Winter And Spring

One of our family projects this winter was making a family home evening chart. So after about a month, here it is!

For one of our dates, Greg and I painted pictures! They aren't masterpieces, but we had fun. Despite being colorblind, Greg's color choice of Yellow for the sky was much better than my regular blue sky. Oh well.

Greg's boss, Doug, has a great big house up in the hills of Boise. He invited everyone up for a sledding day with roasted hotdogs, smores, hot chocolate and this VERY steep sled run that he made down the hill by his house. He even gave everyone rides back up on his four wheeler after they went down. We had to teach Jeremiah not to roam too close to the bonfire, luckily he knows what "HOT" means. He also had fun sliding around on a sled on a safer, more kid-friendly run.

One of his favorite things: sitting on the basketball. He just recently realized that he can pin the basketball between the chair and the table and sit up even higher. After taking this picture because I thought it was funny, I made him get down because the ball was about to roll off the chair, with him on it.

We babysat our friends little baby, Blake, last week and we put together ye-ole bouncy chair... I think Jeremiah liked it better than Blake did. He didn't quite fit, but he had fun.

This entertained Jeremiah for about 20 minutes after our walk last week: climbing in and out of the stroller. Of course he got a little upset when he tried sliding out the bottom and his head got stuck.. :(

Another Favorite Thing: his new "fort" with a blanket covering his table. He loves hauling toys and books in there and playing peek-a-boo with me.

This is just evidence that he REALLY needed a haircut. Sometimes it was cute, but it got really messy really quickly and he looked like a homeless child whose mother didn't own a hairbrush. It was even curlier in the back!

This is post-haircut. It took a while and a lot of M&M's because it was so scared of the buzzer, but we made it happen. I had to cut it while he was sitting on my lap... that was a task. But it looks very put together now.

Greg's new coat! In March Greg got a brand new bike which he has loved, and has been riding to work several days a week. But because he has to ride through town I was a little concerned. For his birthday, though, Mom and Dad Curzon bought him this awesome riding jacket. Just what he had wanted. He looks stellar.

Jeremiah LOVES airplanes. He sees airplanes that I can't even see until I look for a minute or two. This is him looking at an airplane flying overhead. Good thing we have an airport in Boise!

Sharing Time

Last week Greg was on the couch rubbing my feet and Jeremiah came over, took my other foot, and started giving me a foot massage. It was so cute. Then today I was sitting on the couch with my feet up and Jeremiah came over and started massaging my feet again! LOVE IT! I didn't know you could train them this young! His massages tickle a little, but it's so cute. Just thought I'd share! I love this kid.

Lots and Lots of Christmas!

We went to Oregon this year and spent Christmas with My parents, Aron and Grandma and Grandpa Curzon. We also got to spend an evening with my friend Nichole and her husband Josh and daughter Hannah. It was so fun to watch Jeremiah and Hannah playing together and we got some cute photos.

We took Jeremiah to the Carousel (sp?) and at first he kind of freaked out, but he got used to it. I think the adults liked watching him on the carousel more than he enjoyed riding it!

There was a dance performance on TV and Jeremiah danced with Grandma to the music. When Grandma left he kept entertaining us with his moves.

Christmas Day! Jeremiah thought Aron's bananna chair was the COOLEST. Each time Aron left, Jeremiah stole his seat. This picture is when Aron came back in and was telling Jeremiah that he stole his chair again.

Jeremiah's favorite gift was his Mr. Potato Head set. He opened it enough to see what was inside and then stuck his face up to the clear plastic window and just sat there looking inside. We helped him open the rest of the wrapping so that he could see the entire thing.

We made a candy/gingerbread train one night. Mom and Grandpa made the engine, Grandma and I made the circus car with the lion inside, Aron made a logging car, Greg made a BYU football car, and Dad made a coal car. We ALL enjoyed eating the building materials.

You can't be a Curzon without having a vacume fetish! Jeremiah helped clean up after the candy train.

When we got home Jeremiah helped Greg put together his new table and chairs. He loves doing his puzzles and reading his books at his table!

