Onto Thanksgiving. As mentioned before Andrew's brother Dan and his family came down. It was so fun to see them. This was the second time since Andrew and I have been married that we have been able to spend time with them. They were living up in Alaska before moving to Idaho so thats why we did not see them. I do need to mention that I managed to make my first turkey and not undercook it or overcook it (Sharryll did help me at the end figure out when it was done). It turned out quite tasty too, if I can say that. Most of these pictures are from when we went up to Temple Square to see the lights. It was a really cold night, but it was so fun to see all the lights.
Thursday, December 24, 2009
Halloween & Thanksgiving
Onto Thanksgiving. As mentioned before Andrew's brother Dan and his family came down. It was so fun to see them. This was the second time since Andrew and I have been married that we have been able to spend time with them. They were living up in Alaska before moving to Idaho so thats why we did not see them. I do need to mention that I managed to make my first turkey and not undercook it or overcook it (Sharryll did help me at the end figure out when it was done). It turned out quite tasty too, if I can say that. Most of these pictures are from when we went up to Temple Square to see the lights. It was a really cold night, but it was so fun to see all the lights.
New Place & Updating in General
At the beginning of November, we moved into a new apartment. We have enjoyed many aspects of this. First off, I no longer work. This leaves much more time for cooking and cleaning and playing with Jack. We also love having 2 bathrooms. No more having to wait to use the bathroom (not that that happened too often). Jackson loves having his own room Im pretty sure. Almost every morning after breakfast we go in there and play. Can I just say how nice it is when I wake up in the middle of the night unable to sleep in bed I can actually go out to the living room and turn on a movie or something? This past week I have done it twice and oh man, it makes me so happy that I can actually do things in the middle of the night and not just be stranded to my bedroom because otherwise I would wake up Jack.
In Jackson updates- he is now 14 almost 15 months. He loves to read books (he will even read them to you), loves to get into the kitchen cupboards and drawers. Usually its the baking drawer and he pulls out the measuring cups, measuring spoons, whisks and spatulas. I really dont mind until I go to make something and of course the things that I need are gone. But thats alright, it keeps him happy. He has also started to enjoy helping me bake. He likes to sit on the counter watching the mixer. He is good at throwing things away- even when we dont ask him to. Sometimes, we will throw his diaper to the trash can and miss and Jackson will go and throw it away for us without us saying anything. Other times he will take his socks off and throw those away. We are still trying to teach him that keeping his socks on is beneficial- he has yet to agree with us. He loves music and dancing and playing the piano. My lovely sister Bobbie had left some toys for him when she moved to England. One is a dancing penguin from the Backyardigans (Ive never seen this show and I dont want to). The penguin is quite entertaining for Jack and he sings and dances along with him. Sometime I will put a video up of him with Pablo. There is also Elmo (even more annoying than Pablo). He dances and sings as well. As annoying as these toys are, it is too funny to take the batteries out or turn them off. He is talking more and more. Right now his favorite word is Istmas Ree (christmas tree). Right now, any tree is a Christmas Tree and he delights in letting us know. It is SO CUTE to hear him say it. He gets SO excited and his voice goes a little higher. He also can say mom (although he seems to only say this when he is upset), dad (he says this one all the time)- quick side note, we have a large collage picture frame on our bedroom floor with pictures of Andrew & I and Jackson will go and point out mom and dad for me- Jesus, ball, book. Those are pretty much is main words but he babbles like no other. If only we could understand all those other babbles. Oh he also sings- usually along with the radio in the car while dancing in his carseat- also very funny. He has also learned that if we can do it, he probably can too. This just started a couple of weeks ago. It started with the piano. He saw us open it up and one day he just went and opened it. Unfortunately, he has not forgotten how to do it either. He also learned how to wind the large snowglobe and music box so the music will play. It made Andrew and I kind of laugh because he loves to play with this large snowglobe that we have (its a winter wonderland scene) and one night we had it on the floor for him to watch and he kept pointing to it and having us wind it up so the music would play, and then instead of asking us, he did it by himself. Speaking of learning things, he just learned how to climb up on our rocker, and anything else that is low enough for him to get his leg up on. Not such a great thing because the kid has no fear. He will stand and jump and dive off of it (well he tries to dive off of it, we try to be close by to catch him). Im sure there is much more that has happened with Jack in the past couple of months that I have not blogged but at the moment I can not think of it (I'll just blame being pregnant). When I think of it, I will write about it.
