Thanksgiving

This year for Thanksgiving my dad came into town to celebrate with us which was so much fun and way to short of a trip! Paula hosted this year which was really great because we havent had Thanksgiving with Ty's family on the actual day of Thanksgiving ever! So we were really excited about it, but you dont get to see any of it because Ty forgot to take pictures! But he did however get pictures of the table before we ate and some of the kids and the family hanging around till we ate! So here's a little taste of our Thanksgiving!

Where we sat and ate our wonderful meal!

Grandpa Gubs getting some Brody love

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving!

While I'm at it I'll do a quick things that I'm Thankful for :)
-My Family
-My husband
-Friends
-Motherhood and all the joy that comes with it.
-The Temple
-The Holidays
-A warm place to come home too
-And last but not least..Water Aerobics so that I'm not so fat!
Happy Holidays everyone!

15 Months

My little man is growing up into a big man! Well not really but you know what I mean, he is suddenly grown up. He feeds himself, talks to me, plays with Tucker, and is super independent! I think now that he is walking he is right on track with where he should be with kids his age. He was a little slow at walking but everyone kept telling me he will do it at his own pace, I guess I should have known because that is how he was with crawling! So we finally have a fully walking toddler around the house! YEAH! Right in time for the Christmas tree to go up :).... grrrrreat....Brody's stats for his 15 months check up are: weight-21 lbs 10 oz 12%, height-31 3/4 70%, head circumference 18 3/4 63%. Still tall and skinny!
Some of the words Brody has started saying:
Daw (dog)
Whater doin (What are you doin)
Brody (clear as day but only said it once)
Baba (bottle)
Bye brama (Bye grandma)
Hi dad (clear as day :))
Babbles on his play phones.

That's all I can think of right now... But he really is a talker, he could tell stories for days!

Anyways here are some photos of our life lately!

We started swimming lessons and Brody loves them and has seriously learned so much. He reaches for the side of the pool, he can pull himself out, he can hold his breath, kick his legs, needs a little more work on the back stroke and the breast stroke but for the most part he's got it, and we are still working on blowing bubbles too but he is doing great and loves them!
By the way don't mind the ugly-ness of this picture, its the best I can do in a bathing suit at 10 in the morning ok!

My dad came into town :) I love when he does that! He came for Thanksgiving and a little bit of some house hunting, along with some bowling and great food :)

On Friday Ty and I went down to St. George to shop till we dropped! to end our day of shopping we went to dinner at Olive Garden and went to see the lights on the Temple, so gorgeous!

Brody loved the lights, and the stairs! We went up and down maybe 150 times!

Brody and Uncle Jimmy exploring the grass

Halloween

I love Halloween with Brody! Its so much better than without kids! Brody dressed up as a skunk this year and it was so cute :) He cant eat candy yet I don't think so we didn't really trick or treat we just went to friends and family's house to show them how cute little Brods looked!

lil stinker :)

Loves with Grandma

The Witch the Vampire and the Skunk

a skunk, a little witch, a ghost, and a fairy

Everyone

I hope everyone had a Happy Halloween!

Random Brody-ness

Brody is almost 15 months now! I can't even believe it! He is getting so big and I love it! He is a good eater and loves peanut butter and honey sandwiches and grilled cheese. He still doesnt like fresh fruit or veggies but will eat pureed fruits and veggies. For dinner he likes to rotate pastas like lasagna or spaghetti rings in meat sauce and sometimes raviolis. He is starting to talk a lot! some of the things he says: bye dad, bye mom, bye brama (grandma), Brody (he said his name clear as day but only one time!), dah (for dog or Tucker), Tries to mimic whatever I say but it usually just sounds like mahhhh bahhh dahhh dooo, babbles all the time on the phone. We are still working on ball and dog and other words like that. He is also finally WALKING! YEAH! He started walking about 2 weeks ago and is just now getting good at it!

Brody is way good at going up and down the stairs and and is super fast at it too!

Being a cutie

All dressed up in his Sunday best!

Brody in his gown at the ER.

A while ago Brody had to go to the ER for a possible Tylenol overdose. Here is what happened.. I was making the bed and Brody was on the other side getting into my night stand as usual so I wasnt even worried about it when he grabbed a pill bottle out of the drawer because I knew exactly what was in there and they are all child proof. So I just let him play with it until I got over to that side of the bed and when I did he had opened the Tylenol PM bottle! IT IS CHILD PROOF! But not for Brody! So he had one in his mouth and the whole bottle dumped on the floor so I fished it out and called poison control in a panic. They told me its pretty serious because of the sleep aid in the pm's and that amount of Tylenol for his little body could be deadly! So off to the ER we go... The nurse tells me we have to be there for at least 4 hours to monitor him, I had no idea so we didnt have any food except what was already in the diaper bag which wasn't much! Then after a couple hours he has to drink activated charcoal so that the toxin doesnt go into his bloodstream and that was interesting trying to get him to eat that. If only you could have seen me! :S anyways 4 and a half hours later they let us leave and it turns out he didn't swallow one! Thank heavens! Now all my pills are locked up tight! Just because its child proof doesn't mean its Brody proof!

Halloween Bunco

For bunco this month we all dressed up and it was so much fun! Jessica hosted a wonderful party with great food! (even though the meat in the spaghetti was elk and she didn't tell me until AFTER I ate it, but I was glad because it was good and I probably wouldn't have tried it if she told me first! You guys know I'm kinda crazy like that..). Here are a few pics of the night!

Me and Aubs right before we left!
We got some funny looks on the way down to Hurricane!

The whole group!

Love these girls!