Early Christmas visit from G&G Swanee!

Grandma & Grandpa Swanee came for an early Christmas visit at the beginning of December...(Can you tell I've been busy since I'm just getting around to posting the pics!) We had sooo much fun! They babysat one night so Joe and I could enjoy a date night to the movies! Yeah! Mom and I spent much of the time trying to get our Christmas shopping done so dad got to hang out with Jensen quite a bit! I think they enjoyed their time together:)

Looking forward to the wonderful gatherings with family over the next few weeks! We continue to count our blessings everyday...And we're so excited for Jensen's first Christmas!

Christmas shopping with dad!

Jensen's first Christmas book....He likes it..Can you tell?

Our little Santa!

Jensen loves his sippy cup & pears!

Here are a few short videos of Jensen. He has recently learned how to drink from his sippy cup - He's still learning how to tip it up to make the water actually come out. He gets so excited when he gets water! He also enjoys eating his pears.....he can't get them in his mouth quick enough!

Happy Thanksgiving!

So much to be thankful for....and we celebrated today! It was a beautiful Thanksgiving Day! We spent the day with Julie, Marc, Katie, Josslynn, Bob, Krysten and Kylie Grace. We ate awesome food and enjoyed our time with family!

Jensen is 8 months old!

Hard to believe Jensen is 8 months old....I feel like I say that every month, but it's just amazing how quickly time has gone by! And he is definitely Mr. Personality!
We're starting to see the beginning signs of crawling....He pushes up with his arms and scooches backwards, but we haven't seen much action with the knees yet. And as you can probably guess, eating continues to be one of his favorite activities of the day.....Hmmmm, sound like anyone else you know??? I believe Joe had a shirt when he was a baby that said "EAT"....I think that would be quite appropriate for Jensen too! He loves to feed himself so we've started giving him peas, lentils, small pieces of cheese, bread and bananas, etc. that he can pick up and put in his mouth.
Joe's football season is over and it's been fun to have him around a little more the past few weeks to share in the fun of feeding, bathing, walks, etc. Just can't get enough of Jensen's little smile - We feel so blessed everday!

Fun at school!

We are so lucky that we've found such a great school for Jensen! We all love it there so much!! The teachers are so wonderful to him and he's made some good friends - Here he is with his little buddy that is just 2 weeks younger!
Now that Joe is done with football, we've enjoyed going together to pick up Jensen. During football season, Joe always had the hard job or dropping him off in the morning and I had the fun job of walking in to see his smiling face to pick him up in the afternoon. Now we either go together or Joe will go by himself to get him! We're so glad we've found such an amazing place for him to hang out a few days a week:)

An early visit with Santa!

Jensen promised Santa he had been a good boy when he met him for the first time on Saturday! We were a little nervous about how Jensen might react to the big man in a red suit with a white beard....but he LOVED him and had the biggest smile on his face the entire time! He must have a lot of toys on his Christmas list because he was definitely trying to win Santa over with that smile:) It was the cutest thing ever!!

Beautiful Fall Weekend

What an absolutely beautiful fall day! We did some house chores, raked the leaves in the backyard as Jensen enjoyed his swing, took a walk over to the school to let Bailey run, watched some football and just enjoyed the perfect fall day together! We were able to snap some great pictures of Jensen....Here are just a few of my favorites!