Goin' to the Super Bowl

We're not really going to the super bowl but the Steelers are!!! And if you know my husband then you know that he is a HUGE fan of the Steelers. Jared's brother Ray is having a HUGE, FUN party that will be full of food and very anxious Steelers fans. I'll make sure to take lots of pics and some fun video. Last time they went to the super bowl it was a CRAZY party full of wild, excited men and some that were a little on the drunk side. But hey they won and we had fun. GO STEELERS!!!

Meow

He LOVES cats & dogs. Martha (the lady I clean for) has a cat that comes and goes and Ethan loves it. As soon as he sees the cat he looks at me says "Mauw" and then tries to pet the cat only his pets are more like a nice slap. Poor cat. Here are a few video clips of him and the cat. Once we get inside the cat knows to come to the back door where Ethan will stand and "Mauw" at the cat.

What a mess!

Here's what happens when I don't watch Ethan's every move. He finds things he should be into...makes a HUGE mess...and thinks it's great fun. He loved running across the spilled carmel popcorn and laughed every time he went back and forth.

A couple of LOs

I LOVE to scrapbook and I really LOVE to digital scrapbooking. So I thought I'd start sharing more of the layouts that I've been creating. Here are a few of my favorite from the Christmas season. The first one is of Ethan eating a banana. He loves bananas and he insist on eating them all by himself.

The second one is of him eating cookies. He has quickly become my little cookie monster but you'd never know that cuz he's so skinny.

And last but not least is one of my all time favorites. I LOVE this picture of Jared and Ethan.

Christmas Morning

This year we had a wonderful Christmas. It was so much fun to have Ethan old enough to open his own presents (with the help of mom & dad) and get so excited for his gifts. The day started out a little rough though. Ethan woke up at 2:30 am and wanted to play. Jared stayed up with Ethan for a few hours and then finally was able to get him back to sleep. Then around 9am we got up and dressed and sat around the Christmas tree to open our presents. I wasn't able to get any pictures of him opening his presents but here are a few of him enjoying them.

If you can't tell from this picture Jared is holding up a million dollar check. Every time we check the mail we always ask each other if there was a million dollar check and of course there's not so I thought it would be funny to make him this check and put it in his stocking. Too bad we can't cash it :)

Snow, Snow, Snow

We have had so much snow this year it's crazy! I've lived in UT my whole life and I can't remember that last time we had this much snow. Here are a few pictures I took to remember this white winter.

This is Jared's brother Jimmy posing for me in the snow. This was taken just before Christmas and we had almost a foot of snow!

Here's Jared happily shoveling the snow. I think this was his 4th of 5th time shoveling that day.And here is Ethan enjoying the snow for the first time. We don't have any boots or snow pants for him so he just gets to enjoy the snow from the side walk. He loves it though! Every time we go out to the car he walks over to the lawn and gets a fist full of snow. Next year I'll be ready for the snow and Ethan will have a snow suit.

Dancing Ethan

We have this drawer that is just full of junk and Ethan loves to dig in it and pull everything out. One day Ethan found my ipod shuffle and the headphones that go with it. He brought it to me and new that you put the headphones in your ears. So I turned on the music and here's what happened...

Up & Down

My Grandma has a ramp over the stairs that go from her kitchen to the family room. Ethan loves this ramp because he knows how to go up it and down it all by himself. Here's a little video clip to show you what he did for at least a half hour on Christmas day.

Family Photo Shoot

My wonderful friend Brittney took our family pictures this year. They turned out so cute. She is so amazing and I'm so glad she's my friend. Thanks again Britt!

I made this page about some of my favorite pictures. It was such a sweet and tender moment. We were trying to do a family hug picture but at first Ethan didn't want to do it. Then all of a sudden he realized what we wanted him to do and he gave us a big tight hug around our necks. We love getting hugs from Ethan. There is nothing sweeter.

Merry Christmas!

We hope you all have a safe and wonderful Christmas!

Milk Party!

One of the great things about having your child turn one is that he not longer has to drink formula. I think this is more exciting for mom and dad then the actual child but I tried to make it a fun celebration. My sister and her husband came over for dinner so she brought some Oreos and I had the milk. I fed Ethan Oreo cookies and he got to drink a nice sippy cup of milk. It was mmm, mmm good!

Forward Facing

This is kind of old news and maybe it's not really news at all but Ethan is now one and weighs 20lbs. which means that we get to turn his car seat around. I thought he'd be all excited and make all kinds of faces when he got to watch out the windshield but he was actually more interested in watching me drive. These pictures are from the first day he sat facing forward.

Oh Christmas Tree

Last year I had this great idea to make Christmas tree ornaments with our pictures but I never got around to doing it. So this year I decided to finally do it and I think they turned out great. I made them using my wonderful computer and all I had to do was print, cut, paste and hang.

Trouble!

One day while I was at work I was in the bathroom cleaning the floors. Ethan was with me just having a grand ole time playing with a water bottle. After a little while I realized that things were really quiet. I turned around to find this...

No at first I wasn't too worried, it looked like just a little bit of toilet paper but I was so wrong! This bathroom has two toilets that face each other so when went looking for Ethan here is what I found...

Ethan had completely emptied BOTH rolls of toilet paper. I wanted to be so mad at him but all I could to was laugh. So we cleaned up his mess and it filled the garbage can. Good thing the lady that I clean for knows what it's like to have kids and is so easy going when it comes to things like this.

Note: I didn't have my camera with me so I had to use my camera on my phone. That's why the pictures aren't so great.

Click, Click, Click

Look at Ethan's new trick...

3 Years!

I can hardly believe that today is our 3rd year anniversary. I feel so blessed to have such an amazing man in my life and even better an amazing man that I get to keep forever. I love him so much and don’t know what I would do with out him. He is a wonderful father to Ethan and my best friend. Thanks for so many wonderful memories and I can’t wait for the years to come. I love you Jared!
Below are 2 videos of our wedding. Jimmy (Jared's little brother) made these for us. I LOVE them and they make me teary eyed every time I watch them.

Wedding

Reception

It's fun to be ONE!

To add to the excitement of our busy Halloween weekend we had Ethan's 1st birthday party. Here's a few pictures...

This is Ethan with his cousin Lucy. I couldn't get him to stand still long enough for me to take his picture, so I had Lucy stand by him in hopes that I could get a picture of him with this cute hat and shirt.

Here's Ethan eating his very first slice of pizza. These next few pictures are of him opening his presents...well really I opened the presents and tried to get him to help me.

He LOVES this toy. He pushed it around all night and now that we are home he seems to always have it in his hands. Not only does he push it around be he also picks it up and shakes it.

Now on to the best part...the CAKE!

At first he wasn't really sure what to do. He just touched it and then kept his hands on the cake. But once he realized that he could it eat cake was everywhere!

It was a fun party and I'm still trying to figure out what happened to the past year. Time goes by too fast...way too fast. But I sure love this little guy!

Witches Night

One of Jared's mom's favorite places is Gardner Village. During Halloween they have lost of fun Witches on displays and do fun witchy things all month long. She wanted to go see the witches so we decided to have a little fun and dress up as witches ourselves. It was a girls night out and I think everyone had a good time...I know I did.

I also made this scrap page...