Birthday Boy

We had a wonderful time celebrating little man Liam's 1st birthday! Yes, 1st birthday! Liam is one year old, and I cannot believe how quickly this first year of his life has gone. He is an incredible little boy. He is so full of energy, and is the most determined and persistent child. He is smiley all the time (unless he doesn't get his way--then he throws a little temper tantrum. I didn't know they did that this young?!), and he waves at everyone who will look his way. He is quite the flirt, and smiles at the ladies when we are out and about. He loves trucks and motorcyles and gets super excited when he sees one drive by. He'll ball his little hands into fists and wave them in the air and then point frantically at them to make sure that I see them, too. He is in love with the outdoors. He prefers to be outside every chance he gets. He does baby sign for birds whenever we say 'tweet tweet', and gets the sweetest grin on his face once he spots a bird. Pretty much he is perfect in every way and I couldn't imagine him any other way than the way he is. I love you Liam, you big one year old you!

We kicked off Liam's birthday festivities by first going to the Living Planet Aquarium in Sandy. He loves animals, so we thought he would love the aquarium---and we were right! Here are some fun shots of our time spent there:

It is so fun to experience childhood again through Liam's eyes. That is one of the best parts of being a parent. Everything is so magical and exciting to Liam, and it feels magical and exciting to me, too, by watching him learn and enjoy all of these new experiences and opportunities. I am looking forward to more wonderful birthday's for this sweetest little boy. Happy birthday Liam.

First Haircut

The time finally came for little man to get his hair cut. It was starting to curl around his ears, and no amount of lotion could keep it styled! It just fuzzed out in a matter of minutes. I will miss his cute fuzzy hairdo!

(Disclaimer: Sorry for the crazy amount of pictures...but you know how exciting the "firsts" are in your child's life. And first haircut is a pretty big "first" around here!)

I styled it in his signature faux hawk for the before shots:

And I had to bribe him to sit still during the haircut. I used whip cream. He loooved it.

Anthony's mom cuts hair, so she did the honors. She worked so quickly, and did a great job working with Liam's wiggles.  Despite our best efforts to hold him still and bribes of whip cream, it was still a bit of a challenge. But he was a trooper!

And here are the after shots.

Can you tell that we are all so proud of him and think he is the cutest thing around?!

We styled his hair, but little man was tired and not in the mood for pictures.

I love you Liam. You are so handsome with your new haircut!

Try these on won't you?

Liam is such a good sport.
He just smiles when I make him try these on:

And then this pair:

And this pair is the best:

He looks so smart and sophisticated hahaha

I kinda hope he has to wear glasses when he gets older. He rocks this look!

Love this boy.

National Pancake Day

February 28th was National Pancake Day. And in honor of that glorious day (casue who doesn't love a good pancake?!) IHOP was giving away a free shortstack of buttermilk pancakes, and in turn was requesting donations for Primary Children's Hospital.

A great time had by all. :)

Give the kid balloons...

And he's happy!

I had a really great video, but stupid blogger never lets me upload them :(

Happy V-Day Indeed

Valentine's was great this year. Anthony and Liam were up to something, and they were not letting me in on the surprise. It was early, like 7:00am (we were up for hours already...Liam loves to get a jump on the day), and my two boys were sneaking around in Liam's nursery. Anthony kept saying "Don't come in! We're almost done." My cute husband. Finally, he said they were ready. I walked down the hall to see my cute little son holding a silver box from Nordy's (always a good thing), and a bag of Swedish Fish (another good thing).

 Liam thought the box tasted good.

 As well as the candy.

 Then I went into the nursery, and there was a little white t-shirt with Liam's hand prints and foot prints, and a little quote on it asking me to be his valentine. It was Ah-Dorable! It took Anthony over an hour to get it all finished. Liam did not like to sit still and get his prints taken haha But it turned out so cute.

 Look how good he looks in it :) He wore it all that Valentine's Day.

I got Anthony a bunch a goodies. He never buys himself treats. So I sorta spoiled him with his favorites.

I got him some gourmet lollipops. He kindly shared them with Liam haha

 Not like he had a choice! Does it look like Liam was about to let go of that sucker?! Nope.

Hope you all had a lovely V-Day!!

The Big #2

Anthony and I celebrated our 2nd wedding anniversary last month (yes, I am the worst at posting, but better late than never, right?!). We had such a wonderful evening together. My mother-in-law watched the babe, so we had the night to ourselves. We drove up to Salt Lake and ate at a swanky new restaurant called the Copper Onion. I wish I would have taken pictures of the food, but somehow breaking out my camera in the middle of dinner seemed awkward. But the food was divine. I had a lamb, beef, and pork meatloaf and Anthony had a seared duck breast. For dessert we had a snickerdoodle tart with fresh cooked apples on top. It was so good. So. Good. After dinner we went to Abravenel Hall to hear Brian Regan perform. He is a stand up comedian, and is seriously the funniest dude alive. I loved spending time with my sweet hubby, without the baby in tow. But it's funny because we probably thought/talked about Liam like 50 times when we were out on our date. That's what parents do, right? :)

(We really shoud've taken more pics. Next year, maybe!)