Christmas!

Our Christmas this year was so fun! We were able to spend a weekend in Salt Lake with the Hobbs where we saw the lights, visited Cabellas, did some shopping, saw santa, had some good tasty food and swam in the hotel pool. All the kids loved it and it was so fun to get out for the weekend. Funny that just being in Salt Lake felt like a vacation. :)

We also got to spend a lot of time with my family. We saw the lights and had my grandma's big party. Cyrus got to open his first christmas present of the year and he was having so much fun playing it was hard to get him to sit still long enough to open it. He loves playing with all the kids in my family, but his favorite is Jodi. She's close to 16 I think and they just have a ball together.

He loved everything he got for Christmas from Santa. We were all pretty spoiled this year. We love Christmas!

Quirky!

Cyrus is almost 21 months old! I can't believe it! Just for fun I thought I'd post some of the quirkier things he does now. He loves to have his picture taken and loves to say "cheese!" with a big scrunched up face.

He likes to have his bed filled with blankets and stuffed animals. I don't quite understand it although Trav says he'd do it if he could. "think how warm and cozy it would be!" Whatever.

Cyrus was really sick for awhile. He had an ear infection and bronchitis which turned to tracheitis and he couldn't breathe. Poor kid. He loves his blankets so much and was so tired he'd lay down on them wherever he could find a spot. Even the kitchen floor.

His favorite snack is chips. One day trav left a bag of his favorite chips downstairs and after a few minutes of too much quiet I peeked in at him and found this. Asleep with his hand in the chips.

Like I said he loves his blankets. He puts them over his head in the car too sleep.

I don't have a picture for it, but he loves dip. Mostly ketchup, but he's not too picky as long as he can dip his food. He spent almost 30 minutes after we were done eating spearing each kernel of corn on his fork and dipping it in his ketchup. I don't know where he came from, I hate ketchup!

And who knew this is what you were supposed to do with stickers! We love our silly little guy! He definitely keeps us entertained!

Fall Catch Up

I know, I know we're a bit behind. But I'll do my best to catch everyone up...

First Halloween!
We love Halloween! My grandma always has a big party and she makes tons of different homemade soups and bread (she is an awesome cook!) and all the kids dress up and go trick-or-treating. This year we were just going to dress Cyrus up in some biker clothes, but he learned to talk like a monster so I had to make him a monster costume. A little insane starting a costume 4 days before Halloween when you have as much time as I have, but he was so cute as a wild thing! And he was nice and warm being in his costume all night :) He growled and talked like a monster all night! So cute!

We have the best leaves at our house in the fall. Not so fun to rake up and get rid of, but all the kids love them! This year all the neighbor kids came to help me rake/play and had a ball! Thanks guys!

Thanksgiving...always fun, we get to have lunch with my family and dinner with Trav's which is so much better than having on and off years. I made rolls and pies, the rolls were awesome, but I think I'm giving up on pies. Not my thing. Cyrus loved it because my family completely spoils him. He played with my cousin Jodi all day, who is one of his favorites, and she let him have whatever he wanted. Fun for him, not so much for me since all he wanted was pickles. Yep, pickles. I think he ate about 20 of the small uncut dill pickles. Nothing else, just pickles. He stunk like pickles for 2 days! Yikes!

Then at the Hobbs he got to help grandma snap the beans. He spent almost an hour saying "snap, snap." Luckily grandma bought enough beans he could ruin a few.

YAY!! New Family Pictures!

Our last family pictures were done when Cyrus was 2 months old, so we thought it was time for an update!

Our fantastic photo friend took them for us, Thanks Shantel!

For a preview...http://slurpee4bys1grl.blogspot.com/, or you can check on Facebook. :)