Happy Birthday to Jake!

So this is a couple of days late, but I just wanted to tell you how lucky I am to be married to the now 27- year-old Jake Price! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!

With him working night shifts and me not seeing him much the last few weeks, I've really come to realize how much I rely on him and really how much he does for me. I told him the other day that it wouldn't be so hard to have him gone all the time if he wasn't so gosh darn good to me! He's always so quick to ask, "Anything I can do for ya, Love?" and is so good about helping me and taking care of both me and Jen, even when he's had a long day (or night as the case may be). He does so much for us, we love him so much! (Woo, what a hottie...)

He's such a hard worker and is so good at anything he does. Some might say he's just a big goof, but hey-he's good at it! :) Jentri will often say "Daddy, silly" and I'd say I'd have to agree with her, but I love it! I can't take him anywhere without him making everyone around us laugh and kids especially are his instant friends. My mom made him a clown suit for his birthday last year if that's any indication... :) He makes me laugh all the time, and knows just what to do and say to cheer me up when I'm down.


He's an AMAZING Dad, and it's no wonder Jentri gets so excited and happy whenever he's around. I love to just sit and watch them play together, it makes me smile every time. He's so quick to play silly made-up games with her or make up funny songs, and no one can make her laugh and squeal like her Dad can.

I LOVE JAKE! He makes me want to be better, and I don't know how I got so lucky! Happy Birthday, Love! I love you so much! Oh, and the surround sound you wanted? Well, I just thought these nice words of love and affection would make up for it. What d'ya think? ;)

Witches at Gardner Village

I figured since more than one person has mentioned I need a new post, it must really be time. :)

So Jake's mom has always been really great about doing things with and for her Grandkids. She's done what she calls "Grandma Day" where she takes the kids for a couple hours the same day every week and just does something with them. EVERY week. Some weeks it's just taking them to baseball practice or something every day, and other weeks it's been going to a dollar movie, swimming, stuff like that. I've been so amazed at her diligence in keeping it up, and apparently she started it when Cody and Braydon were Jentri's age (they're now 10). We haven't done it much now because Cody, Kaylee, & Katelynn decided to move to Levan, so it's harder to get together. But we're still able to do it once or twice a month, which is nice. I've been invited along since Jen came along, I think because she knew I needed to get out of the house, but I've loved going and think it's a really cool tradition.

ANYWAY, because of Grandma Day my wonderful Mother-in-Law has all sorts of fun traditions she's started with the kids, one of which is going to Gardner Village in October to see the Witches. Sad to say I'd never been to see them until I started going with them, and I grew up not far from there. Sad! It's so fun! The witches are so funny and I love all the little shops around there. They even have a little scavenger hunt for the older kids that makes it pretty fun. I didn't get too many pictures because I was chasing Jentri around/pushing the stroller, but we got a few...

Jen loved it! And, I actually got her to sit still long enough for a picture, AMAZING! (I know I'm a little biased, but isn't she so darn cute!?!) Anyway, I wish I'd gotten a pic of her favorite witch, the one that's suspended over the pond riding a bike. It's pretty cool looking. All the way home and throughout the next day she kept saying, "Witch, bike." It took me a while to figure out what she was talking about, but luckily I got to hear it over and over again so I could. :) Such a fun tradition, and the kids look forward to it every year!

Here are a couple of pics from last year of my favorite witches... :)

'Nuff Said...

So Jen and I had a conversation a couple of weeks ago I thought worth mentioning.

Mama: "Jen, what does a sheep say?"
Jentri: "Moo."

Mama: "No, a sheep says baa."
Jentri: "NO, moo!"

Mama: "That's silly. A sheep says baa." (A little baffled by her daughter's sudden urge to debate a clearly non-debatable thing.)
Jentri: "Moo."

Mama: "Baa."
Jentri: "Moo."

Mama: "Baa."
Jentri: "Moo."

