Since I never remember to take my own pictures or videos at events, it can sometimes take a while for me to track down the documentation. Hence the very casual timing of these recent posts. Easter was definitely some fun times. Ryan's parents mailed a few dozen confetti-filled eggs over here for us to violently throw at each other. I never knew until now what the true spirit of easter is. And it is glorious.
Bears made a pretty great egg model.
Here are the eggs before obliteration. Ryan's parents save the shells of all the eggs that they use for a year. This year it was 60 dozen. They stuffed, patched up, and dyed every one of them. I've never before witnessed such dedication to a holiday. Amazing.
This is me reeling after a particularly brutal egg attack. At least I assume so since I have no recollection of this moment.
It got kinda cold out after a bit so bears had to put on his dino outfit. luckily, Jessica happened to have a matching hoodie in her car for me to borrow. Phew. That could have been really embarrassing.
Since he already had a big birthday bash out in texas, I feel it's not entirely correct to call this his first birthday party. The SLC party was thrown by Grandma Cupcake and it was pretty amazing from the tasty food to the perfect decor. Ryan made a huge, ridiculously fancy cake, Bears got to run around and cause all sorts of trouble, and everyone got him a whole bunch of presents. It was a smashing success.
We headed out to Texas last week to visit Ryan's parents. Luckily, Locke's cousins were in town as well so we got to hang out with them for part of the trip. You can see Jake in the pic below. He's such a cute little chunk. Ryan's mom decided to throw Bears a fancy bear-themed party while we were there, complete with bear invitations, bear cake/table/plates/cups, and of course a giant bear piñata. I'm terrible about remembering to take pictures so I'll have to do an update later showing all the cool stuff that was there. We spent 9 days out there and I have to admit that it was pretty dreamy to have a break from cleaning, laundry, cooking, and all the other stuff I'm supposed to do regularly but rarely get around to. We were definitely spoiled out there. We pretty much just chilled the entire time while Ryan's parents did everything for us. Ahh it was amazing. They were great hosts.
Bears loved playing with his cake. I decided that since it was his birthday, he should get as big of a piece as anyone. This was actually the first time I had trusted him with anything other than dry food and luckily, my trust was not betrayed. He did a brilliant job. He almost got an entire tablespoon of cake in his mouth.
Okay, Grandma Elkins sent over some pictures that give a better idea of the actual party. Here he is opening his presents and, more importantly, here I am pulling up my pants. I can assure you that there would have been quite a scandal had I not been so vigilant about doing just that. Those blasted pants are always falling down. Luckily, since then I've become a bit more savvy and have employed the use of a belt.
Bear piñata!
Custom balloons
Bears whacked it open with just one try! Well, almost.
The only candy he was allowed to have out of his piñata. It was a big time hit.
Look how cute baby man's cousins are!! It's just too much. Too much cuteness.
December was quite an eventful month. The babies in both our families got married within a day of each other...hmm. Perhaps that was a poor choice of words. I don't want to be responsible for anyone reading that wrong, like, "what? why are their babies getting married? And am I to assume that their babies are marrying each other? And all on the same DAY?! Why am I reading this incestuous garbage about baby couplings that are occurring so ridiculously close to each other?!" But. Let me assure you. There is absolutely nothing incestuous about this blog. I take that very seriously and so should you. But I do sometimes write about multiple events that occur on the same day. And frankly, I think it's a little strange how that was the most offensive part for you. To clear up the confusion, the youngest of both my and Ryan's siblings (Nathan and Tender Munchies) got married to two lovely young ladies (Lauren and Caroline). They did not all marry each other though. Crap. I give up.
I stole the above picture from Nathan's new wife, Lauren's facebook. Shamelessly, I might add. I forgot to bring a camera to both receptions and thus have no photos of my own. So the events will both remain quite mysterious, which is as it should be, really. Let me just say that both our brothers married really cool chicks that I'm really excited to have as my sisters. And both parties were gloriously extravagant with super tasty treats. It's crazy because now all our siblings on both sides of the family are married. Err, is that crazy? I feel in my heart like it is but Ryan claims that it's the opposite of crazy. Opposicrazy? Sounds even crazier than regular crazy, if you ask me. Ryan's clearly mistaken.
Well, I feel like I've done a great job at giving a clear picture of both events.
*while we didn't actually attend a funeral last month, I feel pretty confident that there was at least one funeral being held during that time frame. And that's being conservative. So I'm sure you can agree that it was at least worth mentioning.
Oh dear. I feel like I'm gonna disappoint the grandmas with the lack of baby man in this post...uhh...okay, here's a video of him playing with a diaper. Excellent stuff.
***EDIT*** Ryan's mom as well as my mom provided me with photos of the actual events:
Nathan/Lauren's Reception
Ryan and his brothers, Randy and Nathan (groom)
baby man's practicing keepin' cool for the camera
Kylee hangin out at our apartment. look at those eyelashes? Cutest ever.
Jake in Locke's bear hat hangin in the Scooty Puff Jr
All of the cousins together! Noah giving baby man kisses.
Out shopping, trying on hats to make Bears look more dapper.
At Tepanyaki with the family on their last night here. He was way pumped about it.
It was baby bear's first christmas and I have to say, it was a success. He got lots of presents from Grandpas and Grandmas and had lots of fun hangout times with family.
First his daddy got him all dressed for christmas. There's a bit of video about this later.
Obviously baby man was pumped.
Once we got to Grandpa and Grandma Cupcake's, he decided he was sick of clothes and wanted to strip down and hang out with Aunt Jessica and Uncle Matt.
Jessica made all the girls these gloriously fancy aprons...
Aunt Kristen and Uncle Chris chillin' and opening presents...
Grandma Cupcake got a pretty sweet action coat from Santa...
Baby bear got a pretty rad keyboard...
Uncle Dewey got some delicious fruit courtesy of santa (actually, grandma and grandpa from texas)
More presents...
presents...
And here's a video of his action packed christmas. Please don't report us to child services when you see it. He loved his christmas outfit his daddy fixed up for him. I promise.
