Thanksgiving

After Newport we headed to Manhattan Beach to spend the holiday with my family. My Grandpa & Grandma McNay came out and my grandma cooked her amazing Thanksgiving feast. I was able to help her cook and learned how to make a couple of my favorite dishes. While everything cooked we went for a walk on the beach then headed home for an early dinner. To end the night Christian and I braved the crowds for some midnight Black Friday madness. Although we got some killer deals, it very well may be a once in a lifetime experience.

Besties

The week before Thanksgiving my girlfriend Madeleine, her son Max, Brady & I drove down to Newport for a week of R&R. Brady made it very clear that he hated all 6 hours of the drive, but once we arrived we had a great time. The week involved more Diet Dr. Pepper, Cafe Rio, and lounging around than I care to admit, but I enjoyed every minute of it! Max loved playing with Brady (even though he can't even sit up on his own). I can't wait till Brady is a bit older so they can run around & play together! On Friday, Mad & Max flew home and Christian flew in for our first vacation as just the three of us!

Daddy's boy

If I didn't know better I might wonder if Brady was actually my child. He is a spitting image of Christian as a baby. Plus, we just went to the Dr. for his 4 month check up and he is over 99th percentile for height. Obviously, that's not from me either. He also barely made a peep when he got his shots. I think I was more upset than him. Love this little guy!

First Haircut

Brady is losing his hair, but it has been slowly falling out in chunks. It has been an uneven mess for awhile now. Thankfully, Heather came to the rescue and gave him a much needed hair makeover. She may have been partially motivated because his hair loss somehow created a Y on the back of his head:)
All done...He paid Heather with lots of kisses!Christmas came a little early for Brady. Heather got him two sets of super cute Christmas PJs

Brady's Blessing

You are probably thinking...if we would've waited any longer Brady could've walked himself up to the podium. Between everyone's vacations it was hard to find a day that would work, but we finally did. My parents and grandparents flew into town and Christian's good friend Nate Defries came down Dublin. Brady received a beautiful blessing and thanks to a friend in the ward (with apparently lightning fast handwriting) we have the whole blessing transcribed. After church Cindy hosted and prepared a delicious dinner for everyone! There's is definitely no shortage of people that love Brady and we feel so lucky that he can be constantly surrounded by family and close friends!

All Hallows Eve

Brady really wanted to dress up and go trick-or treating again so who was I to stop him. Although it was hot and his costume was clearly not designed for summer weather, I let him wear it anyway (he really liked all the compliments). We joined a group of friends for lunch and then some afternoon trick-or-treating in downtown Los Altos. Later in the evening we went to a Halloween party at Joe & Meg Field's house.

Trick-or-Treat

Holland as Justin Bieber
Bailey as a duckMax as Donald TrumpOwen as Monster's Inc.

Our friend Lindsay planned a little Halloween party in the park for the kids to do a little trick-or-treating and dress up a few days early. It is so fun to see all the kids in their costumes. It might be one of the last times we can put whatever we want on them and they don't have an opinion. Brady was supposed to be a duck, but he too big so we had to go option 2.

Love that face (and that argyle sweater vest)

When you give an Aunt a baby...

He might come home looking like this!

Note to self

Christian doesn't like it when he gets in my car and sees this...

California Love

I love that we can head to the beach in the morning (at the end of October) and still make it home in time for an afternoon nap.

Moving woes

We don't have a couch, but we do have a giant TV that is already mounted to the wall on some special swivel thing so you can see it from any angle of our small condo. Wanna guess who won that battle?

Joy Ride

Brady at the Ballpark

Brady's first Giants game! He was happy as can be until they scored a run. All the cheering scared him and he started to cry. I was thinking we might have to leave, but all the runs after that didn't seem to bother him. Good thing because the Giants scored 6 more!

Ready for Halloween

Brady was going to be a duck for Halloween, but because of his new medicine we are thinking we might want to reevaluate . He has thrush and we have to give him a topical medicine that obviously stains. We put Aquaphor around his lips so it wouldn't stain, but didn't think to put it actually on his lips. After just one application he had purple lips for two days.

Early Start

Since Brady has some Asian blood we thought he was ready to start developing his musical talents.