27

I turned 27 yesterday. Travis stayed home a little longer in the morning to make me breakfast

and have me open some presents.

He got me loads of chocolate. He said this way we can decide which of these 3 brands is best.

No complaints here.

My awesome mom also drove up from Salt Lake just to take me out to lunch on my birthday. :)

Sam is going on 20 months now and sometimes I can't believe it.

He repeats just about everything we say and is obsessed with Travis' little quad copter.

Sam is also working on his selfie skills...

 

My personal favorite...

Sam has basically NEVER been a snuggly child, even as a baby, he always had his head

up so he could look around. And I appreciate the fact that he's a curious child and likes to learn

about what's going on around him. But at the same time, I often envied other moms when

I would see their children just sit with them for more than 12.5 seconds. Sam has suddenly become

much more of a cuddler and I am trying to enjoy every moment. :)

And apparently his baby brother makes the perfect pillow.

We're at 36 weeks today, less than a month to go before we get to meet baby #2!

Laundry is one of Sam's favorite things.

And cookies--or anything sugary. He is definitely my child.

3 years

I cannot believe this was 3 years ago.

It's incredible how much has happened in the past 3 years. I told Travis that

3 years ago I could not have imagined that today we'd have one and a half children. 

Travis made sure we took our annual bench photo at Adam's park where he proposed.

(We decided we should've started taking it in October when he proposed rather than the end of 

December when it's generally freezing cold. But oh well.)

To celebrate we went to Maddox where we had our wedding luncheon, and then drove down to 

Ogden and painted some pottery at Color Me Mine. It was great fun.

I'm excited to see what they look like when they're all done.

I am so thankful for Travis and for our life together. It's been a great 3 years

and I'm excited for what the future has in store. 

Christmas 2015

December was so much fun. I love the anticipation before Christmas and the preparation.

Sam is now able to go down the stairs safely by himself! Yay!

So we don't leave the gate up much anymore at the bottom, and he loves to hang out

on the stairs next to the window.

Also, this happened the other day. There's only one other time that I can recall

when Sam has fallen asleep on the floor instead of his crib. So cute.

Sam loves to help out around the house. :)

I decided to make little treat bags for Christmas this year and had to document how many

treats we made. And it only took all morning. 

We've had a decent amount of snow this winter so far and I finally got Sam out in it.

He loved it so much!

Sam got special treatment because mom wanted to get home a little faster...

We love hanging out downstairs with the Christmas tree.

Christmas morning! This year was a bit more fun for us since Sam could open his own presents

and express more of his excitement at what was going on.

I got Travis a quad copter/small drone 

We found some British crackers while we were at World Market the other week and Travis

had really wanted to get some for Christmas day. I think he wishes we were British.

Our traditional matching Aggie shirts

And here's a video just for fun.