Pebble Beach

Wow, we just returned from Pebble Beach.  Scott flew out to San Francisco a few days earlier for work, and then I met him on Thursday to make our drive down to Pebble Beach. Finally, we got to take mini vacation as a couple! This was a “work” trip, although it seemed like ALL fun!

 Pebble Beach…AMAZING! The views we had from our hotel were golf greens, forest, rolling hills, or ocean.  Scott played several rounds of Golf; I spent two days at the Spa and an afternoon in Carmel shopping. I drove up the coastline and also 17- mile drive.  Every evening we would all gather by huge fire pits outside of our hotel. As the sun would set over the ocean, the bagpipes would play Amazing Grace. Then we would sit down to a nice dinner and great conversation. It was nice to spend time away, but I really missed my little boy! I know Scott did too. When we got home Scotty spent a lot of time hugging his daddy, because he hadn’t seen him in almost a week. We are so glad to be home.

Thanks to everyone who took such good care of him while we were away.

Scotty’s recent accomplishments:

He can feed himself with a spoon.

He is running, not just walking.

He can understand us more then I ever thought.

He is opening doors; help us we need more baby proofing!

He will try to say anything we ask him too. Some words he is saying now are the following:

Nana, MaMa, Da Da, Baba (poppa), Banana (very close), No No, Juice, This, Nite Nite, Dog, Oops, Hi, Bye Bye, (I could go on and on...he is a little talker!) 

He signs: I love you, down, all done, milk, change and he points to what he wants for communication. He also waves hi and bye, and hold palms up when you ask a question such as “where is…”

He is growing so fast! 14 months! 

XOXO,

The Zuehlke’s

Behind our Hotel.... Spanish Bay Inn

One evening in the Hotel Lounge

My dessert! Yum!

Fire Pits at Hotel

The fireplace in our room! Wish I had one at home!

Coastline

Seal Rock, the dark area's in the middle are all Seals

Squirrels on the Beach?! I had to take this picture because I couldn't help
but think how much Scotty would have loved this little guy!

Carmel

Scott getting his golf shoes cleaned after playing Pebble

The bagpipe being played. Look closely she blends in with the tree's!

The 18th hole at Pebble

18th hole at Pebble. Love the tree!

The guys with The Lodge in the back

18th hole at Pebble

Scott finishing up on the 18th hole at Pebble

Getting into trouble as usual

NYE 2010

NYE has a whole different meaning for anyone who has little ones. It means no more big parties, lucky to get a babysitter, you might or might not make midnight awake because your so zonked from that one glass of wine you had to calm your nerves coupled with the fact you are already exhausted from the day to day, and then midnight hits and you lay in bed praying and checking your monitor and praying again to make sure your baby stays asleep through all the fireworks! Fireworks are truly much louder when you have a baby!? I had one friend say she was pacing the floors…and another said, well I won’t make midnight. It’s so true, you are not alone! We are happy to report that Scotty did not wake up!

 This NYE we were lucky to get GP (Grandpa) to keep Scotty and we enjoyed a fabulous dinner out at Fleming’s.  Yes honey I know it was a bit painful for you, even with gift cards, but I thoroughly enjoyed it! So thank you truly. You’re lucky you got some chocolate soufflé!  I know Scotty had a great time too because when we arrived to get him, he was sitting on the kitchen counter with GP getting spooned Blue Bell.  What a cute picture this would have been, but I failed to have a camera! (finally got a DSLR!) If only I could attach one to my hip.  GP said "he loves it", and spoiling is what GP’s do!

We hope you and your family have a blessed 2011!

XOXO,

The Zuehlke’s 

Christmas Break

Zoo Time

We took Scotty on his first trip to the Houston Zoo 12/23.  It was so fun for us to watch Scotty witness the many great creatures that God created so up close and personal for the very first time. One of our first stops included an otter that swam continuous routine circles for Scotty and me. Every time he swam by, Scotty would smile the most contagious smile that I couldn’t help but smile too.  We also made a stop in the children’s petting zoo. Scotty was very gentle with the Billy Goats and wasn’t afraid to touch them. I think this went better then my first time in a petting zoo with Billy Goats because my mom mentioned that they tried to eat my clothes! This thankfully did not happen to us. Scotty is also very interested in birds. He enjoyed the city birds just as much as anything. You know, city birds are those birds that invade your space because they are used to so many people. (Not my fav) Yea, those birds made Scotty’s day… “Bird ma-ma”, what about the elephant Scotty?! Scotty also managed to throw his sippy cup into the fence at the monkey exhibit. Great job mom! Next time I will remember not to let Scotty have his sippy cup while we stand near the exhibits. Luckily daddy was able to retrieve it! We wrapped things up after this because Scotty was really tired. We can’t wait for the next trip!

