Dog Lover

I knew Jace was a dog lover when we went to my parent's house when Jace was 5 months old. It was one of the first times he had seen a dog and he could not keep his eyes off him! He would laugh and laugh. Then when Charlie left the room he would cry! It was the funniest thing. He has continued to be obsessed with dogs. When we went to Scott's parent's house this weekend, he would not leave Sassy alone!!

Good thing Sassy is such a good sport.

We also had a "do-over" birthday party for him. I knew he would dig in if he was feeling better!

A face only a mother could love!!

Happy Birthday Jace Face!

Jace turned one on Monday! Too bad it was one of the worst days of his existence! He was sooo sick the whole day. There were a few minutes where he was ok, but most of the day he was miserable. We went ahead and tried to give him a cupcake expecting he might dig right in, but he just stared at it and poked it once with his finger. That's how you know he's sick for sure!

This was after a bath trying to bring down his temperature... :(

I gave him this cracker trying to get him to eat something, and he just held it...

Luckily I was able to get a couple cute ones during his few minutes of feeling better...

I took him to the doctor today for his year check-up, and he was 31 inches and 24 lbs! He's such a big boy- LOVE HIM!!

Miss Mae

Makenna is sooooo much fun! I love her outgoing and funny personality. Of course as I've said in the past she is incredibly girly and obsessed with anything fancy. She only has "normal" clothes on when we go somewhere! The first thing she asks her friends when we go to their houses is if they have any dress-ups... She has a Bella Dancerella video that teaches ballet to a Cinderella theme and she takes it very seriously. She has to match everything Bella is wearing and is very picky about doing everything perfectly right. It is the cutest thing ever. She also loves to have tea parties and that is the first thing she'll ask her friends when they come over to OUR house! She says the funniest things. Just tonight after we put her to bed, she came out and said she wanted me to sing her Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. I said sure but no more excuses. She said, "ok mom no more excuse me's." :) Earlier today she was feeding her brother something and stuck her finger in his mouth and he bit down on it. She got really mad about it and after thinking for a minute she said, "Mom, I think we should sell him." She was dead serious! So funny. My favorite thing to do with Makenna is jump on the trampoline with her. We like to make up games and do fancy jumps and stuff. It's so fun. She definitely keeps me laughing every day.

She convinced her joy school friends to play tea set with her

She put this outfit together one day. I thought it worked pretty well together, except maybe the slippers... :)

our Jace face

Jace is the sweetest boy ever! He makes me melt. He has changed so much lately! He has 6 teeth now! He got 4 of them in one week- fun for me... He was pretty grumpy while he was teething which was a lot different from Makenna. I had no idea she was even teething. He is no wuss though! He is constantly getting hurt and you would never know he was ever in pain until a big old bump or bruise shows up! He's a tough kiddo. Of course he gets hurt a lot these days because this boy is allllllll over the place. He crawls, stands himself up, cruises all around, opens drawers, oh and pulls everything out of them he can! He has no attention span. Makenna could seriously sit and watch a movie at this age, but there is no way he will even sit there for 20 seconds. He LOVES playing with balls. Most of the time he is carrying one around with him. He also loves to throw them, and everything else! One week at church he kept throwing stuff to the people in the rows behind us! He's got a good arm! He can also play catch with us- we toss the ball back and forth to each other. It's so cute! Jace has also got one loud set of lungs! He loves to scream if he needs something or if Makenna is bugging him. He knows it will get mom's attention! He's also my little cuddly guy. Seriously my favorite thing is if he wakes up during the night (not very often) because we just cuddle and cuddle and he likes to stroke my hair and face- I love it! Scott says I'm taking advantage of him, but I can't help myself! :) Those are the best and most rewarding moments for me as a mom. I feel so lucky to have this little guy in my life.

He seriously stuck that in his mouth right before I took the picture- I had no idea- gross!

He's such a big boy!

cousins!!

The other day the Bentleys came down. We had so much fun with them. We went to Explora and had a great time as usual. I love it there!

Playing X-box

Angie and I liked this mirror for obvious reasons...

The kids made their own "house"

Strange weather

I have been loving the weather lately, as much as I can love winter... We'll have snow one week, and then the next it will be in the 50's! It is a nice mix. I just can't stand the winter when it's just plain cold with no snow and no nice days. It makes me feel so stuck inside the house.

When it first snowed- you can't duplicate that smile!

Jace likes eating the snow. Actually, so does Makenna

Our favorite thing to do as a family is take walks. We would go every day if we could, so it has been nice to do this in January!!

Makenna always insists we stop at the park along the way! Don't I have the cutest husband?

In the backyard

Legoland/Sealife aquarium

We went to Legoland while we were in Carlsbad and we had a blast!! Makenna LOVES rides and rode on as many as she could. It helped that she is exactly 40 inches which is the cut off for a lot of rides. She had the biggest smile all day!

So glad they had a lego Santa since we didn't get a Santa picture this year!

These horses look just like the ones in a lego's set we had when we were little!

This was the cutest ride she went on all day- as you can see it was very entertaining watching her bump into other kids... and walls...

After Legoland, we went next door to Sealife aquarium that just opened up. It was SOOO awesome- we loved it! There were so many things for the kids to play with and touch and see. If I lived there I would go all the time!

They were actually inside a fish tank!

Touching a starfish

and here's a scary one for ya...