Ringing in 2011!

So while I am in the blogging mood I'm going to keep going and post some pictures from this month (Jan 2011). We rang in the new year by going to my Dads house in Lehi with my step siblings and Sophies cousins. Abby and Ashley were there too so it was a party! We went to their church house and played some basketball with everyone. Yes, even me. You know you're bad when Abby kept saying to me, "Jaim are you SURE you want to play? I just didnt think you would want to..." I DID play in city league back in the day, how bad could I be?

Sophie and Beckam having some fun playing with some toys! They are all so cute together! Beckam and Kazeden think Sophie's bows are pretty fun to try to grab off her head and it scares her to death. They are both all over the place and she mostly just sits there watching them!

This picture was taken a little before Christmas of these three. Beckam on the left is the oldest and then Sophie and then Kazeden (who is the biggest one!) They are all about a month apart from each other though. They are all so adorable.

Tyler's Mom (Susan) also came to visit last week and stayed with us for a few days. It was fun having her here over Martin Luther King Day because Tyler was off work and his brothers were off school and were down from Logan. We got to go to lunch and the movie "Country Strong", while Todd and Kimiko watched Soph. We played games with all of them until 1 30 in the morning! It was a really good weekend. We didnt really get any pictures, but Susan did make this cute hat for Sophie! Its so cute!

January is also Tyler's birthday. He turned 28 on Friday!! Yes I did marry an older man. ;) For his birthday he wanted to go to Chilis for lunch, come home and take a nap, and relax the whole night. His favorite dinner he wanted me to make is Chicken Divan. It turned out to be such a good day. Our nap worked out perfectly with Sophie's and we slept for two hours. It was a relaxing romantical night. I love that he just wanted to stay home with us. I kept asking him "are you sure you dont want me to invite some people to dinner or we could go out without Soph..." He just loves being home with his girls! He is a homebody.

Then on Saturday we went to the Canyons snowboarding. We havent been boarding in over two years because I was pregnant last year and couldn't go. It is the best feeling to be outside flying down the mountain! I wish it wasnt SO expensive to go or we would probably go more, but its fun to do a few times a year.

This picture is priceless. I had to go to a relief society meeting and left Sophie home with Tyler. Right before I left I made tacos and when I got home an hour later Tyler had barely eaten. Sophie had this reallly gross blow out all the way up her back and Tyler took this picture of it. He had to give her a bath and wash all the poopy stuff. I love her face in it though like she knows she did something wrong but she didnt mean to.

And last, but DEFINITELY not least for January... We got a new car!! We sold my beloved Jetta to someone off KSL and got a new 2011 black Rav. We love it! The guy that sold it to us takes pictures of all his sales with their new car and he took this one of us. I will admit I was sad to see that Jetta drive out of our garage for the last time though. I had alot of good memories in there and have had it for almost 8 years! If it didnt only have three doors I might have considered keeping it for longer but getting that backseat with a carseat was the biggest pain!

December in a nutshell. continued!

Christmas morning Sophie woke up so happy and excited like she knew something was up. She sleeps in my Moms laundry room with the fan on in her little packnplay because its so dark and quiet in there (and the hottest room in the house!) It works out nicely.

Santa put all the kids stuff in piles and even left Soph her own pile. She got some dolls, a few clothes, and a toy dog that sings to her and says her name. She mostly just liked the bows and wrapping paper though!

That day we went and visited my great grandma, which is Sophie's great great grandma! I still can't believe she has a great great grandma. We dont get to see her very much, but she still remembers our names and is pretty much all there in the mind! She was so so happy we came to see her on Christmas.

After that we went up to my grandparents house in Ashton. They live on a big farm surrounded by alot of empty farmland. It's perfect for snowmachining! They have a few and we brought our sleds and snow gear and headed out. We even took Sophie out cause it wasn't too cold and we had a snow suit for her. She basically couldn't move in this outfit, it was so funny. She was just a chubby little butterball.

It is so pretty up there and it was so nice out! We had so much fun.

