when i woke up this morning i had a tweet from devin that said, "@megburr you need to update the blog so i can see what we've been up to. apparently he has a very short term memory.

so this one is for you, devin. also, it's for my mom, who has left me three comments and multiple g chat conversations asking me when i am going to update my blog.

we spent two weeks of December in Utah. it was great seeing family and friends! it was also fun creating SJ's first christmas.

we took SJ to his first BYU basketball game. he wasn't a fan of all that noise.

we went and saw the lights at temple square. it was pretty cold!

we went home and then a month later my parents flew SJ and i back out. SJ was a stud on the airplane.

we sang happy birthday to him at Mi Ranchito. he rocked the sombrero.

when we came home we went to the BYU/Portland game. thanks to our awesome connections (well, more like dev's brothers awesome connections) we sat directly behind the BYU bench.

this time, SJ slept through most of the game. granted, it was nowhere near as loud as the marriott center.

in march, dev and i went to our first (student) doctor black tie event.

the first three hours (i may be exaggerating, but that's what it felt like) was cocktail hour. i felt super fancy carrying around my jungle juice without the jungle.

then there was the dinner and presentation part of the night. (we skipped out right after dinner. don't judge - we had to get back to our baby!)

i'm pretty sure i used the wrong fork at some point during the night. (note the complimentary bottle of wine that each place setting got.)

when we are at home, SJ likes to play 'where's SJ'. when i am folding the clothes i will hear giggling, when i look over SJ has put something on his head. so cute.

where's SJ??

there he is!

he also likes to play with my headband. he thinks it's hilarious when it is on his head. i think it makes him look like a girl.

that face :)

today we were having fun in the bubble bath.

ok, maybe he needs a hair cut.

and that's pretty much it! at least until i get another tweet from dev :)

our life in bullet points

Because I'm such a consistent blogger, I will be summing up our last couple of months through lots of pictures and bullet points. Bare with me!!

• A couple of weeks ago Devin had a Monday off from school. So, we decided to pack up our little family and spend the day in Portland! It was our first time really exploring the city, and we loved it!

SJ getting ready to take on the city.

Possibly my new favorite place, Powell's Books. A HUGE bookstore!

 The inside of Powell's Books looked like a warehouse. They sell new and used books.

 An entire shelf dedicated to my childhood favorite, Nancy Drew. (The Hardy Boys were just across the way)

 My favorites

 Eating ice cream at Ben and Jerry's

• About a month ago, Devin's parents and brother's family came and visited us! That weekend BYU played OSU and we were all able to go. It was a little weird going to a BYU 'away' game 15 minutes away from our home.

SJ was super excited for his first BYU game, ever!

 Due to so much excitement, SJ fell asleep at about half time

... and slept for almost the rest of the game.

• SJ was a puppy for halloween. We went to a Halloween party at Devins school and also one that our ward put on. I may be a little biased, but I think SJ was the cutest puppy there.
  
  

(No more bullet points because my formatter just started being funky...)

SJ has started crawling and 'cruising'. One of his favorite places to 'cruise' is Macy's kennel.

 The only movie that SJ will actually 'watch' is Tangled. This means I have seen it at least twice everyday for the last couple of weeks. I could probably quote any scene of the movie line by line.

 SJ isn't a huge fan of the 'baby food'. I am also not a huge fan of waiting patiently for him to eat it. Dev is better at that than I am.

 SJ has also started throwing - everything. Devin and SJ will play a game where SJ throw something, Devin picks it up and gives it back to him saying, "Good throw," and, for some reason, this makes SJ laugh really hard. So cute.

 Macy got a bath and hair trimming today. She doesn't look quite as homeless.

That's about it for us. I look forward to doing another massive picture/update blog in May. Ha. Kidding - sorta.

I've been thinking a lot about the 'little things' lately. I think that is inevitable when you have a baby who seems to be changing every day. SJ is now rolling over (well, mostly), teething (we think), sitting in his bumbo chair and interacting with people (giggling, cooing, 'talking back' when spoken to, etc). I love watching him develop and become a 'baby'. He is definitely not a newborn anymore. But it also makes me a little sad. He is growing up too fast! Before I know it he is going to be asking for the keys to our car!

Obviously I am getting a little ahead of myself. Whenever this happens I have to remind myself to, "Slow down and enjoy the little things in life," because if I don't I may end up going crazy. *Though, the 'going crazy' may also be inevitable.

SJ's blessing day

On May 1st we finally blessed SJ. It was a great day! We had about 50 people there and had to use the basement of The Derm (Dev's work) for our luncheon. We are so blessed to have so many people who support us! We are so grateful that SJ was able to be born in to the Gospel.

Here are a few pictures from his wonderful day!

We unfortunatley did not get a picture of Dev's parents with SJ on his blessing day but we made sure to get one the next Saturday!