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Monday, February 21, 2011

My sweet baby.

It seems that my poor Pierson hasn't had as many posts of him as Madsen did as a baby. It's not that we love him any less, just time is a precious thing with two kids so my poor blog has suffered, and I'm sure its not going to change too soon in the future. Pierson is our beautiful, happy, very easy, mellow baby boy. I can't emphasize how often people are astounded at how calm and happy he is. The only time he cries is when he is hungry, or needs a diaper change and when he feels lonely. As long as he is full and we're not too far for him he is one happy boy. We're talking about an amazing baby boy who will sit in his bumbo seat and play with toys for an hour while I deep clean the kitchen. I thought Madsen was relatively easy, haha, I had no idea. This amazing baby boy gives us LOTS of smiles throughout the day and plenty of sleep at night. He has slept through the night since he was 3 weeks old. I feel extremely lucky to be blessed with such an amazing, beautiful little guy. He has taken his time to crawl, I think because he's always been happy just staying close to us, but is finally making his way around and starting to get into mischief. He thinks the dog bowls are a cool color and gets mesmerized by them. For Josh's birthday he graced us with the presence of his first tooth and the second one just a week later. I'm still getting used to seeing a toothy little grin instead of that sweet gummy baby smile. I can't believe how fast time has flown by and our sweet baby is quickly growing into a happy little boy. He absolutely loves to eat and will eat anything. He gets very upset if anybody eats in front of him and doesn't share :) He is our little chunker who weighs over 20 lbs already! He believes in giving me an arm workout everyday :) Both Josh and I have been reluctant to cut his hair, which if you can believe is even longer than Madsen's was. But his bangs must be tamed so he's getting a trim soon. He adores his big brother and it is quite apparent that they are going to be the best of friends. I'm so grateful for this sweet little boy that I have been blessed to call mine.

PS. sorry the pictures aren't the greatest quality, we're currently in the market for a new camera, so all i have right now is my phone camera :/
He fell asleep doing his favorite thing, eating!


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His crazy baby curls
Ready for a bike ride
He loves baths
If you look close you can see his two little sharp teeth.



He started doing this trick when we would blow on his nose all on his own. It was so cute and funny.

Friday, February 4, 2011

My new hobby :)

I was completely shocked when I opened up my present and found a Bosch Kitchen mixer! It has been a personal goal of mine to learn how to bake since last year. I started out making different cookies and cakes, and had decided it was time to try bread. I'll admit I was super intimidated especially since yeast and I have had our differences in the past. My wonderful husband decided to spoil me and I have been loving it. Not every batch has come out right, but I have had a few successes. Luckily I've got a good friend in our ward that was nice enough to take a day and teach me a few tricks. Thanks Melanie! I am motivated to keep on practicing and eventually I'll be a pro. I made fresh bread today and although I had a small problem with the yeast the consistency and taste were perfect so I count that as another success. I've been pretty unsuccessful at getting pictures of my baking successes before they're eaten, so they must be good, right?

Baguette anyone? Since this first time

I've made it again and they turned out just as delicious and a little prettier


The first attempt didn't turn out so good, but my sweet hubby was willing to eat a few to try and make me feel better. This second attempt however came out perfect!


Although I don't use the Bosch to make these I had to post them just
because I feel so proud of them. I've had many compliments on them
and even multiple requests for me to make them for birthday treats :)

Thursday, February 3, 2011

Christmas recap

I know that Christmas was over a month ago now, but as this blog is for journaling purposes too, I feel its necessary to actually backtrack. We had a fun Christmas eve with my family and our friends the Sabogals. We stayed up till midnight playing games and eating tamales, following the Hispanic tradition and then sent the kids to bed so that Santa could make his appearance. Mind you we went to bed closer to 2 and it was still clear outside. We woke up at 9 and woke up to the surprise of a VERY WHITE christmas day! Josh and Madsen had both been dreaming about a white christmas and I couldn't believe they got their little hearts' desires, especially since everybody told us later that this hadn't happened in 30 years. Madsen was so excited to see that Santa had come and that he had gotten his #1 item for his list, his dolphin pillow pet. Pierson got a penguin one from Santa too per Madsen's request. Later our good friends the Sabogals came over and we enjoyed an amazing afternoon in the snow :)

Our Christmas morning surprise


Pierson and Tio Ervin

Madsen enjoying his stocking stuffers

My happy baby excited to open his presents

The beautiful creche/manger my husband built for our nativity set

The delicious homemade tamales

Josh and Cesar's hawaiian snow woman

She was too pretty to resisit. haha

Who says it doesn't snow in Tennessee?

Madsen and Ilyana our cute little couple :)

Beautiful little Ily

Josh's improvised snowboarding

The Sabogal family: Wilson, Jafeth, Ily and baby in the oven
Madsen and Ily absolutely loved sledding

Those mittens make holding on hard...
obviously. haha