Our Latest Doings

Valentines Day

We got to spend the whole day together (which is very rare), so after we cooked a big breakfast together, we decided to take Jete to the Great Lakes Science Center. We let him run wild and that's mainly what he did. He didn't care too much about playing with any of the cool things they have, he just wanted to run. He did have fun with a few of the things there at least. After that we came home and ate chocolate covered strawberries and watched the NBA 3 point and dunk contest. I think i got all my favorites in one day... a big breakfast, a new workout outfit, chocolate, fruit, basketball, and of course spending the day with the two loves of my life. A perfect day!

Our Version of Sledding

I just thought this picture was kinda funny. It's Had pulling Jete in a sled to go take the garbage out to the dumpster. It was too cold to take him sledding for real, so we bundled him up for a few quick trips to the dumpster. He loved every second of it too. What nice parents he has! :)

Superbowl Sunday

We had a superbowl party with some of our friends here. It was a lot of fun and we ate so much!

Go Cavs!

Yay we finally got to go to a Cav's game! We had great seats too, thanks to Mattie and Shane. It was a blast! We got to see LeBron James in all his glory...Haha. I tried to get a picture of him throwing the chalk up in the air but some popcorn vendor dude walked right in front of me when i took the picture. I don't know who we were more excited to see Chris Paul, otherwise known as CP3, or LeBron. Anyways, the Cavs won and it was a lot of fun. Had even caught a little basketball they threw out to the crowd, that's how good of seats we had!

18 Months

Our little boy is growing up so fast! He is now 18 months (well, because of my slow posting, is amost 19 months) and he is a little ball of energy. Here are some of the things he likes or is doing right now.

He talks like crazy and says just about any word that we ask him to.

I don't think he likes to walk because he runs everywhere he goes.

He runs on his toes and bounces as he runs.

He loves to watch Elmo and Little Einsteins.

He loves sandwhiches, popa's (popsicles), watermelon, and chips.

He usually has a bowl of grapes every night before he goes to bed.

He won't drink milk.

He has to feed himself and won't eat if you try and help him.

He loves to be with his daddy.

He loves to tell us NO!

He loves to ride anything that moves, except for the little rides in the malls. (He wants off of it if it starts moving.)

He was a gem on his first official day in nursery. We just dropped him off and he loved it. He did however steal the other kids' raisins while they weren't looking.

He gives the best hugs and kisses.

He loves animals.

He loves to play ball.

He loves to throw not only balls, but everything that he can grab.

He has just recently started wanting to wear his basketball jerseys all the time. (I don't know how he even knows they are basketball jerseys. We've never said anything to him about them.)

He loves to go to our basketball games.

He loves looking at pictures from the camera.

He loves to get into things he's not supposed to, then come and show us, and watch our reaction.

He loves to make us laugh.

He loves to climb on, under, and around everything.

He has been so much fun. He makes us laugh every day. He is definately all boy! I'm sad that he's growing up so fast and I know i will miss these days, even the days that i want to slap his mouth for telling me NO every second. We love this little boy so much!

Christmas Top 15

We got to go home for Christmas and we loved it! We had lots of people to visit and spend time with and the 3 weeks that we were there wasn't nearly enough time, but we were happy to have 3 weeks this year, since we only got 1 1/2 weeks last year. I was thinking about my favorite thing about going home for the holidays, and i thought of way too many favorites, so here they are, the top 15 in no particular order:

1)All the activities we do-whether we're snowmobiling, sledding, bowling, or swimming, I LOVE it!

2) Kids with Santa- Every year i love to see the kids with Santa. I like to try and predict which ones will sit on his lap willingly, which ones will cry, and which ones will give Santa a list of things they want.

3)Doggie Piles- Need i say more?




4) Christmas Parties- We have so many of them, but it wouldn't be like Christmas if we didn't.

5) Christmas Morning- Jete loved opening and getting presents. After he opened a couple with some cool toys inside, he thought they were all for him and tried to get everybody's presents.

6) Cousin Baths-Although the water gets disgustingly gross, especially after chocolate birthday cake, it's so fun to let the kids bath together and watch them play.

7) Uncles taking time for Jete- aunts, uncles, cousins, grandma's, and grandpa's too!

8) Family- I love getting to just hang out with my family, and Had's family. These two pics are at my parent's house. There was a total of 28 of us there, all staying in the same house. It's insane, but I love it and I'm gonna be so sad when we can't all stay under the same roof!!!

9) Cousins Playing- All the kids around Jete's age just loved the stairs. They played on these like crazy. Jete's the one at the bottom, cheering for himself that he made it down first. :) Just kidding. (That was for you Linds) HAHA

10) Daddy and Jete time- I love watching these two play together and spending time together. I think Had is super excited cuz it looks like Jete is going to share the love of snowmachines with him. He LOVED them and cried when we would pull him off to go inside.

And i don't have pictures for these last 5, but they can't be left off my list.

11) Getting my hair done- I have a wonderful mother in-law that does my hair whenever i want her to. She does such a good job, and there's nothing better than getting my nasty roots fixed. :)

12) Mi Casa's (Plum Loco)- My favorite Mexican Restaurant ever!

13) Going to the cabin-We get to stay in a cabin every year with Had's family. It's so relaxing and fun to just hang out, read, watch movies, games, play rockband, eat a lot of good food, and snowmobile.

14) Homemade Gifts- My family has to make the present for whoever's name we have. It's pretty much torch to try and think of what to make, or to actually make it, but it's so fun to see what everyone came up with. I look forward to this every year!

15) Good Food- There's treats and goodies everywhere you look, and homemade meals that i don't have to make! Heaven!

Fam for Thanksgiving

(I know this happened awhile ago, but I've been gone, busy, and lazy, and that's just how i do things sometimes. Our Christmas pics might be on by Valentines Day.)

