Ethan Grant

The newest member of our family arrived on Tuesday, December 22nd, at 10:52am. He was 7 lbs 3 oz, 20 1/2 inches long and cute as heck! Here are some pictures for your viewing pleasure.

All ready for the hospital

First picture after coming into the world

All cozy on mommy's chest

All ready to go home in the cold Montana weather!

Clint's Deer

Clint has been hunting a few times this season and passed up several deer-mostly because he just liked going hiking and because the deer population in Montana is larger than the human population, so he could afford to be choosy. So yesterday morning he got his deer. It a mule deer buck. It's rack isn't too big, but the actual deer is pretty big-which saves us a lot of money on meat! I'm so proud of him.

This picture is of Clint with the front half of his deer in our garage

after he had gutted it and brought it home.

An update...

Yes, I know I'm a terrible blogger. Just about every post seems to be an update with a bunch of random pictures, but it's more for me than you anyway. So here are some pictures of the last two months. Unfortunately, when Clint and I celebrated our fourth anniversary on August 19th, we forgot our camera, and so we bought a disposable one, and the pictures haven't been developed yet. I might get to that and post it, or I might not. So there's the update about that.

There's my girl! Oh wait, I have a boy. Well sometimes he likes to do girlie things like carry around a purse.

Um...yeah.

What a weirdo, he likes to watch his movies like this!

We recently took a trip to the closest temple (3 hours away). This is the Billings, MT temple. We got Cameron to point to the Angel Moroni and he would say "Yeah Angel Oroni"

It's a bird, it's a plane...

This just in... we have spotted Superman right here in Great Falls, Montana. Why he chooses to stick around with this family, we're just not sure. But they do give him lots of candy and he seems to like it!

Apparently Superman's got a girlfriend too! (Supergirl-and yes I made both of their costumes)

We went bowling the weekend before Halloween for the city's Big Brothers Big Sister's charity event, and the theme was 80's rock and roll. I don't think I pulled it off very well, but I did win best hair and won a free hair cut, that I will use for Clint or Cameron. But anyway, this seems to be the best shot I could get of my costume and my belly. Too bad I've got my eyes half closed and a sucker in my mouth.

Two years in this crazy life

And what does he think about it? Well... see for yourself, he love's it!

Oh yeah...Clint and I had fun too!

Happy birthday Cameron!

I've only been waiting 16 weeks for this...

Yep, you guessed it. Baby number 2 is on HIS (so it's a boy!) way.

I am 20 weeks today, only 20 more to go.

Due December 31st.

I decided to wait to post this until I knew what I was having. I think Cameron is starting to catch on that there is actually a baby in my belly, but what do I know. We couldn't be happier. And the baby seems to be very healthy so far!

Home Depot Kids Project and some misc. pictures...

So, one Saturday a month the Home Depot sets up a kids project area. The kids can do a quick and easy project that is FREE! I love it. So far Cameron has gone twice, and he loves using a real hammer and screw driver. He says, "I fix it," which is something he does at home too. If he finds a screw driver, he will stick it in any hole he can find and turn the screw driver. Good thing we have outlet covers. Anyway, when he completes his wood project, they give him a certificate and a pin to go on his apron that he received the first time he went. We just love it. This last project only took about ten minutes to do. And when we were done we told him how proud we were of him and took him out for an icecream cone. It's such a fun Saturday activity!

Here is his message board that he (we made), with hooks,

a cork board, and dry erase board. We will be putting his

"car keys" on the hooks.

And another of him smiling because he's so funny.

And here are some more cute pictures of Cameron...

Coming down the waterslide when we were in Rexburg

He kept kicking me when we were on our way to Rexburg

Riding his bike with his best friend, Christian. He can't quite ride it yet.

At the American Cancer society Relay for Life

Big smiles at the water park

My name

I got this off of a friend's blog, and figured my name wouldn't be very popular (well at least first and last together), and turns out...

HowManyOfMe.com

There are 1 or fewer people with my name in the U.S.A. http://howmanyofme.com">How many have your name?

It isn't.

Oh my words.

Lately Cameron has become such a chatterbox. So I decided to write down all the words I could think of that he knows and says. He actually says all of these words without repeating us. It's amazing! I started about a week ago, and I've been adding 3-4 words each day. So, before this list gets too big, here it is. Oh...some are short 2 word phrases and some I'm no so thrilled about. I'm sure you get guess which ones.

airplane
all done
all gone
apple
baby
ball
bath
bed
belly
bike
bin
bite
blanket
book
brush teeth
buckle
button
bye (or bye-bye)
car
cat
cereal
cheese
chip
clean-up
coat
cold
cookie
cool
cup
cute(says it about my necklaces)
dad
diaper
dog
don't do that
door
down
ears
eyes
glasses
gum
hair
hand
hat
hello
hi
hot
ice
I go
keys
light
mat
mine
mommy
money
more
mouth
night-night
nine
no
no more
nose
okay
oh crap
oh man
on
orange
pat-pat
pee
please
poopy
seat
see ya
shoe
sit down
sky
slipper
sock
some (more)
sorry
spoon (pronounced soup)
stop
table
teeth
thank you
tiger
tigger
toilet
up
wagon
want some
water
Willow (a name)
yeah
118. zipper
(I didn't feel like numbering them all without my ten key pad thingy)

By the way...I really hate that there is no way to put things in columns without actually using your space bar 15 times between each word. I was not about to do that. I can't even use the tab button. And since I put this into a word document and used columns, unfortunately it doesn't copy over that way. So, sorry for the lengthy looking post.

Rachel's Gift.

My sister finally got her Christmas present from me, which I had completed a week before Christmas, but never got it sent to her. Typical.

Anway, here it is. I love it and wanted to keep it for myself, but now I think I will just make one for myself.

This one is for holding earrings. You just hang the frame on the wall and stick the earrings in the material.

This one obviously holds necklaces and bracelets.

Now that is a clean face.

Well, at least compared to this...


And this...

And this...

And most recently...

THIS! Which isn't nearly as bad as what I didn't catch on camera.

But the first picture is what I love to see. I gave Cameron a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, and he #1 ate the whole thing, which NEVER happens around here, and #2 kept his face fairly clean. Gotta love better coordination!

My Little Reader

The other day I wasn't really paying attention to what Cameron was doing, so I went to find him, and this is what I saw.

So freaking cute. When I found him, he was talking like he was reading and laughing hysterically.