The Latest in Cute

"Aren't I cute?"

"Shiver Shiver... "

"This blue thing tastes yum-o"

Tangerine warms up to Logan finally

Wearing Uncle Joseph's outfit

After bath time

" Auntie Jen dresses me "

"I'm gonna get that camera one of these days, mama"

Look What I Can Do

I'm trying really hard to "motor-boat"

I can eat my toes

I can eat carrots

I can almost crawl off daddy's chest

I can sit up by myself

I can sleep in my crib

Homeward Bound

Poor Little Bear is sick

Happy New Year!!!

Yuk! This was our vehicle after the road trip.

OK, so we are officially a "fly and buy" family from now on. We won't drive more than 4 hours with children ever again! The way home was plauged with the same fortunes as the way there was. We avoided Wyoming by going south at Salt Lake City to I-70. But then they went and closed I-70 because of... you guessed it... blowing snow. So our 2 day road trip turned into a 3 day road trip yet again, only this time, Brenna and Logan both had a horrible horrible cold the whole way... ugh... and on top of it all, we had to spend New Year's Eve in a hotel room about 3 hours from home in the bathroom with the hot water steaming up our sinuses! (Not that we were well enough to have been partying anyway) So, all in all, the road trip wasn't the best idea. And Auntie Jen couldv'e told you that last June.

Uncle Greg's House

Eric, Uncle Greg, and Eric's cousin Troy

How Cute!

"Whatcha got there, Uncle Greg?
Something dangerous, I hope."

Aunt Jeri, smitten with all the other Logan-fans.


After we left Lake Tahoe, we stopped in at Eric's Uncle Greg and Aunt Jeri's house in Nevada. They live only about 45 minutes from where we stayed for Christmas, and they were so wonderful! They treated us to the most amazing sushi ever on Thursday night, and then helped us nurse a baby through the roughest part of an absolutely horrible cold on Friday and Saturday. We didn't wind up leaving until Sunday morning, when the baby's cold took a turn towards annoying him instead of being one of those scary colds... And we are so grateful to have been in such a comfortable place during that time.

Baby's First Christmas

Stocking Stuff

More PAPER!

Baby Santa

Logan's First Train

Christmas Eve & The Christmas Pajamas

I remember at one point, my family had a tradition of opening pajamas on Christmas Eve. The only present we could open before getting up on Christmas morning. Then we'd, of course, sleep in our Christmas pajamas and be ready for pictures the next morning. So, in the spirit of tradition, Logan got to open one present before Christmas morning, too. And after nearly eating the paper, he got his first pair of Christmas pajamas. How cute!

Good Times in Tahoe

Grandma's Baby

Auntie is so smitten

Sleepy Papa Bear and Baby Bear

Happy Auntie

Logan cracked up everytime he was with Mike

Logan supports the Raiders for his dad

Ken and Sandy

Logan loved the placemats

Auntie Jen tickling the baby

The baby bundled for the sleigh ride

Front seat: Mike and Bev
Middle seat: Eric, Brenna, Jen (Logan's nursing)
Back seat: Ken and Sandy

Brenna and Eric at Cabo Wabo Cantina

Auntie Jen and the flying baby after a Cabo Wabo style Margarita

The Long Road Trip

Laramie, Wyoming














Still in good spirits...















Dad's got pizza

Don't worry, the car is stopped.

Creepy truck stop / restaurant















After yummy mexican food

Our big adventure started on Friday, Dec. 21st - we left around 9 or 10am, and were stopped in Laramie, Wyoming because of a blizzard. Not a good sign. Laramie is only about 2 1/2 hours away from our house on a summer day! Well, we hung out at Q-Doba for a few hours and when it looked like waiting it out was a lost cause, we decided to go ahead and call it a day. On Saturday, we left Laramie, and it's freezing sub zero temperature of negative 14 degrees at 6am. The road was open and remarkably clear until we got about 30 miles west of Laramie... then we found out what all that road-closure stuff was really about - the unforgiving Wyoming Wind. After several stressful hours of blowing snow and icy roads, and a little stop at a donut shop with the Wyoming locals, we made it through Wyoming unscathed.

We stopped in Salt Lake City, Utah for lunch - Logan was in full meltdown mode at that point. So although we were looking for something familiar, we wound up eating at a fast food restaurant we'd never heard of out of desperation for a place to get the child out of the carseat. The funniest part was calling our parents at every stop - everyone was nervous about the weather and the road trip because we had the baby, so we were constantly reassuring the mothers (mine, Eric's, and my sister Jen) that we were all still alive and well and heading west.

We stopped for dinner near the Salt Flats of Nevada to give Logan a break. There was a Mexican Food restaurant there - oh my goodness - was it good food! Of course, it was the perfect setting for a Stephen King book - super creepy trucker stop and restaurant - but nothing supernatural or freaky happened - while we were there anyway.

Around 8pm, the snow picked back up. After 14 hours of being on the road, that was the last straw, and although we were only about 4 hours out from our destination, we decided to go ahead and make it a 3 day trip and we stopped in Winnemucca, Nevada at a casino for the night. The next morning, we took our time getting up and about, had a sit down breakfast and got Logan in the car just in time for a long nap. He slept all the way to Reno, where we decided to stop at See's Candy at the mall. We paused there for about an hour so the baby could have some stretch time, and finally made it to the house that afternoon around 1pm. What an adventure!