Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday to Jaydon! He is now 3 years old and I can't believe how quickly time has gone. The night of his birthday I took him into his bedroom to lay by him for a minute. He always asks for stories and we make them up most of the time. But, I decided to tell him about a special little boy that came to live with us that made us the happiest parents, and told him how much we loved having little baby Jaydon with us and adored everything about him. He was smiling the whole time knowing I was actually telling him about him. He really is the best son I could ask for. He is a typical three-year-old (tools, trucks, dirt, sports...), but he also is very caring and doesn't like when we are sad. He has a love for all things boyish and I can never find batteries or screw drivers as he is always finding them to change out batteries in stuff. He loves to take things apart and "help" put them together. He's always saying randomly throughout the day "I love my dad" or "I love my mom". He wants to know where the other parent is always and I love it when he brings me my mit and asks "You play baseball with me, Mom?" How can I resist! He's fun in every way and I can't imagine my life without him!
With all of the birthdays we go to for family and friends, he remembered his was next. We kept showing him how to hold three fingers up and he got really good at doing it. When we asked him what day his birthday was he'd hold up his three fingers. He is still trying to remember the day, but he definitely knows he's three. The next morning after his birthday, he woke up and the 1st thing he said as he held up his fingers was "I'm three today, but it's not my birthday!" It was pretty cute. For celebrating, he woke up to Jason taking him to an Easter egg hunt at the park. Then our families came over in the afternoon for a picnic (that is what Jaydon kept calling it so luckily the weather cooperated!) We had sandwiches and cake and ice cream and the kids just played around. He was so good and patient as I made his Dash birthday cake. That's exactly what he wanted and he loved seeing it all finished and kept wanting to play with him. Later that day, we spent time getting out his track and trains, then dyed eggs with him and some of my family stayed over and visited. Easter was fun as well and Jaydon was excited to see his basket of goodies Sunday morning. My parents went to church with us and we then went to Jason's parents that afternoon! It was a busy weekend but so fun, we loved every minute of it. Can't wait to see what adventures await us in the coming year! We love you Jaydon!

Spring, Anyone???

Well, I just ordered a swimsuit and so spring is definately on my mind! I feel like we've had snow forever, but it has been nice the last few days when we've been able to get outside and play without bundling up too much. There was ONE day when Jaydon and I went down to the park mid-February in jackets, but then these snow pictures were taken since then. Nothing stops Jaydon from wanting to be outside, can't blame him though, it's been a long winter. At least MOST of the snow is gone now and he hasn't had to wear his coat much.


On another note, I decided to make these rainbow cupcakes with Jaydon for St. Patrick's Day. I saw these on a blog I like to read and they are from a Family Fun article. Jaydon loved helping me put the dye in the batter and then helping me layer the colors into the liners. Even though they ended up a little "tie-dyed" they were fun and he had fun eating them! I think the cousins enjoyed them too! Now for the actual day I will have to see what food I am willing to eat green, most things you have to dye just sound/look gross! I have a little project we can do and we'll figure out something fun to have-that is part of the fun for Jaydon! Happy St. Patty's!

The Big 3-0!

Last weekend we celebrated Jason's birthday. He turned 30 this year, so I asked him if he had anxiety over it. He said he didn't but then he kept coming home from basketball with a sprained ankle or a hurt foot, then yesterday he came home and I asked how he got a black eye! He wasn't aware of it even and we both had to laugh about it-and now we joke about all of these incidents coming with the age. He's fine though, really! A couple of Sundays ago, we invited my siblings over for a soup dinner and games. We were able to get in one game and then the kids were ready for cake-Addy and Jaydon wanted to be right by the candles, they thought it was fun!
When he got home on Friday night, we opened a few presents for him, including a candy bar poster. I was trying to come up with a fun thing for his 30th birthday, but that was all I could come up with. So, I thought of how we could get 30 different candies on there. It turned out fun. He also got a Sudoku game. We used to take turns playing mine every night before we went to bed, but now we have little competions and it's fun! (I always win!) We ended up going to dinner and watching a movie that night. Then on Sunday, we went out to Jason's parents house to celebrate his mom's birthday. If you are keeping track that is 3 cakes in a weeks time-which =TOO MUCH! We came home from his parents and decided to throw the cake away, Jason wants to start watching what he eats, and I'm all for it but it must have something to do with the age!

Anyhow, I noticed Jaydon with the camera again...on a few occasions. He kept putting his Toy Story toys into the handles on the dresser. He kept asking me to "Look!" after each one he got in. I took the pictures of him in it, HE took the pictures of the toys themselves. I think I know what to get him for his birthday! Happy Birthday to daddy, we sure love you lots!

Christmas Break

Everyday I think about posting about our Christmas break-then I go to bed. But, it was a really fun Christmas and Jaydon was so fun to have around. We spent Christmas Eve at Jason's parents house, then came home to watch Santa Paws. We all got to bed and Santa delivered in the morning. Jason's parents came over to see Jaydon's loot and watch him open presents and that was kind of fun. He was soooo excited to see his garbage truck and dump truck (he'd been asking for that for a few months). Then he opened his Thomas the train stuff from Santa and was so excited to see that he got trains too! He was spoiled rotten as he also got Toy Story stuff and matching pjs and tools!!! My parents gave him a wagon and Jason's parents gave him some more tools-so our house has been getting fixed a lot lately:)!
After Christmas morning at our house, we went to Jason's parents, then up to I.F. to visit my family. We stayed for a few days, then came back so I could still work a few days. The whole time up there, Jaydon kept asking if he could play with his trains. I have to admit I did feel a little bad for him. To get a fun surprise from Santa and then have to go visit grandma and grandpa seemed so unfair, I'm sure! But, the day we came home, we put away our Christmas and Jaydon played for HOURS with his trains...he'd just lay there and watch them go around and hook more freight cars on, and take them off, then add them on, and so on, and so on....it was really nice!

