the masters is the greatest golf tournament of all golf tournaments... chris sheds a tear every time he hears the theme song played anywhere... last year we stayed home and watched all four days by ourselves... this year we decided to throw a party on the saturday. we invited a bunch of our friends over... or i should say all our dental friends from chris' work... and their families... we had a couple kiddie pools set up in the back and the kids had a great time playing around in them! daniel didn't... he slept through most of the bbq. haha which was nice for me to keep making food and getting all that ready and not having to worry about where my baby was. we also had lots of food... i figure a good party has lots of food. chris bbq'd a flank steak which is his latest favorite thing to bbq. it was really yummy. i also made a golf cake... it turned out so cute... the pictures just dont do it justice... that is a real golf ball and the masters flag i made myself. haha i'm such a dork...
we also had some super cute babies there...
daniel was completely entertained by aubrey dropping a cup off her head... he laughed forever! it was too funny... this video was after he had already been laughing for 10 minutes...
our friend cason is also in the process of getting some implants so we can commiserate with one another about having to take out our teeth every time we want to eat... we are awesome and look so good!
sunday we hung out after church and watched the rest of the tournament... it was a good day... not as exciting as bubba winning last year but still really good! daniel somehow figured out how to climb on this box while we were in the other room... pretty tricky...
here is our comparison photo from last year to this year...
after legoland we did pretty much nothing!!! we just hung out and shopped and visited a few friends... i was able to meet up with my friends jared and marla and their son ben. it was fun to watch our little guys interact. we also had lots of playtime with cousin gigi.
we had fun visiting grandma doris and climbing all over papa vern...
we had lunch with grandpa kelly one day and even got to meet his fiance (now wife) roni... who is very nice!
we also had a nice easter sunday... i must say we look pretty good :)
the next weekend was general conference so we did the usual and headed up to beaver, ut to watch conference at our cabin up there. daniel had fun crawling all over the cabin and getting into everything possible. and amanda was very helpful in entertaining him the whole weekend. we took a few trips into town and grandpa gave them rides on the gator. my favorite part was putting on the player piano and amanda dancing around too indian nation and slow dancing with daniel to somewhere out there. hilarious!
of course we ended our trip with dinner at olive garden... daniel really enjoyed eating the bread sticks... also chris' favorite part of dinner there... sad chris wasn't with us!
i also had a lot of fun taking pics of daniel for his one year photos... here are some of the best ones.
i also took pics for my sister and then edited them when i got back to NC... here are my favorites
it was such a great trip to see family and friends and just hang out with my mom... we will be back in july! yay!!
my mom was going to come out and visit us during her spring break from seminary.. and then decided it would be more fun to fly daniel and i out to vegas to see all the family... and then it turned out chris had a week long training in bethesda, md so we extended our stay another week leaving chris for almost 3 weeks!! crazy! we had a great day of flying!! daniel fell asleep the second the first plane took off and slept the whole flight. once we landed in atlanta and quickly changed planes we were off to vegas! he played for a while on this flight, mostly with the window (up down up down) and then i finally stood in the back hostess area and rocked him to sleep. he then slept for the rest of the flight! yay!
once we landed and found grandma we headed home. it was nice to be in my old home. i love that place. I got my hair cut friday by my favorite hairdresser jessica... she's the best! that night we had a fun visit from my brother sam and his wife meesha and of course gigi! who daniel loves! Laura and her mom also came to town... it was so fun seeing little william again! saturday was an awesome day! my niece amanda was sealed to her parents emily and greg in the las vegas temple for time and eternity! it was such a neat experience. my mom made her the cutest little white dress which she will also wear for her baptism in may. ed smith was the sealer... which was so perfect... he is my grandpa vern's business partner and friend and he was close friends with my grandpa virgil who passed away a couple months ago... ed started by saying how special it was for him to be there for his two closest friends performing such a special ceremony for our family... and he was glad he could be there to do it for virgil as he would have done it were he still alive... i was bawling at this point and made the mistake of looking at grandpa vern (who is the biggest bawl baby) and totally lost it... cried through the whole thing after that. when it was all over ed smith looked at amanda and said "wasn't that neat?" and she just shrugged her shoulders and threw up her hands like... i dont know... perfect amanda answer, shy not really wanting the attention on her self like that. after we headed to my moms for a big bbq and party. lots of food and friends.
on a side note... right before i came out to vegas i had to have my front tooth pulled (external resorption... basically tooth eating itself to death) so i'm not getting an implant but we had to do some bone grafts first... for the time being i'm toothless... and wearing a flipper with a tooth glued into it to fill the space... actually my original crown that was drilled and filled and super glued in...
amanda had also lost that tooth the same week so we took a picture together...
she then pulled out the other front tooth on the car ride home. no more twinners....
sunday we went to church and daniel had fun sitting next to papa at church... handsome boys
monday we hopped in the car and headed to carlsbad,ca to go to LEGOLAND!!!! that first night in the hotel was hilarious. gigi and daniel had so much fun chasing each other between the two joined rooms... it was a serious party.
although he did face plant and get a pretty nice fat lip...
