Santa time!

We decided to brave the crowds today and went to the mall to get a picture with Santa. I don't think Janalee was quite sure what to think of him, but we were able to get a small smile of her.

It's a boy!!

We are very excited to find out that we are having a boy. I am 15 weeks along and they said everything is looking good. Janalee is going to have a little brother now!

It snowed a ton here today! To get an idea of how much it snowed check out the back of Shaun's truck. That's a lot of snow!! Janalee has been begging us all day to take her out, it finally stopped snowing so we took her out for a little walk. She just loves the snow! Send some warm thoughts our way, we are freezing!

Fun times today

Janalee learned today how to crawl up onto our chairs. She put her necklace on, crawled up the chair and was reading her book. She was so proud of herself, look at that smile!

Tonight it was daddy's turn to change her diaper, but look what happened when he tried to get her dressed again. We were laughing so hard it took us a few minutes to calm down and help her.

Sorry it has been a while, things have been busy with is here. I have started working at the hospital so that makes things a lot busier. Here are some cute pics of her. I have a funny video, but I am having issues trying to get it off the camera, stay tuned.

I put a diaper on her head and she thought it was so funny, she was running around laughing with it on her head.

Janalee is eating some spagetti for dinner and loving every minute of it!

Fun weekend

I bought Janalee a broom because she is always getting into mine. I sawed it in half with a kitchen knife so that it is just her size. She carried this around all day and has been playing with it all weekend long. It was only a dollar, that is my kind of toy.


She spent some quality time with her dad this weekend while he was playing video games with Grandpa and uncle Aaron. She got to wear the headphones and was loving life.

I woke up this morning to our first snow! It has all melted by now, but it is still snowing lightly just not sticking to the ground. BURRRR!!!

halloween

Sorry it took me so long to get these pictures up. She was so cute as a little doggie. We took her to our ward party where they went around trick-or-treating to different classrooms. She really didn't get the idea, but hey shaun and I got the candy, hehe.

Michigan roads

After driving around here for a few weeks I am really annoyed by the roads here. They have this things here called the "Michigan U-turn". This means that at most lights you cannot turn left. So what you have to do is drive father down the road, then do a U-turn, then you can make a right turn. I don't understand why you couldn't just save some time and make a left turn in the first place. They need to come out west and see the right way to construct roads. Hehe

New Words

Janalee has finally learned the words "no" and "don't". So now when she goes to touch something she knows she shouldn't she will tell herself "no, don't". It is really funny. Also Shaun and her have started to have special daddy/daughter time at night. They go into her room and play together. He taught her how to push the button to her toy and then she claps because she is so proud of herself. Aren't they cute together! play time

New boots

Grandpa Simmons gave Janalee some new snow boots for her birthday. We tried them on yesterday, they are a little big, but she will grow into them. They are really cute ones!

the coolest couch in the world!

We have been looking for furniture for a while up here. We haven't been able to find a couch that isn't ridiculously expensive. When we were looking for air mattresses we came across the coolest couch in the world. So we just had to get it. Check it out!

But wait, there is more. Now it is our bed!


Ya, we just thought this was one of the coolest things we have seen so we had to get it. Not the most comfortable couch in the world, but defiantly the coolest. Haha!!

MICHIGAN

So we are all here in Michigan now. It was a long trek to get here. I had a long flight with Janalee; and Shaun and his brother Aaron had a very long drive. We are here now and trying to get settled in. We have most of the boxes unpacked, but it is kind of messy still because we don't have a lot of furniture yet. We found the jack-pot thrift store today though!! We had gone to others and they were really expensive. Today we found a desk for 10 bucks and a table and chair set for 24 bucks. Not to shabby. Now all we need to find is a couch. Michigan in nice- right now. It is really pretty outside with the leaves changing and the weather has been nice. But I am told that it won't last too much longer- sad day. I took a video from our front porch so you can see a little bit of where we are now. I will try to be good and update this more now. I have some video from Janalee's birthday, but I am having problems downloading it. I will get Shaun and work on that. Alright that is all for now. Bye!

pretty princess

Grandma Simmons bought her some princess stuff so we thought we would have a fashion show. She loves the wand and throws a fit when I take it away from her. Grandma Bible bought her the little princess sash. She is just too cute!

