Jackson's Birthday

Look at this hansom little guy!

Although he's not so little anymore. He's growing up.

He's really started talking now. He'll say just about anything that you ask him.

But a lot of it sounds the same.

He's defiantly hit the terrible twos!

{I think that I've said that more then once at this point}

I didn't know he could get into any more trouble, but it seems that everyday he's able to find something else to climb on, dump out of break.

He's a sweet boy thought too.

He is also so cuddly and loving. He gives the best hugs!

I love it when he says I love you mama!

He loves to sit with me and play with my hair.

I'm so lucky to have this big boy!

A couple of days before Jack's birthday we threw a little party for him!

{since his real birthday was on thanksgiving}

I didn't take very many pictures, SAD.

I was too busy chatting it up with our friends!

Jack picked his own cake. He really did. I would NEVER have picked a sesame street cake.

Anyone who knows me, knows that I HATE character things- clothing, toys and CAKE.

But he does love Elmo and it has a car on it.

So we got it for our little man.

He blew out his candles so well!

So well in fact that Ryan didn't have time to get the video camera,

we lit them and had him blow them out again.

I didn't get any pictures of him eating his cake, because he didn't really eat any.

I guess he's like his mama and would rather have something else, like pie. Yum!

His whole birthday was race car themed!

He LOVES LOVES LOVES cars

or anything that goes or that he thinks he might be able to drive.
Thank you to everyone who came, it was a lot of fun!

Thank you, thank you, thank you for the wonderful gifts!

Our baby is 2 years old!

Happy Thanksgiving

Jackson's 2nd Birthday

Today is Jack's second birthday.

I can't believe that it was 2 years ago today that our little man was born.

He was such a wanted baby. We waited so long for him to get here.

The say he was born was the happiest day of my life.

That little tiny baby, so tiny and sweet

is now

a naughty 2 year old who throws tantrums and makes huge messes.

I feel so deeply blessed that he's my son and that I have the privilege to be his mother.

Happy Birthday Jack-Jack.

Happy Birthday Aaron

Sarah, Aaron and Me
Adam, Sarah, Me and Aaron
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Today is my brother Aaron's birthday.
He's my little brother but he's been taller then me since he was 3.
He was a very naughty brother.
The kind that would hold you and the bottom of a sleeping bag and not let you out.
The kind that would tease you so bad that several times a day you would have to go taddle to Mom that he messed up EVERYTHING!
The kind of brother who walks into the already very loud kitchen and starts screaming at the top of his lungs, just to make things that much more stressful.
There were times that he was a good brother though, like when he would let us girls put make up on him or when he would play Barbies with us!
He was almost always happy, always in a good mood.
He has always loved Babies, he could hold a tiny baby for hours.


Now he's all grown up and a Husband and Daddy!
I'm so proud of you Bo, you've grown into such a great guy! I'm so proud to call you my brother.
Happy birthday little brother.
I love you Bobo!

Christmas is coming

I know it's not even Thanksgiving yet, but ever since Christmas music started playing on the radio about a week ago, I've been in such a Christmas mood!

I've already planed out my strategy for Black Friday shopping. I plan on being done with all of my Christmas shopping by Friday at 8am!

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The kids thought it was pretty fun to decorated some foam ornaments!

Jack was pretty good with the glue. If good means getting it all over my table.

It washed off and he had fun.

Thanks for the fun cups Grandma on the farm!

They thought that was so much fun, they use them everyday now.

Later that night
We made the yummiest ginger bread cookies!
They really were the best I've ever had. We'll be making those again.
Maybe with out sprinkles though.
Jack dumped a whole thing of sprinkles all over the kitchen floor.
The little ball kind. They rolled all over everywhere.
I've swept and swept, but the bottom of my feet continue to find more. Ouch.

This is Ryan's "what? I didn't just sneak a cookie" look.

Yeah right.
{Don't you think it's weird that he has part of his eye that's brown? See, Ryan doesn't have brown eyes! {some people claim that he has brown eyes} My brother Aaron has brown eye's with a spot of blue. Funny huh?}
Isn't my husband HOT!?

Naughty Boy

I am a terrible mother, I was laughing the whole time!

I just can't believe a person so little can do things like this and without fear.

He doesn't know he's being naughty.

Happy Birthday Early... I guess

Jack loves stuffed animals.

He only has one that he can really call his own.

Ella has many. You can imagine how upset and frustrated she gets when he's constantly stealing some of her best friends.

So when thinking of things to get Jack for his birthday, a stuffed animal was a no brainier.

A few weeks ago Ryan and I went to Ikea, knowing that they would have the main gift needed for our little man. {You'll have to wait and see} While there Ryan found the most perfect "boy" stuffed animal. A BIG bull dog.

So excited we kept it hidden the whole way through the store and when we got home I hid him up in my closet saved for such things.

Until... the other day when Ella opened that door.

She knows better then that. Stinker.

As luck would have it, Jack was sitting right there! You should have seen his eye's light up when he saw that stuffed friend!

Wrapped with a big red bow, his head sticking out of a large bag.

I tried closing the closet and pretending that nothing was in it.

Ha, there's not a stuffed animal in there!

But it was too late. Jack stood at the door screaming "Dog-Dog!"

Now "dog-dog" is never far out of Jack's reach.

And Ella CAN'T touch him. This time, it's all Jacks!

