Ethan's first hiarcut

I have to admit that I always thought it was cheesy how sentimental moms can be over silly things in a childs development. Now that I am a mommy everything has changed. We cut Ethan's hair this last week and I mourned over it. It was so hard to see his long curly hair go away. Of course I kept a lock, the long part in the fron that lately has been getting into his eyes. Seeing his hair change made me realize how much he is growing up and how much I miss him being that cute cudly infant.

Trip to Utah

We recently went to Utah because my sister Becca aka "The Squeak" came home from her mission. It was so nice to see her again. We missed her so much!! We also realized how much we miss the sunshine here in Portland. It was sunny, not warm, but very sunny the whole trip. The morning we drove back to the airport one of the most beautiful things in nature occured. Its the hoarfrost that occurs. The trees were astounding. Here are some pictures of it.

My goodness time flies!!!!

We this past weekend was Ethan's first birthday. While I am sure he ahs no clue what is going on he definitly enjoyed tasting the cake and icecream and lets not forget the vacuum. I know, our precious child is in love with our vacuum and so what id we get him, his own personal cleaning tool that sings a song as follows: 'I'm going to vacuum all day long, do dah do dah..."
And joining him in party was Ehtn's grandparents and great-grandma and the Dan and Adrian. Clair and Ethan got to play together for the first time.

Wacky hair baby

Ethan's hair is getting really long and we are thinking of cutting it shortly after his first birthday. Until then it is long curls. I feel sorry for him when he is older since they are hard to manage, but for now they are cute. And still no teeth, ugh.

My dear sweet Husband

If John knew that I was posting pictures of his hairy face on my blog he would probably oppose it. But since he is well occupied right now, I can do what I want. First I hope to never see this much facial hair on him again. I don't like coming in contact with him. Ethan however, enjoyed its ticklish effects on him. So this is my hairy husband that I have had to live with over the past few weeks and I am proud to say that it is GONE! I'm hoping it never really returns again, but you never know....

Rainbow Rob

For Christmas John received this book full of color and a cute design. Ethan has shown consistent interest in this book. Even one time playing with it for about 20 min. straight. I think its cute that our little bucko loves the book. I hope this means he will ike to read!

White Christmas!!!

Its not very ofter we get snow here in Portland and less often it sticks anf even less often on Christmas. This year it snowed as we were unwrapping gifts at John's parents house. There is a forrest behind their house and felt as though we were in the woods in a cabin. I'm not one for cold weather but this year I really missed the early snowfalls when the snow is wet and fluffly. Its calming unlike other weather patterns and this time it reminded me of that. Here are some pictures from our abulous holiday and the snowfall.