Nathan is 3!

Nathan is now 3!
For his birthday he wanted to go bowling and have a Transformers birthday party. We had a lot of fun bowling with everyone, before going back to our house for pizza and an ice cream cake, oh, and presents.

Nathan's cake.

Blowing out the candles.

The monkey mirror cousin Jake made for him.

Nathan had a great day. He had been looking forward to it for quite a while. We had to make a countdown chain, so he could keep track of the days.
A few of Nathans favorite things:
color- green
number-3
letter- N
place to go- train museum
super hero- Batman
toy- space ship (birthday present from Aunt Kristen)
stuffed animal- bear
song- Old McDonald
church song- Nephi's Courage
sport- baseball
T.V. show- Little Einsteins
best friend- Kendalynn Buttle

Happy birthday Nathan! Mommy and Daddy love you so much. Having you in our family the last three years has been a lot of fun. You have such a sweet spirit. You are very friendly and will play with anybody. You are quick to forgive, but not always quick to apologize- although you are getting better. You are very independent. You love your family, especially your little brother Anderson. You are so sweet to him. You like to help mommy, and play with daddy.
You make us super happy Nathan, we love you so much!

At Nathans doctor appointment he weighed 28.4 Lbs (15%) and is 36 inches tall (47%).

Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving!

We had a great Thanksgiving with most of our family gathered together. My sister from Alabama and her family came over, and my mom and dad flew in from Idaho. David's grandma flew in from Florida and his other set of grandparents drove over from Alabama. We were only missing David's sister Kristen who lives in Korea right now, my oldest sister Heather and her son who live in Wyoming and my sister in Iowa.

This was the grateful turkey we made for Family Home Evening I(I got the idea from my friend Katie). I don't know if you can read all of the feathers, but Nate's said- turkey, markers and grandpa's & grandma's. Hopefully next year he will be able to come up with other things he is grateful for.

Here are Zoey and Nathan decorating the turkey cookies. As you can see from the picture below, the did a fantastic job.
David and Anderson, I think there are some resemblances there.


I tried to get a picture of Nathan and AJ in there matching outfits, but neither of them wanted to cooperate, Nate's shirt came off after this picture so he could go play.

Look at those eyes.


Grandpa and Anderson-grandma passed AJ to grandpa when he was hungry, so this is the best picture I got of them.

Great grandma Roberts with AJ

Cooking the turkey. It was deep fried and delicious! We had a great time, and lots of food and fun (and got home just in time to go out Black Friday shopping).

One thing I forgot to write, we all had cups with our names on them, and Nathan went to my mom's cup and said "M A R L A, that spells grandma". It was very matter-of-factly and also very cute.

2 months old

AJ turned two months old today! We took him to his doctor to see how he is growing. And boy is he growing! He weighed in at 13lbs 10oz (85%), he is 23 3/4 inches long (24%) and his head is 15 1/4 inches (45%). His doctor said everything looked good. He is starting to talk to us more and to smile at us.
Here are a few pictures of AJ from the last few days. The one with the tie and Nathan in the blue sweater are the boys ready for church. My friend Carley made the cute onesie for AJ, and I love it. I am going to have to make him some more, since he is growing so fast.

Look alike?

I found this picture earlier this week of Nathan, that was taken when Nate was 4(ish) weeks old. So I thought I would post one of Anderson. AJ is 7 weeks in this picture, but I think that you can definitely see some family resemblances, AJ just has way more hair.

WOW!

6 years! Wow, it doesn't even seem like it has been 6 years since we got married. It has been the best 6 years of my life, being married to my best friend. I look forward to spending the rest of eternity with him too!
I love you David! You make me super happy!

Our trip to Florida

We drove down to Florida the 18th of October, to see Daddy and Gran. We took our new van so that David could see it. We stayed with him for the weekend, and took Nathan bowling for his very first time. He had a lot of fun. The first time he rolled the ball it went right into the gutter and slowly rolled down. It was rolling so slow that about 3/4 of the way, the ball stopped and we had to get someone to come get it for us.





Nathan was very interested in the ball return. He thought it was magic. He would roll the ball down, then it appeared back on the rack. He kept saying "abra ca dabra".

Nathan had the lightest ball they had, 6 pounds. It was still pretty heavy for him but he didn't want any help.

AJ had a good time just sitting there watching everything.

On Sunday we drove down to Punta Gorda to see Gran (David's Grandma), she just got back to Florida (she spends Summers in Calgary, Canada and winters in Florida).
We went to a old train depot that had some train stuff for Nathan to look at. It was an antique shop too, so we didn't spend much time in there.
Gran's birthday was on the 25th, so we were there to celebrate with her. The above picture was the only picture taken from her birthday party. We invited some of her friends over for a pizza party. Nathan was excited because Gran let him blow out the candle on her cake.
The weather was so nice that Nate decided he wanted to play in the pool- except mommy forgot to pack any swimming stuff.
Gran and her great grandkids
On our way back we stopped and saw daddy again for a night. We played at the park and the lake beach there at Camp Blanding. Nathan was having a lot of fun, until he fell in the water. It was funny, but he didn't think so.
Hooray! Daddy comes home on Saturday!