Things are still going good for us. Billy only has about 3 1/2 weeks left to be in Evanston.

He is ready to be done. And we are ready for him to be home more.

But he is doing a great job and we are proud of him!

My brother and his wife just had a new little one born on the the 17th of February. His name is Lucas Owen Allred and he was 5 lbs 15 oz. He's just a little thing and so so cute!

Trayson is doing great and having fun terrorizing grandma's house all day. I am getting excited for when I can take him outside and play on the grass. I know he will love it.

Every once in a while I watch my cousins little boy and he and Tray play an play. Trayson just loves having someone that will play with him and gets so excited when he sees him!
They will be very good buddies some day.

Trayson and Deegan

Tray absoluetly love this little red monkey that Grandma Kennington gave him for valentines day.

We had a great Christmas this year. I think having a child makes Christmas ten times more fun. Even though Trayson wasn't quite old enough to know what was going on he still got spoiled. And you can't beat having two Christmas mornings with both sides of the family! My sister Autumn and her fam got to come down. And I got to meet cute little baby Reagan. She's a doll! We got to relax, and hang out and play games whenever we wanted. We also got to Skype Billy's brother Jayson who is on a mission in Florida. That was pretty cool.

Christmas Eve Santa came to check on the kids!

Trayson in his "My first Christmas" jams.

All the cousins who were there for Christmas

I guess you could say he liked what santa brought him

My cute sleepy family on Christmas morning.

We went for a walk in the snow. Trayson wasn't sure what to think at first. But then he warmed up to that cold white stuff all over.

My sweet little boy is growing up too fast! He's going to be a year before I know it. He is 9 months and I still can't make him stop smiling. I think he's the happiest little guy out there!

Eat your heart out

The End of the Beginning

It's crazy to think how fast the past three years have gone. It is already time to leave Casper! We have had such a good experience here and met such great people. We are leaving a lot of friends behind! But we are ready for the next adventure.

We are moving to Star Valley while Billy goes back and forth from Evanston for his last internship at the State hospital. This is his last thing he needs to do before he can graduate. This past week he has finished his master's thesis and project. He has spent so much time on it and is very relieved to finally have that stress behind him. We are so proud of him!

Trayson is still just as fun as ever. He is almost 8 1/2 months now. He is so so sooo close to crawlin. Any day he will take off I know it. His 5th and 6th tooth just popped up on the bottom and I'm hoping we have a break from teething for a little while. He does NOT sleep well at night the last couple months. He wakes up anywhere from 3 to 13 times a night I swear. I am hoping he grows out of this stage soon!

Yes he is still full of spunk and energy. What a fun little boy he is. The other day Billy and I were talking and I said (jokingly, not to frighten the grandparents) "Do we even want to have anymore kids? We can't get this lucky twice right?" :) We are just so in love with this little boy and are so grateful for him.

Still loves his mornings with Baby Einstein.

Chillin with Dad. Too cute

Me and my babe all bundled up

7 Month Pics

It's been fun watching Trayson learning new things that last little while. He loves eating cheerios, grahmn crackers, and little puffs. He hasn't quit figured out how to get that little cheerio stuck in his fist into his mouth yet though. He loves taking baths in the big tub. He isn't crawling yet but he rolls wherever he wants to go. A couple times he has rolled completely under the futon and was playing inside. He's such a cutie and we have so much fun with him! The other day he was playing with toys on the floor and I said, "Trayson...I love you." And just as clear as day and in the exact same tone and inflection that I did he babbled..." I uh yoo" I'm glad Billy was there to hear it. We were shocked. It sounded like he mimicked me exactly. It was pretty awesome.

The last couple weeks have been pretty crazy for us. We have become very close to our neighbors ,the Romeros, the few years that we've been here. They have been so great to us we've pretty much adopted them as our second parents. They've had such a fun time watching Trayson grow up. Tammy Romero found out she had breast cancer about a year and a half ago ( around there I don't really know). And the last 7 months she has been struggling with her health. It has been so much fun for Trayson and I to have her right next door. Whenever I was bored or needed to get out of the house, we would walk into her house and go in her bedroom and sit on her bed and talk to Tammy for a while. I think Trayson always made her feel better.

We spent hours on her front deck talking and playing with little Tray. She slowly was getting worse and having a hard time walking so the past few months I had been driving her to appointments each week.

The past few weeks she was feeling so much better. She didn't need her cane to walk, she drove herself to town, and she was just feeling pretty good.

Thursday the 14th we drove home to Star Valley around 4:00 and that day I was busy getting everything packed and ready to go. I had just come back from getting some things from Wal mart when I pulled in the drive way and saw Tammy sitting on the deck. I had so much that I still needed to do in the couple hours before we left. I almost just said Hi and went inside to get busy, but I felt like I should go talk to her just for a minute. Well just a minute turned into half an hour or longer. She also got to hold wiggly crazy Trayson for the first time in a long time all by herself. This made her sooooo happy. I'm so glad I took the time to talk to her that day even though I had other things to do because that was the last time I talked to her.

We came home Tuesday night and early Wednessday morning Dave came over to our house and told us that Tammy was in the hospital. She had gotten worse everyday that weekend and wasn't eating or drinking. That day he called us again and told us that Tammy was expected to only live 3 days. We were able to go see her in hospice a couple times before she died. I was shocked at how much she had deteriorated in just a few days. She wasn't responsive and you could tell she was struggling. But I'm glad we at least got to see her. Tammy passed away on Friday Oct 22 surrounded by her family.

We really miss her and it's hard to think that she is gone. I'm grateful to know that I will see her again someday. She was a great friend to us we loved her very much.

On a happier note!...Billy is getting closer to being done with school! About the second week in December he will be done with classes. Then we will move to Star Valley! I will be living with my parents while Billy will be back and forth from Evanston doing his last internship and the State Hospital there. We are excited to have a change but we will really miss many people here in Casper.

What's Cookin for Halloween?

Trayson was a lobster for Halloween and Billy and I were the Chef's! We had so much fun. Friday night we went to our ward Halloween party and I was surprised at how many people took our pictures and especially of Tray "cookin" in his pot! They just loved it. It was fun to see everyone's faces when we walked in the gymn with our overgrown lobster.

Trayson was pretty content in his pot. He had toys and

cheerios stashed inside and was perfectly happy

I really could eat him up!

I didn't get many pics of our pumpkin carving this year and this one is the only one worth sharing. The Trayson look-a-like pumpkin. Can't you tell?

6 Month Spaz Attack

Happy half year Trayson! Listening to conference this weekend has reminded me of exactly 6 months ago when I was listening to conference while holding my two day old baby boy. I did more sleeping than listening honestly. But I can't believe how much he has grown since that time! What a blessing he has been in our lives. The world is better because this sweetie came into it.

Trayson is sitting up by himself now and plays good with toys on the floor. He loves reading books and chewing on them. I think he may be teething on the top now but I can't see anything yet.

To celebrate being 6 months old he got his first bonk on his head. I was on the computer and holding him. He dropped a toy and went to grab it and bonked his little head on the edge of the desk. Just in time for these pics we took today.

At least he forgot about it now....happy boy

Thanks so Aunt Gina for this cute outfit. I love it

And I had to post these other cute ones too.

He loves his new ball. I'm constantly putting it back

in his lap after it rolls away from him

Bright!

Ya....so no one told me that when they turn 6 months old their personality triples. We really have noticed this in Tray the past few days. He can get soooo hyper all of a sudden and start screaming and squealing (happily) and throwing his arms all over. I got a video of one such "spaz attack."

I Love To...

DROOL!!

Enough said