Benjamin's Development Slideshow

During Benjamin's first year of life we took a picture of him almost every week so we could see how he grew. Here is the fruit of those labors! We know that only those who are closest to our family will come close to appreciating these pictures as much as we, Benjamin's parents, do. But hopefully you can at least appreciate the wonder of a growing baby!


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Merry Christmas!

Love,
Paul, Vicky & Benjamin

Spreading some holiday cheer

This is the best dancing I've ever done!

Merry Christmas!

Thanksgiving Break Fun

I know, I know. So late to post this! I'm a lazy blogger, what can I say? Anyway, here's a rundown of our Thanksgiving holiday.


For Thanksgiving this year we traveled to Albuquerque to be with my family. Here are some highlights from our trip:

For starters, we took a lovely detour through Colorado that we've never done before. Rather than going down to Moab, we took I-70 to Grand Junction and headed to Durango. On the way we passed through a little town called Montrose and found a great park to stretch our legs in. Benjamin loved the slides and the swing!

We opted to take a drive through the Rocky Mountains, which turned out to be a GREAT idea! It was so beautiful! Here are just a few snapshots of the scenery:

We're glad we took that scenic drive and look forward to trying it in the summer sometime.

Wednesday was a perfect day to play in the park with Grandma! We went to one that was recommended to us, and Benjamin had a ball, despite the wind and slight chill.

Later that day we visited with my Dad in Rio Rancho, New Mexico. He gave me a box full of family history info that I'm excited to dive into. He also showed us my great-grandfather's Army uniform, which I didn't know he had! At some point it will be donated to a museaum in Oklahoma, so we decided to snap some pictures before then.

Thursday we had fun watching the Macy's Thanksgiving parade, and I made (and slightly burned) some pumpkin pies. We took ourselves and the pies over to my sister Sarah's house and had a fantastic Thanksgiving meal put together by Sarah, Melissa (my other sister) and my mom. So good!

And would you believe that it snowed? It did!

It was a good visit in Albuquerque, although short. We headed back to Provo on Friday so we could be in attendance at the BYU vs. Utah game on Saturday, at which Paul got to go down on the field during halftime--but that's a post for another time since this one took over 2 weeks to get up!

Happy December!