The end of the year

Daisy with her mohawk and in her sweet new pink leopard print jacket!
The newest member of our family, Mr. Jiggles. Tony got him for me for Christmas. I know my husband's great huh? I woke up Christmas morning to a cage with all the fixin for a guinea pig and a giftcard to Petsmart so I could pick him out. As it turns out almost all of the Petsmarts in the valley were sold out of guinea pigs. Thanks to the movie G-Force everyone got a guinea pig for Christmas. We called around to all of the Petsmarts in town and finally found one that had 10 guinea pigs while all the other stores were sold out. :$ We drove to Central Phoenix to get him. I'm glad we did. It was getting hard to stare at an empty cage. He is still a little skiddish but getting better. He is adorable. When I hold him and pet him he makes this cute little noise...I don't even know how to describe it. I want to earn his trust enough so I can hand feed him carrots and stuff. Guinea pigs are fun little pets.

This is Liam's favorite thing to do. He will leave an entire floor of toys to play with the shoes in the basket. He dumps it and loves to suck on the shoes. I know gross huh? I have to figure out where else to put our shoes so he can't get them. I am seriously pulling him away from it like 20 times a day. Crazy boy! The worst part is that he loves it and laughs and giggles like he's at Disneyland...shoe basket vs. Disneyland...I'd take Disneyland. He would disagree.

Christmas 2009

Liam enjoying bananas in his new mesh feeder

Me and Liam snuggling in my snuggie

So cute!

Octavio holding Liam

Liam's first Christmas and I left the camera at home. I don't have the internet at home so I am blogging from my parents house. We had our own family Christmas and then went to my parents house later. I woke up to a precious boy talking to himself in his crib. We got him out of his crib in his cute little Christmas jammies and Tony had to check and make sure that Santa had come. He put 2 chairs in the hallway ...as is tradition..to keep me from spying. Tony had surprised me and went all out for me this year. I got so much great stuff! The first thing I saw when I walked into the living room was a guinea pig cage full of stuff and a gift card to pick my own guinea pig out. I had an overstuffed stockings with a bunch of cooking stuff. I got a rice cooker, electric can opener, date night kit with 50 first dates sparkling cider and a candle lighter, cupcake and round cake pans. At my parents house I got a snuggie(the blanket with sleeves) crock pot with a little dipper, a photo collage with pictures from our vacation to SC, satin hands. Tons of stuff! I enjoyed being with my family. Tomorrow we will be with Tony's family. Liam was not real big into the presents more into the paper and tags. Of course. But he was so cute!

Mills

Liam's Thanksgiving suit

Rolled into trouble

Siting...his new talent

6 months old

21 lbs. 11 oz.

At the Heard Museum

Like Father Like Son

First time in a swing

Life

Baby Tanner

Halloween!

Liam is a chunky monkey and we are his zoo keepers!

Life with a baby

Liam 5 months

Wearing camo since Papa is going deer hunting

New nap spot

Tony loves to put Liam on his shoulders. Tony usually ends p with wet hair and missing a few hairs (Liam has a tight grip)

Liam in Great-Papa Lee's war stuff

We started rice cereal...yummy. He's a good eater!

Seriously...It doesn't get any cuter!

Life is going for us...just going. We are madly in love still so that hasn't changed. Tony got his hours cut back and I lost my previous job. I have picked up some baysitting to help us get by, but we are still sorely lacking. We will survive...we always do. We keep paying tithing and we always get by.
Liam has become a good roller. He can roll both ways now and is all over the place. He learned to put his pacifier in himself even though it is usually upside down. He loves to make little raspberries or whatever they are...little car noises. Adorable! He is just a joy to be around...a joy to have. We love this little boy!
Tony is trying to be able to start school in the winter. If he can find some grants and scholarships he will be all set. He is pretty nervous about going back to school because it's been so long, but I'm sure he will get back in the swing of things and do just fine. He's got a great plan to give our family a brighter future. We are ready to move onward and upward!

It happened

Liam has learned to turn over! He can even scoot too! It's great but awful at the same time. It's great because he is growing and developing, but it's awful because he's growing up! I want him to stay my little baby forever! I got the first time he turned over on video tape too! Oh yeah we ran into some money so we got some things we've been wanting for a while. We got a nice video camera and new cell phones and something else that's pretty cool, but I can't say what it is. I don't want my dad to find out...I want to show him. Once he knows then I will post it.