Christmas Tree Jubilee!

On Friday we went and picked out our Christmas tree. A big group of us went to celebrate Dane's first Christmas Tree outing! (Ok, they weren't really celebrating that, but I'm the mom, so everything HAS to revolve around Dane - naturally.) Anyway, Dane was quite tired at this point, but he battled it out. You can see in the pictures that he's not too happy to be there, but hey, he showed up didn't he? By the looks of these pictures, it seems as though someone might have been sneaking him some egg nog. Hmmm...

The happy family, BEFORE Dane's spiral into extreme exhaustion.

It's beginning to look a lot like dream land.

He can't even open his eyes for a dang picture with dad!

Here's where we realized we might have a problem...

So we loaded him up into the car and took him home. He had QUITE the Christmas tree shopping hangover the next day!

Visalia or bust!

Well, this week Dane and I embarked on an adventure to Visalia, CA to visit my cousin Megan and her family. Mike had to take a training course up in Stockton so he dropped us off on the way. We thought we'd come and "help" Megan and Noel out as much as possible since they have a 1 and a half year old boy named Gunnar and a 3 week old girl named Cooper. Dane had a great time with his cousins as you can see in the pictures below! Enjoy!


Okay, Dane didn't have THAT much fun - I think this was the point where Gunnar had used the word "mine!"


Here are Dane and Gunnar just chillin' out on the floor together.


Dane just about gave himself a hernia as he explored all of Gunnar's toys!


And here she is, ladies and gentlemen! COOPER PIEPGRASS!


Dane has been enjoying real food for the first time this week. In this picture it was carrots. YUM!