nay-ma night

i Love LOVE LOVE spending time with my daughter!

 and she's getting pretty good at faking that she loves spending time with me :)

john made us blocks for our project

tanaya designed our letters then we painted, cut, and glued.

  isn't my little girl just precious! 

and its finished!

just in time for thanksgiving

caiman 3 months old

my cute kids

keeping with his double digit theme, at his check up he weighed 12lbs 12oz, and was 24.5'' long.

this was a crazy fun month and was a long list of first for caiman. he had his first shots, not so fun, but what was fun was when his aunt sue & uncle al, aunt karen & uncle rich, and great grandma reggie came to see us. they spent the whole weekend playing and getting to know each caiman. 

tanaya and john gave him his first bottle (of breast milk), he started reaching out and grabbing things on his own, tanaya made him laugh, he saw snow, slept for 6 hours straight, and he had his first halloween.

he also outgrew his #1 diapers, slept without being swaddled, started to learn to roll over, and had his baby blessing.

busy, busy, busy he is, and SO much fun!

caiman blessing

 the most precious and beautiful surprise knock came at our door late saturday night.

 it was aunt karen and great grandma lhotak!!!

aunt karen flew grandma in so she could be here for caimans blessing. it was so amazing that she was here!

 i have rarely seen a smile that big on johns face. it was an oh so sweet tearful moment.

Sunday, November 4, 2012

Caimans Blessing   

caiman all dressed for his specail day.

grandma beverly knitted him this beautiful blessing baby blanket

                       

on our way to show off our handsome little man to our family waiting downstairs

it was a beautiful sunny day.

uncle ryan blessed caiman and gave him an amazingly strong and loving blessing just perfect for our little man.

food and family.

 papa spent all night with his dutch ovens making the most amazing food for this special day

                                     

daddy, great grandma lhotak, caiman, and granny nanny. priceless.

  

johns family

my family

precious time with great grandma lhotak

                      \   

so tired from a long eventful day

our family :) i love us!

family visit

grandpa lhotak came to town for caimans blessing too! we spent the weekend showing uncle dave temple square and the olympic village in park city

     

grandpa spend every waking moment trying to teach caiman to roll over :) 

  

we love snuggling and feeding caiman

and i love this precious little girl. she makes me laugh every day!

family time teaching tanaya the art of poker :) 

  

halloween

HALLOWEEN

...and caimans first!

     

we carved pumpkins!

   

all dressed up and eating our traditional pumpkin dinner.

tanaya's a gangsta, i'm a kitty cat, caimans a frog, and johns a daddy :)

a cute little frog!

            

a mean gangsta!

                        

tanaya and her friends. heading out for a long night of trick & treating!

caimans 1st trick & treating! :)

grandma and papa stopped by. tanaya was already out and about

granny nanny, aunt kathy, and uncle dave flew in for caimans blessing on sunday. they arrived just in time to end halloween with us and celebrate granny nanny's birthday!

hunter safety

(this is John writing)

Tanaya and I went to get our Hunter Education Blue Cards, which allow you to get a hunting licence in Utah.  It was a full day of learning about gun safety and hunting ethics.  Poor Tanaya wasn't feeling well in the morning but she still wan't to go. 

After some morning class work, they had us go outside and learn to walk around with a gun.  Here's Tanaya showing how to safely go over some walls and fences.

   

The funnest part of the day was target shooting.  Dead Eye Tanaya.  She had a little miss step by shooting at the wrong target at first, but after that she was a better shot than me. 

And we both passed.  Yea! were safe.