Conner's Christmas Tree

We did Conner's room in a Cowboy theme, so why not do a Cowboy themed Christmas tree. We Ryan and I were little my Dad would take us to cut down a little Christmas tree to put in our rooms. I loved having a lite up Christmas tree in my room when I was going to bed, so I thought that we would start this tradition with our kids. I just got Conner a fake tree, though. It's nice to not have pine needles all over the floor. It was pretty fun, and Conner loves it.

My mom got this saddle ornament for his tree.

Jess brought this old rope home one day to put around Conner's tree. I love it. I was trying to think about what to do for a garland, and this turned out perfect.

I decided to show some more pictures of Conner's room, so here's some fun pictures that are above his crib. I'm still planning on make some bedding for him so for right now it's still sports bedding.

When we wre waiting for our house to get done, I made this garland for his room. I really liked how it turned out. I just cut the letters out of cardboard, and tied cut up cowboy fabric strips. It was super easy, and I loved the finished product.

Of course what's a cowboy room with out John Wayne, right?!

Here's the finished look with is cow hide rug and all. Thanks Grandma for Rodney the Reindeer!

Christmas Decor 2007

After our Thanksgiving we finally made it home to take down our Fall decor, and put up our Christmas. I love this time of year so much! There's just something about decorating a tree with snow falling outside. Yes, we were getting some snow this day. We actually got a lot, but it didn't last to long. It will be so much fun when Conner is old enough to go out and play in the snow. I know that Jess was just dying to hit him with a snowball.

This is what our front room looked like in the middle of all the craziness.

Conner and Dad getting in some bottle time before Conner had to hit the hay! : )

Jess putting up the star.

Conner even helped put some ornaments on the tree. He's been such a good little guy, too. He hasn't pulled a single thing off of the tree. What a good little guy!

Here's the finished product. It's a little dark, but I will say I love my tree!

Here's one of my favorite ornaments. My mom got this for us last year when we had Conner. She found it at the hospital gift shop, and it just has so much meaning to me, and it brings back lots of fun memories.

Here's our stockings. This was the only place that we could really hang them.

Quality Time With Cousin Emmet

What a little goof!

So the boys have been playing with each other really well, but occasionally they will have their moments. Here they are fighting over this bus. It was pretty funny. They don't really get frustrated or mad at each other, but they just tug back and forth until one of them gives up.

Conner decides that maybe if he gets up and starts to walk off that he'll win.

Emmet decided that he wasn't going to get away with this toy, so he just stood up and followed. Yes, those are my little guys not so little thighs. : )

Happy Thanksgiving! : )

Okay so I know that it's a little late, but it's better late then never, right?! Well for some reason I didn't take a lot of pictures on Thanksgiving, but Conner really enjoy his first Thanksgiving. For everyone that knows Conner really well, they know that he loves food so so so so much! He's our very solid 27 pound almost one year old! : ) He ended up sleeping through the adult Thanksgiving dinner, but that was nice for Jess and I to be able to eat in peace. Conner had his little dinner a bit later, and he also had to for sure indulge in his first piece of pumpkin pie! I love pumpkin pie, and I ate tons of it when I was pregnant with Conner, so I knew that he would love it, and boy did he ever. I think that once it really came down to it he enjoyed the whipped cream the most. : )

A huge chunk of whip cream fell on his shirt, but I think that he wanted to save it for later.

Just like Jess, Conner loves big bites!

I think that Conner ended up getting a stomach ache, poor guy.

What a successful first Thanksgiving.

Yuuummmmyyy!

For Thanksgiving I made my famous sugar cookies, and I decided to let Conner partake of some of their goodness. I gave him a unfrosted one, and boy did he love it. : )

Just checking things out.

Some how he got some cookie all the way up by his eye.

By the time that he was done with the whole sugar cookie thing he had eatten about a good 3/4 of it.

Like Father like Son! Sugar cookies are definently the way to his little heart! : )

Hanging Out With Cousin Emmet

Conner's cute little yawn.

Emmet was checking out Rodney the Reindeer.

Conner looked deep in thought about something.

More of my Little Goof Ball

These are Conner's two favorite toys. I'm not sure what it is, but he loves having something in both hands. It cracks us up! : 0 )

Conner loves digging through my purse. He knows that that is where I keep all the goodies! : )

Then this is his "Oh darn, I just got caught" face. : )

What a Ham!! : )

It's been so fun watching Conner's personality start to come out! He's so hilarious! I can't believe that my little guy's going to be one next week! Yikes!!! Here's just some fun pictures of Conner. We were just enjoying another fun day hanging out at our house before making out trip to Moses Lake for Thanksgiving.

Conner does this look all the time. I can't figure out what he does it for. He doesn't really do it when he's mad or sad, but we laugh at him all the time, so he probably knows that it's funny! : )

Very Bad

Okay, so I know that I'm not the best blog poster in the world, but I promise I try! Our computer never works, and we have been having a very fun visit with Auntie April and cousin Emmet, and now Cousin Weston! Yes, April had her baby, and he is so precious! I can't wait to have another one! : ) Well right now I am at my Mom's house and I was going to try and post some pictures but they are all on our computer, and Jess took the laptop with him to Seattle for the weekend! Darn! I promise that things will get better once we figure out what's wrong with the laptop, but if the Nerd Herd can't figure it out we might not be able too! : ) Wish me luck! : )