1st Christmas Tree

Here we are starting to put up the tree, Ayden got to crawl around and play while I struggled with the lights. He tried to help once or twice but got bored pretty quick and went to play with his toys instead.
Here Cy is after I most of the lights up. He was trying on the Baby Bjourne, and him and baby were prading around the living room. They both enjoyed that.

Here is Ayden and I hanging up his first baby Christmas ornament, that Grandma Ellis gave him. He liked the feel of the needles on the tree (its a live one) so he kept trying to feel them and didn't worry to much about the shiny ornament. It was a great start to a wonderful season. The only room we have in the house that is for baby and the christmas tree is our family room. So I thought for sure that with him crawling around he would be all over the tree. But so far the attraction is at the other end of the room. Either with the dog's water or climbing on the baby gate.

If looks could kill...Don't mix kids and cats!

After getting up 5 times last night and then starting the morning at 6:30am I was a little grumpy. So after Cy woke up at about 8am, I thought I would lay back down for a little bit. I got to sleep for about an hour when I heard baby screaming with all his might. So I run down stairs and he is just finishing up crying (he usually only carries on for about a minute when he gets hurt), and I see this little bloody face. Apparently Ayden was playing with our very cute cat Coonie for about 5 minutes and then Coon got a little sick of him (Ayden probably pulled his hair on his belly, that is is favorite place to go for) and Coon swatted at Ayden and got him in the face. Poor kid. But all is well now he and Coon are friends again. No hard feelings with either party.
This is the picture I took of Ayden right after the scratching with the shiny Neosporin nose.
This is the picture of Coon right after the incident. He photographs so well. I would not of posted this 'incident' but I couldn't resist after I downloaded the pictures and the two of them had the same look in different pictures. Coon always blinks in his pictures. He really is not an evil cat. He just looks like it... Needless to say he got his little toenails clipped. Now that is when he gave me the evil look.
Here is Ayden after in the next picture right after his 'evil look', no worse for the wear. The scratch looks great tonight. It amazes me how fast baby's heel. He will scratch his face (worse than this usually) with his nail and its almost healed in two days. Amazing! So the moral of the story. Don't go take a nap and let the husband watch the baby play with the cat.. My bad. :)

Thanksgiving Day

For Thanksgiving Cy and I took the long journey up to Logan (well not really to long its only about an hour and a half drive and I am grateful that we live so close to both or our families). It was a lot of fun. Ayden had a good nap on the way up so he was very happy when we arrived. We got to hang out with all of his aunts and soon to be new uncle Todd, grandma and grandpa (who avoided the the still camera but I did get some video of them), great Uncle Paul, and we also got some rare Great Grandpa time with Ayden. Ayden loves seeing his family and enjoys being the center of attention at all times. We had the traditional Turkey day dinner with Turkey, stuffing, mash potato's (that cy made), beans, sweet potatos, rolls, and grandpas jello. Cy slaved over some Marie Calanders pies for desert and of course we had to have ice cream (my favorite). It was a fun day and now everyone is tuckered out. Off to bed we all go.

Kristina getting her hair pulled :)















Elaine, Todd, Caroline and the new addition, Todd, hanging out on the couch waiting for dinner.


Grandpa and Ayden having a little play time.

Dehle's Turkey Day Dinner

Zandehle is my very food crazed Rhodesian Ridgeback, she is 10 1/2 years old and since I have had her she has not ever had a Thanksgiving dinner... so I thought she should get a yummy dinner for what a good dog she is. So here she is before and after. She enjoyed her dinner.

Thanksgiving

Ok so I read Keri's blog and of course she has good ideas on her blog so I thought what the heck I would copy her :) (Thanks Keri). I think that we take so much for granted and I am grateful for Thanksgiving week to really help us remember that we have so much. I am so grateful for my family, they are the greatest. My mom is always there for me, always has the right answers for every question and always has everything that you need (this is an amazing trait), also just as Keri said, my mom can tell me to buck up and get over it and not make me feel bad, it just makes me want to do what she says and move on with life. I wish one day I can be as great as she is. My dad is the coolest, he is the most considerate person ever and he loves me unconditionally no matter what. I am thankful for my brother and sister because whenever I need something they are there for me. Its great to have family (even if they live very very far away). Of course now I am so grateful for my very cute baby boy. Even though he keeps me up every night and I only get like 4 hours of sleep, he is the cutest little thing and has already taught me so much. Patience, love, and most of all he makes me so grateful for what my mom and dad did for me growing up.

I am so grateful for my husband and how hard he works for me to help us have the things we have. I am very grateful for him when he wakes up at 5am with Ayden and lets me sleep till 8 (this is the greatest reward ever) :) He is such a good dad and always so patient and understanding of me (especially with my bad horse habits).

I am also grateful for all my friends. I have a great group of friends that are so supportive of me and are such wonderful examples.

The other 'little things' I am grateful for are all my horses, my fuzzy cat Coon, my crazed food driven dog Dehle, my tiny little Gerbil- "Gerbie" he always puts a smile on my face and can devour a toilet paper roll in a minute. I am grateful for the church and what it has taught me, a warm shower, my house, my truck, and my job. I think that there is much more but you probably would not want to read it. Happy Thanksgiving!

Crawling away

So this week Ayden had a few big milestones. He has been creeping along trying to crawl but only using his with his hands for a few days now. However this week dad was mopping the floor and turned on the Bissell steam cleaner to mop with and Ayden sitting in the living room to watch. Well he was not having that. He high tailed it crawling from the living room to dad who was in the kitchen (and also had the steam cleaner he was afraid). Then dad picked him up and Ayden clung to his shoulder while he finished. So that is how he learned to really crawl.
This is a video we shot today right after church. He is not the happiest in the shot and it is a little shaky when I had to back up to actually get the shot but its still cute.

Also after dealing with croop (spelling?) and a bad cough for the past month, we finally made in to get his six month shots (at seven months). He is 27 inches- which is in the 50th percentile and he weighs a whopping 14lbs 14 oz (which is in the 12th percentile). So he is a little bird. He still fits into his 3-6 month clothes around the waist but they are all to short for him because he is sol long. Its cute. So here is the must have before and afters shots at the doctors. I even tried to talk Cy into taking him instead of me because he took the day off but no dice on that one. I hear that is a usual dad trick ;)

1st real snow

Ok so today we got a real surprise when we woke up... Lots of snow. It was the first really cold day that Ayden and I had to head to the barn, so thank goodness grandma set us up with this super warm snow suit, and Mikaela made this his very cute little beanie for him. Ayden stayed so warm it was great. He was even sweating a bit :) The kids a heater. These pictures were taken up at the barn where I take my lessons. Tracy is always so kind to come with me and watch Ayden. So she gets to be on the first snow blog with Ayden. Yeah!!!