The new site...

Its finally ready..... It wasn't that it was hard, it was really easy, there were just so many choices that I had a hard time sticking to one theme. The first day I changed the home page about 25 times til I found something that I was happy with. Then the next time I tried to work on it I messed with changing the home page again. I had to leave it alone and just do the rest of it. Once I got doing the rest it was so easy I could do it holding Abbie. I am starting really love my Mac. Just wish I had my picture editing software for it, I should have bought it when we got the Mac (thought I would try what came with the mac which is really good for a basic program) but I really like my Photoshop Elements. Here is the link to the new site, I will still keep this one and put stuff on here occasionally but most new stuff will go there.... http://web.me.com/jakennikki

Hope you like it!!!!!!!!!!

Thankful Turkey

So I have been a blogging rut lately. Not that we haven't been doing stuff, just really nothing has felt blog worthy. The kids asked me why I hadn't put our thankful turkey on our blog, so I decided to do it since I haven't had anything else to blog about. The other night for FHE we made a thankful turkey, I have seen many different kinds of thankful turkeys and I have never been very impressed with the finished product but when I saw this one in a magazine I decided I really liked it and it could be on our table all month long. The kids really had a good time coming up with things to be thankful for and I wrote anything Ashton said, Lexie wrote her own. I think the best part is going to be next year when we get to go back and read all of the things that we were thankful for this year....

For Sara

I guess I will be tagged and actually participate, mostly I ignore tags...Here is my fourth picture in my fourth folder.... does it matter which computer??? cause its different on each one. This is from my PC. Abbie in July (6 weeks old).

From the mac...the kids at the Ogden train depot.

And finally from the lap top...Ashton at 3 months just after a bath.

I tag whoever wants to go along with it.

Ouch!!

Who wins when you are running down the hall and you slip and fall into the door frame??

Not Ashton.....




We were visiting Grandma June and Grandpa Larry last night, getting even more candy, we were just getting ready to leave and Ashton decided that he needed to say goodbye to the cat (why? I'm not exactly sure but he thought he did did) and took off down the hall. The next thing I hear is one of those terrible cracking sounds that you hate to hear as a mother when you don't know for sure what has happened but you know that it can't be good, and then Ashton screamed. I then knew that it was going to be a very LONG car ride home. On the bright side, it did not break the skin and he wasn't bleeding so he wasn't going to need stitches, but his eye starting swelling and he was screaming hysterically. He calmed down after a few minutes and we were able to get some ice on it to help with the swelling. Poor guy. He has been a trooper though, and although I know it must hurt he hasn't complained at all. He just looks like he had been in a boxing match.

Halloween

Yes, I do have pictures of what went down on Halloween, but Saturday was Super Saturday for our ward and I am on the Enrichment Committee and I was at the church most of the day and then... well you saw what happened that night. Lexie had a parade at school I took the other two kids and my parents came too. It was fun to see all of the costumes and Ashton had a great time looking at everyone. He is still scared of the scary costumes but he really liked the cute and funny things. It was fun to watch him, after every scary thing he would remind us all that "its just pretend". We had a good time Friday night, I stayed home with Abbie to hand out treats to the 10 people that came to our house, we were a little bored, and Jake took the two older kids around the neighborhood. They did get rained on just a little, but it was by far the warmest halloween we have had for a long time. The kids got lots of candy. Then we went to my mom's house to see my grandparents who were out for a little visit, it just happened to be on Halloween so that was fun, it was the first time they have ever gotten to see my kids on Halloween. My mom took lots of pics when we were at her house so I will need to get them from her, but I do have pics from early in the day...
Abbie the kittie...yes she is sitting up!! Still not very stable but she can for a little while.

Lexie at the school parade.

Lexie the glittery soldier girl. I say it defeats the purpose of camo but she was really cute.

Ashton the spitting image of Dad, what else would he be??

New Site

I know that I just started this new blog, but I am going to start another new website. We bought a Mac about 6 months ago and I kept telling myself that I really needed to figure out how to use more stuff on it. (I really like the iphoto program.) Well a friend of mine that I haven't seen for a few years found me on facebook and we exchanged blogs. Her blog (which is gorgeous by the way) is a site that uses her .me account from Mac, which we also have so I have been inspired to try it and see how it goes. When I get it all figured out and working I will put the address here so you can all see the new site, hopefully it won't take too long to get it up and running.

Rolling Over

Abbie has finally mastered rolling from her back to her belly. She has been able to go the other way for well over a month now. And after just 4 days of rolling over for toys and whatever else she thinks she needs in her mouth, she is already trying to figure out how to crawl...swimming and going backwards. I really don't want my almost 6 month old crawling but it is really cute watching her try and figure it out.

Too cute!!

Just had to post this picture that I took of Abbie yesterday.

Quick Catch Up...

We had a very busy week last week and I just now have time to try and post a little about what we did. First off, it was Jake's birthday on Wednesday (he's 32) and then it was UEA (or fall recess as they call it now) Thursday and Friday. Jake took those three days off of work and Lexie was out of school so we stayed at my sister-in-law's condo in Heber on Wednesday night. That was really fun, we didn't do too much but it was fun to just relax. This is a picture of the kids just hanging out at the condo. Then on Thursday we went for a walk in Provo Canyon to Bridal Veil Falls and had a great time on a "nature walk" as Ashton called it.

Friday we spent most of the day cleaning up the yard and getting it ready for winter, it was nice and warm so that made it easier. Now my yard looks bare with all the flowers gone. Then Jake went and helped Kirsten and Jon with their roof and I took the kids to get pumpkins since we had already told them that we were going to go(good thing I am used to doing such things by myself.) But there is no way that Jake is going to get out of helping us carve them. Besides that is his favorite part anyway. Saturday was Jake's work Lagoon day, we left Abbie with another sister-in-law (Holly) and Jake's mom, and had a good day at the amusement park. Sorry no pictures, I didn't want to take my camera it is just a pain to drag around the park. Then Saturday evening I took pictures of some friends of mine up Butterfield Canyon. That pretty much sums it up.

And the Owner of a Brand New Ipod Nano Would Be....

LEXIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yes, you read that right, Lexie is the owner of a brand new black fifth generation Ipod nano. Now before you start freaking out and wondering why we would buy our eight-year-old daughter such an expensive toy when it isn't even her birthday or Christmas, she worked hard and saved her money and paid for over half of it by herself. When she came to us asking for an Ipod (about 6 months ago) we told her that she would need to save her money and pay for part of one by herself. Jake and I did some research and found out that you could get a refurbished Ipod nano from apple for a descent price and so we made a deal with Lexie that if she earned half of the money we would pay the other half and she could get a refurbished fourth generation nano. After she started working and saving so much she decided, all on her own, that she wanted to earn all the money and pay for it herself (you go girl) and just as she was almost there apple went and did away with the fourth generation nanos and came out with the new ones. Needless to say she was disappointed. Well since she had worked so hard, Jake and I decided that we would go back to our original agreement and help her out. She gave us all that she had saved and we paid the rest for a brand new Ipod. I would say lucky girl but she worked to hard for it to be luck. Good job Lexie.

On a side note this is Lexie's super cute new haircut (thanks once again to Maren!!!!) The best part, she can do it all by herself.