11 months old!

Jack is 11 months now! Holy cow how timehas flown by. Next month and he will be a year. He almost has teeth coming in (finally). Hopefully the old adage holds true that the longer it takes for a baby to get teeth the better teeth they will have. We will see. Anyways, last Saturday we went up to grandpas house. We were weeding in the garden and Jack decided that he wanted to help out. Here are some pictures of him helping us (the pictures aren't the best because they are from my phone).

Sunday was the first day at church with all of the new students so itwas pretty full. Jack was in a goofy mood while the sacrament was being passed. Well, he was standing on the bench looking at the guys behind us who were making faces at him. All of a sudden, Jackson lets out loud hard laughs. Almost everyone in the roomstarted laughing as well. Even the bishopric was laughing as Jack kept laughing and laughing. Oh man, I was DYING of embarrasment. Before he started laughing you could have heard a pin drop in the roomit was that quiet. Oh well, life goes on and luckily hes so little and cute no one thinks anything of it.

Jack loves music and dancing. The other day I was playing the piano and he came over to play with me. Here is just a short little clip of him playing and dancing. The whole video ended up being about 2 minutes but I always have trouble loading videos on blogger so I had to make it really short.

New Job

Andrew has officially started working up at Wasatch High. Its pretty awesome. I can definitely get used to this schedule. He started working up there about a week ago and so far so good. I have missed having him home all day, but I definitely like him being home by 4. He can help with Jack while I make dinner and then he can also help get Jack ready for bed. Its great! The best part about it is we are back to having dinners with Emily and Dylan. Yay for not having to cook a couple nights a week!

He did it again!

Andrew won concert tickets again! This time to KEITH URBAN! YAY! We really wanted to go but it was too expensive and we already had bought tickets for Brad Paisley, but now we get too! Yay for us!

Jack's New Haircut

Yesterday, Andrew gave Jack a haircut. He had given him a couple of little ones where he just trimmed up his neck and sides, but yesterday he even trimmed the top. I was tired of the long hairs in front- it looked yucky! So here is a picture of Jack sporting his new haircut (andrew even gelled it for him today).

How cute is he?

So we went to a bar...(and more adventures from the weekend)

Not to drink...For a CONCERT! Thursday morning, while Andrew was driving up to Ogden for his Special Ed Law conference, he won tickets to see Emerson Drive on the radio. He has tried ALL summer long to win concert tickets and he finally did. Needless to say, he was super excited. So Friday, we dropped Jack off with Emily and Dylan (I was nervous because he usually cries and cries when we leave him with people). They said he was great though! So that made my heart happy. Anyways, Andrew and I drove up to Ogden to the Outlaw Saloon to see Emerson Drive. Yes the concert was at a bar. It was my first time at a bar, but evidently Andrew has been to a couple of country bars (he would go country dancing). Anyways, we got there at about 7 and they didnt even start the concert until 10! Holy hannah- I am usually asleep by 9:30 so this was really stretching it for me. We decided to stay for about a half hour and then go ahead and head home. I must say though, they were REALLY GOOD! They were very entertaining and sounded just like they do on the radio. We will definitely go see them again sometime (preferable not up in Ogden or in a bar- but hey the tickets were free so cant complain too much). Anyways, here are some pictures from our adventure up there.

Andrew busting a move onthe dance floor. A bunch of people were line dancing. He tried to get me to go up but I do NOT have coordination.

Andrew and I during the concert.

The lead singer. This is the fiddle player. The whole time he had this goofy smile on his face so Andrew HAD to get a picture of it. He thought it was hilarious.

SATURDAY morning we went up to my grandpas house. We got to see a family of quail. The babies were so tiny. We counted a total of 10 babies then there were 2 males and 1 female. This picture shows 5 of the babies.

I love this picture of Andrew throwing Jackson.

Later on Saturday we went on a "nature walk" with the ward (singles ward) and the other ward that we have been meeting with. It was a hike to Stewart Falls. We hiked to Stewart Falls (we actually didnt hike all the way down to the falls but we did get to see them) and then went and walked down to Bishop Christensen's cottage. (Just a side note, Bishop Christensen is a famous artist. He does lots of church art as well as kind of whimsical art- hes amazing!) His cottage was AWESOME!

