Christmas

Our first Christmas was with my family back in Davenport. It was a lot of fun but pretty crazy too. With my parents, us four kids, our spouces and all of our kids there are 20 of us.

Judson LOVED being with all of his cousins and Aunts and Uncles. He also loved all the great gifts that he got. A Little People barn, Little People airplane, and Little People castle. He also got a tent and tunnel, and musical micraphone.

Then on Christmas we were home just the three of us. It was great to wake up that morning and take Judson down and let him open up all of his presents. He also liked opening up all of our presents. It was so much fun though, and we loved having the time with just him.

Judson got another Little People airplane, a Little People swing and some actual Little People. He also got a little Husker football.

It was a very Little People Christmas!! :) But he loves all of them.

Then over New Years we had Nate's family here for another Christmas celebration. Judson enjoyed lots of great time with Grandpa, and Grandma too.

He also enjoyed showing Aunt Alyssa all of his Little People.

With the help of Dan and Nolan, Nate gave me another Christmas present. They built shelving for storage for the basement. It is so much easier to get to each tub now!!

Judson got an awesome car mat that he has really enjoyed.

Finally working...

Since the start of November I have not been able to get on blogger consistantly. When I log on it kicks me off the internet. Well it all worked today and I was able to catch up on other peoples blogs. Hopefully it will let me back on later and I can catch up what has been going on in our lives. I hope to use nap time to do that. So I hope to have pictures and things up later today!

Big Boy

Nate and I have been talking about transitioning Judson to a bed. He is fine in his crib, not crawling out or anything, but it seemed like time. Judson is already 21 months old, I know where has the time gone!!! So we thought it was time. I have been told by other moms that actually 18 months is the best time, well we already missed that but oh well. So last night Nate and I took a side off the crib to make it a toddler bed. It is so nice that it converts!! We wanted to keep Judson in his room and did not want to have to move everything around to make room for a bigger bed. As soon as we took the side off and remade the bed Judson got so excited and climed right in!! It was super cute!! Then last night when it was bed time Judson was so funny because he did not want to go thourgh his normal routine and read a book he just wanted he bed. So I put him in it and he stayed all night!! What a great kid!!

I said he stayed it in all night, I didn't say that he didn't get out this morning! :) I was in the bathroom and I heard him get up. I went to check on him and of course he was not in his bed!! So I looked around his room, then around to the other bedrooms and no Judson. I then heard a noise downstairs. So I went down to see Judson opening a Christmas present that had been under the tree. He was so proud of himslef, and really it was cute. But that is not what I was hoping for!! I now have to make sure that I am always up before he is, which happens most days but not all! :) But it is good to have him out of his crib, he is not a baby anymore!! We will just have to see what happens with this new freedom of his. I am a little nurvous about nap time today!! Without being trapped, like he was in the crib, who knows what he will get into!

Little of this, Little of that

We have started to let Judson play with play-doh. He loves it!! And it is great to have something new to do. With the weather being cold and us having to be inside more we are getting more creative!! Well he had been playing great with the play-doh so the other night I let him play with it while I made supper. It was great!! He was happy and busy, and strapped in to his seat at the table. Well he had also decided to see what it tasted like!! Really this was the first time he decided to eat it, which is amazing!! But he had nice slimy blue teeth as you can see. We will try again though, play-doh is just to much fun not to play with!!

We put up a few decorations around the house. Not all of our Christmas things, but enough to make it feel like Christmas!! We have also used our fireplace some too. Judson loves to have the tree lit. If it is not one, he will go over and plug it in. I have to agree though, I like it on too!!

The other night was had a great family night. Went and got haircuts for the boys, ran some errands then came home and just played games and hung out. We made a point of not turing the T.V. on and just spending time together. It was such a fun night, though there are only so many things you can play with a 21 month old that just wants to knock everything over or mess everything up. Judson enjoyed playing cards with Nate though, he thought he was big for sure!!

Texas/Ray Wedding

Here we are... on our way to Abilene. We stopped for supper and were able to eat outside. It was crazy to be eating outside, it short sleves, the day before Thanksgiving!!

We traveled to Texas with friends of ours, Sam and Laura Burleson. It was nice to have extra drivers and Judson entertainers!!! I do not know what we would have done with out thier portable DVD player!!

Playing with Grandma Dee and Grandpa Roger. My parnets were traveling the entire month of November and were in Abilene for the wedding too. Judson loved having them to play with. Nate and I loved that they were so great about watching Judson so we could spend time with friends!! Thank you again Mom and Dad!!

My paretns treated us to the zoo they day of the wedding. It was a great time for Judson. He loved the animals and running around!!

Judson got to feed the giraffes.

Mr. and Mrs. Ray!!!!

The four of us together, Mom and Dad had already taken Judson back to go to bed.

Our friends Cason and Ashley

Heading out!

Judson really did a good job of traveling. There was less crying then I thought there was going to be. But at the end he was just so sick of his car seat and wanted to be able to move around!

Judson loves the PBS show Word World, and this DVD made the trip so so so much better. We watched it SO MANY times! :)

California

Shasta Dam, second largest dam in the U.S.

Krisitn and I at the dam, don't hate me 'cause I'm beautiful!! :)

At the sun dial bridge Friday before rehersal.

This was a pretty place and the bridge is an actual sundial, though only one day a year!!

The lovely rooster that lives next door to Kristin's parents house,

no we were not in the county!! And this lovely bird liked to start crowing at around 5:15 EVERY morning!! And then didn't stop all day long!! One on the many reasons i was so tired while I was there.

All five bridesmaids

Lesley, Keri, Saprina, Shelby and Me

The wedding cake. A eight inch round on top then cupcakes. This is how I spent a large amount of my time before the wedding, making, frosting and putting sprinkles on the cupckaes. We made around 300 of them, so we were busy. They did taste good, I was a little worried about that with our mass prodiction! :)

Kristin and Nate trying how to toast with being such different heights! :) She even had heals on!
Leaving, we all threw leaf confetti at them.

All the York girls

It was a great trip!! I left here at 5:15 a.m. Wednesday morning and got home Sunday at 11:30 p.m. Sunday was a very long day of traveling, but it was all worth it. I was so proud to be there to help with everything that needed to be done and stand up with Kristin!! I am so happy for her and the wonderful future that I know she and Nate will have!!!

Halloween

Grandma Dee painting Judson's face

Our little lion, he loved to ROAR!!!

Not that you can tell by this picture.
Getting the paint put on his face kind of relaxed him.

Trick or Treat!!
He loved running from house to house and was so excited that everyone kept giving him candy!! He would have gone to many many more houses if we would have let him, but we did not need that much candy!!

He loved when he got to pick his own candy.

We went up and down the block then came back to the house to hand out candy with Grandpa Roger and Grandma Dee. Judson enjoyed handing out the candy to other kids as much as he did trick or treating!

Not the greatest, but a family picture.

We did not actually did not hand out candy, we did fruit snacks. Judson liked coming back to hand them out because he was able to sneak a lot to eat! :)