Christmas post finally

Christmas Eve hanging out by the tree

Santa came! (the red boxes on the tree were a present to each of the grandkids from my parents and the ornaments were sea shells from the beach)

The stockings were hung...

Grandma trying to get Brian to line up backwards with the cousins- it didn't work too well

Checking out what Santa brought

Santa brought Brian a popper toy and a drum/music set

Playing with his drums

Tearing the wrapping paper into tiny pieces

What he really wanted to play with- Grandma Suzy's cell phone

Playing with his Toy Story race car toy

Cousin Benjamin showing Brian how to make the toy work

Playing with another drum he got with cousin Sally

Stocking time! (he was past ready for a nap by this point)

Swimming with Dad at our hotel in Utah for New Years

All bundled up in the freezing Salt Lake weather

Brian "fitting" into his Bumbo again

Trying to get out of the Bumbo

After getting out of the Bumbo (don't worry, he wasn't hurt)

Yes, I realize it's February, but I'm finally getting around to posting some Christmas pictures. We spent Christmas up at Lopez Island with my family. We had never spent Christmas up there, so it was a lot of fun. Santa found us up there and we had a nice holiday. For New Years we spent it in Utah with some of Ben's family (though we missed his Mom who was in Georgia) and I finally got to meet Ben's older sister Melody and her family, which was a lot of fun. We stayed in a fancy hotel and "enjoyed" the freezing weather and snow! I also got to see my good friend Emily and her daughter on New Year's Eve, though I didn't get any pictures!

January pics and videos

Sarah asked me not to be sarcastic in this post, so I will be very serious.

In this video, Sarah is tickling Brian.

Brian is in a swing in this video.

Brian is doing funny things here.

Here he does more funny things.
(and shows his determination to rip the nightlight out of the wall-
his favorite thing to do when he's in his room)

Here is the last video of Brian doing funny things.

And here's Brian making a funny face and signing please.

There. I think I made that post completely serious and as unsarcastic as possible.

November and some older pictures

Asleep on Dad

Playing in a bowl

Ben kept lifting him up and down and Brian thought it was hilarious

"What am I doing in this bucket?"

I found him these Frosty pajamas and thought they'd fit, but I was wrong

The buttons kept snapping open whenever he moved, but I had to get some pics first

Cuddling with Dad at the computer

In the bucket with the balls again

Halloween 2010

My sister Lisa and her husband Spencer dressed up as a Hershey "hug" and "kiss" ha ha

Spock and Spock- we saw this Spock at the Trunk or Treat and had to have Brian take a picture with him- Brian didn't know what he was doing with his hand :o)

Ben decorated our car like a mouth and he hooked it up so you could open and close the trunk so it would get kids as they put their hands in (it didn't actually close on them) It was funny to see kids' reactions to it- a lot of them didn't want to come near it because they were afraid. We got lots of comments that we were the most creative car.

Our little Spock- he actually didn't mind the hat on his head which surprised me

Us dressed up as "Star Trek nerds"- can you believe I put a Star Trek shirt on?? I can't believe it either... but Brian looked so cute/funny in that Spock outfit!

Captain Kirk and Spock

Lisa watched Brian for a little bit one night and this is how he came home :o)

Those are leg warmers on his legs- he could barely walk he was so bundled up ha ha

We watched Daniel, Benjamin and Sally the other night and Benjamin packed his skeleton jammies so we put Brian in his, too. Benjamin thought it was so fun to be matching

Picking pumpkins at my parent's pumpkin patch
Cousins: Andrew, Brian, Logan, Megan, Connor, Benjamin, Daniel, and Sally

Brian wasn't so sure about the pumpkin patch when we put him down next to the pumpkins

Then he got used to it and smiled for us

Wearing the spider headband my mom got all the grandkids

Two posts in one day. Wow.

Just a couple recent pictures.

Brian preparing to try out for the new Star Trek movie. (I can't believe I actually bought my son a Star Trek Halloween costume... but it's so funny! - Sarah)

Going for the popped collar look.

“She turned me into a newt!” (I also can't believe I let Ben post a picture of me in a witch hat on our blog! - Sarah)

New hat.

He decided he was going to start waving at people last weekend. Which was nice.