February 2010

I haven't posted much lately. Life is just so hectic. I want to however keep up with my blog for personal reasons! Corey arranged for my blog to be made into books and gave it to me for Christmas. We both cried. It was so precious to see all of our memories as we flipped through the pages, from Conner's birth to now!
Next Christmas he will get me another volume and I need to make sure to fill it with all the things that I want to preserve about our little family. These books are safety deposit box worthy!!!! At least to us :)

Conner is in the process of getting his LAST TOOTH. HIS BOTTOM TWO YEAR MOLAR. The others have all come thru and this is the LAST ONE. I am actually toying around with the idea of having a party in celebration once it pops thru since this will be such a huge time of gladness! Conner getting teeth has been sheer misery. I hear some parents look in their kids mouths and say, "wow, you got a tooth!" Then there is me, going thru torture waiting two months for one tooth to finally come thru and relieve him. He literally becomes a different person when he is getting a tooth. Then when it comes thru our delightful Conner is back. He woke up four times last night. As you can imagine I'm not such a happy camper right now.
So basically what I am trying to say is that life right now is kinda sucky. But we always get thru it, as I am sure we will this time.

So...while we are on the subject of teeth...remember on our Christmas post when I showed a picture of Conner's scraped up face from sledding on Christmas Eve? Well guess what...

HE BROKE THE ROOT OF HIS FRONT TOOTH. My beautiful son now has a grey tooth. I am afraid parents will think I, like don't brush my kids teeth or something, or that perhaps I let him suck on a bottle all night or something!
Owell. At least it is his baby tooth and the truth is, this is not going to be the last time something like this happens. This kid is wild, and I expect a lot of bumps and bruises.

A reminder of the unfortunate incident!

The unfortunate result

Conner asks to take a bath three times a day because he has learned how to swim under water across the tub. It's drying out his skin BAD. So I've had to say no and it makes him so sad. Its pretty funny. I got him these goggles but they bug him so he doesn't use them! I am so impressed, there is no way in the world I would be able to hold my breath under the water at the age of 2 1/2. He amazes me every day. I counted yesterday and he can hold his breath under water for 10 whole seconds!

I am happy to announce Conner is POTTY TRAINED. Halleulia! One difficult milestone accomplished. Go Conner!

I still haven't had the guts to let him sleep in underwear, so we will still have to work towards that, but for the most part we are there!!! YIPEE.

Con's potty chart.

Moving on, one of my very dearest friends moved...again...

Ariane and I met in High School, became best friends in AP English, and from Senior year of Highschool through freshman year of college we were inseparable. Without going into a lot of weepy details, she has been a wonderful friend whom I have been thru a lot with. You know, graduation, boys, falling in love, falling out of love, heart breaks and heart aches, driving around in the car singing at the tops of our lungs, laying out all Summer long, and going to all the Walgreens in town looking at make up- just for fun! haha :)

Anyways, she moved after our freshman year of college to go back to Brazil and we didn't see each other again till last Christmas, about 8 years later (due to immigration issues). She has been here in Salt Lake for a little over a year, and altho we certainly didn't spend enough time together it was wonderful to have her here. Now she has left to move to Canada, again due to immigration issues. At least this time she will be able to come back to Salt Lake to visit when she can, and perhaps sometime I can even go visit her! (It would at least be a lot easier than me going to Brazil.)

Well, other than all that we are just hanging out, totally and completely desperate for Summer. Every day I think about sitting at Murray pool basking in the sun, eating snacks and talking with girlfriends.

Why I don't move to somewhere much warmer than Utah I don't know...

xoxo

The day after Christmas

The day after Christmas.

Here are Corey and Conner enjoying Conner's little race track. You know how it is with men, they really buy things THEY want and claim its for their little boy. :)

Next, sledding. I just want you all to be proud of me for getting all bundled up and heading out for sledding. I am NOT a fan of doing pretty much anything in the cold. But if I was going to do it I knew I had to do it right, go thru all the old winter clothes and end up looking ridiculous. Was your family like that? We had a bag when I was little filled with all the winer clothes which happened to be like DECADES old. I'm talking the 70s, and bundle up in everything you could find.

