The Most Beautiful Wedding

After Christmas, we all packed up and headed for Tahoe to celebrate Mandy and Chad's wedding. It was a perfect weekend... God blessed us with beautiful weather! Mandy has never looked so gorgeous and happy and we are excited to welcome Chad to the family. Connor was the ring bearer and did an excellent job! It was fun to spend such a wonderful weekend with the family. I think Connor likes vacationing and had fun on his first trip to the snow! Love to all!

Christmas 2008

We had a wonderful Christmas celebrating Connor's First Christmas. He was of course showered with gifts from Santa, grandparents, aunts, and family friends! It sure is wonderful having a baby to share the holidays with. We took over 500 pictures over Christmas, so here are just a few of our favorites! (I'll post pictures from my sister's wedding soon!)

Music To Our Ears!

Michael has a special way of making Connor laugh. This video really shows Connor laughing out loud. There is nothing better than hearing a baby's laughter and Connor's laugh is extra special! We are so blessed! We hope your holiday season is filled with as much laughter as our's!

Here is a new activity center we introduced to Connor today. Our friend Ronda gave us this after her daughter used it. Connor quickly figured out how to turn and play with all the different activities. He last about 10 minutes in it... long enough for Michael and I to sit down for dinner together! :-)

There is something special about a father and son. Connor and Michael have such a wonderful relationship. Seeing Michael with Connor makes me fall in love with him all over again. I certainly lucked out with getting to be Michael's wife!

Busy Month!

We have had such a busy month already and the fun is just beginning! Our good friend, Nate came to visit and see Connor for the first time. We had two bridal showers for my sister and one for my best friend. Next week we're going to Liz's wedding and the following weekend we're heading to Tahoe for my sister's wedding. So much fun stuff! Oh yeah... Christmas too! In between all these wonderful events, I'm trying to enjoy every minute of my last month home with Connor. I know I am going to miss this so much. He is such an amazing little guy and Michael and I feel so blessed each day. Love to all!

Introducing Rice Cereal

Tonight we tried rice cereal for the first time. The doctor felt like Connor was ready to begin solid foods and we're all hopeful that introducing solids might help with Connor's reflux (and his sleeping at night!). It was exciting to introduce something new to Connor and he took to it quite well... taking charge to hold the spoon himself. We videotaped it, but the file is too large to post on our blog. We hope everyone is doing well! Love to all!

Happy 4 Months Connor!

Happy 4 Month Birthday Connor Michael!

We love you so much and you bring so much joy to our lives!

Love, Mom and Dad

So much to be Thankful for!

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving this year! We spent Connor's first Thanksgiving with all of our family. We spent time with all of Michael's family and my family. We had my Aunt Judy visiting from Michigan and our cousins who are from England. We had such a wonderful time and of course, Connor was given so much love and attention! We were reminded this holiday of how much we have to be grateful for... at the top of our thankful list is our healthy, happy baby boy!

Connor in his new hat from Old Navy. It's so warm and cozy for our early morning walks!

We have a tradition with our Sacramento friends to have Thanksgiving dinner together each year. The next two pictures are from our celebration this past weekend. The food was so good!

Like father like son... I think they look like twins!

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