the park was so fun! filled with awesome things all over built out of legos! chris was so jealous he couldn't come as legos are his favorite! we first stopped in the little duplo village where gigi and daniel rode a little train with grandma, and then daniel crawled all over the place climbing on everything. it was the perfect place for him to play... otherwise he spent the whole day in the stroller.
we took a little break to watch a silly fire truck show... with a song they kept singing over and over about water on fire something... we couldn't get it out of our heads and now ive blocked it forever...
there were a few rides gigi got to go on. but daniel was too little for most so we walked around a lot and watched people go by... and ate food :) my favorite part by far was mini land... replicas of famous cities all out of legos. vegas, dc, san francisco, new orleans, etc... and they just added star wars... very cool!!
i just loved seeing all the different creations... like the mariachi band that moved and played music... the line of famous heads including lincoln, marilyn monroe, elvis, etc... the old man sitting on the bench was hilarious because i sat to take a pic and hit my elbow on his knee... legos are sharp and hard! ouch!! i also loved the shark head which daniel is in and the pirate... daniel and i also took a pic with him but i forgot i had taken out my tooth to eat so... its a scary picture! haha
that night we had dinner and headed back to the hotel. daniel had so much fun playing airplane with grandma...
the next morning we did it all again... rode a few different rides including our favorite storybrook lane or something like that... it had the 3 little pigs, a genie, hanzel and grettle, and sleeping beauty... all out of legos. super cute... we actually rode it twice in a row.
the kids (and mom and sam) had great fun playing in the creation area. just a bunch of duplo blocks all over to play with. daniel kept playing with this one on an earthquake simulator... pushing the button over and over knocking down all the legos on it. and playing in the crane with gigi.... another place he could crawl all over...
after we had some apple fries (they were only ok) we decided to leave and head home... the car ride we rough as daniel woke from a nap and was acting all funny and sure enough right as we were getting off the freeway he barfed... what? my kid?? car sick??? weird. he had never done that before in his life so weird. lucky for me my mom was sitting in the back seat with him and yelled out right as it happened so i threw her his big bib which is a hand towel so she was able to clean him more easily... we stopped at in-n-out... i couldn't eat so i hung out with daniel and aired out the stinky van. we did make it home with no more incidents.... and still had a really great time and glad sam and meesha invited us on their trip and glad meesha's brother could get us discount tickets through his work!!
thats right!! little man had his first birthday!!! here are his stats from the doctors:
height: 31 inches (92%)
weight: 21.4 pounds (26%)
and his head was like 18 inches or something (68%)
so he is still very tall and skinny! but everything else looked good!
- he is now drinking whole milk.. still working on weaning to the sippy cup instead of the bottle... but its taking time. he really likes the bottle
- he is pretty much feeding himself... he doesn't like when i help him too much so i mostly feed him things he can pick up with his tiny fingers.
- he has also started using a fork. i have to help him get the food on the fork but he puts it in his own mouth. its very cute and quite tricky
- his favorite food is bananas and bite size whole wheat pancakes. he also loves chicken nuggets...
this was his first birthday breakfast.. he loved this tiny pancakes
- he is super naughty and loves to randomly throw food off his high chair. haven't figured out how to squash that habit.
- he is still a great sleeper. he sleeps 12 solid hours a night and takes 2, 2 hour naps a day. he is a little more tricky to get to fall asleep sometimes as he tries at least 3 times every time to stand up in his crib... usually he is either sitting or kneeling trying to get up... stinker. just lay there and go to sleep!!
- his favorite thing to do when trying to fall asleep is to kick his feet... hard either against the railings or against the wall.
- he is now crawling like a champ... 2 days after his birthday he finally figured out how to crawl... and he cruises all over now. the house has become so much more interesting to explore. and mama has to be so much more careful and keep an eye on him.
- he still likes to also just sit and play with one toy here and there which is nice especially at church where he will just sit on the bench and play with books through most of sacrament meeting.
- he loves to play with balls and throw them all over the house.... including his ball pit. he loves to sit in it and throws balls all over the room.
- he is just barely figuring out how to stand at furniture and is super timid about trying it on his own... he doesn't like to do things unless he really knows how. hes afraid of falling i guess. and he's smart!
- since we have a storm door i often open the front door and let him play with it... opening and closing it and banging on the clear storm door.
i made these snazzy crib rail covers as he started chewing on the crib
we also had a little birthday party... just a little party with a few friends from chris' residency program and their wives who i'm good friends with and my friend kristen and her husband aaron who is also a navy dentist and is good friends with chris. they just came over for cup cakes and ice cream.
i made a little cake for him, we sang happy birthday and i blew out his candle and at first he was timid and just poking at the cake.. so i put his hand in it and he didn't like it all over his hand so i grabbed one of his little forks and handed it to him and then he went to town eating his cake. it was so cute! what one year old eats cake with a fork???
- after we all enjoyed come cupcakes and ice cream we opened a few presents. chris and i just got him a few little books, a little alligator key board and a tiny basketball hoop which he loves! we also got a few more little book... which we love he likes reading a lot, and we got a hilarious cat that he chases around (mechanical) and a little people airplane. he actually enjoyed opening presents unlike christmas where he didn't care.
we sure love this little guy and how cute and fun he is. what an awesome year! excited for the future with this super sweet smart little man. our bubba
