Four years already!?!

Happy Anniversary!!

Wow, has it really been four years already!?! I'm feeling a little old right now...hmmm :) It doesn't seem like it's been that long. This year's anniversary was nice. We had a nice day at home on our anniversary, and then spent the weekend in St. George for the Triathlon. I'm not supposed to tell you that Jake came in 547th, so I won't. :) I'm so proud of him for even attempting a triathlon. I'm pretty sure I would die because I can't swim to save my life. Hence, I'd die. He thought he'd increase his ability to float with a strict diet of Dr. Pepper and burgers. I suggested that may not be the way to go, but what do I know? Anyhew, I'll post those pics in a little bit, but back to the anniversary.

Our actual anniversary is on May 7, and I woke up before Jen (which almost never happens) and my hubby was nowhere to be found. I was planning on making him breakfast in bed but he was gone. I was really confused thinking he'd gone to work without saying anything, and I thought that was a crummy thing to do on our anniversary. Especially since he'd planned to take the day off.

Well, I called him and it turned out he was at the store getting a few things for omlets. YUMMY! He thought he'd be back before I woke up, but as you can see, he wasn't. I guess I ruined the surprise by calling him, but at least I could stop being upset with him. :) We had a nice morning with a yummy (and not to mention big) breakfast. I love breakfast food, in case you were wondering. Especially eggs and orange juice. We don't eat a good breakfast very often, so this was nice.

I went downstairs to find four gerbera (correct me on the spelling, Melissa) daisies and a Willow Tree figurine on the table. The funny card with the hamsters on it has a story behind it. I was so pleased with myself for finding this card for my brother's birthday, because it plays this silly song that's on I think Robin Hood or something. Anyway, I haven't heard the end of it since from either Jake or Devin. So Jake got it for me and wrote on the inside "I know how much you love this song..." It made me laugh. Jake said later he was going to get me four dozen roses for the four years, but decided against the cost of them and went with the four daisies. So cute! And he even remembered that we had some of these at our wedding reception. Points for Jake!

Since the whole breakfast in bed thing was out because we were all up by the time he got back, we made breakfast together. Jen ate her banana like she does most mornings, and tried a bit of our omlet, but spit it out. We'll try again later, I guess. More for me! ;)

We took our time getting ready for the day, and then it was off to Salt Lake. Jake had to drop off his bike at his sister's house in SL (she was transporting it to St George) so we decided to pay a visit to Grandma Snarr, and let her babysit while we went to lunch. Aren't we nice. :) We were still pretty full from breakfast so we ended up just getting ice cream at Baskin Robbins. Which always reminds me of good old MHS and they even had the flavor I'd always get in high school! Everybody's Favorite Candy Bar. YUM! I am one spoiled girl! I felt like we were dating again too because we walked through Sugarhouse Park while we ate our ice cream (his sister lives right by there, hence the choice of park). We talked about our relationship then and how it's changed now (for the better of course). I'm a little upset with myself that I left our camera at home. I'm putting this story to shame with a lack of pics! Sorry, Steph, who documents things oh so well! ;)

Anyway, it turned out to be a good day. We switched babysitters mid-day because my mom had piano teaching to do, and Jake's mom offered to watch her in the afternoon, so we thought we'd take advantage. We don't get a babysitter very often, so it was a little weird to not have Jentri with us. We went to Pizza Factory (love those bread twists!) for an early dinner and then went to see Iron Man. Pretty good show. I didn't think I could see Robert Downey Jr. as a superhero, but he did a pretty good job. I had a YW activity to go to, so Jake dropped me off at home and went back to his mom's to pick up Jen. A good ending to an anniversary day, I guess. ;) We were off to St. George the next day so we stayed up late getting ready for that. It was actually a really fun day!

