Abbotts Adventures

2011-11-29T14:10:00.000-08:00

I know it's been a long time since I've done this, so this is a really long post. The reason I even still try to post sometimes is I don't know if I'll ever get these pictures scrapbooked so at least my kids will always have this blog if they want to look at pictures! We went to the light parade and to see santa again this year. The light parade had about 5 floats in it so I don't think that will happen again, but I'm sure we'll still go see santa! Addi was so nervous. She says for Christmas she wants a four wheeler (which she is not getting!), Jet wants anything Lightning Mcqueen and Elli, well she's still gets whatever I want her to get!

I don't know why I even try at this age!
Elli usually goes to bed really easily but this night she had a late nap so she stayed up with us. Apparently she was more ready for bed then we thought!

We had our annual Johnson Halloween party again this year! There wasn't quite as many people as usual, but we still had fun!

Mom will die! :)
Jake was Harry Potter, I was a hula girl, Addi was a witch, Jet was Buzz, and Elli was Nemo!
The best thing we do at this party is eat! We usually eat the same stuff, but we always add in a few extras! Mom is the best at preparing food for people!
I don't know what it is with my kids and kitchen utensils! Jet and Ells can have sword fights with the best of them!
This is all healed up now, but for awhile Ells looked pretty scary! Mom and I had been up north and we were packing groceries in when Elli decided to climb back in the truck, and then jump out by herself. I wasn't watching so I think that's what happened but she cut her eye up. We took her to the ER but the doctor said she was fine, and just sent us away with the bill.

We of course always have ball games!

I found Jet like this! He must have been pretty tired!
Addi did mini cheer this year and loved it!

Addi is in Kindergarten this year and her teacher is Mrs. Day. She absolutely loves school. I never have to fight her to go! I just wish it would always stay like this!
This is Addi and Blake and their first day of Kindergarten! Addi thinks Blake is just the best thing ever!

We only went camping once this summer, but it was really fun! Chad and Whitney met us out there for dinner! The kids love camping! I really wish we did it more!

We had this little couch since Addi was 2 I finally threw it away the other day, but the kids really loved it!
Nothing better then sleeping on the floor! Addi loves Fridays when she can sleep on the floor!

Easter

2011-04-24T17:58:00.000-07:00

I wish I had a good picture of how cute these guys looked in their Easter clothes. They looked so adorable!

Jake was getting ready for church so he didn't get to get in the picture with us!

Addi's crazy hair on Easter morning. This is her typical hair style in the mornings. She has the funniest hair.

Elli looking through her Easter basket.

Jet is Obsessed with McQueen! It's actually pretty ridiculous, but it makes any kind of present we have to get him pretty easy!

This was suppose to be turned! She looked so cute with her rabbit face on.

They were supp to wear these during the hunt but we forgot!

There's nothing better then Grandma's Easter Egg Hunt. The kids love it. Jet didn't really know what he was looking for, and Elli only got two eggs, but Addi was pretty good!

Painting Easter Eggs!

This is the last Easter that we will be spending sleeping in my parents basement! I can't wait to be in Delta, but in my own house! I'm grateful that my parents always make the holidays so fun for us, and that they're ok with us being at their house ALL the time!

Birthday and Random Stuff

2011-04-24T16:22:00.000-07:00

Addi turned 5! I still can't believe it! This year for her birthday she wanted to stay in a hotel, go swimming, and go to the Fun Center. Let me tell you the Fun Center is awesome! We had a great time and I'm grateful to my sisters and mom who drove up just for Addi!

Jace and Janae had the prom this year. I always hoped they would go together, but it didn't happen! :) Janae was so sweet to let Addi and the girls come over and help her get ready. It's weird to think that when it was my Prom they came over when I was going. Geez time really flies!

Jace was unbelievably good looking at the prom! :) He was definitely the hottest!

Aren't these two the cutest homeless kids you've ever seen!

Elli is just like Addi, always making messes!

Advice please!

2011-02-21T21:23:00.000-08:00

so all weekend long i have been contemplating cutting my hair off. jake is no help and says he does not care. seriously jake a little help please. i know i just got it done which by the way jenny i do love the way you did it i just feel like i need a change. anyways, i am turning to you guys. am i going to regret cutting my hair or will i like it. im not very good at doing my hair so most of the time it just looks long and stringy and i just keep thinking i need a change but im afraid i will regret not having my hair. well any ideas would be greatly appreciated. im doing this from my phone and its not letting me use caps or any punctuation besides periods so please dont mind all the typos.

Christmas Overload!

2011-01-07T22:50:00.000-08:00

Christmas was very good for us this year! I can't remember the last time I was as excited for Christmas as I was this year! I don't know what was so different about it, but I was pretty excited for it! We spent our break in Delta, and it was so fun! We spent the whole week just hanging out and of course we took our annual girls day trip on New Years day to Provo. It was nice to spend so much time with our families!
I am so grateful to my mom for always making everything so nice for us! She works so hard putting this together and every year it is a success. Our families getting a little bit big to be having our Christmas Eve dinner in our house, but I'm pretty sure Dad will never let us have it anywhere else! It is crazy how much our family grows every year.

Our Christmas Eve jammies!

Our typical family picture! I thought this was funny, because for once all the kids are looking, but Jake and I aren't!

I know it seems like it would be pretty lame that we all get the same jammies, but we all love it! Every once in a while we show up to something all wearing the same thing, but it's not usually a problem!

My parents and all the grand babies!

Like I said before, I can't believe how much our family grows every year! I am so grateful for my family, and I'm especially thankful to my parents for making sure we all like each other!

This was the first Christmas in such a long time that we had EVERYONE home! It is so good to finally have Jordan home.

This one's kind of random, I just thought Jet looked so cute in it!

Subi, Jace's dog, is officially part of the family! The kids love him. Jace had to make sure and take a picture with his dog in front of the tree! We don't usually let him in the house, but I guess we made an exception for Subi!

The kids were a little bit tired when we woke them up Christmas morning! Elli was surprisingly wide awake. Jet was pretty sleepy!

Elli's just like her mom! She was mostly concerned about the treats!

I guess I didn't think Elli would be way in love with her Santa gift, but I thought she'd be more into it then she was!

Jet wasn't the least bit excited about getting a wagon for Christmas! The only thing he cared about was his "Cars" band aids and toothbrush.

This is exactly what Addi wanted Santa to bring her! She wanted a Barbie house with an elevator! She has loved this Barbie house, and I have totally hated it! I am the very worst at playing Barbie's! I don't know why I despise it so much! I try very hard to play with her, I'm just not good at it!

I was so excited to give Addi this present and she loved it just as much as I hoped she would!

Addi loves having tea parties. It is just like a normal meal at our tea parties, but for some reason they're special because we're eating on tiny plates and drinking out of miniature cups! I guess whatever works!

Jet could have opened presents all day! Everywhere we went he just kept saying "pesents"! I was surprised how much he loved it!

We really did have a great Christmas. It was kind of hard to get back to reality, but it was a nice break. This will be the last year we spend Christmas at someone else's house! We are very excited that next year we'll be living in Delta so we'll be able to stay at our own house and then go visit everyone when we are done. I know that's a dumb thing to be excited about, but we're really excited to have our very own Christmas morning!

READY OR NOT HERE WE COME!

2010-12-17T06:16:00.000-08:00

Well I guess we're moving back to Delta! A couple of weeks ago IPSC called and offered Jake a job. We applied for the position before we moved to Mountain View, and we weren't expecting a call from them at all! Living in Delta is what I've always wanted, and Jake feels more and more the same way the older we get, but when it came right down to it really has been a hard decision for us. I love my job here, we make more money here, and we actually do like Mountain View, but we want to be close to our families and friends and really is there a better place to raise your kids??? I might be biased, but growing up in Delta was great and we both want to give our kids the same opportunities we had! Jake and I have really struggled with the choice of making more money or living where we really want to, but we've come to the conclusion that we just want to be in Delta. IPSC will be a great place for Jake to work. He's really excited about it and I'm happy for him! Hopefully I'll get a teaching job there someday, and then life would be perfect. Anyways, I'm starting to sound like I'm having to talk my self into it, but we really are excited about being there. I'm not excited to live without my hubby for 5 months! :) Well anyways, I just wanted to let you guys know we're on our way! Now maybe I can see some of my friends a little more often! (Shai, maybe we really will go to lunch now!)

Picture Over-load!

2010-12-13T21:01:00.000-08:00

I have had so many pictures that I have been needing to post! I'm so excited to finally be getting it done. I know I've said it before, but my main purpose in blogging is so that if I never get my scrapbooking done, I'll have my blog as a backup for my kids someday. So anyways, I'm sorry for all the pictures!
Every year we try to get a picture in front of the Christmas tree! My mom made us do it and now I make my family do it! No one complains yet, but I'm sure someday they will. I love to look back at the pictures my mom takes in front of the tree and see how much we all change over the years. I swear my brothers grow 2 feet every year! Anyways this year we didn't do that great, but I guess we got it done!

The only one the kids are all looking in just had to be the one where Addi was pulling this face!

This, believe it or not, was the best one we took! Depressing, huh??

Jake accidentally took this one but Jet ended up so cute in it! I wish Jake had made it back in time!

So these pictures are all a little backwards! This is actually Jet's birthday cake, but because their Birthdays are so close I figured for Elli's first birthday cake one cake all month would be ok! I swore to myself I'd never have a December birthday and now I have 2!!

Jake loved his cake! He wasn't afraid to take a big chunk out of it!

Who needs a fork when you've got a mouth!

My sister made this cake! Her cake decorating skills are getting better every time she makes one! Thanks Lace!

Everything Jet got for his birthday was from the movie "Cars"! He loves it so much. The next day when people would say something about his birthday he would tell them "Cars!" I think he thought the 2 went together! Birthdays means Cars!

This was the beautiful cake I made! Jake didn't think boys should have pink cakes, but I really meant for it to be red! I guess I should practice making cakes more often! Or else just let Lace do it!

I swear I really do let my kids sleep! I really don't know why he was so tired in this picture, but Jake and I thought it was pretty funny!

We love decorating the tree at our house! We've made our own little traditions out of it and we all have a lot of fun!

I couldn't believe how much Jet loved it! He just kept going back and forth for another ornament!

This is how Elli helped! I swear all that girl does is make messes! If she wasn't so cute I'd probably get mad at her!

Seriously though isn't that the cutest smile you've ever seen!

These are all just a bunch of random pictures! This was when we went to Cheyenne to watch my brother Jordan play basketball! The kids were having a pretty good time!

This is pretty typical for Elli. In fact I seriously could've taken this exact picture again tonight!

I really don't know how he falls asleep like this!

Jake pulled our mattress downstairs and we had a party bed. It really was so fun! We even left it out the next day so we could just relax on it all day! I seriously want a mattress floor instead of carpet!

Halloween!

2010-11-13T18:01:00.001-08:00

Halloween was pretty fun this year, but it was really cold! Elli was a monkey, Jet was a dog, and Addi was Jazmin. They all looked really cute!

