Happy Birthday Rocklin!!

Today my baby boy turns ONE. I can't even believe one year ago today that I was in the hospital waiting to meet my new little guy! Even though Rocklin was born about 5 weeks early, he has been really healthy and to date has had no medical problems (which we are very thankful for). Rocklin is the sweetest little boy and Adam and I are so proud to be his parents. The first year has been so fun! It has been a joy watching Rock grow and learn.

Rocklin has quite the little personality now and is pretty much always a happy little guy. He is in to pretty much everything these days, discovering and exploring every chance he gets. He can walk now, which he learned over the Christmas holiday. He loves books and is starting to have a thing for stuffed animals. He's got the most beautiful blonde hair with cute curls at the drape of his neck! He loves playing with other little kids and I think he will be a little social butterfly once he can talk. He can say Mama and for now that's it, but Adam's trying hard to get a Dada out of him.

Happy Birthday, little man. We love you so much and are so blessed to have you in our family!! We are going to have a little get together with some close friends this weekend, so I will be sure to post pictures from his party afterwards.

Adam and Rocklin - right after he was born. Rocklin was SO tiny, with a birth weight of 5 lbs. 3 oz. He's since made up for his small size and is about 21 lbs. right now.

Rocklin about two days old with his Grammy Jody.

Rocklin all dressed up to finally go home. (That was the scariest car ride of my life!!!)

This picture makes me laugh because his little bird legs were so teeny!!

Here's Rocklin at one year. So happy and so playful. I love you, son!

Me...

...minus 7 inches of hair.

Thanks, G-ma Linda & G-pa Ron!

Rocklin wanted to shout out and say thanks to Grandma Linda and Grandpa Ron for the fun book he got from them for Christmas. (We were a little late in picking up the presents from them, so we just got them today). Thanks!! Rocklin loves his new nursery rhyme book!

It's that time again...

Well, the new year has arrived. I love this time of year because it gives me a chance to reflect on the past year and the changes I want to make in the new year to come. In no particular order, here are some things I've committed myself to in 2009:

1. No more coke (and by coke I mean Dr. Pepper, Sunkist and Sprite...my three liquid downfalls).

2. Shape up and loose a few lbs. (see #1) This includes getting more exercise then just walking up the stairs to my second story apartment.

3. Be aggressive about getting out of debt - see photo below for proof. Yes, that is me shredding one of our credit cards. We shred every single card we had. Ouch. Hello, cash.

4. Read my scriptures more often.

5. Be a better wife (aka - iron more of Adam's shirts so he doesn't have to).

6. Read books with Rocklin more often.

7. Birkmeyer baby #2. Don't worry folks, this is in no way an announcement, but hopefully later this year we'll have something to announce.

8. New year = new do. Hairdo, that is. I've decided I'm tired of fixing my hair and then having it end up in a ponytail day after day. What am I, 12? So this is the look I'm going for come this weekend at the salon: (wish me luck folks, I've never really been one for short hair on me...)

That just about wraps it up for me. None of these goals are really anything new for me, other than the hair, oh, and the no coke thing, but nothing that can't be attained. I hope everyone else has taken the time to write down a few things you hope to better yourself as well.

Happy 2009!!

Moab Trip

As I mentioned in my last post, the second half of our Christmas vacation, we went to Moab with my family and stayed in a cool house that my parents rented for three nights. It was a lot of fun! If you've never been to Moab, UT, I'd recommend it. There is so much to see! We took a ton of pictures, and I have uploaded a bunch here to share. Enjoy!

Rocklin in the car while we're waiting for the hikers to get back from a hike. He looks like such a big boy here!

Part of Arches National Park. Adam zoomed in on this picture, and if you look closely, the specs toward the bottom are people. That gives you an idea of how HUGE these arches are!

It was so cold and I didn't have any gloves for Rocklin, so Gramps let him borrow his. A little big, but they did the trick!

Daniel posing in Mom's pink scarf. Real cute, Daniel!

One of the beautiful views! Adam had Rocklin the whole time in the baby carrier. Talk about a workout - hiking with a twenty pound baby on your chest!

Adam, Daniel and Kevin - crazy boys, you won't catch me up on those rocks so high up!! The drop on the other side went waaaaaaay down.

Family photo-op.

Mom & Dad (or Grammy & Gramps as Rocklin knows them).

The Boys. (Except Adam and Justin...we missed you Justin!)

Daniel & Kevin

Daddy, Rock and the big ol' gloves!

Me & Mom

Beautiful view!!

Rock just chillin with Daddy.

Adam

Kevin

Daniel and Adam sharing a moment.

Another family photo.

On our way home, we stopped to see the Monticello temple. It was beautiful with the snow glistening all around; it was literally sparkling like glitter. (However, no amount of money could ever make me want to live in this much snow, ever!!)

A house in Monticello buried in snow. All of the houses looked like this - buried!

Thanks again, Mom and Dad. We had a WONDERFUL time!

Christmas Catch-Up

We are back home from our wonderful Christmas vacation with my family. We made the drive up to Utah and stayed with my family at my Grandpa's house. It was really cold and really snowy, but we had such a fun time! This was Rocklin's first Christmas, and I'm not sure he knew exactly what was going on, but it was so much fun for us to watch him open presents and explore. Oh, and Rocklin started walking on our vacation!! After a few days at my Grandpa's, we then went down to Moab and stayed in a cool house my parents rented for a few days. I have some great pictures from that part of our trip, but I'll post those in different post. Here are pictures from our Christmas at Grandpa Gibson's:

Rocklin got a Teddy Ruxpin from his Grammy and Gramps. He LOVED watching Teddy talk and sing to him! He giggles everytime Teddy talks.

Daddy and Rocklin
Rocklin and Uncle Kevin opening presents.

Rocklin's Utah Flash Headband from Uncle Kevin (Poor Rock had chapped cheeks the whole time in Utah...I guess his little Arizona skin isn't used to the cold and snow!)

Rocklin and Gramps opening presents

Rocklin looking cute in his Christmas morning outfit!

Despite the look on his face, Rocklin had a lot of fun opening presents!

Uncle Kevin feeding Rock

Me and my cute new shoes Adam bought me (Even though I returned them for a different pair...they weren't very comfy):

I don't remember what happened here, but check out Rock's face...

Gramps showing off his new Utah Flash gear:

Grammy opening presents:

Grandpa Gibson and Adam:

I hope everyone enjoyed their Christmas!! We sure did. Stay tuned for more pictures from our Moab adventure with the family.