Jazz Game

My dad is pretty much the coolest dad I know and got me, my sisters, and our husbands tickets to the Jazz vs. Celtics game. I'd never been to a Jazz game, but I have been to a Starz game. Ha ha. Anyways, I felt like I was really missing out, so I complained/teased a little.

My parents watch all the kids for us and it was wonderful. I was a little afraid to leave Jacoby because he had just gotten his stitches a few days before and I was super paranoid, but supposedly they did great.

We had such a fun time together; I love my sisters and their husbands. I'm so sad that Becca and I are both going to be moving away soon, so we better have lots of fun before that happens.

It was a really good game and the Jazz ended up winning by quite a bit. I feel very special to be able to say that I've been to an NBA game instead of just a WNBA game. :)

We did a little shopping at Gateway and went to one of my favorite places to eat, Crown Burger.

Thanks, mom and dad, we had the greatest time!

Toys R Us Sale: Movies & Books

Toys R Us is having a great sale today and tomorrow. I was most excited about all DVDs and books being buy one get one free. I thought these would both be perfect for Jacoby's Easter basket. My mom, Steph and I met there and paired movies and books together because I only wanted one book and one movie, and I ended up getting The Princess and the Frog and a set of books(including a ball book that Jacoby will love) for $10. I used the coupon below for the movie too, so that's why it was such a steal. I just wanted to let you guys know because I was so excited!

$5 off The Princess and the Frog

You're not going to believe this...more stitches

The journaling on this page tells the whole story, so just click on it. It was another very sad day and I'm debating on whether to have more children after all the tumbles Jacoby has been taking. The cut was so deep and it really scared us. Poor guy!

When he had his first stitches I did another scrapbook page and this one above will go alongside it. The other one says, "bonk on the head," so this one finishes it with "times two."

First Stitches

Wall Hangings and House for Sale

Awhile back Steph posted her wall hanging on her blog, and my dad just finished putting mine together, so I wanted to post some pictures of it. It's not hung up because we can't hang up anything in this house we're living in because the house is for sale. Dangit, I miss my decorations. :)
They were really fun to do and pretty inexpensive. Steph, my mom, and I all did one and they are all so different, but I really loved them all. Leave it to my mom to come up with great decorations that noone else will have; she is so talented at decorating. My parents were so nice to get a lot of the supplies and put them together for us.
The picture below is Steph's and the next one is mine. I will have to have my mom send me a picture of of the one she did which is awesome.
I will hang it up in our family room which is decorated in red and robin egg blue.

Steph's

Mine
Becca and Lonnie are getting ready to move away for Lonnie's rotations and they are selling their townhouse they lived in while they were in school. It's a great place, very well kept, good location, and a perfect starter home. It's close the the I.S.U. campus and many shopping areas. If you know anyone living or moving in Pocatello, they could get a great deal on this place. Check out her house blog if you are interested right here!

Basketball State

We were able to go to state last week to watch Taylor's team play. I have always loved going to Boise for basketball, and even though it's still sometimes hard to sit on the Hillcrest side, it was a lot of fun to watch them play. :) They had a great team this year and it's been so exciting to watch them play this season.

At the first game they played Skyview and won by six, the second game they played Twin Falls and lost by four, and the third game they played Bishop Kelly and won by like fifteen. They ended up taking third!

Of couse they all were all very intense games, and man I love a close basketball game.

The whole Roe fam after the last game.

Jacoby loved swimming at the pool and playing with Jaime's beach ball.
Taylor and Jacoby after a game.
Debie and I took Jacoby to Pojos. He had lots of fun!
Jacoby loves his new shirt with the basketball on it and is constantly pointing to it.

Very blurry pictures, but I had to show off my cute brother-in-law warming up!

The weather was great over there; going to Boise for basketball state always makes me realize that spring really is coming soon.

It was really nice to spend time with Tyler's family, too.

We loved watching Taylor's team play, and will really miss watching him next year during his senior year. Hopefully we will be able to catch a game during the holidays because we will definitely be missing it. :)

Jacoby's Flip Book

After I did that scrapbooking layout of Jacoby's outfits my mother-in-law told me about a flip book that a lady in their ward had done for one of her kids, so I decided that sounded like a fun idea. I've been working on it for quite awhile, and it's not one of those projects you can hurry and do in a day because I had to take pictures of Jacoby's different outfits. I guess we could've played dress-up, but that didn't sound fun for either of us. :)

I'm pretty excited about how it turned out, except when I had it laminated it turned out a little bumpy and the pages were a little uneven after having it bound, but Jacoby doesn't care. I gave it to him on the way home and he seemed pretty excited.

