Snow Day

Virginia snow days are awesome!! Everything shuts down when it snows, for the first time in my life church was cancelled because of snow and school is cancelled tomorrow. We've been snowed in for 2 days now and the only challenge has been trying to keep Dane entertained. Lucky for us some of our bffs, Rachel and Justin, live right next door so we've had a blast with them the last couple days playing games like Phase 10, Nerts, and Ticket to Ride. Today Dane and Justin built this beauty you see in the pictures above...it's an icecream sundae not a snowman, we've already had a lot of strangers drive by to take pictures.

The first day it snowed Dane and Justin were having Diet Coke withdrawals so those 2 crazies attempted for hours to get our car out so they could go to the grociery store, in the end our car had maybe moved a foot.

Before he went out in the snow Dane came downstairs rocking my highheeled cowboy boots because we don't have any snow boots so they were the next best thing he could find, I love being married to this guy, he keeps me entertained.

Childrens Museum

Yesterday we went to the Children's Museum with some friends. I can't believe all of the things they have for kids to do there they have a mini grociery store, school, dr's office, newsroom, ambulance they can play in, caves to walk through, a giant tree house, and art room, water tables, giant dinosaurs, sand boxes to dig for dinosaur bones, and TONS more I need to get a season pass when Beck is a little bit older because it would be a blast for any kid. With all the toys they had there to play with the broom is what entertained Beck the most, he carried it around the entire time.

Here's Beck milking the cow, I was so proud of him that he had caught on so quickly how to do it...then he pulled this:

After the museum we stopped at Mcdonalds and Beck experienced a big moment in a kids life...his first Happy Meal, which he enjoyed almost as much as the cows fresh milk.

Just Hanging Around

The weather here has been awesome this week so we headed to the park with friends a couple different times to enjoy it while it lasts! Beck is a lot more fun to take to the park now than he was last summer cause now he is excited about the swings, and slides, and tunnels plus he's finally decided that he likes walking more than crawling so I don't have to carry him around the whole time. Today at the park he spent most of the time trying to climb up the slide, but he wasn't going anywhere so it was more like he was walking on a treadmill, it was pretty cute! And the rest of the pictures are just random pictures of us hanging around the house, nothing too exciting but the more pictures the better the post.

Merry Christmas 2009

How could it not be a merry Christmas when you wake up to this Christmas morning? Brandon in his Christmas PJ's ahhh! (Isn't my moms tree cute?!)
Here we are Christmas morning at my parents house, the rule was we would all wake up when Beck woke up, me and my brother Dayne were hoping for a 5:00 wake-up and Brandon and Dane were hoping for a 10:00 wake-up...it ended up being 7:00 which I think is the latest Christmas morning we have ever had.
Here's Beck Christmas morning at my parents house we spent Christmas Eve and morning with my family and Christmas day with Dane's family.

These pictures are not in order but here's Beck and Papa in their BYU gear.
Here's baby Jesus and Mary acting out the nativity on Christmas eve. We also had our first annual Stone family talent show on Christmas eve. Mom and Dayne read poems, Brandon attempted to recite "The Night Before Christmas" by memory but he doesn't have a good memory I guess, I played "The Little Drummer Boy" on the piano while Dane sang and Beck played the drummer boy by banging pots and pans, and my dad did the grand finale by dancing to "Ring Those Christmas Bells" which I have on tape if anyone is interested. I can't wait till next year, the Church family is going to be very well prepared.


Doug and Myrna planned for all of us to go tubing which was a blast. Of course it was turned into a competition and nobody was allowed to go down the hill without racing somebody, hmmmm I wonder which person was responsible for that...Dane???
Beck took his first steps while we were here!! Yay!! Should have known that he had to be bribed with food, he REALLY wanted that otter pop.
Beck's latest obsession...like father like son...what am I saying he didn't stand a chance cause it's also like MOTHER like son.

It wouldn't be Christmas break without Dane building a gigantic snowman all by himself. I'm so proud of you babe!!!
Beck and GG have a special bond.

Happy New Years!! Have we not learned by now that Beck doesn't wear hats??
We also got to see some of our best friends while we were here. We miss our Utah friends like crazy!! We had to leave behind some of the best and most fun friends a person could have when we moved to Virginia. You better come visit soon!! Wish I had got pictures with all of the fun we had with friends while we were here. This picture is of me and Stephanie looking really awesome with our fancy drinks.
Beck with my mom and dad, he is so loved and spoiled by his grandparents.
This is how Dane would like to spend every minute of every day - Beetles rockband

I didn't get any pictures of Dane's family because our camera is broke so these are all from my parents camera, but we were excited that Dane's sister Ashlee her husband Joel and their 6 kids came from Nebraska so we got to have a lot of fun spending time with them too. There are 3 boys cousins on the Church side that are all within about a year apart from Beck so he's going to love playing this the Church cousins when he's bigger.

