Eider's first Christmas

It has been a wonderful Christmas for the Reed family! All of us were spoiled rotten and got way too much stuff!? We are all very blessed!

I've decided Christmas is so much more magical when you have children...

Even though Eider couldn't have cared less about Christmas this year, It was fun to see him try to upwrap his presents. I think he was happier playing with the wrapping paper than the toy inside the wrapping!

ohhh....whats this?!

It was really fun to help Eider unwrap his presents...he eventually got the hang of it!

Danni Girl as always thinks she needs to help

I hope everyone's Christmas was as much fun as ours -- God bless!

Eider's blessing

Today we blessed Eider in our home...Jess gave a wonderful blessing and it was really cool having all of Jess' family there.

Sorry if we didn't invite many of you, but we had a lot of people to squeeze into our tiny little home.  

Please accept my apologies and enjoy a few pictures taken

All of the men who were in the circle

From the left top row: Brother Huffaker, Bret Dahl, Ross Reed, Jess Reed, Eider Reed, Troy Cook, David Bennett, Greg Larsen, Brother Hayes. Bottom row: Ryan Reed, Kham Truong

Family picture with our sleepy little guy

Aunt Keri with snoozin' Eider

Grandma Reed with Eider

Jess' siblings: Keli, Ryan, Lexi, Jola &  of course Jess

The Cook's brought over their new puppy over, Oscar --- Taven 

Reed is holding the puppy while Tayven Cook sneaks in the shot!

The candid shot of the bums on the couch

Mom and Phil with Eider

the final Christmas card design

Thanks for everyones input on the pictures...I couldn't choose just one, I loved them all so much! but I was finally able to narrow it down to three with all ya'lls help.

Here is how it turned out:

Thank you!

pick your favorite

I can't decide which pictures I like best to send out to family...
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weekly update

Not much new here...Eider is finally growing hair - we are so happy! we thought he might be bald forever ;)

He's becoming quite the little drool machine

Some Christmas pictures

I was experimenting today with lighting and camera position for Eider's first Christmas pictures...here are a few practice shots...

ENJOY!

More to come

Photo and video editing at www.OneTrueMedia.com

Eider and Jess doing Kempo

I think we're creating a monster...!

Eider loves it when Jess does karate with him....

Eider with his Great Grandma Jean

We went to Vernal for a quick Thanksgiving trip and took this picture

Eider playing in his bouncer

Ride 'em cowboy!

Eider riding Danni Girl 

She lets Eider do pretty much whatever he wants to her...she is such a good dog!

Weekend Warriors!

We took a little trip to moab this past weekend. One can never go to moab and have a bad time...there are too many fun things to do, right?

This trip we decided to do more scenic activities than the rugged stuff we usually do cuz Eider, bless his heart, is still a little too little. We also took our friends, Troy and Nicole who have a 3 year old and an 18 month old. Needless to say, we were a little limited on what we could do; but that didn't stop us from having a good time!

So we camped in little cabins, played a little poker (with starbursts), 

drove through Arches, took the jeep off-roadin' and did a little bouldering. It was a fun and relaxing weekend...oh and we did a little shopping at all of the cool outdoorsy stores Moab has to offer. (one of my favorite parts of the whole trip!!)

Eider with his chalk mustache -- a future climber in the making!

Jess climbing "Brown Powder"

Marking the boulder as "climbed!"

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My son the cheese ball!

I like to call Eider a cheese ball cuz every friggin time I turn on the camera, he knows about it!

He loves to show off for the camera...already!

Bouldering trip to Triassic

We thought it would be an adventure taking Eider, a three month old, and Danni Girl our dog on a bouldering trip....boy was it ever an adventure! Actually, I would call it more of an experiment gone wrong -- very wrong! We won't be packing those two up until they're both a bit more grown up!

Eider cried all day and the dog kept running away -- needless to say Jess and I didn't get much climbing in...but, it wasn't a complete loss of a good day...we got a few good pictures of everyone.

Here are some of my favorites below, but if you click this link, you can see all of our pictures.

