2012

Wow, what a year 2012 was!  It was full of adventure and learning new things.

January- March
The first few months of 2012 were spent waiting for Brantley to arrive and learning how to take care of a newborn.  
On January 30 we welcomed Brantley Logan Fulgham into our family.  After waiting 10 days past his due date and after many hours of labor he finally decided to join us at 8lbs and 4 oz.  We were in love with him the moment we saw him.  We loved every inch of his dark hair and and his chubby cheeks.

February we spent most of the time at home loving on Brantley

In March Jared was able to give Brantley a beautiful blessing.  We were joined by all of our family.  It was a wonderful day.

April-June
In April I went back to work part time.  It was nice having something to get up and get ready for each morning.  It was nice to be back and see all of my students. During April I also interviewed for a job with the Up to 3 program.  I always wanted to work for Up to 3, but it never worked out.  Finally I was  to apply and interview to work for the program.  This job was perfect for our little family.  Its not as stressful as working at the school and it is only part time.  I was so excited when I got the phone call offering me the job

In May I started my job with Up to 3.  Jared's sister Nikki also left to serve a mission in Long Beach California.  She is doing a great job and is loving every minute of it.  Jared also decided to further his education and study Speech Language Pathology.  He has been taking online classes since May and will be finishing them up this coming May.  He is applying for grad school and could be starting that as soon as June

               

In June we made the trip to Texas.  It was so much fun to introduce Brantley to the Texas family.  He was so good on the trip and it was nice to get away for a couple of weeks.

July-September
July we spent time with family and friends enjoying the July 4th and 24th holidays
In September we were able to go to the Brigham City temple open house with the Fulgham family.  It was a great way to remember  Logan.

October-December
October was spent attending USU football games and enjoying general conference with family

In November we attended more USU football games and USU basketball started up....I think we maybe be obsessed, but we certainly enjoy it!

In December Jared and I may the trip to Boise to cheer the Aggies in the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl.  It was a great game the the Aggies came out on top.  We were able to sit by friends and family and had a great time.

2012 was a great adventure and I think 2013 is going to  be even better!

11 Months!

Where did Decemeber go? Better yet where did 2012 go? It seems like just yesterday it was 2011. This past month was a great one.  We spend a lot of time with family and enjoyed many Aggie basketball games.  Mr. Brantley has learned so much this past month.  He will cruise around furniture and even transfer from one piece to another as long as they aren't too far apart.  We have caught him standing and not holding on to anything quite a few times. I just don't think he realizes he is doing it. He is babbling and jabbering even more.  He finally said "mama" this month, although it wasn't directed towards me and he doesn't quite yet have the comprehension to know I'm mama, it made me happy. He now has 9 teeth.  He's 7th one (on the bottom) broke through last week.  I noticed he has two more coming through on the top in the back. (maybe that is why he was a terrible sleeper last night).  He gets into EVERYTHING!  There isn't much that will slow him down.  He loves the stairs and does pretty well I getting up them.  We have to have a gate at the bottom and the top of the stairs.  Those few times when we don't have the gate up at the bottom and he makes it to the stairs he will start giggling and will start to climb the stairs as fast as he can.  He has started to play "tag" with us too.  When we act like we are going to get him he will squeal and crawl away as fast as he can.  He is getting quite the little personality and I love it.  

This past Saturday we went to Temple Square with Fulgham family.  Poor Brantley was tuckered out.  The gloves were in attempt to keep his hands warm and he couldn't pull them off.

Christmas

What?!? A post just not about Brantley??? No worries that will be coming in a few days.  We had a wonderful Christmas  We spent Christmas Eve in Morgan eating wonderful food and spending time with my family.  Its crazy how big my family is getting.  My parents now have 14 grandchildren.  When we are all together there are 28 people altogether. So needless to say it gets a little crazy and loud, but I love it.  Our nieces and nephews did the nativity.  Its always great entertainment and a good reminder of the real reason of the season.  

Izzy as one of the Wisemen

The star and angel

Mary, Joseph, and a shepard

The Nativity

The entire cast

Brantley was taking a much needed nap during the nativity

Every year my mom gives the grandkids pajamas and a bag of cereal.  Its fun to watch them open their gifts and get so excited.

