Lincoln's Tricks

And they said he would be delayed....
Please ignore my annoying voice.

Goodbye 2010.

Oh what a year! I am excited to start fresh with 2011. To an accident, surgery free year. 

January
We went to a 80's night party at classic skating.

 In February we were able to go snow boarding, the one and only time this year.

March
Will continued to work his butt off in order to graduate in April after taking time off for Lincoln's surgery. We made sure to make time for Nickel City.

 April
Will Graduated from BYU with his Masters. 

May
We had a month full of traveling. We went to Moab with friends, California for a job interview, and we also went to Oregon to visit my sister Soni. Shortly after the job interview in Cali, Will got a job offer here in Utah, and we took it!

June was a good and bad month for Lincoln. He had to have surgery, but he did win the Freedom Festival baby contest.
 

July
At the beginning of July we had our annual family cabin trip. We also bought our first house! On July 15th we said goodbye to my second Dad.

In August Will gave me a couple more ulcers by landing himself in the ICU. He has earned the name miracle boy number two.

In September we celebrated our Three year wedding anniversary and my birthday!

In October we celebrated Lincoln's 1st birthday!!!!

We went to California in November to spend time with Will's family. While we were there we went to Will's 10 year reunion.

We had another nice relaxing Christmas at home this year. And discovered that Lincoln hates Santa.

Merry Christmas Eve!

We spent Christmas Eve at my moms house, which inevitably led to the annual manger play. My mom split the role of Mary between me and my sister as to not hurt anyone's feelings. Lincoln was baby Jesus. Disaster struck when the donkey came into play. Little did we know that Linc is terrified of masks. Blood curtailing screams from baby Jesus. It was pretty exciting. Anyway here are some random pictures of recent festivities.

Lincoln learning to be soft with Bosco

Look at all this snow!!!!

Will went to St. George for a short business trip, so Lincoln and I had a date. 

We stopped by to see the tabernacle.

We rode the train at the mall. Lincoln loved every minute of it.

 

We are in the process of a kitchen makeover.

Before:

After:

It wouldn't be Christmas without.........

Santa!

We had a ward party last week and SANTA CAME! Lincoln was no where near as excited as I was.

On a side note, here are pictures from Will's 10 year high school reunion.

This is how I stayed entertained while Will walked around talking to people I didn't know. That's right we had a contest to see who could launch the most olives into the glass. Since I don't take the two guys I was playing with as blog readers, I'm going to go ahead and tell you that I won.

Will Pimping it up.

bye bye binkie

We did it! Lincoln has been binkie free for the last week. Wahoo! I was nervous but he did pretty good. It's bitter sweet. I still remember how much joy I felt the first time Lincoln had a binkie! (No more ET tube) And now it's gone, my baby isn't a baby anymore.
He is also pretty much done nursing. Which is also bitter sweet. With how much I struggled with it you would think I would be jumping for joy the day I was done. But it has turned out to be such a special, bonding experience. It's good to finally have my body back to myself. It's nice to wear whatever I want to, and eat what ever I want to, or as little as I want to. It's nice to leave him with a sitter and not have to worry about how he will eat.
It's crazy how fast Lincoln is growing, time flies. 

 

 

California

We spent Thanksgiving in California! I was loving the warm weather, so nice. We had an amazing dinner, went to the beach, and basked in the sun. Friday we went to Will's 10 year reunion. Then Saturday we went to Magic Mountain. We had a blast!

 We stayed at Will's brothers amazing house. This is the view from the backyard.

 Someday this picture will haunt them.

 Lincoln was so tired! He fell asleep in Will's arms walking to the care.