Christmas 2014

We had such a wonderful Christmas! Jayne's favorite thing about Christmas I think with all the decorations was all the Santa's she saw! She says his name so clear. I love it! It's like one of the only words you can really understand when she says it. She also loved to point out Je-Je (Jesus). It's crazy how babies know who Jesus is... even if it's a picture of Him that they have never seen. Amazing. I love it. Christmas Eve we first went to my grandpa and grandma's to eat dinner. They always have Mexican food on Christmas Eve. It was so yummy! We were there for a little bit then all my siblings went to my parents house for our family party. First we did the nativity. Jayne was an angel! Haha her dress was so adorable. She didn't understand or care... She just wanted to go play! My nieces and nephews were so cute and loved to play the part. 

Jayne clapped at the end haha. She looooves to clap. 

 I was dying... My nephew Ian dressed up like this and him and his little brother Jamison sang the song "Must be Santa" I think it's called. They did so good! Jamison especially got SO into it. Hahaha that kid is such a performer. It was hysterical! 

 Thomas played the piano and the kids danced around and sang along. Jayne was loving it!!! She clapped at the end of every song of course haha. 

 Santa came! And Jayne was SO SCARED! hahaha. From a distance she would say "Santa!" and point to him and seem happy, but I would try and get her close to him and she would cling onto my so hard and would not face him haha. Maybe next year she won't be scared... 

 We played outside and had a fire and s'mores :) Such a fun night. Jayne had a really short nap that day, so I was worried she would be cranky to stay up late, but it's like it didn't even phase her. Yay! She was distracted by all the fun we were having. Oh and we also did a gift exchange! Thomas and I got a calendar of the Gilbert Temple that my brother did (Brooks Crandell Photography) and a gift card to Red Robin :) Jayne got a puzzle, a sippy cup and a book! 

Christmas morning! 

 Jayne doesn't know yet apparently that you are supposed to wake up early on Christmas ;) haha. Thomas and I woke up at 7 wide awake and she didn't wake up until almost 9. We opened our presents and waited for her to wake up and finally watched her open hers! She didn't really understand opening the presents... She was like I'm allowed to do this?? haha. We got her this light up ball thing, some blocks, a puzzle, and a toy camera. She liked them, but was more interested in our stuff haha. 

 My parents came by a little bit later to give Jayne her presents. They gave her this shopping cart and a little toy bus thing with some people. She LOVES the shopping cart! She has been pushing it around all the time since Christmas. 

 We went next door to my in-laws for lunch and to spend time with all the family on the Manning side. We did a gift exchange there with Thomas' siblings. We got another Red Robin gift card, Thomas got a rubik's cube and I got a necklace :) Jayne got this coloring book in the picture above with all the crayons. My niece made that fabric thing that all the crayons go in and it rolls up. So nice of her! Jayne loves coloring but lately she just tries to eat the crayons. 

 We look outside and we saw Sarah sitting out there happily eating a piece of pie off of this plate hahahaha 

Jayne got some books from Thomas' parents! She loves them! His parents gave him this leatherman thing and gave me a Ninja blender! Holy crap I was not expecting that. I was super excited! (I've already made 2 smoothies with it that turned out so good!!!). Oh and my parents gave us a gift card that we can use at a bunch of different restaurants and 2 movie tickets! Woo hoo! So nice! I'm excited to use it. I think we are going to use it at Zinburger because I keep hearing how amazing their food is.

Oh I forgot to say what Thomas and I gave each other. He got me: some makeup stuff, a work out headband, an armband thing for my phone when I work out, an electric toothbrush, candy, a calendar, Battleship, slippers and some hair stuff! He spoiled me. I got him a few months subscription to the dvd Netflix where it sends you them in the mail, a chromecast, new hair clippers, socks, candy, Dr. Pepper, and I can't remember what else but I think there was more. Anyways... it was a fun Christmas! 

Christmas came and went... So sad! I love this time of year. It's just so sad when it's over! Next year we will have 2 kids at Christmas... So crazy. 

I am grateful for the Christmas season and the birth of Jesus Christ. I know He lives! 

Baby #2!

Jayne is going to be a big sister! I am pregnant with baby #2 :) and we are so excited! Also very nervous haha. It will be tough! Especially at the beginning. But I think Jayne will love having a sibling, especially when the baby is old enough to play with her. We wanted to have two kind of close together and then we will wait at least 3 years before trying for another one.

I found out I was pregnant on November 7th. It happened super quickly. I knew I was pregnant pretty much right away. Seriously some pregnancy symptoms started so fast. I took a pregnancy test and was only 3 weeks pregnant but got a positive test result. I was shocked! Not that I was pregnant... because I really felt like I was. But shocked that I got a positive test that soon. So funny story. The first test I took was an $0.88 one from Walmart (Not the picture above). Super cheap. But people say those are accurate. It took a while to see the results but the line was faint and was a positive. Any sort of line even if faint means you are pregnant. It was just faint because I was barely pregnant. So then like 2 days later I wanted to take another test just to make sure.... just because I had one anyways. So it was the same cheap Walmart one. Well this one didn't work! It didn't even say not pregnant... It just wasn't valid. So I was like crap! I'm sure I'm pregnant because I got a positive before and getting false positives isn't very common... But I was still freaking out a little. The next day I went to Target and got a more expensive pregnancy test (pictured above) and got a positive right away. After that I was relieved and felt lots better haha. 

The day I found out, it was in the early afternoon and Thomas was at work. I talked to him on the phone like right after pretty much but decided that I didn't want to tell him on the phone, I wanted to tell him in person. So I tried coming up with a creative idea to tell him... I ended up doing something simple though. I wrote on a paper "I'm going to be a big sister!" and had Jayne give it to him when he got home. It was so fun! We announced to my family a couple weeks later I think it was or maybe longer and made it "Facebook official" on Christmas Eve with our Christmas card. I have such a hard time keeping my mouth shut though, so lots of people already knew haha. 

