Christmas....

Taven and the horrible rendition of Santa from Hilmar Cheese Factory

Taven and his girlfriend Addie Belo

I have been a bit of a slacker here with the blogging and all, which will explain why I am just now doing a post for Christmas.... Sorry:) Better late than never, right?

So, Christmas was wonderful! Trent had three weeks off school, so we enjoyed a really long, nice break! We left the first weekend for Utah to celebrate Christmas with the Duffeys then met up with my family for new years and the Hoer Family Reunion (Yucca Vally- see next post) then spent the last week at home. Taven hated his car seat even back then, so we drove mostly in the evenings and at night. That kid rules our world:)

Once in Utah, we had a few days to just hand out with family, shop, and enjoy the cool weather before all the Christmas festivities really began. Stephen took some awesome pictures of Taven as you can see (more pics at: http://phungphotography.com/clients/duffey_tt/taven/) , and we all (especially you know who) got showered with gifts. Taven now has tons of Toys! Thank you EVERYONE!!!

Taven's First Trip to the Zoo

Taven just loved seeing all the animals and being outside. He live outdoors if I let him.

here's a video of taven's new sounds...

Taven started doing this razzing thing a little while ago... but now he doesn't

anymore- That's how slow I am at updating our blog! His new thing now is popping

his jaw- It totally weirds me out!! Maybe later I will get a video clip of that?

We'll see... by then, he'll probably be on to something new.

just like dad...

Taven just hates his nebulizer...

Super Dad holding Robbie and Taven

Taven after Trent feeds him...

Taven seems to remind me more and more of Trent each day. They have so much fun playing together.He is nothing but smiles.... oh and messes:) He got pretty sick mid month and so we had to do this breathing treatment thing on him to loosen his congestion- he hates it as I am sure you can see from the pictures. Luckily, we only had to do it a few times. Aside of that, not much is new. Taven is sitting really well, still puts everything in his mouth, loves to eat "real" foods and has started to do this new thing lately where he buzzes his lips and spits at the same time- it is surprisingly entertaining....

happy halloween!

Frankenstein after washing off half his face paint


Pest Control, Pest, Witch, Dorothy, the Scarecrow and Cowardly Lion




Boooo!!!!

Parents..Pest Control....Same thing right?

Halloween was really fun this year. Trent was Frankenstein for school and he and I dressed up like pest control people and Taven was our little pest (a bee) for our ward party. He did awesome staying up late and was surprisingly willing to wear that annoying costume. Our ward party was out at one of the member's farms- it had a chili cook off, haunted house, bon fire, and trunk-or-treat. After the ward party, the Davidson's (dressed as Dorothy and crew from the Wizard of Oz) and us split a babysitter and went out to a friend's halloween party. We stayed up way too late and way too much fun... I'm still paying for it!!!!! Weird how you have a kid and suddenly 2:00 am is a lot later than it used to be. I am still tired:)

nothing but nude...

Taven at 3 months: Taven at 5 months:Taven now (soon to be 6 months):
chubba-lubba dubb!

this past month...

This past month was pretty melo for us. We celebrated my 23rd birthday, saved $170 on our car insurance, finally bought food storage, trimmed the front trees, redid the front planter, I went to time out for women and Trent got two tickets. That is the long way of saying that we're now broke... Ha ha ha! Just Joking...

Aside of all that.... what else is new? Well, of course Taven is growing like a weed as you can see, and Trent and I had our first weekend in a long time where we didn't have anything planned- It was great! We of course ended up going yard sale-ing (how do you spell that?), working outside for 5 hours or so, spring cleaning the house and then going to a football party... but that is a duffey idea of 'nothing to do' for the weekend :) I guess it is a good thing that we seem to kinda always be on the go, because Taven just loves it! That kid is going to be, and already is, crazy fun just like his dad:)