Thanksgiving 2009

We had a nice Thanksgiving this year. It was Cardon's first and he had a blast watching football, being held by all the family members, and eating

(just a taste) mashed potatoes and gravy, pumpkin pie with whipped cream, and vanilla ice cream. Thanksgiving was at my parents house and they also had the Kirklin family over.

Cardon loves to watch football. It sounds crazy but it's true. It doesn't matter where he is or what he is doing, if football is on tv he will turn his head until he can see it. He really loved watching the Colts play on Thanksgiving. He cried when the commercials came on and when we changed the channel. Future Football Star???

Grandpa, Uncle and Cardon waiting for Turkey.

Suzi made the pumpkin pies and I made the apple pies.

My beautiful mom and her beautiful table.

Spending time with Family

We always try to spend Sundays with family. We have a great time eating, playing games and talking together. These pictures are all from different Sundays in November.

Grandpa takes such good care of Cardon.

Cardon with Grandpa and Uncle

Anyone who knows Clayton knows that he loves his sweater vests, and now Cardon does too!

Sisters!

Suzi dyed her hair dark so we all matched. Although she's had a blast being a brunette with us, she really loves and misses her blonde hair. She'll be going blonde again soon.

The Sunday before Thanksgiving we had Clayton's mom over for dinner.

Cardon loved being held by Grandma Becky.

October 2009

Everyday Cardon is brightening our lives with his smile! He started to really smile in the middle of October. Before that he would mostly just smile when he was sleeping. Now he smiles all the time and we just love it!

Halloween 2009

From Left to Right: Suzi, MaryAnn, Christine, Cardon, Clayton, Michael

Our little family with our pumpkins!

Cardon was a little froggy for Halloween. Here we are at my work's Fall Festival.

Christine- green faced witch,

MaryAnn and Cardon- princess and frog prince

Suzi- Cheerleader

Right before going to their ward's Trunk or Treat party.

Clayton- cheerleader (scary, I know)

Clayton's work had a contest for best costume and he won 2nd place! We got some great gift certificates because of it!

All in all we had a good Halloween!

Natalie

Natalie

She has been one of my best friends since I was a little kid. At the beginning of October she moved to Las Vegas!!!! She and her husband live down the road from us! We are together again and loving it! Back in high school we would always say that when we grow up and get married we wanted to be neighbors and our husbands to be friends and ....

SOMETIMES DREAMS DO COME TRUE!!!

Big Boy!!! October 5th, 2009

Cardon rolling over from his belly onto his back.

October 3rd, My Birthday

For my 25th birthday this year I decided to participate in a 5k breast cancer walk. I thought it would be a great way to support breast cancer awareness and kick start getting into shape after having a baby. We had a lot of fun (except for getting up at 6am) and we are planning on doing it again next year.

My mom, sisters, friend Kira, and my lovely boys all participated with me. We made pink tie dye shirts so we would all match. MaryAnn is the expert on these. She and her boyfriend Kirk would tie dye things all the time before he left on his mission to Canada.

I was a little nervous about taking Cardon but he was a champ and slept in his stroller the whole walk. People kept telling me how cute my daughter was..... Umm.... Yeah he was wearing pink but everyone was!

After the walk was over we all went to my parents house to watch General Conference. In between the sessions we went out for Sushi!!! I couldn't eat it while pregnant so this was Clayton's treat for me on my birthday. It was really good. Later that evening my sisters came over to my house and we watched movies and baked. It was a fun day!