Merry Christmas!

We hope you have a wonderful Christmas and New Year's! We feel very blessed to have such amazing friends and family. We're looking forward to another wonderful year with lots of exciting new things!

December....

December has come and gone with much fun had by all! I spent much less time online blogging, but spent it very busy trying really enjoy and make the most of every moment this month! Jason and I had almost all our Christmas shopping done and wrapped the first week and I slowly worked on my craft gifts over the month. The kids and I enjoyed lots of hot chocolate, warm fires, Christmas stories and movies, making gifts and delivering to people, and parties with friends. It's been a wonderful month! Here's a few pictures that captured some fun moments...

We started the month by attending a live Nativity play (with real animals and full set). It was wonderful and an awesome way to start out the month focusing on what this month is really all about.
Before the crazy rain, we enjoyed some unbelievable 80 degree days, so we did get in a few December park/beach days.

Jayne's Christmas program at school!
Getting to tell Santa what they wanted for Christmas. Only problem was Ryan thought Santa would give him the gift right then. He told him a sword and gun, and when all he got was a small candy cane, he burst into tears. I had to explain he was going to come to our house and all that, but I do see why he thought going to see Santa, he'd get his gift. Makes more sense to me :-)
Ryan finally is potty trained! Yeah!! And he finally got his Buzz Lightyear (the grand prize). As you can tell, he really loves him.
Opening some early presents with cousins and grandparents we wouldn't see on Christmas! It's been a wonderful month full of memories and fun!

Kindergarten Fieldtrip to the Farm

Since I'll be having a new baby in a few month and won't be as available to chaperone, I couldn't miss my first opportunity to chaperone Jayne's first school field trip. We visited a local working farm. The kids loved it and I just loved getting to watch and be with Jayne.

Jayne's first time riding a school bus! She was so excited!!
We even got to pack a lunch, which she thought was so fun!
They got to see and touch pigs, sheep, horses, llamas, ox, chickens, rabbits.
I loved getting to spend the day with Jayne and her friends :-)

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving was really fun. I didn't get a lot of pictures, but it was a wonderful, semi-mellow few days.

Jayne and cousin Kaylynn. She LOVES babies and tries ot hold her as much as possible.

Celebrated my Dad's birthday a few days early.

And celebrated my Grandma's 90th Birthday!! We loved getting to see a bunch of extended family to celebrate.

The kids with their Great Grandma! They still have 2 Great Grandma's alive and 1 Great Great Grandma! It's amazing. The women in my family live long lives. I hope I'm so lucky :-)

Happy Thanksgiving!

Jayne did a great job at her Thanksgiving program at school! She got to be a pilgrim this year. They had a great feast after wards and a very fun day!

Tucson

We had a wonderful weekend in Arizona! We spent 2 days in Scottsdale and 2 days in Tucson. We went to the USC game at U of A stadium and had a wonderful time at the JW in Tucson. It was a great family trip.

Making S'mores at the fire pit at the hotel.

The hotel pool, waterslide, and lazy river :-)

So Long Soccer

Soccer has come to an end for this year. It was fun. Jayne had a blast. And we have been indoctrinated into the world of soccer moms and games every Saturday. Great job Jayne!

Happy Halloween

Boo!

So yes, Ryan was Buzz Lightyear and Jayne was a witch. Ryan is NOT into dressing in costumes so Buzz was the only thing he would even consider and even then he only wore this a few mandatory times so he could get candy. Jayne wanted to be a scary witch and had it all planned that she had to have a green face.

had a wonderful Halloween weekend! So much so, that's it's taken me a full week to recuperate and get my house re-cleaned, groceries bought and everything put away. But it was worth it! We started celebrating Saturday when our Ward had an awesome Chili cook-off, carnival games, and trunk or treat.

Then Sunday we had over a bunch of family and friends for dinner, games, and trick or treating. I really love Halloween and I think all the kids had fun! Tiffany even came down from Vegas to celebrate with us! We loved seeing them and the kids played so nice. Thanks to everyone who came over for a fun night!

What an awesome year!

Pumpkin Time!

We had fun carving pumpkins last night! Each pumpkin turned out so cute! The kids loved it!

