Any Given Sunday

Most Sundays find us at Eric's mom's house. She is so good to make dinner for pretty much my family, Eric's brother and her. Seriously she could feed 2 people and chooses to feed 10 instead and that's almost every week.

Recently, Eric's brother got a Shih-Tzu puppy and both she and the kids enjoy being around each other. This Sunday was no exception.

Greg had taken the 5 of the 6 kids over to a park to play a little baseball and so that left Jace and I hanging out with Charity. Eric was helping his mom with something. So I pulled out my phone and once again got some fun photos that pretty much describe most Sundays for us.

Jace figured out how to take a selfie:

So of course we had to take a couple 'group selfies':

Jace channeled his inner daredevil:

Charity and Jace waited patiently for everyone else to come back to Grandma's:

Then they gave up and Jace allowed Charity to give him a bath while he relaxed:

We really do enjoy our fun Sunday afternoons.

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Snuggle Time

Jace was getting ready to take his afternoon nap. Shaylyn decided she'd try to get him to sleep by snuggling up with him. After a few minutes, I checked on them and came across this scene:

Jace is smarter than the rest of us and put his sister to sleep instead. You can tell he was tired. He just wanted a bottle and his mommy to get him to sleep.

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Hair Crazy

So Jace has hair that grows in at weird times. Some of it is longer than other parts of it and sometimes it makes me crazy to look at. His hair is especially long on the sides and I wonder if I should just chop it off, but at the same time it scares me to death to do so.

The other day I had to run to the store. I decided to try an experiment with Jace. My little sister likes to give her 1 year old son a faux-hawk and it's absolutely adorable on the kid. He's got this fine hair and it works so well. I thought we should try it out with Jace.

Jace also has some thin hair, but I don't think it's quite as fine. So while we were going for a faux-hawk and mostly accomplished that goal, his hair was a little heavier and we got a bit of curl to it.

So while it wasn't exactly what I was going for, he still looked dang cute. And IT STAYED in place ALL DAY! Jace even got the attention of a few ladies while we were in the store and he didn't mind it at all.

I think I'll take to doing his hair most every day, he cooperates so much better than Ailey does. 

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Joys Of Motherhood

Question: It's about 9:00 at night. Your baby has fallen asleep literally on your lap and you have to use the restroom. Do you wake the baby up to go to the bathroom or do you sit there holding your bladder and pray it holds up for as long as it takes for the baby to wake up naturally?

My Answer: You sit there and wait it out until the kid wakes up a few minutes after snapping the photo. He's much happier and your bladder isn't any worse for wear. Just one of the many joys of motherhood.

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Let's Go On A Picnic

So it's technically still winter, so Ailey only invited herself and she only used plastic food - she had herself a nice little picnic, blanket included!

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Quick Learner

Jace is gonna give me a run for my money. He's such a quick learner and is learning what's important in this family. It all started with this little episode on Wednesday...

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Then earlier today we get this:

Somebody help me. There is no rescue from the pit that is Minecraft in this house and the baby has now been sucked in. I'm so upset.

For those of you truth seekers: The game controller wasn't even on and the book was placed into his hands by his older brother. 

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Oh So Kissable

Shaylyn's been going CRAZY making tons of bracelets since she got her looms for her birthday. It's all she's been doing lately. She's been searching YouTube for videos of how to make different designs. She came across a lip design and made a 'charm' for her bracelet using that tutorial.

Jace was then at his big sister's mercy...

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Random January

Here's a quick little glimpse into some happenings of January that don't necessarily have any real huge story to go with it.

WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN YOU GET A NEW SMART PHONE?
Me, I see just how good the camera is/isn't by taking shots of my baby. Don't you?

...Love this deer in the headlights look...

What's my overall opinion of the camera on my new phone? I don't love it, but it is pretty good. I hate the odd dimensions it takes photos in and that they aren't as large in size as the ones I take with my actual camera. It does still take pretty good photos and I'll give it that.

WHEN IS ENOUGH, ENOUGH?

I was doing a scrapbook layout about all the BYU paraphernalia that we have in our home. I had to include Eric's hats. Little did I know he had as many as he did...

...I even found like 3 or 4 more he just inherited from his dad. Keep in mind these are only BYU hats, he's got others. Seriously, there's only 7 days in a week - do you really need a team hat for each day of the week?

Wanna see the layout? 

Maybe someday I'll get around to updating my scrap/craft blog and go more into the story then...Maybe...

HIS FAVORITE ANIMAL?

I think Jace might already have a favorite animal. It would be a blue tree frog. Yes, they really exist. I Googled it. Here's a look:

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Does Jace really like blue tree frogs? Of course he doesn't like the real animal - they're poisionous! It's a good thing too since the blue tree frog Jace really likes, he also likes to eat.

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Chin Up

Our mornings usually consist of tons of floor time. Jace loves to play and to look around at what's going on. It doesn't hurt that he is a smiley little guy.

I'm biased, I know. But that smile is hard to resist.

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