*4 years*

4 years ago I married my dream guy and best friend!  Happy Anniversary sweetheart!  I love you!

 

  

     

      

 

Santa!

Santa made an appearance at the ward Christmas party!  I expected Tyson to be fine with Santa because he does so well about going to whomever, whenever.  He fussed for a second and had this really confused look on his face.  I bet he was wondering why this guy in red with a big white beard called Santa was holding him.  He put on a happy face right after Santa handed him a treat.  He ran up to Brian afterwards to show him his treat.  Christmas will be fun this year.  We’re excited for Tyson to understand Christmas a little better.  I am sure he’ll be throwing fits right and left when we take a toy away for him to open the next : )

Gingerbread House

On Sunday night we decided to decorate a Gingerbread House!  I thought that Tyson would try to destroy the entire thing within seconds, but he did a great job.  He sat and watched Brian and I.  Brian decorated one side and I the other.  I got off my chair to get some extra candy and I turn around to this adorable sight…

He grabbed some candy and started placing the candies kind of how I was doing it.  I was really proud of him.

Then he started eating some of the candy…

Daddy helped some…

Very proud of himself!

Love that chubby little hand!  You can tell his pieces are the non-traditional Christmas colors : )

Admiring his work…

And of course throwing a huge tantrum when we were finished.  He does this anytime he doesn’t get what he wants.  Just a hard life ya know?!

By the way, Tyson is picking off the gum drop pieces off the very top of the roof as I am typing this.  I don’t think the candy on that house is going to last much longer : )

Ty’s personality

Here are some pictures from this past week.  He is showing off his personality.

The Box: (I will narrate what I think Tyson is thinking)

“Look mom, I found a box!”

“Boy oh boy, these white thingies are fun!”

“Am I suppose to be playing in here…am I in trouble?”

“Guess not, YAY!”

 

After about 10 minutes he did get in trouble.  We told him it was time to clean up and he dumped the box out of the ones we had cleaned up.  He got a time out for that one.  Man those little popcorn pieces were everywhere.

The Bag:

“This is so fun!  I’m in a bag!  Dada is so funny!”

“What?  Why am I on the couch?!  I want to do it AGAIN!”

“I guess I’m in a bag…but why am I in a pink one?”

The Apron:

“I am wearing an apron just like Momma!”

“I dug through a drawer and found this HUGE phone”

(He found my old calculator.  He thinks it’s a phone)

Hope you can see some of his personality in these pictures.  I should have captured more photos of him throwing his tantrums.  I will get pictures of those next time : )

Thanksgiving and Max!

Hello all!  Sorry about not posting in awhile.  Let’s just say I haven’t been in the mood.  You know how it goes.  Every now and then we all get doing other things. 

So Thanksgiving was fun!  It’s always great to be around family.  The Holidays are a little bitter sweet for me.  Thanksgiving and Christmas especially make me really miss my parents.  I was telling a friend tonight that I haven’t spent a Christmas with my parents since 2006.  Isn’t that sad?  Anyway, back to Thanksgiving.  Last week we all got sick with some nasty stomach bug.  I had it the day before Thanksgiving so I was a little hesitant in eating a lot.  Besides having “the sickness” (as my brother calls it) we had a lot of fun!  Great fun and always good conversation.  Perhaps the favorite in Brian’s family is planning out our Black Friday shopping!  We were successful this year.  Here are some pictures from Thanksgiving.  (Tina, you can copy these pictures I think.  If not, tell me and I’ll email them : )

Savanna!  Look at those baby blues!!!

Tyson showing off his food I guess!  Sorry about posting it but I couldn’t help myself.  This picture just screams Tyson ; )

 

He didn’t eat much food.  I think he filled up on juice…

Sean and Kaelin!

 

The little kids table!

 

More family.  It isn’t the greatest picture but I wanted to hurry and get back to my food! : )

The teenagers table.  Love these guys!

 

Now onto Max.  My niece, Madilyn, had a little dance show yesterday and I offered to watch Max so that Emily could get Madi ready for it.  Tyson LOVES Max.  They love like brothers and even fight like brothers!  I had to pull out my camera because their cuteness was just too much!  Max is one of the few peoples names that Tyson will say (besides saying Momma and Dada).  However, it comes out as “Ma”.  Love it!

Smile!

Hugs!

Jumping!  

Makes me want our next baby to be a boy so Tyson has a buddy.  No, I’m not announcing that I’m pregnant.  Just thought I’d make that very clear : )