ETHAN BOY!!

 

 

These are just some fun pictures of Ethan!  He is so much fun.  I love spending time with this little guy.  Those top pictures are of him trying a little piece of cheese.  It slipped out and landed right on his lower lip and chin.  It stayed there long enough for me to get a picture of it.  The bottom two are of our fun adventure of moving into our new house.  I still need to take pictures of the house!  One day I will get to it I hope.

Ethan is still getting faster and faster with crawling.  He loves it when we chase him around the house.  It is so cute, he squeals so loud when he sees us coming closer to him.  I just can't imagine life without this little boy.  He always keeps us entertained every single day!  We love you so much Ethan!

GROWING BOY!!

Look at how much this little boy has grown.  While we were packing I went through all of Ethan's clothes to pack away the ones that didn't fit him any more and I came across this cute little coat.  Poor guy has to go through the torture of his mother dressing him in his little clothes.  He looked hilarious.  I couldn't stop laughing and he was just staring at me wondering what is wrong with my mommy!

Just as a little update on this cutie pie, he is 9 months old and is weighing in at 20 lbs.  I'm not sure how long he is but he is already to long for some of his 9 month pants.  He is going to be tall, like his Daddy!  He loves to be with his Mommy and loves to cuddle me when he is sleepy.  He has started crawling all over the place which is fun for us to watch him explore his world! He pulls himself up so that he can stand next to the couches or tables.  He sleeps great through the night (only if he is in his own crib, not a great traveler!)  We are just so grateful to have this wonderful little boy in our lives.  We love him so much and couldn't have asked for a better little boy! 

Turkey Day!!

 

Here are a few pictures of the actual Thanksgiving Day Feast.  It was so yummy!  We enjoyed every minute of it.  All of the wonderful food, yummy pies, I couldn't have asked for a better Thanksgiving Feast!  Ethan was a bit of a grumpy boy during our stay there so it was hard to capture some smiles on camera.  It turned out that while we were there he got a double ear infection and he is starting to get his two bottom teeth.  Pain all around.  But we definitely ate all the food we could!  I loved it!

OHIO TRIP!!!

 

We went to Ohio for Thanksgiving this year to spend it with my brother and sister-in-law.  We had such a great time.  The first two nights we spent it in a cabin that was amazing.  I loved the hot tub.  I know that I will have to have one of those some day!  It was so relaxing to put the kids in bed and just go sit out there and enjoy our time together.  I loved where it was located out in the middle of nowhere away from life.  After that we went back to Shane and Ashlee's house and enjoyed the rest of our vacaction there.  I love that we were able to go out there and start our own traditions.  I would love to spend every Thanksgiving with those guys we had such a great time.  Thank you so much Shane and Ash we loved it there.  Can't wait to see you guys soon!  By the way for some reason the family pictures we took at the cabin came out blurry.  I have more of your family but I don't know why they are blurry. 

Help!

So I am trying to figure out how to make it so my whole background matches! I want to get rid of the dot background that is around my posts. Can anyone help me out so that the cute backgrounds can be seen instead of this annoying dots around my posts? I hope I am making sense and someone can help me out here. I look at everyone's blogs and they don't have the different background under their posts and I want mine to look like that. I am getting frustrated because it isn't working and I don't know what to do!! Please someone HELP!!!

GOING PRIVATE!!!??

So the other day I was ready through the November Ensign and I read an article on blogging and it made me a little nervous. I don't know who is reading my blog so I am thinking about going private. It makes me nervous to think who could get on and read about out lives. Leave me a comment if you want to get invited because I am ready to go private so people I don't know can't look at my sweet little family. I will probably go private in the next couple of weeks so let me know your email addresses so I can invite my family and friends to view my blog not weirdos!!!
Maybe I am overreacting but who knows what can happen and I want to protect my family!!!
By the way the article was only a page long but it gave great advice on blogging. It didn't say it was bad but that you should just be careful what you write about and to never give addresses of where you live so I just want to go private after reading that!

BIG NEWS!!!!

We ARE BUYING A HOUSE!! We are right in the middle of buying this house out in Hyrum! We are so excited! We need to go and get pictures of the inside of it! We love this house. It will be complete next week! I can't believe it, It now has a garage now and brown shutters and the ground now has top soil on it. We can't wait to move in! That middle picture is of the view that we have out our front windows. We are right by the elementary school and the high school. We can see the elementary school out our bedroom window and the high school out the front windows. It is a fun and stressful time buying a house but we can't wait!

FUN POST!!

You can see how big it is on him still. Our little marshmallow.
Sleeping peacefully!

We bought Ethan this coat last Friday, and we put it to use on Saturday night. It is huge on him and he looks so darn cute in it. He hardly fits in his car seat with it. We went to the pumpkin walk here in Logan Saturday night and we bundled him up in this coat. He was so funny. He couldn't put his arms done it was so big. (Like on the movie "Christmas Story") When we got home he had fallen asleep in his car seat and he just looked cute, what more can I say!

