7 Months!

Weston turned 7 months on Halloween! I'm a little late, I know. Did I ever mention that procrastinating is one of my worst habits : ) Anyways, I'm constantly amazed by how fast it goes. My little baby is getting so big!

New Things:
~Crawling and getting into even more than before.
~Pulls himself to standing. He stands up in his crib waiting for us to get him when he wakes up.
~Can slowly walk along furniture, switch from things that are close together, and pushes a box around the living room.
~Loves baby food, cottage cheese, and plain yogurt. He is such a great eater. I'm pretty sure he would keep eating if I let him.
~Loves to spit, will mimic you when you spit at him most of the time, and starts to spit more when he's frustrated or tired.
~Fake coughs. He has been doing this since he was born, but now if you fake cough at him, he'll fake cough back.
~Is really good at drinking out of his sippy cup and can drink from a straw too.
~Went to his first BYU game and loves to hear us sing the BYU fight song.
~Fits in his shoes :)
~Gets really excited when he sees other babies or kids.
~Is playing by himself better. I'm able to leave the room and get things done and he just keeps on playing.
~Already fits in quite a few of his 9 month clothes.

Mr. Cool sporting his Faux-hawk and Adidas shoes (from Chris Weston).

The best way to get the glass was obviously over the box : )
Spitting

Checking out a dog with cousin Paisley.

Cutest Baby Contest

About a week ago I entered Weston in a small "Cutest Baby Contest." I read their online magazine, and I just thought it would be fun. Anyways, he made it to the finals! : ) Now it is up to the public to vote for the cutest baby. Click on the button above which has instructions on how to vote, and please take a few seconds to vote for our cute little guy (Entry #3)! Thanks!

Halloween Dinner

We decided not to take Weston out on actual Halloween because we figured that the Trunk-or-Treat was enough since he really didn't care : ) Also, Casey got home a little later than usual because he had to work out of town that day, so we just had a Halloween dinner and watched a scary movie. Here are some pictures of the dinner that I was quite proud of! : )

Mashed Boo-tatoes, sweet potato pumpkins, and tombstone meatloaf.

Ghost and Pumpkin chocolate covered strawberries

ROAR if you like Halloween

We missed our Trunk-or-Treat, so we went to Jason and Ashley's the Thursday before Halloween. Weston was a lion and I must say that he looked very cute. Casey picked his costume out of the three I was deciding on and he did a great job! I was afraid he wouldn't like having it on, but he didn't mind it at all. It did make it a little hard for him to move around though.

Is he not the cutest lion you've ever seen? :)

What goes around, comes around :) The little ones were very interested in each other's costumes.Weston decided it was too much effort to move around, so he just laid there for a while and Paisley took advantage of it.

Weston with Dad

Weston and his "mummy" :)

Getting his first piece of candy

Bad to the Bone. Underneath his costume, he had another costume that was a little more comfortable. I just couldn't resist it when I saw it.

Bowling

We attended Casey's work's family fun day at the bowling alley a few Saturday's ago. There was food, gift bags for the kids, and then unlimited, all-day bowling. I bowled 144 my first game and then 145 my second, which are both A LOT better than my previous best of 115. I was pretty proud! :)

Vote YES on Prop 8

Casey and I have both felt very strongly concerning this matter, and have put our best efforts forward as we try to protect traditional marriage in California. We feel that this is one of the most important things that we will ever vote on. This morning we had the opportunity to stand on a corner during traffic and hold up signs encouraging people to Vote Yes on Prop 8. Right when we got there a woman yelled at us with expletives and I almost cried, but I held myself together and held up my sign with pride. I encourage anyone who reads my blog and lives in California to Vote Yes on Prop 8. If you don't live in California, but have family or friends that do, encourage them as well. This is one of the most controversial propsitions I've ever seen, but also the most important. I don't like to think about what will happen if it doesn't pass, but I remain optimistic that our donation, walking for Prop 8, our calls to encourage people to vote, passing out literature, standing on corners with signs, volunteering at the polls tomorrow, and our prayers will bring about the desired result. Please Vote YES on Prop 8 on Nov. 4 and help protect marriage in California.

