinkler and taste tester. As for Aaron he observed.
Then it was time for pumpkin carving. Ian and daddy started that afternoon digging out the pumpkins. I bet you can't guess what Ian wanted his daddy to carve.....Buzz!
Later that night my family came over to finish carving pumpkins. Hunter carved the Utah Jazz one above. We also had "Monster Pizza." It was supposed to be mummy pizza but I didn't want to keep cutting all the mummy cheese strips, and Ian doesn't know what a mummy is so we called it monster pizza. We even made homemade Root Beer -Ian loved watching the fog flow everywhere.

Ian and AndrewMy grandparents even made it up for the weekend to meet Aaron.
Plus it was my dad's birthday!!! Happy Birthday to the best dad ever!!! When singing happy birthday Ian quickly blew out the candles before we could finish the song.

Then it was time to go trick-or-treating! Ian did not really care about the candy at first he was just excited to be all dressed up! Erin had this Buzz costume which fit him perfectly. He absolutely loves it and still puts it on at least once a week. Aaron was dressed in his halloween outfit as seen up above -and slept in the car while Tim and Ian walked around the trunk-or-treat.
Then to top it off Tim's mom got him these mechanical wings -which he was so proud off. Plus my mom found a toy story basket. We headed out to our wards trick-or-treating and Ian had a blast showing everyone that his wings would retract in and shoot back out. He was super proud!We even bumped into the Chipette Brittany -also know as Ellie!
All and all it was a great Halloween! As you can tell Ian had a wonderful time!

Brothers

While it has been an adjustment having two children -Ian sure does love his brother. I'll be honest the first two weeks I really did not think I would ever survive having two of them. However, now having had sometime to adjust it is perfect! I don't know what we would do without both them (actually I do we would do whatever we wanted but it would sure be boring).

He loves to cook with Aaron -or bring Aaron lots of food to test out. If Aaron is lying on the floor Ian loves to get out his blanket and lay next to him. Plus he loves to read him all of his little kid books. Aaron doesn't seem to mind he just stares back at him.

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