Proud Wife

We went on our first date CHILDLESS. While Grandma and Grandpa watched Maddox (this included a feeding!) The sweet boy doesn't get the whole bottle thing and the cup idea isn't ideal for a whole feeding. Anyway we practiced all week and when it came time, he did it! Maddox took the bottle and let Tyler and I enjoy a wonderful night out.

After another successful year with Pinnacle Security, we got our celebration on. The weekend was filled with races, flag football games, meetings, and a party. We all came together to end the weekend at The Capitol Theater for their annual awards ceremony. 

  Tyler's office was awarded Office of the Year. They sold the most accounts in the company this year. Woo Woo

 It is always fun to look back on the year and to see Tyler get recognized for his hard work.

I was a very proud wife

Home Sweet New York

Oh New York. I've determined that there is just no way to describe how this city makes me feel. This is my happy place. 

Tyler had the opportunity to go to NY for work so of course Maddox and I insisted we tag along. I was so excited to show M the city!

We spent an afternoon in Central Park with our friends. Little missy loved taking care of Maddox and he LOVED her! 

 While out and about we spotted Regis and Kelly filming a TD commercial. You know me and celebs :)

 Another afternoon was spent with my good friend Morgan in SoHo. Maddox wasn't very happy at first (you try breastfeeding in a park. In loud NYC. In 45* weather. ugh) but quickly warmed up and loved on her. It was so fun seeing her. She's the bomb and I miss her!

I dragged her to Rice to Riches with me, how did I never make it when we were there the last 3 years??

 I love this shot she caught of us waiting for the train.

 Ok so then the real epic moment of the trip was the hour we spent at my favorite place (debate-ably in the whole world) Maddox fell asleep on my chest and we sat on the bench overlooking the city just taking it all in. It was heaven to me. (Could have been better only had it been 20* warmer and Ty had been there) I love our old hood

 The next day we spent visiting with my loved ones and strolling through art at the MET with Darrin. He wanted to be the first to introduce Maddox to art history. Little M jabbered the whole time we were there, he was quite intrigued I suppose.

 Look how happy he got when we go to the breastfeeding piece! haha

After working 70 hours in 5 days, Tyler was able to join us for dinner. All that he enjoyed of the city was this walk through Times Square to the restaurant. Poor guy. We missed him tons and wished he could have played with us but Maddox and I LOVED our trip!!

Five Months Old

LOVES

No matter what you're doing, if you see us brushing our teeth you drop everything and stare.

It must be true love because you love my singing. It calms and soothes you and that makes me feel good. 

You refuse the bottle. You just play with it and make a mess but no eating. You always grab for our glasses so we gave it a try...you can drink breast-milk from a cup. Whaat?

We love when we go into your room in the morning to check on you and find you happy and playing with your bedding. When were you going to let us know you were awake?! 

Now that we're finally in one place, you sleep in your crib (gone are the pack n' play days!) and oh how you love it. You sleep so much better!! 

We get the best giggles when Dad tickles your knees

When you are using your outside voice and I change to a whisper, you totally whisper back. It's the cutest!

Your first NYC experience!! You rocked it. We conquered that city together! It wasn't the most convenient place for breastfeeding but you were such a trooper. The New Yorkers loved you!

HATES

You got your first goose egg. Spinning round and round in your bouncy chair you bumped into the door frame. :( It looked worse than you seemed to feel it.

Dad and I spent a lovely night at the temple only to come back finding you had cried for Grandma the ENTIRE time! Not sure what that was about, did we forget to tell you we'd be back??

Oh spit up. Month 4 was the month of some major spit up. Rumor has it that is supposed to be the peak and we are hoping it slows down from here.

We sure love you Maddox!!

M's First Halloween

We had fun watching the world series this year but were wishing our Yankees were in it!

Our own pumpkin patch! 

This little munchkin is so much fun!!

