A little bit of this and that

Well, in a few days Conner will be 6 weeks old! I can't believe it, time has flown but also it feels like he has been with us forever. The kids still love him and want to hold him all the time. Parker is always kissing him and loving on him, it just melts my heart! We haven't been up to a whole lot lately because I am too chicken to take three kids with me by myself if I don't have to. (Also because I am still really tired. Conner is a morning baby and likes to start the day at 5am!!)
Thought I would post some of the things we have been up to lately!

Here are my three cuties!!





Parker spends a good portion of the day hugging Conner or kissing him. Sometimes I really have to pull Parker away because his loving is a little too ruff. So cute to see them together though, I hope they will be best friends!

So Parker decided that he was done taking naps when I brought Conner home from the hospital. I didn't think this was very nice of him. I would still put him in his room for some quiet time and this was the price I happily paid. Everyday he would pull all the books off the book shelf, but it was worth it to have an hour to get something done or maybe sneak in a nap.

Parker loves to play outside and spends most of his day out in the backyard. He also loves the dirt and loves to play in the dirt so this is how he comes back in the house. I think I must wash his hands and face 10 times a day at least. He loves it out there though so I'm happy to do it!

Aren't these the cutest baby shoes that were ever made!!! I love them! My mom bought them for Conner and he wears them all the time because he just looks so stinking cute in them!

Janalee's favorite place right now is McDonald's -which she calls "Old McDonalds" She wanted to go there and had been asking for a few days so we decided that the kids have been stuck at home enough and deserved to have this treat. They happened to be having family night that night and they had people there to play games with the kids and paint their faces and give prizes away and cake. Woo hoo! So Janalee got her first face painting and held really still for it too. I thought it turned out really cute! She was so excited and even had to run across the street to show off the the neighbors.



This is the cutest video ever!! I love babies laughing! Conner has done this before but as soon as I get the camera out then he is done smiling and laughing. He loves his daddy though, Shaun is always able to get him to smile and coo.

Conner is here!!!

Conner Jace Simmons has finally come to our family. We are all so excited to have him here!! He was born on March 16th at 7:48 in the morning. I went in on the night of the 15th to be induced. It was a really LONG night!!!!! I was so glad to finally get some rest after he was born. He was 6 pounds and 2.5oz and 19 inches long. He is so tiny! Janalee and Parker were both just short of 8 pounds. He is a good baby! I am so lucky :) Janalee and Parker love their little brother, it is fun to see them with him. Janalee asked to hold him all the time and Parker needs to know where he is at all times. They love to show off their new brother to anyone who comes to visit. Shaun didn't take too many pictures at the hospital except when Conner is in his birthday suit, hehe. (I didn't think he would want me to post those pictures)



Here is a picture of me a few days before I delivered

Here is Shaun at the hospital snuggling with his "baby"

Here is proud big sister

Grandma gave him his first bath. He is so little we decided to give him one in a mixing bowl.

Here he is tonight. What a little cutie

He is only a week old and he already is trying to roll over. He rarely stays on his back. He hasn't figured out how to get over his arm yet, thank goodness!

Here are my two cuties after getting all cleaned up from gardening. Yep, we decided to be crazy and try out a garden this year. We might have planted a little early, but we were excited to get started. Plus I wanted to start before I had the baby. The kids loved digging in the dirt!

Here is our plain ring ready to be filled with dirt!

Shaun and the kids are breaking up the dirt clumps and spreading it around

And the finished product!! I bought a strawberry plant and a tomato plant and did the rest from seeds. We have some carrots, cucumbers, lettuce, and flowers-for Janalee all from seeds. Hopefully something will come up, everyone keep your fingers crossed!

Here is a little video from tonight. Janalee keeps calling Parker "Princess Parker, come dance with me" and I keep trying to explain that he is a boy so he is "Prince Parker" still cute though!

Family Pictures

Here is my totally awesome family!!

