Weekend Fun!

Our weekend started out with a little reading...


The Foot Book is Weston's favorite book. We probably read it 40 times this weekend. When I found that he had crawled into his toy chest to read it I could help but get a picture!


A little TV...while I was getting ready, I turned on Santa Buddies for Weston. He still loves it! His attention span only lasts a couple minutes, but every minute he takes a break from tearing apart the house counts!


A little piano practice...

And this smile was just too cute to not include!


A quick tantrum...

No weekend would be complete without one these days!


And....Our first FORT!

Completely exhausted after destroying the fort...

Weston's favorite part may have been playing on the couch without any cushions on it.

A little wrestling...

Checking out the football highlights...


And that sums it up!

Christmas Vacation!

We had a GREAT 2 week vacation in UTAH, but somehow we still managed to be constantly on the go!

We decided to have our own little Christmas a few days before we left. Weston loved the orange in the bottom of his stocking! And why wouldn't he...it mixes his two favorite things: Balls and Food! They've become a favorite around here the last couple months, infact we found an orange in our shower a couple days ago!



Our first night in Utah we headed off to the annual nogger party with Eric's highschool friends. It technically is an "ugly sweater party" but some people must not have got the memo and everyone else ended up getting hot before the picture and taking their sweaters off. (I'll have to remember to wear normal clothes underneath next time!) Weston was done by this point after getting up at 3am to make our flight, but he still had a blast...


Night two was a big family party at Grandma Beverly's house! We had more food than we new what to do with as usual and Weston loved being the center of attention.



Christmas Eve Jay and Jessie had us over for a GREAT dinner and then we all went with the fam to see the lights at Temple Square. (And yes Weston is wearing pink gloves again...he had to borrow from Hannah. Sorry buddy!)



Christmas Day was nice and relaxing! We opened presents and had a great dinner with Eric's family. Then later in the evening we managed to pull the boys away from the sports playstation games that they "never have anyone to play with" to play a real game with the rest of us! Weston's favorite game was bouncing on the exercise ball with Grandpa Stan.

Hanging out with Great Grandpa Ragsdale...

Weston even loved helping Grandma clean up Christmas...


We decided to stay a couple nights with Jay and Jessie so Hannah and West could play together. They actually did pretty good. Luckily Hannah was okay with West stealing every toy she picked up. His favorite was the stroller though...


We had a Thunderbird reunion with a bunch of our friends that were visiting family too. Although we were in AZ only a little over a year ago, it took me back a little. We decided to not bring the kids so that we could all catch up a little easier. We rarely leave Weston so since we didn't have him with us and since we didn't have Weston when we lived in AZ and hung out with all of these friends all the time it was kind of like we traveled back in time. We had a blast...I'm so glad everyone made the trip!




The next night we went out with a couple of my friends. Weston was a little crazy. I think he was trying to scare Ashley and George about what lies ahead for them!



I got to meet my cousins new beautiful little girl Kayla. Her puppy is a little bigger than Danger and Weston LOVED him! He and Champ played the entire time we were there...





We missed out on the Nielson family annual Aebleskiver party, but that just meant we got more one on one time with Grandma Betty and Grandpa Reed. Weston loved the little chair Grandma Betty got out for him and carried it with him all over the house. And he just couldn't help cuddling up to Grandpa Reed for some breakfast treats!



Eric's sister Paige had a baby boy a few months ago and we were lucky enough that they waited to bless him while we were in town. Afterward we went to Paige and Davids for lunch and Weston and Eric made their way up to Cody's room where they found a pretty cool slide coming off his bed. I walked in to find this...




(I'll be posting video later...this kid amazes me!)

Finally, we were lucky enough to get a 4 hour layover in Denver on our way home so my Mom and Dad and Taylor met up with us and took us to dinner. Not exactly Christmas, but we felt pretty lucky to get to see them for a few minutes!

Finally Home!

