Brigham's first birthday and Christmas

We made it a whole year!! YAY! I can't believe how fast it went! Brig is such a cute little guy!! He learned how to say santa last week, just in time for Christmas. We had a pretty relaxed party for him, had him open presents, eat a cupcake and just hung out. He wasn't really into opening presents or eating the cupcake so I shoved some in his face :)
For Christmas we headed down to David's house in Phoenix and spent the night there with 2 of Mike's brothers. We had a great time! Dave has 2 dogs and James has 2 dogs, so Brigham was in HEAVEN!! He would sit on the ground and Dave's dogs would run by him and lick his face and Brigham would crack up!! It made me sooo nervous but he had a great time!
Brig got a few pairs of pajamas and a ton of toys!
Mikey got some new jeans, a shirt, some outdoor speakers, and some grill tools.
I got a down comforter, a kinect for the xbox, a puzzle (it's soooo hard!!), 2 purses, a wallet, and a book Mikey made of Brighams first year, it almost made me cry! I had to hold back the tears cuz I was around Mike's family :)

He is opening his Christmas Eve jammies

Wearing the dogs antlers

I shoved the cupcake in his face

Being a sissy

Laughing at grandpa

Yummy cupcakes

New truck

Just thought I would post a picture of our new truck, isn't it awesome?

November

Well it's been a long time since I last posted, November was a crazy month for us. We celebrated our 3 year anniversary, I had a couple of procedures done, "someone" killed my car :) We bought a new truck, I went on my first vacation without Brigham, Brigham is getting 3 new teeth (1 molar by the way) right now, and he took 3 steps yesterday! He is growing up so fast! I can't believe he is almost 1!
The 18th I had wave lithotripsy done to get rid of a stupid kidney stone that wouldn't go away. Everything went well and I passed it easily and had very little pain.
The 30th was our 3 year anniversary, so we decided to go down to Phoenix and do a session at the Mesa temple. We dropped Brigham off at Pete and Angie's place and went to the temple. Of course he cried the whole time...sorry Ang! They even kept him overnight so we could enjoy a night in a hotel. We had a sweet hotel room, too bad we didn't stay there too long, I had to wake up at 4:00 the next morning to fly up to Portland. I got there, luckily I didn't die on the FREEZING plane! Sarah picked me up and took me to get Steve's car to drive to all my appts. I had a root canal done that afternoon and that went great! Steve recommended I go up there to a great endodontist and I am glad I did! He said my roots were so twisted it was going to be pretty difficult, but he did it and I feel great. The next day I had an appt with Mike's uncle who is a dentist to go over all the stuff I need to get done, I didn't know my teeth were that bad. :( After that I headed up to James and Lisa's house to help out with Lisa's Christmas show, she sells so many awesome things! I think she was getting sick of me finding things I liked and buying them (since they have to load them up and drive them to AZ for us) We bought an armoire, a table, a cute sign, and a little snowman decoration thing, he is soooo cute!! She did an awesome job and it was so fun to help out with the show. I had a rough time being away from Brigham, but it was definitely needed.
Brigham is sick right now, not sure if it's from teething or not, but he isnt sleeping very well and is not himself, although I still think he is the cutest thing in the world still.
Because I am so sick of getting kidney stones I have stopped drinking as much pop as I used to, and surprise surprise I have lost 26 pounds!!! WOW!!

Lisa doing her thing! It was so crowded in there I could hardly walk.

Since I am so tall and strong :) she had me help get things down for people they couldn't reach or didnt want to break, I didn't break anything though, I was so sure I was going to.

Lisa's awesome truck, and beautiful daughter Mady!

Mike cooking our fantastic Thanksgiving dinner

Just chillin

Curly hair, and daddy was in the middle of cutting his hair so he has a mullet

Crazy hair

It's COLD!!

I love my baby!

Today I watched Oprah, Marie Osmond was on there talking about her son who committed suicide earlier this year. I normally don't watch Oprah but wanted to see what Marie would say. I couldn't stop crying, and am crying right now as I write this. I don't know if it's because I have a son of my own or what but it really hit home. Having battled depression all my life, and more now than ever, I just know how it feels to get to the lowest point in life and I feel for their family. She said one thing that hit me hard and that was 'tell your kids they aren't a burden in your life' her son felt like he was a burden and wanted to get rid of that for her. I know I get frustrated with Brigham but I love him more than anything in this world and don't know what I would do if anything happened to him. I hope he doesn't ever have to go through depression like I do and hope he is a happy, healthy boy.
I know that we are given these trials to help us and if anything ever does happen to Brigham I know we are sealed and we will always be a family. I can't imagine going through life not knowing about eternal families and that you will see your loved ones when we die. I'm so grateful I have that knowledge.
Everybody please give your kids an extra hug tonight!

