The Expanding Ogdons

The Big ONE

2011-04-17T09:22:00.000-07:00

Our little man turned one last Sunday, April 10th. Crazy. To celebrate, we threw a little party with some of Trey's favorite people. It was pretty crazy having that many people - especially kids - in our house, but we had a great time. Unfortunately, Trey was still getting over a nasty ear infection, so he wasn't running on all cylinders. But - he was a trooper!

My first time getting to see my birthday boy. Mike and I were at a wedding in Spokane the night before and took really early flights out the next day so we could get home for the big day.

Trey loves his new play gym he got from Grandpa and Grammy A. He plays on it pretty much non-stop.

He also got an awesome table and chairs from Grandpa and Grandma O. He feels like such a big kid when he's sitting at it. Mike wanted him to look like a really big kid and gave him a beer and a pocket knife.

Cake time!

Wasn't sure what he thought of it at first...

Needed a little help from mom...

Wow - this is good!

Izzy couldn't stand just watching anymore. She needed some cake.

All the other kids joined in.

Happy First Birthday, sweet boy. This has been the craziest, hardest, and best year of our lives. We love you so so much!

Walking!

2011-04-05T07:33:00.000-07:00

Last Sunday, Trey took his first steps! The hysterics that follow these steps are a result of him wanting the video camera. It was pretty much impossible to get a video of him where he wasn't throwing a fit because we wouldn't give him the camera. My apologies...

He's really figured things out in the past week and is now cruising around the house...

Ranch Baby

2011-03-25T17:28:00.000-07:00

Last weekend, we packed it up and headed down to the Chico Basin Ranch for a fun party for family and friends who had March birthdays. It was Trey's first trip there...and he LOVED it! He partied hard, slept perfectly at night and cuddled with me in bed for 10 minutes when he got up in the morning (which he never does). It was a great time!

The day before we got there, a sheep had triplets. We got to see them when they were just about a day old. So cute. Trey wasn't too sure what to think about them.

Looking at all the baby horses. Mike let him crawl through all kinds of animal dung in his PJ's. Sometimes you've just got to learn to let go of some things as a mother :)

Daddy and Trey cruising around headquarters.

Updates...

2011-03-04T08:33:00.000-08:00

Ok – so it’s been awhile. Oops. I have at least one excuse for my lack of blogging this past month – I dumped an entire cup of coffee onto my keyboard. I had to wait a few days to get my computer to work at all. Luckily, most of the keys work again, but the Backspace key does not. I don’t know if you’ve ever tried to type without a backspace key, but it is incredibly tedious. When I make a mistake, I have to back up w ith the arrow keys and then use the delete key. So annoying. Oh well, someday I will have a computer with all its keys in working order and that doesn’t move as if it were on dial-up.

Anyways, here’s a few updates from the last month…

Mike:

• Still kicking butt at work.
• Kicking butt at fatherhood too. Loves to wrestle with Trey and describes everything he’s doing to him. Trey can’t get enough of his dad. He wakes up asking for “dada.”
• Went on a ski trip with his guys. Checked skiing Silverton off his bucket list.
• Is in 2 weddings in the next month (Joel’s and Jonathan’s – friends from college). Pretty sure these will be about the 24th and 25th weddings he’s been in in the past 5 years.

Tig:
• Loving my new job. It’s so nice to get out and be an adult a couple days a week.
• Randomly decided to paint/re-paint half my house last weekend (with the help of my handy husband of course). I’m kind of the queen of randomly taking on huge house projects.
• Turns 27 in a few days - weird.

Trey:
• Is becoming more of a little boy and less of a baby.
• Is into everything. Can crawl faster than I can walk and is scaling the furniture. Some of his favorite activities include: playing in the toilet, pulling the toilet paper off the roll and sticking it in his mouth, climbing any stair he sees, tugging on Bella’s ears, dumping Bella’s water bowl, emptying mom’s purse, pushing all the buttons on the remote, and attacking his teddy bear.
• Talking more and more each day. Says: “dada”, “mama”, “more”, “bella”, “book” and “no” (the last one is not so fun.
• When asked what sound an elephant makes, he replies by pursing his lips and blowing (and spitting all over).
• Is the best thing that’s ever happened to us.

