ABC's Of Me

ABC's Of Me
I was tagged by my sister Sheila... You know technically I think you can only tag one person at a time Sheila, but I'll do it anyway!

A- Attached or single: attached
B- Best Friend: Mac is a given, but long time best friend is Hannah
C-Cake or Pie: Chocolate Cake! or Strawberry Rhubarb Pie!
D-Day of Choice: Saturdays, Mac doesn't have any meetings!
E- Essential Item: running shoes, my race is in 10 days...yikes.
F- Favorite Color: usually blue
G- Gummi Bears or Worms: ooh the cinammon gummi bears
H- Hometown: Anchorage, Alaska
I- Indulgence(s):chocolate and clothes
J- January or July: January was quite nice here in Texas, but July anywhere else
K-Kids: 1 happy smiley little boy
L-Life is incomplete without: my family
M- Marriage Date: April 8, 2006
N- Number of Siblings: 2 brothers, 1 sister- I'm the youngest
O- Oranges or Apples: Oranges-
P- Phobias or Fears: SPIDERS-you can ask anyone who knows me
Q- Quote: hmm...can't think of one right now
R- Reason To Smile: Mac is almost finished with grad school
S- Season: Spring-perfect weather, Summer-warm, Fall-colors, winter-snow
T- Tag Six: Hannah, Katie, Tara, Megan, Brie
U- Unknown Fact About Me: most of you should already know this, but I got asked the other day if I sing, that is a big fat NO...don't get me wrong, I wish I could!
V- Vegetarian or Oppressor of Animal: well tonight we'll be vegetarian-tortellini soup, but most nights it's oppressor of animal
W- Worst Habit: hmmm...probably procrastination
X- X-Rays or Ultrasounds: ultrasounds...is it a girl or boy?
Y- Your Favorite Food: love mexican
Z- Zippers or Zebras: Zebras

So big...

Our little guy is already sitting up and eating rice cereal...and loving it! I just can't believe how big he's getting. He's 5 months now, but wears 9-12 month sizes and eats all the time! We love how excited he is about reaching out and playing with his toys, trying so hard to get up on his knees, and how intrigued he is with the outdoors! We have a blast every day with this cutie-patootie!

Oops...

To explain this....Connor was practicing his rolling over last night and he worked so hard he threw up a good amount of his dinner in the process. He didn't have a speck on him until he threw his face straight into it out of exhaustion. What a bad mom I am to make him lay there with puke on his face so I can run and hurry to take a picture! But isn't too cute? Mac thinks it's a good one for his senior pictures!

We Made It!!!

Well, we did it! A total of about 23 hours driving and four 1 1/2 hour plane rides....all so worth it! Connor did surprisingly well with it all and even cut his first two teeth! I guess all he wanted for Christmas was his two front teeth....and he got them about a day later. We had such a good time visiting with family and showing off our little Con-man. As you can see we visited both sides of the fam--going to Kansas to visit Sheila, Jim, and their boys and Talmage Utah to visit Grandma and Grandpa Burton and all Connor's uncles and aunts. It was pretty funny to see how Connor adjusted to the no joke 100 degree difference in temps. When we left Austin it was 75 degrees and it got as low as -20 degrees in Utah!!! We bundled him up well and he loved it!

Tis the Season

Here are a sample of the treats we made this year. I was a little sad because our santas turned out a little better last year, but as Mac says, "They taste just as good!" We've started early this year since we'll be heading out to Kansas and Utah next week! My sister's family lives near Wichita, Kansas and then we'll head out to Talmage Utah to see Mac's family. We have been looking forward to this for some time now!!!

San Antonio

I cannot tell you how enjoyable this past weekend was for Mac and I. We celebrated the end of his semester by taking a little weekend vacation! On Friday we drove down to the San Marcos outlets and finished off our Christmas shopping, which was perfect because the crowds were not near as bad as they would've been on Saturday. Then we made it to our hotel in San Antonio and unpacked and then headed downtown to have dinner at the River Walk....so much fun and romantic. Connor even slept through our dinner, which made it that much sweeter. What a fun place to go visit during the holidays! That night Mac went to an evening session at the temple and I stayed in the hotel with Connor and watched Cinderella Man---love that movie! We felt like kids again excited for cable television! The next morning I woke up early to attend the early session while Mac and Connor slept in. After lunch we headed down to Sea World and used our season pass for the last time. We had no lines for the rides and even ran into our bishop's family and went to a couple of shows and rides with them! We couldn't have asked for a more enjoyable, relaxing, and fun weekend! I'm so proud of you Mac!

Thanksgiving

We ALL went to bed with full tummies....even Connor!!!

Thanksgiving this year was great! We woke up early Thursday morning so Emily and I could go get an early run in together, which to our suprise was very cold and windy.....All the hard work though paid off later in the day.....Mac and Darrin went to a local high school to play flag football, a fun and luckily injury-free event! Then we had a couple of hours to spare to get our part of the yummy dinner ready for later in the day. I made a homemade strawberry rhubarb pie, green bean casserole, and a frozen pumpkin pie. Mac on the other hand was determined to have a chocolate pie, so he made a suprisingly very yummy choloate pudding pie, which was the hit of the party!

We were lucky enough to spend Thanksgiving day with family and friends at the Mattson's home! We had such a fun time Eating, playing on full tummies with the kids, playing apples to apples, and laughing lots! We're so lucky to have made such great friends here in Austin! And this year we had Mac's brother and sister-in-law with us!!! Definitely a favorite holiday!