Christmas Morning

We did leave the stockings for Christmas morning and we opened them after Connor opened all of his presents!!! It is so much more fun to watch and help Connor with his first Christmas morning. This time last year I was anxiously awaiting his arrival!!

Christmas is my favorite holiday, I just love it, and it is even better with Connor on the outside this Christmas, we really enjoyed all of the Christmas fesivities with our family.

Connor did help open some of his presents but once he opened one he did not want to move on to the next present he just wanted to play with the new toy he just opened.

I helped Connor open presents while Donovan took pictures and ran the video camera

Christmas was a blast and I can't wait till next year!!

Christmas Eve

It was so much fun opening presents with Connor. We always open one present at my parents on Christmas eve. We went to my mom and dad's after we had dinner at Donovan's Aunt's house, and opened our first present.

I just loved this shirt, it says I have been super good all year, Donovan hates when I buy these type of clothes because he can only wear them once but I can't resist.

Gotta love pajama's

Donovan and I have since we have been married have opened our Christmas presents to eachother on Chistmas Eve, because I always get so excited to give him his presents and I can't wait. We decided to do it again this year so that on Christmas morning we could spend all of our time opening presents with Connor.

So Cute!!

I am amazed daily at the new way Connor finds to play with his toys :)
Connor was so cute in his new outfit for Christmas Sunday at Church.

Connor loves to play in our bathroom, he goes into all of the drawers and takes whatever he can get his hands on and most of the time I find it scattered throughout the house, Connor also likes to comb his hair like mom and dad. Connor loves water we have a very hard time keeping him from turning on the water for the tub luckily so far he only turns on the cold water, and then he likes to throw everything from the drawer in the tub to watch it splash in the water, oh my what fun children can be, sometimes it is so hard not to laugh when you know they need to be in trouble!!!

Yummy!!!!!!

So this year I thought it would be fun to build a gingerbread train or house, so while at the store I picked up a gingerbread train. We decided Saturday morning would be a perfect time so we attempted. Well lets just say the train turned out to be a very poor square house box thing, Connor got a hold of the gingerbread and book part of the train and then Donovan tried to cut the pieces of the train and broke more pieces so this is what we had left to decorate. Good thing Connor didn't mind he was just happy to have gingerbread pieces to suck on and frosting and candy to eat. Maybe next year we will do better, but we still had tons of fun!!!!!!!

His smile just melts my heart, it is hard work but so worth it to be a mom!!

Playing in the Snow

This was the first time we really took Connor out to play in the snow. He was so cute to watch, of course he immediately took off his gloves so that he could feel the snow and of course eat it, mmmm so nutritious.

Connor had a lot of fun playing in the snow and we had a lot of fun watching him play in the snow, this time of year is such a blast with him, I remember last year at this time anticipating his arrival, I am so glad he came and we are so blessed to have such an adorable boy who is healthy and full of life!!!!!!

It was so funny the snow boots that we bought for Connor I had a brilliant idea to buy them a little big, but in all my wisdom they were to big and too heavy so he couldn't even walk with them on, and I had a hard time keeping them on they kept falling off. Needless to say I took those snow boots back but I have not been able to find another pair so my search will continue.

Snow and Lights!!!!!

We had so much fun going to see the lights on Temple Square with Donovan's sister Brandie her husband Bryan, and there adorable baby Mallory!! It actually turned out to be a wonderful night it wasn't even to cold. Connor was probably sweating with all of the layers I dressed him in. I put on a pair of thermals, a long sleeve onesie, a sweater, snow pants, two pairs of socks, snow boots, hat and gloves I really did not want him to get cold but I am sure he was hot instead, oh well better to be to warm then to cold.

I just love the lights at Christmas time, it is my favorite season, the snow is so beautiful.

I am suprised we actually got a picture of Connor smiling in his stroller, he hates the stroller I am always imbarresed to stroll him around while he is screaming his head off, but we had a few screaming sessions and then full of smiles, I couldn't believe it.

Connor once again had to get his haircut it grows so quick he does pretty good he smiles and laughs it is just hard to get him to hold still.

Connor loves to play on the bed and change the channels, luckily he has learned to slide off the bed so we haven't had any falls recently. I will keep praying it will stay that way!!

Such a helper!!!

Connor decided to help me with the laundry the other day, he crawled into the dryer and would take the clothes I just put in and put them back on the floor. He just loves to get into and do whatever I am doing at the time.

Of course before I took him out of the dryer I had to take a picture, he was having so much fun!!

Connor sat between Donovan and Uncle Anthony to watch the Utah vs. BYU football game. He thought it was so much fun even though our team lost in OT.

Connor loves to get into the bowls and pans in the kitchen. He loves to find and whisk in the drawer and stir in the bowls. It so cute he will stir and stir and stir, he sure makes a mess of the kitchen but he loves to help especially when I am making cookies in the mixer. Connor is getting so big he his almost a year old I can't believe it. He has been walking since around 10 months, he started to take some steps when he was 9 months but now he is walking well and walks all around the house getting into everything he can reach!!!