I'm in the army now mom

we got our cord and thus we have a couple of pictures from our trip to tennessee. erik liked ryan's army beret although he kept taking it off and just wanted to play with it.
and erik's cuteness with uncle ryry and auntie brittany! i wish we had taken more pictures but i felt like there wasn't much to take pictures of, mostly we relaxed and didn't do much which was nice but didnt create much for fun pics. we feel lucky we will get to see them again next week!

Erik has a new development which is quite fun for us. he is learning to pull himself up on things. since he still doesnt crawl he hadnt much opportunity, but lindsay actually taught him this weekend how to stand up in his crib. needless to say the armrail has been highered.

family pictures

holy cow there is so much to catch up on.....earlier in november we had our family pictures taken and we just got them back! we are so excited to have nice ones. and my hair looks great thanks to my friend kim who did it for me!
over the holiday we traveled to tennessee to visit with my younger brother and his wife. it was a lovely visit and it was fun to see them being all grown up. i still have a hard time imagining my younger brother being an adult. i still think of him as the baby who wipes off the game board when he isnt winning in tantrum fashion and talking him out of his toy to switch with mine (always of course claiming that the one he will get is better), or just getting him to do things for me. ok so the last one, i am pretty sure i can still get him to do things for me........i don't know maybe that is a big sister thing, but i am good about these days, i don't abuse the privelige like i did when we were growing up. his wife is gorgeous and so sweet, we were lucky to be able to crash in their apartment with them for a bit. we got a new camera but accidentally left the cable at their house so no pictures until we get that.
now we are planning christmas stuff and it's so fun! today we played christmas music and did some gift shopping, i put up decorations, it has been great!