Our Growing Boy

Linken is now 9 months old and is so fun. He officially crawls on his hands and knees instead of his army crawl and gets around pretty fast. He pulls himself up on whatever he can . He

figured out how to open drawers and loves pulling the ziplock bags out of the drawer and throwing the on them floor. He also tries to play fetch with Zoey and can throw a short distance.

He is quite the chatter box and loves making noises and even has a fake laugh.

His laugh never gets old and his smiles make you melt...

As you will notice in the first two pics below his mohawk is getting really long

and I have actually noticed he has curly hair so we are trying a couple different hair do's!

Even with a hurt eye he is the cutest and happiest baby. I am so grateful for him and

enjoying being a mom more and more everyday with every new adventure I get to

have with my little guy.

I LOVE YOU LINKEN!

You will notice his left eye is a little black... he got his first shiner

from the foot board of our bed. Poor little guy!

Gotta love baby sweat pants...This is how he loves to sit.... ans it is so cute to me!!

Linken loves playing with Zoey's crate

Link's new helmet he got from Uncle Ryan for Christmas

Bath time after eating his favorite treat.... RED VINES!!

He is a big boy and loves pulling himself up on everything.

Winter Fun...

Well the week before Christmas we took a road trip to Utah for an early Christmas celebration with Brady's side of the family and be there for Kristen's college graduation. We got to see all the family including Juline, Jeff, Adi and Kohen. We all got amazing gifts and Linken was spoiled like always.

Linken's 1st Christmas!!

Well this was an awesome first Christmas for Linken. I do have to say that children make Christmas a whole lot more fun. Even though he was so young he still enjoyed opening presents and loved his new toys that "Santa" brought. We spent Christmas morning home and then we over to my mom and dads to do Christmas with them and Jalisa and Andrew. I love the holidays!! This first picture is the sweet outfit my dad wore to church the Sunday before Christmas along with Grandma and Linken of course. He was definitly showing Christmas spirit....

These were Linken's Christmas presents. Santa brought him two new DVD's (The Jungle Book & Fern Gully) Along with his stand up activity toy that plays music, play keys, and of course clothes.

Here' s Linken actually opening his gifts.

Linken showing off what "Santa" brought

Here's Linken playing with his new toy.

Big Trees & Cavern Adventures...

Me and Brady walking back to the caves after mom and Stacey did the zip line.

Dad, Jalisa, and Taylor.

So Thanksgiving weekend we decide to load up and venture to Calaveras Big Trees. We have been talking about doing this for a long time and finally did.... After a 1 hour and 45 minute drive we arrived at the park to find out the winds were to bad and we couldn't go into the park. We were all so bummed so decided to at least get out a take a picture. We loaded back up and ventured onto the cavern's that weren't to far away. It was a fun weekend. We brought Justin and Ivie's three little ones and it was fun seeing them on our adventure. I can't wait until Linken is old enough to really enjoy it. Here are some pictures of the BIG TREES... cavern pics to come!

Jared, Brady, Me, Andrew, Jalisa, Mom holding Taylor, Haidyn and Caroline in front, Dad holding Linken, Zac, and Stacey.

Linken's New Milestones!!

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He started STANDING UP: on everything!! We came home from church and set him down to play and look over to see him doing this... He is to BRAVE and is not scared of anything. If you notice in the first picture he is doing it with one hand... what a show off!!

He started PULLING himself UP onto his KNEES: on chairs, tables, toys, etc.

He started EATING: whatever you are eating... not a fan of baby food!

Backyard Bonfire...

A few weeks ago we decided to have a backyard bonfire. We roasted marshmellows with the three little girls, Caroline, Haidyn, and Taylor. Linken enjoyed it until the smoke started getting in his little eyes. Here's our little family enjoying the backyard.

Lis, Dad, Haidyn, and Caroline

Grandma & 3 of the 6 grandkids!

Oops! Halloween in December...

Well here is Linken my little "Pirate" playing in the candy we actually were handing out to tricker treaters. We didn't take him out he just helped give out the candy.

Here is little Zoey in here costume!

So these pictures are pretty hilarious... Here is Linken just 3 days shy of 6 months old and he has officially out grown his bouncer... He grabs onto the toys and pulls himself up to his feet until he is standing up.... He is growing up way to fast.

Here's Linken in his little camo out fit including shoes which don't stay on very long. I love that smile... and those chubby cheeks!! I love him to death and cannot even think of life without him!

Here is Linken's cousin Taylor...