Christmas Pictures

Mom and Mary came over Sunday to take a picture of us for our Christmas card. Here are some we captured!

Jaycee has loved to get out Christmas books off the fireplace and read them all month! She loves books!

Tried to get her singing some of her Christmas songs, she's been singing all month as well...it's pretty cute. Wish she would've actually sang them like she does all day long, but this is the best I could get for now. Also, she loves playing with the manger scenes, so I tried to get how she says, "Baby Deses" "Mommy Mawy" & "Daddy Dosuph." It's pretty cute!

We also went to visit Grandma & Grandpa Hatch that evening. They have a life size Santa that sings and dances when you walk past him. Jaycee was okay with it at first, but then decided she could NOT walk past that thing anymore, or at least without holding some one's hand! :o)

2nd round......

That's right...that is growing inside of me as we speak! :o) We are so excited for Jaycee to be a big sister! She often refers to the baby in mommy's belly as, "Jaycee's baby." (as she points to her own belly) We are due in July on Talon's birthday, July 12th! But will most likely have it on July 5th. We weren't planning on telling ANYONE until February when we find out what it is, BUT after getting the due date, we decided it was going to be too hard to keep it in any longer! ;-) So now you all know! We'll certainly keep you updated!

Owen's 5th Birthday

We went to Owen's birthday party last night! He turned 5, and looked a lot taller yesterday. Weird how that seems to happen. :o) Happy birthday O-Boz!!! We love you!

Singing 'Happy Birthday' & blowing out the cake! Cody thought he'd be funny and move the cake around as Owen tried to blow out the candles...silly dads!Everyone who came to celebrate...well the ones I got a picture of, at least!Opening presents!Playing the game he got for his birthday...looks fun, eh?

Thanksgiving Festivities

Thanksgiving lasted three days for us! Yum! Yum! The day of, we were able to go down to Spanish Fork and eat with the Bradford family. That was great like always, but seems to be getting more and more crowded...the family just keeps growing and growing and there's still plenty of room to grow! :) Thanks for letting us share that day with you all!

The day after, we spent the day at Mom's where Richie and Jessica and Sierra "surprised" everyone and played games with us all day! They were supposed to surprise everyone, but really everybody knew before. But it was still fun to see them and be able to spend some time with them while they were here for a few days! And they got to see Jackson for the first time, so that was good, too! Playing games together! Lots and lots of people around this little old table...but it sure makes it cozy! :) J.J. came over too, to spend some time with Jack, Richie, & Mary while they were all here, and before he goes on his mission in January! First time Aunt 'Walter' (aka Jessica) meets Jackson! :o) Natalie, Sierra, Jessica & JacksonKayani, Jaycee, & Sierra playing their own game of 'make a mess with the Domino's!' They're all getting so big! But Jaycee, so far, is the biggest of them all, with Sierra close behind, and Kayani just the same as she was about a year ago! ;-) Cute girls! Aubree wasn't there, but she's not quite as big yet, she's pretty little too, and hasn't hit that growth spurt yet...but she will, just give it time!

Saturday morning, a bunch of the boys got together and played football before our Naylor family Thanksgiving dinner at Aunt Terry's house!!! There wasn't as big of a turn out as last year, but those that did show up, still had fun! Even though it was freezing outside! :) Aunt Terry, Mom, Misti, Jaycee & I stayed at Aunt Terry's and got things ready till the boys were done and everyone else showed up. It was a full house, but I love it! It's always great to be with family for the holidays! Thanks everybody! All the great grand kids sitting at their own table...TOP PHOTO: (right to left) Kayani, Sarah Syre, Lindi, Talon, Ethan, Owen, & Jaycee...BOTTOM PHOTO: (left to right) same as above, just in reverse and missing Sarah & Kayani. (Missing Aubree, Jackson, Sierra, Kirra, baby Naylor, & Dorris) Man we're a large group of people and we just keep getting bigger!

"Bird in dare."

So, Jaycee and I were downstairs watching "Handy Manny" when I heard a bird through the chimney. I've heard birds before, as if they are on the roof by the chimney, so I didn't think anything of it, but then about 10 minutes later, a bird came through the fireplace and into our family room!!! It scared me so bad, that I started yelling Ryan's name, who was upstairs in bed. I finally got his attention, and he came down with his glasses on and our garbage can to catch it. Well, he thought it was a little bird, but nope! It was a blue jay and it was big! So while it was scared and flying around, we both went over to open the window so it could fly out. While we were over there, it disappeared. Awh!! It ended up going upstairs and was going from window to window trying to get out, so we just opened the door and stepped away, and it finally flew out! Jaycee was mostly just laughing the whole time, she thought it was hilarious! But there were a few little squeals that came out of her too, probably because she heard me do the same. :) It was pretty funny, but a little nerve racking too! Pretty interesting morning, I'd say.

Now every few minutes Jaycee will say, "Bird in dare. In ouse (house). Daycee." It's pretty funny. I tried to get her to tell us what she saw, but she wouldn't cooperate too well.