Mama: "Baa."
Jentri: "Moo."

And so on, you get the idea. She cracks me up! We were both laughing pretty hard by the end. All I can say is that she was certainly determined to correct her Mama! She has since conformed and will say that a sheep says "baa," but it took some coaxing. I thought I had a few years at least before we argued!! Turns out I was a little mistaken. Kinda funny!

Here's a pic of her singing to "Tana" a.k.a. Hannah Montana, at Cousin Brynlee's sweet Hannah Montana birthday party. She brought down the house, to say the least. :)

IT'S A...

GIRL!

We're half way there! Wahoo! We had boy names picked out, so we don't have a name for her yet, but it'll come! Yay for sisters! :)

Four Generations

On August 25th my Grandpa Snarr celebrated his 90th Birthday. Wow, that's a few years! As we celebrated with him, I thought of how much he's seen in his lifetime, with so much history I don't even know where to start! He was born in 1918 before all the things we rely on the most today: computers, TVs, cell phones, etc. He went to good old Murray High when they were the Smelterites. (Glad they changed it to Spartans!)

He worked as a Seminary teacher and for the Church Magazines in the editing office (I think? I'm drawing a blank as to what he did there). I mostly knew of his farming abilities. He grew up on the farm and still at 90 can be found out in his garden tending to the "crop." He didn't get drafted for WWII because someone had to tend to the farm. Some of my best memories of him are when he'd let us "help" him in the garden. Or when my siblings, cousins and I would give him and Grandma a homemade invitation to a party at their house. Hey, at least we invited them! :) We fortunately did this a lot because they lived right behind us growing up. Maybe not so fortunate for them, but we loved it!

To me, he's always been a kind and loving Grandpa, devoted to the gospel and sharing it with others. He and Grandma served two missions, one to the Philippines and the other in Palmyra, NY. He was the patriarch in our stake when I got my Blessing, and he's been a sealer at the Jordan River temple for as long as I can remember. He was able to seal me to my wonderful hubby! (With special permission of course, because we got married in SL). I am so grateful for my Grandpa's example of service to the church. I know a part of my testimony stems from what he's taught me over the years. He's such a humble and loving man, and I'm lucky to be in his family! I'm also glad he raised such a great guy to be my dad. Love these guys!

Happy 90th Birthday, Grandpa!

18 Monther !?! Really!?!

My sweet little girl is 18 months old today! I can't believe it! She is such a sweetheart, and we are so lucky to have her in our lives! Jake and I were talking last night about how much she's grown this summer, and just how dang funny she is. I wish I could keep the video camera on her almost all the time, just because I can't stop laughing at the things she does!


She talks non-stop most of the time (some people don't believe me) and is picking up lots of words and phrases. She getting to know a few animal sounds, is getting better at her colors (everything's been "boo" to her, but we're getting there), and really is talking a lot. Apparently I'm the only one that can understand her, as Jake says, but she's my little talker and in my opinion coming along nicely:). She says things like "Mommy, bayou" when she wants me to sit by her, and "boat gone" (there's a story behind that one), and "Daddy wuk" explaining that Jake's at work. My personal favorite though is "wea ah you?" aka "where are you?" I woke up the other morning to "Mommy, wea ah you?" SO CUTE She'll just randomly call out to anything and anyone she's looking for. I think she went through every name she knows the other day just casually as she played. "Pooh beeah(bear), wea ah you? Amma (Grandma),Gappa (Grandpa), wea ah you? Daddy, mommy, wea ah you? Guke (Uncle Luke) wea ah you?" etc. etc. all within a few minutes. Oh, and let's not forget her Binky. "Binky, wea ah you?" in a high pitched cute voice, then she'll say "Deah (there)" with a big grin when she's found it. For some reason she sounds like a New Yorker most of the time. Not sure where that accent is coming from, but we'll go with it :).

