Disney Land

About a week ago some friends of Ryan and mine offered us some free passes to Disney Land and California Adventure; so of course we couldn't say no. So the next day we went with a the friends that provided the passes and our nephew (little Ryan).

We had such a good time... James loved the rides that we went on, he loved the food, he loved all the people, colors, music, and especially the parade at California Adventure. Taking him just made us even more excited for when he gets older because it will only get more fun for him...

Too Cute!!!

I am 21 weeks pregnant now which you can tell by my clicker off to the right; I had my ultrasound yesterday and found out that we are going to have a daughter... That's right, we are having a little girl; and we are very excited. I think James is excited too because for some reason he woke up at 11:00pm last night and wanting to play. Normally I wouldn't let him stay up and play but he was being so cute I just couldn't pass up the opportunity to enjoy his adorable behavior. I took these pictures of him being his silly self. And her are some pictures of my rapidly expanding belly.

Decorating the Christmas Tree

On Monday night we made pumpkin cookies and decorated the Christmas tree (Oh and James decorated his body with a marker) It is always so much fun to look at all the ornaments from past years. We had a lot of fun showing James the different ornaments and letting him put some on the tree.

New Hair Cut

I gave James a hair cut today... This would be hair cut #3 for him (His hair grows fast). I tried to give it a little style, but becuase he is so wiggly I just ended up buzzing it all off. Now he looks all grown up just like his daddy.

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

Thanksgiving came and went so fast this year! We had a really good day... We had dinner at Ryan's Uncles house. There was lots of food, people and conversation. I always love getting together with his family (They are a lot of fun). This year my sister and her son were able to join us, it was good to spend a Holiday with her after 6 years.

Love you all and we wish you a wonderful holiday season!

James eating

The two hottest twins ever!

Yummy Food

Me & my baby!!!

Great Grandpa carving the two turkeys

Grandpa Tim & James playing airplane

James being his oh so cute self

James & Daddy Band

Ryan and James are so cute together... Ryan is such a good Dad!

James loves music (All kinds) and he loves it when his dad plays music with him. Good thing Ryan also loves music. (Like father like son) In February they are going to be taking a music class together twice a week through the City Parks & Rec preogram. I think they will both enjoy it a lot.

Halloween!!!

Halloween was a lot of fun for us... We started off the week with some good old fashion pumpkin carving (James was not a fan). We had a halloween party with some of our friends from church, followed by trick-or-treating with James for the first time. James was a complete natural when it came down to trick-or-treating, We went to Ryan's old neighborhood and James would knock on the doors (More like pounded with both hands) he stuck his candy bag out, and then he would take off real fast to try and go to the next house. We were out for about an hour and only went to about 8 houses, we figured by the amount of candy in his candy bag that we could be done. James was not happy to go. Out of all of the halloween events that we attended James was the only kid that was not scared of Ryan and I. We are so proud of our brave little man.

One Year Update!

Well as you know James turned 1 year this month; for the sake of my journal I am going to post all that is new James by the time he turned one.

• Waves Hi & Goodbye
• signs "all done"
• got his first hair cut
• cut his seventh tooth
• can blow bubbles in the pool
• took 3 steps
• climbs on everything
• throws temper tantrums
  
• fights like crazy when it's time to change his diaper
• turns on and off the TV all the time (Ruins the Tivo session)
• Loves to watch Barny (the big purple dinasor)
  

Well I must apologize for neglecting my blog. Life has gotten extremely busy for us here at the Watson house. I guess I should probably take you back to August and start from there.

In the middle of August Grandpa Tim took our little family camping up at Twin Lakes in Mammoth with Uncle Logan & Uncle Robert. We had so much fun… We went hiking, fishing, we took a ride on the Gondola, the big boys went mountain biking etc. This was James’s first time camping… He had fun, but just couldn't understand why he was sleeping outside in a tent.

Shortly after going to Mammoth my sister Diane called and invited James and I to the Antelope Valley Fair… We had a great time, James loved all the animals and getting to touch them in the petting farm. He also really liked the children’s play area, there was a sand box full of toys, but the difference between this sand box and any other sand box is that it wasn’t filled with sand; This box was filled with corn bits. James thought it was the coolest thing ever. We played in the corn box for at least 45 minutes.



On September 5^th James turned the big #1… That’s right; my baby is growing up and is now a year old. We celebrated at Grandma Lang’s house on the 6^th. It was so much fun, we went swimming which is one of James’s favorite things to do, we ate a wonderful lunch, James opened his many presents, and loved all of them… and last but not least he was introduced to his very own birthday cake. It was hilarious… He started off slowly by plucking each little balloon off of the top of the cake and eventually dug in full force. He loved the cake and was really mad when we took it away. I have a video of him eating his cake but for some reason I can’t get it to down load.







The next huge thing that has happened in our lives, and perhaps the reason I haven’t gotten around to catching up on my blog is that my older sister (Chavonne) and her 5 year old son (Ryan) moved in with us about a week ago. We had about two weeks to get ready for there arrival so we had to move everything out of James’s bedroom and some how fit it all into our bedroom. James now has a new bedroom, that most people would call a walk in closet. That’s correct, our son is sleeping in the closet. Don’t worry, and please don’t call child protective services we took everything out of the closet, assembled his crib in there and even decorated it, so besides the fact that is small it’s actually pretty cute.



Last but certainly not least Ryan and I have a few announcements that we would like to make public at this time…

Number 1: Ryan and I have been working very hard as members of the LDS church; we have been taking temple prep classes, and have been preparing our selves to live a higher standard of life. On October 24^th we are going to be receiving our endowments at the Los Angeles Temple, and the following day (October 25^th) will be sealed for time and all eternity as husband and wife along with our precious baby. We are very excited about this big step and thank all of our family and friend who have helped us get to this point in out lives.
Number 2: We are expecting the second addition to the family. We are about 10 weeks along and are expecting the arrival of baby #2 in mid April. (SURPRISE!!!)