Three months old now!!!

Here are some recent pictures we have taken since we have been home from California!! Ayden is growing everyday; we see changes in him all the time!! SO much fun he is!!! he is learning to be on a nap schedule during the day, and going down for naps now with no crying!!! YEAH!!!! This is a huge praise the Lord in our household!!! Okay well we hope that you enjoy these pictures and they bring some joy to your day!!!

Here Ayden is sitting like a big boy in his high chair and Min is doing tricks with Ayden... yes this scares me too!!!

Ayden is getting to be very strong holding his head up so well and loves his new car walker/bouncer from Uncle Justin back in California!!

Mat time with daddy here and loving his toy monkey these days, he love sot chew on anything and everything.

Ayden and I at Wyatt's first Birthday! and happy Ayden waking from a nap!!

Time with Papa and Mema at Wyatt's 1st Birthday!!

Wyatt the Birthday boy and Ayden with Uncle Danny!!!

It's Been SO Long!! :-]

Having dinner with Uncle Justin!!


Saying goodbye to (Halmony) Grandma Ho the day before we left California.


Our little friend Jax (Justin and Fahn's son) meeting Ayden!!


Ayden and Jack playing!!! Jack Sivil was born 3 days after our wedding!!! :)


Ayden, (Halabogee) Grandpa Ho and Min!!

Having lunch with Nana!!

David D. playing with Ayden!!

We met for dinner witha bunch of friends, thanks to Linda and Chris Barngraff!! You will see Chris in the gray hat, he married us, and Linda B. in the middle with the black scarf!! Thanks for dinner Barngraffs!!!

Ayden meeting family!! Me, Nana, Ayden, Aunt Sandy( Ayden's great Aunt), and Great Aunt Betty (Ayden's great great Aunt!! 4 generations!!

Nana meetin her boy!!!

My dad had a BBQ/dinner for us while we were home!! Thanks Dad and Jannie!!! It was a blessing to see everyone and have them meet and love on Ayden!!!

Grandpa DeVine's special hammock swing for Ayden!! He loved it!!!

First time Ayden's feet felt grass in sunny California!!

Nap time with Daddy!! this one will be in a frame in our house!! :)

Yeah San Francisco Giants!!!!!

Love from my buddy Maddox!!!

The girls and their boys!! SO blessed to spend time with the girls that stood for us in our wedding!! And neat to think that one day our boys will play together!!


Ayden and I met Emily for lunch one day and she really held him!! She is not a huge fan of little babies, but she liked Ayden :)


Cousin Maddy and Ayden!!


We had dinner at the Sivil's with the Bozarth's and Arvin's. It was a great night!! SO good to see Sean and Nic after a year and a half!

Taking Ayden for his very first walk outdoors in the nice California weather... the last week we were there it rained everyday day so thank goodness we took these chances early on :)

Family :)

While we were home Min's mom set up a 100 day celebration for Cousin Kara and Ayden, it is Korean tradition and it was great to experience this with Min's family!! Ayden's 100th day is coming soon, Feb. 27th. :)

Meeting Grandpa DeVine for the first time!! Telling him how life is as he knows it!

We met at the park one day with Melis and Jack, Amanda and Maddox, and Nicole and Caedmon! Crazy how all the girls in our wedding that are married are having boys... Sarah's is one his way real soon!!

Representing the San Francisco 49'ers!! Yeah!!!

Auntie Jeannie, Cousin Maddy and Cousin Kara with Min and Ayden!!

Ayden meeting Grandma Ho (Halmony in Korean) for the first time, three generations here!!

Hello Family and Friends!!

