Grandma came to visit!!

Last week, my mom came to visit. It was so much fun to have her here. The kids loved all the extra attention they got. We pretty much just hung around the house, but it was still nice to have some family around. Shaun and I even got to go out to eat without kids, woo hoo! The weather was nice a few days while she was here, we got to go to the park and do Janalee's favorite thing SLIDE!! We couldn't get her to stop moving long enough to get a good picture. She was having fun.

Even Parker got a turn on the slide!

We made some yummy cookies, Janalee even got to help. She is sporting the top-less look these days, haha.

I am older now too. I had my birthday last week and my mom made me some yummy cinnamon rolls!!! Shaun even added a sparkler on top, we didn't have any candles. Aren't I loved!

Dang I have some cute kids, if I do say so myself! My mom is pretty good looking too :)

Thanks Grandma, we had a blast!! Come back soon!

Week off with Daddy!!!

Shaun had his first vacation week last week. It was great to have him home to play with our little family!! Janalee was loving life! We didn't do a whole lot sadly because of the weather and I wasn't feeling very good by the end of the week. We did get some much needed shopping done so that was nice to have hime around to run after Janalee in the store :) We went to the beach one day, but it was FREEZING! Someone told Shaun that even when it is chiily outside the ocean is still warm. They lied to him. I was a little sceptical about it, but we got Janalee all dressed in her swimming suit and Shaun was ready to get in the water. As are driving, there were more and more clouds and it was getting windy. By the time we got there it was pretty over cast and seriouly windy. It was really cold too. We did a short walk on the beach collected some shells and called it good. Poor Janalee was really sad that she didn't get to go swimming. Luckily the next day our neighbor let janalee and Shaun come over and swim in his huge spa.

On saturday we went to the zoo though. It was cold, but Janalee had tons of fun! I got to try out my new stroller too. We traded in this crappy double stroller that I got off craigslist into babiesRus and got 25% off a nice new one. I love it!!!!!!!! One of her favorite things was the giant snake!!! I think she watched this snake for a whole minute- that is a long time for Janalee and then came back to watch it again. We arrived at the perfect time to watch these chimps. They just got feed and were putting on quite the show. I have a video of the female here just screeching away. we all thought it was pretty fun to watch them. They had this cool sting ray petting place. You were able to touch the sting rays. Shaun and I thought Janalee would love this, but she would not put her hand in the water. Wouldn't even come close to touching it. haha Shaun and I loved it though, they were really slimy feeling! This was my favorite part of the trip. They had this cage that you could walk into and the birds were flying around you. I didn't even think about it, but janalee had some animal crackers in front of her in the stroller. This bird was being so cute and friendly, it was watching Janalee and getting closer and closer. Then all of a sudden it flew up and snatched a cracker from the stroller. I thought it had pecked her hand or something, until I saw the cracker in it's beak. I don't think animal crackers are on their diet, whoops! Too funny though! This is how Parker spent most of the time at the zoo! He did watch some of the animals, but mostly he just liked to people watch. What a cute boy he is!!!
Janalee loved feeding the giraffs. They only had a small space where you could stand and feed them, so I was trying to hand her the lettuce and film at the same time, so sorry about the poor footage I got. She seemed to really like it though and was all smiles afterwards.
All in all it was a really fun day at the zoo. We were all tired when we left. It hope to go back again soon when the weather is nicer.

Shaun is on-call at the hospital all night tonight so I have the computer all to myself. So I thought that I would finally update my blog!!! (Shaun is a little bit of a computer hog, if you didn't know) There hasn't a lot going on over here, just hanging around the house and enjoying my kiddos. They are so much fun!! The other day Parker thought when I hit the couch with my hand that it was hysterical. He laughed for like 2-3 minutes, so cute!! Janalee wouldn't be out shined as you can tell with her jumping in front of the camera.

Our sweet next door neighbor came over one night and gave Janalee all of her old dress up clothes. She was in kid heaven! I had her put one on and then took and picture. Then she had to take it off and put another one off and wanted me to take a picture, and repeated until she had tried them on several times. It was so cute! Here are some from that night. She wanted me to take a picture, but didn't want to stand still long enough for me to take it.
Shaun came home from work one night and still had his scrub hat on and Janalee just had to try it on. Do we have a future surgeon in the house?
Here she is dancing in her pretty dress!!

