21 days ago...

was the last time I posted anything on the ol' blog. My mom let me know. That was her way of saying, "Post something already!" I'm a little overwhelmed, though, because I have so much to post. Guess I'll get started with December 1. Wow! That is a long time ago. So really the title should be 43 days ago... Sorry, Mom!

Liam was "helping" decorate for Christmas. He decided to decorate his head. This is a good picture of his chicklet teeth.

On Dec. 3 we had our ward Christmas party. I just happened to snap this picture at the right time and Liam looks like he's rapping.

And Liam saw Santa. He wasn't too thrilled at first, but warmed up to the jolly man long enough to get a cute picture.


Stay tuned, there's lots more to come.

21 December, part 2

Here are a couple more pictures. Chelsie was playing with Liam on the couch when I came into the room. Liam decided to leave the couch to greet Daddy, but was overcome by a sudden fatigue. I laid him down on the arm of the couch--where he just lay without moving for a couple minutes.

So why not take a picture or two?




Notice that Winnie the Pooh is staring intently at the boy's foot.

21 December

It's been a while since anybody has posted here, so here are several images taken with my phone:
3D glasses:

Sleeping in the car:

Awake in the car:

We rearranged our front room not only for Christmas, but also to avoid this:

The "Nacho Libre Strut":


And a video:

Jocelyn's wedding reception

Jocelyn got married last month in Rexburg and just had her reception here in Gresham this weekend- just two days after Thanksgiving.

Mike put together the video. He also took care of the baby tending while I took pictures:



Here's the whole fam:

The happy couple:




And some details:



Jocelyn didn't want a cake. She said that she and Adam would feed cake balls to each other, which is all the cake that they were planning to have. Karen and I found some pictures of wedding cakes made out of cake balls and thought we'd give it a go. Karen made all the cake balls- something like 450 in total! Yuki and I put the cake together on Friday morning. I painted the scrolled vines on top and Yuki made some fondant flowers. I found a picture of cake balls dressed like a bride and groom and Karen made a couple to go on top. I think it all turned out so awesome!

Thanksgiving

I totally failed at documenting our Thanksgiving weekend with family. I got the following measly shots...

Here's Mike carving the turkey. We smoked our turkey- boy, was it delicious! Thanks Bishop!

Yuki and I did all the cooking- we had turkey, mashed taters, gravy, stuffing, rolls, green bean casserole, cranberry sauce, veggies and hummus, and pies. Thank you, Yuki, for making such delicious food!

We had a great Thanksgiving with Mike's sister, Yuki, and her family: Joseph, Akiko, Moses, baby Asher, Sam, and Hannah.


This is Moses and you can see Akiko in the background. I'm bummed that I didn't get more pictures of all the kids. This was the first time we had met Asher and the first time any of them had met Liam. Even though I have no evidence, we had a lot of fun. We ate food, played games, sat around and talked, played with kids, made a wedding cake... wha? That's the next post. Anyway, thanks for spending Thanksgiving with us, Weckers. We loved having you! Please come again soon!

Family pictures

We took some pictures to use for Christmas cards. These are the best ones. It's a little bit difficult to take decent pictures when running back and forth from the camera on the tripod to the rambunctious little boy who just wanted to run and play with leaves.



Mike took some pictures of Liam and me. I think these turned out pretty cute.




The ones that I took of Mike and Liam all came out blurry and dark. I don't know what happened.

Nov. 15

Some cute recent pictures of our little stinker. He's getting quite clever and so smart. He dances, sings, talks, and knows how to make us giggle. His favorite words are wow, mama, dad, ka-ka (cracker- which just means anything he can eat), ooh-ahh-ahh (monkey sound), mo (amen), nigh-nigh (night night), bahhw (ball), pa pa, hi, bah- bah (whenever he wants something he says bah-bah. I have no idea where he got that.), puh (please- he has only said this once or twice), go, car, bye-bye (or just "bye" in a really sweet-baby voice). He watches Mike leave to work out the front window. He waves and says, "Bye, dad!" over and over. It is so cute! He also mimics a lot of what we do. He snores when we fake snore. He knows where his nose is, where his shoes go, and how to get dressed. I can't wait to show this squirt off when we come home for Christmas. So excited!