Christmas tree & fun game

The picture doesn't do the tree justice. It is so much prettier in person. It's our first tree. We waited until after Christmas last year to get it on clearance. It is up on a chair so Tanner can't get to it quite as well. Nate and Tanner kept this game up for a good half hour. Tanner always gets the hiccups when he laughs hard. He always has. Sometimes they make him throw up even.

Rexburg Temple Open House

For those who are interested, in order to attend the open house of the temple you need tickets. You get them at www.lds.org/reservations. It is December 29th -January 26th. They have tours from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. on all days but Sundays. I hear the spots are filling fast.

We sent this picture to a lot of people already, but in case we missed some, here is our announcement. We're having a baby in June. June 12th.

Learning to walk

We got Tanner an early Christmas present to help him walk. He does pretty good, but likes to walk on his knees better.

Slipper hands

Tanner found Nate's slippers fun to wear on his hands.

Crazy Nate

Nate and I have been trying to decide all year if we should get a new TV. Ours is broken; the coaxial plug in the TV is broken out, so we've had it rigged through our VCR to get cable. And the picture's not great. Plus, with everything going digital in 2009, we thought we'd just get ready for that. Anyway, so Nate decided to go stay the night at Circuit City yesterday so he could get a TV for us for Christmas. He put on 3 pants, 2 socks, 3 shirts, a hat, a scarf, and a coat. And he was still freezing because it was like 15 degrees that night. Poor guy. Left at 11:30 and stayed til 5. I didn't know he was going. I had to go to the bathroom at 1 am and I noticed he wasn't in bed, so I called him and found him. I hardly slept worrying he would get hypothermia. But he got our TV and it was a really good deal, 1/2 price. However, it was a little too big for our falling apart entertainment center so, we got a new one instead of sawing out a section of it to fit the TV. We actually considered it. It is actually an armoire that closes up, which is great having a little kid around. So that is all we are getting for Christmas this year. And probably next. :)

Few older pictures

These are a couple pictures my friend Alicia took the last couple months.

Today was the first day of Nate's long Thanksgiving break. He only has to work Monday and Tuesday and he has no classes all week, so we are happy to see him more. We'll stick around Rexburg for Thanksgiving and do dinner at Paul and Paula's. We'll go bowling for sure and shop on "black Friday." Oh, and put up our first Christmas tree. We've been married for 2 Christmas's and we haven't had a tree. Hope it stays in one piece; with Tanner around I doubt it. Besides that we just want to relax before Nate has to finish up the semester. Hope you all have a nice Thanksgiving.

Missing socks

I was looking for some of Tanner's socks the other day and had a hard time finding any, which was wierd because I had just bought him a pack of 10 pairs. Well, I was cleaning his room today and found this pile under his crib. Pretty funny huh?

Random

For some reason this video is so funny to me. This was Tanner kind of getting tired, and he gets weird. He is also getting over a cold so he's extra slimy.

Fuzzy blanket

When we go in to get Tanner every morning he insists on being wrapped in his fuzzy red blanket. He even has to eat in it.

Baby

The video quality isn't good, but you can hear Tanner saying baby. He was watching our computer screensaver slideshow. It is the pictures on our computer, so the baby he was seeing was himself.

Belly Button

An exciting discovery!

Forced laugh

What a happy kid!

TV addict already

Well, not really. There is one in our room that is just his height, so he turns it on sometimes and stands right in front of it. Halloween day there was a scary show on apparently because I was in the other room and heard a scream coming from our room. I went in and he was standing in front of the TV horrified. I sat him in my lap and felt his chest and it was pounding. It was pretty funny.