We went to a Trunk-or-Treat, and until it started raining it was pretty fun! Jake had the back of our car all decorated! I was pretty impressed with his skills! Addi was pretty disappointed that we didn't get to do more Trick-or-Treating so we took her to a few of the people we knew in town! It was a pretty uneventful Halloween!

We went with the Glazier's! We're pretty lucky that we have them here to hang out with us! They have the cutest little girl named Kennedy!

I go by Mrs. Abbott now!

2010-10-28T05:41:00.000-07:00

Well I finally did it! I'm all grown up with a real job! I still can't believe it! I'm really excited and extremely nervous! One of the elementary teachers at the school right by me is moving somewhere else this weekend so I start on Monday. I'm so nervous about just jumping in there, but I knew if I didn't do it soon, I probably wouldn't ever do it! I'm extremely nervous about leaving my kids, but I feel like we"re making the right decision for our family. I know it won't be easy for all of us, but it's only a 1 year contract so if it doesn't work out I won't do it next year! So, from now on, around the Bridger Valley, I will be known as Mrs. Abbott! (That still sounds so weird sometimes, but I love it!)

Halloween Party and Football Games

2010-10-24T11:14:00.000-07:00

This weekend was a lot of fun! We had Jace and Hunter's football games and our Halloween party! There are quite a few pictures in this post, but I just couldn't leave any of them out! We had so much fun at the football game. Jace, Jace, and Hunter did so good! Yes I meant to type Jace twice, Jake's brothers name is Jace. Delta won and now we get 2 home games in the playoffs! GO DELTA!!!

We were all there, except for Jordan. :( Jordan had his own basketball games so he couldn't come! He's doing really good, so we're excited for him but we miss him so much!
This was some of the food at our Halloween party! My mom and Lacey cooked so much good food for us! That is one thing about my mom, I'm pretty sure her motto is GO BIG OR GO HOME! She always tries to make everything so nice for us. Addi has been up all night for the last week in anticipation for the Halloween party! She wanted to talk about it all night!

The boys were the little army men from Toy Story. They had there feet taped to a piece of cardboard so they couldn't really walk.

Addi and I were both Jazmin. Elli was a monkey but it was too hot to keep the mask on, and Jet was a giraffe.

Britt was Jessie on Toy Story. Jed was Tayt and Tanner's General, and Jaye was Tinkerbell.

These two were so hilarious. Denielle was Tinkerbell and Trev was Captain Hook. He looked so dang funny. Hayden was a monkey and Jacen was a Lion.

I borrowed my costume from Jessica George. I barely fit into it, and no that is not my bare stomach showing, she had a little skin colored thing I put on underneath it! Jake was deer hunting so he couldn't come!

Hunter and Jared were Woody, and Jace and David were Buzz. They looked so funny!

These two looked so good! I couldn't believe how funny they were. Yes, Travis really bicked his head for our Halloween party! These 2 are the best fake Shrek and Fiona's that I have ever seen! Lacey kept her makeup on all night and every time I looked at her I just had to laugh!

Lacey's whole family looked pretty cute! I wish I would have gotten a better picture! The reason Lacey and Trav aren't smiling is of course because Ogre's don't smile! These pictures don't do it justice how funny they were!

And last but not least, Mr. and Mrs. Potato head. My parents had a whole Toy Story theme going on with their family. My mom and Lacey made these costumes, and I think they turned out pretty good.

This was the whole crew! Next year we're going to have to have the party at the church!

My Cute Kids

2010-10-03T12:15:00.000-07:00

Jake has been gone a lot this month so we haven't been doing too much! Jake has traveled for 2 weeks this month so we've spent a lot of time in Delta. It's so good to be home. I really do like living here but I still miss Delta. I'm so grateful to my family for letting us come so much. We've found a place to rent for awhile and we're not excited about it, but hopefully it won't be for very long. We're moving to Urie. It's only about 3 miles from Mountain View so it's not much of a move, but I still HATE packing everything up and moving.
Elli has the funniest smile, but I can't get a good picture of it!
She has 2 bottom teeth and more coming!
Jet's face ALWAYS looks like this! I really don't even know how to keep it clean. He always looks like a homeless child!
Addi's playing soccer! She loves it. It's so crazy to have someone old enough to play organized sports. It's fun to watch, but I have a whole new understanding of why my dad acted the way he did when he was unhappy about the way we performed! If she's going to do it I want her to be the best, and we have a long way to go to be the best!
Watching soccer games!
Napping with Uncle Jace.
The kids just laid here and watched a movie the other night! It was unbelievable that they all just watched it. It was pretty sweet!
Riding in Addi's derby car. This little jeep doesn't have a battery so the kids just push it around.
How cute is this picture! This was at the Stansbury football game. We've been to a lot of the games so far, and hopefully we'll got to most of the rest. I hate missing the boys' games!

Lots and Lots of stuff!

2010-08-01T06:40:00.000-07:00

Well I don't have too much time to type a lot of stuff but there are A LOT of pictures. I've decided I'm just going to put pictures on just in case I lose my real pictures. Our lives have been a pretty big mess lately, but a good mess! Jake did find a job and we've moved to Mountain View Wyoming. It's only about 3 and a half hours from home so it's really not too bad. I actually really like it there! I've met a lot of nice people and there's a lot of kids around Addi's age. It's been kind of hard moving to a place where we don't know anyone but we're getting use to it. We just got home from Puerto Rico and man, I would recommend that place to anyone! It was awesome! Thanks mom and dad for taking us there! We had so much fun. It was a much needed vacation. Dave and Lisa took our kids and we owe them a lot because it was so nice knowing that our kids were in good hands. We really appreciate them. Well anyways a lot of these pictures are just kinds of miscellaneous pictures but I wanted them on here just in case I lose them.
Here are some things we've done in the last couple of months:

These sleeping pictures were after a day at the rez! Jet couldn't keep his eyes open for the life of him! I guess he wasn't that hungry.

We've done a lot of dress ups!
We've made cookies!
Elli's learned to crawl! I can't believe how fast she's growing!

We've swam in the front yard.

Seriously how cute is this picture!
Loved the 4th!

This was when Jord came home! We tried to get a picture of all the grand kids and it was NOT going to happen! Everyone in the airport was laughing at us!
Jet loves ALL shoes!
Addi got her first pedicure!

Puerto Rico! IT WAS SO AWESOME!

Last but definitely not least, JORDAN'S home! I love him so much and it's so good to have him home again! Man have we missed him. Welcome home!

Graduation

2010-05-04T19:33:00.000-07:00

All I can say is IT'S ABOUT TIME!

Random Pictures! (There's A LOT!)

2010-04-11T12:57:00.001-07:00

Well I know this is a TON of pictures but there's been a lot going on lately and I haven't had time to blog about it! I finally finished my student teaching so I guess I'll have more time on my hands now that I'm done! I'm so excited to be able to spend some more time with my kids! Hopefully we'll have a lot more picture of fun things we've done together soon!
These are the Easter church clothes that my mom bought the kids! They look so cute! Lacey's kids have them too so they're all matching! Mom does this every year, but this is the most comments I've ever had on them! I guess maybe cuz they're such bright colors!
I wish we had been matching them! I guess I need to go buy us yellow and blue shirts!
K so everyone of my kids do this! Once they get big enough they start inching their way out of the bouncer and eventually they look like their going to be totally out of the seat! I need to start buckling her in there!
This was Elli when the kids were opening their Easter baskets! Poor girl she always just has to chill while the other kids are playing! Don't worry Ell you'll be playing soon!
Yes I know this is not a traditional Easter basket but I didn't buy a basket so I went with my moms tradition of just using a pan from the house! They didn't know the difference!
Addi loves the preparation for holidays! I think she's going to be a lot like me!
Jet thought he was so cool packing his Easter pan!
All the cousins (except Jacen and Jaye) at Grandmas Easter egg hunt!
I had tons of pictures of the Easter egg hunt but I thought I was already putting to much pictures on here! Jake had a lot of fun helping them find their eggs!

Jet was way in to coloring eggs! Well OK he was only into it for the first egg, then he was tired of it. He was making a mess so I didn't feel bad that he wasn't into it!
Addi's at such a good age for holidays! She gets way into them and I love it!
We bought cotton candy at the Quality Easter party! My kids love cotton candy!
Jake thought he looked like the Joker on Batman!
Elli looks so weird with her hair done! I'm sue to her having bed head all the time! She has so much hair! She should have been blessed with a mom who loves to do hair!
I love this picture! We had ice cream for family home evening! Jet was so happy!

I can't say it enough: I LOVE this smile!
Jessica and Janae gave Addi this lovely makeup kit! Thanks girls I really appreciate it! I really had to wash my face like 5 times to get all this make up off! Addi loved it so I guess it was worth it!

Jet, Elli, and Happy Birthday Addi!

2010-03-17T18:20:00.000-07:00

This one was suppose to come after the next two pictures! This was how happy he was when I helped him out of the predicament he was in, in the pictures below!
Jet crawled under here to chase after his ball! He was crying the whole time he was under here, but I had to take the time to find the camera!
Jet will do anything for a ball!
Yep this is how I sleep some of the time! I'm just lucky Jake wasn't here this night! He would not have liked this situation! :)
Jet moves like crazy when he sleeps!
It's not always this much of a mess, but he's definitely not clean! He is the sweetest boy you'll ever meet!

My mom cut Jet's hair! She was just suppose to trim it but he ended up looking like Loyd on Dumb and Dumber!
I think Addi had a pretty good Birthday! I can't believe she's already 4! I can't believe how fast time flies! She had a princess birthday party! They made these wands at the party! You can't see them in the picture, but they actually turned out pretty cute!
I forgot candles! Luckily my mom had some magic candles in the cupboard! The girls were having a lot of fun helping to blow them out!
These were the girls at the party! Thanks for coming!
Addi is the most beautiful princess! I hope she had fun on her birthday! She's such a good girl and we love her very much! I know she's already excited about her next birthday, but I hope it takes a long time to get here!

Sweet, Sweet Kids

2010-02-08T19:43:00.000-08:00

I can't help but be so grateful for my kids lately. My friend Jen posted a story on her blog, and I can't help but think about it constantly. I saved the blog, Stakerz Xposed, in my list so if you have time you have to read it. It will remind you of how lucky we are for every second we get with our kids. I'm grateful to Jen for showing it to me, even though it consumes so much of my thoughts! Well if you get a second you really should look at it.
Well, I don't have any pictures to post but I wanted to put this little story on my blog so I wouldn't forget it! tonight we were having family home evening. My dad gave the lesson and he was talking about the Holy Ghost. He asked Addi what she knew about the Holy Ghost and she said "I know that he loves me." Well I though that was a pretty good response. After he had given the whole lesson he asked Addi when do we get the Holy Ghost. Her response was "On Fridays!" It was so funny. She answered his question with such confidence. She knew she was right. It was so cute.
Well we blessed Elli yesterday. Jake did a beautiful job. I'm so proud of him. He's living in Spanish Fork during the week working at an accounting firm. It's only a temporary job, but I'm so grateful that he's getting some experience. Elli is changing so much everyday. Jet is still as sweet as ever. He is a really good little boy. Addi is still very funny. She's in dance and tumbling here and she loves it. She gets to come to my valentine party at school this week and she's so excited. School is going well. I love Mrs. Fowles. She's taught me a lot already! It's been hard to leave my kids everyday, but I know I'll be grateful when I'm all done. We are still doing good. Hopefully I'll be posting pictures soon.