Since we've been out here in Ohio, both of our Thanksgivings have been so good! We have been lucky and blessed that we got to spend both of them with family. Last year we went to my sister's house in Maryland, and this year Had's family got to come out here to our little home. I loved both years and hope we get to continue the tradition of spending time with family for Thanksgiving. It was fun to spend time with Had's fam and the dinner was pretty good too if i do say so myself. Everyone helped with the dinner, even Had's little sister Maycee got in on some cookin action. She got to make a banana cream pie and was so excited to help.

It was actually kinda funny to all be working in our tiny little kitchen at once. As you can see, you don't have much bum room. :)

The Feast


We went to Kirtland while they were here and visited all the church history sites. This is in front of the N.K. Whitney Store.

Thanks again for coming, we love you guys!!! Any other peeps that want to come see us, feel free, we'd love it.

Our Columbus Trip

We got to go to Columbus a few weeks ago and visit my friend and her little family. It was fun to get away for a weekend and spend time with them. We ate a lot of good food, hung out, went shopping, the boys went paint balling while me and Karlie took the kids to a childrens play place, and me and Had got to go through a session in the Columbus temple, while they watched Jete for us. It was such a fun trip! Thanks again guys for everything. Can't wait until next time!

She even remembered our birthdays and got us a birthday cake!

Had and Josh got to go paint-balling, so we took the kids to this huge play place for kids. (I can't remember what it was called.) They loved it. Jete has never been to one of these science centers/children museums before and he was going wild. He loved that there were balls all over the place. Bailee was cookin us up some good food. Jete just liked to take it from her and throw it.

He loved loved loved the water place. Good thing they had these little rain jackets for them cuz he was dumpin the water out onto the floor and all over himself, splashing anywhere he could reach.

The more i tried to get him to stop drinkin the water, the more he tried to run away from me to hurry and get a little drink in. There were so many kids playin in this water, kinda disgusting, but if the kid's thirsty...... oh well, he didn't get sick so nothin to worry about right? :)

Bailee and Jete were too cute playing with each other. I loved to watch them.

While me and Karlie were talking in the front of the car, i turned around and saw these two puttin the moves on each other in the back seat. Is that a bad sign of things to come? Haha, well i guess we don't have to worry if our kids will like each other.

Happy Happy Birthday!!!

Had's birthday was last weekend! He's one year older and wiser too according to him. We didn't have a huge celebration, but we did celebrate it all weekend long. Last year he had a test week during our birthdays, so it was fun to be able to actually spend time with him this year. Friday we went out to eat with some friends at a little restaraunt that served wild game (yeah, i know....it was his birthday though) a couple days out of the year. We got a platter that had wild boar, elk steak, quail, and venison (deer meat). I'm proud to say, i tried all of it but the elk steak, cuz it was dripping with blood, and that makes me want to vomit. Had ate everything, including what was on some of the other couples plates. (Just in case his parents were wondering if he changed any of those habits, uh that'd be a negative.) I definately think he'd survive out in the wilderness!
Saturday was his actual birthday, and we started the day off right by being woken up by Jete crying. Then I left and let Had and Jete have some special bonding time, since they don't get that too often....ok, so i went to the church for enrichment, but i'm sure they bonded. :) Then later that evening we got to go to a high school football playoff game. We were pretty excited about this, cuz both teams are nationally ranked. We got a babysitter for Jete, got all bundled up, and went out with friends. We got some hot chocolate, nachos, and pizza, and settled down to watch the game under some blankets, only to realize we were the only white people in the stands! Good times. The game was really close, but kinda a little boring cuz both teams were so good on defense, that neither team could ever move the ball.

Game over, 8-7. Whoopee!

We finshed off his birthday weekend by playing games and having birthday cake with some of our friends on Sunday. It was a fun weekend! Ok, I'm not really the mushy type, but i really love him so much! He is the best husband and dad i could ever imagine and i have so much fun with him. I'm so lucky to have him in my life, and i look forward to the many more birthdays i get to celebrate with him.

Trick or Treat

I love Halloween and I love seeing all the little kids in their costumes. I had a hard time finding a costume that i loved for Jete to wear. They are all pretty cute, but there's not a lot of unique ones. Well, i finally thought of one. The only trouble was that i'm not so crafty and i didn't know where to find a chef's outfit. I couldn't find one, so i had to make it. Ern, thanks for the idea on the jacket. It turned out to be pretty easy, especially for someone that doesn't know what she's doing.

We dressed Jete up last year, but he was only 3 months old, so this time he got to go out trick or treating and actually get candy for us. Yeah! Anyways, i really love Halloween and trick or treating, so i wanted to document Jete's first time trick or treating.

Starting out, he didn't know what to think. We just put the hat on him and weren't sure how long it would stay on. He doesn't like to wear hats, so i was a little nervous, but he didn't immediately pull it off. Yay!

The full outfit.

Trick or Treat!

Here's some of Jete's friends that he went trick or treating with. A cute little chick and monkey.

Jeter didn't really understand the whole concept at first. He would walk up to the people and they would hold out the candy for him, and he would just look at it. After a little bit, (we let him eat one of the candies after he got it) then he started figuring things out. He started having fun once he figured out they were giving him treats!

Off to the next house!

Jackpot!!!




When he saw this box out in the middle of the driveway, he knew exactly what to do! He started unloading all the good stuff. Too bad the people that owned the house and treats were sitting out in their driveway watching, so we couldn't let him take them all. :( Dang it. We all got a good laugh though.

The best Halloween costume i saw goes to Huey, Duey, and Luey from Ducktails. I'm sad i didn't get a picture of them. They were the cutest little things with a big ol' duck bum waddlin around. Loved it!!! What were some of the cute ones you guys saw?