Tommy and Juleen and Conner.

The man.

My two year old insists on going down adult sized hills BY HIMSELF.

"I can do it ALL.BY.MY.SELF." As he says.

But here is the funny part, Conner wasn't down with walking back up the hill so he wanted Corey to carry him, and this is the way it ended up happening. Everyone thought it was hilarious and Conner totally loved it. So funny.

Just us dorks!

Other dorks.

Christmas 2009

Here we are on Christmas Morning. Don't you just love Christmas morning? We had Christopher sleep over so we could all open the gifts Corey's family sent to us together.

To Chris from Conner...a Dave Matthews shirt from the concert we went to in Las Vegas.

Ooooooo how great is this? A guitar shirt from Grandma Kunz. Conner was so excited.

And a toy from Grandma and Grandpa Kunz. A helicopter that rescues passengers. Very cool.

Christopher was trying to torture my life by giving Conner drum sticks. To this day I have to hide them in random places throughout the house because he always finds them and bangs away till I get a headache. But, at the same time, how can you blame a wonderful uncle for getting the boy what he knew he would love...Christopher is the best uncle EVER.

Then we headed over to my parents house. Here are Tommy and Juleen opening Conner's gift to them...dart guns. Yum.

I can't recall exactly why...but for some odd reason my dad got this hat from my mom. hmmm, weird.
Now that is sexy. Deed sexy.
Yankees hat from Tommy to the boy...

You can see below yesterday's "incident." Corey and Christopher took Conner sledding yesterday morning (Christmas Eve) and Conner fell and got all cut up. Ironically enough last Christmas Conner got his lip and face cut up as well, on Christmas morning!

BUT this is a significant picture because this was the main event, his main gift...can anyone guess what it is?

P. S. - Conner's 2008 Christmas face smack

Here we are! Total delight!

Drum roll please...his very own electric guitar. He has been asking for one for Christmas for the past six months! Most days we would hear, "Can I have a John Mayer guitar?"

Who really knows how long this crazy guitar phase will last. But I love seeing him passionate about something, especially something like music rather than nitendo or something. So we choose to support this guitar obsession!

After opening gifts at my moms we went to Grandma and Grandpa Monson's house for Christmas evening. We had a wonderful dinner and the opened a few gifts. After that we went to look at the lights on Temple Square.

Happy.
Best Friends.

Christmas Eve 2009

Here we are at the end of January and I am just now posting Christmas pictures. Better late than never right?

These are pictures of Christmas Eve.
Now that we have a more accommodating house we decided to have the family over for Christmas Eve at our home this year. We had a lot of fun, we had pizza and root bear floats (a favorite in my family) and then my dad read a Christmas story like he does every year, and then played a game, and then we headed down stairs to watch the movie "UP" by the fire.
It was so fun to have the whole family together to help us celebrate our first Christmas at our new house.

I love this picture. This is my boy!
I love when I catch him doing stuff like this
it makes me so happy.

It makes me even happier when I am able to catch it on camera.

Watching the movie by the fire.

Even after all this time it feels like just yesterday we were spending our first Christmas together...

Here is a little boy excited to wake up in the morning for CHRISTMAS!

I was excited to post this picture for Corey's mom SYLVIA. When we were first married she sent us pillow cases for each Holiday and I found them when I was looking thru some things from our move. I was excited to put the pillow case on Conner's pillow for Christmas time.

Family Pictures 2009

My friend Kim (kimorlandini.blogspot.com) took these beautiful pictures of our little family right before Christmas this year. It might surprise you to know Conner was in the WORST mood that day. Not even kidding. He wouldn't smile for anything, and posing? Yea right. This would illustrate what an excellent photographer my friend is. Anyways we are really happy we finally got some taken because sadly we haven't had any professional pictures taken since our wedding! But now we have these beautiful ones to remember this stage of our lives with and we LOVE them. Now we just need to find some frames and decorate the house with them!