thanksgiving.

i cannot believe thanksgiving has come and gone already! blowing my mind. how can it possibly be christmas so soon?! three weeks until levi's done school. not that i'm counting down or anything. ;) 

this year we went up to the beach house because we didn't want to drive a long time with levi only getting done on wednesday. {byu was awesome and let us off on tuesday. i miss that} we had a great time, the weather was uh-mazing, like it always is, and the company was pretty good too! 

we love coming here. it's so gorgeous.  everytime we leave we realize we need to do it more often. plus, free babysitting when we come with family. cha ching! 

grandma bettye so graciously bought us chuggington and thomas trains to play with at the beach house {i think she did it so he would want to come back and make us come too. well, it worked because now he's even more obsessed}. so did he want to play outside? no. did he want to go to the beach? no. he just wanted to play with the ridiculously overpriced trains. {seriously though. hank and his coal car were $25 bucks! good thing he has nice grandmas who pay for business like that, because his parents most definitely will not.}

greysen also got a new exersaucer so that was pretty exciting for him. 

and for zak, who thought he was entitled to play with the toys as well. 

i just love these guys. they're so silly. and cute. 

now we know where the ridiculous face comes from. 

 our thanksgiving feast was excellent. greysen was asleep for most of it, so instead of taking pictures of the three of us that were awake, we took them individually so our child will not feel left out in 20 years from now when he looks at his mom's awesome blog and reads all the fun things they used to do. 

three generations of preciousness. and some awkward smiling. so great. 

zak and his "binoculators". sometimes the stuff he says is just so cute. 

 grandma kim and zaky. 

grandma bettye and grandma kim. 

the spouse and i spent thanksgiving evening child-less at the gilroy outlets, soaking up the freedom and shopping for christmas presents until we got too tired and more people started showing up. {did you know the outlets open at 9 on thanksgiving? freaking awesome. i'm pretty sure most people thought they did at midnight because there was no one there until then. it was great! and plus, we don't stay up super late to go shopping. we're parents. and poor.}

hurrah for the holidays! 

fat face.

this fat face {yes, he will be scarred for life because i called him that. i don't care} is four months now.  and i just love it. he's getting to the fun age, aka the "i still want to be somewhat cuddled and squished and kissed by mom because i don't know how to talk and i can't tell her i hate it, unlike my obnoxious/suddenly teenaged brother who hates everything mom and dad do to cuddle with him" age. 

but seriously. how could i not want to squish those cheeks all day when they look like that? 

and that belly to be honest. because i've waited four months for him to get fatter. 

plus, he's just so happy all the time. unless he didn't get a nap. and then he's a psycho. 

he is 15 1/2 lbs now and 26 inches long. both in the 70th percentile still. we've {and by we, i mean me} have been re-sleep training him, since he went through a growth spurt and continuous rolling over that ruined his sleeping skills for several weeks. but we are back on track now, with him sleeping from 8:00-6:30 without being fed or rolling over. hallelujah. 

he can roll over from his stomach to his back. and scream his head off in the middle of the night because he hates it. it's really fun to wake up to. thank goodness we're somewhat past that. 

he's pretty close to sitting by himself. 

he loves to stand on anything. 

we've finally gotten to him waking up happy most of the time and not crying. that's a big moment for us. because mom is in a much better mood when she's not woken up by screaming. 

he loves to grab toys now, which is exciting and helpful for entertaining while mom is making dinner. 

his brother frequently asks "mom, what does baby greysen have to say about that?" whenever he is making noise. and it's just so cute when he says it. and when he asks greysen what he's talking about. 

man, i just love that fat face. and his brother too. 

fog harbor.

two years ago this weekend, we drove to San Francisco from Utah for Levi's dental school interview. it was probably the worst vacay ever {ghetto hostel, teething, pouring rain, snow storm, just to name a few} but we like to commemorate it each year because it was the beginning of our "new life". in particular, we go to a restaurant on pier 39 called fog harbor {totes delish btw} every saturday before thanksgiving. keeping with tradition, it poured rain this year, just like the two previous ones, but it makes for good memories. =) 

unfortunately, because thanksgiving is a week earlier, this time they didn't have the tree lit up. super lame. but we still had a good time, ate and didn't get kicked out of the restaurant because of one wild child who tried to eat all the butter, who shall remain nameless. 

 

these are our previous years adventures. 

because this was one of our only adventures we go on, i made us take lots of pictures. but most people who i made do it, didn't get the stroller sooo we only have one child in all of the pics. no big deal. =) 

then when i decide we really should take pictures to make sure our second is documented as being here, he refuses to cooperate. boo. also, i may have dressed them so they all match. =)

 the end.