Christmas 2010

We had christmas the Sunday before with the three of us since we were in Vegas for the actual day.










Opportunity village.















Christmas eve pajamas.

I love Christmas!!!

Santa

Meeting Santa





Walking in the snow!


Carriage ride



Dinner time!








Fun night!

temple square lights + italian village

we had a fun & rainy night at temple square looking at the lights with the fam. then headed over to italian village for benders. ethan adored running around trying to get all the lights. christmas has already been so much fun with him this year!

Ethan and lightning

Ethan Loves pushing this thing around.

Meet spot..

Halloween 2010

one year old

Dear Ethan,

I can't believe you are one year old. You are growing up so fast but I am loving every minute of it. Life would be so boring and lonely without you. You are such a good little boy. You are sleeping 12 hours at night and the only time you wake up is if we forget to turn your night light on. You are really attached to your little blankie and binky and won't fall asleep without them. You are crawling like a mad man and are so close to walking. You will walk along furniture and if you are pushing your lightning mcqueen. You love to read and you especially love the lift the flap books. You love being outside. I don't know what we are going to do all winter long! You love going on walks, swinging and going down the slide at the park, and crawling all over the grass. You can go up the stairs and think it is pretty cool, but you haven't figured out going down just quite yet. You weigh 22 lbs and are 30 inches tall. You love most food. Your favorites are string cheese, gogurt, bananas, apples, fruit smoothies, mac n cheese, grilled cheese, carrots, really you love most foods. You are still on your bottle but we are working at getting better with a sippy cup. You are drinking regular milk now which you love. You love having crawls wars with dad (where you guys just chase each other around crawling, it's pretty hilarious) You love to laugh, sometimes you laugh so hard I wonder if you are going to stop breathing. You still love the bath and have such a fun time splashing and playing with your toys in there. You also still love baby einstein and mickey mouse clubhouse. You love playing with balls and throw everything! You shake your head no no no all the time and think it's so funny. You say babble dadada and when I try and get you to say mama you say dada. We are convinced you say duck too, but it's one of those things only your parents understand. Baby ethan, you are amazing. everything about you. we love you so much and love watching you grow. love, mom & dad

The zoo

Grandma, aunt kylee and I took Ethan to the zoo on his birthday. He had fun and loovved the train ride!

ethans first birthday party!

we had a racecar theme party for baby ethan. it was so much fun and we are thankful for everyone who came! he got spoiled and hated his cake and ended up staying up until almost midnight. i think it was the best party a one year old could have! watching this little boy grow up and turn one is a-mazing! what more could anyone want then to watch something so little and innocent grow and learn and light up when he sees you. happy birthday first birthday ethan! (more pics of the actual day to come...)

Our labor day weekend looked like this..

Feeding the ducks.













Dancing the night away at Swiss days.












Enjoying the chocolate chip pancakes Dan made us.






And a long bike ride to the random springville animals.

I'm sure glad we have Ethan to help document our holidays and such, because really how cute would a picture of Dan or I stuffing our face with pancakes be. :)