I just love him

Excited for the holidays

Just a picture of my sweet boy. He loves his sweet potatoes.

I can't believe he will be 6 months old on Friday. How come when you become a parent life starts to go by so fast?! It needs to slow down. 

We are getting excited about the Holidays coming up. Trips to the Pumpkin Farm and Preston wants to take Graham and I to Apple Hill and hopefully Preston can get some time off in November to go to Sunriver Oregon for Thanksgiving. Then it will be Christmas time and we will hopefully see Prestons sister who is in Chicago and be with Preston's family Christmas Eve and then spend Christmas with my family. I know Graham won't remember his first Christmas but I am so excited for Christmas morning with him!! Since I have know Preston since 2009 I have only spent Christmas with my family once. Not sure how that worked out. Lol. I have loved spending Christmas with Preston's family though and being apart of their family. I sure married into an awesome family. I couldn't have asked for better "in-laws" (don't really like that term but that's ok :) and I couldn't have asked for better grandparents for Graham. :) love you guys! 

Onto other business.... Last night was horrible! Graham fell asleep at around 9 and woke up at 11 and I couldn't get him to calm down until 3 IN THE MORNING.  He must be teething (we've been saying that for months lol). Yesterday I went into town with my mom to run some errands and I finally got "Hylands Teething Tablets" for mister Graham. He had been crying the entire car ride and within like / minutes of me giving them to him he was out. I remembered I  had them at 3am and he was out again a couple minutes after me giving them to him. Those things are magic I tell you. They are homeopathic too so they are all natural ingredients which is a plus! 

That's all for now :)

Decisions decisions

This morning graham and I braved the gloomy weather and walked to my parents house. My parents were just getting ready to go to yuba city to go to a movie so my dad was in his room getting ready . My dad eventually comes out and we notice right away that Graham and my dad match. How cute. They are already best buds.

We haven't really been up to much. Preston has been working lots and had a coffee tasting thing today at Starbucks in order to get his black apron to be a Coffee Master. 

We are looking forward to Brooks & Andrea and the kids coming down in a couple of weeks. We haven't seen then since Tyler and Michele's wedding at the beginning of June. Too long. 

We are also excited to get our family pictures done by our good friend Kayla on October 19th! This will be the first time we will have our pictures done since before Graham's birth. So exciting. Now we just have to pick out the perfect outfits for all of us ;) 

In other news Preston and I have decided not to celebrate Halloween with Graham (and all other future children). I'm not going to write about all the reasons why cause it would be too long but we have decided that is what is best for our family. We will still go to the pumpkin farm though :) Just no dressing up , trick or treating, or candy. 

Still trying to decide about doing the Santa thing. We still have a few months to decide and he is so young now that he won't remember this Christmas anyways. 

Having children is tough. You have to make really tough decisions that honestly didn't cross my mind before having Graham. 

Sorry there aren't very many pictures in this post. I just got a new phone so I don't have that many pictures on this phone yet. 

I just have to add these pictures of Alice. She was blessed today and I was so excited when I got these pictures. She looked absolutely beautiful. 

What we've been up to

Last night we went on our nightly walk to Starbucks. Graham did pretty good but on the way back he started to get fussy so we decided to pick him up and carry him the rest of the way home. I held him first then Preston did. When Preston had him I looked over and saw the sweetest thing ever. Graham was laying against him. Graham never does that. He is always so intersted in what is going on around him. Needless to say, Preston enjoyed the snuggles ;) 

Before our walk I decided to go try out my parents new treadmill. I haven't worked out in probably a month because the Mosquitos have been horrible but Preston watched Graham so I was able to go run. It told Preston I wanted to try and run 4 miles. He kind of chuckled and said I would probably get to 2 since I really haven't been running a lot lately. Well....I went over to my parents with determination. When I got to mile 3 I almost stopped but I persevered and texting Preston this picture made it all worth it hahahaha 

I also went and ran 4 more miles this morning before Grahams nap. He loves watching me...it's cute. I also pinned a 30 day Ab and a 30 day squat challenge that I am going to do as well. 

It's tough being so cute;)

Watching Preston do homework. Preston knows Graham is down there and I am right there with him too. 

I put the hat they put on him right after he was born and oh my goodness he has grown so much hahahaha.

Rain

I love that it is raining today. It is such a nice change from the hot weather. The only down side is Graham and I can't go on our walks. I am trying to figure out other ways to entertain him because he gets bored very easily and likes to constantly go,go,go. Today while he was napping I went and got myself a soy pumpkin spice latte half decaf. I haven't tried any caffeine yet so hopefully it goes well with Graham and he isn't up all night. 

First picture taken with my iPad. He is getting so big. 

Morning walks

I love that it is starting to feel like fall. Graham especially loves it because that means more walks. We usually go on about 3 walks a day. One in the morning before his nap, in the late afternoon, and after dinner with daddy ;) 

Graham got to wear his fox hat that his Auntie Annie and Uncle Brooks got him. I can't wait to dress him in the onesie that matches! :)

We also went to Costa Vida (our favorite) but it is very hard to eat with a 5 month old. He is trying to grab everything. I can't blame him though ;) 

He loves chewing on wet wash cloths. Especially the ones Grandma crochets ;) 

He was playing on the floor and it got quiet so I looked down at him and he was on his side smiling at me. CUTEST THING EVER!

We also take his blue bear everywhere we go now. 

He is just oh so cute! He rolls all over the place! 

Graham's new carseat

Preston put Graham's new car seat in the car last night. I am not going to lie it makes me sad. I want to keep him little. So far he seems to like it. We haven't gone anywhere too far just to the gas station and Preston picked us up at my parents house after he got off work. Graham and I walked there and it got too hot to walk back. I reaaaaly hope he likes it. He was just starting to like his other one so lets pray he is okay with this one. 

I am pretty sure Preston and I have the most beautiful baby boy ever. (aside from our very handsome nephews ;) 

Graham's new outfit for fall!! 

Also last night while eating dinner graham was in his high chair and he reached both hands out to me to pick him up. Cutest thing ever. And this morning he was in his jumper he did the same thing to Preston.