JACE IS TURNING 1!

JACE IS TURNING ONE ON NOVEMBER 27th.....crazy how time flys! Come celebrate with us on Tuesday 25th......our place at 6 o'clock! Call me if you can come:)

Our heart fungus Emily!

These two are in love with each other.....

I LOVE this picture.......

To all in Utah this is my friend Emily ....we work togther (we are good at keeping each other awake at 3 in the morning)....I am her landlord (I am bad at that job she has lots of crickets)...we are also friends ...she says she is a fungus on my heart....no matter what she will always be there :)

HOW'S THAT SNOW UTAH???

Hate to say Utah folks...but here in Arizona this is how we roll two days before

Halloween!!!!

Don't mind us hanging in the sun and sand at the pool!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!

Jace finally loved putting his costume....probably because we squealed and made such a fuss over how cute he was was.....he squawked and wiggled back at us inside and was happy while he was outside with the other kids....but any time we knocked on the front door and someone answered he went limp and shy trying to hide behind the floppy dragon face on his hood....even when the neighbors made a fuss over him he wanted no part of it didn't we feel dumb ....we pretty much looked like greedy adults who wanted to go out for candy for ourselves.....maybe next year he will get it! T

he candy he did get didn't really interest him at all....he just likes putting stuff in and taking it out of that bright orange pumpkin.....thanks grandma and grandpa little! that pumpkin happens to be his favorite thing in his toy box right now:)!

This is the giant monster that ate my tiny baby!

It seems like overnight this child replaced my tiny infant....in the morning I sometimes want to yell...."who are you and what have you done with my baby?"

I do cherish all that this little guy is learning to do ... climb up the entertainment center,

climb on the endtables,

search for dad when he is at work,

dance to commercials,

chase us around the house and scream when he finds us,

scream when he is hungry,

scream when he is done eating,

scream when he wants a toy out of reach,

scream when he can't have the remote control,

scream along when we sing songs REALLY loud

....hmmmm

I wonder where he gets that screaming from?

Cousins don't shake hands....cousins gotta hug!

It only took two cameras,

three adults and

about 11 pictures

to get these two to look in the same general direction

to be sort of smiling at the same time, and to keep their hands to themselves (remember that phrase Johnny, I believe you had that comment on an elementary school report card)
they really had a great time together....Trace got to grab Jace's toys right out his hands and Jace really didn't care as long as it was replaced with something else....jace was just happy to have Trace there and he followed him all around the house.....the day after they left, I kept finding Jace going to the back

bedroom to try to find him.....Trace's picture is in his photo book and he squeals every time he sees it......COME BACK SOON TRACE!!!!!

the Jensens are coming!...the Jensens are coming!

SOOOO much fun to have michelle/adam/trace here in Arizona! Soon it will be permanent! Clint was out of town all week so it was great to have them here to keep me occupied. They got a taste of the Arizona sunshine so hopefully they will be down here in the next couple of weeks. Crossing my fingers that a job comes through and I will see you crazies at my front door soon!

YEAH!! JENICA IS HERE!!!

Thank goodness Jenica finally moved back to Arizona......you can tell Jace is pretty happy about it too.....I think he sees it as one more person who loves and snuggles him.....and spoils him......

GO CARDINALS!!!!

Jace got to go to the Cardinals game with us last week......HE LOVED EVERY MINUTE. There was music to dance to, food and drinks to gobble up, cheering and screaming, and his most favorite was all the clapping. I believe he thought everyone was clapping for him because he has mastered this trick. Spent most of the game standing on Clint or I's lap looking behind us making cute faces and capturing the hearts of section 123. Amazing how the toughest of football spectators can turn in!to babbling idiots over a baby.....funny stuff

3, 2, 1 BLAST OFF!!!!

This is Clint launching our child into a pile of pillows......gave me heart failure the first time I saw it....then you can see the pure joy that spreads across his face and the deep belly laugh that follows each throw and it all seems ok. I guess that's what dads are for, to make their sons tough....while I will stick to my job of cuddling and singing songs.