Christmas

We took a family picture yesterday and before we got started Ann snaped these photos of Wes...THANKS ANN!

Merry Christmas!

One Really Random Post

So we made it home on Wednesday around 1 pm and it felt soo great to get out of the car! Since then we have been getting things done around the house for Christmas and just enjoying being back in our home for a while. Today we went to visit Todd's parents and stoped by Great Grandad's house too. Before we left I snaped a 4 generation picture of the boys and was actually able to get everyone to look at the camera this time :) Yesterday Todd picked up a Christmas tree at Lowes and when he went to pay for it he only had to come up with $1.25! The last picture is of my new Bosch mixer...it is AWESOME. The first day I used it to make some bread and it was so nice, and FAST! I'm so excited to grind up some wheat in my wheat grinder and start making bread mmm :)

A lot of Pictures!!!

Enjoying the Weather

So this afternoon we wanted to take advantage of the time we have to be here in Sarasota so we went for a drive. The city isn't too big, but it has lots of great beaches and outside areas so we could stop and get out and play. We had a blast! I got to see a dolphin, a few racoons, and a mangrove forest. It is really beautiful down here and the weather was just fantastic :)

Out for a walk in Florida

Sarasota

Birthday Party

We had a birthday party for Wes on Thursday and it was a lot of fun. First Wes played with his lego table with his uncles Connor and Hunter. Then, we lit the candle and sang happy birthday, which Wes was NOT very happy about. He started crying and didn't want anything to do with that cake! We dipped ourselves some ice cream and used our cold stone to mix in different toppings (it was a lot of fun and really yummy) while Grandpa Wilkins worked on getting Wes to like the cake. Finally he would touch it and thought it was pretty good but then after a while he started freaking out because he was soo dirty :) After Wes was all cleaned up he opened his tool belt present and had fun playing with all the tools that came with it. It was nice to be home for a few days and have family over to help celebrate Wes' first year!

Happy Birthday Wes!

One year ago...

Today!

Today was Wes' 1st birthday! Linzi was so nice and made him a pancake for breakfast with a match as a candle and everything. he thought it was pretty great, and he liked eating the pancake too. Then, later today I took him to the park and he had it almost entirely to himself which he thought was great. Later, I still had some packing to do so Wes helped me with that (ok, so he actually made it harder) and then tonight we went out for dinner with his friends Ryan and Matt :)