Digging in my purse.

Loves everything electronic - computers, iPads, phones, remotes, etc...

Using his toy bucket as a stepping stool to get the remote.

Chewing on my lens cap and reading his favorite book - "Barnyard Dance."

Out for a family walk.

Bathtime!

2011-02-01T08:54:00.001-08:00

The boy seriously loves his bathtime...

Back to Work

2011-01-24T07:53:00.001-08:00

Over the past many months, I have contemplated whether or not I should try to go back to work part-time. For awhile, I put a lot of effort into searching for a job, but ended up feeling like it wasn't the right time. I just decided to put it in the Lord's hands and told myself that if he wanted me to work, he would provide the right opportunity...and last week he did. A family friend who is the director at a local Christian school (when I say local - I mean it's pretty much in my backyard) called me and said he might have a position for me. So, I went in to interview last Wednesday, was offered the job on Friday, and start this week! Pretty crazy! It's a great opportunity to work 2 days a week in the admissions office of the school. It will give me an opportunity to get out of the house and be around other adults (and kids too) - which I was in desperate need of. It will also give Trey an opportunity to hang with 2 of his favorite ladies - Grandmas Sherry and Julie.

So, here I go...back to the working world (well...kind of) :) Wish me luck!

My Kind of Morning

2011-01-09T07:56:00.000-08:00

Sunday mornings are often hectic around here. We're always scrambling to get out the door in time for church. So when I got up this morning and saw an email saying that church had been cancelled (due to a broken heater in the building where we meet), I was kind of relieved. I love going to church, but not having it this morning gave us an opportunity to spend some quality family time around our new wood stove. Mike, along with his dad, brother, and brother-in-law, have been working on installing this stove for the past few months and they just finished it in time for a snowy day. The combination of my family, snow, and a warm fire made for a perfect morning...

Pooped

2011-01-03T07:43:00.000-08:00

Trey is constantly on the move and often has a hard time calming down to go to sleep even in a dark and quiet room. So, you can imagine my surprise when I looked across the room to see him dead asleep in his jumperoo with lights flashing and music blaring around his head. I guess the holidays really took it out of him :)

We're Back!

2011-01-01T08:10:00.000-08:00

Happy New Year! I've heard multiple times lately that in order to give yourself the best chance of sticking with new years resolutions, you should just pick one. So, while there are many areas of my life that could use some improvement, I am choosing to focus on actually updating this blog. I no longer scrapbook and I'm not great at journaling (I get really bad writers' cramps), so this seems to be the best way to document our life. I want to do this for not only for myself, but for Trey and for any future Ogdons that might enter the picture at some point. So, for those of you that care, here's to the first of many blog posts in 2011!

Laughing!

2010-08-24T08:07:00.000-07:00

5 Years & 4 Months

2010-08-16T07:49:00.000-07:00

Last weekend we went to Steamboat to celebrate our 5th anniversary. Our dear friends Ryan and Janny met us there! Trey was so glad he got to meet them.

Trying to re-create a picture of some clowns they found in a magazine. So weird...

Janny & Trey

Hiking!

First swim! Not sure what he thought about it. It was pretty cold.

Just reading the Sunday paper.

4 months old! How did that happen so fast?!

Oh Dear...

2010-08-13T08:13:00.001-07:00

Daddy and Trey are already doing things that make mom nervous. I guess I'd better get used to it.

Trey & George: Best of Friends

2010-07-08T16:25:00.001-07:00

Bob recently went to England and brought home a present for Trey - George the Pig. Trey and George became fast friends. Trey loves to hold George's hand and tote him around the house. He also enjoys swinging with him. Thanks, Grandpa Bob!

Smiles

2010-06-29T19:23:00.000-07:00

We're loving Trey's sweet smiles...

Updates

2010-06-24T07:32:00.000-07:00

It's been awhile since the last post, so here's a few updates on what we've been up to...

