Colorado

Last week we flew into Colorado Springs to visit our friends Kamron & Sarah Webb and their cute little girl Bentley. They live in a small beautiful town called Aurora about an hour and a half from Colorado Springs.

While we were there we got to go do temple work in the Denver temple, visited the Denver Zoo, went out to eat, the boys went to a Denver Nuggets game, Sarah & I went to the Pioneer Woman’s book signing in downtown Denver, made several pisookies & pie pops, ate Sarah’s delicious dinners, watched the worst movie in the history of movies, walked around an outdoor mall and almost froze to death, went to church, took lots of pictures with Sarah’s amazing photography skills, and had some fun talks! Maddix wasn't a huge fan of sleeping in the same room as us…he was awake at 5 every morning and woke up about 5 times each night. Luckily, he did pretty well during the day.

It was so much fun being able to hang out with our friends! We were so glad we were able to go visit them. Thanks Kam and Sarah!! {and Bentley for keeping Maddix entertained!!}

              

{photos by Sarah Webb}

my valentine

yesterday morning i texted brig. he texted back. how precious.

for valentines day i asked brig if he could have any meal what would it be? he responded, “steak, corn on the cob or squash & zucchini, and mashed potatoes. but since im in a competition…chicken instead of steak.”

i grilled up some marinated garlic lemon chicken, sauted some rosemary squash and zucchini, and whipped up some fluffy cream cheese/sour cream mashed potatoes!

it was pretty delish. we enjoyed the meal with a lit candle, baby in bed, and some sparkling cider!

{and later we ate pisookies of course.}

maddix helped me decorate :)

oh and brig treated me with an awesome back rub…my personal favorite.

one whole year!

happy first birthday to the most adorable little guy, and the sweetest son ever.

maddix is….giving cheesy smiles, laughing hysterically, dancing to music, giving kisses, taking steps, still nursing, eating lots, throwing food, loving to be outside, saying mamma, dadda, babba, nana, ba {ball}, teez {he says this when i tell him to say cheese for the camera}, and making us happier than ever.

stats: height- 30 in {60%}, weight- 20 lbs 5 oz {25%}

5 days old 1 month   2 months 3 months

4 months5 months6 months7 months    8 months 9 months 10 months 11 months1 year

its gone way too fast.

it has been such an incredible year watching you grow, learn, and be your cute self. you have such an awesome personality. maddix, thanks for being the cutest, sweetest, most adorable son we could ever ask for. we love you to pieces!

love, mom & dad.

first birthday party

tonight we celebrated maddix’s first birthday with my family {which is tomorrow}.

i made him a cute baseball cake, decorated a little, made taquitos, pasookies, and my mom made rice, beans, and soft tacos. mmmm.

it took maddix a few minutes to actually eat his cake {we may or may not had to stick it in his mouth and force him to eat it…}

i felt so weird forcing my 1 year old to eat cake. {at least it was somewhat healthy :) }

  mimi and grandpa d

   

adorable turtle shape sorter from mimi and grandpa d.

cute shirt from breck, nan, mckenna, and olivia

$10 from great grandma sandra and papa

instrument/drum set from mommy & daddy

fake cry face..this is how he gets his way :)

maddix loves daddy

cousin mckenna and aunt nan {having a baby boy in june!!!}

 

great grandma sandra

maddix had a great time at his party!

sick day

brig came home after work yesterday with a VERY HIGH fever. i need to buy a thermometer for my boys. they get sick lots. he has been laying around all yesterday afternoon and all day today. poor guy. maddix and i took lots of trips out of the house today to avoid getting sick & to give daddy some quiet time. two trips to costco & one trip to once upon a child. {i love costco samples}. tonight i put maddix to bed, made dinner, woke brig up to eat with me :), then headed to mutual. for dinner i made delicious taquitos {recipe found here}. they were amazing. i also baked some yummy asparagus. sprinkled it with kosher salt and melted butter, soy sauce and balsamic vinegarette over it. it was delish. lets hope brig is better tomorrow..i dont like when people i love are sick. its sad.
on a good note, i got maddix lots of cute clothes today :) oh, and maddix turns one year old a week from today. talk about crazy business!

children children children

meet my husband

let me explain this picture to you.

these are my cousins kids. he did not know any of their names before they all swarmed to his amazingly attractive face/ipod touch. now he knows all of their names and probably lots of other stuff. who knows.

so, i find him in the basement playing fruit ninja and paper airplane with each kid taking turns. it was precious.

i just watched him, imagining him with all ten {when i say ten, i mean five} of our future kids huddled around him playing games, singing songs, tickling, and loving on each other.

one more example. we will be sitting at my sister in laws house with all the family, when i notice that brigham is missing. so, i look outside and 100% of the time he is right there playing basketball, football or soccer with the nephews.

i love it.