another challenge

Yesterday I decided I wanted to do another scrapbooking challenge with my mom and sisters so I picked a fun layout I had seen someone else do and we lifted her. (This means that we do a scrapbook page similar to her's) We only have an hour to do it and it's so fun because we meet in a chat room and talk about it first, set the timer for an hour, and post our page. It's a fun hobby to share with my family. They did some great pages so I had to share.

Steph's: Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes

Eden is such a smarty pants. I love how you can see her saying the words

in the picture as well. Mom's: Ice cream

These pictures made me sad because they were taken the weekend before Thomas left and we had such a fun day together. I miss him like crazy.
Becca's: Six Months
I think the bottom right picture is especially adorable. He's darling!

Mine: Love You

I also did this page not to long ago. These pages will be a two page spread in Jacoby's first year scrapbook.

Chelsea's Wedding

My cousin Chelsea got married yesterday in the Rexburg Temple. The Rexburg temple is such a beautiful temple. I'm so glad the weather was nice for them. They seem so happy together. Congratulations you guys! My mom took the pictures for the wedding and she did a great job; she really got some great shots. This picture is one of my favorites, isn't that cool?

CHOCOLATE MAYONNAISE CUPCAKES

I am really loving cupcakes right now, but only the ones from scratch. I'm not really a fan of cake mixes, so I'm always looking for a good recipe. One of my sisters found this great recipe for chocolate mayonnaise cupcakes that you can find on our recipe blog; they are the best. You've got to try them.

10 months and a little trip

Jacoby is ten months old! He hasn't been doing anything new this month, just getting better at everything. He's still such a smiley baby and so fun to be around.
Jacoby is...
-throwing the ball to us.
-making baskets in his little hoop.
-cruising a little bit around the furniture.
-standing freely in the middle of the room.
-getting his two top teeth in.
-still taking two naps during the day and sleeping throught the night. (8:30-7:00)
-even went to his first amusement park.
-loving life, can't you tell? :)

My mom just got this awesome new camera so we decided to take some pictures of Jacoby in his handsome church outfit. I love these!

We went to Lagoon on Friday for Tyler's family reunion; we had a blast. Tyler's parents watched Jacoby so that we could go on the rides, which was very nice of them. We stayed overnight in Utah and took Jacoby swimming in the pool at our hotel. He really liked it this time.

This picture is of us on the train. Jacoby wasn't really into the ride, maybe next year.

Jacoby loved riding in the stroller and watching all the people and all the fun going on.

Lagoon

He's getting better at walking behind the toy!

Challenge

My mom, sisters, and I decided to have a challenge and use the same picture to do a layout. It was so fun to see all of our different approaches using this darling picture. Mine
Steph's

Mom's

Becca's

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.

I knew it was only a matter of time...

Thomas leaves on Tuesday and it's finally starting to seem real to me. I'm going to miss him SO much. He's such a wonderful brother and I love seeing him with Jacoby and the other grandkids. So today since I was feeling sad I decided to scrap this picture of the two of them together. I love you Tom, you will be such an awesome missionary, but I sure can't wait for you to be home. :) So I knew it was only a matter of time before....

Jacoby would be standing up to things. I put him down for his nap the other day, go to check on him and he's standing up. As you can tell he thinks he is so funny! :)
The last video of Jacoby crawling was just the very beginnings of his crawling, and now he's a fast little sucker. Of course I had to bribe him with my keys because I knew he couldn't resist those. He's sure a fun kid, I can't believe how much he has changed within the last few weeks.

8 Months Already

I can hardly believe that our little man is eight months old today! People are constantly telling me that he has an older face and I don't like that because he is just growing up way too fast anyways. He doesn't need to be looking any older than he is. Ha ha. There are so many things that he has learned to do in the last month and I wanted to remember them by taking pictures. We love you Jacoby, you're such a happy boy!
At 8 months you...

Still love naps with mom, and I do too! Love looking at yourself in the mirror.

Sleep from 8:30-7:00 a.m. (usually)

Crawling a lot now! (see video below too)

Getting 2 teeth now.