Nathan and Alex

It's hard for me to get a picture of just Alex cause Nathan wants to be in EVERY picture. So there's a few where Nathan just jumps in the picture. :)

Nathan

Nathan's attempt at a self-portrait? And I think we made brownies that day!

Nathan is such a talker lately. He keeps saying the word great, like "That was a great catch Mom." It amazes me all the time how much he knows and understands. He is a great big brother and listens and obeys MOST of the time :). He no longer takes naps which is a bummer but he will go in his room for quiet time for an hour or more every day. He loves playing with "swords" and guns and getting the bad guys. We are excited as the warm weather gets closer since it means we'll be able to go outside more! He loves to play with Alex and he will often say "Come on Alex" and lead him into his room to play.

Alex ALMOST 8 months

Alex is a maniac lately(in a good way)! He is crawling all over the place, eating solid food like it's going out of style-along with those puff finger foods, and is just so fun to play with. He babbles a lot and is always saying "ba ba ba." He is such a good baby and with all the dragging around that I do to these kids it's pretty great. I finally found a cup that he will drink out of, so that's a relief and will hopefully make the transition easier in a few months. Alex loves to play with Nathan and Alex will follow Nathan into his room to play. Nathan makes Alex laugh so easily, it's pretty entertaining. :)

Christmas trip 2009

We had a great Christmas this year, we spent it in California with John's family and had a mini family reunion doing all sorts of fun things in LA and San Diego areas. We started it off by going to a Laker game and then we headed to Disneyland for a day. Next we were off to Legoland and that was Christmas Eve. We ate at Benihana Christmas Eve which was VERY untraditional but there were LOTS of people there (lots of happy birthdays being sung-kinda funny). On Christmas day we just kinda hung out at the hotel and swam and then ate our Christmas lunch at Schlotzky's deli and dinner at TGI Fridays. Once again, very untraditional! We went back to Legoland the day after Christmas and then did some shopping that night. The next day was Sunday and we got to go to our old ward in South Pasadena for church, saw a missionary farewell and got to see lots of old friends! We caught up with my friend Stephanie (from nursing school) for lunch and then headed to our hotel near LAX. We left the next day to come back to Idaho. We had a TON of fun and of course made sure we stopped at In-n-Out, and El Pollo Loco. :) More posts to come but don't expect them all in one day!

Playing in the snow

Nathan LOVES the snow this year...too bad it came and only stayed for 2 days. John is so glad but it makes me sad :( Nathan wants some more snow too so hopefully we get some more before the season is over (I'm sure we will in North Idaho).

Santa!

At our ward Christmas party, Santa came! Nathan was very excited to see him. He waited so patiently and sat quietly while the other kids around him were going crazy with yelling and jumping up and down. As soon as it was his turn he quickly told him that he wanted race cars for Christmas. What a true boy! :)

Nathan is 3!

John had to work around 8 on Nathan's birthday so we got up about 7 to eat breakfast and open gifts before John had to leave. Pretty good haul for a 3 year old! And that's not all...that night G-ma Sally and G-pa Doug brought over a couple of other presents. He had a blast opening presents. At first he had to open the cards, and then he started to carefully open the other gifts and I told him to just rip the paper! So, after that he started getting a little more rough with the paper.


He requested a train cake again this year, so that was nice since I did it last year! You can see he actually got a train this year to accompany the cake.

Nathan is so fun to have around. He is such a loving big brother to Alex and has been telling him lately that he is his best buddy. He loves playing with cars and trains and we're always playing "get the bad guys." He can make a gun out of anything. It blows my mind the way his imagination works. Sometimes I wonder if I had an imagination at all as a kid! Luckily John is around to help with the imagination part. :)