Destin 2013

Well Jett is one lucky kid.. He got to go to the beach, again! He really is a good traveler so we take advantage while we can! Matthew, Jett and I went down for a few nights with another couple who have a daughter Jett's age! They got to play and we got to relax and just hang out. It was so nice because it wasn't hot, and since it was off season it was nice and calm. Not very many people are down there except for the "snow birds". haha! It was seriously just some relaxing time where we ate, and played. We bowled 2 of the 3 days we were down there and the other days just hung out and relaxed! What a way to spend some time with friends and family. :) We truly are so lucky and blessed!

Being silly on the beach. I think he was watching birds here.

Sitting infront of the condo with Kinleigh!

SAND!!!

Trying to get a cute picture with the girlfriend.. it wasn't working lol

Soaking in the sun??

The whole group!

Yum.. didn't you know sand tasted amazing?

Harry T's at the Boardwalk!

Getting the 501 Pic done!:)

Family Picture.

True Flirt right here.

"His" bowling balls!

Mommy and Baby

Flying with his girlfriend....

Decorating and Christmas Pictures

If ya'll know me, you know how much I LOVE Christmas time! So it's no surprise my house was decorated the day after Halloween... :) Jett really liked watching me do all of it and watching the glitter and lights. He even "helped" me a little when it came to making wreaths for my  Nana. We also went with Aunt Al and Olivia to take some Santa Claus pictures.. They are PRICELESS! O helped decorate the Christmas tree and she was too much fun! I can't wait for next year when Jett is about that age.. :) My group of friends, Trey, Jessie, Zach and Taylor all go to Motley Tree Farm and actually cut down their Christmas Tree.. I decided this sounded fun so me and Jett tagged along! Not only do you cut down your tree, they have a petting farm and pig races. A shop with fudge and free hot chocolate. It was so much fun! We all decided to start our own new tradition and continue to do this! It was a blast!! And then on to my favorites.. Jessie came over and we had a Christmas photo shoot for our Christmas cards... These are the best pictures I have EVER seen!!! I hope ya'll all enjoy!

Little man "helping"

He was so indifferent with Santa. He didn't get upset but would not smile! haha

Cousin O didn't like Santa AT ALL! Haha This pictures captures all the emotions at the time!

Me and little man in the middle of the tree farm!

All of us with their trees they cut down!!

One of my ALL TIME FAVS from the Christmas Card Shoot

Ha.. This explains him so well!

Huh?

This is the one I choose for our cards!! :)

Just being a Cutie!!

This taste funny.... :):)

10 Months Old!

We are TWO months away from the big FIRST BIRTHDAY! This is CRAZY to me... I honestly don't know where all this time has gone. But on a real note, little man has changed more this month than any other I think! He is definitely moving and is a wild little boy! I am so excited for all the new things happening but at the same time I am sad that he is growing so fast and all those "baby" qualities are slowly disappearing. It is for sure a bittersweet time! Anywho.. on with the Stats!

10 Month Old Stats--

>Jett started CRAWLING! It is not crazy at the moment, he almost forgets he knows how and then remembers again every day. HA!
>He started pulling up a couple of days ago!
>He started sitting up on his own from his belly.. I know he should have been doing this a long time ago. BUT Jetton does things on his own time! :)
>He wears size 12-18 Month clothes
>He is in size 4 diapers still
>He eats 3 meals a day and has slowly stopped taking as many bottles
>He no longer fits in his swing :(
>He enjoys holding onto your fingers and walking
>Jett LOVES all toys now!
>Being outdoors is his FAVORITE
>Any dog he thinks should be his best friend! He has even started barking like the dogs...
>he "gives kisses" and makes a Mmmmm noise! << This will melt your heart
>Jett weighs 20.14 lbs.
>He says "uh-oh" "mama" "dada" and a million other baby words haha!
>Dancing is a fun thing to do- to any type of music! (Church Hymns, rap, country, commercial jingles...seriously any!)
>He takes a good morning nap every day! around 2-3 hours!! 
>Still not sleeping through the night. :( I am having a hard time doing the "cry it out" method.... it breaks my heart!
>Any type of water... Jett loves and thinks he should be IN IT! :O
>He is really into all the Christmas decor! Something that makes me EXCITED!
>Jetton also is liking sippy cups!! YAY!

