Christmas Eve and Christmas!

Christmas is my favorite time of the year! There is just such a magical feeling in the air- I'd like to think its the Spirit of Christ in the air. We were fortunate enough to be able to spend Christmas with our family this year again. It was a lot of fun because Cyrus got to meet some more of his uncles, aunts, and his grandpa (Papa) and his great-grandparents. Also, Nana (my mom) and his Aunties (Ashley and Amy) got to enjoy him some more. He loved being showered with lots of love and kisses. Here are some pictures of Christmas Eve and Christmas!

Okay, now you don't have to read this but for memory's sake I am going to record some of our family's Christmas traditions.

Christmas Eve is a wonderful night where the family all gets together (and Mom stresses until dinner is done). We have a delicious Christmas Eve dinner complete with smoked turkey, mashed potatoes, fresh rolls, corn, salad, sweet potatoes, and more. The tables are set beautifully with Christmas colors. Everyone enjoys the food and the company. This year we were missing Nate-who is in Taiwan and Nicole who is with her mom in California. After dinner, we visit and then we reenact the Christmas story from Luke. Dad reads it and this year my beautiful baby was privileged to play the Baby Jesus. We made him a little manger and he was surprisingly calm. He must have felt the Spirit of Christmas or maybe even seen some angels in the sky. After we act out the Nativity we all get to open one present. Which we all know what it was-well except for Emma- she had forgotten since last Christmas. Emma is 3 and was so excited to open one present. Her cousins kept saying "Oooh I bet its pajamas" and we kept telling them to let it be a surprise. We opened our presents. Cyrus first (with Emma's help). She exclaimed, "Feety pajamas!" Then Hunter, "Feety pajamas" Then Emma, "I got pajamas. We all got pajamas so far." It continued on and when we had all finished Emma exclaimed, "I got jammies, Hunter got Jammies, we all got Jammies!" She was thrilled-although her jammies were too sweaty so she didn't wear them for long. (She is a sweaty little girl). After the jammies we have our annual picture in front of the tree (although we are a growing family and its becoming more difficult to fit us all in). Then some of the family leaves and drives home and the rest of us visit, read sappy Christmas stories, cry, and watch a Christmas movie. When we finally are ready for bed we read "The Polar Express" and go to sleep-hoping that Santa will come.

Christmas morning, we anxiously wait (not so anxiously now that we like to sleep) for Mom and Dad to come and get us. Then we all run up the stairs and Wow Santa has come. We look at our wonderful treasures from Santa. (Cyrus slept through all this) and we show each other our gifts. Then we eat the most delectable Christmas breakfast ever (how could it not be-when my dads been in the kitchen). Caramel pull-aparts, crescent rolls and yummy sauce, fruit, eggs, and juice. We all want to eat and eat but eventually someone has to eat the last pull apart. With Nate gone the pull-aparts seemed to last a little longer. After breakfast we visit and move our Santa gifts and then comes the real gift giving. Our family watches while someone opens their present and then that person picks the next present. Ashley always gives a present that makes us all cry. This year she gave two. One to Cyrus...a book (that's not why we cried) it was reading what she wrote to him inside the cover. Then she wrote a beautiful love poem for JB and printed it over one of their wedding pictures. She should publish her poems they are so thoughtful and beautiful-true talent!

After all the gifts have been opened we snack on left over turkey, try on clothes (if we got any) and slowly shower and get ready. We then drive out to Kim's house to have presents and eat dinner there. We exchange gifts and then we karaoke our heart out. This year karaoke was a little different without Nate and Noemi there to join in on the fun. However, we still enjoyed Emma singing and dancing. We also enjoyed our annual Goodbye Earl! karaoke!

Then we drive home and visit some more. Sad that Christmas can't last forever!

This year I could have done without any presents because just being with my family and especially being able to have Cyrus with us already is the best Christmas present ever!

Catch Up Time!

Okay...so the boys are sleeping and I'm going to try play Blog catch up. Although, I don't think Cyrus will sleep long enough to let me completely catch up! Be patient as I update!

More pics

I'm a big help! Why does mommy dread the laundry?

I think it's FUN!

After a shower!

Don't mess with me!
Cyrus one day old
Cyrus one month old

Keep reading for more one month information!

One Month

Well, Cyrus turned one month on December 8th, but I am barely getting around to blogging about his statistics and his one month pictures. So here goes:

One month well check: 10 lbs 10 oz and 22.5 inches long.
Cyrus is getting so big so fast, but he is so much fun! We love being parents! He is becoming more responsive and beginning to socialize and it is a blast! I laugh and smile all day at him! He brings so much joy and love into our home-more than we could have ever known. We feel truly blessed to be the parents to this beautiful Child of God. We are constantly saying, "Honey...look." "Honey, look at his face. He is so cute!" I think we need to find more synonyms for cute. If Ezra is holding him he is constantly telling me to come see what the baby is doing and vice versa. It is so much fun-every yawn, cry, stretch, smile, and more. We could just eat him up because he is sooo sooo stinkin' cute!



Here are some of his one month pictures and a few of these last few weeks (since he is 6 weeks today)! Okay so blogger was annoying me so the other pictures are in the most recent post.



Compared to a piece of copy paper-I'm huge! Comfy!

Did I bring home a baby or one of the seven dwarves?

Okay so I started this post on November 24th, however, the baby comes first which is why my blog is slacking. I will try to do better after the holidays. I changed the post date so everyone would still get the update that I posted recently. I think my little baby is so stinkin' cute and he has so many moods and faces. Here are some of them...you'd think he was one of the seven dwarves. I am missing Doc...I tried to get a picture of him in Dad's glasses but it didn't work. Also, I would like to add two dwarves: Hungry and Poopy (I'm sure most of you are glad I didn't include the Poopy picture!) Enjoy my little dwarf! By the way, for those of you who are curious- we are doing great. I love being a mom and being able to spend every minute with him-he truly is a miracle! Here he is as Happy!
These two are him as Sleepy!

Here he is as Bashful!


This one was caught in the middle of a sneeze-Sneezy! He sneezes all the time!
Here he is as Dopey (ok-its one of the silliest pictures I could find).

In these two he is posing as Grumpy!

Introducing..........

Cyrus Iesilika Timoteo

Little Cy
born Sunday, November 8, 2009
10:50 a.m.
9 lbs 7 oz and 22 inches long

Here are the pictures from the hospital from when he was born until we got home a little over 24 hours later. We are so blessed to have this beautiful miracle, one of Heavenly Father's, blessed children in our home. He is a joy to have and so far we love being parents-even with the sleepless nights.

Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween! I figured I better finish this blog post before it is too late. Not a whole lot to say except for that I think I pretty much had the coolest contest. Too bad I didn't have a costume contest to enter because I think I may have been a contender. Don't worry I will post about the little punkin soon.

Ward Trunk or Treat- Farmer Ezra

Scarecrow mama and little punkin!

At the school carnival Ezra got to wear his batman costume. He really wanted to wear it on Halloween, but we spent most the evening in the hospital being monitored. We were a little worried because the baby hadn't moved as much. Baby was fine, but my blood pressure was a little elevated. They took labs and said possible induction if labs came back abnormal. Luckily everything was okay so we got to go home.
Hope everyone had a safe and enjoyable Halloween!
Can't wait for next year with a real punkin to dress up!