Happy Halloween!

Wow it's already Halloween! It's crazy how fast time goes. My little guy is already 4 weeks old and I myself have already lost 30 pounds from the 42 I gained over the course of my pregnancy...hurray for breastfeeding!! Only 12 to go to get to my pre-pregnancy weight.

Today should be really fun. My mom bought me a bubble fog machine for my birthday that is seriously cool. We had a lot of fun playing with it when my nephew Tau was here and now again today we get to play with it. We're planning on setting it up on our top balcony so the bubbles of fog can fall down onto the trick-or-treaters when they come. I'm way excited to see if it works. Living here in a student family apartment building we're planning on getting a bunch of trick-or-treaters. This is my very first year I get to stay home and entertain trick-or-treaters all night. I really am looking forward to it.

Daniel's two best friends Ayla and Shawn are coming to visit us later on tonight so we're planning on hanging out with them and eating lots of junk food!!

Have a GREAT Halloween everyone! :)

Daniel's Mom and Brother

This is Daniel's mom who came out for a visit. It's funny because she was the first person to hold the baby besides Daniel and I (and the people at the hospital but they don't count!) It was weird for me to give my baby up to someone for the first time.

This is Daniel's big brother John. So here we have big John and little John!

It's so funny how different John and Daniel to me. I thought this was a cute picture because of how little John is looking at Daniel. That kid sure knows who his daddy is!

My Cousin Tau

Tau was so cute with John the whole time they were here.

At first Tau was super jelous of John and anyone that wanted to hold him. He didn't understand why he wasn't getting the attention so he clung to his mommy and wouldn't let her touch John without him there.
Then my mom had a brilliant idea to let Tau hold John and teach him that he was just a little baby.
At first he wasn't quite sure what to do...
But then John started sucking on his face and Tau thought it was hillarious!
After that he did not want to let John go. To him it was his baby and he became super protective of him.
Tau became like this if anyone tried to mess with his baby!!So even though Tau tried to force feed John a fig newton when we weren't looking he still protected that kid with his life! They are both so funny and I'm sure later on in life they will find ways to get into trouble together with Logan as well. The three musketeers!

The Photo Shoot

These are just a few pictures of the photo shoot we set up and took while Brittanny and my mom were here. It's so much fun setting up your own "studio" and taking the pictures yourself because then you can do it on your own time. It was nice because every time John got fussy we stopped and took our time getting him calm again before going on. If you were to go anywhere else it would be much harder. All three of us had fun setting these up.

I don't know if that's him trying to be Popeye or what!?!

I love this picture even though right before we took it he reached up with his giant claws and scratched his face! This is why I still put the little mittins on his hands :)



I bought him a Lemar stuffed animal at the zoo because it had a long soft tail. It's his little zaboomafoo!

His hair is seriously so much fun to play with. I know it will most likely all fall out but I don't want it too. It's just too cute!

Zoo Day

Ok first of all, I had no idea Santa Barbara had a zoo! That's so cool!! We all took a trip to the zoo one day and even though I got tired of it quickly I still had fun. The SB Zoo isn't very big and doesn't have a ton of animals but we still got to see some pretty cool stuff.

We got to see Elephants...

And penguins...

And cheetahs and snow leopards. The cheetah was funny because Tau managed to get up to the glass and look in at it. Had that cheetah noticed him and jumped at the glass Tau probably would have crapped himself!The monkeys were so cool, especially the one's that swung from branch to branch so fast it looked like they were flying...

The gorillas were pretty cool too because one of them had a scab on his leg that he kept picking at and eating! It was pretty sick but hillarious to watch!!

We found John's real family tree!! hehehe

And pretty much the whole time we were there he spent it like this...can you tell how much he loved the zoo!?!

Fist time at the beach!

This is a picture of John's very first beach visit! We all went down to the Goleta beach right next to UCSB which just so happens to be only a 5 min drive from my house.



The next day we went to the beach again and this time got more pictures...


It was such a beautiful day and we had a pretty relaxing time. I don't think any one of us loved it as much as my nephew Tau...
You name it, he did it! From feeding the birds...
...All the way to running full force into the ocean while Brittanny ran after him. He ended up getting a mouth full of sea water, as well as a mouth full of sand when he landed face down while chasing Brittanny on the beach! Silly kid :~)
But he sure loved every minute of it none the less!

Tau was so protective of John especially when the birds were around. He would check every few minutes to make sure John was still doing ok. The love of cousins!!

I honestly think this is one of my most favorite pictures in the world. They look so perfect like that.

So our day at the beach turned out to be pretty fun...except when it was time to go home. I think Tau said it best when we told him it was time to leave!!

The Baby Shower

My visiting teachers decided to through me a baby shower with the other ladies of our ward. It was such a fun night. I was so happy that my mom and sister were there for it as well.


A bunch of ladies showed up and we had a lot of really yummy food...and...

...Even a diaper cake! I've never seen one of these before but I thought it was such a cute idea. Instead of just giving someone a box of diapers why not arrange them into a cute 3 layer "cake"! Ha ha ha...so much fun!! :)