Four Months Old

Weight: 

13lbs 15oz 

25th percentile

Height: 

24.5" 

50th percentile

Head Size: 
42cm

50th percentile

  

LOVES
You can full on laugh. Your giggles are to die for!

You covered a lot of ground this month and you were so awesome in the car. Slept all day and still slept all night!

You have discovered your feet! It is so fun to watch you playing with those cute little toesies. 

You can totally bear your own weight, we only have to help you balance. I would say standing is your favorite thing to do. 

You think it is so funny to grab our noses.

We think you know your name, 90% of the time we call it, you come looking. 

Books. You have been seriously loving books.

We went up the canyon and you were mesmerized with the camp fire.

We held you in front of the mirror and you started laughing. Hilarious!

HATES

Sporting events. You love watching all the action but once the crowd erupts it totally scares you and you bawl. So sad. 

  

Summer 2011 wrap up

Our summer started in Utah with 2 members of our family: 4 months, 12 states and 1 new member later, our family of 3 is back home and ready to stay put for a while :)  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It was a summer full of fun, adventures, and memories!

San to the Fran!

Ok so then Tyler's office moved from Arkansas to California! We were not looking forward to the LONG drive but neither of us had been to the Bay Area so we were SO excited to check it out.

Oh the beach. It has been TOO LONG!! I mean we've spent a lot of time in the last few years while in NYC in the Atlantic Ocean, but it's nothing like the west coast. We should have spent a whole day at the beach but we made due with the time we had. We had a whole city to explore! 

Maddox's first time touching the ocean. It was really cold but he didn't mind!

Perhaps the hubs should venture more in photography??

Anyone else STOKED about this?? Haha I wanted to see all of the Full House sites because I loved that show! Awesome park with incredible views. This is seriously an amazingly cool city!! 

Yep, found their house!! :) 

At Ghirardelli Square, we enjoyed samples of Ghirardelli's new flavor: Milk and Pumpkin Spice Caramel. Divine!! 

So funny story. We knew we had to check out Lombard Street because it's on all the "to do" lists. We drove up the STEEP hill and were like "oh cool, great view of the city behind us". We then turned at the top of the hill and went on our way. A few visits later we accidentally came across this portion of Lombard St. haha I think THIS is the "to do" part of the street :)

My photos didn't really turn out so thanks to google, here is a good one!

Every day trip to San Fran ended with fun at Fisherman's Warf (Tyler kept calling it the dwarf, idk why). We got there early enough one day to enjoy it in the daylight. Day or night we loved the warf and enjoyed some BOMB seafood.

San Francisco actually climbed my favorite cities list (US that is, Europe has it's own list!) to #2. Sorry Boston, you are still up there but we really loved SF. No city even comes close to our #1: NYC (probably never will) but we'll keep having fun exploring the competition!!

A weekend in the South

It was a perfect coincidence that our friends planned a Memphis trip while we were 2 hours away in Little Rock. They were coming for the BYU-Ole Miss game so we were psyched to be able to join them!

We traveled to Mississippi for the game. Dad was so proud to take his boy to his first BYU game. It was awesome seeing how they do football games in the south. The girls all wore sun dresses and wedges (seriously all the girls!) and the guys wore polos (tucked in!) and some even wore ties! I loved the formality (not practicality) of the attire and could see myself being a southern belle in the next life.

Please notice the flat screens and even satellite dishes. These peeps don't mess around when it comes to football.

Our dear friends who we were STOKED to see!

The game didn't start out hot but BYU pulled it off and snagged the win!

The game was a bit too loud for the poor boy. Especially when Ole Miss would score, they'd erupt and he burst into tears.

Unbelievably, he was able to sneak in a 20 min power nap.

Kristy snapped some cute cute pics of the mister.

Maddox is modeling a blanket his friend D made. She started on it when she found out I was pregnant. It was her first crochet project and we absolutely love it!

The girls loved him and (after some warming up time) he loved the girls!

The crooked smile he inherited from daddy!

It was such a fun weekend and we feel so lucky to have spent it with some of our favorite people!