The older grand kids in all of their pajamas

Brantley with his pajamas that are size 18 months and fit him nicely. (he is getting way too big.)

We spent Christmas day with the Fulgham family.  It was nice to just hang out and let Brantley play with his toys. 

                   

Brantley with all of his fun things he got.  

Our little cowboy

Paul and Tina gave each of the kids one of these Teddy Bears.  Each Teddy Bear is made from one of Logan's old t-shirts.  I absolutely loved this gift.

Over all I think we had a great couple of days spent with our families.  It was even better being able to spend the time with our little guy!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

10 months

Mr. Brantley, or Brantley Boo as our niece Izzy likes to call him, is 10 months old today.  In 2 short months we will have a one year old. He weighs around 22 lbs.  There is nothing little about him. This past month Brantley mastered crawling and pulling himself up to stand, and can cruise around furniture.  He is jabbering more and more and just recently he has started jabbering when he is mad, almost like he is telling us off.  It is pretty funny to hear.  This month we enjoyed many basketball games. Brantley does great at the games.  He has adjusted to the noise and will even clap along with the crowd.  Its pretty cute.  All of the other season ticket holders who sit by us  love Brantley. I think some of them pay more attention to Brantley then the game.  It is pretty funny. Brantley keeps us on our toes but we sure do love him!

Brantley's new favorite activity. Looking out the window. Isn't he so cute!

We had a great Thanksgiving and we were able to spend time with all of our family.  I am excited to enjoy more of the Holiday season with all of our family and Mr. Brantley.

Our little Turkey!

December will be filled with trips to Tremonton and Morgan. Jared and I will be going to Boise to cheer on our Aggies in the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl.  We will also be enjoying Christmas with family.  It should be a great month! 

Nine Months

Wow...Mr. Brantley is 9 months old.  Where did this year go? In 3 short months I will have a one year old. Crazy! Brantley is surprising us every day with what he is learning.  In the past month Brantley has started crawling.  He sometimes gets going to fast and face plants it, it is pretty funny.  He will also pull himself up to stand, and some times he thinks he can walk, and then he falls and gets mad.  Someday he will figure it out though.  Along with pulling himself up he has tried climbing a few things, luckily he hasn't found the stairs yet. Although I'm pretty sure that will happen any day now. He has also started saying "da da da da"  and that is all we hear any more.  I really don't think we will be able to make him be quiet once he starts talking. He still loves to eat and if we would let him he would eat ALL day.  He prefers to feed himself and doesn't like it too much when I feed him baby food.   This little guy brings so much joy to our lives.  

Fall

Today was such a beautiful day and Brantley was in such a great mood I thought I would take him outside to take some pictures.  Needless to say he was much more interested in the the leaves and he may or may not have eaten some of them.  The only smiling pictures I got of him were of his cheesy grin. But I think he enjoyed his time playing in the leaves and I definitely enjoyed being outside!

Of course he had to watch the car as it drove by

And did I mention he is on the move? He does a part crawl, dragging legs, and launching himself forward maneuver to get around.  Just the other day he pulled himself up to stand, I am so not ready for that stage but I don't think there is any slowing him down!

8 months

Mr. Brantley is 8 months old.  He is growing like crazy and I don't think he will slow down any time soon.  He weighs a little over 20 lbs.  He still loves his food.  He can feed himself finger foods and hold his own bottle.  He is still a social little boy and he loves just the slightest attention from anyone.  He will wave hi and bye to people....it is pretty darn cute.  Another new thing he has started is when you pick him up he will pat your back. I didn't think we did it that much, but I guess we do.  Brantley is trying to figure out the crawling thing.  He can get up on his hands and knees, but he doesn't quite know what to do after that.  He can army crawl to get to places, it just isn't very quick yet.  He still loves his bath time and loves laying down and splashing in the water.  He still just has six teeth, but we think he is working on his seventh.  This kid may have a full set of teeth by the time he is one!  
We have a had an exciting month filled with the JDRF walk in memory of Logan, a wedding, football, and visiting family.  It has been a great month, and October will be just as fun!