I just have to say that I am such a lucky girl to be married to Jake! I feel so blessed to be married eternally to the man of my dreams! The Love of my life! He really is the best hubby in the world. He is SO good to me, and I can only hope to be 1/2 as good to him. I LOVE JAKE! :)

Phew! There's the play by play! I haven't written in my journal about all of this yet so forgive me if I go off on details. Here are a few of my favorite pics from the day we got hitched. We look so young! Or skinny, whichever comes first. :) What can ya do? Oh yeah, eat healthier. :)

May 7, 2004

Spring has Sprung!

Happy Spring!

(Well, almost summer now, but we'll just go with it :) )

I am so far behind! Easter weekend was fun, complete with an Elmo Easter Basket, courtesy of Grandma's eye for bargains. On a side note, Jen's warming up to Tickle Me Elmo, but still isn't 100%. However, she loves anything else having to do with Elmo and/or Sesame Street. So she was really excited to get an Elmo basket. Anyway, moving on ;)

These pics were taken the Saturday before Easter. Jentri loved looking for and shaking the eggs on the egg hunt at Grandma Price's. Some of them didn't make any noise, and she'd look at it as if something was wrong with it. Pretty funny. She had a blast though. She didn't quite have the walking thing down then, so Dad helped her walk around the yard and look. She loves being outside, especially when all of her cute cousins are involved. She loves watching them, whatever they're doing, and "yells" at them to come back when they get too far away or if she can't see them anymore. She's so funny.

Her eggs were all the yellow ones, and she did pretty well at leaving the other kids' alone. She'd get excited when she'd find another one, and almost drag Daddy to run and get it. She wasn't too keen on the ones by trees though. She's never been keen on anything that moves by itself (that isn't a person I guess), and it was a little windy that day, so we had to help her with the ones by the trees and bushes 'cuz she wouldn't go near 'em.

I feel I should document the story behind Jen's Easter dress. Grandma Price was watching Jen while I got my hair cut, and decided to do a little shopping to kill time. Grandma said in passing this dress Jen practically leapt out of the cart to grab hold of it, took it off the rack, and apparently wouldn't let go for the life of her. Naturally Grandma HAD to get it for her. Grandma said Jen got upset when she even put it in the bag. When I met up with them, Jen was hugging her new dress in her carseat. I wished I'd had my camera. This girl cracks me up. I'd say Jen has pretty good taste, she looks pretty cute ;) I don't know if you can see her piggies in back, but they're pretty cute too.

It worked out for us to go to Grandma Snarr's on Easter Sunday, and have yet another egg hunt. Lucky us! :) Jen again was so excited and did an even better job at finding the eggs and putting them in her basket.

We feel so lucky that Jen has such fun Grandmas! They both are so quick have us over for dinner and plan fun activities for the kiddies. Not to mention watch little Jentri at the drop of a hat. Yay for Grandma's!! Love ya both!


Jentri seems to be growing leaps and bounds every day. She's running all over the place, and getting faster and faster at getting around. Unfortunately for me, I've had to adjust to the time it takes for her to run for the door when someone opens it. Sometimes I don't quite get there in time!

And I'm sorry to report that she had her first temper tantrum in Wal-Mart the other day. A couple months ago she learned how to drink from a straw, and wanted some of Daddy's DP. Well, when we wouldn't let her have any she put her hands to her head and screamed for all to hear. She wasn't in the cart at the time, and even tried to run away. It was horrible! Not my sweet Jen! I tried to give her the benefit of the doubt in that she hadn't had her second nap that day and it was close to bed time, but man. It was traumatic to say the least. She's getting better at not doing that I hope, and we've been teaching her a few signs to help her communicate a little better. It's actually helped a lot I think, but we've still got a ways to go. Ah, the joys of motherhood!

There's so much more I want to post, but I think that's it for today. Nap time is getting shorter and shorter it seems! It goes by too fast. Anyway, I apologize for the lack of posts, and will definitely have more to come. Happy Friday!

Happy Birthday to Jentri, Part II

Here goes nothing...some more pics from Jentri's birthday!