I haven't been on here for a while because I have been on vacation for a few weeks to Arizona-woo hoo!! Then when we got back we got back we had to recover from the illness we got while there and when we got back. Both kids had the croup and Janalee had an ear infection. I just had a nice big head cold, Shaun somehow missed out on the sickness.

Anyway, the trip was so much fun!!! I loved being around all my family and miss them so much already! I hope that when we are done here in Florida we can move back there to be close to them again. Everyone needs to pray that we can find a job there!

Well, here is the star of the trip, my cute niece Kaylee!! My favorite part is her big huge cheeks and also her hair that sticks straight up. What a cutie pie!!!

While we were down there we decided that we should take some family pictures because this was the first time we had all been together-ever. Shaun wasn't able to make it to the weddings last summer and hadn't even met one of our brother-in-laws. So we decided to pick a very sunny afternoon so we could all have squinty eyes! haha

Here is my awesome Grandma Williams!! Love her to pieces!

I love this picture!! Grandma and Grandpa with all their grand kids!

Here we are with our pregnant bellies :) (I think I was about 32 weeks at this point)

Here is my sister Jamie and her hubby Josh

This is our 5 generation picture of all us wonderful-awesome ladies!!

The 2 cutest kids alive!!!

Janalee loves her daddy!

My cute little man!

All of us siblings being our crazy selves!

All the awesome ladies in the family!

Here are our handsome men!

You may have noticed that there isn't a picture of shaun, me and the kids. Well, that is because there isn't a single one where we are all looking at the same camera, or someone isn't picking their nose, or crying. Well, when this new baby comes we will have to fix that problem!

Ward Christmas Party

Shaun took the kids to the ward Christmas Party over the weekend alone (Sadly I had to work) I thought this was very brave of him!! Sadly he couldn't get the kids to cooperate and look at the camera at the same time. Still looks cute though :)

Parker wasn't too sure about Santa at the beginning though, look at that face.

This is how Shaun entertained the kids in between feeding them and Santa visiting.

This is a future Primary president or maybe Relief Society pres!! (Please note that she has 2 bows on, count them people. One is just not enough sometimes:)

Here is my cute boy running around the primary room!

Biker baby

First off, I don't remember if I told you all that we are having another BOY!!! We are so excited to have another sweet little boy in the house! Today I went for another ultrasoud and got this cute 3D shot of him. He had the hiccups during the ultrasound and also refused to move his hand away from his face. What a cutie we have coming our way!


We had gotten Janalee a bike for her birthday and about 2 weeks ago she finally got the hang of it. She loves her bike and makes sure that everyday we go outside so she can ride it! She would spend the whole day outside if we would let her. The other day she was at our baby-sitters and they went to play at the dad's work. He is a welder so they had a good time running around and playing in his big workshop. Sadly Janalee wasn't paying attention and ran face first into a metal pole. Poor thing, anyway here is a picture of her that night after I got home from work. I don't know how she was able to get all the damage under her nose, but that is pretty funny if I do say so myself. I was going to get family pictures today, but I think I am going to wait until her nose heals. When I pulled out the camera to take a picture of her nose Parker came and planted himself in front of me and was waiting for his picture to be taken. Too cute. I told him to smile and this is what he did, what a ham!

This picture just cracks me up! This is how she came walking out of her room one day after her nap, hahaha! I was laughing so hard! She found an awesome way to wear 2 shoes!!! That's my girl, got to love her.

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first hair cut

Isn't this boy a cutie! This is how he came in from playing out in the back yard one day, yummy dirt! I put him on the counter and pulled the camera out and he started saying "eese, eese" (cheese), too cute!!

We finally broke down and gave him his first hair cut! This is a before picture

This is before from the back, look how long it is back there!

And here is after.

Shaun did it all by himself. I think he did a really good job for his first hair cut on a 1 year old. I think Parker is looking pretty handsome!!