These are just a few of the pages, but I had nine pages total. The picture below is the front cover and the last one is the back cover. My mom gave me the cute idea for the front and back covers. I love finding little crafts to do, and this was really fun. I cut each picture between the pants and shirt and that way it can be like a puzzle to match the right pants and shirt.

Also, it's fun to flip the shirts and pants so they don't match. This is a basketball outfit with his swimming suit. I included two pages in the book with basketballs because he loves them so much.

My Favorite Breakfast

My mom first started making a copycat recipe to the McDonald's fruit parfaits and I've been hooked ever since. It's a healthy, filling, and yummy breakfast. I hope you enjoy it as much as I have.

one-and-a-half

I don't know where time went, how is it that this kid is one-and-a-half? When I see pictures of him I think he looks even older and it makes me so sad. It's so fun to watch him grow and learn new things, but I want it to go by s l o w e r.
A little update of what Jacoby has been up to. Sorry if this is boring to some of you, but I want to remember these things about him.


Jacoby will WAVE to anyone that waves to him. He also waves when him and I are leaving the house and Tyler isn't even there. I suppose he's waving to the house. He even waves to the car when we go into a store. Loves BALLS. Hates having his HAIR WASHED. He's already wanting to be a stinky boy. Just kidding, Cob! Loves to carry my DUMBBELLS around. Gives good HUGS and KISSES. CLAPS for himself constantly, yes, he's a little cocky. Started going to NURSERY. Very TALL and SKINNY. Doesn't like going shopping with me anymore.


Loves guacamole. Who doesn't? One of the three veggies he eats.

Always wants to feed himself, but is getting better at it. Always leaves a big mess for me though. :)

Took another tumble and hurt his eye and cheek.

Still takes a good 3-4 nap each day.

Sleeps well at night.

seven days of outfits

This is probably not a very exciting post for most people besides Jacoby's grandmas, but I got this template with the days of the week and got the idea to take pictures of Jacoby's outfit everyday for a week. These are some of my favorite clothes, too. He started to figure out what I wanted him to do everday I took the camera out and would stand up next to the wall in the same place. Man, I've trained him well.

Completely Obsessed

Jacoby is completely obsessed with shooting baskets. One day after he began walking I pulled the basketball hoop in the picture below out into our family room to see if he would be interested in it yet, and he was instantly hooked. He always stood on our trunk that we use as a coffee table in our family room and so I thought it would be good to get him a stool to stand on. It's pretty cute because when he misses he says, "Oh!" Also, when he's feeling lazy he points to the ball and wants me to fetch it for him. (I usually ignore this.) When he makes it he dances around and claps for himself. He has a couple other little hoops that he also loves to play with. Tyler's parent's have a little hoop that Jacoby is always so excited to go play with, too.

While Jacoby is obsessed with basketball, I'm obsessed with scrapbooking. It works out well for both of us, while he's shooting hoops, I'm doing this:

On Designer Digitals, where I do my digital scrapbooking, they are having a challenge where you do pages about yourself. I'm excited to do this because I hardly ever do any pages about me. This will be like a journal for me and something to save for my family to look at. This is my first page with little tidbits about me.

felt wreaths

I saw this fun idea on a blog awhile back and decided to make one. My favorite color is red and so most of our home is decorated with red and I knew this wreath would be perfect. It was so fun to do, so if your interested check out her tutorial here. When I first saw the wreath I thought that Becca would like it. It was so fun to do that I'm planning to make a circular one for her birthday. Don't you worry, it's not like her present will be spoiled now because I already told her. Hey, I had to make sure to do a color she liked, and it's a good thing because I was thinking of doing cream and I'm glad I didn't surprise her because she was not excited about that color. Ha ha. There is a picture of one here.

Steph's wreaths on her double doors.

