Merry Christmas!

Here are the pictures from the last week.

Christmas Eve (our house)




I know, this was the best picture i could get of them...


Christmas morning (first Christmas!!)




Daddy's first building-Christmas-morning excursion...


our tree!


Our Big Bear House, day after Christmas, we had to dig through 5ft of snow to get in! we actually went up Christmas day but had snow storms, so we couldn't take pictures, or go outside really.

9mo and First Tooth!!

He's been teething for awhile, but today, it finally broke through. He's got his bottom tooth coming in, and on the same day he turns 9 months old! With Christmas Eve just a few days away, and since we are having the festivities here again, I'll try and put up some pictures before the end of the week.

Happy Holidays!

It's cold outside

we had rain the last few days, and it snowed down to 4,000ft. cold holiday season!

Jay will be 9mo on Monday!

already fishing






wrestling with dad

Standing, Crawling and Dancing

Time flies..

Year is almost up...and Jay is getting bigger....Christmas is soon!!

Here are some pictures from Thanksgiving, and our tree!! Hope to post more video soon...

biggest tree yet!

8 mo...

I know I'm a little behind, but things have been very busy with getting ready for the holidays. Jaydon is now pulling himself up more on to furniture and walking around things more comfortably. He's even able to stand briefly on his own (a video to follow soon). The video below is a month old, but still cute. Enjoy...

Already November

I can't believe it's already November, and Jaydon is almost 8 mo old. Time is going by so quick!! For those interested in getting him a Christmas gift, we have a wish list up at http://www.toysrus.com/ or clothes, since he is growing so fast, we can barely keep up. He's already getting too big for 12 mo sizes, and we are now moving on to 18 mo.

Sunday we are going to San Diego, for a few days, and Jay will be going to his first Zoo/Wild Animal park trip. Starting now until probably the end of the year will be very busy for everyone. Thanksgiving is just around the corner, and we will be doing that at our house again, hopefully doing web cam with TN again as well. Since this is Jaydon's first Christmas, i am even more excited about getting our tree, and all the lights and presents!! Hopefully we will be able to take him up to see some snow for his first time this year as well.

I'll put up more pictures next week after we get back from SD...not much has happened since the last posting, but here he is trying to crawl....




And trying to steal the camera...

Touching

I saw this video, and it is not only touching but inspiring, so I'm sharing it with you. Be prepared, it will make you cry.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=th6Njr-qkq0

Happy Halloween

October is over, and now it's time to get ready for Thanksgiving and Christmas!! Here are a few pictures along with Jay in his costume. We made our own photo studio in our back room...

7 Mo on Wed.

More Video fun

The first clip is him standing up on his own (i know he's only 6 mo!!), the next 2 were taken since he was having a laughing fit over a few phrases, and he was being silly in general, it had been a few min since he starting geeking out so i got a little bit to remember.

Again sound is needed to fully enjoy this one. This is also a big file (long video) so it will take longer to "load" don't worry, it's worth it :)

Music Time...

Daddy and Jay playing some tunes....

Fishing

Taking Jay on vacation and fishing, we had to re learn how to do everything. I've never asked for a high chair so many times before (once for every meal). The nice thing was this whole trip was paid for, and we went up to Bishop in my favorite time of the year (FALL!) the colors were so amazing and just being there was great. Unfortunately I was either holding Jay or trying to get some fishing in so not many pictures of him (there was a great shot of Stacy wearing him on his back, standing in the pond fishing), but i had to get my fishing in when I could. Here are a few highlights....







I'm on the left and Rich (our host) is on the right


Rich and Victor (our hosts)


Stacy and I caught a few, however we are avid catch and releasers, plus we didn't have any of decent size anyway :)

6 Months!

We're at the half year point!! He had some more shots today, and his regular check up/weight in. The dr. still says he's off the charts, and still looks good weight to length.

21 lbs. 9.9 oz
29 inches

We are leaving friday for our fishing trip, i'll post pictures for that when we get home Sunday.

Standing on his own...

Nice weekend...

We went up to Big Bear this weekend and spent an extra day for my Birthday. We did a lot of cleaning Saturday and some mild updates on the house (replaced a few faucets, and organized our closet), but Sunday (my birthday) we went out for a short walk w/ our new little baby backpack. Jay just loves being up there, and was having so much fun!

Along our walk I saw something off in the water...then i saw it start to move, so we sat and watched it for a second till we realized it was a pretty big catfish. The largest one in the pod was probably about 5lbs, and the other 5 were around 1ish or so. After watching the first pod eating right below the surface of the water, we started seeing more pods with probably about 5-6 fish in each, and all doing the same thing (i think we saw about 5 pods in total all eating at once). I had never seen anything like that before so we got the best pictures we could. In the picture below there is the one big one, and i think 4 smaller ones.

He's still getting used to sleeping in another bed besides ours, but hopefully he gets more used to big bear. The drive up has always been ok, but the last few times we went up it seems like the drive back home has been causing problems. Or maybe he just doesn't want to leave....

Short clips

Here is a small compilation of fun stuff Jay has done over the last few weeks. Raspberries and laughing are the main attraction here....Coming up next will have to be video of him pulling himself up to standing by himself, and staying there without help for a few seconds, which he did for the first time on Sunday. He was doing raspberries a lot for awhile, but for some reason has stopped that and moved on to screaming.

Sound is required for full appreciation.

First game of the season..

Rams played yesterday and Jay got to watch the game with his daddy, unfortunately it was a bad game and they lost horribly. Oh well, maybe next week...

Growing so fast...

Jay's next dr's check up/shots appointment isn't until the 22nd, but I think he's already over 22lbs. He's already wearing and fitting nicely in 12mo. old clothes (he's not even 6 mo yet!), and all the 9 mo stuff is getting too tight for him. At the end of this month is going to be his first real vacation (i don't consider Big Bear vacation since we own it :P), and he'll be going on his first fishing trip!!

Uncle Zak...

Here are the pictures i promised from Uncle Zak's birthday....

Picnic and Football

this afternoon we had a little picnic under our tree in the back yard. Good thing we were so close, since it's pretty hot out today so we can come in and turn on our little tiny a/c unit to cool off a little. but for the important stuff....we got jaydon a rams jersey and hat so he can watch games with daddy and be the good luck charm this year. we got some pictures of him showing off his new outfit....