Park Fun with Waylon & Landon

Today we went to the park with Waylon, Landon and their mommies. We went to the park by Waylons house. Waylon is really good at climbing up the ladders. After the park we went back to Waylons house where I fetched Waylons Daddy Ian a nice cold Budweiser. I made sure to say bye to Landon before we left, isn't he cute!

Merry Christmas!

I had a wonderful Christmas this year. Christmas Eve we had all of my Mommy's family over to our house for food, drinks and opening presents. We even watched a video of the family from a long time ago, I got to see my Great Grandma on the video. Christmas Day we went out to Millville to spend the day with Daddy's family. I got lots of great gifts and had a blast playing with all my new toys.

Christmas Eve I went to the Children's Church Service with Grammy and Papa at their church. They did a lot of singing, had a childrens message that I got to go down front for and I got a Christmas star, and it all ended with a candle light singing of Silent Night. Grammy said I was really good. After church we went back to my house where Mommy, Daddy, Great Grandpa, Aunt Mary, Uncle Don and cousins Bryan and Donny were waiting.

After dinner we opened gifts. Santa brought me this great quad! Now all I need is a helmet.

Aunt Mary, Uncle Don, Bryan and Donny gave me a magnet fridge farm. It makes animal noises!

We gave Papa and Great Grandpa a pheasant hunting gift certificate for New Years Day. Papa was very surprised!

Great Grandma Juanita sent me this monkey, how did she know that I love monkeys!?

Here I am sneaking open one of Daddy's gifts. What's with the bow on my head?


Mom acted really surprised when she opened her presents from Grammy and Papa (she picked them out herself).

On Christmas morning I woke up with Mommy and Daddy and we relaxed some and opened our presents from eachother. Santa left me two coloring books in my stocking. I am really excited about this one, it is a Tigger and Pooh one.

Here I am dumping out the rest of my stocking.


I got all kinds of new big boy things from Mommy and Daddy including cups, plates and a new toothbrush. The tooth fairy even left me toothpaste!

Mommy helped me make this for Daddy. It has a picture of me with a poem and my handprints.

Here I am trying to open up my new crayons. Another bow on my head??


After breakfast we packed up and headed out to Millville. Grandpa was soooo happy to see us. The anticipation of waiting to open gifts was getting to him.

Here is Mommy with a picture of Moonstone Beach that Uncle Adam gave us. I can't wait to go visit it in person with Uncle Adam and Aunt Jessica.

Here is Grandma opening up the gift from us. Mommy made all my grandparents a book of pictures from my first year. It started with my sonogram pictures and ended with my first birthday.


Aunt Walli made me one of her famous quilts! I love it so much, it is really soft.

I got kind of tired and had to take a break. I relaxed on the floor and watched Uncle Adam and Aunt Jessica open their gifts.

Everyone thought it was really funny to put this sticker on my forehead. It said "Try Me" with an arrow. I forgot about it so it was on my head for a while, then it stuck to my finger and I couldn't get it off.

I ended the day with a nice quad ride!

Waylon's A Big Brother!

Today I found out that my best friend Waylon is going to be a big brother! His mommy is going to have a new baby the beginning of July. I hope it is a girl so that I can have another girlfriend. You can keep up to date on Baby Stripling by clicking the link to the left.

Park with M&M

Today we went to the park with Morgan and Mason. They are coming over to play with me a couple days a week after school. We had a great time on the slides.

Feeding Myself

I am learning how to feed myself with a fork and spoon. Mom and Dad say I am doing really good. I can put all kinds of meat, fruit and veggies on my fork. Tonight we tried a spoon with yogurt, not the best idea! I think I got more on my face and cup than in my mouth, I had fun though.

Hospital Christmas Party

Tonight we went to Grandma work's childrens Christmas Party. They took my picture and put in on a Reindeer ornament for me to bring home. There was a lot of yummy goodies for everyone to eat, and then...Santa showed up! I got to see Santa twice now before the big day, this time he brought presents for everyone. I still was kind of scared to sit on his lap, even though we brought Rupert this time. Santa gave me a big dump truck filled with mega block legos. I can't wait until Christmas!!

Meeting Baby Landon

Tonight Mommy and Daddy took dinner over to the Renz's house. They got to meet baby Landon for the first time. Mommy fed Landon while Don and Christine ate dinner. He still has a lot of hair and a nice mohawk. I stayed home with Grammy and Papa because mom says I am a little too wild and a germy toddler to be around Landon. I couldn't wait to see pictures when mom and dad got home, he is so cute! I can't wait to meet him in person!

Christmas Tree

Today we went up to Brokeoff Meadows to cut Christmas Trees. It was really cold and started snowing when we were there. Mom took this picture of the spot where we like to camp in the summer. The creek was all snowy and frozen, this is where we caught so many fish last summer with Uncle Danny and Aunt Rachel.

Here is a picture of Uncle Adam, Grandma, Daddy, Me, Papa and Grammy. We stopped to scope out trees, there were none that anyone liked so we moved on.

Here is a close up of Daddy and Me. I liked Dad's goofy hat he got up in Alaska, it kept his ears nice and warm though.

Here is a close up of Grandpa and Me, he kept me nice and warm!

We found our spot to set up and start looking for trees. Uncle Adam and Daddy had the best time hiking around and cutting down the ones we all liked.
Here is Grammy, Uncle Adam, Grandpa and I keeping warm by the nice fire we built.

On the way back out I got to drive Papa's truck again. That is a lot of fun!

Later when we were back at home I helped Daddy bring the tree into the house.
Here is Mommy and Me a couple nights later decorating the tree, what a nice Silver Tip!

Papa's Harley

After Christmas tree cutting we stopped back at Grammy and Papa's house. I got to sit on Papa's Harley. I can't wait until I am big enough to go for a real ride on it!

NVMA Christmas Party

Tonight we went to Grammy's work Christmas party. It is a childrens party so they had it at Turtle Bay in the museum. We got to take Daddy through the What's Up Doc exhibit. They had really yummy food and the Sequoia Middle School band played Christmas songs. Santa even mad an appearance. It took a little coaxing, letting me shake his bells, then I finally agreed to sit on his lap. It was very brief, a matter of seconds actually, but luckily Daddy was really fast with the camera so here is a picture of me with Santa. Maybe next time I will sit a little longer.