Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Favorites

So I'm going to post a few of my favorite baby things. A lot has come out since Braden was a baby 4 1/2 years ago!

First of all, my wrap... It's called a Moby wrap. Go to http://www.mobywrap.com/ for more info. Check out the colors and you'll see all the different ways you can use it. I love it. It doesn't hurt my back like the baby bjorn does. I can wear it for hours and it feels great!
Next... BabyLegs!
http://www.babylegs.net/
SO CUTE!!! Jane wears them now, and they grow with you. She'll wear the same ones when she is 2! Now they are all scrunched up but as she grows into them they won't be. I had to post boy ones too since they are SO cute!
Next...Motherlove Nipple Cream. This stuff works! It helps soreness a TON! I can't believe I didn't have it my first two babies.
Last...Robeez shoes. I love these boots. They keep socks on and are so dang cute! Plus, you can just throw them in the washer when they get dirty. I have heard from more than one person NOT to just get the target ones. They don't hold up well like these do.

Monday, January 28, 2008

All Stages...and my princess!

So I had a blast visiting with some of my favorite people last weekend. We had a girls weekend in Scottsdale, AZ where Erin was an awesome hostess, despite feeling rather ill the whole time. So here is a picture of us gals in all stages of being "with child". Erin, due 08/08/08, Traci, due in May, Lizzy, due in April, and lucky me, all done with Jane in my wrap. We really had a blast. The time went by way too fast! Here is the darling dress Erin got for Jane. Doesn't she look like a princess? It is seriously to die for! Thanks Erin! And where did she get it? A store called "Girly Girlz" of course!


Friday, January 25, 2008

So Janie is just changing all the time!! She is almost 3 months old!! Where does the time go? I took a bunch of pictures this morning b/c she was just so cute and bright eyed! Her eyes are so blue now and she just has such darling features. She is definately getting a little personality. I just love it. As sad as I am that she is getting bigger, it's so fun to see her actually come out of her zombie state and be a part of the world.





Tuesday, January 8, 2008

Our Vacations...

So we had a fantastic Christmas! We spent it with family, family, and more family! First of all we spent 5 fun filled packed days at the Dance home in Bellevue. We had a great time caroling, playing games, shopping trips, and just hanging out on Christmas. The boys were in heaven playing with their cousins and uncles non-stop! I pretty much had a blast playing with my sister-in-laws non stop! It was really great to have the whole family together. Christmas Eve dinner...eating as in olden times...fish...bread...greens...fruit...cheese...YUM!!! Yes, we are sitting on couch cushions! Aren't my in-laws creative!

Caroling to the fire stations...a dance family tradition. We take zuchini bread to all the fire stations in Bellevue and thank them for their hard work...especially being on call christmas eve! Every one invited us in to look at the trucks. The little boys were in heaven!

After that adventure we flew to Vegas where we had another 5 full fun-packed days with my family. It was so great to see my brother Will who I haven't seen in 2 years while he was on his mission. And it was fun to spend time with my parents who will be leaving in a few weeks for Africa where they will be serving as well for the next 2 years. We celebrated Tom's birthday in Vegas (happy 32nd babe!) and also blessed Jane. Oh, and the picture of me and Jane is to show my new hair...yes, I cut it! Even though everyone told me not to, I did. I had to. I needed a change, as well as less drying time.
Braden and his 4-year-old cousinsCameron and his 7&9 year-old cousins

jane talking

Friday, December 28, 2007

Christmas night

So Tom's mom asked the kids Christmas evening what their favorite thing was that they got for Christmas.
Cameron: My favorite was the shovel.
Dallin: My favorite was my sword.
Braden: My favorite is going to be the telescope.


(oops...Santa ran out of telescopes this year)

Christmas morning

So Christmas morning we told the boys they had to wait till 7am to get up. Cameron got a new watch for christmas and opened it christmas eve so he was very aware of the time! So the morning came and he ran into grandpa's room (who tom told the kids was the "gatekeeper" and told you if you could go down yet). He said "Grandpa, it's 7:18. But I was up a little younger than that."

Monday, December 24, 2007

Prayer

Camerons prayer yesterday:
"dear heavenly father
thank you for this day
thank you for christmas time and
(pause)
(pause)
Merry Christmas Heavenly Father"

Thursday, December 13, 2007

Something to think about...

So I don't ever forward mass emails to people and usually just delete the ones I receive, but this is something I saw on a friends blog and wanted to share it. I think it is a great thing to read and think about, especially this Holiday season. If you are looking at my blog, take a minute to read this and really think about it...

"The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings, but shorter tempers.
Wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints.
We spend more, but have less.
We buy more, but enjoy less.
We have bigger houses and smaller families, more conveniences, but less time.
We have more degrees, but less sense, more knowledge, but less judgment.
More experts, yet more problems, more medicine, but less wellness.
We write more, but learn less.
We plan more, but accomplish less.
We’ve learned to rush, but not wait.
We have 24 hour access to information through televisions, internet, e-mail, cell phones, instant messenger, text messaging, pagers and blackberries, but we communicate less and less.
We have called evil good and good evil.
We have killed our unborn and called it choice.
We have neglected to discipline our children and called it building self-esteem.
We spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, get too angry, stay up too late, get up too tired, read too little, watch TV too much, and pray too seldom.
We love too seldom and hate too often and too easily.
We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values.
We’ve learned how to make a living, not a life.
We’ve been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing the street to meet a new neighbor.
We’ve done larger things, but not better things.
We’ve cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul.
These are the days of two incomes but more divorce, fancier houses, but broken homes.
It is a time when there is much in the showroom window but nothing in the stockroom.

