Thanksgiving

(I jumped ahead of myself when I posted about Christmas cards!)

Brian and I decided to not travel for Thanksgiving this year. It was a hard decision. On one hand, holidays are supposed to be spent with family. On the other hand, almost all of our family lives 3+ hours away (the closest is my brother who lives about 45 minutes away...but he was going up to my family's celebration about 4 hours away) which would require a lot of traveling on our part. Although Brian had the week off from teaching school he still had basketball practice in the evenings. So we decided to hunker down here in MD for the holiday. It was a good thing we decided to stay home. BJ caught a cold two days before Thanksgiving and is still suffering from it today. He was so congested and stuffy. He had a runny nose, a terrible cough, and a slight fever. But he was still smiley :). We scrapped our plans to go to a church family's house. Thankfully, our neighbors gave us a turkey. So I whipped up a Thanksgiving meal for my family of 3. Although the day wasn't what I thought it would be, who could ask for more than being with your husband and son all day?

Skyping family in MA. I made BJ the Native American headdress. He hates anything on his head so it didn't last very long.

Could be drool, could be snots, could be water. Who knows what's on BJ's sweater!

(Side note: BJ also cut his 4th tooth on Saturday so that may also have contributed to the cold symptoms)

Christmas Cards

It's that time of year again...time to send out Christmas cards. We put up our Christmas tree over the weekend and I am planning on doing a mini photo shoot with BJ in front of the tree. Since BJ's 1st birthday is 3 days before Christmas, there's not enough time to combine a 1 year and Christmas photo shoot, and still get the photo on the Christmas cards. I came across this promotion of 50 free holiday cards from Shutterfly so I decided to do the Christmas photos on my own (and the 1st birthday ones actually near his birthday). We have used Shutterfly mostly for photo books but have also purchased their photo cards and 4X6 prints. What keeps drawing me back to Shutterfly are the promotions they often have. I'm a BIG fan of free photos, photo cards, and photo books!

I have been taking photos of BJ every week since he was born. My plan is to assemble all 64 photos (52 week pictures and 12 month pictures) into a photo book to commemorate his first year. At least that will make all my Tuesday photo shoots worth it!

I haven't taken his 49 week picture yet but here's last weeks! He's getting so big!!

November

Now that the month of November has almost passed us by...I figured I would at least post once about our family :)

BJ continues to be a joy. He is now 11 months old. 11 months!! Time is really flying by. He still only has 3 teeth. The other top 3 are SO close to coming out that I check everyday. He waves only at the people he wants to...mostly daddy. And, as of last night's basketball game that Brian coached, BJ is starting to clap! He gets mostly air but his hands are definitely swinging and searching for a hit.

Our memory card is full so I haven't been taking a lot of pictures; I hate deleting the old pictures. Here is a slightly recent picture. At least it was taken in November...

The "46" on his pajamas means 46 weeks old. I have been taking a picture once a week (every Tuesday) and plan on putting them in an album to commemorate his first year of life.