Utah Trip - October 2012

My sister, Jessica, finally moved into her house in Idaho by Bear Lake. So my mom and I went up there to help her move in. I helped her design his kids rooms as well. We also went up to visit.

Utah was my home for 3 years so I kinda felt like I was going back home again. It was fun being back where I was familiar too. It was also Walker's first airplane ride. He did very good and wasn't really fussy (thank you baby Tylenol) but interested in what was going on. It was also Walker's time really meeting my sister's kids. I got really close to my sister kids when we lived by there. When we were first married we also lived with them for a couple months before school started. So we were able to develop a really good relationship with her kids.

Tavis and Krya loved Walker. It was so cute to see how much they wanted to help with him and play with him. He was just learning how crawl so it was fun to see how they helped him out. All of them just wanted to be with Walker and sit by him, eat by him, play with him or have anything to do with him.

Walker and his Cousins

Story: One night Walker was crying wanting to go to bed, but it was a different place and sometimes that just throws him off. So I set him down to just let him clam himself down and Krya came up to me and was like ' Joy, Walker is crying. He is sad.' So I told her she could go over there and pat him on his back. So she did and while she was patting him on the back she was saying 'shh. its ok Walker'. It was the cutest thing ever. She is such a doll.

While we were in Utah we also go to stop by one of my friend, Katie's house to visit a little before we left. It was fun seeing her and her family. And also having them see how much Walker has grown and having them meet him again. She was my best friend while we were at the LDSBC in school. I wish we lived closer because somedays I miss seeing her and spending the day with her while Casey is working. She also has a niece and we decided that Walker and Lily are going to get married. Ha probably not but Lily is a cutie.

♥ The Schroeder

Date Night - November 2012

Since Walker was born Casey and I haven't really had a date night. Ya we go out sometimes just us two but its not really like a date. It more like us just going to get some food while Robin and Perry watches Walker.

So about a month ago, Casey and I were able to go out on a date. We went to 'Oscars' which is now called America's O's or something like that. It was pretty good. Their breadsticks are amazing. We ordered a pizza with unlimited breadsticks and really we just wanted to breadsticks. Before we left we asked for two more servings of breadsticks and just packed them to take them home! BREADSTICKS FOR A WEEK!! :]

The Ghetto Boomers.

After we were going to go see a movie but then we decided to do something different because we always watch movies at home. So we decided to go to Boomers. It was pretty ghetto but still fun. We just played the arcade games. We played mostly the games that gave us tickets so we can get something at the end, which didn't happen. Most of the games we cheep and didn't give us all of the tickets that we earned or stole out tokens. Like I said it was pretty ghetto. We found a couple games that we liked to play the most. We liked Skeet Ball (I don't know about the spelling) and also Fruit Ninja.

It was fun to get out and spend some time with just us two. I love spending time with Casey and wish we could spend more time together.

Walker putting his socks on.

While we were on our date, Robin and Perry watched walker. He loves his grandparents. While we were out he tried to put on his sock. He kept on looking at his sock then his foot then he put his sock up to his foot. Walker knows that they go on his feet but just couldn't figure out how to get them there. He also would put them in his mouth then looked at Robin and she would say 'no' then he would put the sock to his foot and look at her again and she would say 'yes'. He would then repeat that a couple times and shake his head when he ever puts the sock up to his month. He couldn't get it on there but he sure did try. He is such a smart boy and is really trying to be much older than he actually is.

♥ The Schroeder

Halloween 2012

I know it is December, but having a little baby is a lot of work and I haven't really wanted to blog lately. So here is the Halloween post.

Earlier in the month, We went to a pumpkin patch to pick out our pumpkins to carve on halloween.
This Halloween we had a hard time figuring out what we wanted to dress up as. We had a couple ideas but we also didn't want to spend to much money on our costumes. We also wanted to be something as a family since it was our first halloween together as a family. We also took pictures of Walker at the Pumpkin Patch. He is such a trooper but he did great. He was more interested in the hay that was around the pumpkins then the pumpkins. So most of the time he was just eating and playing with the hay. I guess boys will be boys.

The Pumpkin Patch

We finally decided on dressing up as the three bears. Casey being papa bear, I as mama bear, and Walker as baby bear. They turned out great. We bought walker's bear costume off ebay and made our with brown shirts and fabric. (I am becoming pretty crafty.)

The weekend before halloween we had our ward Halloween Party/ Chili cook-off. I made chili for the party and it won, everything goes award. I guess I am becoming a pretty good cook. :] At the party, Walker had his first taste of cotton candy, thanks for Grandma Schroeder (Robin). He liked it but we didn't give him to much of it.

Ward Halloween Party

On the actual day of Halloween, we went over to our family friends house, the Todd's, for dinner and dessert and then after we meet up with one of our friends, The Lucas's, to go to a couple house to go trick or treating. It is not as fun as I remember. Most of the homes were all blacked out and no one was home and not a lot of kids were out.

Halloween 2012

Later that night when we got home, Casey and I carved some pumpkins. Casey carved Jack from the movie 'The Nightmare Before Christmas' and I carved Frankie from the movie 'Frankenweenie'. (both Disney movies since we love Disney)

Process of Pumpkin Jack

It is fun being able to spend these first holidays with Walker, even though he won't remember them but it is still exciting. I can't for next year when he will be able to remember it more and also participate more in the holidays.

♥ The Schroeder

Walker Monthly Update: Month Eight

It is crazy to think that my little boy is 8 months old already! It feels like just a couple weeks ago I gave birth to him! But now he is just going everything and learning new things every day!

Walker has now showed me that I need to keep a good eye on him. He crawls all over the place and is just wants to know what everything is. He loves playing with his toys and bring them with him where ever he goes.

Story: One day Walker was "reading" his little book then started to crawl to his jumper and go under that until he noticed that he didn't have his book with him so he turned back around and got his book and brought it with him under his jumper to read it. It made me smile and also excited about what else he will do in the next couple months.

Walker is now saying some words. He says "mama", which was his first words! :] and he says "papa" for grandpa and also "dada". It is exciting to see how much he has grown in just a month and also how much he has learned.

Walker knows what he wants and is very determined. He is also very observant. He likes to watch people or things move and then sometimes try to do the same thing. I have to say that we have a smart kid on our hands.

This month was walker's first halloween. I will post about that in another post. But lets say, he won't remember it but it was fun.

♥ The Schroeder