Summer

 Trying to play catch-up is hard, but Jaydon loves to come down and look at the blog and see pictures.  Even though I tell him to look at picasa, he likes this for some reason.  I am sure I will miss stuff about the summer.  Lots of outdoor stuff, family reunions and excitement, that's for sure.  Jori is almost a year and I feel like it wasn't that long ago that we brought her home.  She is such a cutie.  Whenever someone at the store or some random person sees her they always say two things:  Something about her chubby-ness and her big eyes.  She is such a cutie and also very calm.  She gets going loud and babbling every now and then, but for the most part if I put her in front of toys, she is really good.

I used to put her on the bed while I got ready.  This is Jori at 9 1/2 months. 
She just started to crawl a couple weeks ago!

 We had a few family reunions with both my mom and dad's sides.  I didn't get too many pictures at them.  They were close by which is always a plus!  Jaydon had fun building a rocket and launching it, getting his face painted, dancing with cousins and doing his 1st potato sack race...wish I would've taken some pictures.  Next was July and we stayed here for it.  We went to the stadium of fire and then to Bear Lake to visit Jason's grandma for the day.  The kids did better than I thought at the fireworks and the next day at Bear Lake was good too.  We went to the Paris parade and had lunch up there, only down-side was our car getting backed into by Jason's grandpa.  It is just in with the memories and now we laugh about it...love fun stories and memories!  (And it is fixed now!)




Jori watching her 1st fireworks!

Jaydon loved playing with his cousins all night
and they slowed down enough to watch the fireworks.

Jaydon with his "fireworks" and his new favorite, Bumblebee.

Jaydon and Jori on the 4th

Me and the kids on the 4th

We also took the kids to the Treehouse Museum.  It was a lot of fun and Jaydon was really excited.  He played for a long time and thought it was really cool.

Jaydon by Utah

In the oval office

His favorite-the fireman truck.  (Jori's least favorite!)

In the tee-pee

We also went to Idaho Falls to celebrate my dad's birthday and have a get together with my siblings.  We went to a swimming place in Pocatello and then to my parents for a hawaiian themed evening.  The had yummy food and the house decked out all hawaiian and later that night they had a movie outside for the kids.  Jaydon jumped off there trampoline and ended up braking his arm.  I thought he was maybe being a little over-dramatic about it, but after the weekend we took him in and sure enough, it was broke.

Jaydon taking a bath with his arm wrapped up and
in a sling.  He had this for a week, then a cast.

Jori at 11 months-almost a year!

We went to the Cache fair and had fun there too.  We were trying to come up with things Jaydon could do since he had to quit swimming lessons and couldn't get his arm wet.  We got him tickets and just as he thought he had picked his 1st ride to go on, the guys said no.  Yep, can't ride anything with a broken arm...they don't want to be responsible for anything I guess.  He was pretty sad and started to cry..but he did get to go on the tractors and that was pretty cool.

Jaydon "driving" the tractor.

Jaydon in the wheel

Jori just chillin' at the fair-of course she has
Jesse, and that is all she needs to be happy!

Jori getting the princess treatment from her big
brother-who knew!

Crawling around and into everything now! 

Jaydon and dad reading.

  It has been a fun summer and Jaydon is about to start preschool once again!  He is excited and ready for it to start.  We go to the library and joined a few summer reading programs and he has learned a lot about animals this summer.  He told me he is going to teach the kids about animals, what a smartie pants!  As much as we love summer, we are looking forward to the fall and the fun stuff we can do then.  And hopefully I will play less catch up and so we can remember what we do!

Zoo Trip

We went to Park City and Hogle Zoo a few weekends ago.  We ended up staying in a hotel Friday night at Park City, getting pizza and then swimming at the hotel,  Then getting up to get to the zoo when they opened.  Just wanted to have a weekend away...

Jaydon on the way down with Jason's mug and popcorn from Target-he was a happy kid.

Jori loved this mirror at the hotel and sat there for quite awhile.

We met my sister and her family at the zoo. 
Here is Jaydon and Addy with a sea lion in the background.

What a rude mom I am to make him stand by the bears for a picture.

