A Year in the Life- Mr. B. 's First Year

If I had one of those blogs where music starts playing as soon as the blog loads, I would have you all listening to Seasons of Love from the musical RENT, if you do not have it in your own personal music library you should definitely google it and give it a listen. Basically the song begins by saying:

"Five Hundred Twenty-Five Thousand
Six Hundred Minutes
How Do You Measure - Measure A Year?"

Within the song it goes to detail creative ways of how to "measure" mentioning sunsets, cups of coffee and other things not relevant in the life of of a little boy (or girl). But the overall message boils down that a life is ultimately "measured in love" and Benton's first year was definitely a year of love.

We loved him from the moment we laid eyes on him.

We loved him even more as he began to grow bigger and stronger.

So many more people fell in love with you Mr. B:

Grandma and Grandpa Bury

Grandma Sherri and Grandpa Dave (not pictured)

Your Aunts, Uncles and Cousin Hyrum could not (and still cannot) get enough of you

Although not a cuddler by nature, you have still managed to let everyone know that you love them back. Your first year of life was a wonderful one. Truly filled with more love than words can describe.

Musings and Excitement

We are becoming increasingly excited about our new home. Perhaps it has something to do with living in a apartment where Benton's room is the size of a closet (okay so it actually is a closet). Then again I am sure we would be excited about our first home even if it wasn't new. I cannot begin to explain how excited I am that I can do simple things like hang pictures with nails instead of a bazillion command strips, and to feel like it is okay to unpack all of my possessions instead of just the essentials.

My mind has been heavily occupied with daydreams about how we will decorate our home. I have previously posted the layout of the home we are building, and wish I could post pictures of the model home but I cannot find any. Instead I found a picture of one of their kitchens that is using many of the same colors, like the counters, and cabinets and wall color we are doing stainless instead of black appliances though.

What is also cool is that in the corner between our sink and stove their is a walk in pantry, and our island will have a double over hang so that we can fit 6 barstools. I am already picturing all the awesome conversations that will take place sitting around it.

Although the next picture is kind of boring and stark it gives you an idea of what our walls and carpet will be colored.

Recently I went to the model home nearest to our new house and fell in love with just about everything she used to decorate it. Thankfully every thing she used came from Target, so hopefully with careful budgeting I can gradually acquire some of the awesome pieces she used, mainly these adorable rugs. Ultimately we feel incredibly blessed to have this amazing opportunity to not only buy a home, but to make it feel like ours from the start.

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Bear Lake- Life does not get better

G and I had the amazing opportunity to take go on a camping trip with both of our families. We had a blast. I was very hesitant about going camping with a crawling baby. Well Grandma Sherri, Aunt Brittany, Grandpa Paul, Grandma Sara, Aunt Michelle and his Uncles Andrew and David.







Between them and us Mr. B never touched the ground, except for when he was given the chance to crawl around in the sand. Man does that kid love sand, he crawled around on a very rocky beach for periods of an hour, perfectly content, well except for when we fished rocks out of his mouth (we told him no but he still slipped a few in.



Mr. B thought the tent was a giant play pen, he had a delightful time crawling around the sleeping bags (we brought a pack and play too though).




Overall it was an amazing trip. The weather started out rainy and we were concerned that it would continued but miraculously and despite the forecast it was a sunny and the perfect temperature. We are looking forward to going back someday.

Birthday Smash!

You sure can tell that Mr. B had a blast at his Birthday Cake photo shoot with his Aunt Michelle. It has been an amazing year having this little man in our lives. We are so blessed.

New Apartment

We are back from Bear Lake, and finished the last of our unpacking yesterday. Although a lot of stuff had to be sold or stored, we feel that this little one bedroom will be great place to live while we wait for our house to be done.

Mr. B's room is my personal favorite



Okay so its a closet, but he seems to like it.

Our First Home

Many of you may know that we will be moving back to Provo on Friday. This is not because we missed it (although it is a fun place) but it is because we needed somewhere with a month to month lease where we could live while our new home is being built.

You read that correctly, we will be building/buying our first home in November, hopefully sooner. We are incredibly excited, and feel very blessed.

Main Floor:



Upstairs:



Outside of the house:

Happy Birthday Mr. B!