It's beginning to look alot like Christmas!

We have been a busy little family with Christmas quickly approaching. With it being Conner's first Christmas we have been taking him to all the X-mas activities Fort Bragg has been putting on.

The weekend after Thanksgiving we went and got our first Christmas tree as our new family! Conner loved grabbing all the trees and of course, trying to eat them too! Oh boy, does he love the lights!

Then, last Saturday we took him to see Santa for the first time! He didn't seem to mind him at all (but I think it was because Mrs. Claus handed him a candy cane, wrapped, of course!). We got a few good pictures of him with Santa :)
Also that night we got together with our good friends, The Nelepovitz and their two adorable boys, Nico and Elio. We went to Chinese food (Conner had his first taste...and well not much to our surprise...he loved it...boy loves to eat!)Then went downtown to watch the annual Lighted Truck Parade. Again, he loved all the cool lights and music. Fun night!

This Tuesday we went to the Botanical Gardens, which had been putting on a Festival of Lights for the first year so we, again, went with The Nelepovitz Family. It was so pretty seeing it all lite up at night.

Also on Tuesday, Conner turned 7 months!

And to top of all our fun Christmas adventures, Sean and I just purchased a new camera as a gift to ourselves (and each other) for Christmas. A Nikon D90 SLR. We LOVE it! We will never go back to just a regular point and shoot camera again!

Happy Thanksgiving!

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving this year...celebrated with friends and family.

Teeth

Our poor Conner has been teething like crazy the last few months...one tooth after the other. So far he has gotten both bottom middle teeth, one top tooth (the second is working on breaking through). It also looks like his 3rd bottom tooth is working it's way up.
Here is a cute picture of him with his little baby bottom teeth! (the top one is hard to catch on camera)

Mandy has been busy working away on tackling the wallpaper around the house. What a project that was...don't ever use wallpaper in your house! Not fun to remove (it can be done, but lots of work)
Here are a few pictures of the end result :)

PREPARING FOR THE LONG WINTER AHEAD. STORING UP ON FRESH GAME WHILE WE CAN

Conner turns 6 months!

Well, our little man turned 6 months on Sunday. We can't believe how fast time has gone. It feels like only yesterday that we found out we were pregnant.
We took Conner in for his 6 month Dr. check-up and he weighed in at 21 lbs. exactly! Such a big boy. He was way over average on his weight. He was 26 1/2 inches tall. Little above average.
Dr. Mahon (whom was both Sean and I's Dr. when we were growing up...pretty cool!) said he looked great. He was really impressed with how well he could sit up and the strength he has in his legs. (Holds himself really well!)
I had him check out Conner's new bottom teeth he has and low and behold...his top, right tooth is coming in too! No wonder we have been dealing with a rather cranky baby...poor little guy.

Trick-or-Treat

Halloween was Sunday so we took Conner trick-or-treating for his first Halloween! He was the cutest little lion we ever did see :-)
We just took him around to our families and friends. We got to see his cousins' Billy and Jossie, which was fun. We had to call it an early night because little man is getting his second tooth in so he was getting a bit cranky!