We had a great Christmas and we feel so lucky to have been able to take such a long trip, but we're glad to be home. West was such a good sport. We took a million pictures so stay tuned for an overload of pictures to come.

SNOW DAY!

We already had quite a bit of snow this morning so I decided I'd help shovel before it got too bad. My original thought was Weston would watch from his stroller then play a little at the end, but any one who knows Weston knows I was crazy to think that...anyway that's why he had his binki. So I thought well, I'll just let him play and if I only get part of the driveway done that's okay. Turns out this kid doesn't feel cold...He just kept going and going. He does have some blue gloves, but completely soaked through them and still wanted to play. Danger even got cold before he did. When I went to take Danger inside I turned around and Weston had picked up the shovel to help. I love this little guy! He cracks me up everyday. I eventually had to drag him inside against his will.

Oh...and to answer my mom's other concern...yes the hat covers his ears, but after him trying to take it off and falling in the snow 30 or 40 times it didn't stay in place too well!

Christmas Cheer!

Click here for some Christmas Cheer!

My Mom sent this to me and said "Looks like Weston picked up those famous Nielson moves!" I thought it was hilarious. Weston has made me watch it at least 10 times in a row now! He's mesmerized so I had to share!

Happy Birthday West!

Wow! We can't believe he's already one! Sorry we procrastinated our blogging and had to do 3 posts in one night, but we'll start off with Weston since he's our favorite!

My Mom, Sister and Brother-in-law got to fly out for the big party (unfortunately grandpa got left behind, but we're glad we got to see him a few weeks ago!) West loved having Grandma and Aunt Taylor and Uncle James around. He couldn't stop showing off. He exhausted himself so well everyday that he actually stopped doing his 2am wake-up and is sleeping through the night (knock on wood!)

We started the day off with a trip to our favorite place EFRC (the Exotic Feline Rescue Center)


Everytime Weston would get upset James would blame it on the gloves (sorry buddy, we didn't come too prepared!) In reality, he just wanted to get inside the fences with the lions and tigers!


We ordered pizza to eat while we got ready for the party and Weston decided that he was still hungry and wanted to eat Grandma's pizza too...he snatched it right out of her hand. I guess he gets the pizza gene from his dad!



Weston loves balls right now so Taylor made a darling invitation and we had a ball party. I bought a bunch of balls and balloons for the kids to play with and we had all different kinds of "ball" cupcakes. It was a lot of fun.




West was a little distracted by all the balls and his friends playing with them to open presents, but he eventually figured it out!

His big present was a basketball hoop from Dad. He still needs a little help, but LOVES it when we cheer for him!



He was a little timid at first and even cried during the song, but he figured out it was cake in front of him pretty quick! Eric's favorite was watching him eat the handful of ice cream!




I had to throw this one in...I love the look on Weston's face watching the girls play with his basketball hoop!


We had so much fun at the party and hanging out the rest of the weekend with the fam...

I have to say... I think Sadie was the favorite guest. Weston kept following her around, tackling her, and hugging her. She was so patient with him!

Grandma got Weston this book for his birthday and when I sat down on the floor to read it with him, he picked it up and took it over to Grandma...I guess it's going to be "their book."

West was pretty wiped out from the weekend and enjoyed some cuddle time with Grandma.

I'm pretty sure he would have gone home with them if we let him...It's back to the same old same old now, but it was a GREAT weekend! Thanks for coming guys!


Weston Update: He's now 31.5 inches tall and 25Lbs 13oz. That keeps in the 95th percentile for height, but he's tailing off in the weight catagory...only 90th percentile.

We love this guy. He's all over the place now, and loves being the center of attention. He's learning to communicate more and more. If he's upset and you guess right at what he wants he says "yeah." If your wrong...he keeps crying. He's got a few words down: Mama and Dada, yeah, nana (Banana), dader (Danger), and eh-O (Hello-only when he's on the phone)

We're so grateful for the amazing friends and family we have that have been able to share his 1st year with us! Thank you!