My 10 month old

Jace what can I say he's one month older and one month wiser!

He crawls and tries to stand on everything. Still has no desire to walk (thank goodness) crawling on everything is enough for me.

He's so cute I can barely handle.

He sleeps through the night when he's no sick (11-12 hours)

We just weighed him he's sitting right around 20 pounds, just over a pound away from his sister Talia

He's started to want his momma more than other people but he's still good to go with anyone.

He has a temper when he doesn't get what he wants (already I know!). He'll learn though because throwing his head back and hitting it ALL the time will get old.

He's usually really happy and VERY curious.
Dances to music.

We just love him!

Sadly we didn't get a 10 month photo today because this is how he's look for the last 24 hours. Poor Guy!

He's pretty sick with gastro. Seems to be the virus that's been going around this winter. It's funny because last year we were in Cardston for Christmas and over half the people got gastro as well. I think we did a pretty good job containing it this year only 3 people so far have got it. It's a hard one not to spread!

 He got it the morning of the 27th and we're still going strong.  



He's just so sweet. Loves to cuddle, especially when sick. He's my baby boy.

Christmas

Christmas this year was with my family in Sherwood Park. I seem to always forget to bring my camera around and in all honestly it's sometimes a hastle to carry it around. So anyways I didn't get many photos. Hopefully I'll get more from my Dad soon.

Christmas Eve we always spend with my Dad's side, the Pizzeys. And It was at my parents place this year.  We hang out, eat tons,  play games, read from Luke about the birth of Christmas while acting it out (always fun and funny), and exchange a few gifts. It's always a a fun time.

Then when everyone left we tidied up. opened some PJ's, got the kids to bed, played a game of monopoly deal then it was off to bed for Jason and I. Having kids is tiring and by 11 pm most nights we're ready for bed so 1230 am was pushing it for us.

My 3 favorite people. Two of which are in their cute Christmas PJ'S

Love Christmas PJ's. Great tradition, matching PJ's.

 I know I've talked about Talia being a crazy sleeper, well her are a few of the positions we found her in while at my parents for 2 nights. She cracks me up. Goes to bed easy but she's a mover!

 The Nativity Scene

Top: The 2 wise men (Chase, Dave, and Breton- the wise men are always a big hit)

Middle: Mary and Joseph (Crystal and Tanner soon to be parents in about 15 weeks. These two are So funny and will be great parents)

Bottom: The Shepard's (Avery, Nicolas, and Tommy- they did a great job!)

Christmas morning was a different morning because Christmas morning fell on a Sunday. Seemed as though the kids were up earlier than norma. Not because they were to excited (too young to totally understand waking up early) but because Avery came down with gastro, Jace and Marli  were up feeding and I think kept each other up, and Talia was up because she heard all of us. So we went and did stockings. Ate a small breakfast and got ready for church.

While getting ready we realized the house was backing up with sewage/ water. So something was plugged which meant showering/ dinner/ everything was put on hold. My Dad and Jordan stayed home from Church to figure this out because if they hadn't Christmas day would have be over. Breanne and Avery stayed home because they were really sick. The rest of us went but of course with all that was going on we were late. Jason and I left church slightly early because Jace was freaking out and it was well past his nap and Talia started to have a melt down because she was SO over tired. The melt down started from my Mom eating her cookie. Talia went to on to say then cry in the most sad face, "Nana ate my cookie in her mouth... I NEED presents." It was pretty funny but this melt down meant we were done. What a gong show. At least we went and tried to stay right?

This may sound a bit hmmm bad/ sacrilegious (seeings as how we were celebrating Christ's birth.) anyways I think the program was a little long. It was an hour and a half program!!! Young kids and parents up WAY to late and tired. Great to have a small sacrament program but really an hour and a half at 9 am! I was looking forward to a short and sweet sacrament that brought in the spirit but an hour and a half is what it was scheduled for which mean probably longer... little bit much. Probably such a bad thought but it's what I thought.  

