A Baby?

A lot has been going on this year for us, I am going to start out with the biggest and best news,  which everyone knows already, as I did the official face book post, but the day after Tristan's one year birthday I bought a pregnancy test while Ryan at work to prove to myself that I wasn't pregnant.  I bought the cheapest one that shows just a cross if you are pregnant. Duh, of course I'm not, was my first  thought, upon closer inspection and reading the directions more carefully I was shocked and well shocked.  I told Ryan  in a rather anti-climatic way in the car that we need to step up our search for our new house,  he was just as shocked as I was and we both thought I should take another test just to be sure and sure enough the same positive result. I called the dr office the very next day and went in to get my blood drawn and they found my progesterone level to be pretty low.  So, for weeks I refused to get excited about this new baby.  Due to my levels being low they let me come in for an ultra sound at week 8 and this is what we saw along with hearing a strong heart beat.  Yay!! I was finally able to get excited.

Ultra sound 1 pic

 and at my 12 week appointment we got this ultra sound pic

1st Year Birthday

The invitation

The set up

 The ceremonial eating of the cupcake.

 Opening his first birthday present.

About One Year Old Tristan:

He loves people!  He is the most happy, friendly and charming little boy ! Right after we sung Happy Birthday to him, he looked around and realized everyone was staring at him and started smiling, he loved all the attention!  Every time we go anywhere, I mean anywhere, he will stare and smile at some one until they look at him and give him some attention, he is bound and determined to make a friend on every outing. He is constantly jabbering in his own language.  He says mama, dada, and ba for ball and bottle.  He loves going outside, and thinks getting his diaper changed is a huge waste of time. He is ,I think, getting close to walking.  He sometimes will stand by himself but as soon as he realizes he is he quickly sits down.  But he loves pushing his little walker around and getting into anything and everything possible.  He can destroy a room in 10 seconds flat.  He loves opening and closing drawers and doors.   He loves being chased and he has the best laugh in the world.  Sleeping at night is still not great, but other than that he is about as perfect as you can get.  He weighs 20.8 lbs, 29 inches and still is only in the 10% for his head size:) Mama and Dada love him to pieces and can't help but dote on him!

Super Baby

My little boy is 11 months old! I've been thinking I haven't been good enough and recording all the little things that make this boy so super and he is not going to be a baby for much longer!

A couple of Saturdays ago, were doing our usual Sat. cleaning of the house and Ryan was vacuuming.  Tristan has always been scared of the vacuem so usually one of us holds him while the other vacuums.  I sat him down on the floor while Ryan was in the other room and he actually started crawling towards the vacuum, when the vacuum started coming towards him he got a really nervous look on his face and started booking it away but he didn't cry and as soon as the vacuum was not coming towards him he would crawl towards it.  What a brave boy!  I wish we would have gotten video of it, we did a little re-enactment the next saturday but it wasn't the same, he was a little more scared the second time around.  A few days after that, I found him hitting the vacuum and yelling at it (while it was safely stowed away of course), he's so funny!

Here is some video of Tristan crawling and going about his daily business and the re-enactment of the vacuum incident.

Looking back and ahead

I know it is late for a New Year's post, but better late than never right...?   Anyways, when I was reviewing my New Year's resolutions that I made for last year, I realized that I had not even done one of them at all consistently, or really at all. I  rationalized that was due to having Tristan and all the changes that came with having a new baby and even though I followed thru on none of my goals, it was one of the happiest years in my life, granted it could have been better I guess if I had kept some of my goals.  But the point of this is that this year, I am determined to be better at keeping my New Year's resolutions.

 For New Year's we went to St. George for the holiday and my bro-in-law gave a talk on setting goals (full disclosure we didn't actually make it to church to hear the talk because ryan forgot his church pants but we heard that it was really good and that he talked about doing one spiritual goal, one physical goal and one social goal). So, i have decided to do that.


My spiritual goal is to get to the temple at least once a quarter. I know its not a lot, but it will be an improvement over last year.

My social goal is that me and Ryan are going to have one real date a month.


 My physical goal is to get back in shape, at least to get back to my pre-pregnancy weight, and to do that by having a specific work out and eating goal every month.  So, for January, my goal was to do an hour work out video mon.-fri.,  (p90X) and not eat after 8:30 pm.  So far, I have  done pretty good, I only missed one work out, but made up for it on sat.,  weekends I haven't been as strict about not eating after 8:30, but have done it pretty consistently during the week. I haven't really lost any weight so I think I might have to do something more drastic with my eating, but if I try to eat less I have less self control about eating sweets... so that doesn't really work well for me. What has worked for everyone, any suggestions?

Christmas 2012

Christmas this year was a blast with Tristan. Santa stuffed his stocking with his favorite things to eat and he looked so adorable going thru his stocking and eating his little fruit pouches!  He loved opening his presents, not so much the presents themselves but for the wrapping and tissue paper.  After opening our presents we watched a Christmas movie, skyped with my family and napped until the after noon we left to go meet up with Ryan's mom, her friend, and Ryan's brother to go bowling.  None of us had ever been bowling on Christmas before, we would have seen Les Mis (which we are super excited for) except its not really fun to take your almost 10 month old to.  But bowling was fun although I had my worst game (embarassing really) and Ryan had his best game.   After bowling, Tristan's cousin Derik came over (Tristan tried stealing all his toys) and his bro wife got  off work and joined us for dinner that  Ryan's mom had made, Honey Smoked ham and turkey, funeral potatoes ( a Utah original and sooo good) and so much more yummy food!  After wards we opened presents! Thanks to both grandma's for spoiling us and Tristan!

 Tristan enjoying his stocking stuffers!

 How cute are these two?

Hope everyone had as good as Christmas as we did! And now on to 2013...

Merry Christmas!!

It's snowing buckets outside right now and our house is warm and cozy, I just pulled some delicious cinnamon rolls out of the oven, and we are fixing to watch The Grinch Stole Christmas, while Tristan is napping peacefully in his crib (he woke up at 6 am this morning).

This month flew by as December always does, and we still have to make a quick run to the grocery store and buy a last minute gift before really settling in. We've had Ryan's work party,  an annual ugly Christmas sweater party with friends, neighbor and ward parties, rode the trolley thru the lights at Thanksgiving point with Ryan's family and got the most amazing peppermint sundae there, Tristan loved the lights so much we did a repeat with our neighbors.   I wish I had stopped to take some pics.    I can't wait to fill  each other's stockings for the first time this year and watch Tristan opens his presents, even though I know he will be way more excited for the wrapping paper than anything wrapped.

Merry  Christmas!!

The Life and Times of Tristan- Giggles

This boy gets so excited for bath time.  He is a little distracted by the camera though.  ( And he's got the Cutest baby butt ever:))

Tristan is loving Aunt Penny!

  Tristan laughs at  just about everything daddy does!