This is all I can think of for now! Side note-- The new mini ipad commercial came on just now and Jett stopped what he was doing to look and dance.. GAH I LOVE this boy!!

6 Months Old

wow.. I am SO behind! Let me just say we have been BUSY! Jetton is always awake and ready to play now! :) and I love EVER second of it!! It amazes me how much he has changed in the last couple of months.. I just need it to SLOW DOWN! Anyways  I'll get on to the fun stats of this month!!

6 Month Stats-

*Jett wears size 6-12 month or 9-12 month clothes! BIG BOY!

*size 3 diapers

*He is LOVING baby food. He eats lots of fruit and veggies and recently has started liking Mum-Mums

*He is on an all organic diet

*He still mainly nurses but we are giving him a little more formula

*I am pretty sure he is teething. 

*He can sit on his very own! He loves to play with toys while sitting up now!

*His johnny jump up and baby einstein play center are his FAVORITES!

*He loves to be outside and in water

*He has rolled over a few times but the Dr. told us he is "lazy" and content to not move around to much so there is no worry.

*Anything that lights up or makes noises (iPhones and Ipads) are the best thing ever to him! (just like his daddy)

*The cat and dogs are a lot of fun to play with and "love on" by that I mean squeezing until he can't squeeze any tighter..... :O

*His thumb is officially better than a paci. 

*He still sleeps in our room in his pack and play.. I just don't think I'm ready to let him go to his big boy room

*He is a very good traveler! and still enjoys sleeping in the carseat!

*He is finally recognizing his name!

*When you go to give him a kiss and make the "mmm" noise he opens his mouth and grabs your face.. it is so precious.

*He recently has started reaching for things!

*The drooling is OUT. OF. CONTROL. I think I change his outfit 2 or 3 times a day!

*He scoots.. I don't really now how or when it happens but I swear you look down and he is half way across the room!

*He weighs around 18 lbs. and is around 27" long (will update the exacts after the Dr. appt)

That is all I can think of right now! I PROMISE I will update the pictures as soon as I get them on my computer!!

Toad Suck Daze and Stuck on a Truck 2012

Well Toad Suck has come and gone.. It was a lot of fun being able to take Jett to his first ever Toad Suck Daze Festival! :) It was even more fun because Daddy, (Matt) was Stuck On A Truck. That is a competition put on by Centennial Bank. 25 Contestants are drawn over a few weeks and they all stand around with at least one hand always on the truck. It can go on for days. The contestants get a 5 minute break every hour and a 15 minute break ever six hours. It was so incredibly hot this year.. The winner stood on the truck for 77 hours.. Thats over 3 days! Matthew made it for 28 hours.. his feet were hurting him to badly. But we are ok with that- we would rather him be at home hanging out with us anyways.. :) Jetton did SO good. Like I said before, it was soo hot. But Jett hung out and slept in his stroller. Aunt Allison kept him for a long time on the first day, but then the second day he spent the whole time with me out there! We went every day and walked around and ATE! Haha.. You always have to have lemonade and a corn dog.. Also a frozen chocolate covered banana. :) 

Right After it started. Everyone was going strong!! 

Supporting Daddy! :) This was Thursday night!

Finally home cooling off after a long day of helping dad! He is SUCH a trooper!!

Calli supporting Matt! (We had shirts made)

Snoozing through all of the noise and commotion of Stuck on a Truck and Toad Suck Daze.. Have I  mentioned he is an amazing baby.. :)

Uncle Matt's other biggest fan! Olivia LOVED it... She wanted to walk around and see everything haha!

Dad smiling and having a good time!

Youngest member of the pit crew! 

And the Truck under the tent...

