My Little Man

I guess this post is dedicated to Jacey. I haven't taken any pictures of Jaclyn lately! :( I have NO clue how to work the camera at all and Jeffrey has been too busy to break it out....so we've been having a picture drought! Heather and Melinda, any time you feel like whipping out your cameras to capture my babies, feel free! :) This first set of pictures you've probably already seen, they've been on facebook, but I have to put it here too, for when I one day make my blog a book. Jacey's hair had been getting really out of control. He has Jeffrey's hair I think, because it has SO much body! It wouldn't sit down on his head ever! Always poofy! And he has soo many cowlicks that there is no possible way to do his hair. So he was in desperate need of a hair cut! However, the last time I took him to Beaners to get his hair cut, I ended up holding a screaming child captive in my arms for the entire hair cut. It was a tad embarrassing! So since neither Jeffrey nor I know how to give real hair cuts, Jacey got a buzz!! We were worried about it after the first strip of hair came off, but we've gotten used to it. He's lucky his head is so round! He pulls it off nicely, I think. :) Plus, now it'll be a while before we have to worry about his hair again.

This next set of pictures I can thank Lizzie for. We didn't bring our camera down to Cardston when we went down last weekend. We went down for a 3rd ward YW temple trip. We had all the girls, leaders, the bishop and his wife stay at my parents "mountain home" on friday night, and went to the temple early saturday morning. With my family there, there were 32 of us down there at once! It was sooo much fun!! In fact, I'm going to snag a couple of the pictures from one of the young women's facebook pages to show you just how cute these girls are!!
We're a loving bunch!

A couple of my amazing laurels! It was super windy on friday night!

Okay anyway, I meant to just post these pictures of Jacey, but I got carried away! Jacey LOVES his Aunt Lizzie! He had fun posing for her and the camera! If you notice the table in the background, Jacey set it all by himself! Not bad for a 2 year old! :) He loves to help any way he can! Such a great age! :)

New Hobby

This past fall for my ward's Super Saturday, one of the things I signed up to make was bows. I've never been that interested in crafts or that good at them! But I LOVED the bow making! It was a lot easier than I expected and so fun!! So although Jaclyn doesn't have enough hair yet, I decided to start making some barrettes. I took advantage of new year's sales at Michael's and bought TONS of ribbons and cute embellishments. Every spare moment I've had this past week, I've pulled them out and gone to work! I've made 16 so far and I have no desire to stop! Here's a picture of some that I've made so far. The silver clips are just there to show what kind of clip I'm covering. FYI. :) I'm so excited for Jaclyn to be able to wear these, but for now I guess I'll be giving them to my neices and as baby shower gifts etc. What's funny is that only one of them is like the ones I made at Super Saturday! I kind of went another direction with them! :)

Baby Leggings

Heather bought these cute leggings and was trying them out on Claire and Jaclyn. Here are some she got of Jaclyn! I'm in LOVE with them and am so happy she took them!!! Thanks Heather!! :)

I Hate Thinking Of Titles!!

I decided I'm not waiting for Jeffrey to touch up any more pictures! He's been so busy lately with work and class that any spare time he has, I make him share with me, not the computer. So I can't complain! This picture makes me laugh every time I look at it! We did not plan this pose, it was totally candid! We just happened to make the same dumb face at the same time and I'm so glad we did!! Because it makes me happy! :)

Here are Jaclyn and my mom! My sister, Elizabeth pointed out that it looks like my mom is holding my dad as a baby. I had to laugh because it's true. Here's my dad as a baby.

My kids and I got his eyebrows! Thanks Dad! :)


So I've been wearing my glasses for over a year now. I ran out of contacts and I never made an appointment to get a new prescription, and I can't buy more contacts until I get one. I don't know why it's the biggest hassle to make an appointment and actually go to it, but for some reason I haven't yet. And I HATE it! I've always felt like a total dork with glasses, because I've had them since grade 3 and was basically called that a lot! So even though I know my glasses are "stylish" and I don't look like a total dork, when I feel them on my nose, I automatically feel like I'm 10 again. So I want my contacts back!! Maybe I'll call and make an appointment today! :) On the plus side, I've saved a lot of money from not buying them for a year! :)

Okay, these next few pictures are still from Christmas Eve/Morning and I know that is long gone, but I still wanted to share a few.



Brett was an angel and put Jaclyn to sleep on Christmas Eve and then eventually fell asleep himself and held her for a few hours like that! It was soo cute! We kept asking him if he wanted us to take her, but he'd wave us away and fall back asleep again. He loved it and so did she!! I love seeing the nurturing come out of young, tough guys! Brett is that way with all his neices and nephews, he's a softy for them! :)



I just love this picture of the kids eagerly waiting to go downstairs and open all the presents! Jacey loves his Claire, he always talks about her at home and wants to go upstairs and play with her! He often can't resist kissing her, like he is in this picture!



