Merry Christmas!

We had a great Christmas this year! We celebrated Christmas at the Westenskows' (my family) on the 15th and the 16th and both my grandmas' homes. We were definitely spoiled! Christmas was a little crazy and loud at my parents' house due to the grandkids, but it was great all the same. We had to opportunity to get an up to date family picture...but not for long.
(Top: Travis, Carl (my dad), Devin (my brother), Middle: Misty (me), Denise (my mom), Terra (sister-in-law), Bottom: Jack, Lexi, CJ, Solon).

My sister-in-law and brother will be adding one more little boy to the clan in March! These little boys are taking over!



We were able to get some pictures of Jack with his great-grandmas on my side! He is a very loved boy!



We celebrated with Travis' family on the 21st and 22nd. We opened presents...Jack was spoiled! Grandma and Grandpa bought him a very adorable rocking horse! On Saturday, Crystal (sister-in-law) treated us to go-cart racing! It was very fun...although I will never be able to keep up with the family...They were passing me left and right...literally!


Christmas day was spent at home..for the very first time! We weren't sure what to do, but ended up having Baked Ziti and garlic bread for dinner and watched movies and played with Jack all day long! Oh, and I tried to make brownies...it didn't work...but Sadie helped me clean it up!








Jack did very well this Christmas as you can see by his couch of presents!!



I can't wait until next year, when he can open his presents and stay awake for it!! Love to all!

Baby Blessing

Our little Jack was blessed this Sunday at our ward here in Perry. He hated wearing his suit! I can't blame him considering how uncomfortable the poor kid looked...but he was SO handsome! That afternoon as we dressed him, we realized that his neck was too fat for the top button and his bow tie was too small! He slept like an angel during the blessing and then Travis had to take him out because he started grunting and fussing and trying to poop! It was pretty funny!








We had many family and friends come and support Jack. For dinner, we had a potato bar...needless to say we cooked too many and will be eating potatoes for weeks!! It was such a nice blessing and great to have so many people there!!

Jack is starting to give us some smiles! He is so sweet! I know that he is going to be pretty spoiled! It just melts your heart with each little smile!

Self Portraits!

Yesterday Travis and I made a successful attempt to take our own family pictures! It was definitely interesting...I would have never thought that a ladder could serve so well as a tripod! It took many tries, but Travis did well and I think that our little family is pretty cute!
We wanted to get Sadie (the dog) in the picture, but getting her to sit still with us would have been a real task. Getting her to not eat the blanket that keeps her warm at night has been a real task! (We went out the other day and found the stuffing from her bed all over the lawn! Naughty puppy! We did, however, get some pictures of her with reindeer antlers on...that was definitely time consuming!!