What's new?

Well, well, well, so much has happened since our last post! I hardly know where to begin! Well, I mentioned in an earlier post that we went to the beach right after Matthew's 1st birthday, while we were there my camera had an accident involving sand getting inside the camera. Needless to say it is no longer working. We now have a water proof camera!




Now our goings on since our last post:
Our dear friends Eric and Kimi were sealed in the LA temple during the first part of August. We were all part of the wedding party. We had lots of fun and are so happy for them! Merrie went with us so that we could both attend the sealing. Thanks Merrie we'd be lost with out you!

After Eric and Kimi's wedding we moved! Our new apartment is so nice! I love it! It's a lot bigger, it has a garage and a washer and dryer, a fireplace, and I now have a walking closet!! We also purchased a new couch!! Our new complex has lots of young couple from our ward and a new friend for Matthew to play with.

We made another trip to the LA Temple for a family sealing! Merrie could not attend this time so Matthew and I hung out on the temple grounds while Rick attended the sealing.

After the sealing we decided to head over to the beach. We ended up in Morro Bay and stayed for a couple of days. Matthew loved playing on the beach until he fell into a deep tide pool! Rick also bought his first surf board! He recently discovered that he loves to surf!

During the first part of October Matthew was really sick, he had bronchitis and we couldn't take him to a pumpkin patch. So we bought a bunch of pumpkins and brought the patch to him! You can tell he really doesn't feel good though by the way he looks in the pictures! Luckily Matthew recovered in time for Halloween! This year Matthew was Super Mario, he even had a Yoshi! I may be a little biased but I think Matthew had the best costume ever this year!

Rick had to work again this Thanksgiving so Matthew and I spent the day with my parents and grandparents and Merrie!

Today Is Rick's birthday! Poor guy is sick and in bed, I don't have any pictures from his party but I found this picture of Rick and Matthew. We always joke about Matthew being Rick's mini me but it really goes beyond looks. Matthew loves everything that his daddy loves especially video games!! Matthew and I love you Rick, Happy Birthday!!

We did the Mash, we did the Monster Mash!

Halloween Monster Mash-Up brought to you by Oriental Trading Company

Matthew's 1st Birthday and Our Trip to the Beach!

Matthew recently had his first Birthday! Our baby turned one on June 18th. We had a party for him the following Saturday. I would like to take this opportunity to thank all those who shared that day with us! A few things about Matthew:

-He eats anything and everything!

-He crawls really fast (my mom calls it the torpedo crawl)

-He can almost walk. He can take four or five steps before he sits down.

-He has 7 Teeth!!

-He says, mama, dada, baba, no, hello, we go, bye bye, good, num num and ot oh.

-He is in the 90% for height and weight.

-He likes to play with cars and trucks.

-He has decide he only needs his pacifier at night and nap time, other wise he has no use for it.

-He has also decided that he only needs one nap, so he sleeps 12 hours at night and takes a 3 hour nap during the after noon.

-His favorite toys include the computer keyboard and mouse, the PS3 and it's controllers and the piano.

We are so blessed to have him, I could never imagine life with out him!

The Monday after Matthews Birthday party we headed off to the Beach. We met up with my mom and sister and the Taylor's. The Taylor's rented a huge beach house in cayucos and invited us to come stay for a night. We went up on Monday, got all settled in and then headed down to the beach. We had alot of fun rick learned how to surf and Matthew enjoyed playing in the water and the sand (and eating it)! That night we played games for hours, it was alot of fun! The next day Rick, Cameron, and Bryce spent the whole day surfing. Matthew, my mom, my sister and I went to San Luis. We walked around and looked in all the shops. We found a Beverly's there that sold armor! After the boys were done surfing Rick, Matthew and I packed up and headed home. We just want to thank the Taylor's for a wonderful beach trip!

Today we a heading out to go camping so hopefully there will be camping pictures to follow!

Catching up yet again!

I can't believe how long it's been since I posted last, and I really can't believe how much has happened since then! It will probably take two posts to get through everything! I think I will start with Easter. We had a great Easter we started out the day at church then we went to my grandparents home for a family get together. We also visited Rick's parents. Matthew got to meet the Easter bunny, and apparently he made a good impression because Matthew made out pretty well as far as presents go!

After Easter my good friend Kimi, Matthew and I made a quick trip to Utah! Kimi is getting married and she needed a wedding dress, so we hit the road. This trip was the longest Matthew has made so far, and all things considered he did really great! We left on a Friday drove all the way to Spanish Fork Utah. Spent all day Saturday looking for a dress, and then drove home Sunday. Like I said it was a quick trip! We did however, have time to stop at the Saint George Temple on the way up.