Our Life Lately

Ok.. So I will update ya'll on Jett!! Woo! A week ago Monday little man just wasn't seeming right. He was sleeping all the time (more than normal). He would sleep for 5 almost 6 hours at a time (every mom's dream) and would wake up and eat and then fall right back asleep. Even though the sleep was nice, I knew this wasn't normal. He sleeps a whole lot but this was just weird and he kind of had a cough going on. So we went to see Mrs. Karen and Jetton was diagnosed with his first ear infection. :( It was sad.. And she said he has reflux.. This really broke my heart. The cough is from the reflux but she said the good news is that he should out grow it by 6 months!! He is on his first antibiotic. Amoxicillin, it's pink and supposedly taste like bubble gum. I don't really get why they flavored it, its not like he knows what bubble gum taste like, but whatever. He hates it. So the flavor didn't even help... Even though he wasn't feeling great he was still SO smiley! He seriously is the sweetest baby ever. We went and had a birthday dinner with Aunt Angie at bone fish grill (YUM) Then Alicia, Patrick, Liam and Laken drove through and we met them for lunch at Stobys. This was the first time they got to see Jett! It was so special- We also went and did a dinner get together at Spencer and Xochilts! It was so fun! In other news... Cousin Olivia started WALKING! This is so cool and fun and unreal. She is getting SO BIG! Nothing else really big happened. Yesterday Nanny and Charlie came into town and got to visit with little man. We love seeing people!! It makes our days fun and interesting! Oh.. some other big news.. Jett is officially out growing his 0-3 month clothes!! :O This makes me happy and sad all at the same time! 

Chilling on is play mat. He really loves it. He's rocking his shirt for all of his Aunts! :)

Morning Smiles! Awhh.. 

This is a new thing! His head control has gotten a lot better and he can now sit up in his Bumbo seat for a little while at a time!

So.. We are getting him ready for summer and found this life vest for him so he can go out on the boats.. Haha he HATES it.. Look at that face!

His sunglasses! How cute is that. Gosh he melts my heart (I do realize I say this ALL. THE. TIME.)

Big girl Olivia standing all on her own! 

Haha.. I had to do this so that I can haunt him in the years to come.. Laying on Samantha's play mat!! 

Daddy getting some morning loving in!

(This is the first picture where he is smiling with someone, Of course it's with Dad)

Alicia and Liam hanging out with Jetton!

This is the Monday he went to the Dr. and found out he had an ear infection.. He is still SO happy!! :)

Millies Birthday

So today is Millie's 5th Birthday. I know everyone who keeps up with the blog does it to see pictures of Jetton, but today I have to do a post about my "first baby". Matthew and I started dating on May 5th, 2007 and SOMEHOW I convinced him that we "needed" a puppy together. :) I'm pretty good at convincing him of things so this really wasn't that hard. It was the beginning of June on a Friday and we started looking  and happened to find a lady who would meet us in Searcy with her last female golden retriever puppy. I was SO excited.. I have to add that we started looking and bought a dog in the same day. It's not like it was a long drawn thought out process. We went to meet her to see if we would click. My mom  went with us and we meet her in the Wal-Mart paring lot. Yes.. we broke ALL of the rules people tell you to follow when buying a dog. We didn't meet the parent dogs, we didn't see the whole liter, we didn't go to the place where she lived. We just met her in the wal-mart parking lot. One dog, one lady. Millie immediately took off running and I chased after her, when I picked her up she PEED ALL OVER ME. Matthew says this is when he knew she was ours. We didn't tell Diana, or my dad or anyone really. We just bought her and decided hey! we have a dog! We named her Millie after a character in one of the first movies we ever watched together. From that day on she was our baby. She got really sick and almost died right after we got her and she has horrible allergies and has to be on a special food. She has super weird quirks. She's very vocal..and you could stuff a teddy bear daily with the hair she sheds, but she is our baby. We wouldn't change anything about her.. 

Right after we got her! Look how LITTLE she was!

Our first "Family Picture"

One of the times we gave her a bath when she was younger.. :)

Playing in the mud!

Haha. She has always been a weird one. She use to love laying on the back of the couch like a cat.

Playing in the snow a few years ago!

And today, Helping me blog!! :)