Happy Canadian Thanksgiving Feast!!!

Our families once again met together for a Canadian Thanksgiving celebration. This year Mark and Cheree were so kind to let us meet at the dental office and have our family feast! We express our sincere gratitude towards their awesome kindness! Thanks to everyone who contributed with their time, effort and cooking so that we could enjoy this event. We hope everyone had a good time, and missed those who could not make it. We love you all.

Max and Troy appear excited about Thanksgiving Canadian style, while Nate ponders the margin of victory for BYU over SDSU.

The youngest and the eldest of my simblings hug!!!

Kari, Mackenzy, and Mommy Shirley

Two of Earth's cutest children.

Already a gamer!!!

Nintendo, an activities for all ages. Awesome.

An intense foosball match. Tyler and Dylan looked strong early, but they eventually gave way to the older duo of Chris and Steven.

Cheree, Tiffany, Heather, Mommy Julie, Grandmother Edythe.
This group produced much of the effort that made our celebration possible

More evidence turkey induces sleep!

A traditional Grandpa snooze.

The leftovers from the Feast!!!

Park Moves and Trying on Shoes!!!

I have decide that until the weather is too cold to take Christian to the park, we are going to go. We have gone 4 times this week. Christian just loves the park and it is so fun to see his excitement as he runs to go down the slide again. I love taking him because the park entertains him for sometime.

Christian is getting so big. He can climb this mountain all by himself. I guess I shouldn't have been surprised when he first climbed it but I was. He is so funny. If there is any wood chips on the mountain, he has to brush them off and says "ewew".

Before Christian goes down the slide he says "ready, set, go". It is so fun to hear him talk more.

Christian is in that stage where he loves to try on other peoples shoes. Before tonight, he would only put on one shoe and walk around. We showed him how to put on both shoes. He had so much fun just walking around in them.

It is so fun to see how Christian is understanding a lot more of what we tell him. At dinner time, I told him to go get his chair chair. While he was bringing it over it got stuck. He was so frustrated and started to cry. I told him to say help Dad. A hour later, he said help when he need help putting on the shoes.

Cool Hats

Tonight, we got together with my side of the family, to celebrate the safe return of my parents, who came home from Peru. Here are some cute picture of our get together:

Here is Justin and Juliet in their Peruvian Tuques

Little Mommy Maddie and Fire Marshal Christian

A Little Bit of Everything

Christian totally loves the computer. I think he loves his dad so much he likes to copy him. We call Christian our "little Tech".

Christian loves to play with his dad after work.

Our Little Tornado!

Ready, Set , and Go!

Reading a Story

A Climbing He Will Go!

Lately Christian has been climbing up on everything that he can climb on. I feel like I have to constantly be watching because I'm afraid he will fall from a far distance. I think I now know why I am tired and want to take a nap every day.


Last week, I was in the kitchen cleaning up and Christian went into his room. When he didn't come right out to find me, I knew that I need to see what he was doing. I found Christian siting on his Changing table.


Christian has been doing this trick for some time but it is usually when he is hungry. I guess he can also use it to get himself a drink.


Christian just loves to climb on the bar stools to get into trouble. He also will climb up on them to sit on my lap. We finally had to put the bar stools against the wall.
This is one I really don't like when he climbs on the toilet to get to the sink because of course he turns on the hot water.

Corn on the Cob

Christian totally loves Corn on the Cob. He enjoys it so much he doesn't even want to wait until it is cooked. There has been times that he has taken a bite of it before we can cook it. He has also had some temper tantrums because he can't wait for it to be cooked.

One Little Monkey Jumping In His Bed

Christian has started to give me a harder time about going to bed, especial for nap time. On Monday, he jumped, played and cried for two hours. Today he wouldn't go down for a nap until 2:45. I really hope that he is not giving up naps. I for one still need nap time for a couple of reasons:

1. I need to have down time from my wild man.
2. So I can get some things done.

Here are some of Christian's newest pre-bedtime antics for your viewing enjoyment!







This is what Christian thinks about going to bed.