CHRISTMAS 2008

I think Christmas is pretty cool but I am not quite sure it's the presents I enjoy most. I enjoyed playing trains with my grandpa Dosmann.

Playing with the boxes and wrapping paper can be more fun than the presents themselves.

This is how big boys eat cottage cheese on Christmas day.

Giving rides can be just as fun as getting them myself.

Watching and helping daddy put my toys together was fun and he even let me help.

Grandma Cannell spent Christmas eve with us and yes...more toys.

Mom had to show me how this wrapping paper stuff works. I didn't really have the patients for all of it.

This was daddy's Christmas party for work. Mom and dad were able to get a night away without me:)

A BEAUTIFUL BLACK FOX

Yesterday we counted 21 deer in our front yard, the biggest herd we have seen yet in our neighborhood. We threw out a piece of bread to try to feed them and we never would have guessed what that would bring us the next day! A black white tailed fox! It somehow found the piece of bread and took it right before our eyes. We have seen this fox in the neighborhood but it's always so quick that you only get a glimpse of this beautiful creature. Today it hung out in our yard for about 5 minutes and we were able to just take in its amazing features and watch it try to eat the frozen piece of bread.

You can see the bread in its mouth.

Spectacular!

NAME DILEMMA

Because we didn't get to have our Journey Rose...our long picked girl name, we are considering it for a boy simply because we LOVE that name. So the big question is could Journey be a boys name? We had ruled it out until tonight when my dad called and said..."hey, you could still name your boy Journey AND a gal at Greg's work today said "I think Journey is totally a boys name." So I need your honest advise and am looking to my faithful blogging community for that honesty! Our other choices for a boys name are Sawyer, August, Utah (Greg's choice:))

MY NEW BABY BROTHER

This is my new baby brother and I can't wait to meet him! Mom and dad found out yesterday that they will get to reuse all my baby clothes! They wanted to wait until Christmas to find out but the Dr. ended up not getting the memo from the ultrasound tech that we did not want to know the sex quite yet. A little bummed but super excited at the same time. If you look close in this picture you can see my brother telling me that I am number 1. It's a little blurry but you can see the 3 little fingers with the 1 finger sticking up (top middle of the picture)

After seeing this picture (before the Dr. told us) we pretty much new it was a boy since this is an exact image of my daddy's profile. It reminded mommy of a baby picture of my daddy. This little guy is going to be a mini Greg!

More Random Photos

Playing with Mom's shades! I definitely think they look better on me!

See what I mean?

Beautful Sun hitting the hills.

Our First Real Snow Fall

WHAT I AM THANKFUL FOR

I AM THANKFUL FOR MY DOGS WHO LOVE ME NO MATTER WHAT I DO TO THEM, CHRISTMAS TREES, AND MY PET DEER WHO ARE ALWAYS VISITING ME IN MY FRONT YARD. I AM THANKFUL FOR FAMILY AND GRANDPARENTS WHO SPOIL ME WITH LOVE AND KISSES!

FOR MY FRIENDS WHO ALLOW ME TO BE ME!

FOR THE THANKSGIVING TURKEY TROT...MY SECOND RACE (MOM WON FIRST PRIZE FOR PREGNANT CHIC RUNNING 4 MILES PUSHING STROLLER) THIS WILL BE OUR FAMILY TRADITION FOR MANY YEARS TO COME. MOM SAYS WHEN I TURN 18 SHE WILL MAKE ME A QUILT OUT OF MY TURKEY TROT T-SHIRTS:) NEXT YEAR MY BABY BROTHER OR SISTER WILL ALSO GET TO RUN WITH US!! OH...AND DAD EVEN ATTEMPTED TO RUN WITH US...WE LOST HIM AT ABOUT 1 MILE AND HE FOUND A SHORT CUT AND RAN THE LAST FEW BLOCKS WITH US...SO PROUD OF YOU DADDY!!

WARMIN UP BEFORE THE RACE

AND MOST OF ALL I AM THANKFUL FOR GOD! WHAT A BLESSING MY LIFE IS AND I CHERISH IT...EVERY MOMENT!

Trip to MN

Yup...I'm on an airplane and I have to say it's just really not all it's cracked up to be. If you ever are in an airport be sure to bring some full body germ rub cuz it's not a very clean place to hang out!

I was very excited to be able to see my cousins Dominic and Breanna!

My trip was fun but I am glad to be home. Mom is sad to not have any pictures of grandma and me together but I guess that means she will have to come and visit me soon!

RANDOM PICS

We are blessed almost daily with an amazing sunset. Our home;)

Canyon is still trying to master the "feeding myself" task. Oatmeal I find...is a great alternative to cement.

Two spoons= more fun!

Hands usually win over the spoons!

FALL PICKS

If a black cat crosses your path on Halloween it's means lots of good luck!

I was the only one to show off my scary skeleton face.

Yes...it's my favorite toy...a stick!

My very own pumpkin

Not a very nice pumpkin patch BUT they did have sticks!!

My girl Trinity came with me to the pumpkin patch!