Beach Party!

We all went over to the beach today and had a blast! Janalee had been talking about it all day and so excited to get there. She kept asking us "where the beach, I can't see it!" too funny! She ran right into the water as soon as we got there. Parker who loves the water, was very excited to get in too. Once he got in though he was a little scared of the waves. He stuck pretty close to either me or Shaun from then on and didn't want to go too far out.


Parker was a little tired I guess and sat and snuggled with Shaun for almost 10 minutes. It was so cute!!!


Janalee was having a blast running in and out of the water and digging in the sand and making piles of sand and then distroying them!


Shaun and Janalee spend most of the time building a wall up so there was a little pool of water for Parker to play in so the waves wouldn't get to him.


It was a really fun day at the beach!! As soon as we got home Janalee was asking to go back. She doesn't quite understand the concept of later sometimes :)

Zoo party!!

So we went to the zoo today because Shaun has this week off. It was so fun! I love the Jacksonville zoo, it is too awesome! We had so much fun! Sadly I forgot the camera:( Anyway, they have a little kids water park and Parker was in kid heaven!! He loved walking under the water and letting it pour all over his head, Janalee only wanted to get her feet wet! They both had lots of fun there! Janalee loved looking at all the animals. Her favorites were all the birds. We would be like "look Janalee, the elephants!" and she would say "wow, look a bird!" hahaha-well at least she found the birds really exciting. hehe Parker loved looking at the animals too, but he also loved people watching! We had so much fun!!!
It was such a hot day that we had to come home and get in our pool!! I love our pool!!! So do the kids! Janalee is getting pretty good at "swimming" with her floaties. Parker just wants to play in the pool all day! We will be spending a lot of time this summer in the pool!
Anyway, we will hopefully have some more fun times to share with you all later this week! I love when Shaun is on vacation!!!

Easter and more

Janalee loved decorating eggs. She really wanted to put her whole hand into the dye, but we were able to keep everything but her fingers out. I think she loved eating them the most!

Here they both are hunting eggs! Easter was so much fun now that Janalee is older and understands more!! She had fun opening her Easter basket and Parker's and mom and dad's too. haha Shaun hid some Easter egg outside around the house and she loved running around looking for them. It was so cute!! Even Parker got in on the action. So much fun :)



I can't get them both to smile at the same time!!





Janalee loves to sing!! Since December she has been singing jingle bells all the time, but now we have moved onto Cinderella haha! She is even making up her own songs as you can see in this video. Too much fun!


Parker is cutting his teeth. For a while there he only had one top tooth, it is pretty cute if I do say so myself!


The other weekend we went to the zoo. We bought a zoo pass since Janalee loves going so we can go whenever and not have to wait in line, woo hoo. (that day there were like 300 people outside of the zoo waiting to get in.)
We found the kid play area and Janalee and Parker were in kid heaven!!!! They both loved the slide. I think Janalee went down it like 30 times in a row before we forced her to leave.


She was so cute on this thing. She sat in the middle and was pointing to each girl and would ask "What your name?" My little social butterfly there :)

We also found the petting zoo. Janalee loves the animals!!

phone photos

I finally learned how to get pictures off my phone-thanks Shaun. So I thought I would share some of them with you all. A few weeks ago we went to a bowling party with some of the other people from the hospital that Shaun works with. Janalee loved it. Every time she rolled her bowling ball down there, she would turn around with a big smile on her face and proclaim "I did it!" So cute!!!


(Sorry about this being blurry, I was holding Parker so my hand was shaking a little. Just imagine it not blurry, aren't they cute!)



Parker got a hold of the frosting from a cupcake there. He loved his first taste of frosting, yummy!



Here is some pictures from taking the kids to the mall play place. Parker was impressing everyone with his walking. Ya, my kid is awesome :) Of course I couldn't get Janalee to hold still long enough to take a picture- she was running around like her crazy self. got to love her though!





Last week we went to the park because the weather was so nice. Janalee found some girls to follow around the playground. The girls decided to go on the little mile walk loop that is there at the park, so of course Janalee had to go with them. She had to hold both their hands almost the whole time, too cute.



P.S. I have no idea what the fleshy looking thing in the corner is, because it couldn't possibly be my finger-hehe

March already!!

So, I am starting to get really bad at posting here for my 3 readers. haha, I will improve. It has been really busy here, Parker is walking around most of the time. He is trying to climb on things already! Crazy!!!!! I found him trying to scale a folding chair at church the other day, luckily he had only made it the first rung on the chair.

This Sunday I dressed Parker too stinkin cute!! My mom found this tie and I thought I would try it on. He looks so grown up in it!!! I can't believe he is 9 months now!! He didn't even play with it at church, what a good boy. Janalee was dressed cute as always-could she be anything else :)- but I couldn't get her to stop moving long enough to get a clear picture, they all turned out fuzzy! Crazy girl :)

I think we wore Shaun out this weekend, hahaha!

I made these curtains because my dear children and dog have destroyed our blinds!
Before

After

They aren't perfect, but not too bad for someone who can't sew very good and didn't have a pattern. Don't look to close though, or you will see how bad they are, haha.
Well, Shaun will have anther vacation week here at the end of the month so hopefully we will have something exciting going on to show you all.

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.