Trajan's Birthday

Trajan's personality/accomplishments his first year:
Trajan can say mama, dada, bubba.
He can wave and blow kisses.
He LOVES music. He bangs on things constantly.
He walks like he owns the place.
He is constantly climbing on furniture and boxes.
Everything goes into his mouth.
He loves to laugh and smile.
Right now he has 4 teeth but has two more coming in.
He likes to mimic noises.
He likes to pretend read books but doesn't ever let you finish reading.

I can't believe Trajan is 1! The first year has flown by. He has developed such a cute personality and I am so thankful I get to be his mom. He has taught me so much about myself and the atonement.  I never knew how deep love could run until I had him. I've had more love for Tyler and Trajan. I just love my lil dude. He's kept me on my toes ever since he was born and I wouldn't have it any other way.

We did his 1st birthday party when my MIL was in town so she could be a part of it. He loved all the gifts he got and especially loved his cake. My mom sent some decorations and my MIL helped with the food. We had a lumberjack theme and honestly it was the most fun/stressful thing putting it altogether. Probably because finals started 2 days after his party. Worth it.

On his actual birthday we took him to Cabela's. They have a stuffed animal section and a little aquarium area. He loved the animals, hated the fish. At the end of our trip we got him a stuffed deer. It wasn't a big outing but he LOVED it. He kept pointing at all the stuffed animals. Afterwards we treated ourselves Trajan to Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory and we all enjoyed an apple and a rice krispie treat. 

Halloween

Halloween (besides Christmas) is one of my favorite holidays. I love decorating for it, carving pumpkins, and haunted houses. And lets not forget all the pumpkin food, am I right?! I've loved Halloween since I was a kid, and I won't lie, I went trick or treating until I was 17. Was that too old? No. No it was not. Good thing I got to use Trajan as my excuse to go this year. As we were about to trick-or-treating Tyler thought we were only going to go for like 10 minutes. Boy was he wrong! I specifically held off on buying any candy because we were going to take Trajan trick-or-treating. Why buy when you can trick-or-treat!

We started the day pretty relaxed because Tyler had to take a test this morning. Once he got home we had spooghetti for lunch.. Trajan was REALLY excited about the dyed spaghetti noodles. After lunch we carved pumpkins. Trajan had a blast trying to lift his pumpkin. However, he would not touch the guts.

I REALLY wanted Trajan to be a shark this year. I thought it would be SO cute. But soooo many people told me Trajan looked like jack-jack and I couldn't pass that up. He's the perfect age and he does look like jack-jack's doppleganger. So we were (the out of shape) Incredibles. We got a lot of compliments when trick-or-treating. We went during his nap time, so we only went for about a half an hour, and he looks so groggy. Still worth it!

Besides all the fun Halloween brings its a special day for us because it was the day Tyler and I met. I remember walking into the vantage office debating whether or not to do summer sales again. All I remember seeing was this really HOT guy. Like, he was soooo hot! He also had a great personality, (I'm not that shallow). I remember how easy it was to talk with him, and how much we had in common. Looking back I'm really glad I entertained the idea of summer sales. I really don't think there is anyone else that can relate to me as much as he can. Sappy, but who cares? I don't because I got to fall in love with that super hot guy.