Merry Christmas

Our stockings...notice how Connor is the only one with anything in his!

Naked baby checking out the tree

Our attempt at a family pic...

Connor was SUPER spoiled this year from everyone!

Sasha & Connor

Christmas morning at home

Joey, Connor & Chloe

We had a wonderful Christmas this year! Connor was really fun because he is old enough to kind of sort of understand what's going on. I bet next year will be even better! We were super busy this year:

12/20 Christmas Dinner in Orting with Lexi's mom, Johnny, Melissa, and Brett

12/21 Connor goes to Nordstrom to visit with Santa

12/22 Christmas Dinner in Seattle with Ken, Susan, Melissa, and Brett

12/23 Christmas Lunch at NW Etch

12/24 Christmas Dinner at Uncle Steve's with Nick's Dad's side of the family

12/25 Christmas morning at home, Brunch in Seattle at the Fliflet's house, and Dinner in Puyallup at Nick's Mom's house with Travis, Amy, and the kids

12/26 Christmas Dinner in Orting with the whole Dooley clan

12/27 Lunch at High Cedars Golf Club to celebrate Helen's 90th Bday

That's it! What a busy week, but we wouldn't trade it for anything. We love spending this time of year with family and friends. We hope you all had a Merry Christmas!

Connor's Party

Connor had a great first birthday party! He had around 60 guests come to his party. Our house was packed with friends and family. We had a wonderful time eating lots of tacos and birthday cake and best of all watching Connor open way too many presents and smash his hands and face into his little birthday cake.

Happpy 1st Birthday Connor!

Happy 1st Birthday, Connor! I can hardly believe it! What a quick year this was for us! It seems like just last week, we were at the hospital holding this little 6 pound baby...now we are chasing a giant 25 pound toddler around the house. We had a fun evening tonight to celebrate. We took Connor out to dinner, had our friends Jimmy, Riana, and their little guy Brian over for cupcakes, Connor and Daddy put together the giant toy Nana bought for him, and that's about it. We have the big birthday party on Satuday!

Happy Thanksgiving

Yummy food!

All dressed up for his first Thanksgiving

Connor checking out the turkey...he wasn't too sure of it.

Auntie M and Connor

Auntie M brought Connor Pumpkin Pie baby food. He loved it!

Connor & Daddy

Connor & Mommy

We had a great Thanksgiving this year! It was really special for many reasons...Connor's first Thanksgiving and we got to celebrate with my dad for the first time in 20 years! My dad, Susan, Melissa, Nick, Connor, and I celebrated together at our house. I cooked the turkey and it actually tasted pretty dang good. :) Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

duck duck goose

Connor and Daddy walking down to the pond.

I still can't stop thinking about this poor duck. He had a blow dart stuck in his little head. I tried to get close enough to pull it out, but he was obviously scared of people. Is there a duck saver person out there? So sad!!! Don't serial killers start their career hurting animals? Yikes.

Surrounded by ducks. Connor loved it!

We went to DeCorsey Park in downtown Puyallup today to feed the ducks. We weren't sure if there would be any ducks since it was so cold outside. We were wrong! When we got down by the pond, they surrounded us. There are a lot of starving ducks in Puyallup, I guess!

Pumpkin Carving

Our little helper

Playing with the goo.

Not sure, but I thought it was funny...

Getting frusterated that he isn't helping

Toby helped too! :)

Helping mommy

One of the final products. Can't really see it...sorry...don't know how to work the camera...it says "trick or treat"

Halloween Practice

Connor is going to be a monkey for Halloween. He tried on his costume tonight. Cute, huh?

He wasn't too sure about it...

Here are some Halloween jammies that Nick's mom bought for him. Spooky!

October Family Dinner

Connor played us some tunes on the old piano

Future pianist? Is that how you spell that? :)

Sammy and Connor were practicing for Connor's birthday party cake eating thanks to Aunt Sonja. Messy babies!


Connor's new favorite person. Our chubby guy loves cake!

Connor and Sammy on a wagon ride.

Pumpkin Patch

Connor posing with a pumpkin...not a fan!

Bringing his pumpkin back to the car.

Family Shot

Ray, Mac, and Connor

Yesterday we decided to go to the Spooner Farm Pumpkin Patch in Orting with the rest of the world. They have tons of stuff to do and eat there. You could spend a long time down there! We didn't. Our first mistake was waking Connor up from his nap so we could meet our friends Lise & Ryan there in time. Connor was super grumpy the whole time and never cracked a smile. We still had fun though! :)