Cubs Week!!

75 degrees, light breeze, good food, good company, good baseball game… makes for a great day right?

Wrong!

It makes for a great 2 days! On Thursday and Saturday of this week, we were able to watch the Cubs play the Diamondbacks at Wrigley Field.

It was also a week of firsts for Griff.  First Cubs game, first bus ride, first train ride, first lick of ice cream (just kidding, kind of).

The first day we sat on one of the rooftops.  There is nothing like sitting on the rooftops for a game.  You get all you can eat food and drink, inside areas with flat screens everywhere, just fantastic.  We were on the rooftop just right of the foul pole in the picture below.

View from the rooftop

On Saturday, we were actually in Wrigley.  We are very proud of how Griff did through the whole thing.  He lasted 7 innings on Thursday before we started really pushing naptime, but it was a little too loud for him when we were in Wrigley, we didn’t last long.  The Cubs won one game and the d’backs won one.  So Griff’s record stands at 1-1.  (Landon is now 19-14.  Yes, he does have every single ticket from every Cubs game he’s ever been to.)   Here are a few of our favorites from the week.



HOW SWEET IT IS

Griff and I made it to Mesa and quickly had a party to look forward to. A bunch of my high school girlfriends came over for soup in bread bowls and sweetcakes… YUM! Most of us haven’t seen one another since graduation and we have all had a baby since then.

(Collette Warner and Eden, Hali Turk and Tillman, Amy Germaine and Max Jr, Sarah Bledsoe and Hudson, Lauren Pew and Emery, and Me and Griff… we missed those who couldn’t make it!)

Landon joined us December 18 and we had him all to ourselves for 3 weeks. (Thanks EY for paternity leave!) Griff had some great quality DAD time!

We’ve enjoyed time at the cabin, golfing, walks in the sun, and playing with my parents, Parker and Hali and our nephew Tillman.

We were lucky enough to steal away to Utah for a weekend with the Watts! Unfortunately, no pictures were taken on my end, but we were able to catch a few videos with the FLIP. Landon’s only request for his birthday was to ski with Daxon (age 6)  and Shane (turned 4 Jan 13) . Here is the evidence of that great day!

And the final BIG NEWS of the break is that my father has been called as a mission president. My parents will find out in February which mission and leave the end of June for 3 years.

We could not be more thrilled for them!

Happy Holidays

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Since we will both be away for the better part of December and January, we decided to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Landon will be going to Atlanta on business, so Griff and I will be basking in the Arizona sun until January 29. The past 6 weeks have been a blast figuring out Griff’s quirks and personality. He is now 10 lb and 22 in. long.

One Month Update

One of the first questions people always ask when they hear we’ve had a baby is normally, “does he look more like mom or dad?”.  My answer to that question was always I have no idea.  He has darker skin and really dark hair, which matches perfectly with my white skin and reddish hair.  So, I guess I always assumed he looked more like Molly.  That is until we looked at the pictures below.  I could not believe how much he looked like me when I was a newborn.  So, sorry son, you might end up with fair skin and red hair after all.

Here’s newborn Griff.

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Here’s me as a newborn.

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Here’s Molly.

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What do you think?  Who does he look like?