Happy 27th Birthday and Valentine's Day!

Happy Birthday Lex!


*This is my handsome husband on our honeymoon.*
Lex, I'm the luckiest girl in the world to have found you.
Happy birthday on the 13th of February.
I LOVE YOU!

This is a picture of us while we were dating.
It was taken just a few days before our first
Valentine's Day together.
We've had an amazing time since, and our
6th Valentine's Day together will be just as wonderful!
Happy Valentine's Day my love!!!

Special Thanks

A special thanks to Jessica, our wonderful neighbor, who came over and took this fabulous picture! I asked her to take a picture of us so I could put it on our blog, and she did a fabulous job. What talent!!! THANKS JESSICA.

Cherished Moments

As Lex and I await the arrival of our second little boy,

we find ourselves cherishing

every moment we spend with Cyrus.

He has been such an amazing blessing in our lives.

It's very clear we've learned more from him

in the last two years than he has from us.

He makes us laugh every day.

He must be getting bored of just having

the two of us around, because he can't wait

for his little brother to be born in March.

A very special Christmas present

Cousin Logan bought Cyrus the special Christmas present he was hoping for. Cyrus got two goldfish; Nemo and Lilly. He also got two porcelain fish for the tank; a shark named Mr. T. and a blow fish named Big D.

His excitement hasn't died down since the first day he got them. Every morning when he wakes up he uses the "potty" and then we feed the fish. All through the day he checks up on them and watches them to see which fish is watching back.

Christmas Cheer!

Since Cyrus understands the concept of Christmas much more

this year, it was wonderful for Grandma Case to have a

special Christmas message about Jesus' birth and the

Wise men on Christmas Eve. Cyrus learned that we get

presents on Christmas day because the Wise men

gave Jesus presents for his birthday,

so we give presents to remember Jesus.

All that said, Cyrus loves Santa!

From the time we set out our Christmas decorations,

Cyrus was so excited for Santa to bring him

presents on Christmas day. Santa certainly

didn't disappoint this year.

Santa brought Cyrus his very own cook book, measuring cups

and spoons, and this wonderful Santa apron, hat and oven mits.

He broke them in baking with Grandma Case,

and he's already used them three times since.

Snow Snow and more Snow

We arrived in Ashton for Christmas to find more snow than Boise has ever had at one time. The boys spent a great deal of their time out in the cold; fishing, swinging, riding the snow plow, sledding, and more swinging!

Madison and Cyrus practically wore the swing set out. That was the sure way to keep them both entertained, even through frustrating colds and a short spell of the stomach flu.

That swinging business is hard work. Grandpa Case swung Cyrus until he was out cold!

Getting ready for Christmas

Lex and Cyrus drinking hot chocolate on top of the roof! They were taking a little break from our first annual outdoor Christmas light hanging. We finally got them up for our 5th married Christmas.

The first snow of the year. Snow was much more exciting for Cyrus at two years old than it was at one.

Our first true blue Christmas tree. With all the blue and silver decorations, it turned out to be much nicer than I ever expected.

Results are in: "Who does Cyrus look most like?"

From a total of 45 votes, the final result for our pole
"Who does Cyrus look most like?" was
Daddy 27 (60%)
Mommy 18 (40%)
Congratulations Daddy!

Talking to Santa at the North Pole

Grandpa Peek has a wonderful tradition setting up his

Ham Radio at St. Luke's and letting the children

talk to Santa at the North Pole. This year Cyrus was big

enough to have his first conversation with

Santa over the Ham Radio.

Grandpa Peek and Cyrus

Cyrus and "Scottie" (Santa's Elf)

Cyrus was very excited about the entire experience.

He was so happy to get to talk to Santa.

He was just as excited to see Grandpa Peek! He told Santa

he wants a Goldfish for Christmas and I think

he will be pleasantly surprised. It has been

fun to take Cyrus Christmas shopping this year because

he helps pick out his presents and then forgets

about them once we get home.

Boise Thanksgiving 2008

We have so many things to be thankful for at this

holiday time. We were so blessed to be surrounded

by family during Thanksgiving.

We also have the wonderful blessing of the Gospel truth

in our lives. We are so happy to know that this blessing

is what allows us to be an Eternal Family.

Thanks to my Mom's hard work cooking (and the assistance

of everyone else) we had a festive, food-filled Thanksgiving.

My Mom is sure a "Culinary Genius"! (Thanks Emilie!!!!)

Visitors come from out of town to help us celebrate Thanksgiving.

Grandma and Grandpa Case and Des, Tiffany and Parker came to

enjoy the holiday with MaLea and Jed who live here in town.

Cyrus really enjoyed the company of cousins Parker and Jordyn

and he's counting down the days until we go to see

many more cousins in Ashton for Christmas on his

"Potty Treat/Christmas Ashton Trip Advent Calendar".

Hopefully he will have completed his long but entertaining

adventure of potty training by the time we go.

Side note... *Much to my dismay, my ever-growing baby waist

grew an inch over the Thanksgiving weekend and continues

to expand every day. But so does my excitement!

Dinosuar Cyrus!

Uncle Jake helped Cyrus invent a strange device for transforming 

Cyrus into a dinosuar. You have to see this to know 

what I'm talking about. It's hilarious!

Just another day of "Cyrus and Jack playing".

We've had a special request from Cyrus to have more videos on the computer for him to watch.

Since his videos of "eating sugar" and "nursery rhymes" we have had to search back through our blog history to see the other videos we've posted before.

This video is simply the lives of Cyrus and Jack. Cyrus has already watched it twice, so I'm sure it will be worn out very soon, just like the others!

My first opera experience

I've never been to an opera but I managed to sing in my first opera. I really enjoyed learning how to move around on stage and the whole experience was so much fun. 

I was so relieved after the performance when everyone only had wonderful things to say about attending their first opera. They enjoyed the show much more than they expected to.

 

I look forward to performing in another opera sometime in the future. I'll let you know when that happens!

The wonderful adventures of Cyrus the Great

This morning Cyrus was so funny telling stories 

and learning to open the brown sugar jar. 

He is one smart boy, and very entertaining.

You'll get a kick out of these.

Cyrus has been saying and singing many rhymes and here 

is a video of just a couple of them. I had to get them on video to remember 

these adorable moments.

Happy Halloween Batman!

Cyrus, you make an amazing Batman!

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Batman Cyrus spent all Halloween day

rescuing Boise from all the

Halloween candy. He will be disposing

of it slowly over the next year until he saves

Boise from the Halloween candy again.

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Trunk-or-Treat was the best ever because Cyrus

played with Logan and Adam.

Becca, Mom and Dad took him around to all the

candy stops and Cyrus thought Grandpa Clown

was the star of the show.

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All that rescuing and trunk-or-treating

is a lot of work for a little Batman.

Cyrus crashed before he got to sort

through all of his hard-earned treats.

What a day!

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We can't forget the Harvest Party

at our ward with Alfy the Clown and the

frisby toss the weekend before.

*Cyrus had a blast*