Thank you Mandy!!!!

I have been trying all week to get these pictures up on blogger, but to no avail. Finally Creighton suggested that the pictures might be too big, since all of the pictures are from our new camera and 10 times the size of the old camera's pictures, rather than being a Windows Vista problem (boy oh boy, do I miss my Apple laptop from school!) So I asked my friend Mandy if she has to resize her pictures from her SLR camera and she said yes. And she taught me how to use a very useful tool on Photoshop--actions!! It was so fast and easy, I loved it. Thanks again Mandy! Now on to pictures (yeah, don't you just love pictures!)

Happy 3 month birthday!




My little munchkin turned 3 months at the end of last month. It's amazing to watch him grow. He is growing up so much, and so quickly! (Can you believe that he is bigger than Snoopy now!!!) Another great thing is that he has been sleeping through the night now for the last few weeks. Since he was about six weeks or so he would sleep from 7-4/5, with a late feeding at around 10 in there. Now he sleeps from 7/7:30-7:30 in the morning, still with a late night feeding. He is just amazing. Maybe that's normal, I don't know, but whatever it is, I love it!


My family came up for Thanksgiving and for the baby's blessing. One of my family's Thanksgiving traditions is to go see a movie and go see the lights at Temple Square. This year we went to see the James Bond movie, and I had a lot of reservations about it since we had never taken the little guy to see a movie (especially a loud, explosive one), but he did wonderful. He slept through most of it, and then when he woke up, I just held him and he went back to sleep. He as a great sport too at the temple, but it was freezing cold and he and I were both starting to get sick, so Creighton didn't get to stay as long as he would have liked too (trying out the new camera and all), but we did enjoy the lights, and he still got some pretty good pictures.


The Sunday after Thanksgiving, we had his baby blessing. We had some family there, and some great friends there too. It was so nice to see everyone there to support us. This is one of the pictures that I like of the 3 of us. Creighton's cousin took our pictures for us, which was super nice of her. If I didn't hate the way I look in them, I would love them even more. I need to learn how to use Photoshop better so I can make some improvements on myself, and then maybe I can post some more of them that have all of us in them. Luckily my little boy is so cute, and so photogenic. He definitely didn't get that from his mom :)

Only in California...can you get sun ripened tomatoes on Dec. 1st (and later). We went to CA for just a few days after Thanksgiving and I just couldn't believe the weather. I sure do miss it. I got to wear shorts and sandals while I was there, and eat breakfast out on the back patio--that's one of my favorite things to do at my parents house--sit on the back patio and read, catch some rays, eat a meal, just about about anything will do.

Here's a picture showing just how strong my cutie is!! He learns new "tricks" as we like to call them, all of the time.

One of the special things we got to do while in Cali was go to the beach. Unfortunately it wasn't the sunniest day, but as you can see, it was warm enough that I could wear shorts and get wet, and still not be freezing. In fact, the cold water didn't even make the baby cry. I was the one who squealed, and not him (only because the wave came up a lot higher than I was expecting, and still had my sandals on!!!)

His first, but definitely not last, time at the beach. What a trouper he is. Do you want to know the best part of the whole trip-he slept all the way there and back. I only had to wake him up to feed him (we went during the night, to make it easier for him). He's an angel, I feel so blessed.

Here's my little gangster, as my brother would say. I just love putting his hood on him whenever he is wearing a hooded sweatshirt.


One last thing. For the last few weeks now, he has been exploring his yummy hand. He has gone from thumb, to a finger here or there, to the back of his fist, and now, he currently likes to suck 3-4 fingers at a time. I really don't want him to be a thumb/finger sucker. But the real problem is, that his fingers are so long, he ends up gagging himself and spitting up half of the time. And whenever he sucks on them, it's like he's turned on a faucet in his mouth and it just starts leaking out saliva everywhere!! It makes us laugh all of the time. Gotta love him--and we do--a lot!!!!!!