1 year old boy!

Jack turned 1 on April 25th, 2011. (and yes I am definitely late writing all this)

I am still in shock. It is crazy to say that I have a 1 year old. I have made it through one whole year of something I never thought would be the most emotional, hard, beautiful, and best blessing I ever recieved all in one little package. He is truly my angel. Jared and I have spoke many times late at night after putting Jack to sleep about how lucky we are. And we really are. We love him dearly.

Some of the things Jack is doing is:

• Running like a mad man (literally)


• Playing constantly


• Still not sleeping through the night, though you are getting awfully close


• You say "ma ma", "da da", "ba ba", and mostly all other mumbo jumbo


• You shake your head no and think you are so funny


• You LOVE to eat. Everybody calls you a munch mouth cause you constantly want food


• You weigh 20 lbs and are 29 1/2 tall


• You like to laugh when everybody else is laughing even though you don't have a clue whats really going on


• You LOVE to go outside


• If we ask you to get your shoes, you go on a hunt for them till you find them. Then you want to head out the door


• You still are the worst T.V. watcher I know


• You love playing with other kids and have enjoyed going to daycare


• You love to snuggle with your mom and rough house with your dad


• You still love that darn binky


• You love your "ba ba" milk


• You are the most spoiled kid I know

I love you so much little man. I know I say that about every month, but you are truly the best thing that has ever happened to me. I remember being completely shocked that I was pregnant with you, being it only a month since Dad and I got married that we found out you were cooking. Being pregnant with you was a very scary and challenging time as well. They told me many times that they thought something was wrong with you. The doctor sent me to many specialist doctors to see what they could find. I never once thought in my life I would ever give you up and wasn't about to let any of those doctors tell me there was something wrong. I was the one that was right, and you were PERFECT. Always have been. Keep growing up big and strong. Dad and I are behind you 110%.

Christmas Pictures- 2010

Finally- I know! I hope Everyone had a Merry Christmas 2 months ago! :)

This was our stash of goodies! Mommy and Jack

Jack eating the paper, which he did most the time.

Happy little family.

Jack and George.

10 months!

Jack is 10 months old. I honestly can't believe how fast time is going by! I just realized I never got around to doing a 9 month post. So, I will combine the two.

Jack is 20 lbs. 6 oz. He is 28 3/4 inches long. He got his 6th ear infection this month. (YUCK!) We are seeing a doctor to get tubes on March 3rd. Hopefully this means the end to all these ear infections. Or maybe an end to all these miserable nights!

He wears size 12 month clothes. But that has been the same for a little while now.

He still LOVES the bath. He tries to get in the shower with me constantly.

He absolutely loves his blanket and binky. I think it's going to be a very rough time trying to wean him from that.

He loves to push cars, trucks, or anything for that matter around the floor.

He walks now. He will walk pretty much anywhere EXCEPT at Nana and Papa's. He refuses to even stand there. I am sure it is just because of the hardwood floors throughout the house.

He still won't watch TV. Which stinks at times, cause when he is awake I have to be around him or else he whines and refuses to do anything by himself.

He absolutely LOVES his daddy. His dad makes him get the biggest grins on his face. It's adorable.

He hates his carseat.

He loves Spaghetti-O's, animal crackers, puffs, and cereal. He still refuses to eat baby food.

He is at such a fun age. He loves to play, play, play!!

I can't wait to see whats in store for the future with this little spit fire. :)

Love you Baby Jack!

Moving Day!

Tomorrow is MOVING DAY!!
I can't tell you how excited we are to have our own place again. This year has started off to be amazing. I can't thank people enough for all the thoughts, prayers and well wishes all last year. It was a very rough year, to say the least. It will be exactly one year in 2 weeks, when we lost everything and moved into our camper trailer. We have come so far. It is amazing the strength we have to carry on, and I know I wouldn't do a very good job without Jared. He has been so patient and positive through all our trials.
Jared also accepted a new job. And yes, he did just start a *new* job at Brahma Group Inc. 4 weeks ago. Well the company he accepted the offer from is North American service group. It is a company he really wanted to get a job with, and they have excellent benefits, lots of work hours, and he gets paid more hourly. So we are SO very excited for that. He starts on monday and he is very happy to be getting on with a company that he really wanted to work for. Life is good.
We are getting some new bedroom furniture to go into our new house as well. I think I am getting really old, cause I am THRILLED to be getting new furniture! It's like Christmas! lol
As I keep saying I will post pictures, hopefully I will soon. I also have the cutest video of Jack laughing at the soap bottle. It sounds weird, but it is so cute. I will also post pictures of our new house too. :)

New Year... New Start!

So this new year has been kicked off to be an awesome new start!
Jared got a job!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That was the best present ever. Yes he had a job beforehand, but it was temp work and it sucked! We wanted something that we could afford to live on our own again, and pay off bills.
We are in luck. We found a townhouse to live in West Valley. We are hoping to move within the next month. If circumstances permit of course. We are SO EXCITED!!! :)
Thank you everyone for the prayers and love through this rough year. I think we are going to do much better this year!

More family pictures!

So we have more family pictures! Yay! I sure do love pictures. If I would have known we were doing these shoots with our families, I wouldn't have gotten ours done the other month. But these do look awesome! Thanks aunt Julie!! Your work is awesome! The whole fam-from left to right-

Quinn, Jared, Shari, Jack, Mom (Valisa), Dad (Dan), Annie, Kailey and Josh

8 months old and CHRISTMAS!!

Christmas was fantastic! Jack got SO much stuff from both sets of grandparents. I think we have enough toys to last him until his 18th Birthday... He got Looney Tunes on DVD, a cute little chair, clothes, and seriously a TON of toys!
Jared got clothes, new work boots that he wanted, and tons of food/treats. Nothing else pleases the man like food does.
I got a kitchenaid, a foodprocessor (that crapped on me after 2 days of using, so I got a different one), and clothes. Which was desperately needed. My clothes are all looking a little big since I have lost all of the weight I gained while pregnant with Jack, and then some. :)
Jared's parents and sister got us a gift card to The Cheesecake Factory and Cinemark for a nice date night.
I love Christmas time, it is definitely one of my favorite times of the year. It was great to spend it with both families.
Jack turned 8 months on Christmas day... some fun facts about him....

• He LOVES food (he is his father's child)
• He loves to MOVE.. still
• He hates to sleep. Always has.
• He loves to be in the tub. And if your in the shower or tub and he finds out, he is pissed. He will try to climb into the shower with you. Little stinker.
• He loves to be naked.
• He likes to go for drives, as long as he is not in the car for more than an hour, or he will let you know he wants to get out!
• He loves animals. He chases the cat almost all day long and laughs at her as soon as he catches up.
• He pulls himself up to everything and enjoys pulling everything off of shelves, tables, the coffee table, and destroying the barbie house.
• I love to hear him laugh, and he loves to play with his daddy.
• He loves to dance with mommy to music. He thinks its great!
• He loves him grandma and grandpa Dilworth. He has rock-a-bye time with them almost everyday.
• He got his first tooth on 1/5/2011. Bottom left tooth.
• He has only bit me once with that darn little tooth of his.
• He took his first steps on 1/9/2011. That was so exciting.
• He had his 4th ear infection this month, along with laryngitis for the first time. Poor baby couldn't talk or scream. (which was kind of nice for a minute).

I can't believe how much he has grown. I also can't believe he will be 1 in just a few short months. Seriuosly, where has the time gone??

*pictures soon to come!*