These pictures don't do justice for all we did while we were here, we went to the Nutcracker, Temple Square, a christmas play, iceskating, saw Santa, saw 4 movies, did a lot of eating out, went bowling (Dane cheated for the win...he actually went up to the desk and asked the girl to change the score...long story) and played a lot of Nertz, Risk, Rook, and Tetris.


It was a perfect Christmas and we were so grateful that we were able to spend it with our family and friends that we love.

Our baby is one!

Our baby boy turned one this weekend. Words can't explain how much happiness Beck has brought us. I'm sorry but I seriously do feel like I got the greatest child that has ever been created. I love everything about him. He is without a doubt the cutest little guy I have ever laid eyes on and I really don't think that I think that just because I'm his mom. I love his curiosity and his energy, I love that he his the biggest show-off on the planet and will do anything to make sure he is the center of attention at all times, I love that he is ticklish, I love when he snuggles his face into his blanky, I love when he does his fake little laugh whenever me and Dane both laugh, oh gosh the list could go on and on there is too much to love.

We gave him the present from my mom and dad the morning of his birthday, he had seen it a couple times in the closet and was ticked when I shut the door so we knew he would love it, and he has loved it except for he wants to tear off all the parts that are attached to the top of it so that he can eat them.

How cute does he look in this studly little outfit that he got from our friends Rich and Brityn!? Our friends were really generous and got him some sweet toys that me and him have both loved because now that there are more things to entertain him he has spent less time emptying out every drawer in our house and throwing the contents all over the ground after sucking on them. Beck had himself 2 birthday parties going at the same time. While we were doing our little party my mom and dad threw a party of their own for him back in Utah, he just didn't get to go to that one. My mom, dad, little brother, grandma and grandpa all got together and went out to eat and then went back to my parents for cake and icecream and my mom bought herself a highchair for when grandkids visit that she wrapped up and gave to herself hahaha! I called them on speaker so they could sing happy birthday along with us.

He LOVED when we were singing happy birthday to him, his expression was a mixture of complete shock and pure happiness that everyone in the room was not only staring at him but also singing to him. I had been looking forward to the cake moment from the day he was born, he wasn't shy digging in, the entire time over and over he would take a bite and then look up to see if everyone was still watching him and then he would giggle and take another bite. He didn't make it very far he was done as soon as he finished the frosting. For his cake I just made him a giant chocolate cupcake and I made us an eggnog/caramel cake which I thought was pretty good, he wanted some of mine as soon as he was done with his.

I am so grateful to have been blessed with Beck being our little boy, nothing makes me happier than spending every day with him, and I'm so glad that we get him for all eternity. WE LOVE YOU BECK!!!!

Disneyworld!

Thanksgiving was a little bit different this year, instead of spending the day with all of our family and having a big dinner with turkey and sweet potatoes we spent the day with Mickey Mouse and had a big dinner of french toast and eggs. I missed seeing all of the family but I'm definitely not complaining we got to meet up with Myrna and Doug and spend 5 WONDERFUL days together at Disneyworld.

We spent practically every waking moment at Disneyworld, we flew into Orlando thursday morning and drove straight to epcot and we left from the Magic Kingdom Monday night and drove straight to the airport. Dane was a little frustrated one of the days because we didn't leave the hotel until 10 am which meant we had already lost one full hour that could have been spent riding rides.

Here's a picture of Dane and Myrna - Dane is such a momma's boy it's so cute to see how much he loves her (lets get real though it's not like it's hard to love Myrna!) As hard as this might be to believe Dane was even more excited to see his mom than to go to Disneyland.

Me and Doug had a tough time keeping up with Dane and Myrna the whole time, I don't think either one of us realized when we married into the family that it requires AT LEAST 2 trips to Disneyland/world a year if you really want to be a member of the family.

We went to Epcot the first day, Animal Kingdom the second day, Hollywood Studios the third, and the Magic Kingdom the last two days because it's the best. And Myrna booked an incredible hotel/condo for us to stay in, it overlooked a lake with fountains in it and you could watch the fireworks from the balcony, it was fun just to hang out in the hotel and have dinner together and go to the hot tub.

I think the highlight for Beck was the constant flow of icecream, churros, and sprite given to him by his grandparents. I don't think he minded the constant attention from 4 adults either, he put on quite a show to entertain all of us the whole trip. We bought him some Mickey Ears with his name on the back and everything but it took all 4 of us just to get them on his head so we could take one picture of it. And I don't even want to talk about the fact that we took the stroller with us everyday and used it for maybe an hour each day just while he napped in it. He wanted to be carried and so of course we carried him all day everyday!

Hollywood studios has the most AMAZING Christmas light display I have ever seen. They have almost every inch of every building on one street covered in lights and the lights "dance" with the Christmas music that they play while they blow fake snow from the top of all the buildings.