January 21, 2010: One Tuckered Out Kid

My parents decided to come down to SLC at the last minute and decided to stop by for a visit, which we are always excited to have. Coincidentally, Matt had the day off, amazingly enough, so my mom offered to watch Ethan while we went out for a nice, quiet, lunch where we were actually able to stay sitting in our seats and a movie (Thanks mom. It was very nice).

Ethan didn't have his usual three hour nap and decided to stay up and play with grandma and grandpa the whole time. By the time we came back it was too late to put him down, so we kept him up and went to dinner with my parents.

After we got home I thought for sure he'd crash. Nope, he got his second wind and was running around being silly. We finally got him bathed and settled down, then he needed a snack since he didn't eat much for dinner (I think he's teething again, poor kid). That's when it finally hit him. The little guy couldn't even lift his head off the pillows, but had to finish his "pop" before I could get him to bed.

January 11, 2010: Family Home Evening

This week for FHE Matt gave us a great lesson about families. For our treat, he had prepared some gingerbread dough and Ethan got to roll it out and make a gingerbread family. This was a big hit.

Ethan getting excited to help.

Rolling the dough.


Cutting out the gingerbread girls and boys.


Our family.

January 7, 2010: Pastries

On Matt's day off we went out and about and decided to stop at a pastry shop close to our house, Schmidt's Pastry Cottage. They have the most wonderful chocolate covered chocolate doughnuts that I was craving, yum. Ethan got very excited when he saw the cookies and picked one out. Matt took the cute picture of Ethan below enjoying his cookie.

I got my chocolate covered chocolate doughnut, Matt got his baklava and Ethan got his heart (haught, as he says it) cookie.

Happy 2010

Welcome to our 2010 New Year's Eve Party!!

We started off the night of festivities by making some peach gelato. It had to have close supervision to make sure it was done correctly.

After our treat was underway, we headed downstairs to start making some noise.


Followed by some rousing games of Ants in the Pants and Fishing.


We had the traditional New Year's shots and toasts of sparkling cider (straight milk for Ethan).


Then had our countdown at 8:00 p.m.; actually, it was a count-up. We're working on numbers. Blew some more horns, made some more noise and shot off streamers. After the streamers, we of course put them on our heads for some lovely hair.

After all the fun, it was off to bed to get a great start on a new year.