Drew's 1st birthday!!!

(I have been horrible at updating lately so there are a couple late October posts below this one)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DREW !!!

I cannot believe it has already been a year since Ted sat in our hospital room and started this blog. What an adventure this year has been. It has been so fun to watch him grow and learn. He has been (for the most part) such a good happy baby. I have loved being a mom more than I thought I would. There have of course difficult parts, but how lucky am I to have Drew as my son.


Okay enough of the cheesy stuff. It was a fairly low key birthday- Drew didn't seem to care too much about opening presents for his birthday, but did kick his legs and get really excited for many of the fun toys he got. He absolutely loved his birthday cake and loved the ice cream even more. He ate the cake exactly how I imagined he would- making a great mess of himself. Below are some pictures of the cake eating event!

Dad's award and Halloween!

On my actual birthday we went to Ogden to see my dad get a mayors award for the visual artist of the year (pretty cool!). It was a great birthday gift to have most of my family there and to hear my dad give a great speech. Congratulations Dad!!!

This year for Drew's first Halloween we borrowed an idea and some costume supplies from Abby and we were the 3 little pigs. I think my favorite part was seeing Ted in his pink women's, size 3 XL, sweats. We had fun at both family parties- donut eating contest, pumpkin golf putting (crafted by Grandpa Coop), and carving pumpkins (grown by Papa Mac). We were able to catch a few pictures of Drew in the pumpkin patch!

Florida- go gators!

Florida trip!!!! Ted ended his fall busy time at work and I needed to celebrate (lucky how my birthday coincided with it), so we went to visit Jon and Kristie in Florida for 5 days!!! We left Drew home and I almost had a nervous breakdown leading up to it, but once we were gone I was just fine. It was a well needed break and Drew did just fine here at home (THANKS to all the family who helped). Here are some of the highlights of the trip:
-We went to a University of Florida game, which was crazy! There were 90,000 people there and 90% of them were all decked out in UF gator attire. The crowd was so loud my ears were ringing. It was a close game, so that made it even more exciting.

- We saw quite a bit of gators. It is crazy that they really just live there without fences or anything. We some huge ones at a place called Plains Prairie (I think it is a national park).
-We spent 2 days at Disney World! It was a lot of fun, that place is huge. We even had a "magic moment" where we magically opened the doors to a show- it was actually quite humorous. I would see people with their babies and miss Drew a ton, but then I would think about how nice to not have him there tired and fussy. Funny how it is a great break but you think about him the whole time. Kristie and Jon were so nice to put up with us talking about him.

-The biggest highlight was hanging out with Jon and Kristie for 5 days!!! They were such good hosts and we had the time of our lives. Thanks for making it so fun!

The game!

Gator sightings.

Disney World!!!!