The Month of December...finally!

So I know this is a bit late, but our month of December was quite busy. First was Myles' birthday, then our anniversary, then our wonderful Christmas together!! We had a great month! So here's a post so I can catch back up to speed on my blogging! :)

Our 5 year anniversary!!!

I just love this guy! Isn't he so handsome?! It's been such a great five years. We've had so much fun together. I'm so glad I have him for eternity. He's the coolest!! (oh, and he's very patient with me, which I appreciate! :) )

Christmas

People have always told me that Christmas is so much more fun with kids. I never believed them until this year. I wanted to give Myles his presents early, but resisted. Kenny and I couldn't help ourselves though and opened presents from each other almost every day until Christmas!
Myles got his motorcycle that he wanted and loves it so much! He's such a car guy!

This is such a hilarious face I caught from Myles. He was inbetween smiling. It's almost like an Elvis face.

Anyway, we had a great December!!

Myles Turns One!!

My sweet little baby guy turned one on the 10th. So crazy! This has been such an amazing year for the three of us. We've learned a lot, and Kenny and I continue to be amazed by all the cool things Myles does. We love him so much!!!

Here are a few shots of the big day.

Nothing is traditional in our house! This is Myles' "cake". Myles does not like bread. Since cake is a similar texture I gave him some at Kenny's birthday a month ago and, like I thought, he spit it right out; multiple times. Anyway, he loves graham crackers, grapes, and cars so this is what we came up with. A graham cracker car with a grape family in front! And no, the grape family does not have arms. That was too hard.

Myles went for the grapes first, then just like on any other car, he went for the oreo wheels. He held them up and tried to spin them. Then I picked one up and took a bite. He copied and loved his first sugar rush!

The whole gang was there! Myles does not always like his human friends' noises. So we opted for his "quiet" friends. :)

Presents! He loves his Tonka car collection! He zoomed all day long!

First time opening a present. This was early morning before all the party guests arrived.

Myles and Daddy bouncing balloons around the room. He loved the balloons!!

It was such a great day!! We just love our Myles Man!

Trip to Oregon

After our fun Thanksgiving here, as the three of us, we decided to take a trip to Oregon to visit family. It was so great to see the family and friends we have there. We really miss living there!!

It was great for Myles because he got to play with lots of cousins. Myles is lucky to have so many cousins his age on both sides of our family.

Him and Kurt (his cousin 10 months older) were so cute together! Kurt has been walking for almost a year now, but he crawled around with Myles. They both love cars, so they just zoomed all day long!!

We had such a great time!! Here are some pics of our trip. Enjoy!

Myles, Kurt, and Lauren.

Nicole and Myles watching Baby Einstein.

Kurt and the cars.

Me and my sister, Krystal, with our boys. I miss my sister!!

I love this picture of Kurt!!

Myles and Kurt crawling around together.

Myles playing at Grandma's house.

Sweet little Phoebe!

We are so thankful for all of our family!! We love and miss all of you!!

p.s. Today is Myles' 1st birthday!! I know, didn't I just blog about giving birth to him?! It has gone so fast! I keep thinking, "Soon he'll be 18." I know, I am a crazy mother-in-law in the making. :) Anyway, we are so grateful for the little man. He's so sweet and awesome! I'm gonna start crying if I write anymore about how much I love being his mama, so I'll stop now, and just say that we love him so much. I will post pics hopefully tomorrow of his birthday. Have a great night everyone! :)

What do you feed your husband on Thanksgiving when he doesn't like turkey, ham, or any other traditional meat? Chicken Nuggets Baby!!!

Our humble feast

We had Thanksgiving all by ourselves for the first time. At first I really wanted to make a turkey and the whole bit. Then I remembered that we were leaving the next day for Oregon to visit family. Oh, and Kenny is not huge on turkey so I would've been stuck eating it all. Myles probably would've helped a little. Anyway, so at first the chicken nuggets were kind of a joke. Then I thought it would be such a fun memory of our first Thanksgiving just as us. So what the heck! We did it, and it was so much fun!

We took family pictures today. Myles was adorable. We decided that it was good we waited till now because we were able to get some really cute shots of Myles by himself. We don't have any of those pictures yet but we wanted to post some of our own anyway.

"I'm a model, you know what I mean?" (can you guess the song?)

"Mom, I want a grape."

"Dad, your blocking the game. Move it."

"I wasn't picking my nose."

(He really wasn't by the way, he just likes to gnaw on his fingers)

Halloween Fun!

So Halloween was moving day for us. I was stressed and rude all day long. Sorry Babe! I dressed Myles in most of his costume all day, but he wouldn't wear the helmet.

Due to moving taking longer than expected Kenny and I didn't get to dress up or build our graham cracker haunted houses. So we built the houses on Sunday when Myles was napping, and dressed up for a spooky family picture on Monday. A little late, but I was determined to have pics of Myles' first Halloween. He was the cutest G.I. Joe ever!! :)

Kenny was a mad scientist, I was a fairy, and Myles man, as stated before, was a G.I. Joe.

My face looks funny in this picture, but I love Myles in this pic so I had to add it too.

Here he is about to take the helmet off or grab the camera. I love the helmet on him!!!

And now for the haunted houses fun! Kenny can always build his nice and tall. I tried this year and it started falling down. Kenny then suggested mine be a haunted apartment complex. So that is why there are four doors. Oh, and I included an oh-so-spooky, brown pool for the apartment complex, complete with Swedish snapping Fish.

And now we eat!

Our belated Halloween was a lot of fun! I love the holidays! I love my little family!!! They are the best!

In Need of My Brother-in-Law, Dave

We have successfully moved into our new home!! It's a townhome that we have fallen in love with. The only problem is that the upstairs, Myles' room especially, smells like a dog. No one esle can smell it except me. My mom came this past weekend and couldn't smell it. Kenny said once, "I think I smell it." Then today when the landlord came he told us that no dogs had lived in this house for years. Can a dog leave his odor around for that long? The smell is crazy strong to me, and no I'm not pregnant. I just really smell a dog whenever I go upstairs. I've got to get rid of the smell, but first I need my brother-in-law, Dave to come and assure me that the dog smell is real. He has a super sense of smell. My sister has told me stories about how he can sniff around the room and find the exact source of the stench. Dave, if you're reading this you need to come to our house. I know you will smell the dog too. Help me find this hiding dog!!!

Halloween pics and new house pics to come shortly.