Stitches

On Tuesday Jacoby and I were at my parent's working on some crafts with my mom and Steph. Jacoby was standing on a chair in the dining room and all of a sudden he started falling backwords and hit his forehead on the corner of the bar in the kitchen. It was terrible because my mom and I both saw it coming, but we couldn't get there fast enough. Immediately I picked him up to see the damage and he had a huge gash in his forehead and it was deep. We went to the doctor's office and he had to get stitches. I was really unpleasantly surprised that he only had to get two stitches, but it did come together pretty well. I feel so bad that this happened, but he seems to be doing fine. I just really hope that it doesn't leave a scar especially because it's on his face. I'm grateful that it wasn't worse and that he is okay. Love ya, Coby!A few scrapbook pages I've done recently:

help

HELP! I need somebody, help!

I have such a hard time coming up with new foods to feed Jacoby. He is kind of a picky eater and doesn't like very many vegetables or meat, so that makes it hard. I feel like I feed him a lot of snacks most of the time such as crackers, rice cakes, goldfish, peaches, pears, oranges, corn, peas, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, and beans. I just wanted to find out if any of my blogging buddies know of any great toddler cookbooks, recipes, or ideas of their own. I would really appreciate it! Thanks.

BLAKE

My favorite cousin, Blake, got home from his mission in New Hampshire last week. I've been counting down this day for the last month. It was so exciting to see him walk through those doors; I think a missionary homecoming is one of the most thrilling experiences ever! He's such a wonderful guy and so fun to be around. He has always made me feel good about myself and treats me so well. He spoke on Sunday and did a great job. I can tell that he truly loved his mission and worked very hard. What a strong testimony he has and my testimony of missionary work was strengthened by the experiences he had. I love you, Blake!

I pretty much tackled the kid.

The Bingham fam.

His adorable niece, Daphne, that he met for the first time that night.

Jacoby was excited to meet Blake, too. Probably more excited to be able to stay up until 11 o'clock.

Christmas...better late than never

We had a WONDERFUL Christmas and I'm so sad that it's over. I don't want all the fun to end: all the parties, good food, and family.

I haven't been able to post in awhile because we just recently moved back home for a few months until we move down to Arizona for school. It's been so nice to be here. We are renting a house that is for sale, so hopefully we'll be able to stay in the house awhile. I have loved living in a house! I think it's going to be hard for me to go back to living in an apartment after this. It has never bothered me living in an apartment before, but now I realized how great a house really is. Well I'll enjoy the few months while I have them because I'm afraid we'll be living in a small little apartment until Jacoby is in middle school. Oh ya gotta love the medical school life. :) No, I really am excited.

Talking to Thomas on Christmas was the thing that I was most looking forward to. We came over to my parent's about 9:00 a.m. and he was calling at 9:30. I kept telling my parents that we had to call right on time because I was dying to talk to him. It was so awesome to hear his voice...I've missed it. It was also really emotional and sometimes I couldn't say anything because I was crying to much. This is a picture my mom took of us sisters as we crowded around the phone. Love you, Tom! Tyler's mom made Jacoby a couple pair of scrubs because Tyler is going to medical school. They are pretty dang cute. She also made Tyler and I some.
Just us girls after church. We all stayed at my parent's the night before and went to church with them. I love my sisters. We were all wearing black, white, and green and we didn't plan it. Silly girls.
My sweet boys on Christmas Eve.

Christmas Eve at Mark and Jackie's. Tyler's dad dressed up as santa. Jacoby wasn't too sure about him this year; he's still pretty scared.

Jacoby has been doing this funny face lately. He scrunches up his eyes like this so they are barely visible. He definitely thinks he's funny, and he is right.

Enjoying a candy cane and getting so so sticky.

Jacoby and aunt Savannah.

The kids loved these musical bells.

We had such a nice Christmas and we loved spending time with our families. I'm very grateful that Tyler enjoys spending time with my family and enjoy spending time with his. I know it is not always like that for everyone and I'm grateful he is that way because it makes me so happy. Our family received so many nice gifts from our families and I feel so spoiled. Christmas is such a wonderful time of the year and I'm so sad it's over.

My favorite cousin, Blake, gets home tonight and I can hardly wait. He has never met Jacoby. Isn't that crazy? I found out a was pregnant just after he left and now Jacoby is almost 18 months. WOW. I will be taking plenty of pictures tonight and posting tomorrow.