Christmas Tour of Homes

Welcome to our home.

As Nester says, It doesn't have to be perfect to be beautiful.

Our decorations haven't changed much since our last Christmas tour of homes in 2009.

Only major addition is our sweet baby boy!



Yes, that is Matthew's exersaucer behind the french doors. That's where he's trapped he plays while I work sometimes.

Thank you for visiting our home. 

Hop on over to Nester's and Kelly's for more beautiful Christmas homes.

Merry Christmas!

An appointment with Santa

Why stand in a long line to see Santa at the mall when you can make an appt to see him at Wal.mart??!!

He was a good looking Santa too, real beard and all.

Matthew didn't even cry (which I'm sure next year may be a different story).

I was able to snap the second picture with my cell phone as Santa was still talking to him.  And when Santa gave him back to us, Matthew had a good grip on his beard.  I guess he wanted to make sure it was real too.

Up and Coming Musician

(Pictures taken from my point and shoot. Not the greatest quality).

We had the opportunity to see Taylor Berret perform over the weekend.

He is an awesome  musician!

Steve actually taught him in church when he was younger.

Taylor has an album coming out in the Spring!  I can't wait!!

You should look him up on youtube. My favorite is 'Those Days'

I seriously listen to his music EVERYDAY on youtube.

Here is one of our favorites: 

The Littlest Buble' Fan

One morning, I was getting ready and Matthew was sitting in his little bouncy seat and was getting fussy. I put on 'Crazy Love' by Michael Bu.ble and he calmed down right away.  Then he fell asleep to the song being played on repeat. 

Last week, the Michael Bu.ble Christmas special was on TV and Matthew was sitting there watching it intently. Although you couldn't tell from the picture above (it was close to his bed time). 

What can I say? The kid has good taste in music. 

Matthew Has A Bad Morning

Yesterday, Matthew's morning started out like any other day...

daddy feeds him his first bottle of the morning before he leaves for work, then puts him in the bed with mommy.

We fall back asleep for a bit longer, then Matthew starts to wake up on his own and crawls to the top of the headboard. Steve always piles the pillows along the edge of the bed so Matthew doesn't fall over. And I usually have a hand on Matthew so I can 'feel' where he is on the bed.

Well, I was super tired so wasn't really aware of where he was on the bed. All of a sudden I heard a loud thud and scream. Matthew had crawled over the pillows and off the bed!

I jumped out of bed SO fast and scooped him up! He cried for a little bit and was fine. I was scared to death! And of course, felt horrible that I let him fall!

Lesson learned! When Matthew gets up, mommy MUST get up too!

And after breakfast, he was sitting on the floor by the sliding glass door and fell over and hit his head on the hard wood floor.  Poor baby.  He was NOT having a good morning. 

I may have to invest in a helmet for his little noggin (ha!)

A Crawling Daddy's Boy

Working from home allows me to spend a little more time with Matthew than Steve does.

His face lights up when he see's his daddy come home.

Steve works from home two days a week and when he comes up from the basement for lunch, Matthew is all about his daddy. 

It's like I don't exist!

He loves his daddy so much!

Matthew just started crawling on his hands and knees versus doing the army crawl!

He will crawl on our fours on the carpet, but when he's on the hardwood, he resorts back to the army crawl. And when he's trying to make a quick escape, he army crawls really fast!

He was on a mission tonight.  The target?....the nativity scene on the table. 

He ended up breaking the head off one of the wise men (nothing a little glue can't fix).

I love watching him reach every milestone. 

My little guy is turning from a momma's boy into a daddy's boy.

Weekend Round Up

1. Finished the second Christmas tree.

2. Put out the Nativity set .

3. Lunch with my sister, niece & nephew (yummy pho and spring rolls)

4. Spent time with Abbey.

And to end the weekend, we watched the First Presidency Chrismas Devotional (program starts at about 1:09).