I love to see the temple...especially with Christmas lights!!!

Little Mark

I really think Ben looks like Mark in this shot. Maybe just the fact that his head is so big it fills the whole hood nicely.

Little Concert Master

He can now play the piano all by himself! He definitely favors the lower notes. I think he has grown a little recently.

Super Ben!

He is getting faster and more evasive than ever before.

Our First Christmas Wreath

I made a wreath out of some foliage used for our ward Christmas party decorations by bending a wire hanger into a circle and attaching the branches with grocery twist ties. My fingers are a little rough from handling the prickly pine and I'm not sure I would do it again, but it was worth doing once!

Then after completing it I had to come up with a way to hang it. We don't have a door hanger! How do you hang a wreath without a door hanger?

Light bulb!

Fill your stockings with pine cones so they balance out and attach it to the other side :)

Solves my problem on where to hang our stockings...

My favorite

Yes....Ben is my favorite little boy :)

As soon as I stepped into the room his already-forced binky grin got bigger I had to grab the camera!

Is he not your favorite, too?

Ben's steppin' up!

Ben climbed both flight of stairs today....that is quite a feat for a first-timer!

Here he comes!

...a little distracted...

Last step!

Round two:

Good Morning!

It seems nap-time has gotten a little more difficult since he learned how to stand up in his crib. If he isn't sleeping he's up at the rail!

...and lights up every time he sees us walk through the door.