Winter

Brandon has been able to enjoy the early snow this season and has gone snowboarding several times. Wyatt is always so excited when Daddy gets back so he can try on his helmet and goggles.



We went to see the Christmas lights at the Salt Lake temple the other day. It was beautiful!

Not only were the lights and temple spectacular, the temperature was an awesome 55 degrees! Amazing for a December night in Utah!

The boys and I appreciated the warmer temps! Both were pretty good for the whole trip!

This is the first year we have gone to see these lights and the grounds and temple were stunning! I'm so glad Brandon took us!

The same, but not

Ryan is very amused with the Christmas ornaments

I was looking through the photos from both boys at about the same ages and I found these:
RYAN

WYATT

WYATT

RYAN

The last set of photos they are even wearing the same shirt. I see so many similarities in faces and expressions between the two, but side by side in photos there are so many differences also!
One thing is for sure: they are both pretty cute to me!

DON'T MISS THE POST BELOW!

Pre-Church

I took these of the boys before church today. It seems like the only time that both of them are groomed.

ABC's

I overhead Wyatt singing the Alphabet yesterday....

"......S,T,U,V,W,X, Wyatt, and Z!"

I'll have to correct that one day....

Grandma, Ken and The Scratchy

We are ready for winter!

Grandma and Ken and Scratchy came for Thanksgiving. We love them all , but Wyatt sure loves his Scratchy!

Everyone was lucky and getting big smiles out of Ryan.

I made them go to Texas Roadhouse for the rolls! Yummy!

We got to put the Christmas decorations up.

Jennifer was getting laughs and giggles out of Ryan!

We really love having family up, and I always cry when they leave. Begging people to live up in Utah isn't working, so I am going to start bribing them! Thanks you for driving so far and in the snow to come see us!

Don't miss the post below!

Christmas Ornaments

This is Ryan's first Christmas ornament

and this is Wyatt's third Christmas ornament.

When I was younger my siblings and I would get a Christmas ornament from my Grandma or Parents and when I got older I got to take them with me. I am hoping to give all of these to them when they are out of the house also!

Here are my handsome boys.

Wyatt does really does a good job smiling for the camera now...

and Ryan is getting a whole lot more photogenic!

Grandma Bowman's Visit

Grandma Bowman came to our house for Halloween! It was so much fun having her at our house. Wyatt loved having someone to dote on him and spoil him 24/7!

Like most of our lucky guests, Grandma got to go with us to the Mayan restaurant to watch the divers!

We got this really cool firework show also!

throwing pennies in the fountain at the mall.

We all went to Cornbelly's one day, which was so much fun! So many activities to do and a corn maze!

Grandma took Wyatt to go pick out a pumpkin to carve with her. Wyatt wanted to hold Grandma's hand everywhere!

Halloween weekend was a blast. Grandma and Wyatt had the best costumes. Hopefully they were warm enough because it was cold, cold, cold!

Ryan the cow was warm in Grandma's arms!

We had Grandma come to our ward Halloween party. We all had our faces painted!

One day we took Grandma up to Temple Square in SLC. We got this really cute photo of her and the boys!

Grandma is always really fun with Wyatt and shows him all sorts of neat things!

It was a really pretty day to visit!

We loved having grandma and can't wait till she comes back! (Hopefully she brings Pop Pop and they come soon!)

Just the guys

What can I say about my baby? He is the sweetest thing! He is so happy lately and smiles all of the time. He will be crying in his bed, and I go in to get him up and he instantly starts smiling! He is such a happy boy! He recently started cooing and smiling when we talk to him. He loves when Daddy tickles his feet and talks to him.

Wyatt has been a helpful (almost too helpful). I have always tried to involve him with activities like cleaning and cooking, but now he asks to do it every time. I love that he likes to help, but it makes the task so tediously slow. Oh well, hopefully he is learning something out of it!

Besides, how could I say no to this face when he is asking to help me dust?

I love my little boys!

S-m-i-l-e

I am going through the 800 (yes 800) photos I have from Heather's visit this last week, but in the meantime here are some of the boys

Wyatt has been such a good big brother to Ryan. He is really sweet to him so far!

I have been (finally) catching some of Ryan's smiles. He is starting to recognize our faces and smiled for the first time on purpose at us just the beginning of this week (at 7 weeks old).

Below is Wyatt at about 8 weeks

And below is Ryan at almost 8 weeks.

Some photos I think they look alike, and some photos they don't look anything alike.

Sugar high