Ok so everyone probably knows that this semester has been the craziest of my life thus far, so I have not had time to update the blog. So here is a brief summary of things that have occurred that I haven't had the time to mention. :)
First, we had my sisters over for Thanksgiving and Marci and Lynn slept over at our house cause Marci wanted to learn how to make a turkey. I think we did an excellent job, don't you? ;) Lol. It was hilarious because we wanted to use one of those oven bags, but I didn't know how to do that so we had fun trying to figure it out together.
It was baby James' first Christmas and he loved looking at the tree! He really enjoyed the Christmas lights and shiny glass ornaments. We didn't get him anything for Christmas--we figured he wouldn't mind and we wanted to spend the money on each other instead. lol. Selfish, I know, but at least he has grandparents who gave him presents! They were so nice.
We spent the holidays up at Ryan's parents' in Bountiful and went sledding. We took James and got him all bundled up: he wore his older cousin Aubrey's snow suit and she wore his, since his was bigger and hers was smaller. Anyway, so she was in a blue snow suit and he was in her white snowsuit and we forgot to bring a blanket so then we borrowed Aubrey's and so James was wrapped in a pink blanket. Poor kid. Everyone probably thought we had a cute little baby girl! I hope he isn't scarred for life by that experience.
Also, Jenny's boyfriend brought these pink pool tubes that were super cheap and we were using those to go down on. It was so hilarious to see all these pink tubes going down the hill with men on them. So Ryan took one and was really serious about going off this big jump that was there. Well, when he hit the jump, his pink tube popped! It was the funniest sight to see. He had to pick up all the shrapnel and bring it back up the hill. :D Good times.
Other new fun stuff is that James is now laughing, sitting by himself, playing with his toys, and he figured out how to roll from his front to back. He sometimes is not successful with the rolling thing though, which makes him pretty dang frustrated. He is a good kid though and we love him. Sometimes we wonder if he really knew what he was getting himself into by agreeing to come down and have the two of us as parents. Hopefully he knew! I would hate for him to be disappointed. :S We tell him every day that we promise to be better parents once we are graduated. Life is a very different thing when you are going to school and have a baby. We are definitely happy though and James seems happy also, so we will just keep plugging along!
He also just barely started pulling himself up on anything he finds suitable: his crib, the couch, our legs, etc.
He loves his Grandma Heap!
Our little tiger
The Princess and the Frog Prince
The Homecoming Football Game
The Homecoming Dance
So here is baby James! He was born on September 20 at 1:17pm. He was 6lbs, 7oz and 18 and a half inches long. He is super cute and we love him so much! He mostly looks like Ryan, we think. Anyway, he is doing well and adjusting to life at home. He thinks that night is day though, and likes to keep us awake during the night but sleep all day. :) So cute. We are very excited that he is finally here!
Our amazing tent we were given for a wedding gift. First time we used it! We actually fit a queen-sized air mattress in the tent. It was super comfy! Not really much space though.
Here is Ryan being the man and building a fire. He singed probably half of his arm hair off during the course of the weekend. Poor kid.
Our yummy dutch oven breakfast.
We went fishing one night and Ryan was so excited to catch a really big fish. Sadly, he didn't catch anything. But we still had fun.
Ryan let me cast once, but I got the line caught on a rock. :( He didn't let me try again.
I read Harry Potter to Ryan while he was fishing.
I just thought this was a really cool picture.
Ryan picked me some wildflowers while we were hiking back down.
Isn't he cute?
Soaking the swollen feet.
We stopped at a scenic lookout point on the drive back to Logan. A nice man offered to take our picture, but I guess he didn't push the button down far enough because we only had this one that I took of us. We had a really fun trip and I am so glad we went!