Anyways the water problem was solved by 1130 am. We ate breakfast and opened presents at noon. Talia was dying to open presents. Noon is a long time to wait for a little girl. It'll be a Christmas morning to remember.

Left: Talia in her princess outfits. She loves being a princess. Great gift from Nana and Grandpa.

Right: Sweet little Marli and my mom. Marli has hip dyplasia. Both hips one worse than the other so she had a closed reduction surgery. She has to wear these casts for 2 months. She's so happy and such a trooper.

Left: Yes Talia sniffs everything even her presents before she opens them. She's had an obsession with her nose and sniffing things for a very long time. Hilarious!

Right: Waiting to open them, trying to be patient. Almost made it.

For the rest of the day kids napped. Then my moms side came over. We open gifts first then have a turkey dinner. It was fun. My Aunt has 2 girls and one of them is 5 years old and since Avery was out of commission Talia and Casey played the whole night. It was fun to watch.

Top: Casey entertaining Talia with a feather.

Bottom: Talia and Casey watching a movie in the theatre room

Towards the end of the night my brother called from his mission. He only 7 weeks left. Then again we tidied got kids to bed, and played a couple games. Then off to bed.

It was a fun Christmas and beside gastro and temporary plugged pipes everything went really good. Lots of food, family, and fun!

BUT I wish we could say we were gastro free. Everyone was being super careful with hand washing but I knew the one that would be hard to watch was our crawling Jace. Hands everywhere and in mouth. SO the morning the 27th he got sick. Now today is day 2 of gastro for him and he's still feeling sick. More posts to come on my 10 month old today!

Anyways I hope you had a good Christmas and Happy New Year!!!

Hopefully more pictures to come.

Snow

Remember last year's snow? I piles were over 4 feet tall and you had to shovel almost every day? Well I'm grateful we don't have that this year. Driving in that and shovelling that is not fun. This winter had been a lot better. I love snow but not record breaking snow falls. Anyways we had like an inch of snow and had to shovel I think for the 3rd time this season. It's fun, maybe mostly for me, that Talia likes to go out and shovel with her Dad! Here's a few photos of Daddy/ Daughter time.

 

I guess in the end I did come out and help Talia shovel. She kept slipping. Great winter so I wont complain to much (well I don't usually complain about it because we live in Edmonton and I would rather be cold that super hot) BUT with it also be +2 or-2 the side walks have got very slippery. We need to get salt!

Two sleeps till Christmas!

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas!

Here's our Christmas card for this year! I wish we could have sent out more but I didn't realize how expensive 5X7s can be especially envelopes! So next year hopefully I can find a deal! Merry Christmas everyone!

"Lets go see Christmas!!!!"

So I had been prepping Talia to go see Santa for awhile. We would talk about how Santa is nice, he give treats and on Christmas brings presents. So the last few days after I would say we're going to see Santa, Talia would say, "Yay!!!!! Go see Christmas (referring to Santa) and get presents, treats, and suckers!" Ha, no idea where suckers came from. She loves suckers and ANY type of candy.

Funniest thing was the last two days she would randomly say, "I don't want Santa to take my Pjs"- ok Talia! and then today she said while wearing her favorite princess pj sets, "Christmas (referring to Santa) NO take my pants and shirt!" haha I had to reassure her, Santa is nice and wouldn't steal her things.

Anyways we went. It was fun, she did good. Got a little nervous at first but after we got closer and I put her down. She whispered hi Santa and gave a little wave. She sat well and it went fine. Jace is so easy going he could care less who we was sitting with. So not big smiles but no crying children. I would call it a success.

The Santa looked like a good Santa but I think he could have done better by getting the kids names before hand and actually addressing the kids in a Santa voice and warming up to them. There was none of that. I get it would get tiring but really he didn't he talk to Talia much. He was nice just not as Santa like as I thought he would be.

