Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving weekend has been so fun so far. I love having Tanner home over the break! Thanksgiving morning we ran a 10K (little over 6 miles) called the Turkey Trot. It was hard but fun we ran an average of 11 minute miles but we never stopped running. By the end we felt so good but our knees were killing us because the whole thing was on pavement. 
Dinner was so good. We were in Arizona and spent thanksgiving with Tanner's family at his Aunt and Uncles house with cousins and grandparents.  It is still so warm out here that we ate dinner outside and it was so nice. The food was very good and it was great to see everybody. 
Tanner's Uncle Scott just got a new puppy that was so cute and totally interested in Blake (and visa versa Blake kept watching the puppy). He just jumped up on tanners lap and started licking blake on the cheek! It was so funny we hurried and took a picture. 

Sitting up!

For the past couple of weeks Blake has been trying to sit up by himself and he is doing pretty well. He is still very unstable, so we have to sit right next to him and catch him because he tips over a lot. Its fun because he is also more active and toys keep him entertained for longer periods of time so now he can sit up and play with them. He is also very curious or teething because everything he touches frantically goes into his mouth and gets chewed. Even my face! He will get a death grip on the hair on both sides of my head and pull it toward him with his mouth open. In about two seconds Im covered in drool. I just tell myself he's not trying to eat me, but he's just giving me loves and kisses because he loves his mom so much!

Is this my baby!

Yup, i have a blond hair, blue eye baby! For now at least. Tanner has blond hair and bright blue eyes, but i thought dark hair and dark eyes were dominant so i didn't get my hopes up. His hair is falling out and coming in blond and his eyes are still dark blue. I would love for them to stay blue but they are so dark I think they will eventually turn brown, but everyone else in the house thinks they will stay blue. In one of our old wards the bishops little girl had bright blue eyes until she was two years old then they all of a sudden turned brown! It so crazy how baby's eyes change colors, but I've never heard them changing colors that late. Blake is so cute that it wouldn't matter if he had blue, brown, green, even purple (well maybe not purple) eyes, he is still the cutest baby ever and I love him so much! 

Giggles

Ever since Blake was born he has been ticklish everywhere. He laughs the whole time I'm tickling him, until he sees the camera. Whenever we want to take a picture or record him we have to hide the camera.

 . 

Bouncy Bouncy Baby

We recently put blake in the jumping chair...

... and Im guessing he thinks its pretty fun. Whenever we hold him so he is standing on our lap he jumps so we thought it would be a good idea to pull this chair out. Now he can jump all he wants and mom and dads arms don't get tired. He loves to jump in it, but i thinks he likes chewing on it just as much!

Halloween Night

Halloween night we went to a ward halloween party and they had chili and fry bread. It was so yummy! Tanner and I went as farmers and Blake was our pumpkin we harvested! Tanner was farmer Joe, I was Mary Lou, and Blake was our prize pumpkin we picked from the pumpkin patch. 

The night before Halloween we decided to make a scary dinner! so we made witch hair with mummy guts (green spagetti with italian sausage), french bread with orange and purple butter, and a scary spider cupcake. 

Halloween

Here are some Halloween pictures of Blake in his costume. A lady in the ward is a photographer and was offering to anyone in the ward to take halloween pics and make a CD for only $10. She is so nice and did such a good job. Blake was very good and patient while she took the pics. 

Blake was a pumpkin this year! His cousin Brighton also got her pictures taken and so we did some of them together. Blake's cute hat kept falling over his eyes. Everyone calls Brighton "B" so she was a bumble bee. 

Smiles! I made Tanner come with us to help find her house, and luckily i did because Tanner is so good at making Blake smile. We kept putting his hat on top of his little ears to help keep it up so we could see his cute eyes. I thought it was adorable how his little ears flopped over to keep his hat up. 



The last three are my favorite! I love my little pumpkin!