New Baby and Christmas

2009-12-29T20:25:00.000-08:00

Elli LaRae Abbott was born on Friday December 18th! She was 7 lbs 1 oz and 19 inches long. She was born 2 and a half weeks early, but still as healthy as can be. I went in for an appointment with Dr. Smith on Thursday and he found out that she was breech so he sent me up to a specialist the next day to see if he could turn her. We were already going up north for the wrestles and to go shopping so it wasn't a big deal to drive to Provo. Well the Doctor up there found out I had placenta previa so he said he couldn't turn her and he felt it would be best to do a C Section right then. By 2:30 that day little Elli was here! It was the weirdest day ever. One second I was planning on going to the wrestles and the next second I was having a baby! It's weird to think that she still shouldn't be here til the second of January! Because we weren't expecting to have her yet she had no clothes to wear, we had no camera, we weren't done Christmas shopping! We just weren't prepared! Next time I'll be already a month in advance just in case.
I'm definitely not a photographer but I thought this tutu was cute! Grandma Rae got it for her for Christmas. She is such a beautiful baby. I can't believe how hard it is to go anywhere with three kids, but other then that Elli hasn't added to much difficulty to our routine. It'll be a lot harder I'm sure when School starts for me on the 11th!
The kids both love her to death! Addi wants to hold her all the time and she's pretty curious about how Jesus gets milk into my body! :) She is such a funny little thing!
Jet loves her too and wants to give her kisses a lot. Jake thinks it's so funny that she sucks on everything so he tried it on Jet's finger and obviously Jet thought it was pretty amusing!
We had a really great Christmas! It's so fun to see how happy your kids are when they open their presents. We spent Christmas at Jake's house, but because we're both from Delta we are able to do pretty much everything with both families.
Addi couldn't get enough Christmas presents to open. She loved everything about it! I can't believe how much things change every year. Addi's already excited for next Christmas!

More Halloween

2009-11-18T21:59:00.000-08:00

I just got these pictures from a friend of mine who was kind enough to take them for me! I think Jet is the cutest dragon I have ever seen! I love his face!
I just wanted to show you how cute he was on Halloween!

It's been awhile!

2009-11-10T22:56:00.000-08:00

I know I haven't posted for awhile! I've been so busy with school and taking care of my family that I haven't had much time for anything else! Well I've probably had time I've just had too many pictures to put up! I hardly posted any of them, this is just a few of the cute ones. Addi and Jet are doing good. Addi really likes preschool and I'm pretty sure Jet thinks he has two mom's! He is at my sister Brittany's almost everyday all day. I think we'll all be really happy when I'm finally done with school! I have 8 weeks left til the baby gets here. This pregnancy has just flown by. I haven't minded being pregnant this time and I think it's just because I never have time to think about it! I'm moving to Delta after Christmas to do my student teaching so that my mom can help me with my kids. I'm so grateful that she's willing to help me. I have such a good family. We don't really know what Jake is going to do yet. He's done with his MACC in December, but he might keep going and get his MBA too. He hasn't decided. I hope he can be in Delta with me but that probably won't happen! Life is good and very stressful. I keep thinking that once school is over it'll get easier, but I'm not sure when it ever gets easier! Hopefully I'll be better at posting but don't count on it!

Too many pictures to post!

2009-11-10T22:17:00.001-08:00

The other day I found Addi in her toy box! I've never seen her climb into it like this so I thought it was pretty funny!
Addi use to climb up onto the dishwasher when she was little too! What is so cool about the dishwasher that little kids think they always need to play on it! Every time I open the dishwasher Jet is right there with me pulling everything out as fast as I can get it in!
I love this picture, Jet has the prettiest eyes! He got his Dad's eyelashes. I know you can't see them that well in this picture but they are so stinking long!
I love Jet's face in this one! I use to always take pictures of Addi with a dirty face, so I thought I better have at least one of Jet! This is what Jet looks like about every night, I just never take a picture of it!
We had a good Halloween this year. I'm so mad I didn't take better pictures. I completely forgot about taking any pictures. This was taken at the end of the night when she was being cranky. I told her to smile and this is what I got. She wanted to be Rapunzel for Halloween, and because I procrastinated and tried to buy a costume a few days before Halloween this is what she had to be! Jet was a dragon. I didn't get any pictures of him but my friend did and when she emails them to me I will post them. He looked way cute! We had our family Halloween party, but I didn't have my camera so I didn't get any pictures from that either. It was way fun again and some of the costumes were so funny! I will try to get a picture to put up because it was so funny!
I know this picture is dark but I think it's soo cute!
Jet fell asleep like this on the couch awhile ago. I know it doesn't seem that weird, but Jet never sleeps in weird places! He really always falls asleep in his crib. He did look pretty sweet all cuddled up on the couch!
I love this face! He is the happiest boy ever!
Seriously, How long ago was mini cheer! Addi loved mini cheer, and even though she didn't know any of the cheers she sure tried to do them. I really thought she'd get down there and just be embarrassed and not want to do it but she did so good!
I love this one of Addi and Janie!
I try to make breakfast for Addi every morning before we go to school. Well this particular morning Jet thought that he would help with the waffles. I know they look a little nasty, but Addi likes her waffles with blue food coloring in them, even though they actually end up looking pretty green!
Addi's first day of school. She had much cuter outfits for school, but for some reason this is what she wanted to wear.

Summer's almost over! :(

2009-08-19T21:21:00.000-07:00

Well I don't have any pictures to post. We have actually been doing stuff I just never take any pictures. I have got to be better! We went to fish lake with Jake's family and my mom took all the grandkids to the the zoo, Chuckee Cheese, and the Lehi swimming pool and I didn't take one picture! I still hate to think we did all those things and I didn't take one picture! Well it's been Addi's summer goal to go to Chuckee Cheese and Grandma promised her forever to take her we just couldn't find the time. We've had coupons hanging on our fridge all summer long to Chuckee Cheese and we finally went. The kids had a blast but I think trips with all the grandkids are more work then fun for the moms! We had a good time though and it was fun to spend time with my mom and sisters. Another exciting thing that has happened is that we found out we are having a girl! I still can't believe I'm even pregnant but ready or not I guess! Jake and I start school on Monday and Addi starts preschool the following Monday. This is going to be a busy couple of months for us with school, kids, and new babies so I hope we survive (well I hope I survive!) Well I'm going to bed. I hope everyone is more prepared for the summer to end then me!

Seriously, can I even remember how to post!!

2009-07-11T20:33:00.000-07:00

Holy smokes it has been a long time since I've blogged! I can't really even explain why I haven't put any pictures up either. I've been busy with school, but that's not a very good excuse. Well life is still good for us and it still seems like something is always going on. My kids are growing like crazy. I still can't believe that Jet is 7 and a half months old. He is such a sweetie and is changing daily. He still doesn't crawl, but somehow he gets around the room I just can't really explain how. I guess it's an army crawl or something! Addi is still the most adorable thing one second, and the meanest thing the next. She defiantly has her dads temperament, because you all know me, I'm sweet all the time :) (Yeah right)! So Addi would rather ride in the stroller even if she is cramped. The other day we went to the Shakespearean festival Greenshow and on the way home her head was bobbing. I scooted Jet over so they could both fit and it actually worked! They were both asleep for awhile but Jet woke up and was of course smiling at us. He really smiles all the time!!

Addi's hut that Jake made even though she didn't want to be in her room by herself so when we wouldn't stay in there with her we had to make a new hut in the front room. You'd think all those babies would keep her company but they don't!

So Jake was wanting to have this movie night where we'd all pick out a movie, our own kind of ice cream and pop popcorn. (I love popcorn popped with a real popper. I think it's a Johnson thing cuz I know Uncle Elwin's family and Uncle Dan's does it too!) Anyways it was a real hit! Of course Addi wasn't way into watching our movies, but she did ok. She loved the popcorn though.

When we were popping the pop corn she said "I have the best parents in the whole world!" First of all I wasn't kidding when I said she was the sweetest thing and second of all how does she know the word parents? I know it seems like a stupid question but seriously I doubt I used that word til I was 12! She thinks she's so grown up. It's pretty sad that when we do something so simple she thinks were so great. We have got to do more!! And yes we had TONS of popcorn, and yes it almost all got eaten! So depressing!

How cute is this little guy!

My 2 favorite boys!

Happy fourth! We of course went to Delta for the 4th of July. It was so much fun. I couldn't remember why I loved the fourth so much while I was looking for Addi at the park, but when I found her and a lot of the people had left I was reminded. I love the 4th just like everyone else from Delta. I had so much fun seeing all my friends. I wish I could've talked to each of them longer, and Lisa I wish I could've even seen you!! I miss my friends A LOT!

Poor Jet his feet were probably on fire, but he wasn't acting like it!

I love the parade in Delta. The best part about the fourth was getting to hang out with Jake and our families. Jake works all the time I swear so it was nice to just chill! And just so everyone knows I wasn't the Ashley Abbott driving in the derby. I can't believe how many people really thought that was me! I doubt you'll ever see me driving in the derby, but I'm sure proud of my in-laws for always doing so well!

Just another cute picture!

Oh yeah we went to Mexico with our friends Brittney and Warren. We had so much fun hanging out with them! Thanks again for letting us come with you! I'm ready to go back!

For those of you have read all of this and didn't already know that I was pregnant again, I am. I know that it seems like I was just pregnant and that's because I was! Jet and this new baby will be 13 months apart. At first we weren't way excited about it because we just didn't' think we were ready, but now we're really excited about it. Well anyways that's what we've been up too. Sorry I haven't posted much, hopefully I'll get better at it again, but don't count on it!

Just Chillin!

2009-04-27T22:33:00.000-07:00

This little couch has been the very best purchase! We use it all the time. Jet fits perfect on it! I'm pretty sure he's wanting some of that Snack pack!

Just Jet!

2009-04-27T22:20:00.001-07:00

Well I hadn't been taking very good pictures of Jet so I've decided to be better! These are just some of the cutest ones!

I LOVE LOVE this picture. It's the only one that I have of him smiling and let me tell you he has the Cutest smile you'd ever see!

This was the very first time he ate. He's got a sweet tooth just like his mom. We started with rice and he didn't really like that so we went to sweet potato's. He also likes applesauce. Don't worry I've tried carrots too. I try to be a little bit healthy!

I love this one! He looked so cute with a little bow on his head! Addi thought this was hilarious, Jake did Not!

I am so grateful for Jet. My Mom has Addi for a couple of days and it's been really nice to have some me and Jet time. He doesn't get near enough attention when Addi's around. I definitely need to work on that!

Easter

2009-04-27T22:02:00.000-07:00

Ok I know I'm so late on posting about Easter, so I wasn't going to post any pictures but some of them were just too cute to skip!