Pumpkin Patch

A couple weeks ago, Melody, Ashley, and I took our kids to a pumpkin patch. We basically wanted an excuse to hang out, so we are doing a play group thing once or twice a month. The pumpkin patch was pretty fun, but we'll have to go earlier in the season next year because the pumpkins were not very plentiful.

Weston posing with the pumpkinsAll the kids. It took some effort to get them all to look :)

I just love my little man!

BYU Homecoming

We had the opportunity to go to BYU Homecoming this year. Casey went up for a recruiting event and Weston and I tagged along. It was a really quick trip. We flew in Saturday morning, hung out a bit (Weston and I took a nap), made a necessary stop at the bookstore, went to the recruiting event, went to the game, and we flew out Sunday night. Our friends Richard and Rebecca were able to get some tickets for us and Casey's cousin and my brother, Jonathan, came too. Weston was super good even though it was a little chilly and slept through a lot of it. It was a pretty boring game, but we're glad we got to go to at least one home game this year.

On the walk to the game, Weston fell asleep. My brother Jonathan. Weston kept looking at his reflection in his sunglasses :)

Richard and Rebecca. They also let us stay at their house Sat. night. Thanks guys!The four of us
Our little BYU family

Stick a Sock In It

For some reason our little man loves to suck on socks. If he sees one on the ground, it's done for, so I have to make sure I keep all of Casey's dirty socks in the laundry basket.

Laundry

Weston enjoying being buried in our clean clothes by Dad. He thought it was so funny and I thought he was so cute! :)

Computer Time

Jason came over one night while Ashley was out of town and all the boys spent the night on their computers. It was too cute to pass up!

Half a Year!

Better late than never is my motto :) So this is a little late since he is 7 months today, but this is what was going when our little man turned 6 months old:

* If I hold him facing my arm, he'll suck so hard on my bicep that he'll give me a hickey. It's kind of funny.

*He is scooting like CRAZY, goes up on all fours, and has taken a few crawls forward. Anytime now!

*Likes to take showers. When we first did it, we sprayed it right on his head hoping to get a reaction, but he just sat there. It didn't even phase him.

*Likes to drop things on purpose and watch us pick them up.

*Loves his rice cereal and I'm excited to start him on baby food.

*Loves to play with paper, keys, highlighters, and Casey's phone charger (which no longer works, oops!)

*Will scoot and follow me around the apartment.

*Can stand up against table, chair, the sofa, etc. unassisted.

*At his appointment he was 27 1/2 in long and weighed 17lbs 7 oz

Picture time!

I love this picture

Getting into trouble at Casey's work. When we take Casey lunch, we sit near this fountain and Weston LOVES it. Now that he can move and climb up on a few things he would play in the water.

His mischievious smile

Rockin' out! Actually, he was just listening to Casey's CPA review lecture :)

Chewing on the phone charger. After he broke Casey's, we gave him an old one to chew on.

San Francisco

There is a lot of pictures from our trip to San Francisco for our Anniversary, but we had such a good time. We walked around a lot and saw everything we set out to see, but we'll need to go back to see some of the other sights we couldn't fit into our day trip. Enjoy!

The San Francisco Bridge. We got there early enough that it was still foggy.

Just the three of usLombard Street-The Crookedest Street. Since we got there early, there wasn't a line to drive down.Pier 39 Seals Just a cute picture of WestonWeston and I riding the Pier 39 carousel. He loved it!
Eating clam chowder in a bread bowl. Casey said it was a must, but I think it was a little too expensive for what we got, so we'll just go the In-N-Out from now on :)

Ghiradelli Square
Casey's Peanut Butter Fudge Sundae. I got a strawberry shake.

Apple Hill

Nate and Misty came through Sacramento on their way to Misty's brother's homecoming and were able to spend a few days with everyone, so we took the opportunity to go to Apple Hill (after watching the BYU game of course).

They had a lot of different apples to choose from

The beautiful lake
My strong man :)
Adalei enjoying her apple doughnut

Ashley and I showing off our tongue skills

My two men. How cute are they?
Misty and Brielle
Flying high