Halloween

Happy Halloween! Last night we went to our ward party/trunk-or-treat and it was so much fun! Other than being colder than heck and extremely windy! All the kids looked adorable dressed up, but I have to say I think Brigham was by far the cutest! And Mikey was by far the geekiest! He dressed up as Iron man with a white T-shirt with the letters "Fe" written on it. LAME! Anyways a ton of people showed up and we lasted almost the whole time until we got rid of the candy we wanted to :) We didnt take Brigham around to get candy since he only has like 3 and a half teeth and that means mom would be eating most of the candy...which I dont need!! By the way I have lost 19 pounds!! WOO WOO!! Almost half way there!

The last couple weeks have been horrible! All of us have had a cold, Brigham and I still have it, Mikey has been out of town a little more than normal, and I have 2 kidney stones! I had to go to the E.R. one day he was gone, I couldnt sleep and I basically couldnt do anything. I was getting nauseous and dizzy and thats not good when you are home alone with a 10 month old! So I dropped Brigham off at a friends house and headed to the E.R. They did a CT scan and found 2 stones, one in my left kidney and one almost to my bladder. The one almost to my bladder was blocking the urine so it was backing up into my kidney and really hurting. That one is 1/4 of an inch! I still havent passed it but it feels so much better (most of the time) Because the reason I get so many stones is the amount of pop I drink I have stopped drinking as much pop and thats how I am losing weight!

Story of my life...now that he can crawl he hates being held and wants to explore everywhere!

Cutest little lion! His costume made his cheeks look even chubbier!

Geeky daddy!

Total cheeser! And you can see all his teeth!

Rough day

My sweet pumpkin

Friday we had the Herb's and Kleinman's over for dinner and to carve pumpkins

Look at that curl!

WHOA!

He knows what's good! :)

Brigham's a crawlin'...forward this time!

So Brigham FINALLY learned how to crawl!! He already knew how to go backwards, and sort of do an army crawl to one side, but within the last couple days he has taught himself how to go forward!! He did it a little on Saturday night, and I totally freaked out and scared him half to death and he fell on his face. So I think he was a little nervous to try it again :) He finally started crawling to the coffee table so he could kneel to it, then a little later I just decided to pull out the video camera and start filming and the video at the bottom is what he did right off the bat! Oh and of course Mikey isnt here to witness it :)
He has also started to want to stand up to EVERYTHING!! Even me when I am on the floor playing with him. He does pretty good kneeling but hasnt quite gotten the muscles developed for pulling himself all the way up. He is getting pretty daring and I dont like it at all! He was kneeling up to the couch and turned around towards the table and tried to stand up and fell backwards and hit his head on the wood on the bottom of the couch, poor kid! Of course he screamed, but hey, he screams when I cough!
He still only has the 3 teeth (1 on bottom and 2 on top) the 2nd bottom one keeps teasing us. he's blabbering a lot more, and singing, and dancing. This kid definitely got my sense of rythm! He has also learned how to entertain himself for more than 5 minutes! YAY for me! He is such a good kid and we are so blessed to have him in our lives!

So proud of himself for kneeling up to the table

I think this is right before he biffed it...notice the pillow in front of him?

Look at those BLUE eyes!

You can kinda see his top teeth

He loves banging things on the table

Daddy feeding him in his new high chair

He loves his daddy!

Brigham is 9 months old?!?

On our way home yesterday we took Brigham to his 9 month appt. They said he is doing great! He is 24 lbs 3 oz (90th percentile0, 30.25 inches tall (95th percentile) and 110th percentile on head circumference! HAHA! This last week he has started to get 3 more teeth! He is not a happy camper! The top 2 have finally cut through and the 2nd bottom one is almost there. He is getting to be such a big boy! He has also started to crawl...backwards! HAHA! He gets up on his knees a ton but doesnt realize he can move forward. Today he started to sit from being on his knees. Within the last few weeks he says "a da" when he is done with his bottle. Such a smart boy!

Also, I downloaded the pics from my camera :)

So here's some more of the special day!

My favorite!

He snuggles with Rebecca but not his own mommy! :(