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 

Birthday Weekend

Thomas' birthday was Sunday (the 26th) and my birthday was Tuesday (the 28th) so we always have a weekend of fun stuff to celebrate! Friday we started off by dropping Jayne off at my parents house. She slept there for the night! First sleepover at Grandma's :) She did great and even slept from 8 pm until 10:40 am! She's crazy! Anyways so after we dropped her off we went to Red Robin to get our free burgers! We were in a hurry because we had to get to the state fair before 6 to use our free tickets, so we got them to go. Score! We didn't even have to pay a waitress haha. It was delicious of course. Mmm I love their burgers and sweet potato fries! We ate our burgers on the way to the fair and barely made it by 6! It was a little stressful haha. We walked around for a bit and then went inside the stadium to see Colbie Caillat perform! It was amazing! So we were in the back but in the first row in the back, so there was space in front of us. After only about 4 songs these two girls came up to us and gave us their tickets because they had to leave for some reason, so we got to take their seats in the 4th row!!! It was freaking awesome!! Ahh we were so close to her! That made the night way better. After the concert we walked around a little more (and I got fried cheesecake YUM) then we left. After that we went goofy golfing! It is one of our favorite things to do! I beat Thomas of course (just kidding ha. but I really did beat him... ;) ) After goofy golfing we went and walked around Freestone Park for a bit and then went home. It was so weird going home without Jayne there asleep! We watched a movie and I kept thinking we needed to turn it down so we didn't wake up Jayne haha. It was so nice "sleeping in" (yeah right... I can't sleep in anymore even if I try haha) and just laying in bed for a while. We were going to go to Ihop and get free breakfast, but since it was already almost 11 by the time we were ready we decided to go get our free lunch at Dickey's BBQ! YUMMMMM! Their pork is seriously incredible. I'm obsessed. Once we finished lunch we went back to my parents because I missed Jayne too much! I slept horrible that night because it was weird not having her in the other room! It was awesome to get lots of quality time with Thomas, though. We needed that time together! That night we had our friends, Jannae and Daniel, watch Jayne while we went to Arizona's Rockin' With Talent. My MIL, Margaret, is a cancer survivor who started this organization called Setting Them Free who raises money for cancer/terminally ill patients. They did this awesome event where kids-adults shared their talents to help raise money. Thomas and Stephen filmed the performance. It was a fun night!
Sunday was Thomas' birthday! It was pretty much just a normal Sunday since we couldn't go get him free food, but it was a great day! We had dinner at my parents and then walked to the Moyers that night to visit for a little bit.
Tuesday was my birthday :) Thomas didn't have pools, but he did have to meet with a guy for a video, so just Jayne and I went to Denny's to get my free breakfast! Jayne liked the goldfish the waitress brought her :) My mom watched Jayne while Thomas and I went to get my free sub from Firehouse! I got the smokehouse brisket sub and oh man... It was so dang good. I'm craving it right now. That night we went to Joe's BBQ! Some of my family came. It was a great birthday! :) And an awesome weekend!

 This was from our seats in the back.... 

And this was in the front!

Fried cheesecake is so good! Fried oreos are my favorite though. 

When we were goofy golfing we found this frog :) 

Dickey's! Mmmm 

Thomas filming at Arizona's Rockin' With Talent :) 

Breakfast at Denny's! 

Free sub at Firehouse! 

I also got a free peach smoothie from Dutch Bros! 

Jayne was all over the place at Joe's haha.