Thanksgiving and Christmas!!!

My sister and her husband were home from Cali this past week for Thanksgiving because they are not able to come home for Christmas this year. So, we had my side (Trietsch) Christmas this week as well as celebrating Turkey day. This also happened to be the first time Holly and Randy saw Taylor and Nathan for the first time.

They didn't put these babies down all week. This one right above is my mom holding Taylor and Holly has Nathan.

Then on Wed. night we had our own little Christmas party. Of course Taylor and Nathan made out like bandits. Although I must say us "bigger" kids did pretty well too. During gift opening we put bows on the boys so Randy decided to join in the fun and we couldn't resist getting a picture of that.

Then we wrapped up that night with a photo shoot for grandma and grandpa with the two boys. I think we had 3 cameras on them at all times. You have to be fast with boys that are 2 months and 4 months old!!

I will wrap up this post with final pictures of us going downtown to see the santa and the reindeer. It was a lot of work taking a 4 month old down there. Not sure I will do it again but it was his first time seeing Santa lit up on the building.

We hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving! Taylor has his 4 month check up with the doctor in about 2 weeks so we will give you an update then.

Firsts

We haven't posted in awhile so this happened a couple weeks ago. Taylor is doing some new things. He has always been good about taking is pacifier but he has learned a new trick! SUCKING HIS THUMB!!! I am not sure I really want him doing this, but in the middle of the night he will spit out is paci and go for the thumb. I think he has caught on quickly in that if he does this in the middle of the night I can't pull out the thumb and stick his paci back in. Clever little devil isn't he. Here are some pictures of him sucking his thumb.

His other first is he is now eating cereal. He will be turing 4 months old in just 6 days, so the pediatrician said he could start having cereal and oatmeal. He has done pretty good with it but he is still learning how to eat and not thrust out his tongue with all the food coming right out. Here is my big man eating his cereal. He is sooooo cute!!!

He of course has to get some milk to wash it down!!!

Taylor's First Trip to "The Zoo!!"

Good morning to all!! We wanted to share Taylor's first visit to the Fort Wayne Zoo which was all decorated for Halloween. Heather and I decided to dress him up as a "pea pod." There ended up being 10 adults watching 3 kids trick or treat through the Zoo! Here are the pictures we took:

Conner and Rylan as dinosaurs!

That's one "darn good" looking family!!

Hope everyone is doing well!

Jason's Trip to Bend, Oregon...

Good evening all!! I wanted to fill everyone in on my trip to Bend, Oregon to visit the Jeld-Wen window manufacturing plant and to do some fly fishing in the Deschutes River.

My boss Mike and I met Mike Stoffel, Jim Ley, and Mike Ley at the Fort Wayne Airport and flew out around 7 a.m. on October 2 to Minneapolis and then to Portland and arrived around 11:30 a.m. We then jumped in our rental SUV and headed south 2 hours down to Bend.

We made one stop on the ride down to Bend at the Detroit Dam. Nothing too exciting about the Dam but the scenery was of course beautiful. Here are a couple of pics:

After checking in at "The Riverhouse" we all headed to are own rooms to relax and wind down from the long trip. The next pictures are of the suite I stayed in:

We toured the window plant all Friday morning and then had meetings at the plant in the afternoon. As I was laying in bed Friday night I couldn't wait till the morning to go out into the Deschutes River and do some fishing.

In this particular river the entire one side is an Indian Reservation and you're not allowed to set foot anywhere on it. Also you must have waders and fish from the river and not from the boat! So this was all new to me Mr. City boy who just started fishing about a year ago. Here are some pictures of the river and surrounding scenery. By the way I did catch a 17" mountain white fish, and had a couple of trout on my line, battled to get them in, and lost them...

This picture is of some horses down by the river on the Indian Reservation side...

Here is our fishing crew: Kent (Angola, IN), Neal (Guide), and myself (man I need to lose that belly!!)

On our trip back to Portland on Sunday we stopped at the "Timberline Lodge" on Mount Hood. Here are a few pictures of the entrance and a glimpse of snow on the vehicles around the lodge-I had to laugh because I was taking those pictures in shorts and a sweatshirt!

Hope everyone is doing well and Heather, Taylor, and I wish you all a safe and Happy Halloween!!

More Pictures of our Wonderful Son, and ....

We wanted to keep you all up to date with these new pictures that we have taken recently...

This one was taken one weekday night that Taylor feel asleep on my chest (the white shirt I'm wearing should make Taylor's Uncle Ryan proud!)
This one Heather and I love!! It's Nanna, Pappa, Taylor, and of course Mr. "I still don't get enough attention" Bentley!
I think I look like my daddy in this picture-what do you think?!!
Taylor in his new "Aquarium" looking at the fishes and stuff!Bentley in the "Aquarium" while Taylor isn't looking?!!

This is Taylor in his Grammie Trietsch's swing...
Grammie and Mommy given Taylor all the attention he deserves...

And now for the first time on the Pedersen's Blog: Nathan Ryan Trietsch born Sept. 27 @ 2:44pm, 8 lbs. 2 oz. , & 20.5" long!!

Here Nathan with Aunt Heather...

With Uncle Jason...
And with Daddy...

This picture Aleta took this evening of our family!! So Darn cute!!

Hope everyone is doing well!! And a big thanks to all those who help celebrate Heather and I's recent birthdays - we love you all!!

T-Bone is over 6 Weeks Old!!

Good evening all! I have been wanting to load some more pictures of Taylor on this blog for such a long time now but he is keeping Heather and I very busy!!

Things are going well! We weighed him tonight on our scale and we think he's right around 8 lbs! His spitting up is getting much better, but Heather is still going to call our Pediatrician Dr. Lisa and let her know how things are going to make sure he doesn't have acid reflux or something else.

Here are some pics of the super star over the last month or so.....

This picture was taken by Taylor's Uncle Ryan showing how small he is laying in Grammie Trietsch's crib!!
Bentley always has to be around Heather when she has Taylor!

Taylor in his bath tub! He always loves bath time - never cries and is always looking around with those big blue eyes!

Labor day weekend at Nanna and Pappa's house...Conner and Pappa checking out Taylor in the pack n' play

I love this one! Muscle man Conner Pedersen showing off for Aunt Heather!!!

This is our baby telling anyone who doesn't think he's cute - you're a Loser!!!

More Taylor Pics!!!!!!!!!!!!

This pic was taken the morning of August 7 in Heathers post-pardum room.

This one is one of our favorites-its Taylor and his bodyguard Bentley!!

Just a sleeping away on his favorite pillow!

We took this one just as we got home from the hospital on Friday-we laugh at this since he is swimming in his outfit and he is so tiny in his pack-n-play!!

Great Grandma Trietsch holding her precious first great grandson!