***UPDATE***

As I was sitting here blogging, Ryan heard more noise in the fireplace. We went outside to get up on the roof and see if the netting is not on the chimney anymore, but our ladder is not tall enough to get onto the roof, so we went to the neighbors to see if they had one, but they were not home. So we came home and when we came back downstairs, this is what we saw...What the heck??? Either it's the same dumb bird, or there is more than one! Why would they want to be in our house??? Yuck! Jaycee saw it and got a little scared. I opened the window and Ryan opened the fireplace and it flew to the ledge of the window, but wouldn't fly to the top to actually get out. Ryan wouldn't let me take any pictures of him, but it was pretty funny to watch. He would scream a little and then Jaycee would mimic him, and that went on for a little bit until it finally flew out the window! Hopefully no others come while we are out getting a taller ladder. What a morning! And it's only 10 am!

Mmmm...Cupcakes!

I had made cupcakes for a friends birthday to take to work, and so after dinner, we let Jaycee have one because she ate all her dinner. She was so tired while eating, that she was falling asleep, but as soon as we told her she could have a cupcake, she sat straight up and grinned, but was still super tired. The following will show you how hard she was trying to stay awake just so that she could eat her cupcake! :) She's so silly!

18 months...stats

Jaycee went to the doctor yesterday and is growing just great! She is getting so big, and there's proof in her stats...

• 23.8 lbs (42%)
• 31.8 inches (53%)
• 18 cm (26%)

Her head is still a little small, but she is finally in the 50th percentile!!! We finally have an average sized child! :o) Before going in, I thought she may finally have caught up a little bit, because she has grown SO much in the last few months! I swear she sprouted like 2 inches in October, her legs are so long!

She runs around, laughs, dances and sings ALL the time. She loves going up and down stairs and is now learning how to use the railing rather than going down on her belly all the time. There is no sitting down with Jayce around! She's so smart, she talks all time! Some examples of cute things she says are:

• “mik is dwicious!” - milk is delicious
• “owla” - hola
• “ados” or “ba bye” - adios
• “jacke” - Jacket-which she uses in sentence form now like, “Daycee jacke on peez.”
• "Daycee" - Jaycee
• "Dauddy" - daddy (Ryan LOVES when she calls him daddy, rather than dad!)
• “Rah Rah” - Sierra
• “Ani” - Kayani, just the last part of her name
• “Ownan” - Owen, which is also sometimes “Owa” & Ethan, but sometimes Ethan is just “Eee”
• “Townan” - Talon
• “Mamma” - Grandma, the first ‘a’ sounding like the 'a' in can
• “Bampa” - Grandpa
• “Mimi” - Misti
• “Mauy” - Mary
• “Nadwee” - Natalie
• “Jack” - Jack
• “Jacka or Jackee” - Jackson
• “Oni” - Ronnie
• “Uca” - Uncle
• “Ody” - Cody
• “Taycee” - Stacy, although she never says it to Stacy, little stinker :)
• “Aubwee” - Aubree
• "Venji" - Benji
• “Sica” - Jessica
• “Itchy” - Richie
• “Broopy” - Brookie
• “Mew” - Mel
• “Nae Nae” - Nathan
• “Mamby” - Mandy
• “Yef” - Jeff
• "nak" - snack
• "do" - go
• "nandy" - candy
• "cacka" - cracker
• "toodl" - turtle
• "Jeeda" - Derek Jetter (Ryan's teaching her his favorite ball players)
• "eecee" - C.C. Sabathia
• “own” - phone
• “hwo” - hello
• Thank you and shoes for some reason she kind of hums with her mouth, although a couple of times she has slipped up and actually said the words, then hurried to see our reactions and promptly hummed them again, like she was trying to hurry and cover it up so we didn’t know she CAN actually say the word! :) She’s too funny!

Those were mostly for my own journaling purposes, so sorry if that was boring to you, but I think it's cute, and I want to remember them as best as I can! :)

She is sooooo fun! I absolutely LOVE being a mommy!!! :-) It's too fun to watch her learn and grow! I can't believe she's already 18 months old! Love you baby girl!

Halloween Pictures from Shootz Photography

We finally got the copies of the pictures we had taken so I scanned them in for all to see!

Our little "Doca!" Isn't she cute? And she looks so big in this picture, it's weird.All of Jaycee's cousins, with the exception of Sierra & Jackson...Top Row: Owen, Brooklyn, Talon, Kayani, Ethan. Bottom Row: Jaycee & Aubree.

Thanks for going with us, everyone! That was fun! And thanks to Jan for doing them!! :)

Cody's 31st Birthday

We had a birthday dinner for on Cody Sunday, even though his birthday was Saturday! It was quite fun. Ryan couldn't come because it was also his Dad's birthday dinner Sunday, even though his birthday is Tuesday! But it was still fun with everyone else.

I tell him to smile, and this is what I get....classic Cody! :)Talon's whispering to Cody telling him what to wish for before he blows out his candles! :)Blowing out his....I think 4 candles....which I'm pretty sure is NOT the right amount at all! ;)

Just Watchin' A Movie

Thought this was cute...

I love when Jaycee lays like this and she does it so often lately! The TV wasn't working so I put a movie in on the computer instead and they decided it would be easiest to watch laying on their bellies with their feet up, I guess! :)