Movember

Kurt participated in Movember for the 5th time this year. Movember is a charity in which men grow mustaches during November and get donations for man cancer research (I'm not sure if it's testicular or prostate, but some kind of cancer only men can get). I don't exactly love the stache every year, but it's for a good cause. And, I'll admit it, it can be fun. This year he bought mustache stickers and fake mustaches to give to people who donated. We had some fun with the leftovers at the end of the month. Some of the young men in our ward got in on it too. (Kurt's the young men's president, so they're over at our house often.)

Thanksgiving!

We had a quiet but fun Thanksgiving. Collin hitched a ride down from the Y of I on Tuesday to hang with us boring old folks slash new parents. I think he had fun? He and Kurt saved Thanksgiving dinner by making just about everything because Lincoln was being a needy little munchkin all day. He even made the sweet potato souffle all by himself! Impressive, no? Shelley surprised us by driving down last minute on Friday to hang for the weekend. On my birthday (Saturday) we got our very first real Christmas tree from a real tree lot. No King Soopers tree for us! Lincoln gave me the best present ever--his very first social smile! I am now 28 and that's kinda crazy but enough about that because Lincoln's cute!

The days are long, and the weeks are short

My mom told me her old principal used to say that. I think it applies perfectly to these first weeks as a new mom. The days are long because you're constantly breastfeeding and then up all night, but when you get to the weekend you can't believe another week has flown by.

Anyhow, here is a smorgasbord of pictures from Lincoln's first 7 weeks of life:
Grandma's Visit

Halloween:

More of Grandma's Visit:

Random pictures:

Celebrating Movember:

Kurt is so cute. He's always coming up to me with the camera and asking me to take pictures of him and Lincoln. Melts my heart.