A Little Denver Christmas

My mom, Brandon and I made the treck to Denver last weekend to see my Sister, Shawn and my Dad (unfortunately the trip was bad timing, he was on call all weekend, so B didn't get to see much of his grandpa this time). We spent the weekend eating, drinking Bloody Mary's, sitting around while Brandon napped, and eating some more. It was the most laid back trips to Denver I've ever had but it was nice to just hang out.

On Saturday night we all went out for dinner for Amy's birthday dinner/Christmas get together at Angelo's in Denver. "We" meaning, Shawn's parents, his brother and his girlfriend, along with Mitch's brother Blaine, my parents and Amy and Shawn all drank wine, ate pizza and had really nice time :) Brandon had apple juice and ravioli...Mmmmm!

After dinner my mom, Amy, Shawn, Blaine, Brandon and I all went to the Botanical Gardens to see the Christmas lights. It was so amazing! Brandon loved looking at all of the lights and we had such a great time.

Our trip to Denver was much too short, as usual. We'll make a trip down this summer and take B to the zoo :)

My Little Sous Chef

About a month or so ago, Brandon started to get really mad at me when I'd set him on the floor while I was cooking dinner. He wants to be up by me watching everything I'm doing, but sometimes it's not always possible with boiling water, splattering oil while cooking meat or there's just too many burners on. If he is down on the floor, he just screams at me and pulls on the oven door. And when there's something cooking in the oven, that's not a good thing, obviously.

So to avoid any tantrums or burns, the other night I let me him help me make dinner. He loooooved it! He helped me "stir", watched me while I add things here and there and then decided he was done helping and eating was the better option...

Happy to help! And no, the pan is not hot, it was just a little warm on the bottom.

Hmmm....this looks tastey!

Dippin' into the cheese.

What a BIG help :)

Oh Life....

So a few days back I was writing a post for my blog about all of the cute and adorable things our son is doing, and when I tried to upload pictures, it told me that all of my 1 GB of picture storage is used up and if I want more storage, I have to buy it. I tried deleting some of the pictures out of it, but then it deleted the pictures from older posts, and I don't want to do that. The whole purpose of me writing this blog is to look back at all of our pictures and have Brandon see it all. So I haven't decided if I want to start a whole new blog so I can add the pictures or what Im going to do. But for now, you'll just get picturelss posts from me :)

Brandon has been helping me cook (which are the pictures I tried to upload that wouldn't work) and he's learning new exciting things everyday like when his sippy cup is empty, he finds his mom and hands her the empty cup to fill up again :)

Hopefully I can get this picture situation figured out fast!

Story Book Island

Since it was going to be a nice weekend, we decided it would be fun for us all to take Brandon and Archer to Story Book Island to look at all of the Christmas lights. I have never done this before and I actually can't remember the last time I was at Story Book Island period. So it was fun to see it all over again, this time with Brandon and with all of the Christmas lights. They had everything blocked off so people couldn't go into the exhibits, but either way it was still fun! It made me excited to go there with Brandon this summer :)

With Kriste and Archer

...and the hat strikes again.

The boys with Santa! Brandon did surprisingly well.

He loved playing with all of the lights!

Good advice to follow :)