Uncle Bean was generous enough to share his wealth with Jen. I'll tell her when she's older how mean he was not to let her keep it, but she held on to it for a while. She even put it with her toys for safe keeping, as seen in the next pic.

She's Rich! For a minute at least until Uncle Bean put it BACK in his wallet. How rude! :)

So what d'ya think? America's Next Top Model? As long as I'm not her hairstylist, I suppose. I think she'll be taking the runways as soon as she can master walking though. :)

I really just snapped this pic to get her "eating ice cream that's cold" face, but hmm. How did I get such a beautiful daughter??? These glasses were a big hit, thanks Aunt Toni! We put them on her and she got so excited and scanned the whole room to show everyone how stylin' she is. SO CUTE! Now when we put them on she'll do a Stevie Wonder style head nod with a huge grin. I need to get it on video, I can't explain it well enough for you to have the whole picture. It's so funny!

Jentri and her friend Natalia playing with all her presents.

She is one spoiled girl!! Thanks everyone!Cousin Sydney and Aunt Wendy got a hold of my camera. They're pretty cute I guess :) Cousin Hayden outside with the Elmo pinata, and in his words, "I'm beatin' the crap out of Elmo!" and kept repeating that every time he got a hit. Take it out on poor Elmo!?! Are we surprised that he was the one to bust it open? Hmmm...

No, Jake isn't helping the kids with their candy, he's fighting them off so he can have his own. I tried to tell him we had a whole bowl for him in the house, but he didn't listen. He's my big kid, for sure! Needless to say, he likes pinatas. :)Cake #2 was a lot more messy, which I guess is what we were going for. ;) She dug in pretty good, but was pretty slow at it. The cousins didn't stick around to watch her finish. It was pretty funny. messy face!
Mmmm....cake.... Sharing some with Daddy, that's so nice...
After cake and ice cream we played guitar hero and the Wii to our hearts content. This pic was classic of Hayden. He was so good at this game, he beat me at it! I guess that's not saying much for me, my guitar hero skills are next to nothing, but still. He was pretty good. As you can see, he got into it.

Jen decided she'd had enough fun. I put her jammies on and thought I'd let her play with the cousins a little longer, but not even kidding within 10 seconds of sitting down with her, she was out for the count. Such a fun day!

Well that's it for her birthday, now that she's almost 13 months old. :) Just a little side note update, Jake and I got new callings. We won't be teaching primary anymore, and we're so sad! Our new callings will be fun though. Jake is going to teach the 15-16 year olds in Sunday school, and I was called as the 2nd counselor in the young women's presidency. I'll be over the Beehives. I'm already overwhelmed and we haven't even had an activity yet! It'll keep me busy for sure! I'm excited though, it'll be fun.

Well, Jentri's waking up so I must be off to more Mama duties. Happy Tuesday! Love Ya'll!

Happy Birthday to Jentri!

I know what you're all thinking, FINALLY some pictures to look at! Well, here's the mother load!!

We celebrated Jentri's first birthday!! Crazy! Her actual birthday was on the 4th, and we had a low-key cake & ice cream deal with Aunt Kristi and Uncle Casey. And then on Saturday, the 8th we had a Sesame Street birthday party. Here are a few pics from the events... The face of a one-year old. Just another day, I guess. It's rough being 1. We tried pigtails again, we're still pretty new at it as you can see. Her hair reminded me of Darla from Finding Nemo, "Fishie, wake up!" :) Anyway, moving on... :)

One month old...

12 month old...

I saw this idea in a scrapbook magazine: to take a picture of your baby every month for the first year (with the same stuffed animal) to show how much they've grown. I'm surprised I kept up with it. It sure was hard to get her to hold still these last couple of times, I'll tell ya that! She looks so big and has changed so much!! Where'd my tiny little preemie girl go?
Her actual birthday was a low-key one. Grandma Snarr came down and took Jentri and I to Brick Oven for lunch. Yum! Jentri had some of my pizza, and her first taste of root beer. She didn't like it at first, but it's growing on her I think :)
You win a prize if you can find Grandma! Jen knew just when to move her balloon I guess. Speaking of balloons, who knew that a FREE balloon was all we had to get her for her birthday?!?! I should've known! She got so excited and was very upset when I had to tie it down and she couldn't quite reach it in the car. She played with it for the rest of the day.
Ready for your cupcake, Jen? I'm ready for the mess!