Happy Feet

Janalee has started to do her own dance moves. We call her dance move "happy feet" and she loves the attention she gets when she is dancing. Isn't she too cute!!

mom and me

Janalee loves to get chased around the house and get caught. Here is some video of the two of us playing around.

Magnet shoes

We have those letter magnets that you put on the fridge and Janalee loves to walk around with them in her mouth and now she found another use for them. She will step on them and they stick to her feet and then when she walks it makes noise. She does it all the time. As always this is dark video. Our other camera that does really good video has a cord that we need to transfer the images to the computer somewhere in a box. So until we get to Michigan and hopefully find that box you will just have to deal with dark video, sorry.

Giddy up

Yesterday was my mom's big stake activity she was in charge of. It had a western theme and my grandma found this cute horse for her to use. Janalee loves this horse and rides it all the time. She even knows how to flick the reins and everything. I took a video of her but it is kind of dark, sorry. It is still really cute, not that I am bias or anything.

Fun Times

My dad's dad passed away a few weeks ago. Luckily we were all able to go over to California for the funeral. Since all five sisters were together again we decided to have some fun. We went to Knott's Berry Farm. It was a blast there. Janalee love to watch all the people and even got to ride on some rides herself. She took her first carousel ride. She also loved the 100 year old steam engine train ride we took. She loved to hang her head out the window and watch the people as we crept by. The scary part of the trip was when we went on a wooden roller coaster. It was so rickety that we were afraid the coaster would come off the track and we would go flying. Fun stuff!!!

Little Trouble Maker

Janalee is getting more mobile and getting into everything she can reach. She is even trying to climb things to get to other things that she can't reach. Shaun is in Michigan so Janalee and I are at my parent's house and there is tons of ways for her to get in trouble. Her new favorite thing is the dogie door. She used to just watch the dogs going in and out, but now she has decided to join them. So now we have gates and barricades up all over the house to try and contain her, but she is too smart for us and can get through most of them. We are going to have to step up our game. :)

Our poor car

We went over to California for Shaun's sister's wedding which was wonderful!! On the way back we had a little car problems though. We were about 30 miles on the California side of Blythe when the tread on the diver's side front tire came off. When it came off it took with it the side panel and some very important wires. So sadly the car is dead now. Thankfully Elisha's parents came to the rescue!! They drove all the way out there to pick us up and helped us tow it into Blythe. We all didn't get home until 2 in the morning, and they both went to work tired in the morning. Thank you guys so much for all you do for us! We would have been stuck out there for a while if it wasn't for you! Then they let us borrow their truck and tow it back to Mesa. Bye bye little red car, we will miss you.

Brooke and CJ's Wedding

A few weeks ago we went to Shaun's sister's wedding. It was beautiful! Janalee and her little cousin were so cute in their pretty pink dresses. We had a lot of fun and we are so excited to have CJ in the family now!

We bought her a liitle pool for the backyard. She loves to go swimming! She spends most of her time eating the toys in the pool, but hey she is having fun.

like father, like daughter

Janalee loves the computer already. Whenever she see Shaun or I on the computer, she will cry until she gets to pound on the keys. We got a little computer whiz already.

Easter

I know this is old, but the pictures are so cute! My sister Jamie and her husband adopted four jack-rabbits just in time for Easter. So, we just had to take pictures of Janalee with them. We couldn't get a smile out of her, but she still looks cute. Maybe I am bias :)

Getting Started

Hey everyone, I am stating this blog to be cool like everyone else!! Haha I will try my best to figure this all out and help keep everyone updated on our little family while we are up in Michigan. It might take me some time, but this is going to be fun!