After all the hustle and bustle of opening presents, Grandpa and Jaclyn zonked out on the couch! There is nothing as cute as snuggling sleeping babies!!

So now that I've gotten all the Christmas stuff out of my system, I guess I'll give a little update on our family and what's going on this new year.

Jeffrey's taking his first course towards getting his CIP. He loves it and has been pursuing insurance on a new level. For me, I've been thinking a lot lately about my health and weight (as we all do, especially after Christmas) and have been doing a lot better about what I eat and especially when and what I snack on! It's hard, but it will be worth it. Now I just have to figure out a workout that will fit into my daily schedule and things should hopefully progress the way I want them to! It all seems so far away though, it's hard to keep at it! I totally admire those who do!!!!

Jacey has been acting like a newborn at night lately and will wake up and NOT sleep without us either snuggling, or singing or whatever! It's driving us nuts, because Jaclyn will still wake up throughout the night too, so both Jeffrey and I will be up several times and it's getting really old!! I feel like this will never end and I will never get a full night's sleep ever again! It's depressing! :( Other than that, he's great! He's got such a fun personality and he is starting to speak so well! He makes me laugh all the time, especially when he's supposed to be in trouble or in a timeout. It's so hard to keep a straight face! He still loves to cuddle and is basically just a big baby! Which isn't always good, but we sure love him!

Jaclyn loves to dance and will do it on command! It's adorable and always brings a smile to my face! She loves Jacey and follows him around and laughs at everything he does. They love to play together, which makes me SO happy. For two reasons. One, they keep each other busy and I can get more done, and two, it melts my heart to see them love each other so much! One thing that keeps me busy with Jaclyn is constantly making sure she's not eating or choking on something. EVERYTHING she finds goes straight into her mouth! Jacey NEVER did that, he would even play with money and not even one piece would end up in his mouth. I'm constantly finding Jaclyn choking on wet wipes, kleenex, leaves, lint, food Jacey's dropped on the floor etc. It sure keeps me on my toes!

Over all, we're doing pretty well! I can't wait for the snow to go away so we can go outside and play! That always seems to break up the day nicely! For now, we're just having fun in our little basement suite, playing and learning! :) I've been told that one day I will long for the days when I was at home with my little babies, so I'm trying to enjoy every moment of it! I'm blessed to have really good kids. Sure they drive me nuts almost daily, but they really are good and are TONS of fun! I'm blessed to have such a wonderful husband as well, who will take time to play with our kids and take care of me. I'm a very lucky lady!!! :)

Just A Few Pics

Hello! I have tons of pictures I want to post, but I can only post as fast as Jeff works on them. Here are just a few of Christmas Morning! It was so much fun to have a child that was aware of the gifts and had fun opening them! And this year no one was sick for christmas morning, so that was a huge bonus! We are all sick right now though and it really stinks! Jacey and Jeffrey have recovered, it's just us girls that need to get better now. Anyway, I hope to post more pictures soon!

Rice Krispie Wreaths

There was probably an easier way to make these (buying the red and green rice krispies for starters) but nevertheless, I made these and am pretty darn proud of them! Please keep in mind that I am a new cooker/baker, so I'm still taking baby steps, but I'm having a lot of fun doing it!! I hope my Laurels enjoy these!

Happy Birthday Jacey

Jacey turned two today!! (Yet we still let him have his "bubba"). I can't believe how fast the time has gone. I know everybody says that, but it's so true! We had a pretty fun day today! We started off by having a waffle/bacon breakfast which we invited Michael, Melinda and Claire to share with us! Jacey loves waffles and bacon! So he was pretty happy! We gave Jacey his present in the morning so he could enjoy it all day! It was a little people train thingy. Toy/something to ride on. He loves trains so we thought he would enjoy that! My parents came over later on in the afternoon and gave him some clothes and some really cool blocks which he LOVED. They have the alphabet and numbers and shapes on all four sides so he's pretty much in heaven building towers and using his brains all at the same time! :) After dinner, I made my very first cake ever! I know, I'm 26 years old and today was the first time I have ever baked a cake. From scratch. By myself. :) I'm almost embarrassed to post a picture of it because it's NOTHING close to the cakes most of you supermoms create for your kids! But I'm proud of it nonetheless. I decorated it with my ghetto homemade ziploc bag icing tool. I didn't want invest in the real icing equipment until I thought I would actually use it! Jacey loved it and it tasted really good, so I was happy! :) I hope to make many more cakes and improve with each one, cause it was actually pretty fun!! Jacey must have been paying attention to past birthdays of cousins, because he knew what to do with the cake! As soon as we sang Happy Birthday he blew out the candles! No prompting needed! He had so much fun that he had to do it three times! :) We love Jacey so much and are soooo grateful to Heavenly Father for sending him to our family!!! We can't imagine life without him!!