Anniversary and Birthday...

Ok, it's been awhile...but this is sort of my journal so I want to keep it up as best as I can. May came and went and I am now finally getting around to posting something. I love May for lots of reasons and it's a busy month for us...1st, my sister is staying with us this summer going to a few classes at USU and working a bit too. She moved in the first week of May. Then came Mother's Day, our Anniversary and my birthday right in a row and I love it (and the royalty treatment!) On our actually anniversary we had our walls done in our master bathroom. They had to replace our jetted tub that was put in wrong and leaked into our basement before the sheetrock was done in the basement. We decided on no jets this time but have an oversize 6 foot soaker tub. Well, a few months of using the hall bathroom and money saved equaled new walls for our anniversary gift! Here is a before and after of it, nothing special but we are SOOO GLAD it's done and usable again! We went to dinner and a movie (Robin Hood) that night thanks to our in-house baby sitter! We were out till abot 12:30 and we felt so young again and tired! For my birthday we were able to sneak away again thanks to Shay and go to dinner and the temple. We've been trying to play outside as much as possible with our rainy weather and had a fun weekend with my parents here and another birthday celebration on Memorial Day for Shayla. I did get some pics of that, so I'll post on that too...

He used to play in the bathroom putting his toys in the tub...

And here it is finished, and Jaydon still crams a bunch of toys in the tub!

Jaydon loves birthdays and candles. Whenever there's a birthday, he talks about candles. He helped me put them in and blow them out. Then he wanted to do it again and again! What a cutie!

Happy Birthday Jaydon!

Jaydon celebrated his 2 year birthday on Friday. He was spoiled like crazy. We decided we'd do dinner and cake and ice cream for family and so cousins could come over and play with him. Well, family for Jason and I make up quite a bit of people. Most everyone on Jason's side was able to come and we had a bunch from my side, including grandma and cousin Caleb that came down to celebrate! We had pizza and sides and cake and ice cream. All and all, there were 28 people to share the fun with! With our basement just getting carpet a few days before we were down there most of the time. Jaydon loved having everyone here and talked about them on Saturday, wondering if they were coming over. Yesterday we took him to his two year check-up. He's huge! 32 lbs., 37 1/2 inches puts him in the 80's for weight and 99th% for height! He loves anything with balls and was excited to see his cake I made for him, but probably more excited to see his baseball mit and ball daddy brought home for him. He is such a cutie and we love him like crazy. Everyone says it, but I really can't believe he's two! We can't imagine life without him and we're glad he's here and part of our family!


Jaydon checking out his awesome birthday cake!

Opening tons of presents...

Trying to get him to blow out his birthday candles...

What a cutie! Enjoying some cake and ice cream. THanks everyone for coming, it was definitely a party!

Baby Animal Days

Well, we went to Baby Animal Days a week ago from Friday and I just seem to slack on blogging. We've been busy in the basement every night and weekend for the last couple of months. Unless we had a wedding or something wedding related to attend to, we were in the basement. Jason definitely more than myself, but still, we've been down there a lot! SO, we decided to take Jaydon to this so we could all enjoy a little sun with spring showing up. Jason took the afternoon off and I showered after working downstairs all morning and we headed to see the baby animals. Jaydon was all for it at 1st and ran right up to the baby goat. After that, he was a little more hesitant. We would pet the animals with him and he did better. They let the little kids ride the ponies and also had them wear helmuts...I think that is why Jaydon wasn't enjoying it as much. He's been on a horse before and it wasn't scary to him....Anyhow, we had fun and it was good to get out and do something too. We were going to stop for dinner afterwards, but we all smelled like a farm...so we opted for picking up pizza instead! We sure loved the weather though and thanks to Jessica for the camera use...we still are working on that one!

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!