Adam Bradley Ellis is ONE!

I can't believe my baby is one already! He is such a big boy! We had a lot of fun planning his first birthday.

I wanted so badly to re-create a part of my first birthday. When I was growing up my mom always made the most amazing cakes! (One year I even had a Furby cake!) When I turned one she made a bear cake that was just my size and I wanted Adam to have the very same thing. So I borrowed my moms bear cake pans and got to work.

The big bear cake ended up being a pain. I had to bake 3 of them before I cried and cried saying I couldn't do it. I was about to go to the store and just buy a cake when Tyson came to save the day. Using his artistic skills he meshed the three disasters together to create a beautiful bear-like cake. He then helped me decorate and all was well!

We went full bear theme with the party. From the front door...

To the decorations inside...

Adam was happy to open all his gifts! He was so excited!

It was kind of hard to tell him to open the presents when we had been telling him "NO" to opening the gifts under the tree for Christmas! He was very confused. I guess that is my fault for having set up Christmas so early

Our families showed up and I feel like the party was a huge success!

We gave ABE his mini bear cake and he loved it!

At first we had to show him that it was for eating.

Then he really got excited.

So excited some frosting ended up in his eye!

But all in all I think he liked it.

The rest of us had some cake from the big bear that Tyson had helped me put together. 

All in all, I think my little man had a happy birthday!

November 2012

This year November was really busy for us. Tyson took on a lot of projects with his art and he spent just about every extra hour drawing portraits for others. He has an amazing talent and I am so glad he is able to share this with others! I didn't want to show his works of art until after Christmas because most of the portraits were given to others as Christmas gifts. But, now that it is almost Valentines Day I think it is okay I share what he did.

Here are just a few pictures of the pencil portraits he drew.

We had some snow days in November. Abe and I spent most of our time inside just watching the snow fall. This boy is so cute. He loves to watch the snow from inside where it is warm, but if we go outside he starts freaking out! I am thinking he doesn't like the cold.

We set up our Christmas stuff even before Thanksgiving came. I was just so excited I had to get it up!

I have been working on stockings for Tyson and Abe since I was pregnant. These pictures don't have the names on the stockings but you can see the hard work I put into them!

My mom made me this stocking when I was a baby. I wanted to make stockings that would match mine.

This is Tyson's stocking!

This is my little Adam's stocking. His name will be on the gold tag on the top left, I just quite haven't gotten there yet and now the stockings are put away!

Our fun tree! My parents gave us this hand-me-down tree because it is so big they didn't want to take the work to set it up anymore. I gladly took this baby home and set it up for my family!

Tyson, Abe, and I, met Ben, Erika, and Jordan up in Draper to have dinner with Tyson's parents. It was a delicious dinner! We spent hours playing games together and just chatting, isn't that what the holiday is about?

After dinner, much more of the Ellis clan showed up for some pie and fun!

Tyson telling Abe to be nice and share the ball with his cousin!

 

Sunday after Thanksgiving we got to have a second celebration at the Crown home! Delicious food! Mmmmmm ham. We also decorated cookies after.

Gotta love fun with the family!

October Fun For Everyone

First of all let me say, I am a little upset. I accidentally deleted one of my posts! Oops! I will have to go back later and try to figure out which events were in that post and which pictures! Okay now moving forward...

October is always a busy month for us. Probably because there are so many things to do! We love to have adventures in the fall weather!

Football. This is a sport that begins in the fall. College football is something that is close to Tyson's heart. Every time the beloved team of BYU is playing we better be watching or at least listening to the play-by-play on the radio. This year we were able to have football with family a few times. There were games where we went to Ben's house, games at Papa's house and one at our house! I know the season isn't over yet, but here are some pictures from our events!

This year we were able to take Adam to Cornbelly's. They have so many things for kids. Unfortunately Adam doesn't walk yet, so we didn't stay long. What we did get to see was wonderful and so much fun! I think next year Adam will LOVE it!

Adam learned how to climb up the stairs in October! He can make his way up, but can't figure out how to get down (safely) quite yet. We are working on it!

We watched a lot of debates. Too bad the guy we were rooting for didn't win :( Adam was gagging when we watched the Ryan-Biden debate. I don't think he likes that man much...... hehe

We have a Crown Family Tradition to carve pumpkins together every year. We lay down trash bags all over the floor and spread out. Tyson has his own methods of sculpting the pumpkins, and the rest of us just carve.

This was Adam's first Halloween so he had never played with the pumpkin guts before! He played until he tasted them. Once he knew the guts didn't taste good he didn't want anything to do with it anymore.

I carved one for baby ABE.

I carved one for me.

Tyson carved a masterpiece.

We usually have a big Halloween party at our house each year. This year I wasn't feeling up to it so we skipped it. We did still dress little Abe up in a BamBam costume which is perfect because he is hitting everything right now. He loves to hear the different noises the table, floor, chairs, etc make when he slaps them with his little hands.

 Baby Jordan was Pebbles. They were so cute together! Love the cousins!

Anyway, that's our month of fun summed up into a few paragraphs and a few pictures!

Shwimmin in Summer!!!

There are a few pictures already floating around of my little cute baby boy shwimmin, but I am pretty sure he is cute enough for me to dedicate a whole post to it.

First, I was able to find a pool floatie for ABE on eBay. I wanted one with little leg holes so I didn't have to hold his bum the whole time, but also one that was ALL BOY. Too many of those floaties are too girly for my little man.

We found a CARS floatie!

He loves the floatie. He will play with it inside, and outside!

My in-laws just bought a house in Draper, which has a community pool so we spent a lot of time up there playing in the water!

Too bad the weather is getting colder and the pool is closed now, I love taking my little man Shwimmin!