Luke's First Haircut

The "in progress" shot is not really the way it turned out. We decided we are no good at giving haircuts and buzzed it off instead. Next time, we will go to a real barber.

I can't believe I didn't get a real after picture with a good pose. Just pretend I did this shot on purpose so you could see the back.

Wills got a haircut too, which you can see in the background of Luke's.

Luke's First Birthday

Luke turned ONE on Sunday. We had the family over for dinner and cake to celebrate. Luke got some great presents and new clothes. The only problem now it making William share, because he thinks the new toys are his.

Here is my little baby in his birthday crown.

Some highlights, you can click on the pictures to see them bigger.



This was my favorite cake eating picture. You can see the cake hanging right off his face.

Luke's Second Steps

didn't expect that Luke would really take his first steps today, and I would have had the camera out earlier if I had known. For his first steps, he took about five without falling, and this is the second try on this video. Eric didn't get to see because he is in Oregon and Luke will be a walking boy by the time he gets home!

First taste of real food for Luke

He didn't love it.

William meeting Luke

Here is a video I meant to post a while ago, William meeting Luke for the first time. He kept saying "baby" over and over... right after I stopped recording.

Christmas

Our Christmas this year was great, besides the fact that Eric had to work so much. The boys got all kinds of new clothes, books, and toys, and Eric and I got some games and movies. It was fun having mom and Brianne here also and I know they had fun playing with William and getting to see Luke.

Here are some pictures of the day.

First Haircut

The BeforeThe AfterPainting Grandma's Cabinets (with a makeupbrush)

Easter

We went to an egg hunt at the Bees baseball field the day before easter. The bee even came over and sat behind the babies for some pictures, but they didn't really like him. Then on easter, we went to dinner at Tim's house and we had another egg hunt there. It was cute to see what William would do. He didn't really want to find the eggs, but when we put them in his basket, he liked to shake them. On the way home from Tim's house, we looked back at William in his seat and found that he somehow got a hold of a Reese's and ate the whole thing, wrapper and all. He was so messy!

Birthday Boy

This is a little bit better picture of the birthday boy in his crown. He didn't want to cooperate at the restaurant, so we tried again at home

Happy First Birthday William!

The lovely cake that I made and Kylee and I decorated. A little lopsided but it was gooood.

William loved being messy.

Logan wasn't really into the whole messy cake thing.

William tried to share his piece.

We got these hats at the party store and I love them! I actually forgot William's, so we couldn't get a picture of both of them wearing them at the same time.

The boys got matching cars from Grandma and Grandpa Coles. I think this is William's favorite toy now.

This is what happens when Grandma tries to recreate a picture that was taken of newborns with one year olds.

Our Christmas

This is the outfit Shana got William for his first Christmas. It is so cute and from my new favorite store- Janie and Jack!

William on his new rocking horse- still a little too big.

Halloween?

I'm thinking about skipping Halloween this year. Eric will be working, I always buy candy the day after to get it on sale and William is not old enough to know any different. It really just seems silly to me to put him in a costume just so I can take pictures of him. Besides, it's Eric's family that would want to see William dressed up but his parents will be out of town and I don't want to take him to the grandparents' houses by myself. Does my theory make sense to anyone else?

The Blessing

We had William's baby blessing today in church. It was so perfect! My parents and sister were here from North Carolina and my mom's family that lives in Utah were abe to come too. Of course Eric's whole family was there also. They are always so supportive in coming to things like this. We probably doubled the size of the ward with all of us. Afterwards, we had everybody over at our house for a lunch and our house was PACKED! It was nice to have everybody there to see the finished house before we sell it.



Us with Eric's Parents



With Danny, Kylee, Ethan, and Logan. Logan was blessed earlier the same day.



The cake Julie bought



William in his snazzy new Ralph Lauren Baby suit