New Years

I know this is really behind but I've finally decided to post about our New Years trip to California to visit my family. We had a great time and I forgot how much I LOVE California in the Winter time. While we were there we went to a great little family park/shopping center in Vacaville, the Nut tree. My family used to go there all the time when I was little for their pumkin patch. We actually have a home movie of me when I was just over a year riding this same horse. I thought it was a picture moment.

Tyson being silly with his Grandpa

Yay for Grammas!

While we were in California my Grandparents came to visit as well and we had a great time! They are the funniest people you will ever play card games with. Love them. We had to get a generations picture.

Tyson's first Carousel ride. He looks a little unsure of it.

He really did enjoy it although this face says otherwise

He absolutely loved the giant chess board. He was a big help during our game moving our pieces around while we weren't looking. Maybe he was just tired of us playing and knew we were going for ice cream when we got done. We went to Fentons (sorry no pictures) yes same fentons as in the movie up except not the same location. Delicious, Ginormous, Creamest Ice Cream I've ever had.
A couple of days later when my sister and her family were visiting we went to the mall and let the kids run wild in the place place there. I don't know if Tyson was crawling through or if Gramma is pulling him back either way (I think) he had fun.

Two carousel rides in a week. Spoiled!

We had a great time and I think all of us were tuckered out by the end of our Holiday travels which was probably good because Ty actually slept on the plane ride.
We love our families and were so happy to be able to make the trip out there. There's nothing like home for the holidays.

Christmas at the Millers

We were able to fly to Utah this year for Christmas. I'm so glad we were able to this year because who knows what next year will bring and where we will be. It was so nice being greeted by Todd's family at the airport. It's always good and comforting to see them. Tyson didn't take too long to warm up to anyone. It was so fun to watch him interact with his grandparents and aunts and uncle. I'm pretty sure he loved every moment of it.

When we first got there, Todd's family took us to eat at Texas Roadhouse, mmmm. It was delicious. After that we went to Temple square, see previous post. Ty was exhausted but at least he was happy. I couldn't complain about anything. It was such a relaxing vacation. There was sooo much good food and sweets, so much for my work-out schedule. We also played so many games. It was a lot of fun. Ty loved to walk around stamping his feet on the kitchen floor just to hear his own footsteps. He also has a new favorite toy. A push around ball popper. He couldn't get enough of it. Christmas was great this year. Besides getting everything I wanted, I had so much fun being with Todd and Ty. Ty didn't really get the hang of presents but he sure loved the wrapping paper and boxes. I'm excited to see what he'll do next year.

Temple Square at Christmas

We flew into Salt Lake on the 23rd of December and since I don't remember going to see the lights at temple square Todd's family made a trip just for me. I loved it! Absolutely gorgeous! I can't believe how many light they put on one tree. I highly suggest people to go see them if they haven't already. Ty was in amazement the entire night. I think he was either overwelhemed by the amount of people there were or in fascination of the lights, either way he seemed to have a good time. We'll have to go back when he remembers

New Hobbie

So one of Ty's favorite new hobbies is to see how fast he can unroll a roll of toilet paper.Unfortunately this was a brand new roll and I walked into another room for a minute. He was being too quiet so I go to check on him and this is what I find

Bye Bye Wisdom Teeth

I know I'm going to probably regret this but I think it's worth documenting. I got my wisdom teeth out in the middle of December. Besides the fact that the Novocaine didn't work and my mouth was the smallest mouth my dentist had seen. It wasn't that bad. I feel I recovered in good time and I glad to be rid of them.

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Happy 1st Birthday Tyson!

Well, Ty is officially 1 year old. I can't believe it has been a whole year that we've had him in our lives. Todd and I were talking yesterday about being in the hospital and waiting for him to come and how excited we were just to see his face and who he looked like. He has changed sooo much since that day. We have all changed, we feel, for the better. Tyson makes us so happy and even though we get flustered ever now and then we can't express the joy we feel when we are all together and recieve one of those crooked Tyson smiles. It's been so neat to see him grow and learn. These last weeks especially seemed like he has picked up so much. He is quite the chatter box and loves to hide things. He has a specific place, between the vhs player and dvd player, where he likes to hide things such as remotes, phones and nail clippers. If one of those is missing pretty good chance it is in his hiding spot. We had a fun time celebrating his birthday. I don't think he knew what was going on but he has definitely been enjoying the new toys.

This is Tyson eating his birthday cake. he's had cake before so it wasn't that big of a deal but he did like that we just let him at it and feed himself.

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He just looked at us funny when we sang to him and didn't get to do with the candle. He loved the frosting though, so did Claire.
One of Ty's presents. Yeah I know it looks like a big deal but really it was 15 bucks off of Craigslist. The kids love it. And I figure with it being snowy and cold this will be a nice thing for play dates we have this winter. Ty loves going down the slide and trying to climb up it. He learned that from Claire.
This is Tyson's cake. I really wanted to decorate one for him and because Kristen let me borrow her stuff I was able to do it. I think it turned out really well for my first time and it wasn't has hard or time-consuming as I was expecting it to be.

Thanksgiving

Sorry I'm a little late, but I thought I give an update about Thanksgiving. Todd and I weren't able to fly out to California where the rest of my family was celebrating Thanksgiving so we decided to host Dinner at our place. With the help of my good friend, Kristen, we had a very enjoyable time. Kayla and Jeremy Huntsucker were able to come as well as Rachel and Stoss Loposchanscky (really have no idea with that one, sorry guys) and Rachel's parents were able too. We had more than enough food and the desserts were amazing. It's always fun to spend time with good friends.

Ty Loved Thanksgiving dinner. I didn't think it was possible that he could eat so much food. He loved the potatoes and stuffing. He even enjoyed all the left over turkey meals.
This is our turkey. It actually looks really gross in this picture but it tasted pretty good if I do say so myself. This turkey was our first so now we know for next time exactly how long the turkey will take. We under-guessed by 40 minutes. Oh well, it tasted good and we had a fun night.