Santa's a Hit!

I'm sure we're not the first "first-time parents" to ever wonder what their child's first encounter with Santa will be. Fortunately, Jayden's first time was at our church Christmas party where we also happened to be the live nativity family. A very kind brother in our ward made an awesome Santa, so today when we went to have his picture professionally done, we had hopes of getting at least a stare out of him rather than tears. Lately Jayden has only wanted either mom or dad...while endearing, a habit we're trying to break. Fortuately, today he was totally unaware that some stranger was holding him. Who knows? Maybe Santa resembles someone he may have known from the life before. Whatever the case, we got a really cute picture out of him today! It was a fun day at the mall...not too crowded, got a lot of errands completed & we even had some decent Chinese fast food! Can't complain!

The Holidays are Upon Us!

It's amazing how fast this year has gone! Christmas is quicly approaching and we'll be lucky to get any sort of Christmas card or newsletter out! We have been so wrapped up in "Buggy" (that's what we call him) that we just barely put away our Halloween porch decoration last week. Because we're going to California for Christmas we hadn't planned to decorate. We're going to put out our smaller tree with all the "fun" ornaments we've collected. But we're not putting out the "pretty" tree this year with the uniform decorations.

Buggy's talking up a storm these days. Granted, we have no idea what he's saying but he's sure trying his hardest to communicate. As I type this right now he's talking to his little Pooh bear snuggly. Last night he discovered his toes. He just sat and stared at them and watched himself wiggle them. Then he started reaching for them. It was so fun to watch. Yes, we're easily entertained, but you would be too in our shoes! :)

Life is great! The business is slowly but surely growing. Still not where we'd like it, but growing nonetheless. Jayden is happy and healthy. We're happy and trying to ensure we stay healthy.

We hope that everyone is enjoying this holiday season and we look forward to seeing our friends and family in good ol' sunny Southern California!