My favorite boy!

Here are a few pictures of my sweet little man! We just adore Nathan and think he is the cutest thing. He is 10 1/2 months already. He is so happy and loves to play. He is a little mama's boy and I love that. He definitely loves playing with his dad though. He is crawling around and pulling up on everything. He is pulling all the books off the shelves and the clothes out of the drawers and into everything he can reach. He is even walking along things and balancing standing up alone for a few seconds. He is totally all boy and has no fear. He has found the wooden stairs and can climb up the entire thing. At any second he just turns around and dives forward and nearly gives me a heart attack.



He is already obsessed with balls and wants to have one in his hand at all times. Whenever he finds one around the house he gets so excited and says "bah" "bah" all the time. His dad is thrilled- to say the least.


Scott says he is "leading off" in this picture in his little baseball outfit.

He has eight teeth and wants to eat whatever we are eating. He grabbed this pear from me and started going at it before I could even get the sticker off.

His other favorite thing is the bath! He seriously loves it and splashes like crazy. Maddie and Bella get so mad because he always "splashes in their eyes." I love his cute curly red hair too! We are so grateful for this little guy in our family!

Christmas Vacation

Here are a whole bunch of pictures from our holidays. They are all out of order, but I don't want to take the time to fix it! We had such a great time being with our families.

This was Nathan's first time experiencing the beach. He ate quite a bit of sand the first time, but figured out pretty quick that it was gross. He is crawling and pulling up on everything. He's a cutie for sure! He follows me around all day saying, "ma ma" and he also says "da da" and "ball".


Christmas Eve in Coronado Bay, CA.


Back to Chilly, snowy Ohio!

Maddie and Millie playing at the beach.

Touching the Starfish at Seaworld.

Beautiful sunset with our beautiful Cali cousins.

Laguna Beach Tide Pools

Decorating Gingerbread houses with Grandma and Uncle Matt and Dad.

Rynearson Girls

Trip to Disneyland!

Meeting the princesses/characters was a highlight!

Merry Christmas

Make a Smilebox greeting

Happy Halloween!

Beautiful Fall

Fall is beautiful around here! The colors are amazing and there are SO many leaves everywhere- including our yard. We have some fun raking to do.





The other night Scott and the girls carved pumpkins and then we watched the Charlie brown Halloween show with cider, popcorn and caramel apples. It was the perfect autumn activity.

Random

I have been totally out of blogging mode the past while. I didn't blog while Scott was gone but now he is HOME! I'm just putting up a few pictures to catch up for journaling sake.


Maddie and Bella rarely ask to hold Nathan- probably because he is nearly as heavy as they are and is a bit squirmy but here is Maddie attempting to snuggle her brother.

Nathan is 7 1/2 months and the sweetest guy around. He is getting his top two teeth and another on the bottom (he already has two) so his poor mouth has to be hurting! I love this round happy face though.

This is for Aunt Lacey and Uncle Ashton to see Nathan in his cute Master's onesie.

A typical morning around our house- waking up and watching cartoons but only after the girls put on something "beautiful" and they had to set up their pumpkins.

My Dancers!

I've been teaching a little dance class for Maddie and Bella at our house the past couple months. It has been really fun and the girls love it. There are 7 little girls from our ward and it is low key, but perfect for this age to have something to get excited about.

A few summer pictures

I had to put up this picture because although Nathan looks tons like scott most of the time he looks just like my baby pictures here with that big round face! He is the cutest and sweetest guy ever. He sits up all by himself and has his first two teeth.

We went up and stayed with my sister in Logan and headed to play at Bear Lake for a day.

We fit 4 car seats and 2 boosters in the Sienna! Gotta love it.

The beautiful St. George temple. We were in Utah for the Oquirrh Mountain Temple dedication and it was such a neat experience. We loved it.

Berries

I love picking fruit at the farms around here. We went rasberry picking last week and it was a blast. There were TONS of rasberries and the girls pretended to be Sleeping Beauty out picking berries. I had planned to make some yummy jam or some sort of great dessert but aside from some rasberry milkshakes and rasberries with sugar and cream we ate up all those berries right out of the container and loved it!