We are excited to have another baby in our family! I due July 19th (according to my calculations... I haven't gone to the doctor yet) so I'll be 11 weeks tomorrow :)

Halloween

A little late, but I forgot to post about Halloween! This year was more fun than last year because Jayne was a little older. She still is too young to understand what was going on really, so next year will probably be even more fun.
At first I wanted her to be a monster because I thought this costume was hilarious on her and it fits her personality hahaha. But it was hard to get on because it was too small, bummer.

This was a few days before Halloween. These are some (not all) of Jayne's cousins on the Manning side! 

We decided to have Jayne be a lady bug! First because it was super easy... My mom already had it and it was just a jacket you put on. So easy to put on! Second we always call her our bug, so it made sense to dress her up as a lady bug :) 

I love Halloween! I also love my ward. We have a Fall Festival every year (this year it was the Wednesday before Halloween) and everyone wears their costumes and they have a chili cook off, hot dogs, ice cream, a bounce house and other games. Jayne loved just running around exploring and looking around.

 Payton was a cute little lady bug too! 

 Halloween outfit! 

Halloween night we went to my mom's and had Barro's pizza and then took Jayne trick-or-treating on their street! Jayne loves going for walks in the stroller, so she loved it of course. One person gave her a pinwheel thing and she had so much fun holding onto that. Thomas and I were excited to get all the candy hahaha. It was a great night!  

After we left my parents we went to my grandparent's house to stop by so they could see Jayne :) 

15 Months

Jayne is 15 months old! Not sure what her height is but she is almost 20 pounds! Woo hoo almost there haha. She is just my tiny girl! And I am totally ok with that. She is getting a lot of use out of her clothes haha. She can still fit into 9 month pants and some 6 month onesies! But she's mostly in 12 month clothes. Even some shirts that are 18 months fit her perfectly. Sizes are so weird...  New things about Jayne!

*I feel like she has really learned a lot in just this past month! It amazes me how much she soaks in. Babies are seriously sponges!

*She jabbers alllll day long! And I'm pretty positive she knows exactly what she's saying haha

*She says: mama, dada, baby, dog, hi, bye, what's that, and I think that's it

*Knows some animal sounds! She knows what these animals say: fish, sheep, dinosaur, lion, snake, and monkey. 

*Loves to put the shapes into her shape sorter toy. She's pretty good at getting it through the right one! But sometimes she'll try and even if it doesn't fit she claps for herself hahaha.

*Loves to hide and play peek-a-boo! 

*The park is her favorite place! She loooooves the slides and throwing sand :/ 

*Still thinks it is the funniest thing to pull my hair and I do not know how to get her to stop. Ahh I hate it! My head is so tender haha. 

*Is starting to reeeeally be a little drama queen. She gets really mad when someone has a toy that she wants to play with. 

*Her favorite thing is to just run around and explore new places

*Has 12 teeth! She got 4 molars this month

*Sleeps like a freaking CHAMP! I don't really know why she's been sleeping so amazing lately... But it's been nice. I'm enjoying this phase haha. She goes to sleep around 7:30 and doesn't wake up until usually 9. One morning she slept until 10:40.

*Not the best napper though... She never really has been. She goes down easy, but she doesn't take long naps. Most days she just takes 1 nap that's like 1 1/2 hours. 

*Loves to attack my parents dogs... They have even nipped at her before and she didn't like that, but she goes back to bugging them. She doesn't learn apparently that they don't like her at all...

*Cupboards and anything else she can get into are tons of fun. 

*Can climb on the couch now :( Don't like this one... She is going to get hurt soon I'm sure because she gets up there and just runs. She's nuts haha 

*Looooves frozen blue berries and hates spaghetti now. She is picky 

*Still is obsessed with books and loves to look at them for long periods of time

*Understands a lot that we say now... For example Thomas the other week was going to go to work, but he wasn't even going out the door, and he said that he needed to go to work now, and Jayne right away said "bye!!" and waved to Thomas. Haha it was adorable! Now whenever I say want to go to grandma's? or anywhere, she goes to the front door. 

*She knows how to throw things in the trash when I tell her to (and she tries to throw away her toys though... ugh)

*Knows where her nose, eyes, ears (I think...) mouth, tongue, head, and tummy are

Pictures! :) 

 Here she is hiding after trying to throw a toy away I think haha. She knows when she is doing something she isn't supposed to... 

 My mom watches her when I work and she likes to come to the door and wave to me. She is usually perfectly fine with me leaving! She knows she will have fun with grandma and be spoiled haha.

 Jayne loves baby Scarlett! 

She learned how to climb up to the slide and go down by herself! But we have to be by her and sit her down or else she would just try and "walk" down the slide which would not end good ha 

My mom got 2 free tickets to the Phoenix Children's Museum from the library so I took Jayne one day! It was SO FUN! She had a blast! She could have been happy for there hours longer I'm sure. 

She loves Daddy :) 

Jayne and I went to Vertuccio Farms with Shelby and River! The girls had so much fun! 

Just eating frozen peas off the floor... 

She has discovered that her princess car can help her reach things! ahh 

She sometimes likes to color! It's so cute!

Sometimes it's just better to let them play in the water/dirt and be happy then try and keep them away from it haha 

Her cape! aka backwards bib haha 

At the doctor's office... She was way too interested in all the new cupboards and drawers to look at the books/toys... 

Gotta always have her water and milk! Also check out her bow on her head hahaha. She's our little present! 

Mommy's purse! 

Wigs on babies are the best hahaha 

I just love this naked girl and her tummy! haha