The Snow

Two weekends ago we went up to Sonora for the weekend. My parents are almost all moved in. We dropped Carter off with them and Spencer, Aubrey and I had a great day up in the snow. This was Aubrey's 1st time playing in the snow and she loved every minute. We enjoyed watching her laugh and have fun. The weather was perfect! We rode down the hill on sleighs a million times, attempted to make a snow man, had a mini snow ball fight, and made snow angels.

Hanging with Titi!

We celebrated Titi's Birthday like 3 weeks ago her real day is January 1st. I have been having trouble downloading pictures on our computer so this is a little late.

Happy Birthday Titi!

We also got to see Titi on MLK day.

We made a day trip up to Turlock a couple of weeks ago and visited with my good friend. Aubrey had a ball with her friend.

Crawling

Carter has been busy accomplishing many milestones lately. He is just growing up so fast. Carter started getting up on all fours a couple of weeks ago. He would just rock back and forth but on Thursday January 20th Carter put one knee in front of the other and started crawling. He would just do one knee worth and then army crawl but by Monday he was all over the place on all fours. I had to take the baby gates out again today!!! I feel like we just got over keeping Aubrey out of everything and here we go again. What fun times! He is just so adorable in all the things he can do. Congratulations Carter!

1st Word

Carter speaks!!!

Yes he said "Dada" today. More then just once a few times. Carter turned 8 months last week and is growing like a bean stock. He had his 8 month doctor appointment while we were on our trip so daddy got to take him. He did great! He didn't need shots this time. He weighs 19lbs. 5oz. and is 27 1/2 inch's long both 48%. We think he will crawl any day now he gets up on all fours and then rocks back and forth. His first tooth has not come in yet but almost I can feel it. We love you so much Carter!

New Year's Day

On New Year's Day we took the kids to John's Incredible Pizza for the day. We had a lot of fun

We came home and had baths. It has been great being able to do two baths at once.

New Year's Eve

We had a wonderful New Years Eve. Spencer had the whole day off it was great. We took the kids out to Pocket 8's Teppanyaki for dinner.

After dinner we came home and watched the apple drop in Time's Square on the computer at 7pm. We had our annual sparkling cider and cream puffs.

Happy New Year!

Girls Trip

The Tuesday after Christmas we went on our annual Girls Trip. This year Nana, Titi, Aubrey and I all took BART to San Fransisco to see Shrek the Musical. We stayed in the city for two nights, did lots of shopping, enjoyed yummy food and had some really nice girl time. Aubrey was very excited to pack her suitcase and pull it all on her own. When we were packing and getting ready she made it very clear that this was a girls trip and that Daddy, Baby Carter, and Deuce were going to stay home. This was also very exciting since it was Aubrey's first trip on BART and her first time in the Big City. She has been to San Fransisco before to museums but this was the first time in down town.

She was very serious on BART. I think she was taking it all in.

We stayed at the Hilton in Union Square. The Christmas decorations were beautiful. Aubrey loved all the ginger bread houses.

One of my dreams came true!

Walking down town with my little girl.

We made it to the show! Shrek was amazing! The costumes, music, everything was great! Aubrey LOVED it! She was very tired from all the parting prior so she did fall a sleep at one point but she was awake for most of it and could not keep her eyes of the stage. Aunt Pat met up with us for the show.

Papa picked us up in the City on Thursday to bring us home. We got to have fun afternoon with him. Strolling down Burlingame Blvd with the family.

We went to over to Great Grandpa Merv's house to visit. It was nice to see him, Uncle Steve, and Joan.

We had a great time but we missed our boys. Spencer was able to take some vacation time to be with Carter. Also mom & dad sup came out to be with Carter for a day. Carter and Daddy were very happy to see us when we got home.