Introducing...Bailey Nichole Zylstra

Bailey Nichole

Bailey was born Monday January 12th weighing 6lbs. 10oz.

Big Brother Carson holding his little sister!!

Introducing Carson to Bailey!

She is so Sweet and we feel so blessed that she is a part of our family!

Our First Christmas Tree

Before I get to the Christmas tree, I thought I would post a few pictures of a very messy but happy Carson. He helped me make brownies on Thursday and as you can tell from the pictures, he LOVED licking the spoon after. He made such a mess, but I guess that is half the fun right?!?

On Dec. 8th we went and bought our first Christmas tree. It is sad that we have been married for 4 years and this our first one, but every other year we were traveling during Christmas, or moving, so we didn't see the point! I will have to post pictures of it all decorated later, but it was still really fun to pick one out! Carson loved to measure all of the trees with Grandma Zylstra's little tape measure!

And the winner is....

Halloween in Utah

We just got back last night from our trip to Utah. Carson and I flew up on Tuesday night so we could spend a few days with my friend Julianne (pictured below) before Ryan and his family came up on Thursday night. It was so fun to see her, and Carson had a great time with her. He didn't want to leave her side, it was pretty funny!

Then on Thursday, or should I say Friday morning Ryan and his family came up. So on Friday we slept in, then got up and at lunch at Cafe Rio - MY FAVORITE!!! While we were getting ready to go eat Carson got a hold of my camera and took about 30 pictures of the hotel room carpet. When I took the camera away...this is the face I got!

That night we went to the University Mall to do some indoor trick-or-treating. Carson did not like his costume! Below Carson is looking through his bag trying to decide which Candy to eat.

This is Dad and Aunt Whitney taking Carson out of his costume. I think he was in for a total of 15 minutes. Oh well!!

This is the only good picture we have of Carson in his costume, and that is because Dad is giving him some candy. His horse looks a little dead, but I wasn't going to try and mess with it.

Carson was so TIRED! It took him about thirty seconds to fall asleep, which if you have ever met the kid...is a record. After all the trick-or-treating we went and ate at CPK.

And as you can see, Carson will always wake up happy for some food!

On Saturday night we went to a restaurant up in Sundance for Dave's 50th birthday. It was a pretty fancy restaurant. We couldn't get reservations until 8:00 that night so we were all pretty hungry before our food came. We were even passing candy around the table! Well then the waiter comes out with a plate for everyone. And below is what we got. I don't know if you can tell, but that is a very, very, small piece of food. Well for some reason Whitney and I could not stop laughing. Then the real food came, and it was really, really GOOD! Not to mention the portions were a lot bigger, so that was great!

This is how we kept Carson happy at the restaurant!

After dinner we went to the Malt Shoppe and got some shakes. They were delicious.
Before we went to dinner that night Ryan's cousin Drew took some family pictures. He did a great job. Below are just a few of the great shots that he got!!

Thanks Drew! You ROCK!!

Fun with Oma and Opa

These are just a bunch of random pictures. A couple of weeks ago we went to lunch with Grandma Zylstra and Aunt Madison to Carls Jr. There were no other people there so we let Carson play in the toys. He was loving it. Madison even took him down the slide, but neither one of them enjoyed that. It was a pretty crazy slide!

This is just a random picture of Carson showing us all of his teeth

Ok now these next two pictures are of Carson making his "Daddy Face." I will try to explain: Ryan always sticks out his bottom jaw. While he is watching T.V., thinking, reading...ALL the time. Well Carson started to make that face a while ago and now whenever we say make your daddy face this is what he does!

Carson enjoying his oranges!

On the 17th our ward had their Trunk or Treat. It was really fun to see all of the kids dressed up. Carson is a Cowboy this year. We really bought this costume because it was too funny not to. Carson would only wear it for like 10 minutes, but it was still really funny to see him in it. After the party we drove up to Santa Barbara to visit Ryan's grandparents. It was so fun to see them, and Carson REALLY liked them.

The next day in Santa Barbara we went to the beach with Ryan's grandma, or "Oma" as we call her. That is the dutch word for grandma. Anyways, Carson loved digging in the sand, but didn't like it when his hands got dirty.

Carson's new obsession is airplanes! This is Carson pointing at a plane that flew by.

Carson and Oma playing in the sand

Later that night we went to a pumpkin patch by their house. It was really fun. Carson loved to pull the wagon around. If you look in the corner of the wagon, you can see the little pumpkin he put in there.

Carson with his great-grandparents! We had such a great weekend with them. We wish they lived closer so we could see them more often!!!

Just Like Dad...

Ryan loves to take Carson outside with him while he works on the yard. So tonight I decided to take pictures of the two of them outside mowing our lawn! Carson loved to push his toy lawn mower around with Ryan! He has really started to copy a lot of what we do! If I am cleaning he loves to get his own rag and pretend that he is wiping up messes with me. And as you can tell he loves to mow the lawn with Dad!

We love that he is constantly wanting to learn and copy up, but as you can tell he gets tired of "his toys" and wants to play with "our toys!"

Way to help dad out Carson!


We also went to the fair with my parents about three weeks ago and I thought I would post a few pictures of that! First Carson LOVED the animals! It almost made me little nervous! He was a little too comfortable. He would pet them, and then hit them, and then try to pull their tails. You just never know how an animal is going to react to all of that abuse! Luckily they were great! We bought some food so he could feed them! It was really fun to watch him with the animals...

It was also really fun to watch his dad with them! They kept jumping up on Ryan because he had the food in his hand! As you can tell from the picture, it was not his favorite thing! We are not sure where Carson gets his love of animals, but as you can tell it is not from his parents!

Here is a picture of Carson with his grandparents! They were so much fun to go with! Carson really makes Grandpa Hatch laugh! We stopped at one point to listen to this band play and Carson couldn't get enough of them. I think he could have sat there all night and danced, and I think grandpa could have sat there all night and watched Carson dance! We had such a great time!

And this last picture is what Carson would look like as an ice-cream cone! As you can tell from his smile, he loved that it was small enough for him to do on his own!

Bring on the PINK!!!

Well on Wednesday we found out that we are having a GIRL!! We are so excited and can't wait to see what she looks like. Of course that day my mom and me had to go buy some pink! I couldn't help but remember the many times that I had stopped and looked at the little girl clothes, so jealous that I couldn't buy any of it...(at least not for myself!) So it was really fun to go in and finally have a reason to not only look, but to buy! Now all we have to do is try to think of a name! For some reason boy names are a lot easier for us to think of! So if you have any suggestions, please let us know!!!!

Fun in the Sun

Carson loves the water! Here are a few pictures of him playing in the outdoors! What a Ham!

I love this picture!

And this one!