I seriously have so much fun when I get to spend time with my sisters. I wish we got to hang out more! I am so lucky to have them and love them so much.

I love this little Christmas dress we got for Sophie. She looked like a Christmas doll!

And finally.. Christmas 2010 is done! Thanks for hanging in there! :)

December in a nutshell.

I decided I am really bad at blogging! I feel like nothing I write is really interesting enough so I dont know if its worth it to keep up with it... But I think it is a really good idea to print them out after a year or two and to have little details of Sophie's life because I'm also really bad at writing in a journal! I just dont want to forget little things about Soph as time goes on. So here we go again!

Since I have so many things to catch up on I am just going to skip to the month of December. We had such a fun and busy month of December! Thinking about all the changes we have had from last Christmas to this one is crazy. We now have our fun little Sophie and we have a house. It was so nice for us to be in our house for the holidays after all the years of apartment renting and moving around, and this cold season we have realllly enjoyed our fireplace and hot tub!

We really wanted to do a Christmas card this year to send out to alot of Tylers clients, so we had my sister Ashley take some pictures of us at Sugarhouse park. Here are a few of the best ones...

We had some issues with the lighting because it was really sunny when we took them. So they are either all really bright or had to be in black and white! But they still turned out pretty good.

i love Sophies little body in this one. Good thing it is from behind cause I'm pretty sure she was screaming during this pic.

This was about the only one we could get of Sophie looking at the camera and not tring to grab everything!

One Friday afternoon we went to the mall to go Christmas shopping and some reason it was a day where they gave away alot free stuff. We got really lucky and got a free 25$ gift card to Victorias Secret and a 25$ American Express card to use anywhere! We were pretty happy about it. Sophie loved riding Tylers back around the mall. Pretty much us going shopping means I shop while these two play around. Me and my two little kids I guess.

We made gingerbread houses one night with our friend Mark and his girlfriend Nerissa. She is really cute and they are a fun couple to hang out with! Me and Tyler did a house together and it looked like a 7 year old made it. Somehow there's were perfect! Apparently we lack in the artistic department.

Sophie has mastered sitting. She is nine months and still can't crawl but she can and will sit for hours! haha. She is a little big high maitenance and likes to have everything handed to her. I am not really sure if she will ever crawl. She gets really mad when we make her try because she scoots backwards and gets further and further away from her toys that shes trying to get to. Poor little girl just cant figure out how to go forwards!

After we got home from taking pictures with Ashley I took a bunch of pictures of Soph just sitting in our house and she was so smiley. Of course she wouldnt smile when we really needed her to though! I love that her little ear escaped on this picture. They are just too cute!

i love this face!

Sophies grandpa Kev gave her this cute little fur vest. It is so funny she looks like she belongs in Park City.

I have the best friends in the world! We are all really close and I love them! We all got together (minus a few) for Kaelis baby shower. It was a circus with all the kids but it was so fun to see everyone and all their mini me's. We definitely could not get a picture with EVERYONE looking so this is the best we got!

Tylers brother Ryan and his wife Ali had their baby, Sadie. Her and Sophie are 8 months apart and its her first little cousin on Tylers side. She was such a tiny little thing, Sophie seemed HUGE next to her! We are excited for them to be little friends as they get older.

It was lucky but somehow we got tickets to both the First Presidency Christmas Devotional and the David Archuleta Christmas concert with the Mormon tabernacle choir. We had Tylers brothers and wives over for a dinner and then went to the Christmas thing, but unfortunately didnt get any pictures! The David Archuleta concert was sooo good. He has the best voice! It really got us into the Christmas spirit as well. I am going to try to get us tickets every year for that concert!

For our Christmas vacation it was our turn to go to my Mom's in Rexburg which is always fun (and really cold!) Some reason Sophie was really into making this face alot, so I had to put it up.

Here we are Christmas eve in our new pjs. Sophie was defintely ready for bed. We were trying to keep her up to wait for Emily but then we just had to get on with it!