Testing the waters...not really sure what she thinks of it...

Eatin' a little, but not digging in like we thought she would... More on her hands and arms than in her mouth

Pausing to do a little crowd pleasing...

AND FINALLY.....(drum roll...)

Thrown to the floor, the unfortunate fate of the cupcake.

TO BE CONTINUED....

I'VE BEEN TAGGED

Rules. . . . .
A. The rules are posted at the beginning.
B. Each player answers the questions about themselves.
C. At the end of the post, the player then tags five people by posting their
names; then goes to their blog and leaves them a comment, letting them know
that they have been tagged.

1.)What were you doing ten years ago?
Sophomore year of High School, GO SPARTANS!
(*Wow, I'm old!*)

2.) Snacks I enjoy: Chips and salsa, graham crackers, oreos

3.) Five things on my to-do list today
1. Finish this list, thanks to Melissa :)
2. Clean/organize my scrapbooking table
3. Laundry--It never ends!
4. Make Dinner- Teriyaki Stir Fry tonight!
5. Go to Wal-Mart for groceries

4.) Things I would do if I were suddenly made a billionaire
-Well, first comes to mind to pay tithing, but I guess that's a given :)
- Pay off my house and other debts
-Buy Jake a truck and surround sound (the first thing he would think to buy)
-Donate to cancer research and to education and/or another worthy cause
-Maybe do a little shopping for me :)
-Hopefully save some for a rainy day

5.) Three of my bad habits
1. I can never remember where I put things. (keys, wedding ring, shoes,
binkies, you name it)
2. I am horrible at making my bed
3. I procrastinate pretty much everything

6.) Jobs I've had
-Sales Clerk at Now & Forever (scrapbooking store)
-Usher at Hale Center Theater
-Catering at USU
-Sales Clerk @ Day Murray Karaoke Shop
-Waitress at Applebee's
-7th Grade Science Teacher
-6th Grade English Teacher
-And of course, a MOMMY! :)

7.) Things people don't know about me
-I never had a bloody nose until I was pregnant
-I've never broken a bone
-I'm a sucker for romantics (surprised Jake? :) )
-I'm scuba certified (even though I had nightmares of sharks biting my arms
and/or legs off! Not even kidding!)
-I would love to take classes in sign language, photography, spanish, digital
scrapbooking, quilting, and lots of other stuff I wish was talented enough to
do!

8.) I tag. . .
Steph H
Ashley
Emily
Christine
Liz Cox

Am I the Only One With This Problem?

Look at me! I'm posting and it's not even the end of February. I'm so proud of myself!

So this morning I woke up feeling a little less than refreshed, and I'm sure that never happens to any of you :) (especially you mommies). It's been a while since Jentri's woken up at 5am, and that's just a little early for the non-morning person that I am. I almost immediately thought of when nap time would be, which then led to a series of thoughts. Is it bad that I sometimes watch the clock until nap time? I love my Jentri dearly, that's for sure, but some days I just get so stinkin' excited when she's finally asleep for a little bit and I can actually feel like I'm getting something accomplished.

However, as time goes by, I find that not only is nap time a great time of day, but I also find that I'm still not accomplishing ANYTHING around my house these days. The reason? I'm addicted to BLOGS! I never thought I'd say that, but it's true. I can't get enough! I really will tell myself, "OK, you can only read one, and THEN you have to go fold the laundry," or "You have to clean at least one room before you get on the computer." SHEESH! It's all your fault! :) It's like waiting for the next episode of a favorite TV show; you look forward to and wonder with anticipation what's going to happen next! Am I the only one with this problem? I hope not! :)

I have decided, though, that I love keeping in touch with people and knowing what's going on in your lives. This might be the source of my addiction, but who knows?