RED RIBBON RUN

A few weekends ago we did a 5k run. It is one of my favorite runs. I think this is my fourth year doing it. It was awesome. Ryan ran it in 19 min. and he was even pushing Ethan. It was hilarious to seem him sprint out there pushing a stroller. He even got third place overall. He is an amazing runner. Me on the other hand. I can tell that I need to train again to get in better shape with running. I am trying. The Jenks Fam was there to run it we all had strollers. It was fun to line the front of the race at the beginning with our strollers. There were friends from work who were there to run it with their kids as well. It is just a fun race and I look forward to doing it every year. It is always cold though when we run it. But we have a great time.

Camping

We went camping awhile ago up to Willow Flatts and we put this cute hat on Ethan he was loving it.
I love this picture of his cute smile. He is a funny boy.
Ryan also had a crazy idea one weekend to camp out in our backyard. So we did it, I can't believe I actually agreed to do it. Here we are the morning after camping outside
This is the cramped sleeping situation we were in. It was fun though I have to admit.

So I noticed that I was posting a lot about the hard things going on in our life right now but there are wonderful things that outweigh the hard times of being a parent. For example the cute smiles that Ethan gives us or just the times when I can snuggle my boy and he stares up at me and I can tell that he loves me.
I love being a mom. No one can even prepare you for how rewarding being a parent can be until you experience it for yourself. Ethan is such a great joy to have in our family. I feel so blessed that he has come to us!

Again Sleep Issues!!

I just really wish that babies could be born with the ability to always sleep through the night. Ryan is out of town again and last night was the worst night I think that Ethan has ever had. I maybe got an hour of sleep. I don't know what to do! I feel like a horrible mother because I have no patience in the night hours. And it is so hard when he just won't stop crying. What am I suppose to do? I don't know what is wrong with him. I thought maybe he was teething but I tried everything the Oragel, Tylenol, Motrin, and those teething tablets. Nothing was working. He would only sleep if I was holding him or laying next to him in my bed. I am so tired today. I really don't know if I can handle another night like last night. Should I take him to the doctor again. He does have a runny nose and he started coughing last night too. I tried to just let him cry himself to sleep last night but that was way to hard on me. Whenever I would walk in there while he was crying he would just look at me with the most sad eyes and wonder why I wasn't in there comforting him. I really need help and some more great advice!

RELIEF!!

I really appreciate all of the wonderful advice that everyone has given me to help Ethan sleep again through the night.
We ended up going to the doctor yesterday because he just wasn't acting himself. I am so glad we did because we found out that he has a very sore throat. He saw the white pockets even. I felt so bad. Now I know why my poor baby hasn't been acting himself. The doctor said that nighttime is rough when you have a sore throat because you are all alone and your throat gets dry so that is why nighttime has been so rough for him. I just feel horrible for the little guy. Sometimes I wish that they could just tell us what is hurting.
But now we can give him Motrin and Tylenol and those worked miracles! I am so glad that he finally got the rest he needed and we needed as well. He was even still asleep when I left for work this morning. I feel great that he is getting some relief from the pain. Thank goodness for Pediatricians! (Maybe that's what Ryan should go to school for!:)
Anyways, thanks again for everything you guys said. And Em I really need to read that book I have heard wonderful things about it. Also I think he might be teething too because he does have a lot of those symptoms that you talked about Ash! Poor little man, going through so much and he can't even tell his mommy what is up!
Oh the joys of guessing what to do!! Thanks everybody!

Sleep Problems!!! HELP!

Ok so Ethan has been a really good sleeper, sleeping between 10 to 12 hours at night. But since Friday night he has been horrible with sleep and we just don't know what to do!!! I feel like we maybe have gotten 14 hours of sleep this whole weekend! i don't know if he is teething or sick, or what it is. He has been drooling a lot but he has been doing that for months. Will somebody please help me I feel like I am at a lose at what to do for the little guy to get him back on schedule with sleeping. I want my sleep too so that I can feel like I can function. Plus Ryan is leaving town again tomorrow and I don't want to deal with this on my own. Please somebody give me some advice on what to do for the little man! (and for me)

OATMEAL!!

Ethan loves his big boy chair. We always put him in it while we are eating dinner and he is just content sitting there playing with his toys and talking to us.

He always gets so excited when we put him in there. Sometimes he gets frustrated because I don't get the food to him fast enough!

He is so funny! We tried giving him rice cereal and he just wouldn't have it. So I finally decided to try and feed him oatmeal mixed with apple juice and he loves it. You have to keep feeding it to him really fast or he gets upset. He also loves bananas, sweet potatoes, sweet carrots, and pretty much any of the fruits. He is a great eater! I love this little boy so much.