The Rest of California

I was sure to take lots of pictures at my baby shower. Unfortunately, those were about the only pictures I took. Here are the rest of them... I guess I was just too busy having fun to think about grabbing my camera.

Here was one of many nights over at Nate and Dara's. Jack fit right in with his cousins!

The life saver of the trip was the full sized crib my mom had and the fact that Jack quickly adjusted to the time change. He was always well rested and therefore cheerful!

We enjoyed playing at my cousin Rachel's house one Saturday afternoon. We were able to go to Evan's 4th birthday party which was so much fun!

Quick pic here and there with Uncle Jeff and Grandpa!

We went to a couple parks here and there.

Uncle Sam!

This was at Uncle Nate's and Grandpa's baseball game. He enjoyed harassing them in the dugout and sticking his fingers in the fence.

The next time we go back we will be a family of four!!

Showered With Love!!

I just spent 10 wonderful days in California. It will be the last time I see my family before the baby is here! We had the best visit and the time just flew by! Jack was quite the little trooper and enjoyed being adored by all. I had my time to shine as well at the most perfect pink baby shower thrown by my dearest Aunt Sandee and cousin Jill (pictured below!). I really am spoiled! Surrounded by all my family, showered with adorable baby girl gifts and eating delicious food... it truly was the perfect day.

I Love Florida

We broke the splashpad wide open today! Absolutely loving this weather!!


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Happy Birthday

To: ME!!
I turned 32 last month. I haven't always been a big birthday sort of person but I love a good excuse to eat at my favorite restaurant! Daniel had captains class until 10 that night so I was just going to take my other main man with me. Luckily we were joined by my mother-in-law and sis-in-law so I could actually have a real conversation with someone who speaks more than 3 word sentences. The food was delicious, the company great and a good birthday all in all! Here I am with my hot date.

Silliness and Cuteness

Boy do I have some blogging to catch up on! I pretty much blinked and January was over and February is speeding by in the same fashion. I've been uploading and organizing pictures galore and may be a little burnt out on computer time to do much blogging but here are some pics of the silly guy to hold me over until tonight or tomorrow.

Being silly at boys club at the Sniders

Gearing up for lil sis

Couldn't resist the crack attack!

Giddy Up!

I didn't believe my little guy would actually sit on a horse and ride (I had tried with him before with no luck) but with a little coaxing from dad, here he is!! What a lucky kid!

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Christmas Day and the New Year...

Christmas Day 2010!

This Christmas was so much fun!! In fact, the week from Christmas to New Year's could possibly be categorized as one of the best weeks of my life! It was so fun watching Jack enjoy all of his gifts and also hearing him exclaim (still, to this day) Happy Birthday Jesus!!! Just makes me smile that a 22 month old can know so much. But the feelings of love, gratitude and happiness were over flowing this year which is exactly as it should be!

Here we are Christmas morning before the big reveal!

Yay - Santa came!!

Later that morning at Grandma and Godad's.

Christmas Evening back at Grandma and Godads (food was scrumptious)

Finding Out!!

What also added to our fabulous Chistmas week was finding out on the 29th that we are expecting a little baby GIRL!! And I guess this is our pregnancy announcement, too, since I have mentioned that we are pregnant on the blog yet! She is due May 23rd and looked just perfect on the ultrasound! I was a little on the queezy side toward the beginning of the pregnancy but have been feeling absolutely fantastic since starting my 2nd trimester and am currently half way through at 20 weeks!!

Happy New Year!

We brought in the New Year (barely) at Daniel's parents. We ate, visited and had a great little fireworks show. By the time the New Year rolled around only 5 out of the 20+ people there were still awake (me being one of them, Daniel not) but oh well!! Happy is the man that feels content enough to sleep through the New Year! I still woke Daniel up to toast and smooch him and then we immediately headed home!

We are expecting 2011 to be just as exciting as 2010 and look forward to all it will bring!

Christmas Eve

I have been anticipating Christmas Eve for weeks now. Really, I have been so excited to be Santa's "helper" it's been a little ridiculous. But I was not disappointed. We had such a nice day together today - complete with a full Christmas Eve breakfast spread, a Christmas Eve nap, and a lovely dinner (with a trip to the fishcamp and a kabota ride thrown in of course). Tonight we got Jack in his new Christmas jammies (I got this pair at my baby shower - been waiting a really long time for him to wear them!), read our "Night Before Christmas" book (thanks Heather!) and enjoyed reading Luke 2 for our family scripture study. That tipped the scale for me and really brought the spirit (and the tears, that haven't stopped all night). After little guy was down we set up for Christmas morning (which took about 10 minutes) but was all I wanted it to be! We toasted with Martinelli's settled in to watch our recorded Top Chef and I continued to shed blissful tears feeling so content and happy and blessed and grateful. I truly do live a blessed life and am so so thankful for all I have.

Here is the little guy just before bed.

Merry Christmas to all and to all a GOODNIGHT!!

Meeting Santa

Thank goodness Jack-Jack will be asleep when Santa comes tonight - he wasn't a very big fan!!