Pregnancy update- I am now 29 weeks, WAHOO 11 weeks to go! We are getting excited but can't believe how fast it has gone. Everything is pretty good with this one for the most part. Except she likes to move, A LOT and she likes to sit on my siatic nerve. Not so comfortable. But thats alright, it'll be worth it in the end.
Andrew is really enjoying his job. It definitely has its challenges but he seems very positive about it. The good news is that his supervisor asked him about coming back next year and wanting him to. Always a good thing to have some job security. He has also started a masters program. I can't remember if I had wrote about him getting a job as a basketball coach, but if I didnt he did and if I did say something he didnt take it. The practices were going to be at like 7 at night (maybe 8 I cant remember). So he decided that right now he likes to actually see Jack and I so it just isnt very possible to do both. Not to mention that he is also still in the bishopric and they usually have at least 1 night during the week that they go do something. He is still enjoying his calling in the bishopric. It definitely brings about some challenges but its fun. It will be weird to go back to a regular ward. A lot of people keep asking what I will do when Jackson is able to go into nursery (that happens in April when he is 18 months) and I have Kenadi. Honestly, Im not quite sure. We are playing that one by ear. Im guessing I will probably go every other week to the different wards but we will see what happens.
Well, I think that that is all for now, I have to get on the other computer so that I can post about our Halloween and Thanksgiving. Dan (Andrew's brother), Sharryll & Tyler came down for Thanksgiving and we had a lot of fun and got some cute pictures of the boys. So that'll come a little later when I decide to get on the other computer.
Family Photos & Jackson's One Year Pictures
Friday, October 16, 2009
Ultrasound pictures



Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Seeing Pink! (and other random news)
In other news, I have put in my 30 day notice to my boss and we will be leaving the beloved storage units. Okay, I don't think I should actually refer to them as being beloved, but it has been our home for over 2 years so we will kind of miss it. But we are SO excited for our new place. Last night we went and met with the landlord and signed the first part of the contract and gave our deposit. It is still really close by and even more importantly still in our married student ward boundaries and even in the same quorum. 2 bedroom 2 bath. We are excited to have more space!!
Jack thinks he is hot stuff now that he can walk all over. He still crawls every once in awhile, but he would definitely prefer to walk. The other day we went to the store and he was feeling pretty good about life when we let him walk around in the store. He's a crack up.
Sorry for the boringness and no pictures. I need to get the scanner working (which really means Andrew needs to look at it and see whats going on) and then Ill put up the ultrasound pictures of our sea monkey/alien. And I dont know where the camera is so no pictures of Jack this time around. Sorry.
PS- Jenny, I put the floating baby ticker up JUST for YOU!
Saturday, October 10, 2009
Heavy Heavy Hangover (not what you're thinking)
Thursday, September 24, 2009
No Pants!
This is a residence
Monday, September 21, 2009
Brad Paisley Concert
First are the pictures of Dierks:
This is where Brad walked right out about 2 rows in front of us and performed, we were too slow at getting up to go get a good picture of him so this is all we got.
I hope you can see this one but this is where the drunk guy was being dragged out of the concert by the two security guards.
Thursday, September 10, 2009
And he is on his Feet!
Keith Urban!!
Oh and this is Little Big Town who opened for Keith! They were so awesome! Their harmonies were impecable and so incredible.
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Team Spirit
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Gum...
11 months old!
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.



















