January 2010

Well a goal of mine for 2010 is to get all caught up on my scrapbooking and keep current on my blogging so I am going to try and include everything by month if I can. For one, it was our 1 year anniversary! We actually left Branson (for the 1st time overnight) and got a super nice hotel in Scottsdale. We started out the day with breakfast at a place where Diner's Drive-Ins and Dives (one of my very favorite shows) was taped, then we went to do a Candy Factory Tour in Phoenix (it sounds dumb when I tell people but it is something I have wanted to do forever now) and thanks to Forest he is always willing to do anything I want and I would totally recommend it because it is FREE and they include FREE SAMPLES! Then for lunch we stopped in at Red Robins for a yummy burger then ate at a Fancy restaurant Fogo de Chao in Scottsdale. It was a blast!
I also turned 27! For some reason I feel like this is an OLD birthday, I guess that I thought maybe I would've been close to being done having kids, not just starting but it was an excellent birthday thanks to having the best husband ever and awesome family and friends that helped me celebrate. I unfortunately don't have any pictures so I will have to post them at another time.
Branson turned 3 months old! Our little guy is the best. He has started to smile all the time and is even giggling out loud, especially when Forest makes him dance so I included some pictures of him.
I included some other pictures of just some of the things we have been up to.

OUR BRANSON BOY!
I just thought this one was so cute of him sleeping

My mom bought him this cute sweater with the ears! I love it and his Uncle Gary thinks it makes him look like a sheep.

Forest put his sweater on Branson

Branson is starting to sit up in his bumbo seat & you can get a little glimpse of his smile here

WILCOX
One Sunday we drove down to Wilcox for the day (my Ganny lived there and I spent a ton of time there when I was young) & stopped in at Stout's Cider Mill

Just outside Stout's Cider Mill was on old mine

COOKING TIME!
Well for those of you who don't know I absolutely LOVE to cook and spend a lot of time in the kitchen so Forest wanted to snap a shot of me where I am most of the time

Cooking Hamburgers

My Ganny makes the best homemade tacos and has passed that along to me so I started making them and people at my house can't get enough of them! They are a lot of work but so worth it.

FAMILY HOME EVENING
So we have been really trying to make it a point to do something different for our family night so we decided to go BOWLING! I am not even going to lie, it runs in my blood and I am kind of good.

1 YEAR ANNIVERSARY
Red Robin for lunch

Fogo de Chao
This was the fancy place we went for dinner - it was a Brazilian Charrasco place, we went to eat at one in Vegas and it was a lot better in Vegas than this one but it is a cool experience

CANDY TOUR
Here is the candy factory we went to

Forest with his "Bacon & Eggs" that they let us make at the factory (Pretzels, white chocolate & yellow M & M's)

This huge football was made of pure chocolate for the Super Bowl

OVER EASY
This was the place we went to eat for breakfast that was on Diner's, Drive-ins and Dives. I follow the show pretty religiously & we were excited but it was NOT GOOD unfortunately but a fun experience.

Christmas & New Years

Well Christmas this year was great! Even though it was our first year celebrating our Christmas as a married couple and new parents, Branson slept pretty much the entire time. We actually traveled down to Mesa to spend this year with my family but we did spend our Christmas Eve at my Aunt Brendas and my dad's family then over to Forests families for a Christmas Eve dinner then off to Mesa, of course in our time, and arrived there at about 2 AM. We then spent the morning with our tradition of making a huge breakfast then opening presents. So anyway I will let you know what the pictures are of.

New Year's - on our way to my Aunt Brendas for Texas Hold Em and lots of food

Branson in his "fancy suit" thanks to Aunt Linds

Forest eating waffles (way after everyone else cause he slept in)My Grandpa Dick and Branson's Great Grandpa

Rogers Family Christmas Party - we had to head down straight from church so we didn't get a chance to change

Branson & Forest on Christmas

My mom decided that she needed to clear some room and put all of our childhood keepsakes in these bins and gave them to us this year, going through them was the greatest part of Christmas

ONE OF MY BABY DRESSES

DONT ASK

MY HIGH TOP RED CONVERSE FROM 1ST GRADE, I WAS TOTALLY THE ONLY GIRL THAT ROCKED THEM

LINDS AND HER GARDEN GNOME FROM ME AND FOREST

BRANSON WITH HIS COUSIN CODY AND SANTA (GRAMPY)

THIS WAS THE REINDEER THAT FOREST MOUNTED ON TOP OF OUR ROOF ON THE HIGHWAY WITH THE MOVING HEAD, IT WAS QUITE THE SITE

Christmas Shopping

So the other night we went Christmas shopping in the valley & saw that KMART was open until midnight so we were just killing some time and saw this great bicycle that I really wanted but we just settled for some test riding around the store and pictures.

2 Months Today!

Well it has been a while since I have updated so here you are going to see Thanksgiving, Christmas pictures, Branson's 1st time to church, 2 month shots & just recent happenings. Oh and also, Branson is growing like a weed. He is still a little guy but had his 2 month check up and now weighs 8.0 lbs and and is 22 inches long so 3 lbs up and has grown 4 inches! Time is flying by and he has definately found his smile. Everyone asks who he looks like and I think he looks like a Busby baby (my moms fathers side) kind of like my Uncle Mal.

SCHNITZEL ANYONE?

Well, one of mine and Forests favorite thing to do is go out to eat so we saw this German restaurant featured on Diners, Drive-ins and Dives down in Phoenix and we decided to try it out and dragged my mom along. She isn't one to really try new things so it was kind of funny but we all got some Schnitzel and a Sausage Platter. It was a little weird but fun experience anyway.

Our Sausage Platter (it was WEIRD in a not so good way)

Me and my mom with our BEER MUGS - one of the fun features of the meal

GRANDPARENTS
Here is Branson with my dad's mom, so Bransons great grandma Nancy

Branson with Grandma Judy at Super Daves on Thanksgiving- I love this picture

Me & Branson at my moms on Thanksgiving

Our family picture we used for our Christmas Cards this year along with the ones of Branson in the stocking

He was really unhappy with us hanging him up in this stocking but it was too cute to resist

Me & my nephew Rhett (Tera's 3rd) on Thanksgiving at my moms

Branson's 2 month shots

Aunt Linds

This was Branson's 1st day to church, I love this outfit but it swallowed him up so he kind of looks like a Sumo Wrestler

These ones are my favorite, my mom bought him this cow costume and it is just so cute with its little ears and bottoms of the feet that say moo, I know it isn't Halloween but we dress him up in this often.

Still a "SPIDER MONKEY" and I love it