Jace looks so old in this photo. Maybe it's because I gave him his first hair cut. I usually think he looks a lot like my brother (the eyes) but in this photo he looks SO much like Jason's brother Richard as a little boy.

She's a reindeer! I guess Santa fulfilled Talia's wishes by giving her a present (this hat), candy (candy cane), and a sucker (from her parents). What more could a kid want?

First hair cut! I think it turned out pretty good! Had a to shape it all over so we ended up cutting it a lot. We haven't even needed to cut Talia's hair this much at all. Haven't even cut the hair on the top of her head. 

 Had to look good for Santa!

What a little cute little boy!

The rest of the night we did our first ginger bread house. Talia loved it. We actually bought a pre-built kit from Costco. When Talia is a little older and can sit for a while longer while we build one these kits are great! Ready to go! It was a fun. We'll make this a new tradition and do one every year.

Talia enjoyed eating A LOT of the candy.

I loved how Jason did the icing. It was kind of tradition that my Dad put the house together and did the icing. I have good memories of making Gingerbread houses.

 I wish I could say this was my idea but it was on the front of the box.

Thought it was a cute tree

 She also enjoyed eating a lot of Icing. She ate SOOOO much candy tonight.

And she was so hyper. She didn't go to bed till like 9 15 pm and it's 10 30 and finally she has stopped talking in her crib.

 Yummy...

Our first ginger bread house :)

Visit from Cousin claire and Julie!

This past weekend (Thursday night till Tuesday morning) Jason's sister and her baby (18 month old) Claire came to visit us. It was a lot fun. Talia's at the stage where she's finally plays good, given the odd "mine" comment. Anyways Claire is an easy going girls who plays great as well. They got along SO well. It was easy to have them and we could just them go and play where ever without worry. Talia still asks "where'd Claire go Mommy?"

It was so much fun seeing Julie as well. I love Jason's siblings the problem is everyone lives SOOOO far away. I blame BYU for this, although I guess if they didn't go they wouldn't have found all my awesome in-laws! Anyways that's a whole other discussion. Julie has been travelling around for the past 4 weeks going with her husband Brian to residency interviews. We're grateful she was able to make a detour up to Edmonton. Thankfully Richard, Leslie, and their new baby Benson live a block away so us 9 (5 adults and 4 kids) spent a lot of time together those 4 days. It was a lot of fun.
Who knows when we'll see them next. She' pregnant with twins so hopefully when she has the babies we'll plan a trip to wherever they live and visit them. 

Claire and Talia playing piano! They both know Twinkle Twinkle Little Star pretty good so they sang it all weekend!

Terrible photo (from iphone and I guess I couldn't get a clear one with all 4 of them)

We went to galaxy land for the free rides for kids under 2. Yes we did tell them Talia was 2 months over 2 and maybe because she looks younger than ever 2 year old they still let her in free. Thank you Galaxy Land ha! Richard and Leslie went on the mind bender. I think Richard realized the roller coaster wasn't as smooth as he remembered he had a pretty sore back. I think Leslie and I need to go on a rides date because we like rides and the Lows feel sick. I wish I went on a couple.

Alright I've never been in this place but I actually loved it! For the most part they played in the balls and went on the kids slide. But since I am the shortest in the family and NOT pregnant I took Claire and Talia up on 2 slides. Little did I know they were the fastest slides I've ever been on. I think I scared Claire a bit but it was a lot of fun. Jace also loved the balls. I think we'll have to go back!

Loving the balls

Sitting on the bed watching TV while we got ready. Sitting was a rare occasion with these two.

Since Claire always got her hair done Talia this weekend insisted on have "piggies". I think they're SO cute!

And just thought I'd add this photo. I was busy doing something and when I went to go look at Jace apparently he found Talia's chocolate covered marshmallow and ate 80% of it. He looks in shock when I took it away. I was doing so good with not giving him tons of junk or unnecessary sugar (like I did Talia) but I guess he found it himself.