3 Already

Jacen turned 3 years old yesterday!!

He is so excited to be 3. We made a Birthday hat and he asked me to make him a paper cake.

Last night while he was praying (I suggested he say he was thankful for his birthday and) he said, "and that I got to blow three candles". He knows he is now 3 and is feeling so BIG. I truly can't believe how fast these last 3 years have past. Here is a little bit of Jacen's excitement caught on tape. I wish I would have continued taping because he said, "Yes, Jacen blow three candles, Jacen three years old, yea!!" (sorry about the quality, I used my regular camera instead of the video camera)

We had ice cream and Oreos since that is really what Jacen loves. Jacen also got a bike for his Birthday and what he is really looking forward to....this weekend when we will be going to, his favorite, SEA WORLD :)

Fill in the GAP

Just as a filler for those interested in what we were up to from November through January. The highlights:

*November 2nd start of High School Soccer tryouts-which for us means a really busy life :)
*High School Play- Opening night = same as first day of Soccer Tryouts = a crazy wife!!
*We celebrated 5 years of marriage-I have such an amazing husband.
*Spent Thanksgiving in Alpine and the weekend in Encinitas.
*Scott's parents joined us for 10 days including Christmas :)
*Aimee and Charles and kids came down for Christmas (They recently moved from New Hampshire to Texas):)
*Christmas Soccer Tournament and stayed in a hotel.
*Made a Sister's Directory for church, as well as other church calling items.
*I turned 29 January 4th, Scott took me to Cheesecake Factory and out clothes shopping
*Brycen started to walk, making church just that much more difficult to sit in class
*Enjoyed the San Diego Zoo and Wild Animal Park quite a few times
*Loved life!!

Today

School was cancelled!!! Scott got to stay home with us. Too bad the snow melted quickly.

Today

I know I have a ton of catching up to do... but wanted to let you know what we have been up to today first :)

Today we had SNOW in YUCCA VALLEY (once again). Brycen's first time in the snow. Jacen was so excited. He had been asking to go out and play in the snow since 6:30am. We probably only got an inch at our house but we loved it :) Too bad Dad had to work! We were listening to the radio in hopes they would say, school was closed...but no such luck!

Here is a cute video:

Giveaway

I just saw this giveaway and had to spread the word. I have never entered a giveaway but this one is just perfect!!! We are looking to get Jacen a play kitchen for Christmas! Oh, how much he would love it!! The cut off is tomorrow!!

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Growing Your Baby Giveaway--

Step 2 Lifestyles Kitchen

Check it out:

http://www.growingyourbaby.com/2009/11/04/step-2-lifestyle-new-traditions-kitchen-giveaway

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Halloween

Thought I better post Halloween pictures before Thanksgiving is here :)

Brycen as Tigger with his mommy

(He snuck his little hand in his pumpkin and found a sucker, when I wasn't looking. I took off the wrapper and before I knew it he had blue all over his costume)

Jacen the dinosaur and his daddy

(funny thing, Jacen would not say Trick or Treat. Scott would say, "Can you say Trick or Treat?" Jacen would say, "no". The person would give him candy and Jacen would say "Thank you"...and that was the routine. Not once would he say Trick or Treat. What a silly boy!!)

After the boys went around to get candy they got to sit in the trunk while we handed out some candy. They loved it. When we ran out of candy I shut the trunk (NO the boys were not in it still...who do you think I am) and Jacen was really sad. He ask me again and again to open the trunk back up.

We carved our pumpkin on Sunday...a little behind schedule but I really wanted Scott to be home and Brycen to be awake. It just happened to not work out until Sunday.

Jacen loved cleaning out the pumpkin.

Brycen was there the whole time and even tried to eat the pumpkin gutts :S

I love the traditions of Halloween--dressing up the kids, getting candy, and pumpkin carving :)

Brycen is 8 months!

Brycen is officially 8 months (yesterday) :) He is hitting a bunch of milestones all at the same time. During the last week of being 7 months Brycen...

*got his first tooth on Tuesday, October 13th.

*crawled on Wednesday, October 14th.

*pulled himself to a stand also on October, 14th.

He also likes food (go figure), bath time with brother, chewing on anything, clapping his hands, laughing, emptying things such as the diaper bag, and much more. We love having Brycen in our family.

(Brycen's second tooth is coming in today! No wonder he woke up at 2:30am!)

Here are some pictures and videos of Brycen:





Brycen eating a messy Biter Biscuit. He was in heaven.











Bath with Jacen :)








The first time he crawled. He was whining the whole time. He wanted to help us water the plants (we kept passing him) and he was determined to get to us.









Then about 2 hours later...he pulled himself up at his toy. I came back into the room from the restroom and found this! Then he stood up at least 4 more times that day. I really need to keep a close eye on him as he loses his balance easily.







Here is a video of Brycen crawling. This was on day two so he is still trying to master it :)




Here he is laughing. He is a very happy child and gets even more gitty when he is tired.