"I feel a blog post coming on"

The title of this post is a direct quote from Jon, and he was very correct. Before I get to that I need to do some catching up. I have been meaning to put pictures from Danny's Birthday up here since--his birthday. So we will start with that. 

 I think Danny liked his birthday and especially his birthday parties. 

 He was a big fan of the cake I made for him.

 Michael the house elf even helped clean up all of the cake Danny dropped all over the floor. 

 Danny is looking a little too intrigued by that candle.

 He tried to pick up the frosting with his fingers at first, 

 but that wasn't near fast enough. 

 He even shared a bite of cake with mom. 

 After having Christmas to practice Danny did pretty good with the presents. 

 Thanks Grandmas, Grandpas, Uncles, Aunts and Cousins for all the presents!

So Danny's Birthday was good and we all had a lot of fun. Now on to the not so cute reason that Jon said he felt a blog post coming on. As spring has started to get here my mind turns to planting seeds and growing my little vegetable garden. I decided that we should get some more dirt and compost stuff to add to our little garden boxes. We went over to the IFA and grabbed some stuff and then came home and started unloading. I thought it would be a good idea to find something to mix up our dirt ingredients in so I grabbed the wheelbarrow that was upside-down by the back porch and guess what I found when I tipped it over. 

Yeah, I kind of freaked out and told Jon to smash it. Rather than smashing it immediately he went and grabbed the camera and took some pictures. After taking pictures he smashed it and no one was bitten, but I have that nasty creepy crawly feeling and am worried about more spiders outside that did not get smashed. I think we might look in to having someone come and spray around the outside of our house, but I don't know how that works with having a baby. Blech. Well I guess we have a nasty spider to thank for finally getting me to put up the Birthday pictures of Danny; Nasty spider you did not die in vain. 

Christmas

It is over a month after Christmas, but I have not posted any pictures of stuff on the blog. So here goes. 

We chopped our own Christmas tree again this year and it was a much better experience than last year. 

 We bundled Danny and the rest of us up and headed to the forest area that we could cut our tree from

Jennifer, Phil, Grant, and Lincoln came with us to chop a tree and when their van couldn't make it up the snowy forest road anymore they hopped in the truck with us. 

 Unlike last year we actually made it to the forest that we were allowed to chop our tree in. We passed the place where we chopped our tree last year probably 4 miles from the forest. Oops.

I stayed in the truck with Danny while the others searched for a tree. They found two nice tall ones and started bringing the first one back. 

I went out to help haul in the trees;

 While Jennifer watched Danny in the car. 

We loaded the trees in the truck and it was a tight fit to get the trees and passengers all in. 

We made it back down to the van and tied the trees to our cars. I thought the truck looked like a Christmas unicorn. 

So this tree may look a little different than the massive tree we chopped- because it is. We put the massive 18 foot tree at my parents cabin and my dad got us a small tree for our place. 

On Christmas morning after opening a few presents at our house we went over to my parents house to open some more. 

Danny did pretty good for his first Christmas. 

We all had a good Christmas and had a fun time with our family. 

Danny started walking around Christmas and has been getting better and better at keeping his balance. One of my friends from the Young Women presidency gave us a balloon and Danny had a blast playing with it. 

Most of the pictures I took ended up pretty blurry because Danny was either running or shaking the balloon wildly. 

I think this will be all I post for now. Danny's Birthday is tomorrow and we had a little party at my parents  yesterday, so I'll probably blog and post some more pictures soon. 

Silly Baby

Danny would not eat the green beans I tried giving him at first, but he liked the sweet potatoes. 

He liked licking them off his hands and then rubbing them on his head. 

There is only one thing that can be done with a silly sweet potato covered baby...

In to the tub! 

He liked splashing and playing with the water while getting cleaned off. 

The floor was pretty soaked by the time he was done splashing. 

All clean! You can see some of his teeth here; He has two on bottom and three on top with another one on top and one on bottom that are almost breaking through. 

Happy baby. Clean baby. Happy mommy. 

Its been a while since I wrote on my blog. Things are going good. Life is still very busy with family, work , and young women's taking up pretty much all my time. We are very blessed and I am grateful for that. Danny is still a little sweetie and has been pulling himself up and walking along the furniture for about a month, so it is only a matter of time before he actually starts walking. I guess when he starts walking that begins a whole new phase of life- the toddler phase. I have been enjoying the baby phase a lot and being a mom to our precious baby has been a wonderful experience. I kind of don't want him to grow up, but I do at the same time. Life is crazy. Life is good.