First day of preschool

It has been a while since I've updated our blog. We spent the last part of our time in Utah playing lots with family. Scott came out and rotated with our brother-in-law, Josh, and it was a treat for all of us. We made it down to St. George for the weekend to see Scott's great family too. We had a wonderful summer and are now back to Ohio and ready for the fall. It is such a beautiful time around here. The weather is gorgeous and in the next month leaves will start to change. It is back to school time and this year we had two of the cutest preschoolers you've ever seen! the girls started at Carol Nursery school just down the road. They go three afternoons a week and have two darling teachers. They already love it.

Maddie

Bella

This is the classic first day of school picture on the porch.

Of course the backpacks are bigger than they are!

July

Where did Juy go? The summer is flying by quickly. July is always a good month for our family because we get to celebrate lots. I already posted about the fourth and that is always a fun time. This year Scott took his Step 2 boards on the 9th of July so it was so great when he was done! He studied hard and those huge tests are always intense! I don't know how he does it. Scott had the week after his boards off and we had a good old regular week at home together. It was so nice to have him around and we did tons of little projects that needed to be done.

We celebrated our 6th wedding anniversary! Six years- wow it has really gone fast. I already can hardly remember life without Scott in it. They have most definitely been a wonderful six years- filled with tons of traveling, dates, eating out, playing together, and some incredible memories. Six years has also brought us- 5 different cars, 4 different houses, 3 different states, and best of all 3 amazing kids. I have to say I love Scott more than I can even express. (I can't elaborate right now or I might have a break down. We've been apart for two weeks now and we have many more to go. I'm missing him like crazy.) I truly couldn't ask for a better husband and think we have grown together in so many ways these past six years. To celebrate our anniversary we left the girls with some friends and went and saw the Kirtland sights together and had a nice little lunch. Alone time with Scott has been scarce the past few months with a new baby, getting ready for boards, etc. so it was truly a treat to be together. The church history sights are always inspiring and wonderful. We loved living in the Nauvoo Stake and now in the Kirtland Stake. We've had some very memorable experiences and have a deep appreciation for the early saints.

We also celebrated Maddie and Bella's 3rd Birthday. They requested a Dress up- princess party so that is what we did. They were darling little princesses and were so thrilled about their giant cupcake cakes. A few little friends came over and they all dressed up like princesses. We decorated purses, did make up and nails, and had pizza, watermelon, and cake and icecream. All their favorites. It was definitely all girl! I love my two princesses who are growing up on me so fast!

The kids and I are now enjoying our time in Utah while Scott works hard on his rotations. We miss him and we are so glad we can be here to enjoy the summer with family. We've had a blast. We've been here two weeks and have already packed things in. Here's what we've been up to...

-flying on the airplane with three kids by myself. Thank goodness everyone did well.

-tons of swimming, swinging and playing in Grandma's wonderful yard!

-enoying family dinners and play time with the cousins

-Maddie and Bella getting spoiled with presents for their birthday from all our family

-a visit with my dear old BFF Leash and her 2 cute boys

-watching the 24th of July parade and enjoying a gourmet breakfast buffet with the Lunt's

-a swimming party and barbeque with our extended family- the Gibbs and Childs.

-a trip to Discovery Gateway with Sarah and her boys

-the Kenny Chesney concert with sisters

-seeing Grandma Melanie, Aunt Lacey, McCall, and Natalie and watching Aunt Gentry Cheerleading

-bow making with Sydney. She is so creative!!

-2 wonderful playdates with my most wonderful friend Tobey and her kids. The girls were excited to be with Addie and we had such a fun time at Liberty park yesterday!

-a session at the Jordan River Temple with Sarah and having Elder Oaks in our session with us.

-catching up with another incredible friend from back in the day- Liz (Deb) Debry. You look fabulous Deb!

-having everyone adore our darling Nathan. What a great little guy he is. His constant smiles are just the best. The poor thing is taking after his dad and has has lost a lot of his hair since we've come (Sorry hon. Love you. :) ) I hope it grows back soon because it was so cute. He's been great though and I can't get enough of that sweet boy.

I'd say it has been a good two weeks that is for sure! I am so grateful for all the help from my family. I don't know how we'd make it without them all! I am so glad to be here while we are apart from Scott. I miss you babe and can't wait to see you...