Ugly Sweaters

Ugly Sweater Party!

Two years in the making….

Had the neighbors over for a Thanksgiving dinner and the joy of seeing each other in terrific attire.

Dave was the clear winner as he doubled up on ugly sweaters….His best was too inappropriate for the camera…lol (still laughing about it). Kaylynn came in second with her awesome pink flamingo sweater (Really?! Who would have donated that to the DI??? It is way too cool of a sweater)

So much fun to see all the finds

Might have to make it an annual tradition

Ski day

The Carlson's decided it was finally time to get together to have a ski day! Aaron and I love skiing but can you believe that we have actually never skied together in the 8 years we have been together??! Last season I was preggo and the doc put the kibosh on skiing so I was so looking forward this season when we could finally get out. Grandma Carlson was very kind to watch Grayson and Ryan so that the rest of us could enjoy the day. We went up to Brighton and the weather was absolutely perfect. It was slightly icy but otherwise great skiing. That is for the BIG exception of the power going out and getting stuck on the ski lift for an inordinate amount of time! Way lame but we at least got a 1/2 price day pass out of it so I guess we will look forward to another great day of skiing.






Poor Mila got smashed by another kiddo in her ski class and it injured her tooth and made it loose, they think it will fall out soon. I told her that I'm sorry she got hurt and she said "it's ok, I will grow a new one."

Merry Christmas!

Usually I have to work on Christmas Eve, but not this year! We typically get together with the Carlson’s on Christmas morning and open presents together, but we decided to do it on Christmas Eve instead. Grayson loved his little truck he got from Aunt Chanel and Uncle Richard, he played with it all night. We got everything we wanted and it was so fun to hang out with the whole family. And what kind of Christmas would it be if Rich and I didn’t play the “Christmas song”; one of us plays the left hand and one plays the right and together we make some great music-this year, we had a new song to try, it was challenging.










Christmas morning was left to our own little family. We were all spoiled rotten. Not sure why we spoiled Grayson because he ended up loving the paper and bows more than the toys.

Family pictures

I felt the need to get some pictures for Grayson’s six-month birthday but I didn’t want to pay a ton of money. A few people in our ward went to a place called Fotofly in Draper. Their pictures turned out pretty good so I figured we would give it a shot. It’s a large room with different walls and props all over the place and you can choose to take pictures where you want. It was pretty cool. Grayson did pretty good except the repeated flashing made him mad. We had to calm him down every few minutes….annoying, but we got some great ones of him!

Vacation!....Fox style

Last weekend, we went on a family vacation!!!

First one since Grayson was born

Nevermind that it was only to Spanish Fork canyon for the guys to go hunting and nevermind that it was so cold that I didn’t step foot outside the camper the whole weekend and nevermind that the whole weekend, my mother-in-law played with Grayson while I did homework.

It was a vacation none the less!

Happy Halloween!

I had to get some shots of my little darling in his costume.

He is a lion if you couldn’t tell.

People have asked if we will be trick-or-treating….

I don’t think we will be prostituting our child for candy this year-maybe next year (I think people would catch on to what we were doing!)

Happy Halloween!

Six months old!

I cannot believe that my little boy is six months old! It seems that you spend their newborn stage exhausted and sleep deprived and therefore can't remember anything. I do remember thinking how I couldn't wait until he was not just a eating, sleeping, pooping lump anymore. Now he is an interactive, explorative, loving, happy, smiley little boy. I have decided that this is my new favorite stage of baby-ness. At his 6 mos checkup he weighed a whopping 16 lb 14 oz and was 28 inches long. He is hitting just about all of his milestones. He it getting really good at being spoon fed and still loves squash and sweet potatoes the most. He grabs toys with both of his hands and brings everything to his mouth. He still is not great at sitting up on his own and is not big on standing-but the doc thinks it is just his laid back attitude. He sleeps 11 hours at night and still only gets mad when he is hungry or sleepy, otherwise he just hangs out where ever we put him!
I saw a tutorial online about how to make baby ties (I had to find something cute because there is just not much out there that is cutesy for boys) and I went to the DI and found a few ties to turn into baby size. Then I just had to take some pics of my little guy in his cute tie because who can resist a baby dressed up like an adult?? (although the shirtless-ness is a little more risque-so ladies watch your eyes!)