technical difficulties

Our one and only computer is experiencing technical difficulties (the keyboard is not working on our laptop) so we will be absent for a while. We're hoping to be back online next week at the latest. Until then. . . Signing off from the mobile updates

Little Comedian

Jordyn is turning into a little comedian. She has us rolling in laughter quite often. Here's a list of a few of the funny things she does and says.

~ While in Utah, Heather (my older, but not wiser, sister) and I took our kids to a local splash pad. After a while, Jordyn decided she was done and started taking off her swimsuit. This is as far as she got (don't worry, no one else was there to see her cute little cheeks). The funny thing is that she kept walking around trying to show us her "plumber" and now she thinks this is a good look for her and frequently pulls her pants down to show us her "plumber"

~ The other day, Jordyn was wearing a shirt that read "I'm a little monkey." One of our neighbors asked her if she was a monkey, she stated, "NO! I'm a goat!"

~ One of Jordyn's favorite games to play is ring-around-the-rosies (by herself) she'll turn in circles and sing the song until she's dizzy and then she'll stand up and try to twirl some more.

~ Some of our funniest conversations with Jordyn happen in the bathroom while she's taking care of nature's call, but I'm not sure they're decent enough to post online. We'll just say, some people look for shapes in clouds, other's look for shapes in . . . well, you get the picture.

I'm sure there will be more funny incidents in the future and I know that I'm not remembering all of the ones we've experienced, so check back I'll add them as I remember.

Happy Birthday!

This little beauty is 2 today!

Happy Birthday to Me!

2 Year Photos

She's Two!

Well, she's not quite 2 yet (her birthday is Friday) but that's the explanation everyone gives as to why my monster has turned into a beast. Personally, I think age should be just a number, not an attitude, but I guess I'm wrong. Then again, if age determines attitude do I explain my husband being a pain in the ______ by saying, that's just how boys are at 30? But that doesn't work because my dad is 50 something and he's still a pain in the ________ (so either my dad is very immature, or somewhere in the husband manual is a section on how to be royal pains in the ______). It seems like just a couple of weeks ago a switch went off inside Jordyn that said, "I'm almost 2, therefore I must unleash my inner beast", and unleash it she did. At the time I was fortunate enough to be at my moms so Jordyn wanted nothing to do with me, she wanted Grandma, Aunt Heather, or Aunt Karen, so I didn't have to deal with the beast all too much. I did notice a few signs of it, like when she continually (several times a day) would dump all the dirt from Grandma's flower pots on to the balcony or when she said things like, "MOMMY, LET ME HAVE IT" (it being whatever she wanted that I didn't think she needed) or "MINE" or when she'd throw a tantrum when she didn't get what she wanted (something she's NEVER done before). Now that we're home and it's just the two of us for most of the day I notice the tantrums and the whining all that much more and I'm about to decided that one of us has to go, and I'm not leaving. Unfortunately, you can't send kids on a plane by themselves until they're 5 or she'd be headed back to Grandmas. On the other hand, she is still the cutest little girl I've ever seen, she helps clean up (most of the time), and she's a little comedian she loves to make her funny face and say things like "what's up hommie" or "I need to push a nugget out." She LOVES Cinderella, Popsicles, cold hot dogs, milk, Care Bears and her yellow crocks. She enjoys singing and dancing; her favorite song for the past couple of months has been "Happy Birthday to You." So I guess we'll keep her for a little while and try to tame this wild beast of ours, in the mean time, Happy Birthday TweedleDee!

We're Back!

We are finally back from our extended stay in Utah, and somewhat rested. We had a fun and busy schedule while we were there. We went to the cabin (where we went fishing, and four wheeling, and for walks to see the turkeys), we went hiking and swimming, we chased lizards and hunted for snakes, Jordyn played with cousins and had her first sleepover (Erik & I went to Vegas and left her with Aunt Heather for the night), and celebrated several birthdays, but the main reason we traveled to Utah (and then to Colorado and then back to Utah again) was to see Uncle Colt and Aunt Karen get married! Slowly, over the course of the next month (or more) I'll hopefully be able to catch up on all that has happened over the last several weeks. Until then. .

P.S. This is how most of the wedding shots I got look, Colt, Karen & Jordyn or Karen & Jordyn. Right now, Erik & I are wishing we would have left Jordyn with them, she's not adjusting to being home very well.