Growing so fast!

Baby Ty is growing SO FAST!!!  He is just shy of 8 months and he is such a hot shot :) He crawls all over the place and even pulls himself up on furniture these days.  What a silly!  He will stand up on anything (even if it only stands a couple inches off the ground) so he is in a standing/crawling position... so funny!  He sure is Mr. Social and loves to play with his brother. 

Our Yard

Mike and I have been working so hard on our yard this year!  We even bought some trees the other day to plant (pictures to come).  It has been such a fun place to hang out this summer.  Here are just a few pics:

Our fun slide

Even more fun with a pool at the bottom :)

Our garden

Tanner's mischievousness.  Pushing the button that turns on the sprinkler to the garden.

Cute summer toes :)

May Update

May was a busy month!  How did we fit it all in?  Taking care of a busy 2 year old and 2 month old is a lot of work!  But we still managed to have some fun.... a lot of fun actually!

Ty was blessed at the beginning of the month and so we did a mad dash to get everything ready for company to come over.  Mike's parents offered up there old dining room table and Mike and I snatched it!  Mike and I stripped the old finish (a dark cherry wood) and painted the chairs and table legs white.  I also found some fun new fabric for $3/yd on clearance to re-upholster the chairs.  I LOVE my new table!  It was a lot of work but well worth it!  I do not have before pictures (big oops on my part...just completely spaced it) but here are some after pictures of my new dining room table!

Ty in his handsome blessing outfit. 

Table and Chairs (there is still another leaf and 2 more chairs!)

Chair/ fabric Detail

Table leg detail

Chair

After the blessing it was time to celebrated my birthday!!  My birthday was on a Thursday and Mike took Friday off and we went to the zoo.  It was so much fun!  We got to see the elephants and Tanner got to try the Carousel which he loved.

Blowing out the candles

Seeing the Elephant

At the bird show!  So fun!

Riding a Lion!

Tanner absolutely LOVES Ty and it makes me so happy.  He is always making sure Ty is happy and giving him toys and things.  They are cute brothers.  When Ty is in his crib Tanner supplies him with toys to play with.  So cute :)   Also this month we had a big milestone of getting rid of Tanner's binky!!!  It was not as hard as I thought it would be and he has done great without it.  One morning I just asked if he wanted to throw his binky away and he said yes and went and grabbed it and threw it in the garbage.  The garbageman came in the big truck and took it away and that was that.  We had a few rough nights but after that it has been great!  And Tanner is talking so much more without having the binky around.  May was a good month!  

Ty in his crib with all the balls Tanner brought him...just in case he needed to play with them :)

Got Binky?

Sunglasses and measuring tape...what have you got planned  Tanner?

 

Sleepy Boys

Nap time at the Hansen House :)

November

 We set up our Christmas tree early in November so we could enjoy it for awhile.  I love my tree and I love setting it up every year.  Tanner seemed to know just what to do with the ornaments.  He started taking them out of the box one by one and putting them on the tree.  So fun to have a little helper!  

Fluffing the branches. 

My little helper

Almost decorated!!

 I wanted a comfy spot to read by Mike while he was on the computer so he fixed me up this cozy a spot.  I thought it was cute so I snapped a picture.  

Tanner wanted to go help Daddy shovel the driveway but after a few minutes (and touching the snow with bare hands because he refused to wear gloves) he decided he wanted to come in where it was warm!  I got him warm and bathed and in jammies so he could sit and watch a movie on Daddy's phone by the fire.  How cute!

Sad Cold Face.  

Watching a movie by the fire.

The big event of November was of course Thanksgiving.  We headed to Ashley's with the Hansen clan.  It was a blast!  We had a fantastic dinner and enjoyed just hanging out with each other.  So fun!  I was even able to snap some cute pics of our family.

All the Hansen grandkids.  So cute!

                        

Mike and Tanner playing outside for a minute. 

Mmm...pie. 

The Friday after Thanksgiving we got a room at Little America and went to see the lights.  It was so fun!  And we all know the best part about Little America...SWIMMING!!!  Tanner is a little FISH!  He splashed literally non-stop until finally he just was too tired to go on.  We had a blast.

That looks like a happy boy that had fun swimming!

Here are just some action shots of Tanner jumping.  I just thought they were so funny.  He is my little jumper and gets some good air too!

 

Ready...

                          

 SET... (that's some serious concentration.

JUMP!

Just a cute picture :)  I love those blue eyes.  

October 2010

We took a weekend trip to the cabin in October and Tanner fell asleep on the four wheeler every time we took him on a ride.  Too cute!  Carly and Tanner are getting to be good buds.  Tanner is getting more comfortable around other kids and his cousins but still has his "breakdown" moments (he is used to having everything to himself!!!  That is going to change when this new baby comes!)

Buddies!

This new baby is due March 16th and we are so excited!  This is me at around 18 weeks.

We had a pumpkin carving adventure for Halloween.  Tanner didn't like the pumpkin guts but he wanted to use all the tools that Mommy and Daddy were using...you know, the knives and stuff.  He thought they were pretty cool when we lit them and turned off all the lights.