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{Do you think that he calls it dog-dog because he's Jack-Jack?}

Christmas is Coming

I've taken so many pictures in the last couple of weeks! I've been so busy!

But I was happy that I was able to take the time to take my own kids out to for some pictures for Christmas.

It's one of my most favorite Christmas traditions.

Here's a little preview, you'll have to wait for your Christmas card to see the winning shot!

I still have a couple of time's avalible to photograph YOUR family.

Check out my Photo Blog to see about my Christmas packages!

For my Mom

It's almost his birthday....

Lotion

One evening last week, while working on the computer, I THOUGHT that Jack was playing nicely in his room.

He came out looking like this.

He did smell wonderful for days though, even after bathing.

Slumber Party

We don't normally do sleep overs, but when it's with a cousin, it's all right!

When we were at Grandma and Grandpa Bailey's earlier in the week Tori reminded me that I had promised her quite a while ago that she could come and have a sleep over with Ella.

With Veteran's day on Wednesday it was perfect timing!

Let's just say that Jack wanted to be a part of all the fun too.

The girls said no.

Poor Tori, she's the youngest and didn't know the hardships of having a little brother.

I think that the girls had fun though, eating pizza, watching movies in their jammies and eating popcorn!

The next morning they went swimming {burrrr, I did not!} and just played together.

They both love littlest petshop and Polly pockets!
Thank you Tori for coming and hanging out with us! We'll have to do it again sometime!

Thanks Sasha and Stacy for making it possible!

Jack's turning 2

Last week all of the Bailey's in Arizona got together to celebrate all of the November birthdays

Andre, Melissa and Jackson

Jack's cake

He really liked the candles!

Last year he couldn't really blow out candles yet, but this year he knew what he was doing.

It was so sweet. He didn't blow hard, but he got the job done.

Grandma and Grandpa Bailey gave Jack a birthday card that played one of the songs from the movie "cars".

He LOVED it to say the least.

He has been carrying it around all week!

Happy Birthday to Andre and Melissa!!!

Random Jack-Jack

Today, while working on the computer Jack came up to me with another one of his crazy outfits on. He's so into dressing himself lately.

He also was posing so goofy! I just said "say cheese" and these poses were what he came up with.

He's so silly! He was cracking me up!

Yesterday he saw Daddy getting ready for work and I guess Jack decided he wanted to do his hair too.

Jack used the entire container of hair jell.

It was NOT easy to get out.

Things have been crazy around here, although I can't really remember what those things are.

Just life I guess.

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Kylie Jo

We have a new niece!

Kylie Jo

Adam and Bethany had a beautiful baby girl yesterday!

She weighed in at 8 pounds, 4 oz and 20 inches long!

We are so happy for them and can't wait to meet her soon!

Ella and Jack

I've been meaning to post these since we got back from Utah.

Aren't these guys cute!?

It took so much for these naughty little guys to get just these four pictures.

I'm trying to decide if I should use these as our Christmas card, or take some more with Ryan and I in them.

What do YOU think?

No really, comment and tell me what you think?

The repercussions of Halloween

The day after halloween THIS is how I found Jack.

As I took it away he kept yelling "Ella did, Ella did!"

I guess he saw me putting make up on Ella and thought that he needed some too.

Who knew that mascarra could also be used as a lip gloss?

Happy Halloween

We were so excited to go trick or treating this year!

Ella got all dressed up a few hours before, so that she was ready the second I said we could go!The night before was the ward trunk or treat so Jack knew what was going on and was READY!

The weather was so nice! It seriously was the best Halloween weather we've ever had!

{Last year was so hot and in Utah it's always pretty cold}

Had to take a quick break, but soon he was off and running again!

Ella was running from house to house, we kept having to call her to stay with us and not get too far ahead. Jack got so good that he wouldn't even hold his bucket out, he would just kind of turn his body.

He was running and giggling the whole time!

Ella did NOT like all of the scary Halloween decorations. She said "they freak me out!"

Several times she got tricked into thinking something wasn't real {like this guy} and then he leaned over "you want some candy!?" She was so sad she got tricked, again! She's like me, doesn't like the be scared.

I was very happy to see so many kids and families out trick or treating! I haven't seen this many people out since I was a little girl! Maybe it was the weather or maybe it was the neighborhood {almost every house had candy!} but it was the most fun trick or treating ever!That night we had been waiting around for Ryan to get home. We had several friends who had invited us to go trick or treating with them. But when 6:15 came around, I gave up waiting and just started the kids around here in our neighborhood.

I'm so glad that he made it in time to see them go to a few houses.

When you've got people walking through your model homes there's not a lot you can do.

Even on Halloween!

The only picture of me on Halloween. Gee, thanks Ryan.

Look at all that candy! They got so much! Jack loved loved loved all of the gun! {He gets it from his grandma who lives on the farm!} Ella loved anything and everything!

One nice lady was handing out brown paper lunch sacks, we thought that was a little weird, so when we walked around the corner and Ryan and I opened them- they were filled with TOYS! Play jewelry, plastic animals! It was the best things the kids got!

I was very happily surprised though that they didn't eat too many treats.

The only person who ate too much candy was RYAN.

He said he woke up the next morning feeling just awful. You're not ten years old anymore Ry!

We hope everyone had a happy and safe Halloween!