My Mom bought both the kids' Easter clothes and I think they both look so stinking cute! Jake had to work on Easter so he wasn't there. This picture would be so much cuter with him in it!

Mom with all the girls!

My mom will probably hate that I put this picture in, but I think it is SOOO funny. This is really what the twins are like all the time. I love them so much. They are the cutest things, but really I don't know how my sister does it!

This was how Addi was with all of the pictures until I told her I was going to take away her Easter stuff! I really was so mad at her! She still looks cute though!

This is all Addi wanted for Easter! You can't tell but they're Crabby Patties from Spongebob. Every time we walked by them in Walmart she told me that was what she wanted! They actually taste pretty good!

She wasn't so sure about the Easter thing, well at least no at first. It took her a second to warm up but once she did she loved it! We had a really good Easter.

Dance Lessons and Little Jet!

2009-04-01T22:16:00.000-07:00

Ok, So Addi started dance lessons, and I'm so excited! I think I was more excited to take her then she was to go, but when we left the class she was definitely more excited then I was! She did so good. I was very proud of her! I can't believe I have someone in Dance!

On the way home I called my mom and started saying "I might be biased, but I think she did just as good as some of the four year old in her class who have been going all year!" Wow I guess I'm going to be one of THOSE moms who thinks their kid is the best, but she really was! :) She was so cute and I hope she continues to enjoy it as much as she did that first day, because she will have a blast if she does!

I can't believe my baby is already four months! It really feels like I just had him. This is my sisters baby Jaylee. She is so cute and little, and Jet looks like a monster next to her. Someday they, along with my brothers baby Jacen, are going to make a nice little trio! Poor Grandma!

I was just playing around while I was waiting for Jake to get done with his homework, but I thought they were cute. I don't take enough pictures of Jet. I swear with Addi every time she opened her eyes I was taking a picture of her, but I never remember to take any of Jet.

Sorry so much!

2009-03-25T23:04:00.000-07:00

I know I need to be better at posting pictures right when I take them, but I'm not so here are a bunch of pictures! I'm sorry I'll try to post some every once in a while instead of a bunch at once!

Curlers!

2009-03-25T22:57:00.000-07:00

I bought these curlers forever ago and I finally decided to try them. She actually sat pretty good while I put them in.

I think I did a pretty good job for my first time. I remember when I was younger my mom would put these in my hair and I hated them.

She really did look so cute (at least in the front!) I'm definitely going to keep practicing.

The bottom ones fell out so it wasn't near as curly on the bottom. I definitely need practice.

I thought she looked like Shirley Temple. I know I've told you this before Brittney, but even Jed and Britt both said she looked a lot like Brooklyn with her hair all curly, which makes me very happy!

Jet

2009-03-25T22:52:00.000-07:00

Jet loves the swing. Britt has one so I was using her every once in awhile but I finally got my own. They had this one at Wal Mart for $100 and we got the same exact swing at Big Lots for $35. I know you're thinking it wasn't the same swing but it really was. Jake even went to work and checked.

Thanks Mom for the swing Jet loves it! He's just started trying to suck on his fingers and I think it's SOO cute!

Addi's Birthday!

2009-03-25T22:23:00.000-07:00

So I know that Addi is so spoiled, and believe me I know that is why she's not the perfect little 3 year old, but how can you resist someone who tells you she loves you about every five seconds! No really she is, for the most part, such a stinking sweetie! She is already 3 and I can't believe how time flies. I'm not old enough or mature enough to have a 3 year old! She had 2 birthday parties. I kept saying that I didn't know what I was going to do because she didn't have any friends, but she kept saying "I do have friends Avery and Ashton!" So thanks Britt for letting these guys come up. I really didn't know what to do because she is friendless here. It's really so sad! Jake took these 3 to the Park and McDonald's while I made the cake (Or went to wal mart and my mom bought one!)

We've been wanting to get this game for her because she's always wanting to play something. It's actually really fun to play.

Addi doesn't know how to ride a bike so we thought we'd get her one. I'm pretty sure she's the only 3 year old who can't ride a bike, but for some reason she's not getting it.

This was her reaction to a bike. She just kind of stood there. Next year I'm seriously just buying her a pen with feathers on the bottom.

This was her other party. It was Jessica George's birthday to so we put her name on the cake. She was so nice to come on her own birthday.

She got one billion presents I swear! We have such a good family and friends!

She looked so cute with her hair all done and in her cute birthday outfit! I really can't believe I have a 3 year old! She gets funnier and funnier everyday and we love her so much. I wish I could remember some of the things she says, but she really says the darndest things. I can't wait to see how much she changes in the next year!

Jet was such a trooper! He can't wait til he gets all of these birthday presents!

I promise he's a good Dad!

2009-03-10T22:39:00.000-07:00

So the other day Jake had tons of homework to get done so I decided to help him by running to Wal Mart to get something that he needed. Well when I got home this is what Jet looked like! Jake was trying to take a timed test, but Jet would not keep his binky in his mouth. Now Jet has always struggled with this, especially when he's tired he just won't keep it in even though he always cries when he's not sucking on it!

Jake pulled the elastic off of our CPR mask (I don't know why we have a CPR mask, but just in case you need one you know who to call!) and strapped it through the wholes of his binky so that it wouldn't fall out! It was the funniest thing and Jet was sleeping SOOO sound. I've considered rigging this binky mask up myself I just know it wouldn't work quite as well! Well Jake got all of his homework done and did well on his test and Jet was sound asleep so I guess everybody wins!

Way Cute!

2009-03-09T10:43:00.000-07:00

Ok so I know Erica just barely made this blog but I'm sooo excited about it! My mom is always telling me that I need to put bows in Addi's hair, but they're always just too much money! Well Erica is making these way cute bows, headbands, and flowers and she's selling them all for $2 a piece! They're usually so much more then this so I'm so excited! Well you should check them out!
The website is http://luvthehair.blogspot.com/

Big Girl!

2009-02-22T22:42:00.000-08:00

Ok so when we were back in Chicago one of the girls told me about this thing she did with her little boy and getting rid of his binkies. The idea was to go to build a bear let him pick out a bear and have him buy it with his binkies. Well for some reason I always remembered that, and now I can tell you that it works! Well, at least it did for us except we did it with Addi's sippy cups. Since Addi was one she's used a sippy cup like it was a bottle. She needed it everywhere. Well we decided that in order for her to quit she had to go cold turkey, no more! We let her use it up until we went to state wrestles. We went to the build a bear store on Friday and let her pick out what she wanted but we didn't buy it yet. She was so excited! The next day we took her bag of sippy cups and built the bear.

She loved it! She wanted to do everything, and they were so nice.

She even got to do the stuffing. She really thought it was the coolest thing.

This is her picking out a heart! They had her kiss it before she put the heart in the bear. The people working there really do a good job.

I warned the lady at the pay stand so she let Addi give her the sippy cups and Addi walked away with the bear before I paid so that she thought she really did buy it! Addi was so proud of herself. I feel bad I didn't get a picture of her sippy cups.

Well this is the final product. It's a cute bear, but if I were picking one out this would definitely not have been it. They have so many cute things in there it's unbelievable, but Addi's favorite color is blue so this is perfect for her! Well needless to say the first thing she says after we had eaten and were on our way back to Delta was "I don't want my bear, I want my sippy cups!" I thought for sure my great ideas was not going to work, but since our ride home, and a little but the next day at church, she hasn't even mentioned her sippy cups. She doesn't really play with the bear either, but it was a good distraction for a couple of days. She really is getting so big. She's even finally potty trained. She hasn't wet the bed or her panties yet, and it's been a week since she started going all the time with panties. She has pooped in her panties a couple of times so we got to get the hang of that,but she's doing better! No more diapers for her! YEAH!!! Next thing were going to work on is getting her to sleep in her bed without making it a major ordeal to get her to sleep! She never wants to go to bed and it's driving me crazy. Jake's working nights so I have to do it every night by myself and I hate it. I'm pretty sure she thinks I'm the meanest mom ever. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

State Wrestles!

2009-02-22T22:28:00.000-08:00

Over Valentines weekend we went up to the state wrestles. Jake's little brother Jace was wrestling and he did way good! Well actually all of the boys did really well. Jace took second, and Delta took first. It was the first time they had won since we did in 2002 so it was really fun.

I love state wrestles! I always have and I always will. I have so many fun memories from state wrestles. We always had such a fun time! I got to see my good friend Kenzie at the wrestles too, and that was SOOO good! I've missed her, well I've missed all of my friends. I wish we could have gotten together.

New hair!

2009-02-04T13:33:00.000-08:00

Well I know this looks like a wig on me, but believe it or not it's my real hair. I decided to go dark and I really like it! Change is always good, and it's made me feel a lot better about myself to have something new! Thanks again to Crystal for doing it for me! You're the best !!!

Radom Pics!

2009-02-04T13:27:00.000-08:00

Addi just can't leave Jet a lone. It's actually pretty funny. I guess Addi thought that Jet would like these stickers she found at the shop!

I love this picture. His face is like "Oh great what did she do now?!"

This picture is suppose to be at the bottom, but I messed it up! This was Janie's dance costume last year and she gave it to Addi!

You can't really tell but she put her legs through the arm holes, and her waist is in a leg hole! She was trying so hard to put her arms in the leg holes!

The skirt is tipped up side down! She looked so funny, and she was trying so hard to get it on right!

I was tagged!

2009-02-04T07:17:00.001-08:00

The Rules:
1. Go to your documents/pictures.
2. Go to your 6th file.
3. Go to your 6th picture.
4. Blog about it.
5. Tag 6 people to do the same.
6. So here we go...

This was after Jake's graduation. If it only this would have meant that he was totally done with school! Yes, I am counting the days till we're done! I'm so proud of him!

I tag...
Lacey
Aimee
Shai

Leann
Crystal
Tiffany

Snow day in Cedar!

2009-01-28T08:12:00.000-08:00

Jake has been saying he was going to build a Snow man with Addi forever! I don't know if any of you are from Cedar, but a couple of days ago it snowed a TON, so Jake decided he would go out and help her! Addi was so excited and she looked so cute all bundled up. We don't really have good winter clothes so I just scrounged up whatever I could find!

Addi really didn't do to much to help and the snow was to powdery to make a ball so pretty much they just played in it! If you'll notice there is no finishing result because they never actually got a snowman made!

She was not really as into the snow as I thought she would be! She was to cold! We really need to get her some real winter clothes!

If you'll notice she's not wearing her pink gloves anymore. When they got wet she asked me to get her some socks. My mom never has gloves at her house so whenever we use to play in the snow she would have us put socks on our hands! Believe it or not it actually works pretty good, well at least it's better then nothing! Those are actually Jake's hunting socks rolled up so she had double protection!

Who doesn't want hot chocolate after they've been playing in the snow!!

Jake hates it when I take his picture because he knows it's going right on the blog! But he's such a cute dad, and I think they're always such cute pictures!

Jet is officially 8 weeks old and he's still so stinking cute! He's getting way good at holding his head up and he really likes helping dad with his homework!

Good news!

