The Simple Things in Life

One of Jillie's favorite things to do is...

get herself up onto our chair by...

Using a decorative suitcase I have underneth it.

Then she claps while standing on the suitcase because she is so proud of herself. This is just one reason why I love being a mom and just one reason why I love her so much.

Baby number 2 is coming!!

Today we found out! We went in for our ultrasound at 11:30am. Were having another girl!!!! We are so excited and feel so blessed to soon have two sweet little girls. She is due September 2nd. Right now she is about 7-8 inches long. I love her already! P.s... I know the first and second pictures are a little freaky, but I will bet money that she's gonna be a cutie.

80 degrees in March

Yesterday we had such a fun day at Grandma and grandpas house. I couldn't believe it was that hot. All I could think about was how am I going to get through summer being pregnant, when I was already complaining about the heat in March! We pulled the pool out of the garage and put some water in it for Jill. She had so much fun going in and out of the pool. Her other favorite part about being outside was going up and down the steps in their backyard and just running around barefoot in her swimsuit.

keyboarder

When it shows the keyboard player towards the middle of the song, who does it remind you of?



Doesn't it look like Will Ferrell!

Wiggily Jill

Its been awhile since I've updated on our sweetiepie. She was 13 months in these photos with grandma and grandpa. She loves sitting on their laps. She also loves exploring at grandma and grandpas house. The stairs are her favorite. She loves climbing them, but she still hasn't quite figured out how to go down. Luckily she is careful and waits for me or grandma to help her. We are working on getting her to go backwards on her tummy down. She will do it sometimes on the carpeted stairs but not on the wooden steps. She's smart, I wouldn't either.

I love this picture of them. I think Jillie has grandpa's eyes a little bit.

The bumble bee car is one of her favorites. She got it for Christmas from Grandma and Grandpa Benning. We push her around the house in it as she says, "wee weeee"

Jillies also loves to go on adventures. Here we are at Rancho San Antonio park. They have a little farm but we got their to late to see the animals up close. We did see some through the fence though. She loves to pick up sticks and as many as she can hold in each hand.

Her first time drinking out of a drinking fountain.

Her hair turns all curly when she gets even a little bit sweaty. She loves to wiggle all around the house when mommy and daddy are both at home. One of her favorite games is when we chase her around the house.

We took a day trip up to San Francisco about a week ago. Here we are near the water at the bottom of Van Ness where all the piers are.

Oh look, she found a stick and some bark!

Another favorite thing she loves to do is walk Max. As you can see she is holding the leash and she saw this "pretty" orange baracade that she wanted to lean up against for awhile. Another day she was with daddy in downtown San Jose and she again was walking Max and then saw a big art mural on a side of a building, so she stopped and leaning up against it and just stayed there for a little bit. So Aaron took some pictures with his cell phone and immediately she walked over to Aaron and reached her hands out to see the pictures. I will have to post that photo later.

It's about time...

Okay Okay so its been awhile. I'm at work and I'm bored. Its a slow and rainy day and I would much rather be home in bed. There I said it.





It really hasn't been that horrible today, I have had a few sales. I sold some really cool handpainted fish that look like these:

And I sold a crystal candy jar. I can't find a picture to show, but its pretty self explanitory. It was pretty heavy, but she liked that so the kids couldn't get into it that easily without help. Pretty sneaky I'd say.

A Night at Christmas in the Park

I love going to Christmas in the Park in Downtown San Jose. Its like walking in the North Pole. There are all these displays of Elves building toys, an old fashioned candy store, and much more and they all move so it looks like they have come to life. Jill loved looking at all the lights and things

Max did too... This is how he sat in the stroller the whole time. We had to put him in there, cause we found out that no dogs wer aloud.

The best thing about the whole night was having her sit on Santa. At first she was worried and almost started the cry but she quickly decided it wasn't so bad after all.

Look who's turning 1!

I just made this tonight for her little party we will be throwing for her.

I hope you like it!

The Monteray Bay Aquarium Trip

Amor I Love You!

If you want to hear this, turn off my other music. I love this song. My firt Missionary Companion told me to buy this cd after my mission and so I did and fell in love this song. I just found this video for it! Enjoy!

Fishies and Sea Lions!

While I was at work today, Aaron and Jillian had a fun day at the California Acadamy of Science Museum or it is also called the Steinhart Museum. He sent me these pictures from his phone. I love that he goes on little fieldtrips with her even at such a young age. She loves fish can't you tell and isn't it awesome that he left her in her pajamas!! I think that is a guy thing to do. She does look cute in little feetie pjs though I have to admit.

Next, they headed off to see the Sea Lions down at Pier 39. Jill loved them but Max was afraid of them. Here he is protecting her with kisses from the sea lions :)

Halloween Hurray!

I passed out candy at my work. There were alot of great costumes like this family above. I have no clue who they are. I just asked if I could take their picture, they were probably wondering why. Maybe one day they will radomly look on my blog and see themselves. How weird would that be.

Here is the Halloween Menlo Park parade. They march down our street where I work. Its pretty cute for the kids then they all go trick or treating. Side Note: How come kids hardly say Trick or Treat anymore? Whats up with that! Not very many kids said those traditional words while I was passing out candy. They would just open up there bags not saying a word. A few times I said, "what do you say? They were like,, "um thank you?" Then I would say, "No, I mean before that, what do you say?" I felt like a jerk, but seriously how hard is it to say, TRICK OR TREAT to get free candy!!

Here's our little pirate girl!!

We were all going to be Hawaiin tourists but I found that totally sweet jacket at the thrift store so I was Mary Lou Reton. I look pretty pyscho, I know. We had fun though!!

Let's walk

Jillian's new favorite toy is her stroller that she walks around the house with. She loves pushing it and since our apartment isn't that big, she quickly runs into the wall or objects and that is when I jump in and turn her around to head another direction. We've discovered doing this out in our hallway is much better since she can go straight for a longer distance. Oh, our sweet jillie. By the way, she has taken atleast 6 steps on her own, so any day now she will be taking off!

At the Pumpkin Patch

Here is Alex and Jillian. Alex always reads to Jill whenever they see each other, its very cute.

Max and Jillian in the wheel barrel. Here she is with her arms out straight. She does that when she is excited.

Here she is doing it again. She loves pumpkins!

She was so happy to be surrounded by so many of them!