Scott & Tracy's Wedding

Hi guys,

Sorry it's been quiet on our side lately. Valentine came and went and now we are looking forward to Philip's first Easter. Philip is now 8 months old and he is so aware of his surroundings. With the weather getting warmer he really enjoys our walks outside. It also looks like he might skip crawling all together. He is able to stand for several seconds and last longer each time he practices. It is also tax season so both Tracy and I will be busy since we will be filing jointly for the 1st time. Otherwise everyone is doing well and we are all settled in our routines.

I was debating doing more updates to the site and an opportunity for major changes has come up. It has been almost 2 years since we started scottandtracy.net. We initially started it to document our preparations for our wedding and after the wedding we used it to document our life as a family and of course Philip growing up. With our hosting contract expiring we have decided to move to a new host (more space and newer tools) and hopefully a better website overall. The changes will come slowly, but the first big change is a new domain name. You can now access this page using:

www.thefillers.net

Please update your bookmarks since we will be retiring scottandtracy.net at the end of April.

Everyday brings something new with Philip. One day we decided to sit him upright and see what he does and tada!

Things have been so busy lately so I'm catching up with posting the pictures that we took. We hosted Christmas dinner and had the Bohnens, Carolinos and Villareals over. Here are the pictures that we took.

Hi folks,

Things have been pretty busy the last few weeks since our last update. First Thanksgiving, then both Tracy and my birthday. Then getting ready for the Christmas season. The year is almost over and 2008 is just around the corner!

First a bunch of updates about Philip. He is getting big and heavy. He is now 5 months, 16 1/5 pounds and 25 1/2 inches. He started eating solids. Not full time but taste testing cereal, peas and I think carrots this week. He likes the texture and it most be a nice change from drinking milk all the time. Still no teeth, but maybe his front two for Christmas? He is also getting into the Xmas spirit and had his first photos with Santa. Check out the pictures here.
















Scott had a fun contest at work. His whole department got mini Christmas trees and had to decorate them for a contest. Tracy and mom got into the spirit of things and ended up coaching and helping decorate the tree. There was some really stiff competition so he didn't win any prizes but he's proud of the end result.
















It was Tracy's birthday early December. Scott's is late November. We kept things quiet this year since we preferred to spend the time with each other and Philip. Also with the cold season we really didn't want to take Philip out a lot. We still had a lot of fun and you can find a bunch of picture from Tracy here.

Next up are some pictures from Philip's cousin Nicholas. It was a fun party and it was nice having all the 1 year and less new additions to the Villareal clan all together. Nic was a really cute especially when he started clapping when he was supposed to blow out the candles. He gets so enthusiastic about clapping.
















Last but not least a couple shots from our Xmas photo session at home. Everyone dressed up in red and we had a good time taking the pictures. We are still learning to take family pictures with little Philip. It was hard getting pictures with everyone smiling and looking into the camera.

I still need to post the pictures I took from Thanksgiving. My cousin Basti and his girlfriend Nicki visited us over the holidays. They experienced their 1st Thanksgiving and Black Friday sales!!!. We celebrated Thanksgiving with the Carolinos and drove up to San Francisco for the day. Food was great and we all were stuffed afterwards.

Trickie and Beccs are planning to visit after Christmas. They have a couple of appointments to take care of up till Christmas so they can make it. Still it will be great if they can visit since it has been over a year since we last saw each other and it was during the wedding so we could really hang out.

That's it for now. Don't forget to post comments on the pictures so that we know you are alive.

Good news everyone! We are back in Santa Clara. We moved back from Yuba City last weekend and everyone is happy to be back home and together.

A lot of things have happened since my last post. Tracy and I celebrated our paper wedding anniversary. Then we celebrated Tracy's grandmother's one year death anniversary and of course this week was Philip's first Halloween!

Check out the pictures below.