God won’t ask what kind of car you drove, but He will ask how many people you drove who didn’t have transportation.
God won’t ask the square footage of your house, but He will ask how many people you welcomed into your home.
God won’t ask about the designer clothes you had in your closet, but He will ask how many you helped to clothe.
God won’t ask what your highest salary was, but He will ask if you compromised your character to obtain it.
God won’t ask what your job title was, but He will ask if you performed your job to the best of your ability.
God won’t ask how popular you were, but He will ask how many people to whom you were a friend.
God won’t ask what neighborhood you lived in, but He will ask how you treated your neighbors.
God won’t ask about the color of your skin, but He will ask about the content of your character."

Wednesday, December 5, 2007

let's try this...

So my cousin posts videos of her baby all the time and so I thought i'd try it. It's easy to view and fun to see a little live action. Not that a baby is all that interesting!

pictures, pictures, pictures


So when I had this baby I dreamed of having some adorable pictures taken of the two boys looking down at sweet little jane who was either sleeping peacefully or awake and just looking cute. Yeah, right. I was dreaming!




Instead, Jane was screaming, the boys were monkeys, and I was almost in tears. Can't we just get one shot for a Christmas card?


I had high hopes of getting my cards out the day after Thanksgiving so everyone I send to will have my new address in hopes of getting a few cards in return. After all, that is one of my favorite things about Christmas time.



Maybe I'll get the courage up to do another photo session. probably not!

And that's a wrap!


I had to calm down my poor child after all that trauma.

Monday, December 3, 2007

Mini Van Mom

So it's official...I'm a mini-van Mom! Tom bought me a mini van for Christmas. Or for having a baby, I don't know which. It only took 3 weeks of shoving carseats in the back of the mazda before we realized it was just a pain! It really only took Tom trying to get Jane's carseat OUT of the mazda once and after 5 minutes of trying he decided it was time to go car shopping. So he did research and found me a 2007 Honda Oddesey on Craigslist in Seattle. It was the day before Thanksgiving so he went and looked at it and surprised me by coming home with it. It was a great deal, and we would have paid the same amount for an older car with 30,000 more miles had we waited. I love it and I'm not ashamed to drive it!

Let it snow!!!

We had our first big snow storm here in CDA! The boys have been having so much fun playing in it! I thought they'd be more like their mom (wimpy) and get cold but they stay out for an hour to two every time they go out! Here is our sweet baby Jane. She is 5 weeks now. I swear she is going to start smiling any day now! She is really focusing on faces and objects. It's fun to watch her grow, but I'm sad she's not my little 6 1/2 pound baby anymore. She's about 9 pounds now! I don't know how the heck some women push out a baby this big!
We went with the Gattens and cut down a Christmas tree! I stayed in the car with Lizzy, Sally, and Jane (I told you...I'm a wimp!). It was 20 degrees out and snowing. The kids had a blast though (except Braden who fell down so many times and got frozen!).
"Can I hold Janie?" is a question I hear ALL the time! I rarely say no, except when she's sleeping so peacefully and I don't want little boys disturbing her. She is a really great baby, most of the time. I think I figured out I can't drink milk. We had a really fussy time with her and I decided to try to stop drinking milk and the next day she was an angel! Then yesterday I decided to have one bowl of cereal with milk and sure enough, all afternoon she was fussy and kicking her legs. This morning it is gone. Hopefully its as easy as cutting out milk!




Tuesday, November 20, 2007

Where does the time go?

So it's already been 3 weeks since Janie's birth! Where the heck does the time go? We are so glad she is here. She's seriously just so fun! Not that newborns really are fun, but it's fun to have her. She is waking up quite a bit. Her eyes are big and she reminds us of Cameron when he was a newborn. When she sleeps she has a Braden look to her as well. We know she belongs to us!
So this weekend Tom met his mom half way and she took the boys to Seattle with her. They were there Saturday through Tuesday without us and we are going over for Thanksgiving tonight. It's been SO nice to have the break. I love my boys, but man, how quiet it is with just a baby in the house! My sister-in-law Channing asked Cameron and Braden how they liked their new little sister and Cameron just kept saying, "She is just so cute. She is so little and she is the cutest little sister ever!" Then when his cousin Dallin told him his sister was the cutest cameron had to tell him he was wrong and that his sister Jane was the cutest. I'm glad he's already a protective older brother!

Sunday, November 11, 2007

Darts

I had to go upstairs to get something yesterday and told Braden to watch his sister. She was fine, but he was right there and I thought he'd feel important to have a little job for a minute. I start walking up the stairs and peek over quietly to watch Braden. To my surprise, he picked up his dart gun, aimed, and shot her in the stomach. She let out a little yelp and Braden turned white when I yelled his name. He knew he was in trouble. He went straight to his room and when I came in a minute later with Jane he looked like he was going to cry. He promised to never do it again and gave her a kiss.
Man, what was he thinking? My "sweet" boy is not so sweet I guess...he's got a little mischievious side!