Her favorite TV shows are 'My friends Tigger and Pooh', and 'Mickey Mouse Clubhouse.' She loves to "think think think" with Darby and loves the Hot Dog song at the end of Mickey. It really is amazing that even after all this time she still hasn't gotten sick of them. She jumps up and down and is so excited even for a commercial of these guys. She loves it! She'll actually sit and watch those, which is nice for me. Where would we be without Disney, seriously!?!

She loves everything GIRL. Purses, dancing, jewelry, baby dolls, princesses, but especially shoes, and has figured out how to put her little pink crocs on by herself. The first thing she does most mornings after we change her diaper (and sometimes before) is find her shoes. She'll even put them on over the feet in her footsie jammies. She also gets concerned when other people don't have their shoes on. She saw a baby the other week at church that didn't have shoes on, and she comes to me with her hands up, "Shoes, go?" and kept repeating it until I said they're gone today. She said, "gone" and went on her way. Phew. I got off easy on that one. She cracks me up.

She loves to sing songs, especially Popcorn Popping. Her eyes light up and she gets her hands ready to "pop" as soon as that "looked out the window..." starts. I really need to get that on video because words can't describe how cute it is. Ok, so I know she's not the first kid to sing that song, but she probably is the cutest. But what do I know? ;) I'm just her mama. :)

Her fave foods right now I'd have to say are "Boops" aka Fruit Loops, "Paffpa" or pasta, and "bapes" aka grapes. She eats like a bird, and I think is picky like her dad, but when you give her pasta (which could be mac & cheese, spaghetti, or fettucine, doesn't matter) or grapes, she eats and eats! Needless to say we eat a lot of those.

Some of just her funny little quirks (besides the shoe fettish) are:

-She's the only person I know that will come back for more after her feet get tickled. She'll give you the other foot and say "gen" for again. Weirdo!
-She's also a good sharer, almost to a fault. She'll feed her cousin Cade, Daddy, babies, or anyone else before she eats it herself.
-She HATES the sound of the vacuum or mixer or anything that makes sudden loud noises.
-She colored on the walls for the first time today, and all she could say was "gween." I had to praise her for getting the color right, if nothing else. Let's see...what else. She's kind of a wuss (sorry Jen) when it comes to new things or trying something she hasn't done and/or eaten before.
-She doesn't like getting shampoo out of her hair. It's always a fight. I think because sometimes the water gets in her eyes, but I'm not sure.
-She loves to play with her cousins. I think she's definitely still a Daddy's Girl, but she does love her cousins.
-And so on...To name a few... :)

So we've tried nursery the last couple of weeks just staying in there with her, and I don't know if it's just that I'm overprotective or what, but I don't know if I want her in there! That place is intense! That first day she did pretty well and was excited to play with the kids and the toys, until she had her hair pulled 3 times, kicked in the shins twice for no reason, and had a toy truck thrown at her head. SHEESH! I don't know if I can take that kind of violence toward my precious little girl! I must say the next week was much better, but man! Hopefully it'll be better in weeks to come. Jake took her last week while I went to YW, and said that nursery's great, and he didn't feel bad for eating some of the goldfish because everyone had goldfish. Apparently in Elders Quorum he has to sneak 'em out of Jen's stash. I reminded Jake that there will come a time when Jen will go by herself, and he wasn't too sure about that. We'll see how things go. :) We'll wean Jake slowly. :)

I could go on and on about my baby girl (as if I haven't already!) so I guess that's it for now. There are so many pics I want to post, but here are just a few favorites from this summer. They're in kind of a random order, some from the beginning of the summer, and some from last week. Either way, enjoy! She's so darn cute!

Thanks for the Birthday Wishes!

Thanks everyone!
What a nice surprise! Yikes, Jake, could you have found a more awful picture!?! (Don't answer that ;)) I'm such a lucky girl! I have such a wonderful hubby, and the best friends anyone could ask for! Love ya'll!! :)