Happy Thanksgiving!

Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving!

Running around Tuesday...

His CHEEESE smile
Made some more cupcakes...
Mike, Colton and I headed to Marshalltown late Wednesday afternoon. We went to Zeno's that night with my grandparents and Aunt Lisa and her family to celebrate Colton's birthday.

Checking out his new pooh sleeping bag...

So soft and cuddly

My parents gave him a wagon for his birthday. Grandpa and Grandma got to do a lot of pulling him around the house in his new toy....

Thursday morning we woke up and headed to Reinbeck to my aunt Caryn's house for my mom's side of the family Thanksgiving.

Colton w/my parents

My parent's 26th anniversary happened to fall on Thanksgiving this year....Happy Anniversary!!

Singing happy birthday one more time..... Still isn't sure why everyone is singing to him...

After going to my aunt's house for dinner we went to my grandma's house to visit before we headed back to Portsmouth. It was a busy day but we got to see a lot of my relatives and had a great time! We are looking forward to one more Thanksgiving tomorrow with Mike's family here in Portsmouth. :)

Birthday Fun

Colton had a great birthday!

He woke up around 6 to open presents and have his birthday muffin before Mike left for work at 6:30. He is fighting a cold so he wasn't too chipper but had fun anyways!

Opening presents from Mom and Dad

That's really for me?! :)

We were showing him how to blow out the candle and he kept trying. Later in the day when I had him in his highchair for lunch I happened to light a candle on the table and go about making him lunch. He kept trying to blow out the big candle from across the room- at first I couldn't figure out what he was doing- but he was just showing that he knew what he was supposed to do when he saw a candle. It was so cute!

Blueberry muffins...YUM YUM

After his morning nap we headed back to the doctor's office to check on how his ears are doing after last week. One ear is back to normal and the other still has some fluid in it, but the doctor said that should go away with the medicine he is on. Which by the way, is extremely hard to give him- he spits it out no matter how I try to give it to him. I have mixed it with a few things and he is figuring out that it is in there- any advice??

After the doctor we took Mike food in the field- Colton got excited to see daddy and his tractor. Then back for our lunch and afternoon nap.

Mike was lucky enough to get off work early (6:30) so he could come home and spend some time with the birthday boy. Colton was very excited he was there- he kept following him everywhere and got upset when he went to take a shower- he sure does miss him when Mike gets busy at work!!

Grandma and Grandpa Schneider came with Aunt Julie to help celebrate as well.

Colton opening his presents- got some new pj's that are soft and cuddly :)

Opening his big gift..... every piece of paper he tore off he had to hand to Grandpa- it was funny. I'm okay with a tidy boy!!
Woohoo....his very own chair! I think that smile says it all...

He loved sitting in it and rocking, as well as sitting backwards.

I think he approves! :) Thank you Grandma and Grandpa Schneider!!

One birthday celebration down, a few more to go!

Happy Birthday Colton!!

Wow- can't believe he is already one year old- the past year has went by so fast!

Here are some pictures throughout the past year-First family picture after a LONG 24 hours.

1st Thanksgiving...1 week old

1 mo old

Sleeping buddies....he looks so tiny here!

1st Christmas--he is still asleep but smiling at the thought of all those fun presents ;)

2 mo old- chunky monkey!

3 mo old

One of my favorite pictures of him...he used to just sit there and smile at that smiley face on the baseball all the time!

March madness...Mike's idea to let Colton join in on watching

March 09 4 months old

Such a happy boy!

Another favorite picture- this was when he was just starting to sit up, I was trying to take a picture of him sitting up and missed it slightly...

Mike jr.

May 09- getting ready to go swimming for the first time in the hotel

our little bug

my 25th birthday

Mike's first fathers day...they are 2 peas in a pod

1st Halloween

Our ONE year old.... such a happy boy that brings joy to so many people!
Happy Birthday Colton Michael!! We LOVE you!

What does a tractor say?

Lately Colton loves driving his tractors around- or in this video, kicking it around in the kitchen. Go figure! Anyways, here is a cute of video of his new sound he can make... :)

Visiting Rachael

A few weeks ago Colton and I stopped in Winterset to visit my friend Rachael and her husband James. They just moved there from Iowa city- it is so nice having them closer- only 15 minutes off the interstate. We will have to visit them more often!

We ate some lunch with them and played outside. Colton loved roaming around their backyard and playing with all of the leaves. She took about 100 pictures of him - so here are a few that captured the fun Colton was having. :)
Always has to do his scrunch up face

My favorite one!

Thanks for the pictures Rachael!!