What a VACATION!!!

We had so much fun going home to Utah this Christmas. The highlight of our trip was suprising everyone and flying in a day early. We ate a ton of food and laughed and visited and had so much fun seeing all the babies that have grown so much in just four short months!!! Here are some pics of the good times...

Dallin got confused and thought that this was his pack and play and not the baby dolls.

"GET... ME... OUT... OF... HERE!!!" Trying to take pictures, Dallin was not happy at all.

How cute are we??? Truth is, we took several shots of this pose, and I chose the one that I looked best in, sorry, Paul and Dallin. Aren't I vain?!?!

Playing the piano with Grandma B!

My little (yet big and muscley) brother Kyle, teaching Dallin how to play the guitar.

And here he is playing........hold your ears!

The peice de resistance. This is Dallin, with his cousins, Jacob and Mckay, playing their kazoos and rattles. And yes, all cheeks here are quite mushable.

Stay tuned for more lovely pictures and stories of our vacation and of our life in the big KY.

Cookies are yummy!

We had a fun time making and decorating these cookies. Dallin didn't decorate any, but he sure ate a bunch of them. Paul decorated this tree and was so proud of it. I give him an A for abstract! Here is the whole lot of them. We tried to make an argyle pattern on one of the socks. It might not look good, but it sure was yummy!Dallin loves to wear hats now. He also takes any object and "talks on it" like a phone.
What a handsome boy he is!
Lately we have been finding random toys in our Christmas tree. Dallin loves to hang any sort of ornament of the tree and he pulls down our stockings and puts them on his feet. He loves Christmas decorations.

These are a few of my favorite things...

I love to sit, lay, and bite on mommy and daddy's feet, especially when they are trying to make dinner or clean up. I love to steal the oven mits from the kitchen and put them on my hands AND feet.

I LOVE my new Elmo slippers. On and off and on and off and on and off they go. And pants are SOOO last season!!
This is my all time favorite spot to sit. In the cupboard, by the breadmaker and canned food. Today, I got my pinky toe stuck in the lid of the bread maker. Mom laughed at me even though it hurt and I couldn't get it out.

Meanwhile, we've have had an early Christmas here in the Duncan home. We made an arrangement with Santa to be here early, since we will be in Utah come Christmas time. Dallin got his Elmo slippers, a few toys and a sweet pair of suspenders for church. Also, we needed to get our new camera before all those picture perfect moments disappeared. Thanks Santa!!

The projects never end...

Projects, projects, Projects. Regardless of what they are and if we ever get them done, we always have some project or another. Paul's latest project is a picture frame. He is building a 24x20in picture frame for our Temple picture that a group of friends gave to us when we got married. The poor guy is missing all of the tools that he had so readily available back in Utah. Some of you older folks might remember the old saws without electricity, the ones where you have to push and pull the saw over the wood to cut it. They still carry them in some stores and we were lucky enough to find one!!

My latest project is knitting. Paul bought me a kit and book on knitting for my birthday and I am now teaching myself to knit, or knot as I like to call the beginning stages. Although I have some ambidextrous qualities, I will always be a lefty at heart. I am trying to teach myself how to knit right-handed so that I won't have to knit any patterns, that I do try to tackle, backwards. As Elmo said on Sesame Street one morning, regarding the tortoise and the hare "Slow and steady... Slow and steady..." My knitting is knotting and my purling is pooling, but I still have hope. I will one day knit SOMETHING that will be recognizable.

Dallin's projects, of course, are ongoing. In fact, I don't think that his ever end. He is busy undoing everything that Paul and I do. He loves to unfold the laundry, but he does put it back in the basket for me. He loves to rearrange his dresser drawers, a rebel he is, putting the pants with the pajamas. But, I would have to say that his ALL-TIME favorite project is hanging my Pyrex casserole dishes on the wall. You may use your imagination on this one. Paul and I have become quite the power picker-uppers with this little goon running around.

Needless to say, we all keep quite busy.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!

Happy Halloween to everyone!! We had fun this year dressing Dallin up in a Chicken costume. Everyone called him Chicken Little, and for the fortunate one's, he did a little chicken dance. As per Duncan tradition, we carved a pumpkin and were very proud to display it on our porch. We thought that Dallin would get into the goey middle of the pumpkin, but he didn't want anything to do with it. I, Kristen, broke our digital camera a week ago, so we had to improvise with our methods of photography. We got some cute pics thanks to some friends and our trusty camcorder. We hope you all had a spooktacular night as well!!

I wanna be a cowboy baby!!

With Dallin's obsession with shoes, big and small alike, Paul thought it would be fun to get out his old cowboy boots. Dallin LOVED them, although he reminded us of a drunk cowboy when he tried to walk in them, haha!!

S'mores!!!

We grilled some burgers on a little grill that a co-worker of Paul's is letting us borrow and Paul put together some s'mores. We gave Dallin one and he LOVED it. We are still finding marshmallow all over the place.