Mason is going to be a big brother!

I'm taking this time to officially announce on the family blog that we are pregnant! Well, I am pregnant, and Drew gets the pleasure of watching my waistline expand and my moods swing! Our estimated due date is July 19th.

Mason's First Birthday

While we were home for the holidays we celebrated Mason's birthday. He turned 1 on December 27th. It's amazing how quickly the past year has flown by. As you can tell from the pics he really got into it, and he LOVED the cake! He did get a red wooden wagon for his birthday, but it was much easier to transport back to Oklahoma in the box so we didn't assemble it for the party.

What's this?

Ummmm

I'm so full!

He had to shed the shirt to open gifts - it was covered in icing.

Getting some help from Miles, Kristin, and Noah.

Mason's First Christmas

We went home for the holidays. We stayed at Drew's parents' house but we spent the holidays with both of our families. Santa was very kind to Mason!

Merry Christams!

See what Santa brought me.

He is walking all over the place now. He took his first steps by himself the week after Thanksgiving.

See my new boots!

Seriously, when are we going to eat?

He loved his new fire truck. He just can't reach the peddles yet!

I blogged too soon!

We managed to keep our electricity the longest of anyone I know - it didn't go out until Monday evening. But it went out none the less, and it was out until around 7:00pm on Thursday. We hooked up a generator on Tuesday evening to keep the fridge, heater, and a few lights going. (We were trying to save the firewood just in case the generator went out). We have a gas water heater so we had hot water the entire time. We ate sandwiches and dined out. We managed to make it through this stretch. We're just praying the freezing rain and snow that is supposed to hit today isn't as bad as they think it will be, and if it is, we're hoping we'll manage to keep our power.

Current weather conditions

Winter Weather Hits Oklahoma - First Ice Storm of the Season

We got hit with our first ice storm of the season overnight. Fortunately, we still have power - there are some 200,000 people across Oklahoma without power right now. These are a few pics from around the house Drew snapped this morning.

Happy Belated Birthday to Me!

Flowers from Dad and Miles

My birthday was actually two weeks ago, November 2nd, but I'm just now getting around to blogging. Things have been incredibly hectic in the Dyer household these days. Anyway, 11/02 was the big - I turned the Big 3-0! Drew and I celebrated the evening before by having a wonderful dinner at Michael Fusco's Riverside Grill - it was phenomenal! Drew took Friday off from work and we took Mason to the Oklahoma Aquairum. He had fun trying to catch all of the fish! He particularly liked the catfish! I got wonderful gifts and had a great day with my family before Drew jetted off to East Texas. Yep, it was opening weekend of deer season, of course, and we can't miss that!

Trying to touch the sting rays

Trying to catch the catfish

Come here, fish!

With Drew gone, that let me have a girls & Mason weekend with my friend Amanda who drove up from Longview to celebrate. We went out to eat with another friend, and just spent alot of time talking and catching up. Good times!

Happy Halloween!

Mason didn't go trick or treating but we did dress him up in his costume to help pass out candy at home. He had a ton of fun seeing all the kiddos in costume. We sat on the porch for a while, until the wind drove us inside anyway.

Dixie got into the Halloween festivities, too - until the doorbell started ringing!

Silly Spider

Helping Daddy pass out candy.

What's in here?

I'll have that!
Don't worry, he didn't actually get to eat any candy!