2009-01-12T19:01:00.000-08:00

Well I've got some good news! Addi has went potty in the toilet!!! I know most of you mothers are thinking so what who cares, but for those of you who don't know I've been pretty stressed about the whole potty training thing! Addi has wanted nothing to do with the toilet so I'm pretty excited that she's a little bit interested. She's still not potty trained but she's getting better at telling us that she needs to go and then actually going! Well anyways I'm pretty excited! We can no longer afford 2 sizes of diapers, and I'm pretty tired of having to pack 2 sizes of diapers around in my diaper bag! I just hope that the end of her wearing diapers is near!!!!

Eventful Month!

2009-01-08T18:58:00.000-08:00

Well I'm really sorry but I've posted A TON of pictures this time! We've done a lot of stuff in the last month, and I haven't hardly posted anything. I know you might get bored, but I couldn't choose which pictures to put in and which to leave out so I just ended up posting a lot of pictures. School has started now and Jake and I are both going full time so I don't really know how much I'll be able to post.

Our Christmas tree!

2009-01-08T18:53:00.000-08:00

Jake and I have tried to follow in my Mom's footsteps and we take our own family picture in front or our tree! The problem with this year was we never got it done before Christmas so we had to wait til we came back home which wasn't until the fifth of January! Well we got it done even if it wasn't done before Christmas.

Baby Blessing!

2009-01-08T18:38:00.000-08:00

We had the best Sunday ever! Trevor came down from Wyoming and we blessed our babies together. They both did a really great job. I was so proud of Jake. He was so nervous, but he really did such a good job.

I hate the glare in this picture but it will just have to do. I still can't believe that our family is growing, I really feel so blessed in my life right now. It's weird to think that Jake and I's lives are really where they are right now. We have a good life.

I was so glad that Trevor got to come enjoy this experience with us. Denielle is such a good wife, and she's very patient with her in laws! Her family wasn't able to make it because of the weather so it really was a sacrifice for her and I'm grateful that she was willing to come all this way and do it here.

I love this picture. Jet wore Jordan's little baby blessing outfit. I was so glad my mom let me use it, and he looked really cute in it even though it was a little old-school!

It's too bad these boys won't remeber their blessing day, because it really was a good one!

Cute pictures!

2009-01-08T18:27:00.000-08:00

I just think these pictures are cute! Poor Jet will just be happy if he makes it to his first birthday still intact.

The twins were so cute with these babies! I don't know why we gave the big baby to the little Jared and the small baby to the big David!

I think this picture is so funny of Jet! He wasn't too sure about letting David hold him.

Jet

2009-01-08T18:06:00.000-08:00

This is the first time that Jet has met his cousin Jacen! This is my little brother Trevor and Denielle's baby. Jacen is only a little over 2 weeks older then Jet, but he was quite a bit bigger then him. It's amazing how much 2 pounds makes a difference.

Jet being smothered by Addi!

I think Jet is the absolute cutest thing with his eyes open.

Christmas!

2009-01-08T16:49:00.000-08:00

I love Christmas time so much and Christmas Eve is why! I love this night! My mom does so many things to make this night very special to all of us! She always gets us really nice jammies, and we're always matching, but we love it. This picture is so funny! It's mom and dad with all of their grand kids. How cute of Grandparents are they???
Mom with all her girls in their matching jammies. We love all being the same.
This is what we do every year. We all get in our new pajamas and take a family picture in front of the tree. I don't think the boys love it, but their all patient!
It's so weird we have 2 kids!!!
We always take this picture too! See how beautiful my mom makes it for us! Our family is getting to big to have it at our house anymore. Soon we'll be filling the gym at the church. Actually my Dad would never have it there but we really are getting to big for our tiny family room. Maybe we'll actually have a new house by Christmas!!
I thought this picture was so funny of Dave. He'd probably die if he knew I posted it! Every Christmas morning Jake's dad makes everyone omelets at his mom and dads house. This year grandma made him an apron and he posed when Jake went to take a picture of him. It was pretty funny!
I don't know why my fonts changing now! Well Jet has made it to Christmas. If any of you know Addi you know why I'm so happy he's made it! This hat his Grandma Rae gave to him and we think it's so funny!

We got Addi a Kitchen for Christmas. She doesn't ever really play with it now, but she liked it that morning. She actually enjoyed Christmas this year so it was really fun! Next year it will be way fun with both of the kids!

Addi and her friends!

2008-12-21T19:13:00.000-08:00

This is Addi with her friends Avery and Ashton. They use to live right across the street from us when we lived in St. George. Addi just loved Avery, and it was so nice to have a friend across the street. Brittney and Warren came to see the new baby a couple of weeks ago so we took the kids to McDonald's to play. They brought Jet his cute church outfit in the pictures below this.
We miss you guys so much. Not only was it nice that Addi had a friend it was nice for me to have someone to talk to. I miss sitting in the front yard just visiting. Anyways you guys are good friends. I hope we see you at a softball tournament soon, or else we just need to come visit you. Thanks again for the outfit and for coming to see us. It was way fun!!

Addi and Jet!

2008-12-21T19:03:00.000-08:00

Addi and Jet were both looking so cute to go to church the other day so I made Jake take pictures of them together. You can't really see Addi's pretty dress in these pictures, but she really did look so cute. Addi is really lucky this year because she gets to Christmas dresses from her Grandma and Grandpa Johnson. My dad picked this one out when he thought we couldn't get the other one. My mom tried to take it back, but my Dad wanted Janie and Addi to keep them so this is her pre-Christmas Christmas dress!
This cute outfit is from our friends in St. George. He really looked so cute. The pants were a little big, but the top fit him almost perfectly! My little brother put the basketball in his hands. If any of you know Jake and his family Jet will have no choice but be a wrestler so Hunter thought he was being funny with the basketball!
Addi asked me take this picture! She really loves Jet so much, it almost drives me crazy sometimes!!

Addi and Santa!

2008-12-21T18:57:00.000-08:00

Addi has loved Santa this year, which is way different from last year! It's so nice to have her excited for Christmas, and to actually what know what it is! It really makes it so much more fun!
She liked him but she was still being shy. This picture is cute, but I still can't decide if it was worth waiting in that long line for!

I forgot to tell you his name!!

2008-12-04T12:25:00.000-08:00

I'm so embarrassed that I didn't even post his name! He is David Jet Abbott! He was going to be Jake Jet, but he was born on Jake's dads birthday so he wanted to name him after both of our dads. It's pretty convenient to have both are dads named David. Anyways I can't believe I didn't even remember to tell you his name!!

He's finally here!

2008-12-04T11:17:00.000-08:00

Ok I know I've put a ton of pictures on, but believe it or not this is only a small portion of what we took! I'm just so excited to have him finally here. It's amazing what a new addition can do to change your family. It's still so weird to have Jake and I both holding a baby when we're watching tv! Pictures just don't do enough justice! He really is such a cute baby with a ton of hair. He was born on December 1st at 3:48 PM. He weighed 7 lbs 9 oz. When he came out he was grunting a little so they thought there was something wrong with his lungs. Everything ended up being ok, but they decided he was probably about 2 weeks early! The doctor started me early because I had protein in my urine, but he thought he was only starting me 5 days early. Everything ended up being ok, but it was still hard having him in the nursery for so long the first day!

Addi really just adores him. Knock on wood that things don't change but so far she just adores him. She always says "That boy is so cute!" She really loves him!

Thanks to my mom, Jake's family, and my sisters for coming to visit. Jake was thinking I was pretty crazy because I was feeling so bad that none of my family was going to be there, but just having my mom there made me feel better, I know I'm such a mommas girl. Thanks especially to Lacey for driving clear to Cedar with Janie and the twins to just see me for like five minutes. I really appreciated having her there!

Jake thinks having a boy is the coolest thing!

Right after he was born. His eyes are so huge when they're open, which isn't very often. I have to beg him to wake up and eat!

I just put this picture on so you could see this cute shirt Addi was wearing. It said I'm the big sister! She was so proud.

What a cute baby! We love finally having him here, even if he kept me up all night last night. We got to get those days and nights figured out soon!

Good news!

2008-11-21T09:23:00.000-08:00

Well I don't have any pictures today, but I do have some good news. I went to the doctor yesterday, and he said that he had me scheduled to be induced on Monday December 1st. That is in 10 days! I can't believe it's going to be so soon! I have another appointment on Wednesday so maybe he'll change his mind but as of right now I'm going to have this baby the Monday after Thanksgiving. Well we're pretty excited and nervous to have a new baby in our home, but ready or not here he comes!! Hopefully I'll have some new pictures soon, I've been slacking!

Cute picture!

2008-11-10T08:20:00.000-08:00

Christy sent me this picture. We went to lunch with her one day and when we got done Addi really wanted to go with her so she went for a little while. She looks so grown up in this picture, and these sunglasses are so cute on her!

Our Halloween!

2008-11-03T14:53:00.001-08:00

I know this face doesn't really look like Addi was enjoying Halloween, but really she loved it! She was so excited to be Ariel from the Little Mermaid!

Jake got there just in time to walk around the Trunk or Treat with her. She was loving getting all the candy, even though she won't be the one who eats any of it!

I thought she looked so cute!

This is Marci's little girl Avery. Her and Addi stood at the parade at the elementary school just holding hands for like ten minutes. They didn't talk to each other they just stood there! It was way cute!
Addi with all her candy. Yes I've eaten more then she has!

We also had a Halloween party! My mom kept telling everyone that I wanted to have a Halloween party, but really she was loving planning the whole thing. She is such a good host for things like this! It turned out so good, and we had lots and lots of good food! My dad was the basketball player and my mom was the coach!

I was being my mom when she wakes up in the morning, and Jake was being my Dad. He was wearing my Dad's old track shorts and some old jersey. He really looked so funny. He parted his hair like my dad does. He won the costume contest.

I had to put this picture of Lacey in here because she looked so funny being me. She stuck a balloon up her shirt and wore a Hannah Montanna wig. The funny thing was that I wore that same shirt that day. She really looked pretty dang funny!!

This was the only picture I got of the games. We had to wrap each other like mummies. Travis dominated this game.

This is all of our costumes. I was pretty impressed with everyones willingness to get dressed up, because this is very out of character for our family. We had such a good time, I think it's going to be a tradition every year now!

Carving Pumpkins!

2008-10-30T10:44:00.000-07:00

Ok so Jake and I thought we were being the best parents. We bought a pumpkin, found something to carve into the pumpkin, and did it. We thought Addi would absolutely love carving a pumpkin, but we were wrong. She didn't even like cleaning it out. She thought it was nasty!

She was pretty good to just sit on the table, but she wasn't into it at all. Like my big belly??? It's getting huge. You can't see it way good in this picture, but it really is growing like crazy. 5 more weeks!

I thought this picture was way cute. They really are so cute together! Jake is a good daddy!! He wasn't way excited about carving a cat into a pumpkin, but he was patient about it, and just did it anyways!

Addi did like it when it was all done. She was pretty excited about her cat in the pumpkin. Addi loves animals, which is weird because neither Jake or I even like animals. She really wanted the cat in the pumpkin. I was pretty happy with the way it turned out. I know it would compete with the Robison's pumpkins, but maybe with practice we'll get better. :)

Addi was pretty excited about putting it outside with a candle in it. In the end it was worth it even though she wasn't into the carving process. She has been way into Halloween decorations, so it was good that we had something!

