William's First Birthday

Saturday we celebrated William's birthday, a friend made a cake for him to smash up and have all for himself.

He really did not want much to do with it, maybe he was full from dinner, or maybe he just does not like cake.

 

 

After playing with the frosting for a while, we smashed his hands into it, to show him how it's done, and he still wasn't having any of it. Not the most exciting cake smash of all time, but it was Williams, and that is what makes it special.

 

It is hard to believe that my baby boy is already one year old. He has learned so much, some things I love, others, not so much.

 

 

He has brought so much laughter into our home, always making us laugh or smile at the silly things he does.

 

It does not seem like more than a few days ago, we brought this tiny baby home, fresh into this world. Now he is growing, jabbering up a storm every minute of the day, and running around like a crazy man.

 

First snow

We got a little snow storm a few days after Christmas, just enough for a little William to go experience snow for the first time.

 

 

So we bundled him all up in his snow suit, he looked just like the little boy from the Christmas Story, it took him a few minutes to figure out how to move and crawl in it.

 

 

He had so much fun exploring the frost yard, and surprisingly, he did  not even eat any of the snow.

Little hands get cold easily though, so we cut it short, saving more fun for another day.

Christmas

Christmas was wonderful this year, we did  not have Nick's parents and brothers here like we had thought, but we spent the day enjoying being together none the less.

 

 

This was William's first time opening presents, and most of the time he was more interested in the paper, than what it was wrapping.

 

Eventually with our help though, we got them all open. So many great presents this year, thank you to everyone who sent him something.

 

Our eternal family

It is official, on January 19th Nick and I will be going to the Louiville temple to get sealed for time and all eternity. We have worked very hard to get to this point, and we can are so excited to finally be able to do this. Most of my family is coming into town for the weekend to be there, but everyone who wants to come, is more than welcome to come.

Some pretty big news

We have some very exciting news to share!

 

 

Baby number two is on it's way, and we are so excited. Then end off June, or beginning of July is when the next little one is expected, the doctors can't seem to decided on a date for some reason. June 27th and July 4th have both been thrown out there. We all know though, baby come when they want to come, no matter what any doctor has planned.

ABC 123

These last two weeks have been very crazy for us. I had all three finals to do, on top of doing a boutique at our house. It all got finished though, I got at least a B in all of my classes, and although the boutique was a complete fail, it meant our house got a good deep cleaning!
 

 

William had been busy learning as well, he has been practicing eating rice cereal with both his hands and a spoon.

 

Sometimes learning is a very messy job.

He also learned how to get a pair of his overalls off, I went to get him from a nap one day, to find that he had unbuckled them, and they were down around his ankles.

 I get a month off from school, although Nick jut started his. It is a self paced course, so he is hoping to get it all finished while he has a couple of weeks off for Christmas, then it's back to the books for me.

Thanksgiving Weekend

We had a very quiet weekend, Nick was off of work for four days, so we had some time to just be together and relax. I took two days off from school work, and spent most of the day playing with William, building mazes and obstacle courses for him to navigate.

 

 

Thanksgiving day we took a drive down to the park. It was a wonderful 70 degrees, and William had so much fun swinging and going down the slides.

 

 

Two other families showed up, and that is when he got more interested in what they were doing than what we were doing.

 

 

We didn't have a traditional Thanksgiving dinner, but that seems to be normal for us. It was just a great weekend together before all of the craziness reached it's peak.