Absence makes the heart grow fonder

Or, have you just given up on us? Well, we got the internet today! Yessssss. Hurray for Chad for setting everything up. You're my hero.

So, get ready. There will be a whole lot of pictures coming your way. Much like the pics from summer vacation, I don't think these will be in order. What can I say? After loading them, resizing, and re-saving them, you're lucky I'm not too lazy to put them on here!

There aren't pics from our time at Chad's house cause they are all on Chad's computer. I will leave that up to him to add to the blog...heh heh. I know he'll love that!

Enjoy...

Cameron's hair after a bath one night...I LOVED pulling out the sides. Pretty funny.

This is here at home. Just proving how much Cameron is intrigued with feet.

My sister, Katie, and her (gulp) FIANCE!!, Jared. Congrats you two!! (Hope it's ok to tell on here...at least I'm doing it for you!)

Dad and mom

Just proving how ripped I am...

For tender. Isn't my husband cute?!

Cameron on grandpa's shoulders

Yes, it was in the 70s in VA over Christmas vacation! Cameron seemed to like being outside in the grass. I think he ate a piece of grass, although I never saw evidence of it!

Like a dog

Like a drunken sailor

Like a .....?

Leake family at Christmas

Cameron got a cool train that he really liked.

The Christmas tree

Here at home. Cameron is crawling now and liked playing cowboy in his new shirt.


Hope you all had a great Christmas holiday! We'd love to hear from you!

Dangit

Well, we got back to WI safely. Cameron has had a hard time with his bowels lately and blew out on the plane. It was interesting changing him in the plane's tiny bathroom. Plus, he got his pants and onesie messy so he had to go with just a diaper and a shirt. At least it wasn't me or Chad that that happened to. We wouldn't be able to get away with no pants!

Our internet is non-existent at the moment (I'm at the library). So, the pictures from home with have to wait until we can figure out what to do about getting something hooked up.

Until then....

Have a great week!

Last week in VA

I know I haven't written in a while, and it kind of feels weird to be posting again. We've had a great time in VA with our friends and family. I can't believe by the time we go home (this upcoming Saturday), I will have been here for about 5 weeks! Cameron has grown a ton (thanks mostly to my mom feeding him so well)--can't believe he's 8 months old now!

We didn't take a huge amount of pictures since my sis-in-law took a bunch in Lynchburg and my parents took a bit here. We'll post them when we get home next weekend. Just wanted to let you know we're still alive.

Hope you had a great Christmas!

VA

Cameron and I have been in VA since last Saturday (12/8). We've been having a good time, but miss Chad. Good thing he comes tomorrow!!!

Katie took a bunch of pictures. Check out the link to her blog on the sidebar to see them!

Get in the Christmas Spirit...it's coming soon!!!

I know Cameron is ready...cozy by the fire!

Some of the same, but different...

As I mentioned before, Cameron LOVES to look out the window. And snow is fascinating to him. I was gone for a few hours this morning and had to drive in a lot of snow. I was praying the whole time cause even though this is our third year here, I still hate driving in the snow. Just as I expected, I couldn't make it up our driveway and ended up getting stuck in our street. Chad and Cameron were watching from the window...I felt like they were pointing and laughing at me. Eventually Chad came out and got the car up the driveway. Guess it's the bus driving skills put to good use!

There's so much snow that they canceled Stake Conference for the second time this year (the other time was in February, I think...or maybe it was April). Anyway, I'm looking forward to a cozy/lazy weekend at home.

This is blurry, but it's the best picture I have of the "grandma myrtle!"

I know this one is dark, but it's such a Chad face, I had to put it on here.

Hurray! I love the snow!

Ok Ok....We're still alive...

Cameron LOVES looking outside (going outside, too, but it's been pretty cold lately...see picture below).













Cameron's first tooth is coming in! I actually discovered it in Sacrament meeting yesterday. I tried to take a picture, but he kept putting his tongue over it so you can't see it at all. And poor kid, he's breaking out!



This is what I meant by it getting colder. We had our first snow last week.



Cameron is just like his dad....obsessed with the computer (and I love this face he makes. Chad calls it the Grandma Myrtle cause she doesn't have teeth anymore. Don't tell her!)



With the first snow on the ground, Chad was excited to play in the Turkey Bowl last week. The previous week, he hurt his ankle playing basketball.

So to make things more stable, he decided to wrap his ankle before going out to play. But he didn't want to buy a bandage. No, that would cost too much. So here is what he did instead...



Yes, that's duct tape. My ghetto-fabulous husband.



Cameron is working on picking up little things like puffs. He manages to get it in his hand, but then doesn't know how to get it to his mouth. He usually ends up sticking his thumb in his mouth instead of the puff!