Christmas Vacation: Part 1

We were lucky enough to get to go home again for Christmas. Hadley got just about a 2 1/2 week break. So after some rough plane rides/layovers/missing our connecting flights due to weather, we finally made it to Rexburg, where we got to spend time with family and friends. It was a nice vacation and we got to do a little bit of everything while we were there. We got to eat a lot of good food, bless Jerzi, go to Had's brother's wedding, go running, go on a date, go shopping, play basketball (only Had got to, :( i guess the tournament wasn't for girls), get family pics (a lot of them), go on a sleigh ride, watch football and basketball, and hang out with friends and family.
We're always crazy busy, but that's what we've come to expect and love about the Christmas season. It wouldn't feel like Christmas if we weren't running from house to house and party to party. The kids were good and loved all the attention they got. It was hard for us to get Jeter to leave each house cuz he LOVED playing with his aunts, uncles, and cousins. Meanwhile, Jerzi was learning some bad habits, like having to be held to fall asleep. Anyways, we had a lot going on, so I have a lot of pictures. So these pics are mainly Christmas pictures. More to come.

Jete got to sit on Santa's lap. He didn't cry, but he also didn't change his face expression the whole time he was up there. He told Santa he wanted a green truck. Poor little Jerzi didn't get to sit on his lap. She was sleeping, and I was not about to wake her up. She had an ear infection at the time, and wasn't the happiest baby.

Here's a bunch of the grandkids posing with Santa at the famous Crapo shrimp dinner party.

I just had to post a pic of Jerzi so she doesn't feel left out that she's not in any of the pictures. Plus, I love the outfit. haha

We spent Christmas Eve at Had's Dad's house. A tradition we have is to open up pajamas that night. So here's a pic of all of us in our matching jammies.

Ashton and Jete couldn't stop tackling each other long enough to look at the camera. Wow were they sweaty after all their running and tackling in those fleece pajamas.

Awe, how cute are we?

I had to put up a pic of this, because well...this is what Jete was doing the entire vacation...Picking his nose!!! HAHA We couldn't get him to stop. At one point, I overheard Ashton saying to Jete, "Jete you have to stop! There's no more boogies up there."

Christmas morning. We let him sleep in this year so he would actually enjoy opening his presents and it worked! He loved it. When he got done opening all of them, he turns to us and says, "I need more!" He got spoiled rotten, and that's his reply. Nice.

They definitely learn....somethin

Last week for Family Home Evening, we were teaching Jete about the Word of Wisdom. We taught him how you need to eat good foods to keep you healthy, and how your not supposed to eat and drink some things. Some of the things we talked about not drinking were coffee, tea, and alcohol. When we got done with the lesson, Had was quizzing him to see if he understood any of it. Their conversation went something like this:
Had: Are we supposed to drink coffee and tea?
Jete: Nooo
Had: Are we supposed to drink water and milk?
Jete: Yeah
Had: Are we supposed to drink pop?
Jete: Yeaaah!!! (with a big grin on his face)

About a half hour later,
Had: Jete, what are we not supposed to drink?
Jete: Don't drink pee!!!

HAHA Well, I'm glad he's learning something from our Family Home Evening Lessons.

Thanksgiving in Vegas

Yes, i know we just had Christmas and New Years but i never posted about Thanksgiving, and it was WONDERFUL! And so i must.

We went to Las Begas (as Jete calls it) and Had's parents rented a house to stay in for the whole family. I think there were 16 of us staying here. This house was awesome, and we had so much fun just hangin out and relaxing there!

We (Ok, everyone else but me. I was feeding my baby every second.) cooked Thanksgiving dinner there at the house, and it was scrumptious! We had it all, turkey, mashed potatoes, homemade rolls, and everything, along with way too many pies that we never finished cuz we were all too full.

The house had a hot tub and a swimming pool and every night we would go out and hang out in the pools. Nothin like goin swimmin outside in November.

This picture makes me laugh. The whole time we were there Maycer was so excited to play with Jeter, she picked him up and carried him everywhere. He didn't seem to mind. He was in heaven having her undivided attention.

One of the days all 16 of us packed up and went on a ride. Even the two new little babies came along. The first ride that Had took Jete on was in the razor. Well, they got stuck. When he tried to get out, he was spinning the tires and sprayed sand all over them. Jete got a little scared from that little incident, so he didn't really love the rest of the rides. In fact, he still talks about it today, getting stuck in the sand and getting sprayed all over. But he loves his own little battery powered four wheeler now more than ever. He tries to do wheelies on it, he puts pillows down to ride over bumps, and I've even caught him trying to side-hill.

The infamous Razor

All the boys on a ride with Vegas in the background

Crazy Broc and Brayden jumped this thing over and over again! I think their wives were about to have a heart attack. That little canyon isn't so little in real life.

