Noah 1st trick

The last few weeks we've been trying to have tummy time with Noah, but he wouldn't have any of that! He would cry and cry after only a few minutes. Last night he looked like he wanted to roll over for a second and then began to wail! We decided that today would be the day, and it was. He rolled over right when daddy came home from work and has been having fun doing it over and over again ever since. It's like he just figured it out and then realized how much fun it was. The funniest thing is how simple it seems that he's rolling over, but how excited Mommy and Daddy are to see him do it. Now we can add rolling over to his list that used to consist of sleeping, eating, and pooping.

Pioche

We spent last weekend with Grandma Campbell. I thought Beaver Dam was small until I visited Pioche. Pioche used to be a thriving mining town back in the day but it's dwindled and it has a little ghost townish feel to it. We walked around town and visited the Lincoln County museum. And Noah made friends with an Indian.

Kentucky Christmas

Below are some pictures of our trip to Kentucky. Noah had a Merry first Christmas. He opened presents and went on walks and played with Grandma and Grandpa. We played Rock Band (Noah included, but he wasn't very good at singing the right words) and watched Heroes. The picture of Noah and Grandma Pieper needs an explanation or she might be sad we show pictures of her with the baby screaming: Noah goes crazy every time you take the bottle out of his mouth. It's pretty humorous sometimes, because he downs 6 oz (in 4 minutes flat) and he's still furious that you take the bottle away. He is our little pig. He snorts too, (especially in St. George where the weather is so dry). Anyway, it was fun to be there at the Piepers where there were 7 people to play with baby instead of 2. Noah was just passed back and forth from person to person the whole time (if that person was lucky enough to steal him from Grandma's loving clutches!). Now that we are back in St. George, he is going through withdrawals since the poor kid is stuck with my face all day!

Noah Flies

We left on Christmas Eve to visit Kentucky. We had to start our traveling day super early to survive the holiday traffic and traveling-with-baby. After all was said and done, our Christmas Eve was fifteen hours on the road/in the air. Noah was pretty amazing, and here's some pictures to prove it.


Ready to go


Sleeping on the way to the airport



Noah chilling


Something divine must be happening here

Baby Blessing

Our little family

The Piepers

The Campbells


The Great Grandmas

All of us were together for Noah's blessing--our whole family was able to be here, (minus Andrew, who is in Idaho on his mission). It was nice having four generations on both sides, thanks to our wonderful Grandmas, who both made the trip for the occasion. We had the blessing in the Campbell home, on the day after Thanksgiving, which was the only day we could find that enabled all the family to be together. It ended up being a sweet setting for our family. My only fear was that Noah would scream through the whole blessing. I thought that was going to happen when he started freaking out just before it started, and all of our rocking and shhhhhing and bouncing failed. But thankfully he quieted during the opening hymn "I am a child of God," and as you can see, he was knocked out for the rest of everything, including the family pictures. Kyle gave him a nice blessing, and didn't try to change his name, or bless him with outstanding athletic abilities and success on the football field (unless that is what he meant by "health and strength")!

Happy Thanksgiving!

We are thankful for baby noah!

Noah's Second Road Trip and First Date

So I ran away with Noah for a couple of days to spend time with Grandma Pieper up in Rigby Idaho, and on the way back we stopped by to meet up with Ella and Jane.  

Noah's first date consisted of:

Chilling in a new vibrating chair

Jane running him over with a car

(the aftermath)

Getting some lip action

The older woman has helped to distract him from the pain of being separated from his father. We left Kyle at home and we go back tomorrow.  These pictures are to tide Kyle over until we are back together and to remind him that he really does have a son!  This is proof that Noah exists and that he misses you.