Wednesday, December 24, 2014

2014 Christmas Family Pictures/Christmas Letter


Merry Christmas


Merry Christmas! This year has flown by so fast. I am thankful for this holiday season and that we can remember the birth of our Savior. Here is a little update on what has been going on this year.

Aiden was born on October 31, 2014.  Yes you read that right he is a Halloween baby.  I never expected that to happen.  He weighed 6 pounds 11 ounces. He was 20 inches long and is continuing to grow.  He loves to sleep and stare at us with his dark eyes.  He has now found his hands and sucks on them every once in a while.  He is a really calm baby.   He coos often and loves getting smothered by Tallin.

Tallin has been busy being a big brother.  He loves to play with Aiden and give him kisses.  He also loves to put toys all over him.  Tallin loves to play with cars, trains, balls and anything boyish.  He is starting to talk and understand things that we say to him.  His favorite words right now are no, mama and dada.  He also says poop, star, pee, fish, ball, t, b, i, nose, eyes, ear, teeth, and baby as well as other random words.  He is now sleeping in a big boy bed (queen sized) and does really well.  Our next step is to get him potty trained.  He already goes potty in the toilet and loves to get a jellybean for it.  At church he now attends nursery and he absolutely loves it.  We sure love our little guy and he sure keeps us busy.

Zack started his second year of medical school.  I can tell that this year is a lot harder than last year.  He studies a lot more but he studies at home, so we get to see him a lot throughout the day.  We are pretty lucky.  Since Zack is in the Navy he had to go to annual training this summer.  It was in Rhode Island and he was gone for 6 weeks.  He sure learned a lot and made some good friends.  While he was there we went and stayed with Zack’s parents in Oregon.  Tallin had so much fun getting to know his cousins that live close to Zack’s parents.  Zack’s parents, Tallin and I all flew out for his graduation.  After his graduation we headed to Boston to visit.  We had so much fun!!  Zack continues to love to learn about the medical field.  He has added soccer and hockey to sports he loves to watch in addition to basketball and football.  I have to say I think there is always a game on at our house.  In our ward Zack was called to be a youth Sunday school teacher.  He enjoys working with the youth.

This year has been a busy one for me.  In February we learned that we would bring another baby into the world.  I was beyond excited!!! I have always wanted a lot of kids.  I was then released from my primary calling and was called to be in charge of the ward missionary meals.  We also bought a new van!  It is a 2012 Honda Odyssey.  We love it and it’s so much easier to haul the kids around everywhere.  I have been busy trying to figure out how to be a mom of two kids.  It’s so much fun, but also a lot of work!  I know that I don’t get enough sleep anymore, my house is not always clean and sometimes we don’t get out of our pajamas, but I would not trade it for anything.

We hope you all have a happy holiday!
Love,
Zack, Nicole, Tallin & Aiden


Here are some Christmas pictures we took.

















I love these two boys and I am so thankful that Heavenly Father sent them to our family!


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