The whole fam (minus John, he's taking the picture)

Thank you so much John and Melissa. We had such a fun time and we loved every second of it!

5 Weeks

I better update a little about Jerzi, so I can look back and remember things about her. At 5 weeks old, she is a pretty good baby, except she struggles eating. She is constantly needing to burp and has a hard time actually eating anything, without having to stop and puke/burp, or fall asleep. It makes for long drawn out feedings but she's so sweet. We love to kiss her chubby cheeks. She is always trying to hold her head up, and she does pretty good, but then all of the sudden she'll just slam it down into our shoulders or Had's scruffy chin. She sleeps pretty good at nights, waking up to eat once or twice, then goes right back to sleep. We love having her around, even though it's way hard to get all of us ready to go somewhere. Had keeps saying there's no way we can have more kids cuz it will take me too long to get all of us ready and i will never leave the house if we do. Please tell me, all you people with more than 2 kids, that it gets easier. :) (Her hair isn't even long enough for me to do it yet either. I don't know what takes me so long. Crap!)

At 5 days old, she was already holding up her own bottle! :)

She loves having baths, especially when she's getting her hair washed. She just relaxes and gets all calm. Mainly what I love is seeing her in her cute little bathrobes and towels, and smelling her right after she gets all lotioned up.

Here is her first day going to church. I love dressing her up already. (Maybe that's what takes me so long to get her ready.) :)

I had to post this picture cuz there's a cute little story behind it. I got her all ready for church one day, and brought her downstairs where Had and Jete were. As soon as Jete looked at her his eyes lit up and he said, "Mommy, Jerzi looks like a princess!" We didn't even know that he knew about princesses.

Jeter loves Jerzi to death. He always wants to be right next to her or in her face and is constantly telling her "You so cute" in a little high pitch baby voice. He also thinks that when she's flailing her arms all over the place, that if he snuggles in real close to her and gets right in their line of fire, that she's trying to get him, or tickle him. He laughs like crazy when she "gets him". Usually i don't think to take pictures of this cuz i'm usually telling him to not get so close, but i did get a few that were pretty cute before he smothered her. Here's some of my faves of these two.

I want a cool talent!

I must say that I have some talented friends. My friend Randee took pictures of Jerzi the other day and although she was being a little punk and not cooperating, and pooped all over me and the carpet with that lovely yellow staining poop, Randee still managed to get some way cute pics. This one is my favorite.

One of my other friends, Sheridan, made this cute, cute cake for us when we came home from the hospital. Look at those cute little basketball shoes! I love it and i didn't want to cut into it at all cuz it was so cute. Pretty soon Had was like "Cin, do you want to just sit it on a shelf for decoration?" And Jete asked me every day if he could have some of Jerzi's birthday cake, so we finally cut it (actually Had did cuz i didn't want to ruin it) and the cake tasted so good too.

Thanks again Sheridan and Randee. You guys are amazing!!!

Halloween Pics

Even though Halloween has come and gone, I wanted to post pics so i could look back on them later. We got home from the hospital 2 days before Halloween, so i didn't really get anything for Jerzi to dress up as. I wanted to still dress her up a little, so we got a cute little Halloween beany for her to wear, and it ended up being too big, so here she is as a little...... Halloween ballerina? I don't know, it was the closest thing that she had to looking like she was dressed up. My friend made the outfit for her, and my sister in-law made her halloween bow.

When i asked Jete what he wanted to be for Halloween, he said "A bull rider!!!" in a rough, growly voice. So his Grandma's went to work. Grandma Pocock sent him the cute little outfit (and cowboy boots that he wouldn't wear),

and Grandma Fuller whipped up this bull (out of a shoe box and fabric) for him to ride so he looked more like a bull rider. He was one cute little bull rider. He was a stinker though and wouldn't hold the bull so we couldn't get any good pictures.

Gettin ready to go out trick or treatin with our new family of four. Ok, so we didn't really take Jerzi out. My mom stayed home with her while we took Jete.

We didn't get good pics of Jeter in his full blown costume, but the day he opened the package with all the bull ridin gear in it, he turned into a little bull rider. It was hilarious. He was posing like crazy for me. Here are some of my faves.


The tough cowboy

The cheeser

The sexy cowboy

The bull rider, ridin his bull

Pumpkin Carving

We carved pumpkins before Halloween, and before we had our sweet little baby, but I had to put pics of her up for everyone. So now here's what we did with Grandma Fuller the night before we went to the hospital to have the new babe. Jete was excited at first to carve them and to get the guts out of the pumpkin. Then he realized that it was staying on his hands and he started hating it and freaking out. He hates having his hands dirty!

Then we gave him a spoon to dig it out with and what do ya know?......Happy again!!!

Here's our lovely pumpkins. We're very creative in this family. HAHA
Mine is on the left, my mom's/Jeter's in the middle, and Had's on the right.

Our last family picture of just us three.