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!