And for a final video, I just thought her singing jingle bells was so cute. I forgot that I actually got her on video because most of the time she would just yell no when I asked her to sing on the camera, which she demonstrates at the end of this video, haha. She still sings it all the time. Sometimes when Parker is crying, I will ask her to sing him a song and she will sing jingle bells to him, too cute!!!!!!!!!

Christmas Time!!!!

Christmas was so much fun this year with Janalee. She didn't get the whole thing about Christmas, but she sure understood that he was going to bring her presents. She had so much fun opening presents and was totally spoiled by all who sent her gifts. I am hiding some of them so that we can bring them out in a few weeks and it is like she got new toys again. She had so much fun. Here are some pictures of the kids from that day, it was so hard to get both of them to look at the camera, it is pretty much impossible to get them both looking and smiling at the same time. These are still cute though.

Christmas outfits from Grandma Bible, aaawww so cute!!

Janalee's princess dress from Grandma Simmons

Daddy with his 2 kids and our tiny Christmas tree

Parker in his Santa suit, he looks so cute!!!!

Parker playing with his new toy from mommy and daddy. (You can see daddy passed out on the floor there, I think the kids got up a little too early for him :)

(P.S. I don't know if you noticed, but a few posts back I had some cards on there that I made. Well, I am pretty much retarded and spelled merry wrong on one of them-who does that- and Shaun didn't tell me that until like 2 days ago after we had already given it to his boss. What a nice hubby I have, I can't believe how dumb I can be sometimes. I think the kids are stealing my brain functioning-hehe)

Santa visit

Our ward had a party and Santa was there. I had been trying to get Janalee all excited to see him so I had been talking about it for a few days. They had this scary looking elf there next to Santa so I was afraid that she wouldn't want to go and see him, but she didn't care. She walked over and climbed right up on his lap, it was so cute. Parker was more interested in eating him beard. I wish we could have gotten a picture with all of us looking at the camera, but there were a lot of kids there who were waiting their turn. Next time maybe. We are loving our new camera that grandma got us for Christmas though!!! Now we can take all the pictures we want! Thanks grandma, you are awesome!!

I came home from dropping our packages off at the post office and found Parker like this. When I left both kids were sleeping and Shaun was playing on the computer. When I got home both kids were still sleeping, but Parker was now in Janalee's chair. It was so funny. Shaun even reclined the chair using Mr. Potato head, hahaha. Shaun cracks me up. It was so cute, I just had to take a picture.
Parker is now 6 months old. I can't believe it!! He is 15lbs 12oz and 26in long. He is getting so big!! He is crawling all over the house and pulling himself up on things. He is trying to walk around the furniture, but he isn't steady enough on his feet yet. Janalee likes that he is able to get around, but also doesn't like that he is getting into things now. He is such a quiet baby that sometimes I have to go on a search of the house to find him because he has crawled into a corner to play or is hiding behind furniture. My kids are so much fun, you can't help but love them!!

Cute girl

Can yo guess what she is saying? She came up to us and was saying this and it took me a minute to figure out what she was saying. It is a movie quote from one of her favorite movies. hint, hint She cracks me up all the time with the things she will come up to me and say.

I made cards this year for Shaun's residents and attendings and my family. My friend Kristen inspired me with her craftiness!!! I thought they turned our pretty good for my first attempt at card making. I need to recover now for a little while, I used up all my creative juices on these.

Fun times at the Simmons house

We had a great Thanksgiving here. We cooked a nice turkey for the four of us, well three since Parker doesn't eat yet. It was my first and I think it turned out pretty good. We ate on it all weekend, it was yummy!!! Parker is now crawling. He is loving that he is more mobile now, but I don't think Janalee is too excited all the time. He is now able to get into her stuff and she is trying to adjust to that. She does have fun playing with most of the time. She plays a little ruff, good thing the second born is durable!!
Last night I was getting myself some dinner, when I turned around janalee had jump off her chair and ran over to mine to feed Parker. It was so cute. She just couldn't get it in there fast enough for him. We will work on that, and also teach her how to change diapers too :)


This is our little Christmas tree and hanging on the lighting is our long Christmas countdown. We made some little paper decoration for it. Janalee didn't do so good with the real ornaments of the tree. I got tired after the first day of her taking the ornaments off and breaking them, so we went to paper. Now she doesn't play with them at all. Parker loves to try and eat it, yummy fake tree :)
I can't wait for Christmas, it is so much fun now that Janalee is older and understands more of what is going on.