Jamie's Family Christmas Party

Today we got together with my family in Salt Lake for our annual Christmas party. Amanda and Ben hosted this year and we were able to use their awesome clubhouse and it worked out perfectly! Both me and Jessica are horribly sick with the worst flu bug I have EVER had in my entire life. I am literally throwing up every hour and feel so icky. Luckily I was able to make it to the party so we could get updated family pics done (which I am sure I look pretty awesome in) and sleep on the couch for a bit before throwing up again and heading home (to throw up again in the car, then in my driveway, and on and on!). I wish I would have been feeling better to enjoy the get together with my family but look forward to them coming back down in a few weeks!

I love you family!

Thanksgiving in Idaho

We spend Thanksgiving in Idaho Falls this year and I always love starting out the holidays at home.  There is something about Idaho in the winter that helps get the holiday spirit going for me.  We had crazy weather though and it took us almost 2 hours to get from Blackfoot to Idaho Falls!  Will was so good though and we finally made it safe!

This is one of Will's 'angry' faces, ha ha love this little stinker!

Thanks Mom for the fabulous dinner! We love you!

[let it snow, let it snow, let it snow]

Yay for the first snow of the season!  We love the snow and it was so much fun to watch Will experience it this year.  He was in heaven!

I LOVE this time of year :)

SherRon's 50th in Park City

I headed to Park City this weekend for a surprise 50th party for Aunt SherRon and was so glad I was able to go!  I am lucky to have the best in law/family ever and the overnight getaway was so much fun!

Me & Heather waiting to yell surprise:

SherRon had no clue!  It was so perfect!

So cute :)

The whole group of girls (+Dale & Dakota) at dinner:

Such a fun night at the lodge!

We stayed at The Escala Lodge and it was absolutely gorgeous!

Me, Stacy, & Whitni:

Spending the morning in snowy Park City, love it!

It was such a great getaway and such a fun time.  

Happy early birthday SherRon!!!!

Gma Bev's Halloween Party

I know it seems random to just now be blogging about my Mom's Halloween Party but I wanted to wait so I could post pics of my families reaction to the good news that I am pregnant!  Here are a few pics from the amazing party:

My handsome little skeleton:

The food was so fun!

The ambiance of the party was so awesome!

Seriously he I think I have the cutest skeleton ever!

We decided a fun way to tell everyone would be to get everyone together for a family pic and then Mike would say, 

1,2,3, WE'RE PREGNANT!

 
You have to watch for everyone's individual reaction, PRICELESS!

Aimee gets it:

Brandi gets it:

Mom gets it:

Dad, Justin, & Amanda get it:

And finally Ben gets it:

It was seriously the best way to tell them!  I LOVE IT!

{the little grape}

We are so excited to announce that Baby 2 will be joining us
June 5, 2011!!!

We couldn't be more excited for our little family and are excited that 'the little grape' is doing great!  It was so fun to get to see the tiny little one at our 10 week ultrasound and was amazed at how active this little one is already.  Will  points to my tummy and says 'baby in mommy's tummy' but we are pretty sure he has no clue what that really means :).  When we ask him if he wants a brother or a sister he replies with 'brother-sister' and then smiles, good thing there was only one baby in there at the ultrasound!  I am finally starting to feel pretty good again and was amazed at how much I forgot being pregnant that first little bit sucks :).  Its a good thing we forget right?! 

Utah State vs BYU

Mike and his friend Mark decided to take the kiddos the Utah State vs BYU basketball game tonight in Provo.  Will was pretty excited all day and kept running around the house yelling basketball all day long.  I think its so cute the guys braved it with the kids and I know they all had such a fun time!

Will, Noah, Mark, & Leah

Will insisted on wearing his Utah shirt and seriously wouldn't let me put anything else on him!  Mike said they got some pretty funny looks :)

Will vs the Stairs

Once again Will has proven to me that he is 100% all boy!  Tonight he insisted that we open the child gate to the downstairs and then he proceeded to take his blue tunnel and climb inside and then slide down the stairs on his tummy.  We were seriously laughing so hard!!!  For starters Will has NEVER seen any kids slide down the stairs let alone deciding to do it in a blue tunnel.  Oh man this kid makes us laugh!

LOVE that look of pure joy :)

Mike's 'Work' Trip (aka:Golf Weekend with the Boys!)

Mike was lucky enough to spend the last few days golfing and playing in St George and Vegas with his friends. We miss him tons when he is gone but LOVE that he gets to play and have fun every once in a while, especially since he works so hard all the time!

How bout them Jazz!!

I am so glad its Jazz season again!  We were lucky enough to get last minute tickets to the game tonight and had the best seats ever!!!!  We even had our own parking spot in front of ESA, it was pretty awesome.  The game was intense and after double over time the JAZZ WON!!!