The week after we got home from Utah Rick, Matthew and I took another trip to Disneyland. We found an awesome deal on a room at the Red Lion! This time we met Rick's sister Susie her husband Steve and the their son Johnathan at the Magic Kingdom. We had a blast we spent the whole day ridding rides and looking through the shops. After we were all done with Disneyland we all headed over to the Cheese Cake Factory. Rick and I had never been there so it was a wonderful treat for us. Rick has yet to stop talking about the chocolate cheese cake he had!

Disneyland!!

For my birthday Rick, Matthew and I went to Disneyland for a couple days. It was so much fun! Matthew was so good he loves being around lots of people so he really enjoyed himself. We all got mouse ears with our names on the back. We rode a few rides the first day and walked through all the shopes and watched the firework show. The next day we went to California Adventure, it was our first time there and we didn't really enjoy it, we really enjoyed downtown disney though. All in all the trip was really fun! We plan on going back soon!

Our Trip to the E.R.

Rick sad because Matthew's sick!

Yesterday was the worst day we have had in a really long time! It started at midnight and progressed throughout the day from bad to worse! This is how it went: 12:00am Mathew throws up on our bed, so naturally I change his clothes. As I'm changing him I notice that he is hot to the touch so I ask Rick to find the thermometer. After striping him down to his diaper we take his temperature and it's 102. We give him some Motrin and take his temperature again an hour later, by then it's dropped to 100 and we attempt to go back to bed but Matthew develops a stuffy nose and wakes up screaming ever couple of hours because he can breath through his nose. Finally around 5am Matthew sleeps for a 4 1/2 hour stretch. 9:30am Matthew wakes screaming again and doesn't want to sleep any more. We get up I try to feed him but he refuses his food (completely not like him!) he screams continually and doesn't want to be put down, also not like him. So, I try to get him an appointment with his Dr. but there all full, after Rick explains that he really needs to be seen they let us come in. 2:30pm I take Matthew to the Dr. Rick had a Dr. appointment of his own so I take the screaming Matthew by my self. 3:30 pm we are finally called back and put in a room, Matthew finally falls asleep. 3:50 Dr. comes in to see Matthew, looks in his ears and say oh wow has he been cranky? YES!! He has an ear infection, they give me a prescription and send me on my way. 5:00 pm after dropping off Matthew's prescription I come home to find out that a transformer on our street blew up and our powers out. 7:30pm Power finally comes back on Matthews still screaming and still hasn't had a nap! We rush through dinner because someone has to hold Matthew at all times. 10:00 pm We check Matthews temperature and it has spiked to 104 so we decide to take him to the E.R. The E.R. is so busy there is no where to sit, Matthew continues to scream unless I walk him around 12:00 am we finally get to sit down. Matthew takes his second bottle of the day and falls asleep. 1:00 am we finally get called back they tell us he's fine and If his fever gets that high again to give him a max dose of Motrin and Tylenol at the same time. 2:00 am Home again, Matthew wakes up every couple of hours again. The good news is his fever finally broke and he hasn't had one since!

Matthew sleeping while we wait to see the E.R. Dr.

The Beach

Last weekend we took a trip to the beach to celebrate Rick's Mom's Birthday. It was a lot of fun! Both of Rick's sisters and their families came and we all got to hang out at the beach house. The last day that we were there we took Matthew down to the water. We took him to the tide pools by Morro Rock. He loved the water even though it was freezing. He didn't want to leave. He really liked splashing in the water, I can't wait to take him back when he is a little older!

Christmas

Where has the time gone? It seems like Christmas just flew past us! We had a good Christmas. We opened presents on Christmas eve this year because Rick was supposed to work Christmas Day, but his work called him at 5:00am Christmas morning and offered him the day off!! After we all got up and got ready we went over to my parents house to open presents with them. Matthew really enjoyed the ribbon this year! After we opened presents we all went over to my Uncle Mitchell's house for Christmas dinner. As is tradition my dad played Christmas songs on his guitar and we all sang along, Matthew loved the guitar he stared at ti the entire time!

The Monday before Christmas we all got together at Rick's parents house for presents and Christmas fun. Shelia arranged a children's nativity staring all the grandchildren. Lauren was Mary, Jonathan was Joseph, Thomas was a Lamb, Nathan was a shepherd, and Matthew was baby Jesus. They were all so cute, and Matthew was quiet throughout the entire production!

This is just a random picture of Matthew in this Sunday Christmas outfit. He wasn't very happy about wearing it, so I couldn't get a picture of him smiling. The outfit was sooo cute though!

December 18th was Merrie's 15th birthday and Matthew's half birthday, he's 6 months old now yaya!! Merrie's birthday was wild, and there were so many people there! It lasted until 2am I think, but we went home long before that! Matthew is getting so big! He can sit up by him self for short periods of time now, he can roll over both ways, he eats all the 1st baby food, (except peas) he even trys to feed him self, he holds his own bottle and drinks from a sippy cup, he is really close to crawling and he got his first tooth...he's growing up too fast!