Christmas Cheer

Boden on Christmas morning

The Holidays

Boden LOVES Cranberries

Travel back with me once more - to Thanksgiving. (Did I really never blog about it)?

As always, time in Southern California feels like a mini vacation. Aside from the Zoo with Mara, Eric and Maya, and our visit with Melissa and family in San Diego - we also got to spend much of the week swimming in the spa, walking to the cute parks and playgrounds around the house, going up and down the stairs (Boden really loves climbing stairs), and just relaxing. Dare I mention our trips to In and Out? Steve and I also got to go play some golf at beautiful Aliso Creek right in Laguna Beach. Free babysitting, and playing golf with my husband (it was like heaven!).

Floating remote control shark

Boden and Great Grandpa sharing a moment

Thanksgiving family 5K

Thanksgiving day was such delicious fun as well. We got up and ran a 5K with my Dad, Steve, Boden, Delilah and Uncle Rob. We cooked and relaxed for the rest of the day, and played with Brian and Meghan and Great Grandma and Grandpa. Boden loved the whole dinner, and I think Poppi's cranberries were by far his favorite (yay sugar!). There was even a flying shark!

Christmas Card Photo

Hopefully everyone got our Christmas Card photo this year... send me your address if you didn't because obviously it got lost in the mail!

My friend Katie Robinson and I traded Christmas services this year. She took our fantastic photos out at Wonderland Lake in Boulder, and I in turn took photos of her and her Husband for their Christmas Card. It worked out wonderfully, and I think we have a new tradition of photography trade.

Thanksgiving and Christmas details to follow (I promise!)

11 Months!

Catch up...

Oh my goodness. I'm that person. I'm the person who promises to blog and then never does.

But, it is now 2012... my new goal - blog about the Holidays! I never understood why everyone thought the Holiday season was so stressful - and then I had a family. Holy cow, so much more work. The time just flew by. But, hopefully I will be able to catch up on all our November and December excitement. Boden started walking at about 10 1/2 months, and how he's running! So, to bide my time, here is a video that cracks me up and I think shows you what a cute kid our little Baby Boden has become. He really makes us laugh every day.

10 Months!

San Diego - Zoo

We made it to sunny southern California. After 15 hours in the car with Delilah and Boden, we arrived. Steve made a brilliant call before we left "We are driving through the night". And with that, Boden slept almost the entire time. Hurray!

So, I will update about Thanksgiving and our whole week after our trip home. But, I wanted to share a few quick photos of our amazing adventure to the San Diego Zoo. We met up with Mara, Eric and Maya (Boden's long time lady friend) for some animal sight seeing. It was a fantastic day! We missed the rain and enjoyed the animals up close and with little crowds. After the zoo we even made a quick trip to visit with Melissa, Derek, Grady and Kendall. Boden LOVED his cousin Grady (or should we say all of Cousin Grady's toys!) What a fun little adventure. We tried to get photos of the three little ones - but needless to say, only Kendall cooperated!