Visitors

This weekend Aunt Amanda and Uncle Brannon came to visit. It's always fun to have family come and spend some time.

 Twinners! Gotta love the feetsie pajamas for all ages.

 Then, Truman and I had some fun with Amanda's new camera while she and Brannon went snowboarding and Rick was at school studying. Love this one!

 She has some really fun settings on that thing. Recently I have pulled out my 35mm slr camera and been shooting a little. It's been fun to start getting back into photography. I'm waiting for a roll to get developed and hopefully some of the shots turn out so I can post 'em!

 Some of the highlights from the weekend included:

- Pita Jungle

- A trip to the new Joann's store that just opened up here.

- Gel nails (Thanks sister!)

- Amanda's face after getting a kiss from Truman.

- Helping Brannon with his Scrabble games on his Ipad

- Laughing

- Mango sticky rice & brownies with ice cream

- Watching Truman draw on the Ipad, dance, walk, yell, eat, fart...he's pure entertainment

- Hearing about Amanda's snowboarding experience

We already miss you! Come back soon!

Walking Walking

Here's the little guy taking some of his first steps. We had been practicing with him for about a week or so at this point, but this is by far his best performance to date. We usually have to stabilize him for a bit, let him gain his balance, and then off he goes. He's doing great.

Crawling down the stairs

Ever since Truman began crawling we have been worried that he would have a little "run in" with the stairs that are in the house. We decided it was finally time to teach him how to go down them so that we felt a little more safe about the situation. This is a cute little video of him on one of his first attempts (it didn't take very long at all for him to catch on).

Caught "Box Handed"

How did this happen while I was working????

So busted...I think he learns things like this from Bear and Coco. He loves to shred things lately, mostly tissues and toilet paper.

Bed Head

T woke up with some serious bead head after his nap.

 The whole left side was pretty gnarly! If only I could not care like he does.

 Check out those unsymmetrical teeth...they complement the hair style perfectly.

Sedona

My parents and the Scotts were in Sedona for the weekend, so we headed down on Saturday to meet up and do a little mountain biking. For starters, the drive from Flag to Sedona is beautiful. It goes along Oak Creek and it actually made us want to go camping. What?! Like in a tent...well we'll see if the amazing scenery really motivates us to go sleep outdoors when the weather warms up. Neither of us had done that drive and we are glad that we did.

These are a couple of pictures from our bike ride...if you want to call it that. I'm pretty sure we did more hiking than riding. The map said it was a bike trail and not too difficult...who ever wrote that must be some kind of expert rock hopper! Needless to say we didn't spend too much time before heading back.

However, there was an upside to the bike ride/hike, we met some people that were trying to find the vortex. Sedona is known to be an area with all kinds of magical vortexes...I really hope they found it, although we were not much help. We went back after the ride and had dinner and then headed home. The next morning, Rick got a news alert on his phone saying that there had been an earthquake in Sedona! We were like "what the...?" I text my mom to find out if they had felt it. She told me yes and that it made my dad fall out of bed....I was laughing so hard!! And then she confessed that they made that up, and they had really slept through it. However, they do believe that they were the cause of the earthquake.They feel that their presence in Sedona had upset the vortex.

Mid Century Mod

Some people like to be outside to be a part of nature and look at wildlife....we like to be outside and look at houses and neighborhoods. Ok, and we like nature sometimes too. We were out and decided to go for a walk in a neighborhood we had never been in. It must have been our lucky day because we found our new favorite house in Flagstaff.

 We LOVE mid century modern houses!! We were so excited to come across a neighborhood that had some great mid century homes in it.

 Check out that sweet entry way with the swingin' light fixture.

 Here is how Truman enjoyed the walk, all snuggled up in his stroller.

We probably spent about an hour and a half wandering this neighborhood. It was a great way to end Rick's winter break by spending some quality time together being voyeurs and dreaming of our future home.

Turkey Lurkey

We cooked our first turkey. Behold!

This 23 pounder is going to feed us for the next month. I stuffed butter under the skin and such, but it still turned out a little dryer than I wanted, but not bad. I didn't have a meat thermometer and was scared of under cooking this bad boy, I think that's why it turned out kinda dry. So I guess that means there is an excuse for more gravy and cranberry sauce! Mmmm.

Rick's Birthday

We invited some of Rick's classmates over for his 31st birthday. There is a girl named Julie in his class that shares Rick's exact same birthday, so we made it a double party!

Sara made these sweet mint brownies and a killer sign to go with. (I did have a couple of people wish me happy birthday...2 Julie's got a little confusing I guess.)

Three of Rick's classmates also have kids, so we decided that after we ate some goodies we would go out to the golf course and do a little sledding...there may have been some blood and tears shed. Our bad! We didn't do a pre-run to try out the hill. That little hill was a lot quicker than we expected, but Julie's boys loved it! Those 3 little guys were fearless!

Here is Tyler racing Julie's husband, Jeremy, and 2 of his boys.

Dustin and Hollis. I can't believe Hollis agreed to get back on the sled, he had already wiped out pretty badly twice before. What a tuff guy!

Rick and Truman getting ready to go.

Julie and one of her boys.

Dustin's little girl opted to make a snow angel instead (try to find it, it's to her right). She actually went down on a different hill and biffed it pretty good with her little brother, so I can't blame her for choosing to be the cheerleader for the rest of the sledders.

T's first time out on the slopes.

It was really fun for me to get to know some of Rick's classmates and their families and I think they enjoyed doing something social with their classmates as well. I did go down on a sled with Rick and somehow snow managed to go down the front of my shirt even though I had a ski coat on zipped up...impressive.
Rick said that he had a good birthday and that is what really mattered (I think it partially had to do with the amount of cake we had left over). Cheers to the best husband in the universe!!

Idaho

We headed up to Idaho after Christmas to spend a week with our Berry family. I didn't take enough pictures, but we had a great time. All of Rick's sisters and their families came up to Twin for a couple of days. Some of the highlights included, meeting Tyler, the newest addition to the family, having a big family dinner, watching all of the kids play together, going to the church to play games in the gym, spending time with Rick's friends, and having a quiet New Year's Eve with just Rick & I. (Low lights included the 24 hour flu hitting just about everyone except Truman and I...ewww.)

 Truman loved crawling after the ball in the gym. Baller!!

 Everybody watching Legrand fly Liam's new helicopter that he got for Christmas.

 Truman loves his Grandpa Berry! He would always smile or giggle when he would see his Grandpa.

You can kind of see his "fangs" in this one. He got his side teeth in before his front teeth. Vampire baby. Truman did really well on the airplane both ways. On the way there he slept almost the entire way and on the way back he snoozed a little and played like a good little boy.

We miss Rick's family and wish we were closer, but we are lucky we aren't too far and that we still get to see them a few times a year.