John's First Birthday

There are tons of pictures in this post, so bare with me

This weekend we celebrated my baby's very first birthday! Holy Cow! How did that happen?!? Wasn't he just born a month or two ago?

Anyways, we went to Blackfoot to have a small family party with Robby's family. We had celebrated with my parents previously.

I made John a cupcake cake of a teddy bear holding a bunch of green and blue balloons

John wore a cute little onsie that said: MY FIRST BIRTHDAY

 We sang Happy Birthday to him (movie to follow) and he tore in to this presents. He got new clothes and shoes, a new sippy cup, a tiny basket ball, books, and a lawn mower that blows bubbles.

Then he dug into his cake

My handsome little man is a big boy now

I sure love this sweet boy

My two loves

 

Happy Birthday my sweet boy!

Little Smarty-Pants

John's learning so much so fast

He:

• knows his name
• can wave
• can clap
• initiates peek-a-boo
• knows what "bye-bye" means -- sadly it makes him cry
• knows what "no" means... most of the time... and cries as well

and most recently

John has learned what "can I have a hug?" means. I asked him 7 or 8 times tonight and at least 4 or 5 (when he was sitting still enough to pay attention) he would stop what he was doing, and lean against me for a little hug. Melt my heart why don't you!?!

I love this sweet boy so more than anything!

Holiday Recap

I'm just going to recap our holiday season in one post.

John was the cutest, rolly-polliest tiger for Halloween. We celebrated with the ward Halloween party a few days before and the day of, we had dinner at IHOP and watched movies after John went to bed. 

  

To get excited for the Christmas season, we got John some super cute Christmas clothes for his first holiday season. The onsie says "Gift to all the ladies" and the pants have a Santa face on the bum.

 

cutest little butt ever

We spent Thanksgiving with Robby's family in Blackfoot. We had Thanksgiving dinner at Great-grandma Williams' house with all of Robby's family and extended family and spent the rest of the weekend with Robby's parents. John loved playing the piano.

 

For Christmas, we went to Salt Lake and spent the time with my family. John got to see snow for the first time. And he loved it!

 

He even made a snow angel (with a little help)

 

John loved ripping the wrapping paper off all his presents

 

He got totally spoiled by both sets of his grandparents

So excited!

yummy ribbon

John's very own remote control

 

Happy Holidays everyone!!!

John's "crawl"

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John's Long Johns

For General Conference weekend, we visited my parents in Salt Lake. One of their neighbors has 3 boys, so as they've been outgrowing clothes and toys, they've been handing them down to us. Among the bags of clothing were these adorable long johns. I though my baby John was just adorable in them. 

How can you not love that face. I could just squish him all day

John loved my parents dogs. He would just sit and giggle at Penny (the chihuahua). She's not very patient with babies, so we had to be careful with the two of them, but he just thought she was the funniest thing. 

While we were watching conference, John played and read books. 

This one is called Baby Animals. It was my book when I was tiny. 

Dakota (our mutt) was a lot more patient when John would paw at him. He'd just sit there and let John grab his ears and face. 

I wonder if John will beg us for a dog when he gets older. 

It was so fun to be with family for the weekend. The time went by way too fast. We miss you Nana and Granpa Bill!

Seriously! Could this kid get any cuter!?!

Thank you so much Grandma Cindy for the Johnny-jump-up! I love it!!!

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Jabbering away on a Sunday evening. So many important things to say

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I promise we feed him. A lot. He just loves oatmeal. I couldn't shovel it in fast enough.

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Totally worn out, but can't stop jumping.


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I love my little Sweetface so much. I just can't get enough of him.