Good Times

We went boating last weekend with Tyler's family and grandma and grandpa even had a life jacket for Jacoby. I was worried he might be a stinker, but he just snuggled up and enjoyed the ride. We love boating! We have been enjoying this awesome weather and love to go sit on the grass. I'm so glad summertime is finally here so that we can take him outside to do stuff.

We got Jacoby this toy for Christmas and until recently he's just been playing with it while he sits on the ground. This week he learned how to walk behind it and he's getting pretty good. Even after he face plants over and over, he keeps getting up and trying again! Our little boy is growing up so much.

Beaded Watches

My aunts are all so crafty and very talented. Debbie and Deanna have started a business making the new beaded watches. They have so many beads to chose from it's crazy. I have made one for my mom and mother-in-law and yesterday I made one for myself. They do parties and they are a lot of fun. Check out their blog if you interested: Jangles Jewelry

KRIS WINS

Oh my heck, I was so surprised that Kris won American Idol. I really like his style of music and I think he's very talented, but it seemed like everyone loved Adam, so I thought he would win for sure. I'm so excited though! Kris is a very humble person, maybe that's why I liked him so much. The judges kept saying that they had never had anyone like Adam on the show so that's why I thought he would win. He is very talented and unique. I'm just in shock. What did you guys think about it?

9 Months

Our little man is 9 months old! We can't believe all the things he can do, it's pretty amazing. He is a very happy baby and we love him so much.
This is what he's up to at 9 months...
Standing up to everything...
laundry basket toilet-gross:(

trunk

basketball hoop

toilet paper (he likes unrolling it)

Trying to roll the ball to Dad.



Babbling

Can say "Mama" too, but I didn't get it on video. It's pretty cute.

9 Months

Getting into everything...like my purse. Working on getting his 2 teeth in still.

Hates getting dressed and undressed, he won't hold still anymore.

Loving all kinds of food, especially ours!

Aunt Savannah

Yesterday was Tyler's sister Savannah's birthday. So awhile ago I had her make a list of all of her favorite things and I made this collage. I hope it will be fun for her to remember her favorite things at 19. Can you find me, Tyler, and Jacoby in there? :) My mom did one of these for Olivia and for herself and they turned out awesome, so I decided to do one. Savannah is a really fun girl, we love her. She is a great aunt, and Jacoby just loves her.

Last night she was holding Jacoby while he pounded on the piano. It was so cute because he just kept looking up at her.

So most of you know that I'm really into digital scrapbooking...it's the BEST! Well I have never made any digital cards so I decided to do some birthday cards. I decided to do hybrid, so I did the main part digitally and then I made a paper card and placed them on it. It was so fun. I'm going to print a bunch so I can just have them on hand.

Goodbye Thomas

First off I just have to talk a little bit about our little guy. . .
I can't believe how much Jacoby has changed in the last month, he keeps me very busy now. I took some pictures of Jacoby crawling the other day so that I could do this layout. When I was trying to get these pictures I would go across the room from him and it was so hard to get some good pictures because he just came right at me for the camera...it made me laugh.

My brother, Thomas, left on his mission last Tuesday. He's a great kid and will do such a good job serving in Brazil.

Last Monday we went to lunch with Thomas.

My little family with Tom


Thomas and his sisters

The whole fam

This has been one of the hardest things I have ever done. I think we will all feel a lot better when we get a letter tomorrow or Wednesday. I'm so proud of Thomas, he's such a great example to me, I love him so much.