I sure think ya'll are great. I'm blessed to have you in my life. That's all of my ramblings and random thoughts for now. Happy Friday!


PS- Speaking of nap time, does anyone have any ideas for getting kiddies on a regular sleep schedule? I just can't seem to get it right. I've tried my darndest, but can't seem to do it. I guess she's pretty consistent in that she sleeps whenever, wherever, but I don't know if that's what I should go for. Any ideas?

Happy January!

I realize saying this in the middle of January is a bit late, but HAPPY NEW YEAR! Please know that I have every intention of keeping this up to date this year. I have a renewed motivation, a "resolution" if you will, to update our blog at least once a month. We'll see how things go. So far so good :)

This picture is one of my favorites from the Holidays. Not only do we love the Christmas dress from Grandma Price, but what's more we love that she would get so excited about a little plastic camel. Simple pleasures...she's so dang cute! Ok, so I'm a little biased, but still. How can you not love this little girl!?! Can you believe she's 10 months old already?!
It's pretty crazy.



Life is good at the Price home. Christmas was really great, and we loved having Jentri with us in our first house this Christmas. As was predicted, she was more interested in the wrapping paper than the actual gifts, but at least she enjoyed ripping them open. Christmas morning was off to a bit of a rough start, in that Jentri was so excited for Santa to come she woke up at 4 AM. I thought we had more time before all that Christmas anticipation stuff. Ok so the real story is that she'd been coming down with a cold and hadn't been sleeping well the poor little thing! Not a fun thing for your first Christmas. Luckily she went back to sleep that morning, but was awakened later by her dad coming down the stairs singing Christmas Carols VERY loudly. He's a pretty deep sleeper, so when he woke up he just thought Jen and I were downstairs waiting for him to open presents. Little did he know, we were sleeping! I'm pretty sure I was a little less than merry and bright that morning, my bad. Sorry Jake!


Jentri of course got some clothes and toys for Christmas. Her favorite things right now are toys she can shake, make noise with, and of course put in her mouth. She also loves books. I caught her just this morning turning the pages of one of her board books and pointing to things and "talking" as if telling the story. It was pretty cute. Anyway, back to Christmas...





Uncle Zac and Aunt Aly got her a Tickle Me Elmo that she still will have NOTHING to do with. Even with no tickling involved she's deathly afraid of him. What's not to like about Elmo? C'mon Jen. Hopefully she'll come around.






She was a big hit in this year's Nativity at Grandma Snarr's house. She was dressed as a little lamb, and was super cute! Cousin Sydney really got into her part as Mary, and was great at protecting her "newborn babe." She felt it necessary to interrupt the narration with a classic line, "Will someone PLEASE get this lamb back to where it belongs, she's TRYING to get the baby Jesus!" We were laughing pretty hard. We knew poor Sydney was serious, but we couldn't help it. It did help a little that Grandpa (a.k.a. Joseph) just continued reading the Christmas Story....but only a little.



So there's a little synopsis of our Holiday. Life these days consists of a constant effort to keep our little one out of trouble. She's very good at and willing to pull everything out of the diaper bag, and to take all of the books off the bottom two shelves so I can dust. What a helper! She's getting much faster at crawling, and is side-steppin her way from couch to couch. She wants to walk so badly, but is still reluctant to let go of fingers just yet. It won't be long now!

She's just a happy, sweet, little cutie! (I don't know if I've mentioned that before) :) It's so fun to see her try new things and become more and more interactive. It's official--I love bein' a mom!

Hope all is well with all of you. Again, I love reading your blogs and keeping in touch. Love ya'll! Have a great day!

Daddy Jake tried some pigtails, but ended up with some Shrek-like horns. Still pretty cute though! :)