Happy Halloween! We'll have lots of fun party pictures next week!

Baby Number 3!

I'm 20 weeks pregnant! Yeah, 1/2 way :-) and it's definitely a boy! We got a great shot of his boy parts and it's very obvious. Everything looked perfect (thank goodness). They also said that he is very active! He never stopped moving the entire ultrasound, so he made our tech earn her money. Needless to say, we weren't surprised! We've already got 2 of those, and I figured the next would be just the same. :-) So far so good....

Side profile since he wouldn't sit still for a picture and a cute foot :-)

31 and Happy

I turned the big 3-1 this past weekend, and I'm feeling surprisingly happy about it. I say surprisingly because I've wanted to be "older" my entire life, until I hit about 26. I think the 30's are going to be great! I'm really happy just being how old I am. I don't wish I was older or younger. It's kinda awesome.

Thanks to everyone for the Birthday wishes and my amazing family who went all out to make me feel loved. I feel like I've been celebrating for a week with Jason and my extended family. The kids sang to me at least 3 times on my day and I had a wonderful romantic dinner with Jason, dinner with both our families, and even a girls night out! It was a great birthday!

Ryan and His Buddies

Ryan got to wear his Halloween costume to Gymnastics on Monday. He's not into costumes so this is only the second time I could even get him to put it on. Once he saw his best buddies dressed up, he was totally into it. Aren't they adorable! He had so much fun!
Here's a picture of Ryan at playgroup with his buddies. They love to wrestle and tackle. Guess who's right in the middle of it? Yep.

Major Revamp

So I finally got around to doing some major updating on my Baby Jayne's blog. Go check it out and see what you think. I'd like to start posting regularly there again and get some blog exposure. We'll see how the holiday's go and how I'm feeling. But I'm excited about the new look and hopefully more ease of use. Especially check out the Tutorial button on the top. I think all the picture links turned out cool. I'm just learning all this blog/editing/picture stuff so it's kinda fun :-) This blog will be next to get updated!

www.babyjaynes.com

Trip to Utah

It's been a long since Jason and I have been back to UT. Since we graduated college a little over 10 years ago and moved back to CA, we've only been back 1 time on a vacation and then for both of his grandparents funerals. So, when our best friends moved to UT this summer we thought it was a perfect opportunity to go back and visit and take the kids along! We had a WONDERFUL time! We stayed in Park City for 1 night and did our favorite Park City things, a beautiful drive down the canyon, and stayed a few days with our friends in UT County. A BYU football game, a run with Leanna through the canyon, a stop at the BYU Bookstore for the kids, temple square, Thanksgiving Point, and of course all of our favorite places to eat- it was a wonderful trip! And we loved getting to see our friends!

*We flew so the kids were PUMPED to fly on an airplane. They've both been on airplanes several times but of course they can't really remember, even though it wasn't that long ago.

So excited to be on the plane!
Swimming at the Hotel
Sleeping on the pull-out couch at the hotel. Ryan is soooo excited not to be in a pack in play crib. Let's just say it was kinda rough night sleep :-) And he went back in the crib for the rest of the trip.
Riding to the top of the ski mountain in Park City
I just love this picture! We totally enjoyed the mountains and beautiful scenery. Heading to the Alpine Slides.
Ready to Fly Down The Mountain!
Ryan was nervous for about a minute then he was LOVING it and hoot'ing and hollering all the way down the mountain. He calls it the 'car ride'.
Beautiful Drive Down the Canyon. Took us back to our college days and many fun activities and dates :-)
Ryan and Tyler totally bonded and had so much fun together!
Jayne and Jocelyn were inseparable and had so much fun together. They definitely miss each other.
It was so great to see our really good friends! We had a fun evening having dinner and playing at a park up the canyon.
Wow, we've produced a lot of kids! And more on the way :-)
Sometimes my kids are just so cute. I we were walking behind them, I noticed them holding hands as we walked through temple square and I had to hurry to get the picture without them seeing. I LOVE this picture.
An awesome way to end our trip. The kids loved the visitor's center at Temple Square. All in All an awesome trip! We'll be back to visit. Hopefully sooner than another 5 years :-)