3rd year Anniversary!

A week ago we celebrated 3 years of marriage. It has been so incredible this journey we have started together. I love and adore James and love and adore Jet, so what could be better! For the day of our anniversary we gave each other gifts and had a nice dinner together at home. James bought me 2 pairs of earrings and a cute skirt and cardigan. I let him buy the FAA pilots manual and put some money into his savings for his pilot's license. This weekend we are going to the Demolition derby as part of the anniversary celebration. Here are some pictures of our dinner!

Spanish Fork Celebrations

July 24th is a big deal around here, and since my mom was in town, I thought it would be fun to show her how it is celebrated. In the morning we went to the Grande Parade, later went and saw 17 miracles and later went to the Spanish Fork Rodeo. Unfortunately we only spent about 20 min at the rodeo because it started down pouring. I was soooooo dissapointed. Not only that Jet started crying anytime the crowd would cheer :(. He got used to it, but we didn't get used to the rain and left. It was still fun though! Maybe next year!

our little chicken

We entered Jet into a baby contest and he was sure cute. We entered him as a chicken and as himself. He was such a good sport. We made him dress up as a chicken and he just went with it.

4th of July

We had a great Fourth of July. We started it off with a 2 and half hour window job in Midway, UT. It was a pleasant drive up the canyon and by the time we had finished the job we were all pretty hungry. With the generous tip from the window job, we treated everyone to KFC. We took it to go and found a park nearby to have a picnic lunch. This is Jet and everyone else relaxing after lunch. Later that day we lit some fireworks and spent the rest of the evening enjoying each others company. Happy 4th of July!!

Jet 9 Months

Jet is doing so amazingly well, I can't believe he is sooo good. He is now a little over 9 months and he has come a long way in the past month. He has started crawling, and pulls up on furniture and anything else he can get his hands on. We visited the doctor for a very uneventful appointment. Here are the boy's stats:

29 in long- 73%tile
19 lbs- 24 %tile
18 in head circum- 62%tile

Here are some of the other things about him recently-

Has 4 teeth (two bottom and the lateral incisors up top poking through)
Love to shake his head
Razzes his tongue
Crawls
Pulls up in his crib and anywhere else
Went swimming for his first time, was a bit hesitant at first but near the end enjoyed it
Loves the dog's toys as much as his own
Loves to be chased
Bites (I now pump bottles for him and do formula because of this, drawing blood is no fun)
Loves to be outside
Sleeps 10-11 hours a night and takes 2 naps still during the day
Says baba, mama
Yells, loudly when he is focused on something or just for the heck of it.

He is growing up so fast and we are so happy to be a part of it.
Love you Jet!

Family Visit

My mom and brother Aaron are here and we have had so much fun with them. Turns out they are really good window washers :). Besides that we have visited Park City (did the Alpine Slide, Alpine Coaster, and Zipline), hiked Stewart Falls, watched the first commercial flight by Frontier land in Provo, rafted the Provo River, gone shopping, and have plans to do many other things. Fun to have family around, we are like tourists in our own backyard.

Updates from us

We are doing so well and loving the fact that summer has arrived in Utah, finally! A few weeks ago we had our family pictures taken. It was so much fun and I love being able to capture our little family and to think how our family pictures will evolve over time. Even with Jet growing and developing, things are always changing. We went to several locations all over Spanish Fork and got some taken here where we live and manage storage units. More pictures can be seen here: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150274160736419.379960.674276418&l=88500c512f
Some good news is that James has landed a full time real world job(as I call it) with benefits and everything. I am so proud of him and hope that he enjoys his work. He will be working for a company called Tomax in Salt Lake. He has loaded up the ipod with audiobooks and music to get ready for the commute. He starts at the end of this month.
Jet is doing so awesome and is sooo close to crawling. He gets up on his hands and tip toes doing what I call pushups. Then he gets on all fours and lately he has been inching forward. He says 'ba, ba' and sometimes 'ma, ma' which is so totally cute. He is such a joy and funny too. Last night we were settling down to bed, I was holding him and he was sleepy with his head on my shoulder sucking his thumb. Out of nowhere he pops his head up, looks at me and gives me a big smile and laughs. What a faker :)!
As for me, well I have doing well, trying new recipes, learning how to use photoshop, taking care of everyone, managing things here with work, running, teaching relief society, and loving summer!