New Toys and Easter...

The first Easter Garrett was interested in what he was getting. However, he was more interested in mom and dad's basket. Dad got some shirts while mom got the Harry Potter movie set.

The eggs and candy were also very interesting...

Thanks to Dutch Belnap for the awesome motorcycle that he built! Garrett loves to ride it!

He even moves the 'throttle'.

Jordan even wanted to try it out!

Garrett eventually wanted to take his rubber duck for a ride. (it's his favorite toy)

Garrett: 1 year old

I know it's been ages since I put some pics on but it's been crazy around here. So here are some pics that we took when Garrett was about 1 year old. He's such a funny, loving, handsome guy, and makes me laugh and smile everyday!

Garrett is obsessed with hats. He's willing to share all his toys, but his hats are a different story!

He's such a sweet little guy and will give you a kiss, just about anytime you ask for one. It's probably just a phase in life, but we're taking full advantage while we can.

Grandma Linda gave him this super sweet outfit for his birthday!

I love that he looks so dashing in it!

Garrett loves to copy his dad in just about every way... so when dad tries to teach him something, he usually picks it up pretty quick. (there are somethings I wish he didn't know how to do...)

So one day, Jordan taught him how to smell the flowers on the table I had bought from the store. Pretty soon, Garrett was smelling every flowe

r he saw, even in his books! Sometimes he says, "mmm" after, and sometimes he likes his face to get tickled by them. Either way it's still one of my favorite things he does.

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Garrett also loves sunglasses! When we were over in Hawaii, Jordan and I always had our sunglasses on.

He thought they were so cool that he always asked for them when we'd get in the car. I was tired of wiping off little fingerprints that I decided he could handle his own! He loves them and wears them around the house for hours! So Cute!

Words Garrett could say by age 1:

yum, tub tub, duck, crab, ball, hello, Jack (the dog), papa, cheese, apple,

rock rock (rocking chair), hat, me me (hold me, pick me up, ect),

mom, dad, mama (grandma), Ryan, baba, oooo, no no (mom says this A LOT),

water, stinky, two, ah oh, vroom, sighs, sniffs and hums: thank you.

Able to sign:

all done, more, please, and lotion

Here are a few from when he was 2 months old. I finally got the copyright CD! I can't believe how much he's grown and changed!



This little face still cracks me up! I just love the one eyebrow look!!!

Video Catch up

Garrett loves to help with the laundry... here's the video I couldn't post last time! Shaking them out was a hit. Hopefully he'll still like doing laundry in 10 years!

We got this at Walmart and Garrett walked behind it first try!

Garrett walking!

So there are a couple of pics that I thought I'd include in this post...

Garrett is ready to make a trip to Walmart!

it was snowing big flakes and he loves to try and push the snow away as it falls.

Trying on dad's old cowboy boots... they're still a little big.

testing them out

Garrett started walking at 11 months... this is when he's just starting out

Garrett liked the sound of the boots on the wood so much, we decided to do some tap dancing!

Hawaii part 1

HAWAII (part 1)

enjoying the planes and baggage cars while waiting to board our flight

Garrett loved the airport!

Chilling with dad on the plane

Hawaii!!...

and GRASS!!!

Hanging out for our ride... we had time to change clothes, which was good because you don't need pants and long sleeves in Hawaii!

Luapahoehoe Point (pronounced la pa hoi hoi)

first time getting in the ocean

picking avocados...they were huge!

nice!

Grandpa's view at work... wish we all could have that. wouldn't work be so much better?!

visiting the cows on the dairy... of course Garrett loved them

... but the cows were a little scared of Garrett, or maybe it was Jordan...haha

motorcycles... yes he loves these too

see if you can spot the 3 turtles...

cool park we ate at...

walking with grandpa

lots of birthday parties were going on this day...

I loved the roots on this tree

getting ready to swim

we had to wait for the rain to quit before we went swimming... that only took like 7 min.

Garrett's safety coral... he would freak out in the water and then we'd give him the coral back and he stayed calm.... he eventually didn't need it by the end

he found out he could splash like in the tub!

hanging out with grandpa

cool trees... with the biggest vines growing up them

big waves...

and if you can see some guy's tent and him fishing on the end of the rock

nice hat

but this one was my favorite!...

to bad they were both bowls some lady hand made

walking to the new black sand beach...

the red is actually lava rock they have hauled in! COOL!

this is how coconut palm trees grow... you just put them right on the ground!

Garrett was such a trooper! he loved getting out of the car and seeing everything

Rainbow falls

huge banyan trees! the vines grow down from the branches and plant themselves in the ground

peek!

Garrett kept bonking his head on the tree and thought it was hilarious...

he's trying to see if Jordan thinks it's funny to in this one

melting pots (there's a river down below)

hahaha, Garrett is trying to figure out what in the world Jordan is doing...

being funny

going into a lava tube!

inside the lava tube

coming out of the lava tube

Cherry Blossoms at Waimea! I can't wait for spring here!

Part 2 is next...