Ahhhh.....

I'm all full on steak and good food. My birthday was last month but I didn't like food at the time so we put going out to eat on hold, and we went tonight. Our van is in the shop getting our mess from the fender bender repaired, so we all piled in the little Ranger. Thankfully Aidan still can fit in his infant seat since that's the only thing that fits in the cab of the truck.


Anyway, here's a video of Aidan walking for all those that may want to see it. For his fan club, mostly. ;-)

It's nice to feel normal again.

I think I'm totally over the morning sickness now and I'm starting to feel like a productive citizen again.

I even unpacked all our suitcases today! (yes, I'm a big time slacker)

I cleaned our room and Aidan's room of 2 months of clutter that I just hadn't gotten around to yet.

Aidan apparently thinks that when I pick something up, it's so that he can destroy it again. Hence these pictures...

I had JUST cleaned up after him after he emptied the bookshelf twice before, AND pulled all his clothes out of the bottom drawer.

Silly kid.

Update

We're back in snowy, freezing SLC.
I had a doctors appointment yesterday and everything went well. I'm a good candidate for a VBAC if all goes well and I get to make that choice. I was supposed to start the 17 P (progesterone) shots at this time but the doctor and I decided to wait until after my next ultrasound. If everything still looks good at the ultrasound then we'll wait another 3-4 weeks check again and then we'll decide if I even need to do them or not. If I don't NEED to do them then I don't really want to. My next ultrasound is scheduled for Jan 26th and then we'll find what we're having. Yay!

In other news....Aidan started walking/running last night. He's been taking a couple of steps here and there but last night he was on one side of the room and I was on the other and he just started walking/running towards me. It was cute.

Aidan's Birthday

Yes, this is WAY behind....Aidan's birthday was in August. Oops.

The set up. We didn't have a theme, just brown and blue.

Cupcakes. Yum!

Sharon helped me make these.

Everyone surrounding Aidan.

He's not sure what to make of everyone looking at him and singing.

Reading his cow book.

And then people started to act strangely.........

and Aidan started to get scared.

Like I said, people were acting strangely.

I just like this picture that I had taken earlier that day, but I sure wish it was in focus.

St Louis

Since I'm on vacation I've been using our laptop and I don't usually use it while I'm home, so I found these pictures from a trip to St Louis, MO. We went there last August for an MIA conference and we were there a day early so we walked around and saw the sights. I wasn't updating this very often back then so I thought I'd rectify the situation. I know, you're thrilled.


Here's Tara chillin...

We were walking from the train station to our hotel when we got caught in a downpour (and I mean DOWNPOUR) It was insane, so we had to take refuge in a parking garage right across the street from where we were supposed to be.

Our hotel from the parking garage.

Heading out to see the arch.


A random picture of Cary at the hotel.

Aidan looks so little...

The Arch.

Up next, pictures from Aidan's b-day party.

Another warm day

Our vacation is quickly coming to an end.... :-(

It was another warm day today so Aidan suckered Aunt Tara into taking him outside to play.

He was thrilled with the riding mower and all of it's knobs and gadgets.

Here he is practicing to be a model.

Christian came by on his MC.

Aidan sure is going to be sad when we have to go back to SLC,

Where it's going to be colder and snowing....

and he won't have all these family members doting on him.

What's a little boy to do?

Happy New Year!

This is how we PARTY! We all meet over at the kitchen at 10:30 PM, eat food, play games, and kick off midnight with some fireworks and wake all the other people that are sleeping.

Cecelia, there in the background behind the counter provides the sparkling cider, that we use to toast in the new year.

Around 7:30 that night I was seriously wondering if I'd make it to the late night party...but, I persevered by watching Lifetime movies to keep myself awake.

Here are some of my family members playing Boggle....and Ben is the world champ at that game. Seriously.

Even my 92 yr old grandpa makes it out to the festivities....he's looking rather mountainman-ish these days.

Aidan was enjoying himself too, of course, people and food. His two favorite things.

Here are some of the goodies.
Mmmm, mmmm, pretzels and cheese. I'm pretty sure I gained 10lbs last night.

Hope everyone had a good time last night and Happy New Year to everyone!