Idaho Falls Happenings

This is going to be a long and seemingly random post with lots of pictures! Nathan and I were reunited on Wednesday after being apart for 9 days. Nathan once again had training in Spokane and then had a meeting in Boise so Conner and I went to Idaho Falls. (I hate being alone and it is a good excuse to visit family!) Conner and I had tons of fun despite having colds. The following is a recap of the various events that happened during our week away...

My sisters and I made and decorated sugar cookies. The recipe made TONS and so I ate four a day until I came home. :)

Conner got to play with his cousin Kynzee. They are starting to be little buddies. He would scoot a ways and then look behind him to make sure that she was following him...and they love to make each other laugh!

Conner got to meet his new cousin Naomi for the first time. She is so tiny and cute! We love her already. :)

I got to hang out with two of my best friends from high school. It was just like old times (minus having a baby with us). My friend Megan is an amazing photographer and she was kind enough to snap some shots of Conner. I thind they turned out so cute!

Conner has started to babble "mamama". I'm pretty sure that he has no idea what he is saying but it is fun to think that he does. :)

Well... We are off to Idaho Falls again tonight. (I know we are crazy...) Nathan wants to see Naomi and we need to pick up a crib and a front door that we ordered. It will be fun spending Halloween with my family! (Pictures of Conner dressed up to come...) :)

The "Army Crawl"

Conner has been mobile for a while now (he used to roll everywhere he wanted to go) but he just recently started to scoot everywhere on his belly. We don’t think that it will be too much longer before he starts crawling and his main motivation will be to catch our cat Patches. For some reason he has become really interested in being able to play with her so he chases her around the living room all day and it is really funny! Patches knows that Conner is no real threat now but she is going to learn to fear him. :) Here are a couple of videos of Conner trying to play with her. Sorry the heater in the background is so stinkin loud!

Here is another video of Conner getting excited about cornering Patches behind his car seat. Sorry it is so dark! (I realize that all these videos are of pretty much the same thing but I couldn't decide which ones to post so I did them all!... I like to think that everyone is as facinated by my child as I am) :)

We also keep Conner entertained (we also find that it entertains us) :) by dropping a baby puff halfway across the room and he scoots to retrieve it. What a fun game!

Wow 4 Years!

Yesterday was our 4 year anniversary... it is crazy that it has already been that long! We have gone through some big changes this past year. We had Conner, graduated college, Nathan got his first "real" job, we packed up and moved to Twin Falls, and we just started building our first house. To celebrate the big event we went out to dinner at Johnny Carinos (italian restraunts are the most romantic) :) and then watched a movie at home. It would have been nice to go to the theatre but it would have been a task trying to keep Conner entertained on our laps for the whole thing. We had alot of fun anyways.This was our announcement picture... back in our more attractive days. :) Despite the physical changes I love being married, especially since it is to someone as wonderful as Nathan. He is the best Dad who would do anything for his little boy and he is my best friend and is always making me laugh. I love you sweetie!

Multitasking

When Conner was first born Nathan would volunteer to stay up with him until he fell asleep because it was a good excuse to stay up all night playing Xbox. (I didn't care about the reason because it was a nice break for me) :)

THEN... Few weeks old

Nathan still tries playing any chance he can (aka when I say it's ok) but it is getting a little more difficult because Conner loves to grab EVERYTHING in his sight and he thinks that the controler is a great toy. Playing Xbox with his Daddy almost always makes him happy if he is crying. What can I say... like father like son. :)

NOW... 7 months old

New Teeth!

Earlier this month while Nathan was in Washington for training AGAIN, Conner and I spent a week in Idaho Falls with my family. Conner's top two teeth came through while we were there so he is now up to four teeth...a few more and he'll be ready for steak! :) We had lots of fun on our trip except for when Conner's teeth were hurting and he was a little grouch...and Dad got to miss the whole thing... :)

Here he is showing off his new pair of teeth!

My Mom bought Conner and my niece Kynzee cute new jammies so we wanted to take some pictures of them together...but Kynzee was too interested in poking Conner in the eyes and pulling his hair and Conner just wanted to put his feet on her face...

Conner LOVED playing the piano with my Mom...I don't know how he could have any musical abilities in his genes because of Nathan and I. Nathan was actually encouraged by his piano teacher to quit taking lessons. :)



Here is Conner looking snazzy in his new church outfit.

Just like Daddy! :)
One last random thing...Conner has FINALLY started holding his bottle on his own and it is sooo nice!

Animal Overload

We decided to visit Nathan's brother and his wife in Boise over Labor Day weekend. On Saturday we took our kids to the Zoo. It was both Conner's AND Nathan's first time...I know I also have a hard time believing that he has never been to the Zoo! Here are some pictures from our visit. Although Conner would look in the animal cages I know that we were much more excited about it than he was.

Conner's first bareback elephant ride.

Conner and I riding the giraffe slide.

Nathan feeding our only child to the tiger.

It was fun seeing Kevin, Lena, and their kids. We are really sad that they are moving back to Washington...especially since we just found out that we will be staying here in Twin Falls. Now that we finally know where Nathan's job wants him we can begin the search for a house! I am really ready to get our own place. Hopefully it will be in a neighborhood where people won't cut our bike locks to steal our bikes and where our tires won't get slashed...yes both happened to us just since we moved here. I didn't realize that we were going to be living in the ghetto…

Anyways we made it back to Twin Falls on Labor Day in time to go to the county fair… So Conner got to see even more animals! Here he is staring in a cage at some ugly turkeys...thinking "I can't wait until Thanksgiving..."


Ahh and then the reason why we went to the fair... to get a delicious elephant ear! Apparently everyone else had the same idea so we had to wait in a massive line. I normally wouldn't have been patient enough to wait so long but I thought "Hey I only get to eat a giant scone once a year so I'm not missing out!"

I wanted honey butter on mine and Nathan didn’t so we each decided to get our own… BAD IDEA! I forget how big they are and I didn’t want to waste so I tried to eat the whole thing…can you say stomach ache.
It was nice being able to spend alot of time together over the weekend and we had alot of fun too! :)

Crazy Kid

Conner has a crazy little personality that we just love. Yesterday when I was feeding him prunes (he had a bunch up in his nose) when he scrunched up his nose and started sucking the prunes in and out of his nostrils... gross I know...it was so funny because he would do it and then laugh. It is now his favorite thing to do! He did it all day yesterday and today. I tried taking a picture of him making the "piggy face" but he just looks like a devil child so I posted a video as well.

Conner also loves to make a noise that is a mixture of squealing and grunting. It isn't always cute (like when we are pushing him through the mall in his stroller, at church, or on long car drives...) but we think he is so funny.

Despite his craziness, whenever he is around unfamiliar people or places he is a shy baby. If he is anything like his father then he will be sure to grow out of that! I hear stories of him being a hyper active child and I'm a little scared... :)