In addition to having a great Thanksgiving the most exciting news in our lives the past month is that Hyrum finally started crawling!!! It was about 3 or 4 weeks ago on a Saturday morning. I left Hyrum in the living room sitting up so I could get a water bottle in the kitchen and when I came back he was on all fours by my empty yogurt container. There was no way he got over there so fast by just rolling! I knew he must have crawled so I called Jeremy and we tried to get him to crawl again and he did. He was very slow and hesitant at first but now he's all over the place and pulling himself up to a standing position on everything he can get to. I now know what it means to chase your kid around all day but I love seeing him more mobile and he likes it too. Last week he took his first couple of steps on his own and every day he has taken more steps. The most in a row without falling or grabbing onto something is 8 steps. He is super wobbly but he gets so excited after he takes a few steps. He has also shown interest in learning to play the guitar recently. Or at least to play with all the knobs on the guitar. He loves crawling around the couch, especially if one of us is on the other side and he can chase us around.
Jeremy has finals this week and next. He is still doing great and he only has like one test a day so he gets to be home a whole lot more-but still studying of course. At one of our church buildings here there was a Creche exhibit (Nativity Scene). We went up to look at it and there were almost a 1000 different Nativity Scense! They were from all over the world. I've never been to anything like that before. We had a few days of gorgeous weather here after we came back from Texas. Hyrum and I actually were able to go the park and Hyrum was crawling all over the grass and dirt! It was cute.
We hope all our family and friends had a great Thanksgiving and look forward to hearing from you all when you get a minute!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING

We had a marvelous Thanksgiving break! It was great for Jeremy to be off of school with no test worries and for Hyrum and I to have him around all day. We flew to Austin Texas to be with all of Jeremy's family. We were in Austin Wednesday morning and left Sunday evening so we had a nice amount of time with everyone. The weather was gorgeous! Absolutely perfect. Jeremy's parents have bought 200 acres in Rosebud Texas which is an hour and a half drive from where they are now (towards Dallas) so we went out there one afternoon and walked around the land. There is a pond with fish and lots of trees and hills. It will be such a fun place to go for family reunions. Hyrum had a blast sitting in the dirt and rummaging in the leaves and things, so once he's running around he will love it there.
We ate lots of delicious food too! It was the best turkey I've ever had in my life and for dinner on Sunday Susan made a Costa Rican meal. It was one of the best meals I've ever had! We also got some pictures taken of everyone which was nice and we were able to visit some friends from BYU, have a couple of bonfires, and go on a date-just the two of us outside of the house!!!
Hyrum had a lot of "firsts" over the holiday. It was his first Thanksgiving, first airplane ride (he did great overall), first time meeting cousins, first time wearing cowboy boots, first time eating turkey, first time kiss from a girl his age!!!, first time playing in the dirt, and first time in Texas. So he had a busy time! He was sick for most of the trip which was too bad but he was still in a pretty good mood for not feeling well.
We had a great time and look forward to more family time over Christmas

Hyrum's First Snow!!!

Well it actually isn't Hyrum's first snow, but last winter he didn't really leave our house until April so he may not have seen snow until now. We thought we'd bundle him all up and take him outisde. It took about ten minutes to get him all bundled and we were outside for about five minutes at the most to take some pictures. We don't think Hyrum enjoyed it a whole lot because he couldn't really move in his enormous coat and snow bibs!