Christmas Eve dinner. My mom makes the best broccoli and cheese soup in bread bowls! It was so good! We had a musical Christmas program and then even had a visit from Santa Claus himself. Sophie was already in bed by the time Santa came but I'm pretty sure she would've been terrified of him anyways since she is scared of her own shadow.

I put up this picture to show how much hair she has at 8 months old! She is alot like I was when I was a baby . I had barely any hair either, and actually my mom says mine came in even whiter than hers!

My moms friend let us borrow this jumper toy for Sophie to play in. She LOVED it. She went crazy the first night in that thing we thought she might fly right out of it she was jumping so high. It was the cutest thing! I wish I had one of these!

Halloween Partayy

We love Halloween! The last three years we have had a little Halloween party, and just cause we have Sophie now didnt stop us this year. Since we were having the party Saturday we really wanted to dress Sophie up on Friday night too to show her off in her costume.

Todd and Kimiko came from Logan and we all went to Olive Garden with Sophie dressed up as a little ladybug. She got alot of compliments because she was the cutest little ladybug ever! I also took her to Tylers flag football game dressed up in her costume. Since she cant trick or treat yet there was only so much we could do!

We had alot of good costumes at the party! I think Todd probably took the spot as best costume as the Mad Hatter. He looked creepy! I will have to say Tyler looked pretty creepy himself and Shawn and Ashley looked hilarious as white trash!

Once again... Tyler looked pretty funny! I think Sophie was a little bit scared of him. Some reason she wasnt really scared of me with black hair! Maybe I should dye it.

I love this picture of these two! Sophie is making a funny face and Tyler just looks cute. She looks alot like her daddy!

It was Sophies 6 (and a half) months appointment today. She had to get 5 shots and of course I HATE that part!! I feel so bad for her because shes always so happy before the Dr comes in and then in two seconds she is screaming like a banshee. I have never heard her cry as hard as she does when she gets her shots! Here she is hanging out in the Drs office before the shots... she obviously doesnt know whats about to happen!

She looks so chunky but she is only in the 30th percentile for her weight, and the 50th for her height!

I love her cheeks!

She is trying to master the art of sitting up. Sometimes she does really good and others its like she has a weight in the back of her head that makes her fall backwards. She also officially has a TOOTH! It is crazy how fast time flies.

Happy October!

Good Morning!

I absolutely hate getting up in the mornings. I am not a morning person and never have been! Unfortunately having a baby kind of puts a damper on sleeping in. When Sophie was younger she would usually go back to bed with me and Tyler until about 9 if we wanted her to, but lately she is up at 7 and will NOT go back to sleep! Although it can be very annoying I love hanging out with her in the mornings because she is so smiley and happy. I cant resist this little face!

I love fall!

A few weekends ago we went to Idaho for my Aunts bridal shower that me and Ashley threw. My Aunt Lori has always been more like the older sister I never had, than an Aunt! She has been through so much in her life and somehow still stays positive and happy through it all. She is getting married next weekend and I cant wait! I am so glad she has found someone that treats her good and that she can spend her life with.

I love this picture with Ashley and Abby squished into the back and Sophies little pink bowing showing over her carseat!

We always love going to my grandmas house when we are in Idaho. She lives in a cute little red house in the middle of the country, surrounded by mountains and lots of fields. It is so pretty there in the fall. We were excited to go fourwheeling and enjoy the scenery and the weather!

Justin and his wife Mega and their little girl Mia came from Texas to visit that weekend also. She is so cute! Sophie is her first cousin so she was really excited to help with EVERYTHING Sophie needed to do during the day. Here she is singing her to sleep...

Pretty much all day me and Kimiko were in the kitchen making treats! My friend Kenzie introduced me to Bakerella, so here was my first attempt! I actually didnt do most of the work, Kimiko helped with pretty much all of it! They are little wedding cakes on a stick that I took to the bridal shower. ( the colors of the shower was purple...)

