papparazzi

Santa (Nick) brought me a new DSLR camera for Christmas - and there's still lots to learn, but I'm loving my new camera :)

outdoor macro shot

i wonder ...

my girlfriend julie's daughter: monroe

monroe's valentine's shoot

my mod look

post holidays and a new year!

Let's see ... what's new lately? Colson's moving around like crazy; he has 6 teeth now :) My parents were just here this past weekend. And I'm already starting to think about his first birthday party!! I can't believe it!

On another note - our good friends Kim and Garrett welcomed their little boy into the world last week (I think on 1/13). Cooper Greene was borne at 8lbs 14 oz. and 20 inches long ... we are so happy for you Kim and Garrett. Hopefully, Colson will be visiting his new buddy Cooper soon! Wow, I can't believe that was us about 10 months ago ...

easily amused

Here's Colson having a great time watching me throw around a nasal aspirator (of all things) - hahaaha!

mommy&me cookie exchange

Since Colson was 6 weeks old, we've been going to a weekly mommy group at Kaiser called "moomy & me." It's a great group of moms and we try to get together once a month or so outside of the weekly groups too ... this month we did a cookie exchange -- everything was yummy! And thanks to Jen & Kyle for hosting :)

Monroe & Colson: partners in crime

Trying to get a group pic of all the babies

Meltdown

Mamas & bebes

Colson is finally crawling!!!

January 4 - this is the date that Colson officially began crawling!! So exciting! I can't believe it ... most of his other friends have already been crawling for some time now. Colson has been army crawling for weeks, but the other day something just clicked and he started really crawling :) Awww, our little boy is growing up!

And coinciding with the crawling, he can now push himself up to a sitting position too. I've been anxious for him to start crawling for so long now, but the house is not done being babyproofed yet!! And he is also pulling him self up on anything he can get his hands on.

Breakfast with the Gouges

On Sunday the 3rd, we got together with Matt, Katrina and Ryan for breakfast. It's always fun to get the boys together and watch them interact. Thank you Matt and Kat for the yummy breakfast!

NYE

We decided to invite a couple of our friends who live in our neighborhood over for a New Year's Eve dinner. Crystal (who works with me) and her husband Conor and Julie, her husband Justin and their baby daughter Monroe (who we met through Crystal and Conor). It's so nice that they both live just a few streets down from us. It was a little bit of an impromptu get together, but worked out nicely! I picked up some fresh crab from the asian market, Julie brought over s0me ribeyes and twice baked potatoes, and Crystal brought over a yummy white bean salad, roasted carrots, and cheesecake for dessert. We had our surf and turf dinner before the kids got too cranky. I put Colson to bed around 8:30 and Monroe followed at about 10. We got in a game of Apples to Apples before Monroe woke up ... and she was ready to party! She actually made it past midnight and got to watch her dad and Nick play with some fireworks in the backyard :)