A Very McClaskey Christmas

Hey all we hope that you enjoyed the Christmas holiday. We really want to thank all of you for you friendship and kindness in the past and present. We love you all and wanted to show off all the pictures that we took when we went up to see Sharifa's side of the family. We went the week before Christmas so that Ethan, Steve, and Sharifa could see most of her family members. Joy, Dave and the Gallup kids were able to make it back to Idaho all the way from Indiana to spend the holidays with us, their family. Ethan had a lot of fun with both of his cousins and enjoyed spending time with them!!! They really were very nice to him and we appreciate that!!!!

Harley's birthday was only a few days away so we decided to give her her birthday present early since we wouldn't make it to her party. We think she enjoyed her gift.

Harley loved to sit in the stroller and Ethan loved pushing her around the house. They made such a perfect match!!!

Ethan and Daddy with his first gift from Uncle Dave, Aunt Joy, Harley, and Oakley!!
Harley loves to put pretty things on her lips, so for a present we gave her lots of lip gloss. We think she love that gift also!!

Oakley playing with his new truck holder that came with stickers, he loves stickers!!! We think we made a good choice with getting the truck holder and the truck for Oakley!Harley helping her brother out with his new toy.
Ethan is helping daddy open one of his gifts! What a little helper!!Continuing being a little helper, Ethan tries to help mommy with her gift!
Ethan is very happy with what he got from his Grandma and Grandpa McClaskey!!!!

Ethan's Grandparents(McClaskey) gave him a Dallas Cowboys sweat suit. He looks very cute, don't you think? Ethan and Oakley playing with each other.After all the gifts were open the kids went down stairs to play with each other!!!

While down stairs Oakley and Harley taught Ethan how to dance, so this next clip is of Ethan and his cousins dancing. We hope you laugh and enjoy this clip as much as we do!!!

Christmas Ready!!!

Hey all!! We hope that you're enjoying all the festivities of the season. Our little family is having lots of fun and are excited about Christmas. We thought that we should post pictures of us getting up all of our fun decorations out for the time of year!!!!! We hope that you all have a very merry Christmas!!!!! We love you all and hope you enjoy the pictures that we posted here for you!!

Ethan and Daddy putting up a tree of lights for all to see!!!Ethan helping daddy with the snowmen!!!!Ethan getting ready to put up the large Christmas tree, doing his best to stay calm!!!Ethan putting up his favorite ornament!

Daddy helping Ethan put up another ornament.

Ethan admiring his handy work.

Ethan found a candy-cane off the tree and decided he should eat it!!!

Ethan is getting the lights out to put on the tree!!Making sure that the lights are going to work right!Ethan checking out the tree and trying to see where he should put his lights!!!
"Getting ready to put the lights on the tree!!!"
"We found another place to put some lights on!!!"
"All done!!"

Thanks Giving

Okay ya' all!!! We know that it's been a while since our last post, it's just that time goes by so very fast and we can't get enough time to get all the things we need done, done. Here it goes for now. We'll try and be a little better about posting. Ethan is growing fast and is very healthy and strong for such a young age. He is now through the funniest tantrumps; if he's angery with you he will headbut you or if he is just frustrated he will hit his head on the wall or whatever is the closest. Well, let's get back to business. We had a great Thanks giving and enjoyed it with Sharifa's parents. We consider this thanks giving as Ethan's first because he didn't get to eat any real food last year. Here are some pictures of him eating the food. He really love every things that we gave him, even things that Steve and Sharifa would never eat like yams (YUCK!!). We guess he is just a regular litt boy who will eat anything you give him!!

Let's get started!!!!

Mommie and Ethan are greatful for pomagranits. Here is Ethan holding a pomagranits!!!!

Ethan is trying yams for the first time and decides that they're pretty taste!

Ethan eating all the other foods on his tray!

Ethan enjoying turkey!!
Ethan savouring the taste of turkey!!
Ethan trying stuffing and thinking about the taste!!!!
"Mommie, I'm all done with dinner!!!!"
Grandpa McClaskey and Ethan lettting dinner settle before going to bed. "Oh how tiring eating can be!"

SHARIFA'S BABLE

I just wanted to let you all know how greatful/thankful I am for all the many blessing that I have. First, all of you who are my friends/family and for a great and loving husband who would do anything for me and makes me a better person. I also greatful for Ethan and that he his here with me and is so healthy and happy. At this point in my life, and with the our economy, I just greatful that my family and I have a roof over our head, food on the table, and a lot of love from everyone we know and see!!!!!! Thank you all for being such great people and the love that you share with me every day!!!! Each one of you make a great difference in my life and I'm greatful to know all of you!!!!!!

Holloween

Hey all!!! We're sorry about being far behind, it's just that we've been busy with school, work and chasing the little munchkin around. We hope that you all had a safe and fun Holloween. Ethan really enjoyed Holloween this year, cause he got a lot more candy and didn't have to give it all to his daddy!!!! This year we got a really cool costume from his grandma and grandpa M; a sock monkey. He looked soo very cute and we were able to get some picture of him in it. Early that morning we went up to Idaho Falls to see grandma and grandpa M to show them his costume and how great he looks in it. We forgot to take the camera, but had phones with cameras and now we can't figure out how to upload the pictures that we took on the phone. Well, we hope that you enjoy the pictures as much as we did!!!!!

Here is Ethan trying on his monkey hat!!!!Ethan and daddy at their first house!!!Ethan with his monkey basket!!

Just waiting for some candy!!

Ethan sitting with his BIG monkey friend, Lenard.

Ethan's Birthday!!!!!

Okay, so it's been a while since we've done anything on our blog, but we've been kinda busy with everything that's been happening. First, Steve has started school and is just getting use to getting up so freakishly early. Second, Sharifa has been help teaching some ballroom teams and is loving it. Third and fourth, Ethan is getting lots of teeth in his mouth and just turned the big 0-1 on the 17th of September.
On Ethans Birthday we had Grandma and Grandpa M come see us and spend the whole day with them!!!! We got to go to a small zoo in Logan and really enjoyed the animals. Later we got to have a little party with friends and family, it was something new and fun. We also had cake and ice cream at the party!!! Hear are some pictures and videos of the fun day that we got to enjoy together as a family!! We hope you enjoy them as much as we did, having the fun!!!

Ethan and momie getting up and ready for a fun filled birthday! Taking a picture with our monkey brothers. These are Ethan's favorite animals! Ethan wants to get in and play with his monkey brothers!!! We got to see a fox, it was really cute!!!!Walking with our grandparents!!!!

Ethan really loved to put his hands in and have the geese nibble his hands, it made him laugh!!! These are a few of our freinds that were able to come. Amy, Calie, and Dale These are Cooper and Jack that are Ethan's friends. Their parents Cindy(Cooper) and Kelli(Jack) were there too. Aunt Ashley was able to come too, we just didn't get a picture of her- sorry Ash!! Ethan opening his first gift that was from Grandma, Grandpa, and mom and dad!! Ethan is getting help from his friends, Cooper and Jack!!Momie, Dadie, and Ethan showing off his Nemo Cake!!! He shared this cake with everyone at the party!!! Ethan got his very own cake!!! Everyone was singing "Happy Birthday" while the candle was lit! Cooper and Jack helped Ethan Blow out his candle, he needed their help!!!Ethan is starting on his birthday cake!!!

Ethan decided to shove his face into his cake!!!!!

Here is Ethan in the middle of eatting his cake! When Ethan was done with his cake!!! We decided that He would need to take a bath right away!!!

Here is a video of Ethan enjoying his birthday cake!! We hope you enjoy it as much as we did watching him do eat the cake!!