Saturday, June 27, 2009

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!