I'm Thankful for...

lots of family at Thanksgiving!


We started off with a Thanksgiving breakfast at our house. David and his Grandpa were chipper and happy. (Some others were still waking up...)

Then we headed over to Grandma and Grandpa Hedding's for our big feast, where Kelli let David play with her doll, Benny.

Then on Saturday, we had the Giffords over for a second Thanksgiving. It was a bustling house with two babies and two toddlers (and lots of food preperations!) but it was a lot of fun.

The Ulrich girls all had matching flower outfits. Aren't they cute? The goal was to have everybody looking, but at least Sierra and I are!

And here's grandpa doing some baby duty:

Visiting Saint Louis

David and I drove down to visit my parents a few weeks ago and got to spend some quality time with Grandma and Grandpa Gifford. Here are some pictures from their snazzy camera.

Mom and I took David to the Butterfly house down there. It was really neat. It's a greenhouse that's 85 degrees and very humid just filled with butterflies. I learned a lot and David was entranced by the butterflies.

This is right outside the butterfly habitat. David and Grandma had fun playing on the giant caterpillar and eating Cheerios.

Then he had to get a bath in their sink. He thought the soap was pretty cool until he had to get scrubbed with it :)

And then he had some quality time with Grandpa.

All in all, a good visit. If only David would nap in the car better...

Sitting Pretty .... er, Handsome

Here's our little guy practicing his new sitting-up skills some before Church. Doesn't David look cute in his new outfit from Grandma? It's a little on the big side, but he'll grow :)

Sitting

David likes to sit and play with his toys. Because he still tends to fall over, his protective dad sits right behind him to catch him if he falls.

Here he is sitting and flopping his hands around. He's very excited.

Here he is reaching for his toy. Pretty soon he will be crawling...