So Funny!

2008-10-22T20:59:00.000-07:00

Well I don't have any new pictures, but Addi did the funniest thing the other day! I was at my Mom's house the other day when my sisters little boy, Tayt, came in the house saying that our neighbor's dog Gus was dead. Addi absolutely loves Gus! When Addi heard the news she came running into the front room where I was at saying "My Gus, My Gus, My dog is dead!" She was so worried. The look on her face was so funny! About five minutes later she came back inside just bawling. She was really crying so hard. I asked her what was wrong and she said "Tayt told me you were dead!" I guess Tayt had told her that I had died and she thought he was serious. Tayt said he was just kidding, but it was so cute to see how worried she was that I was really dead. I know this story is a little morbid, but it was just so cute how she was acting. I don't even know how she knows what dead really is! Well Gus wasn't actually dead, and neither was I so when she saw that I was still alive she just ran off and played. I wish I had as many cares in the world as she does!

Lots and lots of really random stuff!

2008-10-13T17:15:00.000-07:00

I haven't posted any pictures of Addi for a really long time! I didn't think I had taken any, but there were a few that I haven't put on here! In these pictures Addi was helping Jake get ready to go look for deer. I don't know what made Jake decide to do this, but he came out with her in his coveralls! He thought he was pretty funny.

Jake thought she looked like a really tall baby girl in these pictures! She thought she was so funny!

I love this one of Addi because this is really her now. She is gradually turning into such a girly girl! She thinks everything is so cute, and she loves to go shopping. Addi's middle name is the same as mine, Rula, and Grandma started calling her Addi Ru, and then it was just Ru, and it has now turned into Ruby or Ruby Tuesday. I even find myself calling her Ruby when I'm getting mad at her. I really think this nick name is going to stick for awhile!
She likes hanging out with Easton and Tanner, even if Tanner doesn't really want her around too much!

I love these pictures! She absolutely adores Jace and Hunter! She gets so excited to see them whenever we're coming home! I think they get tired of her too, but they never act like it! Maybe that's why she likes them so much!!

Happy Anniversary!

2008-10-03T09:20:00.000-07:00

Well this is kind of a dumb anniversary to celebrate, but I guess this day changed my life forever! Ten years ago today was the very first time Jake and I ever got together. I remember it was over the phone, and I was so nervous and so excited! I already had a crush on Jake so I had been dreaming of how it would happen since the first of eighth grade. Now those of you who went to high school with us know that are relationship was crazy, but I guess we always had something for each other that would never go away! It's so weird to think back about how much has changed since I was fourteen! Geez that seems like forever ago! I hate telling people we've only been married for two and a half years, because it really seems like we've been married for a lot longer then that! I tried to find an old picture of just the two of us, but I don't know how to put them in my computer if they don't come strait from my camera, so this will have to do. I know this might be dumb to celebrate this anniversary, especially because we haven't been a couple the whole time, but even when we weren't together we might as well have been. Well anyways I'm just happy about the way things have turned out for us! We've been through a lot together, but every second has been worth it!

I've been tagged!

2008-10-01T11:01:00.001-07:00

4 things I love about my husband:
1. He is a really hard worker.
2. His competitiveness! Even though it drives me crazy when we're playing against each other! I don't beat him very often so I don't know why he cares! :)
3. I love watching funny shows with him. We just started watching the Office, and I'm pretty sure watching him is even funnier then the show!
4. How he makes me feel good about myself.

4 Movies I would watch more than once:
I don't really like watching movies more than once, but I really like these movies.
1. Love and Basketball
2. The Disney Movies (Mostly cuz I have too, but I kinda like watching them!)
3. American President
4. Pretty Women

4 TV shows I watch more than once:
1. The View (I know I'm crazy, but I just love watching those ladies argue!)
2. One Tree Hill
3. Smallville
4. Friends

4 Places I have been:
1. Kansas
2. Bahamas (it was a cruise but I can't remember the other places!)
3. Canada
4. New York

4 People who email me regularly
Nobody really emails me but sometimes I get emails from:
1. Aimee Fin (Which by the way I love reading those things about you!)
2. I get an email every week reminding me of how far a long I am.
3. School teachers
4. Jake (but very, very rarely!)

4 Favorite Foods
Well these change daily, depending on what sounds good at the time!
1. Stir Fry
2. Sweet and Sour Chicken
3. ICE CREAM
4. French Bread

I would like to visit
1. Puerto Rico ( I want to see my brother soooo bad!)
2. Mexico
3. Spain
4. Really anywhere, I just want a vacation!

Things I am looking forward to this coming year
1. A new baby!
2. Jake graduating with his masters!
3. Addi being potty trained and no longer needing a sippy all the time! (Any advice would be greatly appreciated!) :)
4. Turning 25!

4 People I would like to tag
1. Lacey
2. Laura
3. Shai
4. Shasta

I haven't blogged forever!

2008-09-06T13:47:00.000-07:00

I haven't posted on my blog for so long! We don't have the Internet yet at our new place so I haven't been able to download any pictures. Well I haven't really taken any pictures lately either! We've officially moved to Cedar. I've started school, and Jake found a job! It was a stressful couple of days, but we made it! I go to school every Monday Wednesday and Friday, so my sister Brittany baby sits for me, at least for the time being. When she finds a job I don't really know what I'll do but hopefully it'll work out! Hopefully soon I'll have some new pictures but until then this will have to do!

Funny Sleepers!

2008-08-01T13:24:00.000-07:00

Well I was checking out everyone else's blogs today while Jake wasn't on the computer, when I noticed that there was no noise coming from anywhere! I knew Jake was laying down, but Addi was suppose to be playing! I went and checked on her and this is what I found!

She must have just climbed up there and fell asleep, because I know Jake was already sleeping! They are the cutest things ever! I love this stage of life for her cause she is just so stinking funny! She's ALWAYS doing and saying things that make us laugh. The other day she told us that she had to save baby Jet from the dragons. Jet is what Jake wants to name our new baby so why she thought he was in trouble I don't know, but I'm sure glad she's taking care of him!

We're Having A...

2008-07-20T20:25:00.000-07:00

Well we found out what we are having, and Addi was right. We are officially having a boy! We are both majorly excited! We went in for our ultrasound the other day, and it's definitely a boy. Tho doctor pointed to his little thingy and asked what we thought that was and Addi said it was a snake! We are pretty excited to have another child, but I'm not going to lie I'm VERY nervous too. I can't imagine another child in our home right now. Well anyways that's our good news. We just got back from 3 days at Fish Lake, and I'm in serious need of a hot shower! I'm feeling pretty bad I didn't take one picture while we were there, so you won't see any pictures of that trip, but I'm sure it won't be too long til I have something else to talk about!

4th of July!

2008-07-11T14:35:00.000-07:00

Well I'm finally getting up my 4th of July pictures! I've tried a couple of times, but I couldn't get it to work for some reason. I had so much fun on the fourth. We did the usual things everyone does like parade, park, derby... You know the story if you're from Delta! Well I took a nap to, and most people probably don't do that!

Addi loved the parade. When the girls in the pretty dresses would come by waving at us Addi would wave back. I couldn't get a very good picture, but it was still pretty cute.

I think Jake loved getting the candy as much as Addi did. He was telling her to go get the candy clear up in the middle of the street! They were a good team, well WE were a good team. They gathered the candy while I sat back and ate all the good stuff. By the way I thought this parade was better then it seems like it has been in the past, I really enjoyed it this year.

Addi looked so stinking cute in these sunglasses I had to buy them for her. I feel so bad I didn't get a picture of the three of us, but I'll remember that for next year! Oh yeah congratulations to my Father in Law for winning the Derby. I was pretty proud of him. I come from 2 great families.

My little Eater!

2008-07-11T14:23:00.000-07:00

Okay actually Addi doesn't ever eat anything! That can probably explain the reason she doesn't know how to eat this donut and the messy face picture lower. The only thing she eats is treats and milk from her sippy! I know I'm the worst mom ever!!

If I would have actually got a good picture of the three of them in these hats I would have sent this picture into KrispyKreme. It was so cute!

Addi's face after her spaghetti! She is such a mess! I need to teach her to eat!

Hogle Zoo!

2008-07-10T08:41:00.000-07:00

For my Mom's birthday she took the kids the the zoo, and to the Lehi Swimming Pool. We had so much fun, even though I'm pretty sure it was 1 million degrees outside. I can't remember ever going to the zoo before, even though my mom swears she took us when we were little, so I was probably just as excited as the little kids.

Addi really loved the zoo especially for the first hour. It was a little hot after that, but she still wanted to see all the animals.

We didn't tell Addi to sit right there, we just told her to get in the picture, and she just went right over and plopped on the gorilla's lap! It was pretty funny!

They had a baby giraffe at the zoo. It was a pretty cute giraffe.

Addi's been liking sunglasses lately. I think she looks way cute in them.

These were all the kids we took to the zoo. The twins actually loved it too. They were really enjoying it. Thanks Mom for letting us come with you on your birthday, since it was your birthday we probably should have done something for you instead of the kids, but thanks we had fun spending time all together. We love you.

Jordan's on his Mission!!

2008-06-20T08:52:00.000-07:00

We took Jordan to the MTC on Wednesday! It just happened to be my birthday that day, and it was such a sad, sad birthday!! We didn't take Addi with us up there so we had to get a picture with her before we had left. Oh yeah I cut Addi's hair again. My neighbor cut it for me and it was a little shorter then I expected it to be, but we love it. It's an A line in the back. I love the back of it I need to get a picture of it.
Anyways Jordan was so sad to see leave! It's been so much fun following him around to all of his things for the last 19 years. I really do feel like he is one of my best friends, and I will really, really miss him! My Aunt Joyce emailed me and in the email she told me taking a missionary is one of the saddest and sweetest experiences. I think that is the perfect way to describe it. Even though it made me extremely sad I know that what he is doing right now is where he needs to be!
I don't know if he's going to be able to look at my blog, but just in case We miss you Jordan! I hope you're doing well! You're going to be the best missionary ever!!

Summer games!

2008-06-20T08:41:00.000-07:00

This is when I rode to the summer games for soccer to watch my little brothers! I know I'm horrible but Jake had left earlier then us with the car seat in his car. She loved not being trapped in her seat. Her and Tanner rode in the very back and just played.

Me and Addi went to watch Jessica play volleyball in the summer games! She does so good, and it was really fun to watch her. I wish I could have seen more!

Addi adores Qua, Nae Nae, and Di, oh yeah and Gus (their dog)! Whenever I can't find her in the yard at my Mom and Dads house I know she's wandered over to the George's. I'm just glad they like her. They are so patient with her and are always playing with her when she's over there. I'm so, so grateful for them!!!

Happy Fathers Day!

2008-06-15T13:43:00.000-07:00

Well I told Jake that since it was fathers day I would let him play the Play Station all day without me whining about it! This little "gift" to him is so hard for me because I HATE the Play Station! That is why I'm posting a blog today, because I'm bored and Addi is asleep so I have no one to play with! I thought I would tribute this blog to him since it's his day!

