Dorian's Baby Blessing

Brett taking over the blog tonight.

Since it's May, why not blog about New Year's?  Perfect timing!  Since Doodle was getting blessed, we were able to enjoy lots of time with the extended family.  We loved every minute of it!

 Here's what the dawn of 2012 brought our way--

We watched the Mighty BYU Cougars pull out a hard-fought victory in the Armed Forces Bowl.  Last-second heroics by Riley Nelson sealed the victory, and sent us all into hysterics. My dad Wayne is a good luck charm for the Cougs.  They almost always win when he watches them live.

  

The cousins were here!  Our kids LOVE it when Eliot, Olive, and Bodhi come up for some fun.  Here we are on a little hike at Erwin Park in McKinney.

New Year's Eve!  We put the FUN in FONdue.  (I know it's not perfect, but work with me here, people)

The aftermath of the baby blessing.  We are so fortunate to have a loving, supportive family.  It was great.

Doodle being sassy.

How much can a baby grow in five months?  Check out a recent Doodle clip!

Stitches

So,  there has been a lot of stuff going on. We've gone to Houston, Wilson has turned 10 (very excited), but the biggest thing that happened is Wilson just got Stitches!  I fell down when I was running and got a HUGE cut on my knee.  I got 14 stitches at the hospital.  I will be getting them out really soon and I can start playing baseball again.  I can't wait!Warning!! this next graphic is for those with a stomach of steel!

My big cut before the stitches

After

Hey who's getting cute? Here's some more Doodle!

Doodle chillin' with the ladies!

                                

Ready for a bath!

 Doodle Dancing!

  

Yeah we're cool.               

     

They grow up so fast!

Dorian and Christmas

During the christmas season Dorian Charels Gustaveson was born . Ever since  Doodle (A.K.A Dorian) has attracted major attention. there have been so many pictures. With the flash of every camera Doodle is a celebrity as we know it! Here are some cute pictures of him!  

"Daddy, Daddy the Sky is falling!"  "I see it son!"

In this picture you see dad holding Doodle, and Maisy and Wilson are close to him.

As you see Dorian is winking at you. Lets get a close up.

So Cute!!

Right now Grammy is holding the little guy. Yes this is Wink Watch and as you see Dorian is winking right now!

Somebody got us a Fondu maker! Here we are enjoying it!

"My little toesies are tickling ya!"

So that was our photo story of the weeks before Christmas break. 

Just in case you want to know Wilson is taking over the posting

Halloween

I know, I know!  Halloween was a long time ago.  BUT, I had to document it, so bare with me.  Maisy was a Fairy Farmer Girl.  She couldn't decide between a fairy or a farm girl--so we just combined the two!  The costume actually turned out cute.

Ace was a ninja of course.  He loved every minute of it.

Wilson was a baseball player with a black eye.  I keep forgetting that he is growing up and likes to put 9-year-old-boy twists on things now.

They got tons and tons of candy and were very excited about it.  I think we just finished all of the Halloween candy last week.

I promise the next post will be about Dorian!!!

New York: Day 2

More of our New York Trip!  One of the coolest things we did was walk all the way across the Brooklyn Bridge.  This was Brian's idea of course and this is one of my favorite pictures that we took.  So fun!

Creighton, our friend, raved about this steak house in Brooklyn.  It's called Peter Luger's.  We had to go there, of course.  AMAZING!  Melt in your mouth steak.  Yum.  Seriously--some days, I remember a bite of Peter Luger's steak melting in my mouth and I just sit back and smile.

All day Friday it rained.  The fabulous people of New York pulled out their rain boots and splashed through the many puddles.  We did not have rain boots.  Our shoes got very very wet.

We went to Chelsea Market.  Loved it!!  We were in heaven as we tried all the different kinds of food.

The best was The Filling Station.  They had all kinds of vinegars and oils.  Some of my favorites: Chocolate vinegar, apple cider vinegar, raspberry vinegar. We tried pretty much all of them.  Thank you thank you, Brian for my Christmas present (he sent me some of my favorites!)

Here we are at Ellis Island.  Very interesting and informative place.  I was in awe and felt a kind of reverence for our country's progenitors as I walked around in the museum.

I can't believe I finally saw the Statue of Liberty in person.

Here we are at one of Brian's favorite little cafes.  It's called The Nook.  DELICIOUS FOOD!  It was just a quaint, cozy little place.

The famous Magnolia Bakery!  I was giddy as we looked at the baked goods and decided what to buy.  Also, I love the picture of us outside because you can see Brian's reflection--him taking the picture of us in the window.

I just want to send a shout out to Brian:  Thank you for being such an awesome host!  It was an amazing trip all because of YOU.  We love you and can't wait to get back to New York to visit you again.  You're the best!!

New York New York!

The blog is BACK!  We're going to try to post a lot more. Hopefully we can keep that promise!  Since it has been so long, we have some major catching up to do.  No better place to start than with our fabulous September trip to NYC.

Brett's brother Brian lives in New York, and we had always wanted to go see him.  We finally got that chance and we flew up with our friends Creighton and Brenda.  And let's just say we lived it up!

The first thing we did after a fun dinner in a little cafe was go a Yankees game.  Now, we definitely wouldn't consider ourselves Yankees fans, but we had an excellent time at the game.  Brett even committed to become a Yankees fan for the evening.  The Yanks won in dramatic fashion, and we took the subway home with a bunch of elated fans of the Bronx Bombers.  

The next morning we were up early because we had a date with Regis and Kelly!  Kasia has always enjoyed the show, and we were pumped to be on TV.  We made a sign for Maisy because it was her birthday, and we really hoped we would get on TV.  

And we did!  We were in some really good seats and we got our five seconds of fame.  And Maisy was able to see her happy birthday sign. We had a great time watching the show. Kasia enjoyed seeing one of her favorite Twilight stars, Taylor Lautner, in studio.  So fun!

Here we are in Central Park.  It is bigger than we thought it would be.  We walked through the park on our way to . . .

. . . the temple?  We randomly happened to find the Manhattan LDS temple as we were roaming the streets.  

. . . and the Metropolitan Museum of Art!  We saw some incredible artifacts, from ancient to modern.  Kasia was in heaven.

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Here's Brian with Kas and some great Hellenestic age statues.

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One of Kasia's all time favorite paintings, by Seurat.

After a broadway show we hit Times Square, which was just as bright and lively as we had always imagined it.  What a fun day.  To be continued with Day 2 on our next post!

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