Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas! Mason and I got to spend the week before Christmas is Burns with my family. We got see the whole family, even though we only got to spend about 12 hours with Skye, Becca and the boys. We came home on the 23rd, Kevin got off the boat on the 24th and we got to spend Christmas Eve and Christmas Day with Daddy and his family. He went back to work the morning of the 26th. We are blessed that we get to see him over Christmas but wish his trips home could be for a little longer!

We had a great trip to Burns! Mom cooked us an early Christmas dinner...yes food was definitely a highlight of the trip! Ham, potatoes, raspberry jello, hot chocolate, sugar cookies, raspberry cream pie...all the Root family holiday favorites! Even though I have all the recipes, everything is better when my mom makes it!

We took pictures under the tree in our matching elf jammies and opened the presents from the name drawing. Mason drew Auntie Shey and got her a new pair of Toms. Balen drew Mason and got him a super cute Radio Flyer Scooter! We love it!

Cousins!

Loves from cousin Bryce!

Kisses for Balen Boy! (Mason adores Balen...poor Balen gets smothered but it is pretty darn cute!)

We made it home...just in time for Santa to come to the Maki house! We had to wake Mason up at 7:30...he wasn't quite sure what to think about opening presents!

He loved his new red wagon from Grandma Jana and Grandpa Andy!

Daddy bought him his first baseball mitt...he would have just played with this all day!

Half asleep...playing catch!

Santa brought Mason a Tow Mater power wheels! At first he wasn't quite sure how to drive it...but now he zooms all over the house and absolutely loves it!

After opening presents at home we went to Grandma and Grandpa's for breakfast and more presents! Mason got a new red bike! He has some growing to do but he sure loved it!

We ended our busy day with Christmas dinner at Aunt Vienna's house! We had a such a wonderful day and are so blessed with such great families! We truly have so much to be thankful for!

Holidays!

Pictures of my sweet boy throughout some holiday events!

Happy Thanksgiving! We spent thanksgiving with Kevin's family, we had a wonderful dinner at his parents house! And this year daddy got to be home!

Daddy giving Mason a horsey ride! Love these two!

Merry Christmas!

Love my boy!

Elf Jammies!

Ward Party!

Breakfast with Santa! Obviously not a fan of Santa...

All better...just wanted to play basketball!

The book he got from Santa...quite appropriate!

Mason's visit(s) to Burns!

Mason had so much fun spending time with my family in Burns. He got to go for a week in September and a week in November! I missed him so much but was happy it was two weeks less of daycare and gave mom some much needed time to catch-up on homework!

He got to play in the snow with the girls!

He loves his Auntie Sayge (and Auntie Shey Shey!)...he loves spending time with them!

Mason and Grandma! Love these two so much! Mason sure is lucky to have such great grandparents!

This last picture was from back in September. This was Mason's last picture with Sadie Girl. My parents dog passed away in October. We had Sadie for a long time and she was definitely part of the family! We all miss her!

Thank you to my mom, dad and sisters for taking Mason for a few weeks! He had so much fun!

Johnson Great-Grand-Kids!

We took pictures of all the kiddos for Grandpa Corkey for Christmas! These are his five great-grand-kids! It was quite an adventure getting five kids to sit still and look at the camera! This is the best we got!

Mason (18months), Kendall (4) Tanner (6) Cody (3) and Emma (2)!

Cody Jo - such a sweet boy!

The boys <3

The Jackson Crew!

October's BIG Blessing!

We found out that Mason is going to be a BIG BROTHER! We kept it a secret until we mailed out our Christmas Cards...

We are due July 1st...

Our baby bug...can't wait to meet him/her!

I am certainly showing much much much faster this time! We told everyone when I was about ten weeks, the picture above is when I was eight weeks! We couldn't have kept it a secret much longer!

This is at 14 weeks! Hopefully I slow down a bit and don't get as big as last time!

We are going to a new doctor in Longview, WA. We love him! He has been so awesome! We are praying for a much better birth experience then we had with Mason. It is a bigger hospital and we just have a much better feeling! We get to find out if its a little brother or little sister on February 1st (two weeks!!!) and I CANNOT wait!

Kevin and I are both leaning towards boy... I feel the exact same as I did with Mason. I haven't been sick...just hungry and tired! I am 16 weeks now and starting to get back some energy. I would love to have a little girl in our home at some point! But we will be happy with a healthy baby!!!

October 2011

We managed to fit in some fun fall activities! We had a beautiful October (NO RAIN!) and got lots of outside playtime, pumpkin patch fun and trick-or-treating with clear skies!

My sweet boy is growing up too fast! He love his swing-set and likes the big-boy swing these days!

Mason and Trigg at the pumpkin patch! Chels and I took the boys to Roloff Farms (Little People Big World). We had such a fun day! Topped off with a yummy dinner and pumpkin pecan cheesecake to-go from the Cheesecake Factory!

Mason playing on the pumpkins!

Our boys at the pumpkin patch in 2010 and 2011 - they are two months apart and its been so much fun watching them grow-up together!

Mason and Trigg at the ward Trunk-or-Treat. Mason had two costumes this year...I decided to make him a warbler costume (yes...I love Glee!). He was the cutest little warbler!

He was also a little dinosaur on actual Halloween. We did the down-town trick-or-treating with Chelsey and Trigg. It was super crowed but the boys had fun! Then we hit up a few family members and came home early to hand out candy and wait for Daddy to get home!

Got my candy...ready to go!

Hmmm...what do we have in here?!

Mason with his pumpkins (and football that he wouldn't put down)!

September 2011

September was filled with service, baseball, rafting, football and family!

Mason and I going to a football game! He LOVES football (really all sports!) - keeping him off the field is a challenge but it is so fun to watch him cheer and his absolute excitement about the game!

We had the Vinson (Grandma Root's Side) Family Reunion in Shady Cove, OR in September. I had class that weekend, so Mattea was a life saver and watched Mason while I went to school then we headed south. We went rafting on the Rouge and got to meet some of Grandma's family! We had a great but quick trip... Mason went back to Burns with Grandma and Grandpa after the Reunion and got to spend a week there! He had such a great time! And I was so thankful that my parents were able to help out!

Mason and Trigg during our stake wide service project! It's amazing how unproductive you can be when you have a one year old to chase around - but we went and tried to serve!

A highlight of the month was taking Mason to his first Mariners game! He LOVED it! We went with Auntie Erin and Josh! They live just outside of Seattle. We took the ferry over to the game and had such a great time! It was beautiful weather and we had an awesome trip!