baby's 1st christmas

This year for Christmas we went to Idaho. Both my sisters were there too, so it was almost my whole family. (We missed you Jeff, Jackie & kids!!).  There are lots of pictures, so I'll let them do most of the explaining...

Here is Rose (9 months) and Matthew (3 yrs).  We put Rose in the stocking.  Their faces pretty much show what they thought about that!

Rose again (9 months) and Logan (7.5 months)...yes...she is older :)

Logan got to follow tradition by opening a gift on Christmas Eve. 

Though...he wasn't quite sure what to do with it.

He got some Christmas pajamas. They were actually given to us as hand-me-downs, but I don't think Logan really cared. He still looked cute in them.

Our 1st Christmas as a 3 person family. 

Here is Lincoln (2 yrs) in his Christmas pajamas. He liked to put the "cars" on his feet. He even tried to get them on his mom and dad's feet too.

Lincoln (2 yrs) hugging Parker (10 months) on Christmas Eve.  Patience & Mindy in the background.

My sister gave us her Johnny Jumper and Logan loves it. He spent a lot of time in it over the break.

Here are Matthew & Lincoln on Christmas Day.

Rose on Christmas.

Daddy helping Logan open his stocking on Chistmas.

Mindy & Parker before heading off to church.

Parker, Mindy, Lincoln & Jesse

Lincoln is a pretty picky eater so it was funny to see him eat the prime rib straight off the bone.  He loved his "chicken"!

The family on Christmas eating our traditional prime rib-yum! Thanks mom!

My great aunt Violet and her husband, Don, joined us for dinner.

I helped my nieces Hannah & Hailey make chocolate houses. Later, Darrin & I made one too.

It was a fun break and fun time with family! Thanks for hosting, mom & dad!

long overdue

For Thanksgiving we got to see a lot of family, which was wonderful! 

We spent the actual day in Payson at Darrin's dad's house.  The food was yummy and we got to see everyone from's Darrin's family other than Kurtis, plus 2 of his step-sister's and their families.  Mallory, one of Darrin's step-sister has an adorable little girl and she said Logan's name in a really cute way- "Loo-koo". It made us smile :)

The day after, we drove to St. George to spend time with my family since they all gathered there for the festivities.  Mindy and Jesse hosted for the 2nd year in a row! Thanks!!

Sadly, these are the only two pictures I took of the Thanksgiving break...

Logan loved Lincoln & Parker's stuffed dog that played music.  

He snuggled with it while we explored St. George.

We went to Tuacahn for the Live Nativity.  It was really cool.

Darrin & I decided it was the perfect length--plus they had real camels on stage! :)

Here's a picture of Mindy's cute little family at Tuacahn visiting Santa.

Logan turned 7 months at the beginning of December.

He got his first 2 teeth--they weren't even expected where they showed up.  His two middle bottom teeth popped through before I noticed what was happening.  He seems like a happier baby now.  

Here's an attempt at me trying to show his new teeth...didn't really work.  He hates showing them off:

His favorites: his vibrating frog

mini stuffed elephant

Darrin's really old toy dinosaur

He can: Now roll from his back to his belly. He is actually enjoying being on his belly now.

-spin in circles.  He hasn't quite figured out how to use both arms to move forward.

He has also tried a lot of new solid foods.  This boy can eat! 

He also went through a phase where he hated his car seat.  Thank goodness that's pretty much over!! 

Here he is arching his back as we try to put him in:

He is very excited for his first Christmas, as you can see!

Travel safely, and have a wonderful Christmas!

halloween, 6 months, and other adventures

I have a lot to catch up on, but I'm too lazy to do it in separate posts, so here it is in one post. 

I already posted about Logan's Halloween costume, but we did a few other activities for Halloween, and even more than I have pictures of.

We carved a Cookie Monster pumpkin, made spicy pumpkin seeds (yum), and I made meringue ghosts for a Halloween party I went to.  These were all even before Halloween! 

Halloween night we went to Payson--carved another pumpkin, made homemade rootbeer, and hung out with family.

November 3rd marked Logan's six month mark!

A few things our cutie pie has been up to:

-Trying rice cereal and oatmeal for the first time (he highly disappointed me by not even making a face. He likes it...)

-LOVES his daddy (he always has, but he can often be caught staring at Darrin now)

-He has found his thumb more often (he wants to be just like his cousin and mommy)

He has also:

-rolled over consistently

-started scooting on his back

-likes peek-a-boo

-started grabbing at faces

A week or two ago I was cleaning up our garden stuff before the frost came.  I was cutting all the basil off our plant and I went to cut one leaf off and noticed it looked weird. It turned out to be a leaf bug! I put him on the ground and sort of forgot....I squished him. oops!

Here's a bowl full of basil I picked from our plant and in the next picture the leaf bug above a very large basil leaf.

ah! real monsters

 Anyone else remember that really silly Nickelodeon cartoon? 

Anyways...Logan was a monster for Halloween. I really hope I can use this costume more in the future because I sure thought it was cute.  

I would love to say he was all smiles, but this was one of the few smiles we got on Halloween night from our little monster.  He was pretty neutral in his costume. I think the hood bothered him a little. He was always trying to eat it.

Getting ready to roll over. Yay! He FINALLY can.

 He was snuggled a little by Grandpa and his costume was really warm so he fell asleep for a while instead of going trick-or-treating. Oh well.

Logan's cousins came by after their Trunk or Treat. Maia as Ariel, Lilly as a butterfly, and Josh as Bumble Buzz (without his Bumblebee mask)

And now for the real monster...

This is the culprit for many nights of Logan waking up twice. Two canine teeth coming in at once! Can you see them?

Hope you all had a great Halloween!

And Happy Birthday to that baby born 57 years ago on Halloween--Dad!!

a little late

5 months.  That is how old Logan is now. Crazy. I can't find my camera at the moment...so I will post some pictures later.

Here are some new things about  Logan:

-He has discovered his feet.  He doesn't seem that flexible though so he touches them from afar...

-I think he's teething because he has a remarkable amount of drool and he hasn't been sleeping as well.

-He grabs objects and brings them to his mouth

-He stays on his tummy longer

-He has rolled over 2 times (from tummy to back). Yep. Only twice. At least I know he can do it.

-He started not liking his car seat.  When we put him in he will arch his back so we can't strap him down.

Darrin gave him a nickname that I personally hope doesn't stick, but at the same time I can't help but call him it.  Darrin mixed Chubby and Logan together to make Cho-gee. Oh dear.

Well, that's all I can think of right now.

swings

Little buddy likes to swing.  

Well, he is actually somewhat neutral and will sit in them and swing for a while as he contemplates other more important things. These pictures are at the park during his second time swinging. 

His new love is his fist and he is constantly sucking on it.

At the end he got super tired and looked half asleep in the swing.

fall=football

BYU football that is. Right now the BYU vs Utah game is on and here is what my boys are up to: 

And this is how they feel about BYU football:

So cute.

And...Logan's 4 month stats:

Length: 26.5 inches, 85th percentile

Weight: 16 lbs 1 oz, 66th percentile

I love seeing the percentiles, I get excited every time he has a doctor appointment to see how much he grows.