Ok, it's FINALLY the end of the photos. But not of my update of whats new in our lives. My sister, Amber, called us on Christmas day to tell us that she and her husband Adam are expecting their first child. THEN Greg's sister, Kristina called to tell us that she and her hubby Travis are expecting their third (Amber and Kristina both have the same due date, Aug. 27), AND our best friends Nate and Janette called to tell us that they were expecting their third in July. WOW! There is definately a pattern here. Anyway, so it's going to be baby season in our family this summer/fall. And we're excited for all the new additions! I'll post again soon!

Christmas tree and a new haircut

So we finally went and bought a real Christmas tree and it's wonderful. It smelled like pine in our house for a few days and now it doesn't so much... does that mean we killed our tree? Oh well, anyway, Greg was in charge of the decorating... well, not so much the actual decorating, but he was the Christmas tree art director.... he choose blue lights and christmas balls, we were so close to fashioning a blue Y to go at the top instead of a star..... but we decided we would just stick with the traditional this year:)

We opened one christmas gift early - thank you to Mother Teresa for our first nativity set, I love it - Jeremiah was in on the un-wrapping of the gift and I think he's finally gotten the hang of it. Although he was a little dissapointed in the brown box that was underneath the pretty red wrapping paper. I think he'll like HIS Christmas presents better.

So, I cut my hair! Woo Hoo! Well, I didn't cut it myself, but I went and had it cut by a professional, which I did like. So it's short and layered, and shorter than I've had my hair since I was 13 I think. Change is good.

G&G Curzon visit, Disneyland and Halloween

Book worm: Jeremiah sees me all the time sitting on the couch under the lamp reading a book, so he goes over to the book shelf, grabs a "grown-up" book (the kind that has pages that tear), climbs up on the couch next to be and opens it up pretending to read, albeit upside down.
Percusion section: Jerem's favorite toys come from my kitchen cupboards. He loves not only the sounds they make, but he also goes into his drawer, pulls out his baby spoons and starts pretend-stirring, then he puts the lid on, carries it to a different spot on the floor, and stirs it again. It entertains him for an hour!
Arg Matey!, this is practice for Halloween when he was supposed to keep him pirate bandanna on his head the whole night. It didn't really work.

The Family Pack Horse: Jeremiah can now carry things for us! This is Greg's boomerang case - yes, that's right folks, he has a case especially for his boomerangs. His buddies call it his underwear bag, because of it's shape.

This is Greg showing us how to throw.Ooh... Aww....
Jeremiah didn't have much interest in boomerangs, but the play structure, now that looked interesting.

Karon and Betsy Denny two of our Disneymates.
Nate and Janete Childs, our other two Disneymates.
The teacups - this is what they made me feel like: Day 1. We're waiting in line for Autopia, I don't look very excited in this picture, but I was.
Day 3, Lunch at the Blue Bayou. Greg is soaking wet from the Grizzly River Rapids. Everyone made fun of me for wearing my lovely yellow pancho, but they weren't laughing later in the day when they were all wet and freezing cold!
This is me in Toontown. I'm standing next to a telephone, if you can't tell what it is. Halloween: Greg=Peter Pan, Heather=Wendy, Jeremiah=The dreaded Captain Hook!
Say it with me now "Arg, Matey!"
Paygroup Halloween Party: Presley on the left and Kate on the right.
Heather's Pumpkin:
Greg's Pumpkin, I know, I know, it's a lot better than mine.
Hirschi Family Halloween.

Update

This post probably won't have any pictures in it, but I promise, Grandma & Grandpa Curzon visit pictures, Disneyland pictures, and Halloween pictures are coming.... you'll like them a lot.

