November 2015

In November we gave Scott his first haircut. The top wasn't too bad but the back was bad. It was curly in the back and anytime he got sweaty the back would just get all matted - which was everyday. He looked so big afterwards and looks tons better now. Our friend Kristen Browning had a few free tickets to the children's museum here so we went with her and her boys. Scott loved it. There was a big keyboard on the floor for the kids to walk on and it would play whatever notes they were standing on. Scott could have played on that all day. He had a massive snowstorm come through. It snowed about a foot. Thankfully Collin does the shoveling and I can stay inside where it's warm. It warmed up pretty quickly after though and the snow only stayed for about a week. We had a great Thanksgiving. The Sunday before we had our traditional Cragun family pie night. We had about 20 people over and lots and lots of pies. I forgot to take pictures though. But they were delicious. On Thanksgiving we had dinner at our house with a few friends. Lots of great food. Our tradition of putting the Christmas tree up is the day after Christmas. Scott loved the lights and had to keep touching them. By time Christmas was over I was so tired of having to tell Scott to stop touching the tree, lights, ornaments, and presents.

Before with tons of curls in the back

After!!

This was one of only a few snow storms we had this winter thankfully. This was by far the worst one.

The snow banks are just about as tall as he is.

Collin made a little snow slide for Scott. He loved it and thought it was pretty awesome.

He's definitely his dad's son. He discovered pomegranates and LOVES them, just like Collin.

He loved the Christmas tree.

I love dressing him up for church.

Having fun at a friend's house

I was playing piano for two minutes and I turned around to this. 

October 2015

In October we had Collin's parents, Scott and Mitzi, come out to visit. We took them to a pumpkin patch, went down to Nauvoo, and our ward Trunk-or-Treat. We loved having them here and had lots of fun. Scotty loved playing with them.We also got to celebrate Halloween twice with a trick-or-treat at Collin's school and the ward party. For Palmer Scott was Alfalfa from Little Rascals and the ward party he was a pilot, with Collin as co-pilot and me as the flight attendant. Scott and I also went to the zoo on one of their last days open for the year for free with a group of friends from the ward.

Scott always has his swaddling blankets in his mouth and falls asleep like that quite a bit in the car.

We went on an oxen wagon ride down in Nauvoo with one of Scott and Mitzi's friend as the cattle handler there on a mission.

He LOVED Grampy's hat

He thought the pumpkin patch was great. And he's got a Grampy Scott Cragun look on his face.

Scott had to hang out on the air mattress as soon as we got it all blown up. He thought it was awesome and loved hanging out with Grammy on her bed.

Scott wasn't quite sure of the zoo's merry-go-round and was clinging onto me for dear life the whole time it went around.

Just chillin' in the stroller at the zoo

He makes a cute little Alfalfa.

Our flight crew

I like to think he was captivated with conference, but I happened to get the picture at the perfect time cause he was only laying like that for about 2 minutes, but it was so sweet.

Another Catch Up!

We've had lots of fun the last few months. Here's our life through pictures.

This was a new toy he loved. He's grown out of it a little and doesn't love it as much.

On our way to go to Swim Day at our Stake President's house

Free Chik-fil-A Day

Rescuing his blanket. He can never just leave them in there.

If he's not in there, then the blanket can't be either.

Our old neighbor Dawn and her son came out so she could shoot a wedding. We got to watch him. Scott had so much fun playing with him. They are only a week apart.

This was on our way back from the Indianapolis Indiana Temple Open House. All 4 boys (Scott is not seen here) were zonked out. It was about a 5 hour drive there. We went with the Browning's minus Josh (had to study for Boards). It was a lot of fun and the temple was beautiful!

I cannot get over his little grin.

On a morning walk along the Mississippi River.

Like Father like Son. Collin usually stretches like that after dinner. Well, now Scott has picked up on it and does the same thing. It is one of the cutest things I've ever seen.

He tried climbing in that little hole and got stuck, I couldn't help but take a picture.

He loves his PB&J. Although I give it to him and he takes the 2 pieces of bread apart and just eats it slice at a time.

His favorite spot in the whole house.

His new favorite thing. We just let him. He won't break anything and it's not worth pulling him away from it every few minutes. He's happy and I can make dinner -  Worth it!

Just making himself comfy while reading his favorite book "Goodnight Gorilla"

He climbed up there all by himself. I took him down so fast - although I had to hurry and get a picture first. At least there's a screen to slightly protect him.

Collin had about a week of school off so we went to the zoo. Scott loved seeing all the animals!!

Our birthday boy!

Football season. Collin already has Scott watching with him.

Scott woke up as Alfalfa. Hey that's a Halloween idea.....

I'm not really sure how he thought that was comfy, but he did.

We've been going for lots of walks since the weather has been beautiful. This is a park right by our house. It's huge. It has this water fountain, duck pond, playground, and last of open grass to play in.

Scott is so much like Collin with always having his feet crossed!!!

He discovered putting raspberries on his fingers, just like olives. 

His first pair of big boy shoes. I think he likes them!

We went to the hot air balloon festival with the Brownings. It was too windy, as you can tell in the picture, for them to actually fly. It was still fun to see them up close.

Once it got dark they had a "glow". We had lots of fun with a picnic and good friends!

How has he learned to try climbing up the slides?!