Recent Pictures

Earlier this month, we had some pictures taken for the annual Christmas card. Our photographer, Amy Parish, was wonderful!!! She took us up in the foothills right before sunset. She did a great job getting the boys to relax and be "natural". We had a small run-in with a cactus, but nothing too bad. The scenery here is so awesome and she did a great job of capturing the beauty around us. Thanks, Amy!

KK's Visit

KK (Kristin) came to visit us this past week and we all had a blast!!! We did lots of shopping and lots of eating! :) William loved playing outside in the leaves with KK. By the end of the week, we were all sad to see her leave!!! William keeps asking for her to come back. But next time, he wants Alan and the dogs to come, too! I can't wait to see KK again when we come home for Christmas!

Birthday Bash

Quick picture with Mommy!

Bath after the yummy cake!!!

Edward finally decided he likes cake!

William wanted to try Edward's cake.

Yummy!

Edward with his HUGE cake!

Slowly making some progress...

Playing in his new birthday chair!

William also wants in on the action!

Checking out the balloons!!

Edward had a great birthday party! We missed having our family here for the big day, but we had plenty of fun with our friends! It took some time, but Edward finally decided to enjoy some cake. Enjoy the pictures even though they didn't post in chronological order!!! I'm sure you can figure it out!

Happy Birthday, Edward!

Here is Edward this morning. Happy Birthday, little E!!! (Please excuse the disaster of a house!)

Have a little birthday drink!

Edward in his Halloween costume. A rare photo of Edward alone!

Today my baby turns 1!!! Edward was born November 5, 2008 at 10:46 a.m. and weighed 7 pounds, 15 ounces. Just a quick one year update:

Edward now weighs about 23 pounds. I don't know how tall he is, but I can tell you his is taller than William was at one year. This boy is going to be tall like his daddy. He also looks a lot like John's baby pictures.

He is walking all over the place!!! He loves to follow William everywhere, even to the bathroom! He eats pretty much whatever we are eating. He always hated baby food, so he has been eating table food for awhile. Loves any kind of fruit, especially grapes and bananas. He also really likes chick-fil-a. Don't we all!

Edward is a man of few words, kind of like his brother was at this age. Lots of pointing and grunting, but not many actual words. He says mama, dada, bye bye, and thank you. He can wave, do patty cake and make an awesome fish mouth. I'll try to get that photographed--it's pretty cute.

We are having the big birthday bash Saturday night, so I will post more pictures then! Poor thing only has THREE birthday outfits to wear (ha, ha), so he is modeling one today, one tomorrow, and one for the party. Two of the three outfits were William's. Edward is used to wearing lots of hand-me-downs.

What a fun year this has been!!! Now on to the toddler times with two little ones!!!

Halloween!

William and Edward had a great time trick-or-treating this year. William was an Indian and Edward was a horse. Thanks to Papaw and Lesa for the costumes! William got lots of candy and I have already hidden most of it! He would eat every piece all at once if I let him! We had a party with our church small group and there were so many kids!!!!! I put more pictures on my Facebook account. Enjoy!

SNOW!!!!!!!! (and other random pics)

William and his buddy, Logan at their Pumpkin Party

The boys in the snow! Yes, Edward is walking all the time now. No more crawling!!

William wants his umbrella!

Back inside to enjoy the snow from our warm den!

The start of the snow!

Ok, so this isn't really a picture of our front yard YET, but it is snowing VERY hard and has been for about an hour. I stole this image off of Google just to get your attention!!! It is so pretty!!!!! William wasn't too sure about the snow. He thought it was rain and wanted his umbrella!

We love, love, love this weather!!!

Papaw's Visit

William, Little Edward, and Big Edward

2 Edwards!!!

My little Indian with Papaw

Pumpkin Time!

William and Papaw carving the pumpkin!

Finally at the top of the mountain!

Smile!

Group pictures are challenging!!

Papaw playing with the boys!

This weekend, Dad, Lesa, and "big" Edward came to visit. We had lots of fun!Lesa and John managed to stay out of all the pictures!!! We rode the tram to Sandia Peak. The temperature at the top was 28 and the wind was very blustery!!! We ate lunch and enjoyed the view! The rest of the time, we just played around at home. The boys really enjoyed the company. Big Edward was a hit with both boys. Papaw and Lesa brought lots of goodies for the boys. William loved the candy the best! He also loved his Indian costume! We had a great visit and we can't wait to see them again for Christmas!!!!