Time with Family

Griffin and I are visiting Heather, Nate, and Tank this week! We picked up Grandma Wells in Butte and we all drove down together. Griffin calls my mom "Grammy".

Griffin and Tank also love playing with each other. They love running up and down the stairs and chasing each other around the coach.

Griffin found his old baby walker and has been having a blast climbing in and out of it. He loves putting his cars, helicopter, and blocks on the tray and then just playing.

He brings so much joy to my life. I love him. He has a real spunky personality, and he is smart. I know all parents say their kids are smart, but nothing gets passed our Griffin. He has a great memory and learns quickly.

And here is the newest addition to our family sweet baby Ella. We've been working on making the baby announcements so we had to take a few photos. They really didn't turn out too bad I don't think. Heather likes the black and white. Here she is in her blessing dress! Ella is so precious. I don't remember Griffin ever being so small and help less but I guess at one point in our lives we all were. Heather and Nate are wonderful parents. Ella is a very blessed little girl.

Fun with the cricut

I made these letters with my new cricut! Thanks Joe, Griffin, Mom, Heather, Nate, and Ella for the wonderful gift. I've been having so much fun cutting things.

These letters are cut out of 12x12 paper so they are BIG. We tacked them up above Griffin's closet. So now finally I can say we did something decorative in our babies room...I am planning on making some other things for his room so you will just have to stay tuned.

What a sense of style!

This is the cute little outfit Griffin would prefer to wear.

He is beginning to be very aware of what he is wearing and likes to pick his own clothes out. I think he has been wearing his red chopper shirt for the last three days, but if it makes him happy I am happy as well.

This is just funny b/c he put his little sweater vest over his pj's and didn't want to have anything removed!

Oh, and he loves to sit at the island and eat his cereal out of his own bowl with his own spoon. He is just getting so big!

Comfortable

Griffin sure does know how to make himself comfortable!

Another one bites the dust~

Yup, Griffin broke another one of my tree ornaments. He knows he can not touch anything on the tree...but he has discovered a new way to get what he wants without touching it.

Are you wondering what my clever son does? Well he stands right next to the ornament and blows it until it falls onto the tree skirt then he will bring it over to me so I can put it back on; he thinks he is being so helpful. Well this ornament didn't land on the tree skirt so it broke into a million pieces.

Griffin was quite shocked and he looked up at me with his sad face and said, "sorry"? Then he ran and buried his head in the couch. It is hard to discipline him when he is genuinely sorry. Guess we will see what idea he comes up with next to get the ornaments off the tree.

Christmas 2008

Griffin got a red rider inch worm from Grandma Sherry. He had fun scooting across the floor.

Santa brought Griffin a space train set. It glows in the dark, not that he cares.
When I first got Griffin out of bed I told him that Santa came. He looked at me and said "where is he". He was very disappointed when we went out to the living room and Santa was not there. I had to explain that Santa had to visit everyone so he couldn't stay but he left some toys for him. It didn't take him long to warm up to that idea.Santa also left this really cool helicopter. Griffin has been hauling it all over the house.
My mom got Joe a remote control car. Griffin and him played with it for awhile on Christmas day. Griffin loved chasing it around. There is an airplane that goes on top of the car and then shoots off. I think Griffin got a hold of it and broke some of the wings, but it still flies so now we just need to make sure to keep it up, or else it will get dissected.
LJ had a FANTASTIC Christmas. He told me. My mom, Heather, Nate, Joe, and I all chipped in and got him an X-Box. He thought that was pretty cool and he wasn't expecting it. He is also wearing a new jacket he got from mom. He said it is definitely a winter jacket b/c it keeps him so warm. Dad and Julie got him a quesadilla maker. LJ said it works really good!

And here is me post surgery. I had a good Christmas. My mom, Heather, Nate, and Joe all chipped in and got me a Cricut!! I was very excited. I haven't hooked it up yet but Joe said he would help me once he gets to feeling better.

A Thanksgiving hair cut

I am behind with my blogging, but you know its been a busy four weeks!

For Thanksgiving we were able to go spend some time with Heather and Nate. Joe left the day after Thanksgiving to attend his sister, Susan's, wedding.

We had lots of fun and Aunt Heather gave Griffin another one of her five star hair cuts! Griffin was happy at first but then he got kind of grumpy.

This is Nate and Heather's do g Tank, oh and he is Griffin's best friend. Tank was a little annoyed because Griffin wasn't able to chase him around and feed him paper.

Tank was so nice to Griffin. They made a super huge mess with the Thanksgiving paper, but they had so much fun. I am sure Tank is real lonely without Griffin around. Griffin still talks about Tank.

Happy 2nd Birthday Griffin

Grandma Sherry got Griffin this wonderful Lighting McQueen tent for his birthday. She gave us permission to set it up one day early. Griffin absolutely loves it!

He is running in and out of it squealing with delight. We will need to set up his cars in there so he can have his own little play space.

A big THANK YOU to his Grandma Sherry!!!

P.S. excuse all the boxes and flipped over chairs in the background. Remember we just moved *wink*

Pictures

I am finally getting around to posting some pictures of our trip to Spokane. I've got some more of Joe's family but will save them for tomorrow's post.

Aren't the leaves so beautiful! Fall is my favorite season I love all the colors, and the cool crisp air!

I'm Judice

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