Oh Santa Clause...

Last week we went to see Santa at the Cache Valley mall because they let you take your own pictures instead of buying an expensive 4x6 that they took.  Austin is still not very sure of Santa...he took the coloring book and candy cane and told him what he wanted but he preferred to do all that while standing at least 2 feet away at all times.  And as you can tell he wasn't fond of me making him be in the picture haha.  That Santa was a little um, grundgy...you should've seen his teeth; but he had a real beard and was nice enough.  Maybe they don't have tooth brushes at the north pole...

New Christmas Pictures

 Here are the new family pictures we just had taken by Photographe by Anngee.  I think she did a great job and it only took half an hour!  We had to reschedule twice because of weather.  The boys were not to keen on sweaters but I made them anyway because what is a Christmas picture without sweaters?  Austin ended up really liking his...he has a thing for red...but Cam's was off and the t-shirt back as soon as pictures were done. 

A New Hat

 So I couldn't resist this little hat when we went to Gardner Village a couple of weeks ago.  Sassy Babies is one of my favorite stores there and they had a bunch of cute hats.  So Aiden got to model it for me the other day.  I just got a new lense for my camera that takes awesome pictures.  It's a 50mm 1.4f...it's amazing how much more light it lets in than my 2.8f and what a difference that light makes.  Anyway he was a sport for the 10 minutes it took to get some pictures. 

A Baby Shower

This is the diaper cake that I made for Kim's baby girl.  It contains 4 layers of 170 size 1 diapers, 4 muslin Aden & Anais blankets, 4 onsies, and assorted bathing stuff.  I've always wanted to make one and I think it turned out pretty cute.

Just had to add a couple pics of little dude chillin' before the party.  He slept through most of it.

Aiden and Hannah

Kirsten and Trudy did the food and it was delicious!  Hannah and I made the tissue pom-poms.

There is the party animal herself!

Kirsten found this recipe on Pinterest for this Pineapple Kool-Aid slush that looks like bathwater.  It was very tasty and I will definitely be making it again - with or without the duckies.

And there are the guests of honor...Kim is due Feb 19th with the newest little gal to the family.  So excited to meet her!

Cereal Anyone?

This little guy started sleeping 6 + hours at night this past week (yah!)

Livi has about the coolest morning hairdo of anyone I know.

Not a lot of cereal eating going on here....

Ty is kind of a bottomless pit these days...

Austin was a pretty good eater this week.  He must be having a growth spurt because that is not like him.

Kirsten brought this floor gym home with her and Aiden tried it out and LOVED it. 

Grandma and Ty; so cute!

 

The week of Thanksgiving we headed up to HP to the Seamons' residence.  On Monday, just the girls headed down to Gardner Village for lunch and shopping.  It was a blast hanging out with everyone and we all found something cute to by there.  Love that place - especially at Christmas.  Tuesday we threw Kim a baby shower (later post) so the guys were in charge of the kids.  Wednesday all the guys did there yearly man-date rabbit hunt.  This year they went up to Bear Lake but weren't very successful.  Thursday, of course, was full of good food and we did hit the 10pm Walt-Mart sale...always eventful and I was able to fight the madness to get the Lego's I wanted.  Kim and Jer were not so lucky however, with their Xbox.  Friday was more shopping and then Firehouse for dinner...I love that place.  I tried their new Pomodoro pasta and it is my new favorite.  So good!  Then Saturday we begrudgingly said good bye to the Carbajal's as they left us for sunny San Diego.  Apparently as soon as they got home the winter clothes came off and shorts and flip flops were on.  Not fair.  Sunday we went to my cousin's mission homecoming and then finally we are back in good ol' Ogden, ut at our house.  It was - and is always - a fun filled week and I already miss everyone. 

Blessing Day

Here is Aiden in his blessing outfit (a hand-me-down from big bro) a week before the big day.  I had to try it on him to make sure it still fit because he is kind of old...grandma said she wouldn't be surprised if he was walking by the time we blessed him.  We are such slackers.

He enjoyed this outfit much more than the owl Halloween costume.  Already he is so picky.  Sheesh! 

We decided to have Aiden's blessing at our house this time rather than at church because we have a 9 am start time and it was a little too early to ask everyone to travel down here.  It turned out great; Cam did a good job and we were glad to have Cam's grandparents, the Carbajal's, the Roskelley's, and our wonderful "local" families come to celebrate.  I'm so grateful everyday for such loving, supportive families that we can count on and love to hang out with.  Love you all!

What a Hoot...

I'm pretty sure I'm going to get the meanest mom award for making my baby son pose in all these awful pictures...but oh it will be so worth it some day when I'm showing my grand kids what a crazy baby their dad was...ha ha. Aiden was an owl for halloween and he didn't mind the costume too much - it was when the hat went on he started freaking out.  We ended up wearing this costume for combined total of one hour and that included a photo session, work party, and Halloween together.  I asked myself if it was really worth the $28 I spent on the costume and after seeing this picture - definitely yes!

A more calm owl

The entire thing.  I know he thoroughly enjoyed himself this year and can't wait for next year's costume.