Wednesday, December 29, 2010

First Video

(the oneise says "Shawn and Bekah Rock My World")

I've never posted a video on here before so I hope it works.

Here's Benson. He's such a talker, it's so fun!





Updates on pre-Christmas visitors and Christmas will be coming soon!

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Early Christmas Present

I love being married to Anthony!! We celebrated 3 years this month! It's been a wonderful 3 years that keep getting better and better. One of the things I love about him is that he has the hardest time keeping gifts or surprises from me. Last night after we had been skyping with my family I was telling him that it was really hard to be away from family this time of year and that I just wanted everyone in Utah to meet our little Benson. He then turned to me and asked if he could give me an early Christmas present and made me promise not to say no. I said yes he could. He went on to tell me that he's sending me (and Benson) to Utah for TWO weeks in January!!!! Holy Cow!! That's a really long time but I'm so excited! I'm excited to see family, friends and to be cold! (It's 80 degrees today, 4 days before Christmas) I come on the 10th and stay until the 24th!!! I am a little nervous about traveling with a baby but others have survived so I'm sure I will too.

So THANK YOU ANTHONY!! You are the best husband ever!!!

Fun Pictures

This "little" guy is weighing in at 14.6 lbs and measuring 23 3/4 inches. At his last apt he measured 24.5 inches, obviously they did it wrong last time b/c he's definitely not shrinking! Here's a few pictures...

Huge explosion after I had already cleaned out diaper

Cutest dimples ever!!!

Tummy Time

Shows his cute curly hair and that he's a cutie!!

Wednesday, December 15, 2010

2 Months

Benson is two months today!!! We can't believe he's already that old, time flies! He's such a fun baby!

-He has the biggest smiles and coo's/talks to us.
-He loves watching our tongues move.
-He's eating every 3-4 hours, 4-6 oz.
-He has a blowout every day to day and a half.
-He slept once for 6 hours and since only about 4.
-I think he weighs about 15 lbs and is 25 inches long (we'll find out tomorrow if I'm correct, at the Dr. apt).
-His newest trick is to eat only two oz and then refuse more. When I try to coax him to eat more he just smiles and smiles, it's pretty funny!

We can't imagine life without him! I love every day I get to take care of him! We feel very blessed to have this little guy in our family!













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Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Christmas Traditions

One of my favorite Christmas traditions is making graham cracker houses! We had a few friends over and it was a fun night! Our houses took on a college theme. A couple families left early so I don't have pictures of their houses, but you get the idea. I think I could do this more than once a year!



Saturday, December 11, 2010

Christmas Miracle

Benson slept 6 hrs in a row last night!!! It was incredible! The most he's ever slept at once was 2.5, maybe 3 hours. He's done that a couple times. He's been eating every 3 hours religiously since birth but last night he ate at 10:30, went to sleep at 11 pm and didn't wake up until 5 am!!! We've been taking turns getting up with him, I take the week days and Anthony takes the weekends. And usually the one up with him sleeps on the couch because he only likes to sleep in his bouncer and is up and down all night. We really hope this isn't a fluke and that it'll continue forever :)

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Christmas Beginnings

I love Christmas!!! We've begun setting up our house for it. It's fun! Benson loves it, especially the lights on the tree. I wish we had snow but instead just 80 degree weather. I just finished our christmas pj's for this year, I love that tradition, I love all the traditions!!













We also had our ward Christmas party so I got to take a picture of Benson on Santa's lap. It was a really fun party; I love our ward!