Yeah, a post!

So Oliver loves anything with wheels lately. He is also busy

running and climbing

on everything, tables, chairs, couches, 4-wheelers...

whatever he can find.

Robert is busy farming and loving it.

I am about 2o weeks prego, still

can't believe I'm half way there!

All is well in the Bonner household. We are still planning/hoping

to move back to Goodhue very soon!

Robert's motorcycle is for sale if anyone is interested!!

Grandma had plenty of helpers planting the garden!

Easter announcement, big brother!

Trying on Great Grandma's aprons.

Playing w/ neighbor Alana's new toys, pretty cool!

Big boy w/ daddy's hat!

Driving home from a busy weekend at Grandma's house.
I think it was a tie for who fell asleep first, Oliver or Bradley!
Had I been driving and not Robert, he probably would have been
sleeping too!


I can't remember why he was upset, but I couldn't resist
taking this picture!!


Bath time, "Check out my hair!"



1/16/09


Oliver's 1st Birthday party!! To help celebrate there were presents, cake,
cupcakes, grandmas, grandpas, aunties, uncles and lots of cousins!
Oliver had a blast, I don't think he knew what to think of all the people in
our house at one time. It was really fun, we were loving every minute of it!
Some 1yr old stats: Walking all over and sometimes nearly running, wt: 28#s,
ht: 30 3/4 inches, 6 teeth, lots of babbles, but says dada a lot! Says mama too
but usually when he's hungry, just started drinking organic whole milk, eats people
food and loves meat like his father! No 1st haircut yet, although Robert thinks it's time,
I'm not ready for that yet because then he will look like such a big boy! He still attracts
a lot of attention when we are out and about, probably because he is very social, always
smiling and babbling with other kids! No idea where that comes from because both Robert and I were pretty shy kids...

Checking out his new rocking chair from Grandma! Amazing how

quickly he just climbed right up there all by himself...

I did some serious baking for the party... I didn't make the big

cake but the cupcakes were all me. They turned out really cute, but

they take patience which I don't have a lot of sometimes.

Oliver checking out his new horse. I'm not sure who was more

excited about it Oliver or Robert !!

Opening a few presents at home, just the 3 of us.

Oliver's new ride, Santa was sure nice to him

this year!

Grandpa and Grandma with all the grandkids!
Could barely fit them all in the picture. What a crew!

Trying to keep up with all the kids... he had to check out all

the action.

Not so sure about Santa, "get me out of here" he says!

Christmas Eve, Oliver was a little tired by the end of the night!

Merry Christmas everyone!! Hope your holidays are filled with
lots of love and joy this year. I have been looking forward to the holidays for
a while now and can't believe it's finally here. This year has been so amazing
with all of our 1sts with Oliver. Everyday I think I say this at least once, I love being a mom!! We are so blessed to have such a sweet boy! I posted a bunch of pics from the last few months.. got a little behind so I hope you enjoy!!

This is his infant car seat base, apparrently it might work as a sled too. He just crawled right in, and got so mad when I tried to take him out so I just left him in there for a while!

My Christmas decorations keeps getting rearranged, I wonder who keeps moving them...

Baking Christmas cookies at Grandma Bev's. We needed a snack from all our baking!

Leetta was a great helper, unwrapping Hershey's Hugs for us. That was until she discovered

they tasted pretty good. Grandma and I didn't notice she was taking licks and/or bites out of some of them. O-well, I think we caught her before she ate too many of them, just don't tell her mother and father. That's right, what happens at Grandma's, stays at Grandmas!!

Picking out the perfect tree, brrrrr it was chilly!

Back to normal, sqeezing through everything and discovering everything!!

Poor baby, Oliver was sick on Thanksgiving this year. We are thinking he maybe got a

little run down with our big vacation. For about 3-4 days all he wanted to do was be held. So Robert and I took turns with our snuggle time. I have to admit, I probably liked it a little too much. He was kind of teething too so that didn't help matters either.

Vacation 2009! We decided to go visit Robert's cousin Mike and his family in Mississipi just before Thanksgiving this year. What a great trip, the weather was so nice down there. Oliver did fantastic flying, as you will see below he met a new friend on the plane.

The Bonner boys!

1st time to the ocean and the beach. Too bad we didn't have his trunks,

he would have jumped right in!!

More Bonner relatives, Robert's cousins, Mike, Tammy, uncle Merle, and some of Oliver's

2nd cousins!

What a cutie, Maylyn couldn't get enough of Oliver.

Oliver warmed right up to cousin Mike quick, he's never met him before but he went right to him when he picked us up at the airport!

Oliver made a friend on one of our flights, our flight attendant....

She just couldn't get enough of him. Oliver was getting a little restless near the

end of our final flight to Mississippi because Robert and I kept handing him off to one another. We were on this little dinky plane so we only had about 2 feet of space and were shoulder to shoulder with our knees crammed into the seats in front of us....They need to make planes bigger for tall people, anyway, the attendant came over and asked if she could take him for a little bit. We were like sure, and of course Oliver about jumped into her arms like he was done with us...She walked him up and down the isle and he met most of the other passengers.

What a ham, he doesn't care who has him, as long as he's getting attention!

None of our cubboards stay closed anymore!

Happy Halloween!! Boy did Oliver get some attention in his lion costume!

If only we could have gotten that roar down! What a fun night it was for us.

I'm sure he didn't really get much out of it but we had a blast!

Oliver and Aubriel got their pumkins carved out