Crew turns the big 1!!!

I cannot believe my little buskin is 1 year! I won't say that time has gone fast, because it took a lot of work to get here, but I can honestly say how fun it's been to watch him grow into a big boy. He was such a difficult baby for the first 7 months, but then miraculously changed into a cheerful, walkin, talkin, sleepin, toddler!!! Life is good. He is so fun, so sweet, and so loved. We had a party for him at our little apt, but of course we wanted to invite the whole family! To say the least, it was a packed house. We were also lucky enough to have my mom come and visit for the new year and his birthday. Thanks grammy for hanging out for a few days!

Thanks to all for the presents! Like I said before, he's set for life on toys.

My attempt at making something creative. It was supposed to by a croc. It may have not been pretty, but it tasted good!

Crew thought it tasted good too.

Christmas 2010

We stayed home in Utah this Christmas instead of heading up to Idaho with my family because I had to work this year. I guess it's the nature of the beast being lowest on the totem pole...We had Christmas with just our little family and it was really nice! For Christmas Eve we went over to Jess's parents house for dinner, had a small talent show, and opened some gifts. Christmas morning was so fun. Crew just had a blast. This kid is set on toys forever.

Jolly Ol' St. Nic.

Crew did pretty well visiting the ol' guy! He mastered a darn good "ho ho ho", but was too shy (terrified?) to show off his skills:

At this point he was just about done. He started to pout just a tad, so mommy came in and saved him from the scary santa man.

Temple Square

Before Christmas we made a visit up to SLC to meet the Joneses at Temple Square. Every year, I'm so excited to go, but I always forget that I usually think it's boring, cold, and not worth the hassle. Of course the temple is always easy on the eyes, but this year, yet again, I found myself hustling through the temple grounds, in and out of people, pushing around a dinosaur stroller, and just hoping that our friends want to leave. BA-HUMBUG, right? On a lighter note, we did get to see some of our favorite friends whom we never get to see (because of the 45 min drive and all...).

Do you think we over-dressed crew just a "smidge"? It was actually kind of a mild night. poor kid.

Joneses. Please feel free to steal this pic from my blog. Sorry I never emailed it to you!

Sadly, these pictures definitely don't give Temple Square justice to how pretty it looks @ Christmas time:

This is more like it! Doesn't it make you excited to go next year? :)