Pictures

Okay, here are the pictures Natalie was so gracious enough to take for us on Valentine's Day! We had Jaycee's done since she just turned 9 months old, and thought we should have another family one taken since the last one was July 2008, and Jaycee is MUCH bigger now!

These four are my favorite ones! Natalie captured some pretty good poses, and faces with Jaycee.These are the better of the family ones. It was so bright outside that neither Ryan nor Jaycee could keep their eyes open! So it was hard to find ones that worked out. Natalie did a great job, though, despite the people she had to work with. :) Thanks Nat!I just think this is a cute "innocent" look of hers.This one looks like she's playing the guitar in an air band!I thought these ones were pretty funny! Jack kept trying to get her to smile, and some of the things he would do, she'd look at him with this confused look on her face. It was pretty funny, so I'm glad Natalie was able to capture some of them! :)

Overall, we are very satisfied with these! Thanks again Natalie for helping us out! If any of you would like her to take pictures for you, let me know and I can give you her information!

Funny Face

So, this is Jaycee's "It's just too bright out here!" face. She does it ALL the time even if it's really not bright, and there is no sun out. So I thought I should capture it on camera, and this is the best I could get.

Jaycee is 9 Months Old!!!

Wow! I cannot believe how fast time flies! Jaycee is 9 months old as of Feb. 6, 2009, and she is getting so big! She went to the doctor for her check up today, so here are her stats: 27.2 inches tall (35%) 17.9 lbs (25%) head is 17 cm (25%) Some fun things she has learned to do:

• Crawl...finally!
• Says, "dada" & "mama" & sometimes "ba" (ball)
• "Cruise" (what they do when they pull themselves up on things and walk around the room holding onto things). This she does ALL the time, even onto things we would rather her not pull herself up on.
• Jibber Jabber ALL the time (one of these days I will catch it on video, it is the cutest little voice you've ever heard).
• Will fall asleep all by herself in her own bed! She actually prefers this and will not fall asleep for us in our arms when we are other places, like church, etc.
• She finally has her 2 bottom teeth (they came in within like 2 days of turning 9 months old), I think her top ones are working their way through soon too.
• She dances to music, but differently than she did before...now it is by shaking her head "no." It's pretty cute!
• She has tasted real food, not just her baby food, although that is still her main nutrition. And she can feed herself her snacks, she does still struggle sometimes, but loves it when she can.
• She is finally getting a little hair on top. It looks like it'll be blond w/ possibly a little bit of her daddy's curl. Yay! :)
• She is still our little daredevil, also.....she likes to climb as high as she can on one of her toys, that is VERY dangerous, but refuses to stop even though we tell her not to, AND she has fallen from doing so!

She will be getting her pictures taken soon, by Aunt Natalie, so those will be posted as soon as we get them!

Bowling & Baptisms

So, Saturday, Jan. 31, 2009 we were able to go down to Spanish Fork and spend the day with some of Ryan's family. His two youngest cousins were baptized, but not at the same time. Briley's was in the morning (and it was her birthday that day) and Blaine's was in the evening. So in between, we all went bowling to pass the time. It was a lot of fun to spend time with them all! They all loved Jaycee as you will see in the pictures, but that's not hard to do! :) We were very glad to be able to spend that day with Briley and Blaine, and we are very proud of them for making that decision. Congratulations, you two!

Just standing around playing with Jaycee!

Jaycee with Ryan's Aunt KarenKayden, Ryan & Grandma watching their teammate bowl while eating pizza.

Lovely Ryan!

Cute Jaycee with McKinley

Waiting our turn...Me, Ryan's Uncle Dave, & his Aunt Karen

Grandpa, Jaycee & McKinley...none of them bowled, so they were able to keep an eye on Jaycee for us!

Jaycee & Ryan's Aunt Lisa. Jaycee was sooooo tired at the beginning of the bowling, but would not go to sleep in anyone's arms, because she would rather fall asleep on her own in her bed. But eventually she got tired enough, that she finally fell asleep, and Lisa LOVED that it was on her shoulder!

Now it was Grandma's turn.

Briley (the birthday girl!), Grandma, and sleeping Jaycee!