Happy 2 Weeks!

So it's been awhile since I posted, and I keep wanting to post my brother Devin's wedding! It was nice to be able to see them get sealed and spend the weekend celebrating their new life together! He and Keri were married two weeks ago on March 26th. I have this cute picture of them, and had others, but a certain little someone played with the camera and the camera isn't working...yet. BUT, these two had an awesome day and it was really nice. They were married in the Twin Falls temple and then had a luncheon and reception that night. Then on Saturday night, an Open House in Idaho Falls. Keri looked beautiful in her dress and the flowers were gorgeous (love her bouqet!) She had yellow and pink and green for her colors and everything just looked great. They didn't get much of a honeymoon as they went back to school after the weekend, but soon enough summer will come and they will get to spend a little more time together! Congratulations to Devin and Keri!

Time flies

When we got home the other day I thought I'd let Jaydon go outside for a minute while I got the mail and vacuumed the car out. He usually hangs around in the garage and near by. Not this time. He was in the street and in front of our neighbors house. I happened to have my camera in the car and so I finally got him to come back and snapped a picture...he's trying to tie his shoe.

Speaking of cars...we bought a new one. We've had it for about two weeks now and we love it! It isn't anything fancy but it had 45 miles on it when we bought it and so we are glad to have something that doesn't have anyone else's problem in its history. We got rid of our bright red car and I insisted on getting white if we really were going to buy one. The dealership didn't think they had any, but an employee said they did up on the grass and so that was a major deciding factor for us...see how we make major purchases, hmmm...

Jaydon loves this hat. Jason got it in this package deal thing with the movie The Natural a couple of years ago. Jaydon loves wearing it around the house and yesterday he wouldn't take it off to go to his cousins. I'm afraid we'll loose it, but he loves it and always smiles while wearing it. He's getting to be quite the boss too. He will ask for stuff by saying "milk. (pause) NOW" You can fill in anyword with milk. But today my talking to him paid off as I say to him to ask for stuff by saying please and thank you. He asked for some apple juice by saying "Apple juice please, thank you." Got it in all at once! Smart kid!

Valentine's

Jason was so thoughtful this year for Valentine's. When I got to work on Wednesday last week, he had sent me flowers. I thought it was a little odd he sent them so early, but we had a busy weekend ahead of us. But then on Thursday another package arrived with chocolate covered strawberries. They looked yummy and very fancy!

We gave Jason a "flower garden" out of Reeses hearts with a little poem. Then we got him a new spring shirt with some flip flops. I think I was hoping it'd brighten this dreary weather! Jaydon was excited to get a new tool kit as he sees Jason using his tools quite a bit as the basement is getting finished. He played with this for a long time!


Love my boys, hope they had a Happy Valentine's!

Congrats to Austin & Caitlin

My sister got married yesterday and it was so nice to be there! She looked beautiful as ever and we were so glad to be able to share Austin and Caitlin's special day with them. After their sealing, they had a luncheon at the Hilton across from the temple, then later we got together for a few pictures before the reception began. It was so pretty there and everything turned out looking great! Jaydon was having a good time and ran around like crazy! He wouldn't stay still at the temple, or the luncheon, or the reception! They had a dessert bar and a candy table, so it wasn't hard to find Jaydon...he definitely has a sweet tooth! Congratulations on a wonderful day! We're glad we were able to share it with them!

Happy Birthday!

With cold weather after Christmas we always make a list of things to celebrate, at least until warmer weather and air we can breathe comes.
1st on the list is Jason's birthday. He was at work all day and so when he got home, we had a cake and presents for him to open.

When Jason opened up this candy bars he said "YES!" So, Jaydon is doing that in this picture. He copies everything we say, and includes a little action with it too!

Here's all of us. Someday Jason will appreciate that we took this picture to see how we all changed!

We ended up going to Winger's for dinner and Jaydon loved it. He loves eating out and getting to sit in the booster seats, and the drinks with straws. I couldn't get him to look at me once they gave him his drink! So, Happy Birthday Jason! Thanks for all you do for us, we love you!

A few of his favorite things...

There are a few things that Jaydon does everyday. One, he gets into everything, everyday. I mean that too. It seems like I go after him and clean up whatever he's into...
He loves the bathroom and closet. He usually plays with Jason's shoes, putting them on, and walking around. And he usually goes for the toothpaste and wants to eat it. This time, he got out a bunch of product and was pretending to do his hair. I guess he's paying attention to us when we gel his hair! (Notice he's smiling in the bottom picture, he said "cheese when he saw the camera!)


We also watch "papa and Russell" at least once a day (AKA, Up!) Actually we probably have it on 2-3 times. Jaydon knows certain parts of the movie now too. He will say "tractor" or "balloons" or "stairs", or he gets up to knock on the wall when Russell knocks on the door, saying "knock, knock". He can now say Kevin as well. Good or bad to let him watch it so much, I don't know. He is learning stuff, right?! I could probably recite the whole movie, but I lost interest in sitting down and watching it about 30 times ago. Now I just check in on him if I'm in a different room. This movie has helped with his 1st favorite thing of getting into everything!

Well, Christmas has come and gone. It seems like it's been a while now, but I wanted to post a few pictures of our holiday.
First off, Jason had off about 10 days, so it was so nice to have him around to help with Jaydon. When Jason went back to work,
Jaydon was a little sad and wanted daddy once he'd pulled out of the driveway, but things are back to normal and we are getting back to our normal day to day lives.
We went to my parents this year for Christmas and Jaydon had a blast running around with the cousins and enjoying his friends. He woke up on Christmas morning to find that Santa had brought him lots of fun stuff! Grandpa was the 1st to see the excitement, then dad, and then I pulled myself out of bed to see his face as he saw the loot. He played with his basketball almost all day. He was first picked up to the hoop, then he threw it up standing almost right under the hoop, then after a little practice, he stepped back and was a natural! He loves playing basketball and I can definitely say Santa found a winner! He also loves Barney and wanted him out of the box right away! My parents gave all the kids HUGE bean bags and that was a lot of fun as they opened them together! After playing all day, Jason and Jaydon zonked out on the couch right before dinner! We spent the next few days there, came back to Logan, to turn around the next day and spend a few days to hit two family parties, visit Jason's sister, and take Jaydon to the lights even though he didn't like being in the freezing cold!
The time went by so fast with Jason home, it hardly isn't fair, but we had a lot of fun and relaxation...now we are finding other things to look forward to and work on. Jason's back to work, we are working on lining things up to finish our basement, and realizing that we have birthdays and such to look forward to before the sun warms us back up!