My sister got a new black lab puppy - Bernice Jean. She and Bella are the best of buds. They've already had tons of play dates.

Auntie Annie and Uncle Ian came to visit.

...and Ian tried to eat our son.

We threw my mom a big surprise 60th birthday party.

The girls took her for pedicures to get her out of the house before the party. The boys stayed home to set up :)

Trey got to meet his Aunt Jenny, Uncle Matt and cousin Ollie. Trey and Ollie are going to be great friends.

Bella is learning to be a good big sister.

Cori, Steph and I took all the kiddos up to Steamboat for 4 days. It was a bit chaotic and loud, but fun and relaxing at the same time. Naomi was so sweet to Trey. She just kept wanting to kiss him.

Trey's first hike

Trey's mouth found his hands and it can't get enough of them...especially his left one. Wonder if he'll be a lefty?

Okay, that's enough for now...

Karate Kid

2010-06-01T07:54:00.001-07:00

So Sleepy

2010-05-27T09:29:00.001-07:00

After eating, Trey usually loves having some tummy time on his play mat. He's usually super alert and loves to play, but when I put him down the other day, I turned away for a minute and when I looked back, this is what I found...

Mother's Day

2010-05-11T11:06:00.001-07:00

Dear Trey,
You've made me one happy mama. So glad you're in my life.
Love, Mom

The new fam

Trey and G-ma A

Ride em cowboy!

First Bath

2010-05-08T10:10:00.001-07:00

Trey's cord to FOREVER to fall off (over 3 weeks!), so we didn't give him his first real bath until this week. We thought he'd love it because he loves it when we put his head under the faucet to wash his hair. Boy were we wrong! He hated it - I mean blood curdling screams hated it!

After we got him out and in his towel he got revenge by explosively pooping all over the towel! He sure showed us.

Later in the week, I filled the regular tub and got in with him and he seemed to like that a little more. We're learning...

Introducing Trey Wyatt Ogdon...Finally

2010-05-03T11:11:00.000-07:00

After 46 hours of labor starting at the birth center and ending at the hospital we welcomed our son into the world at 5:05pm on April 10, 2010.

He was a stuborn little guy and didn't want to come out. After hours of pushing, we got some help from a vaccuum and he finally had no choice but to come. It left him with a killer conehead and a headache :(

Just a little guy

The Grandparents

Aunts and Uncles

Meeting Big Sister Bella

The New Fam

So alert

Just chillin

Loves to hold his own paci

Super cozy

So big

Our little homie

Little Moses Baby

Dad is so proud...and weird

Party time in the crib

Nursery

2010-04-08T06:57:00.000-07:00

Now all I need is a baby! Due tomorrow...

Baby Shower!

2010-03-11T20:07:00.001-08:00

Last Saturday my sweet friends threw me a beautiful baby shower! I got seriously spoiled! Thanks to everyone who came. It was so good to see all of you.

Love these women

Cori made super cute bird's nest cupcakes to match the "nesting" theme.

My cute sister

Loved the little man shoes.

Great Grandma, Grandmas, and Aunt

Bella just can't wait for the baby to come out.

Whoa...how did that happen?!?

2010-02-28T18:09:00.000-08:00

5 weeks

10 weeks

17 weeks

20 weeks

30 weeks

34 weeks

Crap...I'm going to have to get even bigger :/

We bought a house!

2010-02-19T08:58:00.000-08:00

Our new home...

We finally found a place to live...it's been quite a process.

Scheduled move-in date: March 15th

Due date: April 9th

Could be cutting it close :)

Jumping on the bandwagon...

2010-02-18T08:12:00.000-08:00

After years of tracking the lives of friends through their blogs, I've decided that with the impending arrival of our little man, now is a good time to start one of my own. So, for those of you that care, this will be a place where you can come check out the latest adventures of Mike, Tig, and Baby Ogdon (name TBD).

A (very) brief history of B.O....

On Tuesday, July 28, 2009 our lives changed forever.

Boy or Girl? Big sister Bella couldn't wait to find out...

"It's a girl...no wait...it's a boy!!!"

More to come...