Checking out the Fish

3 Longhorns, 1 future Longhorn if it's up to Da-da!

Oh, so that's why mom calls me a monkey?!

Giraffe Time

Scotty at the children's petting zoo

Checking out the animals

What's a day without a little climbing involved?!

Christmas 2010

We spent time with a lot of family and friends over the Christmas week.

We spent Christmas Eve at The Hick’s. We exchanged gifts and also had our traditional White Elephant exchange. We also attended church at St. Peter’s that evening for a

 Candlelight service. We took Scotty to the nursery where we found him with some new extra large sweat pants on upon our return. I guess he had a little accident! Christmas morning we spent as a family playing with the cool new kitchen that Santa had left for Scotty. If you would have asked my husband 2 years ago if it would be ok for his little boy to be playing with a kitchen, he would have said “What?!” “I don’t think so”. However, once you have children you soon realize whatever works, whatever keeps them busy in a positive way so you can actually sit down for just 2 minutes to rest,  then it’s all ok.  This is the toy that allows that for us. Scotty loves that kitchen and we love it even more I assure you!  We spent lunch with Grandpa and my family, and ended that part of the day with smores by the fire. We spent the afternoon at our house opening presents. What a wonderful Christmas. We hope yours was just as wonderful! Oh, I forgot my camera at our first Christmas round so I hope to add some more soon from Gary! Hint hint if you are reading this. 

XOXO, 

The Zuehlke's

Christmas came a little early with Scotty's 1st pair of Nike's

Little Ryan and Scotty

Ryan, Jen, Wes and Stacy

Rare picture of just Me and my big Scott

Mimi and the boys

Grandpa Gary and the boys 

The Hostesses Perry and Carolyn

Cousin Scooter and fiance' Alissa...Mam-Maw in the background

Milk and Cookies for Santa

From Santa

Dre' and Flip getting their Christmas Presents too

Christmas Morning

Grandpa and Flip a do!

Scotty and Cousin Jackson being silly

Let's go Grocery Shopping! Da-Da is buying!

Dre'  in trouble again!

Grandpa and the boys.

Cold Christmas Day

Playing with his new kitchen

Mom with her photo album and Silhouette of Scotty

Papa and Scotty...oh and Bella (Dog mom)

Merry Christmas 2010

Have a Holly Jolly Christmas! Have a wonderful Christmas and may God bless you and your family this coming New Year!

XOXO, 

The Zuehlke's

Pictures done by: http://jenniferfrancophotography.com/

My Mantle this year

Our Tree  2010

Merry Christmas!

Portable North Pole

http://www.portablenorthpole.tv/watch/guest/IMF3yHJmMSpntKWlvFwtyw

Scotty's first message from Santa. 

XOXO, 

The Zuehlke's

Ceramics, Chucky Cheese's, Christmas

Dad has been off work a few extra days in December and Scotty and I have really enjoyed spending some  family time together.
Thursday we had a play date at Ceramics by Tess. The mom’s painted mementos of their little ones on plates or mugs while we distracted the kiddos with a portable DVD player and Mickey Mouse! I am no artist, so I can’t wait to see how my plate turns out! I pick it up later this week. It does have Scotty’s foot print on it, so I am sure I will love it no matter what. Here are a few pictures from the day.

Concentrating

Dean and Scotty

Watching Mickey

We took a trip to Chucky Cheese’s on Friday. Scotty’s 1st time! He had a blast playing with all the games and pressing all the cool, colorful, light- up buttons. Mom and Dad played a little basketball, baseball and skee-ball too!

That evening we took Scotty to 2nd Baptist Church to a Crazy Christmas Puppet Show! We met up with the Feiglesons and we had a great time! Scotty really would have preferred to be in the play vs. watching it so I had to wrestle with him most of the time to keep him off the stage! He also showed off a lot of his new dance moves. Dancing is new as of this week! The lady in front of us had her poor fingers stomped on more then once!

We also had the Wacker/Shifflett Christmas at my parent’s house. Both of my cousins recently got engaged, and so they brought their Fiancés’ with them. It was great to spend time getting to know them. Megan also asked me to be a bridesmaid in her wedding in June. What an honor. Thank you!  Here are a few pictures from our Christmas.

We fixed the time stamp. This is 2010!

           I had these made for the girls thanks to Tagged by Tiff. Her contact info is listed here:            http://taggedbytiff.blogspot.com/         Check her out!


XOXO,

The Zuehlke’s