Birthday Boy!

Jete turned 2 last week!!! Whenever i asked him what he wanted for his birthday, he kept saying "um.... potty (party), boons (balloons), cake, chockit (chocolate) cake." I figured i could at least do that much for the kid. He was super excited when we brought home balloons for him. He is normallly the best sleeper ever, goes to bed without making a peep, and sometimes even asks for his bed. But he was so excited to have the balloons to play with, he cried and cried for his balloons when i layed him down for a nap. It took him over an hour and a half of being in his crib that he finally fell asleep. After his nap, we had a little birthday party at a park for him with some of his friends and he loved it. My camera is having some issues so i asked my friend if she could take some pictures. They are so cute i couldn't decide which ones to put on here, so here's a bunch. Thanks again Randee! (If you want to see more pics of the party and the kids having fun, go to her blog [Beegh and Randee] on my sidebar.)

Yay for me, I already figured out how to make a two year old happy....

Slides

Swings

Bubbles

Toys that are loud :)

I know what a lot of you are thinking but no, we aren't forcing him to like basketball. I showed him pictures of all sorts of cakes and he wanted a basketball cake. So this is my attempt at a basketball cake and i know it's not great, but he was able to tell that it was a hoop and a basketball, so....mission accomplished. He was so excited about his cake that he got into the fridge himself, and took a big swipe at it with all 5 fingers before we took it to the party. Yeah, lovely.

Happy Birthday little Jeter boy! We love you so much and love doing things for you to make you happy. We feel so lucky to have you in our family.

When Daddy is in charge

Had was supposed to be watching Jete for a little bit while I got a few things done. When I got done and came in the room, this is how I found Jete. I started laughing and asked Had why he was taped up, and Had said, "Man he's driving me crazy! He won't leave any of my stuff alone. So I asked him if I could tape him up and he said ya."

He only liked it for about 10 seconds.

Lovin the 4th

There are lots of reasons we love and celebrate the 4th of July. We love our country, our freedom, and all the people that were/are fighting for it. I can't help but smile on this day. It's also a fun day to celebrate with all the fun things going on, especially when you have a kid. Jete makes this day a thousand times more fun for us. Here are some of the ways we celebrated the 4th this year.


A Big Parade (haha)
Jete love, love, loved the parade. He was so excited he never calmed down (except to eat a few pieces of candy). He's just jumpin up and down he's so excited to watch everything and get more candy.

Jeter was not shy when it came to running out in the road to grab candy. Yes that would be our kid out in the middle of the street, closest to the banner.

Here's a couple of his friends that he watched the parade with.

Good Food and Friends

Donuts and loads of candy, what more could a kid want?

Some of the Idaho peeps hangin out before the firework show.

Lots of Fireworks

We went to a firework show on the 3rd and 4th. Jete loved it so much!!! When we put him in the car after the fireworks were over the first night, he started crying. We asked him what was wrong and he said, "more fireworks."

Showin off his muscles

We let him do sparklers while we waited for the fireworks to start. He was obsessed with them. When we stopped lighting them for him, he made some new friends that had sparklers and decided to hang out with them instead of us.

He was so excited to see the fireworks for the second night. He had been talking about the them all day. Once they started, he was so funny. Every time there was a big one or lots at a time, he would start yelling and saying "OH MAAAN!!! BIG FIREWORK!" or "Ohhh NOOO!" (as in oh no, did you just see that?)

Flag Football Tourney

We LOVE Football!!!

Last year we played in a flag football tournament that Had's school put on for a fundraiser. We won the whole tournament last year, so of course we had to come back this year and show 'em it wasn't a fluke. We won it all again this year! (A little too easily i might add.... championship game score: 40-0.) And to those of you thinking that i am pregnant and shouldn't be playing football....relax, i was very careful. Here's our championship team.

We debated whether we should get a babysitter for Jeter or take him with us and decided that he would probably like to go, so we brought him along for the day. He loved it. He only ran out on the field a couple times to come out and play "catch" with us. He just sat and watched us, ate snacks, and played on the sidelines the whole time. I guess a day's worth of football wore him out cuz he was guzzling the gatorade.

Warm Water = Little Fish

I'm not gonna lie, we were a little nervous that Jete would be afraid of the water after a couple incidents of falling in....he never wanted to get in. He always just wanted to run like crazy all around the pool. Yeah, scary! Anyways, they heated our pool a little warmer than usual and like magic, Jete became a little fish. He loves the water and wants to go swimming every day.

This part gets a little scary. He loves to jump in and he'll just take off running and jump and we better hope that we get there before he does. He's crazy!

He used to hate getting any little splash on him at all. Now here he is kickin his feet and laughing like crazy as he splashes his daddy.

A piggy back ride and then...the escape. I guess he had enough of being held, the little monster.

The floaties had to go on and Jete was off cruizin.

Happy Day!!!

We just found out we are going to be having a little girl!!! We're so excited it's hard to think about anything else. Jeter has been telling us all along that we are going to have a baby girl, but given my family's track record, we thought there was no way. So they triple checked for us when they did the ultrasound. :) It has been so much fun having Jete in our lives that we can hardly wait for this little girl to come. Had says he hopes she's just like Jete, with just as much energy. She's due Nov. 5th, (they moved my due date back 9 days because she is measuring smaller) :( So anyways, we're super excited and oh yeah, to all the peeps that didn't know, SURPRISE, I'M PREGNANT!!!

A Little of Everything

I have been somewhat of a blog slacker lately, and so this is gonna be a little bit about what we have been up to. During Had's finals, me and Jete went home to Idaho for 2 weeks. We loved being there and seeing everyone. Had's younger brother Brayden got home from his mission, and we got to be there to hear his report. While we were home, we went to everyone's everything's. It was so much fun. We got to watch my mom's choir concert, Maycee's dance recital and kindergarten program, Ashton's soccer game, Linzfizz's basketball game, Kenzie's softball games, and help Bird get ready for prom. We rode four-wheelers and Harleys, talked till all hours of the night, took naps, and hung out with everyone. I love being home, breathing fresh non-smoke filled air, and letting Jete go wild at the Grandparents house and not having to worry about the "Mad Lady" getting mad that lives below us. The only thing that would have made our trip better was to have Had there enjoying it all with us. But he kicked some major booty on his tests so i guess it was worth it.

When i got back from Idaho, Had had a week off of school and he was supposed to be studying for his boards, but we had to take advantage of our time together, so he didn't get much studyin done. Oopsies.

At the zoo

We do a lot of this...he loves basketball! Who can blame him right? (In case you didn't know, I miss it like crazy! My scary basketball dreams have started coming back, where i'm late and miss my game, or i can't find my shoes, or i can't make a basket. Only 4 more months until my league starts up again. Wahoo!)

I'm beginning to love dandelions. This is the first one that was ever picked for me by my sweet little Jete.

Pullin it out of his pocket to give to me, aww what a sweet boy!

I love you Jeter!

Taking advantage of the warm nights, sitting around a fire, cookin smores, and roastin hot dogs.