So behind....

You'll have to forgive me.........
I really admire those friends of mine who keep up to date with their blogs. I've been so bad......I'm just going to blame it on pregnancy and being tired : ) Also we just cannot find our camera anywhere. I'm going crazy without it, I'm a big picture taker. You know how it is, we've just finished up unpacking and a little decorating, it must have been put in the wrong place and I'm just missing it. OR a cute little helper thought it belonged maybe in a place it doesn't.

Fall is my favorite season, I just love it and it's starting to get really pretty here. The leaves are changing, the tempature is definately changing and it's time for bundling up. Of course my heart belongs in Texas but I would absolutely love to come to Utah every fall and winter, that is if we do ending up moving back to Tex. You just don't have falls like this back home. As you can see we finally got some new family pictures taken. Not the most flattering time for me to take pictures though being 7 and a half months preg. OH well I wanted to get a professioanl pic done before "baby-sister" gets here.

Oh I almost forgot I have to mention a few cute things Ethan has done. He started saying "of course"....in the cutest way, of course. I'll have to get a video of him saying it it's too cute. I'll ask him, "Ethan do you think you can do clean up now?" and in the sweetest voice he'll say, "Of course Mama". So cute my heart just melts. He has also started to say, "Oh I see"....again you have to hear his sweet voice. "Ethan it's about time for your bath, let's get ready for bath-time," ......"oh I see". Ha ha, my mom was here for conference and she noticed him saying it, she just got a real kick out of it. I told her is that cute or what, I don't know where he gets it from. Then later on she pointed out a few times I said the same thing. I guess I didn't ever notice, except it's not nearly as cute when I say it. Ha ha, goes to show you they do just pick up on everything you say, "Of course".

More Birthday Fun! (part 2)

There's more to the birthday fun....but I messed up entering it in, ha ha I'm still learning on this blog : ) For Ethan's birthday party we just had a little one....compared to his 1st birthday ......30 people at least ( ha ha ) this one was a lot more relaxed and simple. We just had a couple of good friends over, (Tara, Ben and their little girl Harmony) and Aunt Heidi. It was very nice and much easier !

Here's Ethan trying to figure out how to get the balloons down, ha ha. Nathan came home with a little surprise for Ethan... a bunch of balloons filled with helium. You'd think that that was one of his presents. You know how kids go though; most of the time they enjoy the things that aren't even met to be presents. He got a kick out of the "floating balloons".
More birthday pictures.......
(very goofy smile )Here's Ethan after opening his new fish, "Emo". He loved it so much, and still does (thank goodness) you know how sometimes things get old after a few days. He is very responsible with his fishy. Every morning he'll wake up and go down to the kitchen asking for "Emo" so we can feed him, and then again at night. Of course I so much enjoy the easy pet. We would love to get a dog for him but we can't have one at this place.....so later on.
Here's Ethan with his Aunt Heidi! We always love to get presents from Heidi b/c they're usually books, which we love! Ethan loves "Curious George" which was one of the books and the other was about Trains, which works out perfect b/c of Ethan's fascination with Thomas. I love that he loves Thomas, my brother Bryan introduced him to it last x-mas. Soon after that Bryan left on his mission so it always makes me think of Bryan and that's how Ethan remembers him, the fun guy that got him his Thomas movies : )

This present is just early for Halloween. I did want to sew him a costume.....but with the pregnancy and all maybe I'll just skip this year and do it next year. There's a cute story behind this...... We were in Walmart picking up some decorations, cake, ice cream etc and I decided just to walk by the Hallooween costumes to see what has available. He must have seen the superman costume and he started singing the theme..."da, da ,da". I was impressed that he knew the tune. Then he yelled out "SUPERMAN!!!" I thought ok this is it.....we'll have a little superman this year for Halloween!
Cheezy grin & eating up "Emo" cake.

We love our little Ethan so much. I can't believe he is 2 years old! I know he's still so little but these past 2 years have flown by as I'm sure other mothers can attest to. We are so happy that Ethan is such a smart, curious, cute, fun-loving little boy. Happy Birthday Ethan!
(other birthday posts to come: circus fun!)

BIRTHDAY BOY !!!!! (part 1)

Ok we've been waiting to make a post till we were finished with all of our birthday celebrations for Ethan. Let me warn everyone that this will be long and hopefully not too boring.... I'll have to make a few posts. I know Nana and Grandma Abe will enjoy it though! Let me first start out by making a small note.....if everyone will take notice of our little E's hair. He has graduated from his chili-bowl look to a big boy hair cut like daddies! It is very cute but he does look older with it : ( oh well we have another baby coming right?..... E needs to get set up for the big brother role. Also most of the pictures he'll be wearing a hat.....that's "his thing" right now. Daddy wears a Texas ball cap and so Ethan has to be like daddy so he wears his....Hawaiian hat ha ha : )
Here's Ethan letting everyone know hold old he is!! He had 2 main presents this year. Thomas the Train mobile and a little fish, which we asked him what's your fish's name? and he would say..."Emo" which is "Nemo" in our language. He's really into "Nemo" right now, one of his favorite movies. So here's a picture of his cake....I did my best to make it look like Nemo, it did taste good and that's the important thing right?


p.s. I don't know why he's making that funny face in the pic.....Nathan must have been making a funny face at him so he'd laugh.

Our little Cowboy...

This is going to be short but I had to put it in here for Nana & Grandma Abe. There is this school about a mile away that I take Ethan to everyday after the kids leave for home. He likes to play at the playground with slides & swings etc. We walk down there usually everyday to get some fresh air. There's a little mini farm right next to it with some land and a few horses. Ethan usually spends more time looking at the horses and trying to talk to them than exploring the playground, ha ha.
Yesterday there were a few kids who I'm assuming live there playing in their backyard and talking to and feeding the horses. They were about 30 ft away and Ethan kept yelling, "Hey horsie, hey what are you doing?" "Hey horsie, come here." (as if the horse would obey his command : ) So one of the little boys saw Ethan and climbed over and grabbed the horses mane and brought him to Ethan. I knew Ethan liked the horse from a distance but I didn't know if he would get scared up close. So over comes the horse and boy and right as they walk up Ethan yells really loud "NAY HORSIE" And of course the horse replied to Ethan with a very loud "NAY and a loud snort" (it kind of startled me) I thought Ethan would jump and start crying, I would have if I was little, but not our little cowboy. He asked me to pick him up so he cold get a closer look, ha ha. He tried to reach for the horse but the gate got in the way.....good thing too. Ha ha I got a good laugh out of that. Nothing scares that boy. You'd think that Nathan's been training him but no, it just comes natural to him. He is rarely scared or nervous about things......which I wish he was a little more sometimes it's not so good to be so brave :)
So I guess we have a little cowboy in the making.......