So the past month and a half has been a whirlwind for us. Greg has traveled a lot during that time, which has paid off because he has one big deal that is closing soon and another that looks promising. I'm glad he's the salesman, because I couldn't do it. My mom and dad came to visit at the end of September and we had a great time. Greg tried to teach us all how to throw boomerangs at the park, and he showed off his stunt kite skills. We were going to go camping, but the weather didn't cooperate. On the 11th of October we dropped Jeremiah off in Salt Lake with Greg's parents and we headed on down to L.A. to spend three glorious days at Disneyland. Because of Greg's bum knee we were a little worried about how he would do, so we got a Guest Assistance Pass, which allowed him to go through the handicapped entrance, it helped him avoid stairs and sometimes they let him sit down while we waiting to get on the ride. But I must admit, the best part about the GAP for me was the short... SHORT lines! In California Adventure all the rides are new and were built to be wheelchair accessible, so we waited in the normal lines with everyone else, but in the Magic Kingdom the older rides had handicapped lines, usually through the exit for the ride, and most of the time our wait was only 15 minutes. It was AWESOME! We just flashed the pass and it was like magic! :) And of course I loved all the architecture inside Disneyland. The entire first day in the park that's all I looked at. Their attention to detail is what makes it so enchanting. We bought two "souveniers," a CD with classic disney music and then Mr. Potato Head accessories for all the favorite Disney characters. We can make Mr. Potato Head into Tinker Bell, Buzz Light Year, Mickey Mouse, Minney Mouse, Donald Duck, Goofy, etc. It's so cute. Right now Jeremiah doesn't really get it, he just like the different shapes and colors, but in a few months he'll think they are great.

Jeremiah has reached a couple milestones this past month. He's starting to talk now, He says Dog, Ma (Mom), Da (Dad), Bye, Hi, Uh oh, No (unfortunately), and he has proto words for outside and upstairs. He's understanding so much of what we tell him now too, we can tell him to go get his hat, and he knows exactly what we're talking about. When we suggest that he get in his highchair for lunch he runs right over to it and tries to pull himself up on the tray. We're also teaching him the idea of soft touches, which work sometimes and other times he doesn't really care. Also, he's just now starting to get more of his fine motor skills down. He plays with his blocks and can actually stack them correctly, he also takes the rings on and off the ring stacker, and has successfully learned how to use a shape sorter, which is amazing to me. But he can only do it with the one toy that only has three shapes, we have the old tupperware shape sorter ball that has different shapes all over it, and he hasn't quite figured that one out yet, but he still tries to fit the square into the round hole.

Halloween was a blast. I was so busy making our costumes. They turned out really well. I'm most proud of Jermiah's costume because it was the most difficult, but I'm learning and I'm getting better with practice, of course. I think, however, I would be more successful if I bought patterns. On the Saturday before Halloween we went to Linder Farms pumpkin patch. We took a hayride, picked out two carving pumpkins and one baking pumpkin, had hot chocolate and homemade mini-doughnuts and took Jeremiah through the haystack maze. He didn't even make any wrong turns, but that was because he just followed all the big kids around, I think he thought it was a game of chase and he was it. On Monday for FHE we carved our pumpkins. Greg was in charge of making us a Tinkerbell to complete our costume theme, he did a great job, of course, I couldn't out-shine him, so I decided to do something less fancy (Actually, I like my Trick or Treat pumpkin). Tuesday I threw the halloween party for the playgroup in our ward. It was fun to see all the little toddlers in their costumes. We colored halloween pictures and had pumpkin pie. On Wednesday we went to our wards Trunk-Or-Treat and handed out all our candy and showed off our cute captain hook. Afterwards a few friends of ours came back to our house and we had a great "party" watching the Nightmare Before Christmas and eating pumpkin pie, pumpkin bread, apples and caramel, Apple Cider and pizza of course. It was a lot of fun. I actually made pie and bread out of fresh pumpkin for the first time. People say it tastes SO much better than canned pumpkin. After tasting both, and knowing the work that it takes, I think I'll stick with the can, but it was fun to learn how to turn a pumpkin into a yummy treat.

Wow! It has been a long month! Now the Holidays begin and I'm so excited for them. I've been so ambitious lately, and I hope it will keep going. We are working on a family home evening chart for our family, so that is a fun project, and I'm just so excited for holiday baking and decorating. Yay!