Jayde's Birthday

Jayde turned 2 yesterday and we had a pizza party for her. She was so lucky because she got to have both my parents and Shawn's mom here for the party as well as her Uncle Kevin, Aunt Tiffany, cousins Corbin, Brityn and Boston, and her Uncle Trent.

Before she started opening her presents, she thought we needed a prayer.

As she was ripping into to wrapping paper, she thought she needed to throw each piece away as she tore it off (what a good little girl I've got). At first she started to run into the kitchen to throw them away, but I quickly got a bag so we wouldn't be there all night.

One of her presents was a jack-in-the-box and as you can see by the look on her face, she loved it. The other kids did as well. We had some fighting over that one.

She, like most little kids, spit all over the cake when she blew out the candle. Yummy!!!

Enjoying the cake.

Among other things, she got a dress up outfit and a doll she was quite thrilled about.

She had a blast opening up her presents and playing with them.

We had such a fun night with her. She is such a little joy to have around and we love her so much.

Time For Christmas

We spent the last few days decorating for Christmas. I know it is a little early, but what can I say, I love Christmas time. Besides, I wanted it done when we got back from Thanksgiving in Utah.

The kids really got into the decorating spirit. They loved decorating the tree, especially the same branch over and over. I tried to fix it, but I am sure there are plenty of ornaments stacked on top of each other.

This is the first year we have ever done any outside lights on our house. Fox saw the neighbors hanging their lights and told me he wanted to too. So as much as I knew Shawn would love it, I told him that we were going to do the lights outside this year. He was a good sport about it.

The bad part about it though is we don't have a really tall ladder so he had to climb on the roof and scoot out to the edge to put them on. As you might be able to tell the clouds were rolling in and it started to rain a little bit, but he got done and off the roof before it started.

The kids were happy for a second to put the lights on outside, but it got old fast, and really cold. By the time we went to the store for supplies and then back to the store for more supplies, it ended up being an all day project.