Thanksgiving in Portland

This Thanksgiving we headed to Portland to have Thanksgiving at Maile and Nates. We haven't been here in a few years so it's been fun to come and see Maile's new house----which she's done a fabulous job on! So Thanksgiving day was yummy and we stuffed our faces of course--more than once! Today we headed to the Saturday market and walked down my the waterfront. Cash took a nice morning nap in his stroller.

Maile is convinced that Cash is just going to go straight from rolling to walking. The kid still doesn't think he needs to crawl. He has attempted the army crawl but he pretty much thinks he can get wherever he needs to go by crawling. Below is a nice picture of the girls on Black Friday......what? ---you can't see any other girls but me???? That's because we have the car so freakin full of bags that there was no where else to sit. Poor Meridith started to get claustrophobic in the car with all the bags so we decided it was time to stop. That was my first experience with Black Friday-----I'm not such a fan. It's a little too crazy for my liking.

HELP!!

So I'm the first to admit that I'm clueless about this whole "motherhood" thing and I'm pretty much just winging it on a daily basis and I usually can figure it out but I'm pretty stumped on what to do about my latest issue with my little guy. See the bottles above----notice that they're empty----that is something that NEVER happens at my house! Seriously, Cash has never been a big eater but the last couple of months he seems to hate formula. At first I thought he was just being lazy so I put the formula in a sippy cup---nope, won't drink it. He'll drink water or juice but not formula. I still have a few months until I can put him on real milk so I'm just wondering if any of you mothers out there have some suggestions. I talked to my doctor about it and he doesn't seem to concerned seeing as Cash is healthy but the other thing is the kid hasn't gained that much weight in the past 4 months......which the doctor also told me not to worry about because his head is still growing which is the most important part. (I'm thinking "ohgreat---so his head keeps growing and his body doesn't---pretty soon he'll be looking like "an orange on a toothpick!". I'll also be the first to admit that I think I have this idea in my head that he's suppose to be a little chubber because he was such a fat newborn and well, "skinny genes" don't really run in my family. So anyway, just throwing it out there for some ideas. Oh one more thing....the doctor told me not to waste my money on trying different kinds of formula.

Twilight Sucks!!!!

So last night Jed and I went to dinner with Cody and Meridith and our friends Kim and Jason. After dinner we headed over to the new movie theatre in Orem (which I love!) and saw the new James Bond movie. We got to the theatre about 8pm and there was already a line around the building for the midnight showing of Twilight. I seriously couldn't believe all the people camped out! Now I will be honest---and I know I could damage some friendships with this comment....but I just don't get the whole Twilight following. I gave it a try....I read the first book----but I thought it was dumb and boring. I'm an avid reader and I love to read all types of books but the whole Twilight series just didn't do it for me in the least. So I wouldn't be so rude as to say that Twilight sucks .........but Cody would!!! Thus the title of this blog.....as we were leaving the movie theatre last night Cody rolled down his window and yelled at the top of his lung "LOSERS!!!!....Twilight sucks!!!!"---and he yelled it several times! If looks could kill we would have all been dead. I don't think I've laughed that hard in a long time! I told Cody that I hadn't had that much fun since I was twelve and toilet papering my young women leaders house! Meridith of course for mortified and Jed of course was disgusted with how immature Cody and I were being but I'm sorry---it was funny!!!!

Family Pictures

So this past week we had family pictures taken. My friend Brooke started a photography business about a year ago and we were lucky to get an appointment before she was all booked for the year. (check out her site at www.brookemoonphotography.blogspot.com) I thought she did a great job! I'm actually going to even try to do Christmas cards with a picture in them this year.....yip, I'm really turning into a grown up.