Present opening!

he has been hauling these three Cars cars around all week! He loves them!

new found pass time, stickers! These worked great in sacrament meeting!

we had to stop and play with each present! It was great!

For some reason when he saw what was in the package he decided that Aunt Melissa would be able to get it out for him faster than me. Smart boy!

I can never get blogger to load in the order I want anymore, so I am just going to load and they may be a little random, but ben is still cute either way!

The Cake

A lady that matt works with does cakes as a hobby/side-job. She had never done a train before, it turned out AWESOME!!! Ben started dancing around and signing train while saying repeatedly, "toot toot" when he saw it! I have video of him blowing the candles out if I can get it to load. He even ate a few fork fulls!

2t = 4t

THis is what you get when you tell him to be handsome! Quite the face!

This one is watching Cars, again.

My 2 year old is wearing 4t's. They are obviously a bit big, but if we get 3t they squeeze his pot belly! This is one of his new outfits he got from Nana and Papaw for his birthday, I think he looks pretty good!

2nd Birthday!

October 18, 2008 one year old

October 18, 2009 two years oldWhat a difference a year makes!!!

Here are just a few pictures from yesterdays celebrations of Ben's 2nd birthday. It was an absolutely awesome day! He loves having his Uncle, Aunt, and cousins over! He played with every present! Repeatedly! I will post a full acount when he is sleeping, but I wanted the Grammy and Aunties to be able to see at least a few things right away! Thanks everyone for making his birthday soooo awesome!

Self Portrait

Ben got a hold of the camera last week. I didn't know he had actually taken some pictures until today when I was looking at the camera to see what I needed to post. In addition to the funny self portrait below there were some unrecognizable blobs. I saved this one, it is pretty darn clear! His first -self portrait!

Big Bertha

So, there have been some requests for pictures of Bertha and me as we are progressing through our pregnancy. I will be 30 weeks officially on Tuesday! Hooray only 10 more weeks. Pregnancy is an amazing miracle, but one that thankfully ends! And with a cuddly snuggly baby! Sorry to anyone who does not really want to see this, I warn you now to look away.

Machine Bread

Yes, both of these beautiful loaves of bread came out of my Bread Machine. I had not used in years but am sick of buying sooo much bread so often! 1-2 loaves a week, and we are a little picky about bread so we buy the more expensive wheat bread at the day old store and freeze it. Well, I decided to try this idea and see if it was 1) cheaper 2) easier than regular home-made 3) nice for all of us! So far the verdict is positive! Ben and Matt seem to really like it as we cleared out an entire loaf in one day! I am going to be experimenting with different kinds, the oatmeal molasses is a little heavy for sandwiches.

Conference

We were very thankful to have invitations for conference watching so we did not have to watch stop and go online or try to wrangle ben at the church for 4 sessions! We spent saturday with Mark and Melissa and the boys. It was fun, but alas no pictures, I totally fell down on the job.
We spent sunday with Rachel and Aaron and company. It took all of us to keep ben going through both sessions. Here are some of his shananigans! Thanks everyone!

Race Day

Matt and Aaron had a race Saturday morning, and surprisingly Ben and I were up and going in time to be there and take pictures! Matt took 3rd overall and Aaron was either 1st or 2nd in his age group (sorry Aaron I can't remember, my bad!). One of Ben's new favorite activities is to have me count down for him so he can race up and down the hall! Enjoy the pics!
Pre Race

Getting Medals

The Gang!