Since day one Jake has loved being a dad and he's very very good at it. Addi just adores him! I'm so grateful for his patience and understanding. If you knew us in high school you know our relationship was always an up and down roller coaster, and it's still the same way. We don't fight as much :), but one second Addi makes us both so happy and then the next second we are both so mad at her. She can make us feel so many different emotions in the span of 10 seconds that it's crazy. Jake knows a lot more about what he's doing then I do that's for sure. I'm so proud of Jake and all the things he's accomplished. He's a very hard worker, and he never gives up on anything.
The other day at my brothers farewell Jake came in with his Grandma so he sat with his family instead of coming and finding me. I was so mad at him especially when my Aunt Betty thought that the reason I was crying so hard was because Jake and I were fighting or something instead of over my brother leaving on a mission. I realize that I spend enough time in Delta that people probably think that Jake and I are always getting a divorce, but we're really not! :) Jake is always very patient with me wanting to be in Delta and I'm especially grateful for that! He doesn't usually make a big stink about me spending so much time there even though I know he misses me when I'm gone!!

I Love Jake more then anything in this world and I'm so grateful that he is such a good dad to Addi! There are many reasons why I love him, and I hope I'm as good to him as he is to me.
I have to give a shout out to my best Dad in the world, even though I know he'll never look at this! My Dad is the best, and I'm so proud of him. I'm grateful for him and all the things he's taught me. I love both him and my Mom! You guys are the best!!!!

I've been tagged!

2008-06-10T14:19:00.000-07:00

4 things!

4 things I was doing 10 years ago...
1. I was totally crushing on Jake, and he thought I was the most annoying thing ever!
2. I was not spending enough time with my family, even though I thought I was with them all of the time.
3. I, like Aimee, was also doing stock show and I hated it.
4. I was just getting past the stage where all the boys called me "Ugly Ashley"! (Well that was in fifth grade but it took me a long time to get over it!!)

4 things I was doing 5 years ago...
1. Just starting college, even though I never really went to school.
2. Driving to Ephraim as much as possible to hang out with Jake.
3. I was working at Lucky Buns! :)
4. I was not being near as responsible as I should have been.

4 thing I did yesterday...
1. I went walking with my friend Maridee.
2. I went to Wal Mart.
3. I didn't feel very good so I sat around a lot!
4. I made dinner, and played with Addi!

4 shows I watch regularly...
I love tivo it's the best thing ever. I never have to miss any of my shows and I can watch them when Addi is in bed.
1. Grey's Anatomy
2. Ugly Betty
3. So You Think You Can Dance
4. Dora the Explorer and Go Diego Go with Addi

4 people I tag...
1. Maridee
2. Shai
3. Jenny Morris
4. Tiffany

Good News!

2008-06-09T09:01:00.001-07:00

Well most people already know, but I just thought I'd let everyone know just in case! Jake and I are having another baby!! I'm only 13 weeks along and the baby is not due til December 14th but we're pretty excited about it! We've been trying to get pregnant for a year and a half so we're really happy that it finally happened! I haven't been feeling way good a lot, but hopefully I'm far enough a long that I should start feeling better. Anyways that's our good news for those of you who didn't already know!

Our Day at Sand Hollow!

2008-06-03T08:08:00.000-07:00

I know these pictures are all pretty much the same, but there were so many cute ones I couldn't leave any out! I need to know when to stop taking pictures!!
Jake helped Addi build a sand castle, well Jake built a sand castle while Addi either watched or layed by me on the blanket.
Addi loves to be in the water, except when she's in the bath. I need to just start bathing her in her little swim pool, I'm sure it would be a lot easier!

Addi was so funny with the seagulls. She wanted them so bad it was way cute. I told her she should feed them some crackers so she walked around holding out her bag of fishies hoping they'd just swoop down and eat them right out of the bag it really was so cute.
This one was suppose to be at the end. She didn't not want to leave so on the way home she pouted while she sat in her little fishy tube.

This is Dad making the castle while Addi runs around.
Jake really was so excited about this castle!

While Jake was pouring the big pink bucket in the castle Addi was using these 2 little cups we had brought. They have holes on the bottom of them so by the time she got to the castle all of the water had came out of the cups. It was so disappointing for her.
Finally Jake helped her with the big bucket and she liked that a lot better! We had so much fun hanging out as a family. We don't get to do very many things just the three of us! We need to do it more often.

Going to Delta!

2008-06-03T08:03:00.000-07:00

The other day when I told Addi that we were going to Delta and we needed to get packed this is what she came back with. It was a diaper bag and only pajamas. She mush of thought we were coming back during the days to get normal clothes. She loves going to Delta, almost as much as I do!

Trip to Delta!

2008-05-28T07:08:00.000-07:00

I'm so sad I didn't take any pictures of Addi this weekend! Me and Addi have been in Delta for about 8 or 9 days. (I can't even remember when we got there.) I'm pretty sure my family was ready to get rid of me!! It's a good thing I'm married to such a patient husband because I like to spend long periods of time in Delta with my family! He thinks I get whatever I want, but I just think he knows it's better when I'm happy! Jake is good to me.
Addi was doing so good without her sippy cup during the day until we went to Delta! Now she thinks she needs it all the time and it's driving me crazy. She is going through a really hard stage right now and sometimes I feel like the worst mom ever. I really hope it's a stage or I might be in big trouble. We didn't do too much durring the week mostly just hung out, played a little duct tape ball, oh yeah we saw Indiana Jones, I wasn't impressed but I haven't seen any of the other ones so maybe I should have watched them first. On Memorial Day I saw Meghann, Laura, and Kami. It's always fun to see people you never see anymore. We had a great time in Delta, but it's always nice to be home, and sleep in my own bed.

Graduation

2008-05-06T09:09:00.000-07:00

Jake Graduated on Saturday! We are so proud of him. We are still going to stay down here and continue school til he gets his masters degree, but at least he has that step done. It's such a relief to have finally decided what we were going to do.
He looked so handsome in his cap and gown, but it was kind of weird to see him in black instead of red!!
All of his family came, and both of my parents came. We had a lot of fun spending the day with our families. They are also very proud of Jake.

Addi was sooo tired after the long day. She wouldn't look at the camera in one picture! She really was pretty good most of the day and she had tons of fun seeing her Grandmas and Grandpas.

Addi's hair is gone!!

2008-04-07T08:49:00.000-07:00

I don't really know why I decided to cut Addi's hair. It's always in her face, but I don't know if this will help becuase that's just how her hair hangs: in her face. This is Addi's before picture. It really was getting long, but it was all different layers, it wasn't even at all.
She wasn't too excited about getting her hair cut! She wouldn't sit still for two seconds.
My sister Lacey cut her hair, well actually she cut Addi's and colored mine this weekend. I can't afford to get mine colored anymore, so my sister was kind enough to do it for me! Thanks Lacey!! She really did do a good job, I was very impressed! My sister has never been to hair school, and this was her first time. I was really excited it looked so good!
This is how much we cut off! I know it looks like a rat or somehting!
This is her after picture. It is very cute, I just hope I can do it!

Jordan got his mission call!!

2008-04-07T08:37:00.000-07:00

My little brother got his mission call and he's going to.... Puerto Rico San Juan West Mission!!! (I hope that's spelled right!)
We all drove home to see him open it and he opened it at 2:00! He didn't really want to wait, but he did and we were all so glad. He's going to be speaking Spanish and he leaves on my birthday, June 18th.
Were all so glad that he's going, but that doesn't mean we weren't sad!!

Dumb Blog! (sometimes)

2008-04-03T15:38:00.002-07:00

I can't figure out what is wrong with my blog. I don't know why my archive and stuff is down at the bottom of my page! If anyone has any suggestions I would sure appreciate it! It's driving me CRAZY!

Our trip to Kansas!

2008-03-25T13:55:00.000-07:00

We had a really fun trip to Kansas! The hotel we stayed at an amazing pool. This was the kiddy part of the pool!
It had two big slides a lazy river, a place for the boys to play basketball, and some of those floating Lilly pad thingies. I feel bad I didn't get a picture of the whole pool!
We went to the mall, and although it was a pretty bad mall I got a couple cute pictures of this in there. My dad also bought me and my mom and sisters a pedicure. It was my first pedicure so it was quite an event for me!

This is my brother how played basketball. There team lost their first game to three Rivers. They were pretty good but we could have beat them. After we lost the first game, it was pretty sad. The highest we could take was seventh and the boys had lost most of their enthusiasm. We lost the second game we played, but we really really shouldn't have lost that one. We were up by fifteen in the second half, and we still lost! I think that's what makes college basketball so fun, no matter what the lead is it's never over til the games over. It seems like in high school if a team goes down by ten or more points the game is pretty much over, but in college the lead can always change! We are still really proud of Jordan for even making it as far as they did. He is a good brother, and we would all drive the seventeen hours again if we had the opportunity.
This is Jordan with Janie and Addi. I think Addi is his biggest fan, but I might be a little biased!!

We got to the game early enough the last day to sit on the front row. Addi was pretty excited about the ball game.
Jake was pretty embarrassed to get this picture taken since we had to walk out onto the floor, but it turned out cute.

We all had Lancer clothes on at the ball game. I hope we didn't embarrass Jordan too much since we were all matching, and we were the loudest ones in the stands! Two of my brothers didn't come, and I feel really bad they didn't! We missed them! We had a great time, and I'm so grateful for Mom and Dad because without them we wouldn't have been able to go! I love my Family so much! I don't know what I'd do without them. Oh Yeah I'm pretty excited because my brother Jordan got his mission papers sent today! He should get his call in a couple of weeks!

Random pictures I thought were cute from the trip!

2008-03-25T13:49:00.000-07:00

We drove seventeen hours without too many stops both ways and Addi was pretty good for most of the trip! It was a long drive, but it was well worth it!
Jake'll be so embarrassed I'm putting this one on here, but it's pretty funny so I don't mind!
I thought this one was cute. Our room was right above the pool, so the kids were just watching when they couldn't go swimming.
Addi's just hanging out!

Happy Birthday!

2008-03-25T11:13:00.000-07:00

This was Addi's Birthday cake. It was pretty dang cute, but only because I didn't make it!
She wasn't the best at blowing out the candles. She had to get really close and Jake still had to help her!

We had Addi's birthday the day before her real birthday because that's when we were leaving for Kansas! We had a lot of fun, and there were lots and lots of people there to celebrate with her!
While we were in Chicago Hallee had one of these couches and Addi loved it. When my mom asked me what she should get her I thought that this would be cute and I was right Addi loves it!! She was so excited for her couch!

Her Grandma Abbott gave her this Cinderella dress! Her favorite thing now is to wear her dress, sit on her couch, and watch Cinderella. She keeps saying "boppity Boo" for some reason she forgets the Bippity.
Grandma Rae gave her this cute ballet costume. She really does look so cute in it!

Happy Birthday Addi!

2008-03-25T11:08:00.000-07:00

This didn't turn out quite how I was expecting but it's still cute so I'll post it!

