Thanksgiving '09

I know this post is coming a little late, but readers forgive me, I lost my camera for a bit...and I was lazy for a bit. Thanksgiving was spent in Utah mostly at my sister, Bonnie's, house. We had a great time with family and a few friends (though not as many as I had hoped). I have my niece, Sandi, to thank for most of the pictures that I have. She took pictures and some videos on Thanksgiving for me. Thus, you even get to see a rare picture of me!

This charmer is my niece, Ella.

As soon as I arrived it was, "Hi Mary, did you bring Michael with you? Where's baby Jack?" Yeah, I was the favorite until I got married...

My niece, Sarah, reading a book. She was reading about some crazy people that lived in the sewers or something...weird.

Ella, the performer.

Daniel and his favorite pal, Michael.

Jack.

Jack and Ella playing with the phone.

Abbie and Annabelle, who is just a few days older than Jack.

Gilbert and Keith carving the turkey.

The kids played with this cool keyboard-type mat that played music.

Jack learned how to play it too.

He also made his way over to the real piano.

He and Little Gilbert played a beautiful duet.

Jack and Annabelle played together.

Little Gilbert fought with a duct-taped sword.

We attempted yams, but the marshmallows caught fire.

No one was seriously injured...

Tricia and Gilbert.

Who's tickling who? Bonnie's the only one laughing...

Sarah and Ella.

Annabelle.

Little Gilbert got caught in a monster hug.

Nice one, Sandi.

Michael and Stacey fixin' the yams.

Can you pass the yam without a mistake?

Bonnie and Ella.

Sarah and Annabelle.

Little Gilbert giving his mom a hug.

Michael hiding behind Daniel.

Daniel put on his pants backwards :)

Stacey got bored...or just tired from all the playing.

Jack had a lot of fun making a big mess in the kitchen.

The day after Thanksgiving, we went shooting with the Luckesen's.

Jack "shooting" an AR-15...sweet.

French Fries

Here's some french fries, Jack. They're from Mimi and Papa.

I get all of these? For myself?

No arguments.

Just Some Random Pics

Too close...a little too close...

This pic may look a little better if you take a step away from your computer...

Cute Jack-et.

Jack is just too cool for his own good.

Visit to Prescott

A few weeks ago we went down to Prescott to visit the fam.

Dad got out his guitar and we jammed.

Jack and Megan danced together.

Michael and Jack danced together.

We had a lot of fun singing and dancing.

At first Jack wasn't too sure about the mic.

He tried eating it.

It was rare that he actually made any noise into it.

Tori the Texter at the In and Out.

Jack loves french fries.

I don't know where he gets this train wreck thing... :)

Terry and Dad.

Halloween '09

For Halloween, we dressed up as Bert (Michael) and Ernie (me) with our rubber ducky (Jack).

Jack was extremely hot in his costume. You can see his hair is all sweaty and matted here. We left the hat on, but took the rest of his costume off for the majority of the evening.

"Are you scared?"

"Boo!"

Jack really likes scaring people now. He mostly just says a high-pitched "ah!" and jerks his head up...that's when you get scared.

We went to a costume party at Brad and Jaynah's. So, here are some of the couples. This is Robbie and Britnee, Lucy and Ricky Ricardo.

Jared and Janina...watch out, the sheriff's in town!

Jaynah's mom and Riley, the pirates.

Scary Adam.

Kelly and Zach, la prego and the milkman.

Brad, Addie, and Jaynah as Peter Pan, Tinkerbell, and Wendy.

Riley, Kimbi, and Pat as a pirate, Steelers fan, and Captain Kirk.

Amber and Joe as an egg and toast.

Brooke came as a band geek's wife...too bad the band geek didn't show up.

Peanut Number Two Coming...

Sorry I've been so bad about posting lately. A little update: For those of you who don't know yet, I am about 8 weeks pregnant! We are very excited for another little peanut to join our family (Michael's dad says it's a girl, and he's never been wrong before apparently). I am nauseous as all get out, but haven't thrown up yet. I am also taking naps with Jack every day since I'm tired all the time. Speaking of Jack, he gets cuter every day. This video was taken right after we got him this new toy (I know, he's spoiled). He still gets SO excited every time we set it up for him to walk with it. I love this kid.