Happy Birthday to me

Yesterday was my birthday! It was a good day. Jared woke up with Jacob at 7:30 and let me sleep... or rather take my time getting up till around 9. Then we headed out to WIC and to go to lunch. On our way to lunch we stopped by Costco to look at the cameras they had. I have been talking about getting a nice camera for awhile. I feel like Jacobs first year was not documented very well and I didn't want to continue on like this for much longer. At Costco Jared surprised me by actually buying a camera! I thought we were just there to look. Happy birthday to me! Then we went to Zupas for lunch. Jared had to go to work at 4 so Devin offered to take me out to dinner... with some encouragement and promise to pay from mom ; ) but it was very nice to hang out with family. Jen and Michael met us there. I felt like kind of a pig because i ate out twice yesterday but it was delicious. Thanks Mom for dinner, thanks Jared for buying me a camera and thanks Devin and Jen for keeping me company! Kristen I wish you could have been here!

Trying to figure out how to use this thing. There's so much to know to really feel like you are using it to its fullest potential!

Dinner

Ethan kept hiding from me

almost a smile

Ben is a professional

I had some cars in my bag to keep the boys happy.

Devin was excited to eat

Jacob was LOVING the bread sticks... good thing it was mommy's birthday and she didn't feel like caring if you ate anything else. 

This is why I wanted to come to olive garden... For their lemon... shooter... That's what Applebee's calls them I don't remember the fancy name olive garden uses for them but it is heavenly and the perfect size for that bite of sweet that I always want at the end of a meal. I meant to take a picture of it before I ate it. Jen and Michael got the zappoli... Doughnuts. Mmm delicious. 

 On an entirely different note I've been sewing! I have sewn three skirts for maternity me. I wanted them to be casual so I can wear them daily but I always feel so dressy when I'm in a skirt because I don't normally wear skirts daily. 

This was the third I made and probably the one that turned out the best.

This was the first and it is kind of sloppy. 

This one is super comfy and i love it all except it is completely see through... and its a little long I need to hem it some more. 

And to top it off here is some Jacob.

He is loving to read. He has gotten to the point where he will bring you a book to read to him and I love it. 

Also while i'm doing laundry he likes to crawl around in our baskets. 

And yes he loves to look at himself in the mirror

The end.

Happy Valentines Day and Walking

We have been very behind on our blogging. I keep telling mom that I have nothing to blog about and she always asks me what Jacob is doing that is new and that I should blog about that. The biggest thing that Jacob is doing is that he is walking. He walks all over the house and loves it. We haven't been outside much because its so cold for little boys and letting him walk while grocery shopping would be a disaster so we haven't had much experience walking outside of a home. We are excited to go to Grammy and Papa's in two weeks to walk in the Tucson weather. Here's a video of him walking. I wish i could just video tape him wondering around the house and playing but whenever I get the camera out he comes straight for it to play with it. 

Now for Valentine's Day! We didn't do much. Mom sent me some yummy Hershey's chocolate hearts and a cute apron. I'm not a huge fan of milk chocolate plain so I put them in cookies while wearing my pink apron. I felt very festive. Valentine's Day itself was nothing special. I woke up to a display of balloon animals that Jacob loved. I bought Jacob a balloon and Jared two of his favorite things Naked juice and an almond joy. Then we spent the night with some friends eating heart shaped pizza and playing wii.

Cute apron. Cute bump. Chubby face. Gotta love pregnancy

Cookies

There's a balloon lady that comes to Applebee's on Mondays. So Jared can not make balloon animals he had them made for us. There are hearts inside of hearts. Birds kissing inside of hearts. Bears with flowers. and Flowers

Remember that one time

Once upon a time I was in high school and this was my car. We sold it today. As we did so I felt a little pang of sadness. So I had to have a tribute blog post about this car. We had some good times. 

Like the time mom ran into a pole the day she bought it.

And all those times listening to weezer and dashboard and other such high school music while driving to things like orthodontic appointments with Devin, stake dances, driving home from thatcher on weekends and eventually making trips from provo.

 Remember that one time I switched lines and apparently didn't check my blind spot for a ginormous truck and I hit him. There was not a scratch on his truck and I was pretty sure I charmed him into not calling it into the insurance companies but he did and my parents were mad. 

There were lots of ornaments that hung here. Like the fish hooks that have the cute little rubber fish on them. They were cute until one day i hooked my figure. Man that hurts. I always had my dragon up though. Kendle gave it to me from china town. Its supposed to be good luck.

The sunroof worked once upon a time and there were some good times with that like when my driver side window was acting up and we went through the drive through at burger king and they had to give us our food through the sun roof but eventually it broke and we had to seal it shut because it was too expensive to fix.

The back windows stopped working really early on and dad used cocking to seal them shut. Another time when my driver side window wasn't working right I got pulled over and could only roll down my window a third of the way and the officer thought I was going to kill him when he got close.

 Some other good times...

One time after ceramics in thatcher there was a beetle in my pant leg. I was scratching my knee and there was a big bump on it so I reached up and grabbed it and pulled it out and I was only freaking out a little until Kendle screamed just to freak me out more so I screamed and jumped out of the car while it was in reverse and while I did the freak out dance Kendle stopped the car and drove us both home where i promptly undressed and checked the rest of my clothes for beetles.

All the late night trips to Walmart to get ice cream sandwiches while we talked about boy problems.

The time where I helped either Kendle or Kara (I'm sorry I can't remember) ditch school by hiding her in my trunk. I don't think it was necessary to do that but it was funny to watch the people walking by as she climbed out of my trunk. 

Love you little camry and I will probably not miss you too much but I will miss the reminders of good times.

The Aquarium Test Round

Jared had yesterday and today off of work so I thought we should do something fun. I saw that the living aquarium had a new otter display and thought that would be fun so I looked up where it was and how much tickets would be. We weren't sure if Jacob would even be interested in anything at the aquarium so we decided to go to Cabella's and look at the fish there to save us a few bucks.

He liked watching the fish. It helped that there were some kids next to us feeding them. 

We spent some time looking at the animals but he wasn't too interested in them. I don't blame him.

 so we did some shopping. Jacob liked the Jacob sized camping chairs 

and these super cool camping sunglasses. 

We picked out some furniture for our future cabin

and had some fun trying on silly hats at the gift shop.

The big fish were the last on our list. My camera couldn't handle taking pictures of them for some reason. Most of my pictures came out blurry but he liked to watch the fish. 

On our way home we stopped at JDawgs to have some dinner. They just opened this one in Orem right across the street from us.

Jacob is 1

I can't believe how old my little boy is and how i'm going to do this all over again this year in May. I was very lucky with Jacob. He was a very good little baby and has been adjusting well to life. So many changes in a year for a baby! He is now... 

Eating solid foods

Given up the bottle

Walking along things

Crawling like a pro

Facing forward in the car

Loves his baths

Loves being outside

Not talking quite yet but getting there

We had a little party for him. We wanted to do a cake but thought it would be more fun to have more people watching then just us so we invited some family over and had cake.

This is what Jacob got for his birthday! Thanks Grammy! He really does love it... you just can't tell.

We went through a car wash