So Precious!

Aiden is 3 months old

Today, Aiden is three months old. I can not believe how big our tiny, little boy is getting. It's hard to believe that he was six weeks early and only 4 pounds 3 ounces...and now he has chubby legs, checks, just everything! I look at him everyday and think how blessed we are to have him in our family. Even on his tough days (which isn't very often) you can not help but think how adorable he is. We are excited to be able to celebrate all the wonderful holidays to come with our special little boy! We took him Saturday to get his pictures taken...here are a few of our favorites.

Happy Halloween Everyone!

*Aiden is sleeping on his tummy now.
*He sleeps at least 6- 6 1/2 hours a night.
*We started him on a little bit of rice cereal.
*He takes most of his naps in the morning.
*He is smiling more and attempting to laugh.
*He thinks his daddy is so funny.
*He watches me and loves when I talk to him when I change his diaper.

First Pumpkin Patch 2009

Friday night we went to our first pumpkin patch! We have been wanting to go to one, so that we could get pumpkins, but the ones we have found cost money to get in to. We were not willing to pay to get into a pumpkin patch since Aiden wouldn't be able to enjoy the fun things inside just yet. Well, Dustin found one the other day so we went and checked it out and it was FREE! Aiden was crying and upset at first, but then settled down quickly after walking around and looking for just the right one. We bought three pumpkins.....a little one for Aiden, a medium one for me, and of course a very large one for Dustin. I will post pictures of those after we carve them this week.This was Aiden when we first got there...I think he was unsure about laying in a pile of pumpkins.

Rice Cereal and a blanket

I decided to try Aiden on rice cereal, last week, in hopes he would sleep longer at night. He is still unsure about it, but is starting to figure out how to eat it. I have been putting in his bottle at night to, so that I know he is getting at least some of it. He is sleeping at least 6 hours at night now! I have another week before I go back to school, so I have hopes that he will get to at least 7 before that time comes.
Yesterday, I went to JoAnn's and bought some fleece and today I made Aiden a blanket!

Zion National Park

This weekend we took our first family road trip. We drove up to Zion National Park in Utah. It is about a three hour drive from Las Vegas. We went up with the Robinsons. We woke up super early, dropped the dogs off at my parents house, and meet up at the Robinson's house at 5:30am.
The drive was not bad at all....Aiden slept the whole way there!

Aiden also slept during the whole hike!

We decided to do the hike to the Narrows (it's a hike where you have to walk through the river). The hike before you got to the water was about one mile. The scenery is just beautiful up there!


This is the beginning of the Narrows...see the people down in the water. This was going to be our stop, we were not going to hike through the water with the baby and we didn't have the proper attire. BUT...Dustin was too excited and said lets try some of it. So we took our shoes and socks off and we walked through the freezing river water. The water was so cold, I thought my feet were frozen!

Aiden is still sleeping!

We only hiked through a little bit of the water. We reached a point that was going to be way too deep for us. It was up to Greg's waist (we had him go check it out before we all trucked through it). Heather and Stephanie got a bit nervous about it, so Andrea and Greg went ahead and the five of us hiked back. We went to the museum, ate our lunches, and then took a trail back to the visitor center.


We had a wonderful time, had great company, and I am sure that we will go back again. Oh...Aiden did finalyl wake up and was awake the whole drive home. We were exhausted once we got home....next time we will get a room and stay the night.

First Night Out

Last night, I took Dustin to the UNLV vs. BYU football game. He loves to watch football and knew that he would enjoying watching the game. This was our first night out since Aiden was born. We did not think it would be a good idea to take him with us....so we call Grandma! My mom happen to get today off, so staying up late having the baby late wasn't a problem. We dropped him off, and it was kind of weird not having him with us. We had a great time and enjoyed just "us"time. I know that my parents enjoyed having Aiden there with them as well. I only called twice in a 5 hour span, I think that is pretty good.

We had pretty good seats, but were kind of surrounded by BYU fans that wouldn't sit down so we could see. Next time we go we know which sections to get tickets in. UNLV lost miserably, but we knew that was going to happen before we got there.

Sorry I left my camera in the diaper bag....so I don't have any pictures. Next year, we are going to take Aiden with us!