This last week I met up with some of my favorite friends at the park again since it was so nice outside. It is so fun to see them and their cute little kids! We decided to take some fall pictures of the kids but couldnt get them all to look at once except this picture. I dont know how photographers do it! I think at this point we were all pretty much standing on our heads. Could these kids be any cuter though?

Me and Soph.. She does look alot like Tyler but I think she is starting to look a little more like me! She does have some white hairs coming in! I think once she is walking around with a full head of white hair she will look alot more like me. She may be two years old by the time she gets a full head of hair though! :)

One day last week we went to Ashley's and walked to Sugarhouse park. She lives right across the street from it! Since it was so nice out there were a million people there but it was fun to show Sophie the ducks and walk around. We pretended like we were throwing food in the water so they all circled around us. She was a little scared but mostly just stared at them!

I have been loving this weather and am not looking forward to the snow!!

Life as Mommy...

So lately I have been wondering if I should just delete my blog or get back into the blogging world! So I started at looking at everyones cute blogs and all my friends cute little kids and babies and decided that I need to keep up with mine so we can all keep in touch better and I wont miss out on staying connected with my favorite people! Plus I feel like I have such a cute little baby here, I need to show her off somehow!

Life as a mom has definitely been a new experience! There are definitely ups and downs and times when I could pull my own hair out. It has taught me alot of patience and also shown me how much I could love and care for another little person! It is a wierd feeling to feel so bad when they are upset and to be so happy when they are smiley and happy. Lately though I have felt like me and Sophie are becoming best little friends and I wouldnt want it any other way! She is finally in a really good routine and rarely has a reason to throw a tantrum. She really thinks I'm so funny and all I have to do is say hi to her for her to give me a big cheesy smile. She is already over five months old and I cant believe how fast time has flown by. We have gotten really lucky with how good she has slept all along, but it has been nice to have her go to bed around 8:30 to get a little peace and quiet at night now!

One of my favorite times with Sophie is when I rock her to sleep. Lately I have been the biggest baby and cry over just about anything (even an episode of Modern Family which is supposed to be a comedy!) But all I can think about is how time is flying by way too fast and my little baby is getting so big. Her favorite thing for us to do is either tickle her hand or massage her chubby little thigh while she goes to sleep. I could stare at her forever! After she wakes up in the mornings to eat I take her back to bed to Tyler to cuddle with her. When they are curled up sleeping next to each other they look so much alike! It is so cute. I have loved watching Tyler be a good dad and take care of Sophie. He actually gets really protective of her and was begging me to stop working even part time because he hated the thought of Sophie not getting all the attention and love that she deserved! So, I put in my two weeks about three weeks ago and have been loving the extra time together and starting my own projects here and there.

It is so funny to us how much she loves TV and movies. If she is ever fussy or bored we turn on a Baby Einstein and she gets so excited and watches the whole thing (twice sometimes!) It is pretty funny to watch her watch the tv and crack up at all the dumb jokes. They are about the dumbest things to watch but I cant complain because it gives me time to get ready or cook dinner.

She is a little poser. Sometimes I feel like she is already a teenager trapped in a baby body. Other people that have taken care of her for a while say the same thing.. she is a little diva already! She can already make some bratty faces and looks at other kids like "what the heck are you doing with that toy? or why are you making those crazy sounds?" Instead of being down with all the playing babies she prefers to sit back and watch them from far away. She thinks other kids are pretty funny though. We went to visit my step sister and her little boy and he was just playing and throwing his hands in the air and Sophie was laughing so hard. She thought it was so funny that he was going crazy!

This picture was taken last week and is the most recent out of the group. She can sit up on her own now and roll over and be more interactive!

Besides Sophie, nothing too interesting is going on with us right now!! I quit my job and Tyler is still working hard at Farmers Insurance. We were so busy all summer and it seems like we have alot of stuff going on this fall and winter coming up too! Sophie will be getting her first cousin on the Griffith side around Christmas, and will get to meet her uncle Josh and her two cousins on my side for the first time this November! We are so excited to see Josh again!