Jason had the entire week off and by the end of it, I think he was ready to go back. He kept asking "What do you guys do all day?" I hope he figured it out! We had a lot of fun playing and relaxing, but even Jaydon was ready to go play with his cousins (where he goes while I'm at work!) He kept asking to play with Addy, so luckily, we went bowling with them last Saturday and Jaydon had a blast! He got to play a few games and bowl, then we went home and had pizza so he was happy! Now work is up and going and Jason told me it didn't last long till he felt like it wasn't as good to get back to work as he thought! (Told ya!) BUT, we are having a fun winter with all of our new toys. Not saying it wouldn't be nice to see some signs of spring though- Happy Wishing!

P.S. When we downloaded the Christmas pictures we notice a certain little somebody got a hold of a certain something they are NOT to touch...he saw them and said "I did picture of my toys!" He was really proud, how could I resist the cute pictures from a two-year-old view!

Almost Christmas

Christmas is this week! I think I am almost more excited than those two handsome fellas, but I thought I would post a little about what we've been up to. We put our tree up right before Thanksgiving-me thinking it would help us to be able to relax and enjoy the season more. Well, it's been busy and full of lots of things. We've gone to Christmas parties and made treats and crafts and read lots of Christmas books. One of Jaydon's new nightly rituals before falling asleep is to read If you Take a Mouse to the Movies and Charlie Brown Christmas. If I try to put him to bed without reading those, he won't. We've tried on late nights and realized it's better to just read 2 books then not. We had Santa come to our ward Christmas party. It was cute in line because Jaydon kept trying to see over people and find Santa, but then we got up there and he wouldn't look up at him. But he did say a few items on his wishlist under his breath! Hope Santa heard him, he keeps talking about those things!



I've been busy making these Christmas trees out of 2x4's. I got the idea after making a pumpkin trio for a Thankgiving decoration-kind of the same idea, from my sister-in-law. I think I cut out 40+ trees this year, some for me, my mother-in-law, and my sister. I made them for visiting teaching and a few other people and me! They are fun to do and so easy! It was a fun Christmas project!


I was so proud of my chicken pot pie. It is fun to bake in the winter and heat up the house. I've tried to make minimal treats this year, but it's been fun to try and make a few dinners. I need to get better at having dinner ready!

We got a lot of snow right around Thanksgiving and then just a bit on and off since. At the moment we have snow on the ground, but it rains and melts and snows a little. Jason went out to shovel and Jaydon insisted on going too. I thought it was too cold and windy, but I got him ready anyways. I think I heard the door bell about 5 mins. later. He was ready to come in!

Hope everybody has a wonderful Christmas and a Happy New Year! It is going to come quick, so let's all take time to enjoy it!

Catch UP

I thought I better do this before Thanksgiving comes and goes. We did some fun stuff for Halloween and Jaydon was getting into it this year, making it really fun! My mom had her Grandma Halloween party again a few weeks before and so we drove up for the day with my sister and neice. It was fun to go and I was impressed with Jaydon wearing the custume the whole time. This frog custume drowned him last year so we thought it was be great for this year being a 3T, but it was a little snug...oh well! The cousins all played games and then we had a fun festive dinner. At the end, my mom did a scavenger hunt with little prizes at the end. I told Jaydon to smile for me when he got his and he kept putting it on his head? I don't know...
We also went to the Pumpkin Walk and Jaydon was most excited about being able to ride the bus. The actual pupkin watch was really fun too and he liked it through out the whole thing, but at the end they had a scene with the Lion King and then Up! right next to it. He's really been into The Lion King lately and his all-time favorite is the grandpa movie, SO...we lucked out this year! We even went back the next day with some of our cousins and he still had fun!
We had a FHE at our house with some of Jason's family so we decided to make sugar cookies for everyone. Jaydon loves to cook and helps out a lot. He and daddy were designing awesome bats and witches hats. I was just going to do round pumpkins so it was fun to have some help!
We also ended up carving our pumpkins (well, Jason did most of it). Jaydon was interested in what we were doing and helped me pick out the designs. When we lit them up, he was a little confused, but having them on the porch for the trick-or-treaters was fun!
I hate to post so much at a time, but there's always so much going on...we had a fun month and getting ready for the next round of holiday fun to start! Here's a cluster of pictures of some of the fun we had.

Mini Vacation

Well, we went on a little family trip a few weekends ago and I am not keeping up with posting very well. We had a fun time and Jaydon had a blast! We left Friday and went to Hogle Zoo, then we drove to Chucky E. Cheese for dinner. That was the part of the trip that he was most excited for. He rode on a motorized mini monster truck and that was all he talked about! That night we stayed in a hotel and went swimming which Jaydon loved too. Side story: The water was all 4-5 feet deep and he'd stand on the edge and jump into our arms. Well...Jason and I were not paying 100% attention to him and he just jumped one time...me in a panic hurried and reached my arms out to grab him from under water and he came up and gasped then laughed and said "Do it again mommy!" Whew! Anyhow, the next morning we woke up and headed to the Living Planet Aquarium and lunch afterwards at Zuppa's. It was fun and for the homebodies in us, it was good to come home!