7 months

Another month as come and gone and Brantley just keeps growing! August was a busy month for us.  September will even be a busier month, but that is part of life right?  Brantley is getting quite the little personality.  His laugh is so funny and it doesn't take much for him to laugh.  I just think he likes the attention.  He FINALLY figured out how to roll from his stomach to his back consistentley. Although there are still the times he gets on his belly and gets mad he just cries until we roll him back over.  He is getting closer to crawling.  He gets up on his knees, but doesn't push up with his arms at the same time. I think he is going to be into EVERYTHING once he starts crawling, but that is part of learning right?  He can feed himself cheerios like a pro.  I started giving him other finger foods this week and he has handled them pretty well.  He definitely loves his food and some days we can get it to him fast enough. He loves being in his walker and can make his way across the carpet now.  It is so nice he can entertain himself a little longer now! Brantley will wave  lift his arm up when saying hi or bye to people.  I'm pretty sure it is intentionally, but can't totally tell yet.  We are looking forward to another great month with this little guy!

Sporting his new ear muffs that reduce sound for Aggie sporting events.  We will be trying them out tonight at the first Aggie football game of the season.

This is what happens when I leave him by the diaper bag.  He was grabbing the cereal in hand fulls and shoving it in his mouth.  He was pretty proud of himself.

2....4....6....Teeth!

Brantley now has 6 teeth. You read that right 6! And the best or worst part is he got them all with in a month.  He has 2 on the bottom and 4 on the top.  Over all he handled it ok, but I am so glad it is over.  Hopefully he won't be teething again for a while!
This past weekend we had our Sessions family reunion.  On Friday we went to Morgan and swam at our family friend's house.   That night Jared and I took Brantley to the Davis County Rodeo. I had to keep reminding myself I was surrounded by a bunch of city slickers.  It was a pretty small rodeo.  Then on Saturday we went out to Erda and just visited with everyone.  That night we went to a Real Salt Lake game.  It was fun, other than Real lost in stoppage time.  Brantley handled it ok, and only freaked out a couple of times.  We are just getting him use to loud events since we will be dragging him to Aggie football and basketball games.  
It was nice to spend some time with my family and just visit with everyone!

Back to School

Yes you read that right, for Jared that is.  After being graduated for a year Jared decided he missed school so much that he wanted to go back...or something like that!  He has decided to study Speech Language Pathology.  Right now he is taking undergrad courses online to complete requirements to get into the Master program.  If all works out he will start the Masters program at Utah State next summer.  It is just a two year program which won't be too bad to handle (at least for me). I am so proud of Jared for this step in life he has taken.  This summer he has worked full time and took 12 credit hours.  He has done very well in his classes and has been able to stay caught up on work.  He will continue to work full time until he starts the masters program. Hopefully at that time my work can bump me up to at least 75%.

Jared had to reapply to USU. Here is his acceptance letter.

And of course I have to mention Brantley in a post.  He is currently cutting his 4th tooth.  I hope it breaks through soon.  This poor kid has cut 3 teeth since July 20th, working on his 4th, and had to get his 6 month shots on top of all of that.

6 months

In 6 months Brantley went from this.....

to this........

18 lbs 6 oz- 67th percentile

27 inces - 71st percentile

He is such a fun little boy! He loves when people talk to him....or even look at him! He will flash them the biggest smile. He loves little kids.  On Sunday he was watching a little boy walk around and Brantley thought he was the funniest thing.  It was pretty darn cute!  Brantley eats baby food like a pro. He likes everything you give him.  He has gotten to the point where he tries to steal food off our plates.  Brantley now has 2 teeth and I think another one is trying to come through.  Teething wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be....but I'm not complaining! He is still a pro at rolling over on to his belly, just getting him to roll back over is the hard thing!  He will tolerate his stomach as long as he has something to entertain himself and if he isn't tired.  He can now sit up with no support for quite awhile.  It has been nice to give him another option other than laying down.  He can cruise around in a walker pretty well too, he really likes that!  I have a feeling once he starts crawling there will be no stopping him and he will be into everything.  He has grown so much this month and I have a feeling he will grow so much more this coming month!