Graham's 6 Month B-day!!

I can't believe Graham is 6 months old already!! He is such a cute, sweet, happy boy!
As you can see, he has mastered the art of sitting up.
He's also rolling from back to belly and belly to back.
He has lightening quick reflexes and can grab anything that comes into reach.
Graham is a super big eater, eating two meals a day of cereal and fruit and veggies and also still nursing many times a day.
He is getting huge and is wearing 1 year size clothing now.
He also has his first tooth!
Graham LOVES to look at books (see the last picture). If he is sitting near a pile of toys and there is a book around he prefers the book and will reach and reach until he gets it. I am always amazed that he pays attention for so long when we read books with him. I think we have a scholar on our hands!
Graham loves to scream at the top of his lungs when he is excited or to get people's attention. (I wonder where he gets his loudness from.... Daddy maybe??)
He loves to laugh and he smiles all the time, even for strangers, which I love.
This has been the best six months of our lives, Graham makes us SO happy!
(Oh and look who's finally smiling for the camera! :)

I couldn't decide which of these pictures was the best so you get to enjoy all of them :)

Christmas 2009

We spent Christmas eve at Zach's family's house.
This is Graham opening his first present ever. Mostly he just liked eating the paper.

And that first present contained this- A cute little hat made by his awesome Aunt Kali.

Graham and awesome Aunt Kali.

More awesomes- Danielle and Heath on Christmas eve.
(And yes, I did make this hat as well. I was a mad hatter this Christmas season. I made about 7 hats in a month. I never want to make another one again. :)


I had to work from 11 pm to 7 am on Christmas eve but when I got home we headed straight out to Tooele to spend Christmas day with my family.

Dad, Robert and Melinda. (Also awesome.)


More gift enjoyment. (And Graham eating another present.)


Graham is digging Grandma's presents.


Graham's cute new jammies from his Aunt Heidi. And his new BYU blankie made by my mom.

Is this moment precious or what??

Ants...

Since moving into this apartment we have had a major ant problem.
If any crumbs get left on the floor they are consumed by hundreds of ants.
Recently our diaper bag was infiltrated by ants.
Unfortunately, we didn't discover this until we were at church and noticed dozens of ants crawling around our feet.
Every time we picked up the diaper bag we left a sprinkle of ants behind us.
I'm sorry 12th ward.
I hate these things.

Temple square

We took Graham to Temple square to see the lights.
He slept most of the time but we couldn't let him sleep through the whole thing so we got him out the last few minutes.
He loved it!
There were light snow flurries in the air.
It was magical.

I love this picture of my two favorite boys!

Thanksgiving

We had a great Thanksgiving in Provo with Zach's family this year. The food was amazing! We hung out at the house, had an awesome meal, and drove out to watch Micah do some jumps on his bike. We watched Four Christmases (which, I have to say, is one of the worst movies I have seen in a long time! Seriously, don't waste your time). The next day we drove out to Tooele and enjoyed a second day of gorging ourselves on leftovers and playing games with my family. It was a great holiday. We have SO much to be thankful for this year. Not only being blessed with our beautiful baby boy but we've also been blessed with wonderful families, friends, jobs, and countless other things. I feel spoiled by how much Heavenly Father blesses us!

Zach carved the turkey- I doubted his skills but he was a pro!

Zach with our nephew Heath. Heath is such a cutie and loves his Uncle Zach :)

Our handsome boy on his first Thanksgiving

Heath and Graham playing cars- so cute!

Bouncin' Baby

Graham loves his new bouncer! WARNING: Video contains extremely annoying sounds that Zach makes to get Graham excited. Graham is usually smiling and squealing while he is in his chair but it never fails that every time he sees the camera he is Mr. serious.

AWESOME Weekend!

We spent last weekend at an amazing cabin. It belongs to my sis-in-law's parents. It is truly awesome. It is huge so there is plenty of room for everyone to spread out and have their own bedrooms and own bathroom and it even has two full kitchens. It was our second time going there but this time was even better because Zach's whole family (except Micah) was able to come. We did lots of four-wheeling, fishing, making cute little crafts, watching movies, playing with babies, and of course eating lots of yummy food. We had so much fun! Thanks Lucas and Danielle for inviting us all!

All the Hintze girls and babies. Kali, Heidi, Mona with Raiden and Graham, me, Danielle and Heath

Cousins!!
Graham, Heath, Raiden

Kali, Heidi, Zach and me

Raiden and Graham are only 4 days apart. Last time they were together Graham was so shrimpy compared to Raiden. We thought with all Graham's growing and getting to almost 16 pounds that he would have caught up with Raiden, but not quite! Raiden is still 4 pounds heavier! Such cute BIG boys!