Family Pics in the Snow

I have been waiting for the perfect opportunity to take pictures in the snow and today presented itself beautifully! We took a ton of pictures but these were some of my favorites...Enjoy!!

Levi Watching

Here's a little video of one of John's favorite activities. Literally dozens of times and he never gets bored of it... even if we do...

John watching Levi from Daniel Tuutau on Vimeo.

The day we've all been waiting for...

The day has finally come......

John officially broke through his first tooth....
...or should I say first 2 teeth!!!

Yes oh yes my friends after 14 and a half months of no teeth I finally felt a tooth at the bottom coming in. After getting majorly excited and trying to snap pictures of it with my camera phone I felt inside his mouth again and realized that there was one on the top as well. Yes you heard right...One on the bottom and one on the top broke through on the same day. I felt next to the bottom tooth and realized the one right next to it is really close to coming in as well. I tried to take a picture really close to his face to see if I could capture his pearly whites but the flash kind of took over and he looks really washed out. No matter! I'm sure I'll be taking plenty big toothy grin pictures soon enough. :)


The funny thing is I check his mouth all the time and he hasn't acted any different lately than usual. No fevers, no major drool, not even any major grumpy episodes. He puts everything in his mouth but that's normal so I was pleasantly surprised when I felt the teeth this evening after a full day of running around playing with all his toys happy as all get out!!! Man I love my kid :) Maybe this whole teething thing won't be so bad.....**knock on wood**

Christmas Pictures

Yesterday we went and had John's Christmas pictures taken. I thought they turned out great. I seriously love watching the progression of John's attitude each time we get these pictures done. He starts out so happy and by the end...well you'll see for yourself!!!

"Ho Ho Ho get me out of this dumb chimney!!"

Old Fashioned Christmas

Daniel is part of a caroling group that sings at different events for the holidays (mostly Christmas parties). This year the group was asked to sing at some different malls in the area for a couple of hours each Saturday until Christmas to help get people in the mood. They had a lot of fun even though it was a bit chilly outside.


The other girl was in New York for Thanksgiving so they were just a trio but they still did great.

Love the costumes!

Not the best of quality I know but here's a sample of how they were.

Thanksgiving

This year we had such a fun thanksgiving. Our friends from our ward came over and we had ourselves a feast!....


I think my camera lens might have been dirty when I took all of these pictures because they look a little fuzzy-ish to me but oh well. You get the idea! Here is a picture of the precooked turkey in our marvelous Roaster Oven that we got on sale at Kmart in the summer (that's one of the great things about having your husband work there. He knows when all the good deals come around :) )


Our wonderful chopped up turkey...



And here is a picture of the glorious food table...
After we all played an intense game of Harry Potter Scene It our friends went home and we caught up on all of our missed episodes of Heroes. It was a pretty good day :)