Happy Easter!

2008-03-25T09:22:00.000-07:00

We didn't do much for easter this year because we thought we were going to be out of town. Well she got lots of stuff but we didn't do an Easter egg hunt or anything! She still doesn't really understand holidays yet, so they're still not way fun, but I can tell they will be soon!

I think her uncle and cousins were more excited about her toys then she was!
She may not be the griliest gril ever, but she's getting there!

It doesn't take much to make Addi happy! (Some of the time)

2008-03-25T09:18:00.000-07:00

I know this makes me sound horrible but when I have tons of homework Addi has to watch movies. If she sits in different places (like a laundry basket instead of the floor) she'll stay occupied longer. I got a lot done this day!

We're going to Kansas!

2008-03-13T19:38:00.000-07:00

We're really going to Kansas as you can probably tell I'm pretty excited!!! We leave on Monday! Addi's brithday is on Monday so were having her birthday party on Sunday. I still can't believe she's going to be two. It's incredible how fast they grow up! We'll be in Kansas till probably Sunday, but I guess that depends on how well he does so GO LANCERS!!!

We're going to Kansas!! Well hopefully!

2008-03-10T20:00:00.000-07:00

We went back to watch Jordan play basketball last week in Torrington, Wyoming. We had so much fun! We never imagined that it would be as much fun as it was. We didn't get to see Jordan very much so that wasn't good but he played so good, well everyone played so good! This is Addi sleeping on the floor during the first half of the game. This is how it was every game. She slept during every first half. All the people around us couldn't believe she could sleep through so much noise! I had to explain to everyone that she'd been going to ball games and track meets since three days after she was born, so she knows how to tune out the noise!!
This is Jordan's team! I feel bad the pictures kind of blurry! I still can't believe they won. They won the semi final game by one, and the final game went into double overtime. I really about had a heart attack. It was so much fun.
We're so proud of Jordan. He played really good (except for he fouled out the last game!) Addi just loves Jordan. Actually she loves everyone except for Brittany and I can't figure out why. She tried everything she could to make her like her, and she just never would! I"ll work on her Britt! You'll be her favorite in no time!! I love my family! We always have a lot of fun being together.
I'm trying to talk Jake into going to Kansas! At this point it's a maybe but he really needs to stay home and work so I know it will take a lot of begging and sucking up to him!! :) Hopefully we can ride with my parents so it won't cost us too much!! Thanks again Jordan, We're pretty proud of you!!

My computer is broken!!

2008-01-31T15:28:00.000-08:00

Well I'm feeling really bad because I was at the school the other day when all of the sudden our computer quit working. Come to find out we lost our whole hard drive!!! Everything is gone! Even all of my pictures! We haven't been able to afford to fix it, so luckily we have the best neighbors who are letting us borrow their lap top until my dad's done doing his books so we can borrow his lap top! (Thanks Kasey and Maridee!!) It's such a mess! I'll be so relieved when school is done so maybe, just hopefully, we can have some money!! :) Well I can't wait to put new pictures up! I hope everything's going good with all of you!

Christmas Day!

2008-01-04T10:51:00.001-08:00

Addi got lots of stuff for Christmas, but I don't think she really cared. I felt kind of bad because I thought she was going to be way into it and she wasn't. We were kind of dumb though because we thought that if we kept her up all day on Christmas Eve she would go to sleep early and then not be tired when we had to get up at five thirty. Well we kept her up all day, but she didn't go to sleep early. She was so tired and grumpy most of Christmas day. It was NOT a good idea after all!
She wanted a bike for Christmas, but she doesn't know how to use peddles yet so we got her a little motorized one. I think she's a little afraid of it but that's ok.
She had to be coaxed on almost every present. I'm telling ya she was not happy!
After awhile she was staring to get the hang of it, but she still wasn't way into it!
Believe it or not this tooth brush was her favorite present. I guess we could have saved a ton of money if we would've know that was going to be the best.

Christmas Eve With the Johnson's!

2008-01-03T20:19:00.001-08:00

My mom always does this big fancy Christmas Eve dinner with all her pretty Christmas plates and silverware. It's a candlelight dinner, and it really is always beautiful. Our presents on Christmas Eve are always pajamas, and they are always matching. You'd think we would all be getting to old to still be matching, but we all love it. Our family is getting to big to keep having it in our kitchen, but my dad likes to have things at home, so I'm sure no matter how big our family gets we will always have it there.
Doesn't Addi look so cute in her pajamas. This is my sisters daughter Janie. They both thought they looked so pretty! Addi couldn't wait to get her pajamas on! These pajamas are funny cause when my sisters and I were little we got these pajamas. I think they were our all time favorite ones, so when my mom saw them she had to buy them for Janie and Addi. I think they were a little young to fully appreciate them, but it sure was fun having a flashback to when I was young.
This was my moms beautiful Christmas tree. I realize everyone has there own opinions of a pretty tree, but this tree is the prettiest tree ever. She always does a real flocked tree and I love it.
Like I told you before my mom likes to take our picture in front of the tree. There's getting to be so many of us that you can't hardly see the tree, but it's the thought that counts. Like our matching pajamas??? Well except for Jace, we got those pajamas for him as a joke. They are the one piece ones with a zipper up the front. He actually wore them all night. He's to embarrassed of them now, but he liked them that night. I have them now and Jake wants me to put a picture of myself in them on the blog.

Girls Can Wrestle Too!

2008-01-03T20:09:00.000-08:00

Uncle Jace was wrestling in St George a couple of weeks ago and we got to go watch him wrestle. We had so much fun hanging out with Jake's family.
Addi was having so much fun wearing one of the head gears. She thought she was going to wrestle too!
She was pretty funny! She was just walking around on the mat during the lunch break. All of the boys thought she was pretty funny!

Believe it or not Addi always pins her dad!

I Love Christmas!!

2007-12-14T11:02:00.001-08:00

My family has a tradition where every year we take a family picture in front of our Christmas tree. My family does it on Christmas Eve, but we're never home on Christmas Eve so we took ours a couple of nights ago. My Christmas tree is teeny, but we still like it.
I know the tree is blurry, but it's still a cute picture.
I had to put this one, because of Addi's shoes (well my shoes). She loves my shoes, and I don't know why. She wears them EVERYWHERE!

Spaghettios!

2007-12-14T10:10:00.001-08:00

I've got a lot of pictures of food on here this time! She's getting so big. She can even eat with a spoon, and she doesn't even spill that much!

I just think that these pictures are cute. She looks like such a grown up!

Spaghetti Mess!

2007-12-14T10:05:00.001-08:00

She is such a stinker! I made spaghetti for dinner, and she wouldn't eat any of it!
I couldn't figure out why she had it all over her face and hands if she didn't eat anything!

I know this picture is gross, but I finally figured it out. She was eating it out of the garbage!! I was so mad at her!

Jake's Softball Tournament!

2007-12-14T09:56:00.002-08:00

It was so cold the other day when went to Mesquite to watch Jake play softball. In between his games we went to Wal-Mart and bought Addi a beanie and mittens. She wouldn't keep the mittens on. They didn't even have a hole for the thumb, all five fingers were just in the same hole! I think that's so weird!
She kept trying to climb this fence. It was so funny! She'd fall down, but she kept saying "cime, cime"
The fence finally got the best of her, and she just watched the game through the fence, but she really did try for a long time!

She may have been cold, but at least she looked cute!

Not Fun but Still Cute!

2007-12-14T09:51:00.000-08:00

I wasn't feeling very good the other day, so i put my sweats on, got a big blanket, and I just laid there on the floor. Well I guess Addi felt bad for me so she came over and cuddled with me. She is so sweet!

Addi's Crazy Hair!

2007-12-07T15:19:00.001-08:00

Her hair is always in her face! Jake thought that if I cut her bangs it would help, but it hasn't. Now she has a layer of hair underneath the hair that's hanging in her face.
Luckily she has a pretty face, because her hair never looks very good! I had just taken it out of her elastic, and it was just kind of flopping everywhere!
OOPS! I didn't turn this picture the right way! Oh well! If I could figure out how to put some videos on I could show you guys how funny she is when she's dancing. It really is great, and she does it ALL the time!

All the Places Addi Sits!!!

2007-12-07T15:13:00.001-08:00

Addi was standing over the top of this, and she just slowly kept falling in it. Just to help you know how small it is, the box is her Baby Einstein case and it holds ten DVDs!
I couldn't help but let her cry for a minute so that I could take a picture! It was just so funny!
This is her rocking chair. It's tipped over sideways and she's sitting on the edge of it. Yes, that is a cowboy on it, and yes it does say Jake. His grandma found it in her basement, and she sits in it all of the time, but not usually like this!

UH OH!! Where's Addi???

2007-12-07T15:07:00.001-08:00

Addi really likes to hide from me. She thinks she's pretty funny!
I found her in my cupboards the other day. She really sat in there for a long time!

She's such a dork, but we have a lot of fun with her!

Christmas is Finally Here!!

2007-12-06T08:58:00.001-08:00

The weekend after Thanksgiving Delta had a light parade. (The parade only had five floats!!) Well after the light parade Santa comes to the fair building, and I swear every kid in town waits in line to sit on Santa's lap. My sister and I were pretty lucky to not be too far back in the line, but we still probably waited for twenty minutes. By the time it was finally our turn Addi didn't want to sit on his lap. She really cried so hard. I'm sure Santa was thinking GET HER OFF MY LAP!!
She was still crying like ten minutes later!!
You might think that standing in line for twenty minutes really isn't that bad, but we were standing in line with Addi, my little brother Tanner (this is Tanner in the picture, he just turned 8 and got baptized on Saturday!), Lacey,s 4 kids Tayton, Janie, and the twins Jared and David!! It was quite the wait!!
This is Tayton! He's the cutest little boy!! Tayton is five years old.
This is Janie She's so sweet. At my brothers wedding the other day she kept going through the wedding line so my sister asked her why and she said "I just want to see the beautiful bride, and give her my love!" Keep in mind that she just turned four years old! She's always saying the cutest things!
These are the beautiful twins! They look nothing alike. The light one on the left is David, and the smaller, darker one on the right is Jared. They are so cute.

What a Mess!

2007-11-05T13:23:00.000-08:00

I was trying to get my homework done today, and Addi would not stop climbing all over me! She was just wanting me to play with her, but it was driving me crazy! Finally she ran off, and I could here playing with something but I didn't stop her cause I was actually getting something done. When I got all done with my assignment I walked into my room and this is what I found.
She had climbed up on the desk, and had pulled everything out she could find. I couldn't get mad at her because it was my fault, but it really was quite the mess!

It's to cold to swim!

2007-11-05T13:18:00.000-08:00

Believe it or not Addi really did want to put this swimming suit on!
I already had her jammies on so I just slipped the suit on over her jammies. I don't think it was quite what she was expecting because as soon as I got it on her she wanted to take it off!

"Hep Peese!"

2007-11-05T13:11:00.000-08:00

Addi got stuck in this basket the other day. I don't really know why she got in it, but soon after she got in it tipped over.
While I was taking her picture she kept saying "Hep Peese!" Which in normal language is Help Please!