Growing so fast!

Jack is 10 months now! Holy moly where has the time gone. At his 9 month appointment he weighed 20 lbs and was... well I forgot how long he was. He says dad, momma (sometimes- he prefers to say dad right now). He is also working on saying bath (he says baa) and book (booo). He loves to sit and "read" his books. He will sit and flip through the pages like he is really reading it and whisper to himself. Quite cute. He also is a big fan of the self feeding and we pretty much let him feed himself whenever possible. Check out these cute pictures.
And for your viewing pleasure, a video of Jack playing. (Thanks Dan & Sharryll & Tyler for the spiderman couch- he pretty much loves it!)

We are going back to...

Singles ward! Andrew was just called to be the 2nd counselor in the bishopric of a UVU student ward. Crazy I know. I am sad to no longer be attending our trusty BYU married student ward (we've been there for over 2 years so definitely feel comfortable there) but we are excited for the new experience. Im sure we will have stories to share soon.

Pictures from Seven Peaks

This week the Trapps came to visit and on Thursday we went to Seven Peaks WaterPark. here are a few pictures of the fun we had...mostly of Jackson.

here Andrew and Ryan decided to go down this really steep waterslide. I got a good picture of Andrew and well you will see the picture of Ryan.

Fourth of July

Here are a few pictures from going to watch the fireworks on the fourth of July at the Stadium of Fire. We basically didnt stay very long because Jackson was really tired, however we got there like 3 hours early so we had a lot of fun just hanging out.

Here is a Picture of Christina and Nicole, Christinas Sister who got to come hang out with us this weekend while her husband was out of town.

A visit from Alaska!

Today our nephew Tyler came with Andrews Mom and Dad on there way to idaho. We have neevr seen him because he has been living in Alaska, and he had a blast hanging out with his cousin Jackson. Here are a couple of pictures of our day together.

Socks arent for wearing...

They are for eating! Why of course! Jackson has the tendency of taking off one sock and sticking it in his mouth and keeping it there for awhile. I have no idea why he does this but he does. In fact he sticks basically everything in his mouth. His mouth is basically just another hand for him. Andrew thinks he does it so that he can easily crawl around and take the thing with him. Who knows.

Jack has a playmat that folds in half and we put it in between the bookshelf and piano. Well he has figured out how to pull it out. He likes to filp it over and hide behind it. For some reason this picture reminds me of my niece Madison. Maybe its the wide eyed big smile face.Usually Jack wakes up really happy. Sometimes he greets us already standing ready to get out.These are our beautiful lilies. We planted one last year and this is how many came back this year. More bloom every day.

Laughin Jackson

So last night we were playing with jackson and Christina started bouncing the basketball. That was fun and all but then when she messed up and it didnt bounce back up to her Jackson let out the hardest laugh ever, so of course she kept doing it and he kept laughing. after this had been going on for about 10 minutes we finally decided to record it and he kept laughing for the next few minutes. here is a taste of how hard he was laughing.

Soccer Game Date Night and Andrews Birthday

So for Andrews Birthday we had Emily and Dylan over for cake and here are a couple of pictures of the cake and Andrews 26 fingers.

Then on saturday we went on a date night to the Real Salt Lake Game against the Colorado Rapids, and it as so fun. We really enjoyed ourselves and totally encourage anybody who has the opportunity to go to a Professional Soccer game, it was so Cool!

Here is a picture of these drummers at the game who didnt stop once the whole game banging on the drums, very impressive. We had fun making fun of them most of the game.

Oh and after the game David Archuletta performed! We stayed just long enough to get the picture, he wasnt that entertaining, but we paid for it so we at least made sure to get our picture.

Swimming in the Sun!

Well we were going to go to the pool this morning but it didnt open till 12 so we went to target and discovered it would cheaper to just buy a small pool and put it in the grass in front of our house. So we did and we had fun as Jackson attempted to go into the cold water!