Mexico 1 The Hotel

If you don't know Rene' and I went to Mexico at the end of June. I thought I would finally put the pictures of that trip on here for you to see. These first two were taken from our hotel lobby. Because of the swine flu not many people were going to Mexico at the time and we were able to book a 4 star hotel for the price of a 1 star. This made it really fun for us and we were really glad near the end because our hotel room was the only place we had air conditioning.
Here is Rene' showing off our room and bed (Which was really comfortable).
The next two pictures are the view from our room. if you went out on the balcony and looked straight down you would see the bottom of the building and then 10 feet away the ocean started. We could not get any closer.
At night if we left the door open then we could hear dolphins playing. It was really fun because we thought that we were just hearing birds but Itze' my friends wife told us it was dolphins.
I forgot to say why we went to Mexico. My very good friend was getting married to a girl from Cancun. We thought that it was a good excuse for us to go. We were there for 1 week and we are very grateful to my mother and father for watching Ethan for us.

We are back

Well we finally have the internet again. It has taken us a while but in the end we had to get it for school when you have two online classes then you don't have a choice but to get it. so here are some pictures just for fun. No commentary just clean old fun.

Some Quick Catch-Up

Here is Chris reading Ethan his bedtime story.

I love this picture because they both are SO into it.
Ethan loves to read stories and we love to read to him.

Look at that cool hat!
Ethan also loves to be outside, which gives him plenty of opportunity to wear his hat.

Our Ward had a Luau, complete with a roasted pig and chicken and a wonderful pineapple drink. They roasted the pig in the backyard of our apartment. Our neighbor is from Fiji, so it was actually authentic food. Yum, yum. This was Ethan's first neighborhood activity. Notice the hat again!

Ethan has learned how to scoot. He can't crawl yet, but he can cruise around the house. In this picture he made his way under Grandma Barlow's cabinet.

I'll post some pictures of our Cancun trip soon. But until then, here are some to look at.

Apple Sauce

I liked Beckys video and I remembered that I recorded one as well and it shows his face pretty well so I put this on here so you can see.

Phone

We have kept our old phones for this purpose. When Ethan sees our phones he loves them and always wants to play with them. So I got out one of our old ones and charged it and gave it to him. He loves it. I tried to get pictures of him playing with it but our camera beeps when it is focused, he hears it and then stares at the camera. So imagine him talking to the phone and yelling at it. Because that is what he was doing before I got out the camera.

I hope you appreciate these pictures. They took me a long time to get them taken.

Weekend

This last weekend Rene' and I went to visit my parents. Sadly for my father this usually means I have a project, and to hold to form i did. So instead of a nice relaxing weekend he got put to work helping me. I hope he know how much I appreciate the help. Because of his genius and ingenuity my project came out pretty cool.
This is a cabinet for my computer. It is to protect it from an ever moving curious baby. I think it will work well.


I also think that this would be a good time to thank my brother David. Who were it not for him this computer would not exist. He not only put it together but he has been willing to give up his days off to fix it whenever I break it, and only he knows how often that is (because i am not going to tell you.). So to David, may he never screen my calls.

Lounging about

Some where some how Ethan has learned that Rene' is a great place to lounge about. I could not agree more, I love it and so does he. The only difference is he gets to do it more often.
Last night he was fighting his naps with all he had. He absolutely refused to go to sleep. I think he missed 2 naps and it was getting close to bed time and so Rene' started to feed him. Well that got him and he was out. He would not wake up. So in the end he slept and Rene' got to hold him. I think Rene' won in both cases, she is good at winning.

Never Again

This will probably be the last time that you see Ethan with a bennie on his head. I put it on and he took it right off. He has decided that he does not like things on his head. He is fine if it is on his face but not his head.
Right after this picture he reached up and took off his bennie and threw it off the couch. I also think that he is all ready for St Patrick's Day.

Look a like

Which of us does Ethan look like. Everybody has different opinions and I am curious what you all think. They are not the best pictures of us but they are all I have at the moment.
I am above.
Rene' is below
voting encouraged

Growing

I thought that these pictures would be a good way to show how much Ethan has grown. So The picture above was taken when he was 8 months and 1 day old (Today). The picture below was taken when he came home (7 weeks old).

I think that there is quite a difference.
Now for all you people that kept bugging me to update my blog (You will remain nameless). I expect a comment from all that complained. If I don't get one then you can look foreword to another month of the same pictures. If on the other hand I receive comments then I will update again before Sunday.