Mason's First Christmas

Mason had a fabulous first Christmas. He was so spoiled by all of his grandparents and aunts and uncles! Santa brought him a car that has all kinds of buttons and levers for him to play with.

Mom and Dad were spoiled as well.

Grandma Kelly and Uncle Devon came down for Christmas Day for a visit. Mason had such a good time seeing all of his grandparents while we were in Idaho.

Thank you all for everything. We love you all!

Merry Christmas Eve!

 Mason and I drove up to Jerome with Aunt Aubree.  Boompa and Oma Russell came to pick her up and have a visit with him. He loves seeing them, and especially loves grabbing Grandpa's glasses! The cute owl hat is a gift from Aubree from Argentina! 

No opening presents before Christmas Mr. Mason!

He also had a visit with Santa Claus this month. He wasn't afraid at all, he patted his beard and just stared at him. 

My parents' neighbors have a horse, and we took Mason to visit him. He looked pretty amazed at seeing such a large animal, but he wasn't afraid! He reached out to pat his nose. Pam, this picture is for you. :) 

And our big news...Mason is CRAWLING!!

Decorating for Christmas (I know, it's too early)

Trent is a good sport and let me put up the Christmas decorations a little early. (To be fair, it's only four days early) Mason loves all of it. He couldn't take his eyes off of the tree, and once he found this string of beads, he was in heaven.

So much fun. Mason also showed off his Ute shirt this weekend (even though it did not help them win). I hope everyone has a great Thanksgiving! 

9 months (cont)

 Hanging out with his best buddy.

 It's so funny to put things on your head!!

He's getting to be such a big boy!

Halloween

 Cutest little crab ever! 

9 months old!!

Mason is nine months old today. He talks to us all the time in his own babble, and can say Dada and Baba. (Still working on Mama, unfortunately!) He loves bath time and pulling on the dogs' ears, which they are sweet enough to let him do. He's not quite crawling yet, but he can stand with help and spins around in circles on his tummy. His favorite foods are applesauce and peas, and he loves his stuffed giraffe that he sleeps with every night.

Our friend Kathleen is a retired teacher, and she loves reading as much as I do. She has spoiled our little Mason by sending him a new book to open every month. We love getting books from her and we have found a few new authors that we love. We opened our 9 month book today, after Mason chewed on it for awhile. He was very excited about the paper it came in. I'm pretty sure we could just get him wrapping paper for Christmas and he would be one happy baby. His likes the roll of paper on the exam table at the doctor's office more than most of his toys!

Weekend in Boise

We recently went to Boise to visit family and friends. It's always a whirlwind visit, and we always want to have more time with everyone, but we love catching up with everybody and showing off our cute baby, of course!


We visited Grandma and Grandpa Russell, where Mason spent some time with them playing on the floor...

And tasting all of their toys.

 

 He also got his first haircut from Grandpa! Both Grandpa Russell and his father were barbers and Grandpa gave Trent his first haircut as well. Mason's hair looks great and Mason tolerated it well (mostly!). Thank you Grandpa!

After the haircut, we went to Nolan's superhero themed 4th birthday party! His parents were very creative and sewed each kid their own superhero cape.

They built a Gotham city with Batman cupcakes...

And even made super food!

From left to right- Captain America's shield, Green Lantern and Spiderman.


Mason looked pretty cool in his own cape.

 We also visited Grandma and Grandpa Barrus' house. Mason thought his cousin Abby's hair was so entertaining, and she was nice enough to let him chew on it most of the night!

He loves Grandma Barrus. :)



Ernie, Jackie and I also ran a 10k near Ste. Chapelle. Even though it was wet and very hilly, we had a great time!

We had to get a picture by the trees where we got married.


Thank you for the visit Boise! We hope we get to see everyone soon!