Jaydon and the giraffes.

One of our favorite parts was watching the tigers.  There were two of
them going at it and a sign there saying it was normal, but they got
right up to the glass banging into it and giving the crowd a show!

One of Jaydon's favorite parts-the train ride.

Jori after she woke up-happy girl!

Playing on the polar bear sculptures.

I had to add this picture, the next morning after our weekend away Jori fell asleep
quietly on her own.  She must have been exhausted!

May

A run-down on May....

We celebrated 8 years of marraige right after celebrating Mother's Day with dinner, then

dinner and the temple the next night.

My "queen for a day" card I got for my birthday from the kids. 
Jaydon wanted me to really wear that crown to church.

Jaydon graduated from Preschool.  Although I really just told him we were going to his program.  He is going again next year so this is just a stepping stone, plus I think graduations for preschool are a little silly.....

Showing off his diploma

We went to Day out with Thomas over Memorial Day weekend like last year.  Although this year it rained a ton.  So it was fun, but too wet to get to do all the fun stuff we did last year.  Although Jori loved the train ride!

Proud of his certificate

Jaydon and dad on the train

Grabbing a quick picture of Jaydon with Thomas in the rain

Once again, it was rainy and cold so a quick picture with Sir Topham Hatt


Good start to a fun summer!

Happy 4 Years!



Happy Birthday to my big 4-year-old!  He was sooo excited for his birthday to come so he could have his Cars party and Cars cake.  He was so excited when he was able to see it all finished!  We ended up celebrating his birthday on Sunday at the park.  It was a picnic/party and so we just had sandwiches and this kids played and cake and ice cream.  It was the perfect day for a party and the park and he was so excited for everybody to come to HIS party.  When someone was about to leave I would ask Jaydon "What do you say?" and he'd say "Happy Birthday!"  He did thank people too.



Jaydon, Brynlee, and Addysen

Everyone singing to Jaydon-about to blow out the candles!

A picture of us at the party

Addy, Jaydon, Hero, Alexander, and Catherine

Jaydon got lots of cool stuff and was spoiled rotten!  He's been busy this week playing with all of his cool stuff.

Addy and Jaydon hugged good-bye and this is right after.  How fun that he has such a good friend/cousin.

Not sure why he was so excited to go to school on his birthday but he was!  He came home and told me all about it-looks like they spoiled him too!

We made him wait to open presents from us til Monday, his actual birthday.  Just spreading out  the celebrating....

That night we took him to dinner and then to ice cream.  Once the kids were bathed and ready for bed we suprised Jaydon with blowing out the candles once more.  Since that HUGE cake was all gone from the party the night before we made homemade oreos (his favorite) and let him blow out candles again.  (One of his favorite things about birthdays!)

I had to add this picture in...the other day I went to get Jori a bottle and Jaydon insisted that he could feed her, so I let him!  What I big helper to have around!  We sure love this boy, Happy Birthday to the one and only Jaydon Malone!

Easter

                                                                         

 I better get Easter up before Jaydon's birthday!  This year Jaydon really got into dying eggs.  We went to the store and bought an egg coloring kit about a month in advance and he asked if we could dye eggs...finally is was April and so yes, we could dye eggs!  He is on a Cars kick right now so we had cars wrappers, I think that was his favorite part.  We also found a kit I bought last year after Easter for this year, so we dyed eggs again.  I don't have anymore dye so we are done.

Jori loves this toy.  We got it out while we were watching Conference and it is a life saver.  I stick her in it and make dinner, vacuum, fold laundry, actually I put her in here all of the time for almost anything I do.  She is sure pulling out her personality now and is such a fun baby.



Jaydon was playing peek-a-boo with her and she was almost laughing.  We've got more laughs out of her lately, but she is still Miss Curious and takes a bit to break out of her shell.

Jori with her basket on Easter morning.  She has no idea what is going on, obviously...

Jaydon and his easter basket on Easter morning.  He was excited to get some of his stuff and take it to church with us.

After church we hurried to take a picture.  Jaydon and Jori both had purple on for their Easter outfits this year!