Man it has been over a month since our last post and our little son has grown in incredible ways!!! We just got back from a great trip home to California and were blessed to spend time with family and friends that we have not seen in quite awhile. We were planning on being home for ten days but our while at home we really felt that we needed to extend our time there one more week. This was a great blessing to have even more time to see people and spend good amounts of time with people like my Nana, Ayden's great grandma, and Min's mom and dad. Ayden met a ton of new people while we were in CA!! He did so well!! Min and I both were not sure how he would do with others holding him and playing with him, but he was so personal with everyone and grinned much of our time there!! We are finding out more and more that we are very blessed to have a baby with a very good temperament, don't get me wrong he is fussy and gets mad here and there but really we have no complaints!! We got to see Ayden grow in so many ways the past month or so. He has fully began cooing and babbling, which is one of my favorite things yet!!! Oh, man there is nothing like your son talking to you in baby talk!!! We think that he s going to begin rolling over any day now, we were practicing tonight on our living room floor :) . He is now learning to play contently by himself after he has been fed. This gives us time to do things like take showers or eat a meal!!! Yeah for this!!! We also have watched him grow physically; at birth he was 6.9lbs, one month: 8.14 pounds, two months: 11.3 pounds, three months 14 pounds. He has already doubled his birth weight and is just continuing to put on that adorable baby fat!!! He is growing out of his clothes that he once did not even fit into, so sad but really exciting to watch the Lord grow this little boy off of breast milk alone!! Well, just wanted to do a quick update with pictures and a brief note to send our love your way!!! We pray that each of you is doing well and look forward to talking personally with you soon!!

Happy New Year!!!!

Hello all,


This update should have happened about two weeks ago, but we have just been busier than normal, as we are learning to take care of Ayden and still have normal life continue on...laundry, meals, sleep, work, etc. :) Ayden is doing well and growing like a weed. I took him to a lactation consultant when he was six weeks old, just to see how much milk he was receiving at each feeding, and in the first six weeks of his life he gained 3 pounds!!!! He is a great eater and he is gaining weight really well, which makes us happy and feel good about how we are scheduling his feedings. Ayden is now in his seventh week of life and it is crazy to think that in nine days he will already be two months old!! Time really does fly!!! We will take him for his two month Doc appt. on Jan. 21st right before we head home to California for a visit!!











We were blessed to have my mom (grandma Hantz) here for Christmas!! She enjoyed Ayden a bunch and found it hard to depart when the time arrived. While she was here we spent a lot of time in the house, which was kind of a bummer, but with a newborn who feeds seven times a day what can you do. We did get out to a few places though that we really wanted her to see while she was here. We drove about three hours to a city called Ashville to spend some time at the Grove Park Inn. This is a hotel, a very ritzy hotel, that has a gingerbread house contest that is really really cool to see. And the hotel is decked out in Christmas decorations too which is just really fun!!! You can see in our pictures that the houses were really well done and the people that made them spanned from children to adult, which I think is neat!! We also took her to meet the family that I have worked for before Ayden was born. She was blessed to meet the two girls, Elizabeth and Sarah, that I nannied for over a year and their mom Betsy and dad Cape. We took her to eat at some good restaurants here that we only have seen here in NC, such as Cracker Barrel and McAlister's Deli. She loved holding Ayden and taking part in things like baths and changing his diaper, oh the things you enjoy again when your kids are all grown. :) For Christmas we hung around and none of us got out of our pj's the entire day... we cooked and ate yummy food and just enjoyed time together and with the Lord! We enjoyed our time with her and we look forward to seeing her again as the Lord wills.


A quick update on Ayden... in the last two weeks he has really been cooing more and more and after I feed him and lay him on his changing table he and I will talk and Min and I just smile as we watch him find out that he has a voice! He has also had two nights of where he slept seven hours between feedings, Amen!!!!! I don't count on this as routine yet but we are getting closer to him sleeping longer and longer at night time. During the day Ayden still fights sleep and we are working on getting his naps in place during the day. :) Ayden can lift his head by himself, you will see in some of the pictures, Min calls him his Super Her-o. We love watching his little personality develop, he is giggling more and smiling a whole lot, we are still not sure if his smiles are gas or him really smiling :) We are truly enjoying every moment, even the fussy times, and just feel incredibly blessed to have him as our son!!

We hope that you enjoy the pictures and videos we post, we sure enjoy taking them of him. Well enjoy and may you be blessed in the New Year!! We look forward to seeing many of you when we visit home in 20 days!!!