Eider's "rock on" pose

Me and Eider hanging from the gravity boulder

Me climbing dancing on the moon

Jess on Dancing on the moon

torn up bleeding hands + chalk under the fingernails = great day of climbing!

Nater standing on a boulder surveying "land of a thousand boulders"

Jess and Eider watching the sunset

Halloween

So I wasn't very creative this year with Eider's costume...sorry! I really didn't feel like making a three month old dress up and be uncomfortable and then hearing him fuss all day ;) I was so not in the mood... 

Sorry son, you get the pumpkin onsie costume! Cuz your mom is cheap and tired!

Oh well, he's so cute anyway he can pull it off!

Eider after a bath

Baby blue eyes

Mr. Attitude

Check out the rockstar!

Beenie complements of his uncle Barry

Rock on!

They grow up so fast...

Eider is already big enough to hold up his head...I'm so proud (and grateful) I can finally let him face out when he is in his little sling. He hated to facing towards me -- he loves to see the world!

Eider snoozin in mom and dad's bed...it's his favorite place to take naps

I'm amazed at how fast he is growing. When everyone told me to remember how small he is because he will grow so fast, they wern't kiddin! I miss it already!

But I am so in love with my little baby! He is just learning how to smile and laugh together, and everytime he smiles, my eyes well up with tears...I love to see him grow and learn! I can't wait to teach him how to rock climb and fish!

Eider's stroll around the house

So Eider loves to be strolled around the house...and Danni Girl loves to bite at the tires and chase us. It's quite comical!

His little eyes dart around and back and forth...he loves to stay busy (which keeps me busy!) and he loves to hold on to that little monkey, he hates to let it go.

Eider is happy and quiet, Danni Girl gets exercise, and I have peace of mind...That can't be a bad thing right?

So I strapped our camera onto the front of his stroller to watch his reaction to everything...it's pretty dang cute!

Go Eider!

(Sorry for the chessy commentary -- What can I say...I'm a dork!)

Holy cow! I'm two months old!

The face says it all...You would think by this photo that he's scared to be two months old?! ;)

I can't believe it's been two months already...wow how time flies when your busy having fun!

He's getting his diaper changed...he's a happy boy! I love his smile!

Danni thinks she needs to take care of him too

A day of rock climbing

Today we went rock climbing up rock canyon. It was great fun; Although very tiring!

It was everybody's first time climbing in a long time...Jess and I haven't climbed since Eider was born - actually since March - Nate hasn't been climbing since before his mission and Keli and Bret haven't climbed since Stetson was born...we were all a little out of shape, well, I'm lying...ALOT OUT OF SHAPE!

But it was awesome to touch the rock again after being away from it for so long. There is something magical about it...after every climbing trip there is a sense of accomplishment and bliss - it just makes you smile - despite the fatique and sore fingers. I love it!

It was also an experiment trip to see how Eider would do climbing...He actally did really well! I am so proud of him! He was great for the first 4 hours, just chillin' in the hammock or on the blanket, but as the fifth hour approached, he decided it was time to go home. I think we have a future rock climber on our hands!?


I'm carrying Eider in his little snugli

Jess' first lead climb of the year

Eider in his hammock just chillin with his little doo-rag on (for Catlin)

On his blanket hangin' out in the rocks (don't worry - he had lots of padding under there)

Me with Stetson and Eider....as you can see, my little one was staring to get fussy by now

Nate and Jess - climbing together again after two long years

Stetson loved the hammock! he just laughed and laughed!

Eider and mom with Nate belaying in the background

It was awesome climbing again! Considering I had a baby 7 weeks ago, I felt like an all-star! I don't have the stamina I used to or the upper body strength, but I thought it would be alot harder to come back to it...actually, I couldn't even tell I had a 4 inch incision across my abdomen - and my ab muscles were all still there and working great! NOW, I can't wait to get back into climbing shape...

The future looks bright! I can't wait to see all the fun climbing adventures Jess and I will take Eider on...one big happy climbing family!