My Wednesday night

Somehow, for reasons I have know idea how or why my husband knows without me even saying anything EXACTLY what I need. Tonight it was filled with my favorites, strawberries and whipped cream, colorful gerber daisies, Popcornopolis' kettle corn, and watching Lion King alone. I've been feeling a little overwhelmed lately and worn out, he surprised me tonight after getting home from class. What a wonderful way to celebrate a Wednesday :)

Kenner Family Pictures

Here are some of my favorites!

Oh my goodness...my boy is scrumptious!

Happy Halloween!

My mom always got our pictures taken when we were little in our Halloween costumes, so I wanted to keep that tradition going. I also started one of my own though :) I made/sewed Jack's costume and I plan on doing it for all my kids until they are 12 years old. I've staked out a wall in my house and plan on putting only Halloween portraits there. PLUS Kiddie Kandids is having a sale where you get 25 pictures for only $7.99!! Couldn't pass it up!

Love, Jack and Family

(If you want to take a look at the rest of Jack's Halloween photos go to MyOnlinePortraits.com. Our session number is 104510 and the password is TMXNV)

Jack 6 months...

It's here...that dreaded half year mark crept up WAY too fast! My baby is growing up and there is nothing I can do to stop it! I'll I can do is watch and try and not miss a second of him growing, changing, and learning. He. Is. Perfect. Perfect for our family. He brings so much joy and smiles and love into our family and I am so happy he made it here safely into our arms. It makes me wonder why anybody said wait to have children, parenthood IS the greatest! Jack is 25 inches tall 65th percentile, and weighs 18.5 pounds 75th percentile (ya he lost a little weight, all that moving!) Some new things about jack....

Jack can:

• almost sit up on his own.
• roll from front to back, back to front over and over and over again! He is quite the wiggle monster and is even starting to scoot up onto his knees and somehow move from one side of the carpet to the other! Oh no! crawling is SO close!
• talk, he's basically talking already. Yeah yeah, none of it makes sense, but it's nice to have someone to carry a conversation with during the day!
• move his hands and arms on command, he is starting to become more coordinated, and LOVES to play with his daddies facial hair and pat our faces. I sometimes find him playing with random object he grabs as I am walking with him. Like the hanger he found at target or a piece of mail he grabbed as I was leaning over the counter.
• he REALLY smiles, almost on command now :) his giggle is contagious.
• makes THE goofiest faces..he definitely gets this from his daddy

Jack's favorite...

• Foods are squash and pears.
• Toy is a hamburger
• Person..ME :)
• Book is "My big animal book."
• Song "Five Little Monkey's" only when sung by his Auntie Heather

*Enjoy these pics :) I took his 6 month photos...eh they are "ok".

The hat Grandma Kenner had made for Jack at Disneyland!

he can't wait for Disneyland next Christmas Gma and Gpa Kenner!Auntie Ash sure gets Jack THE cutest clothes!

Babies are always happier...NAKED!

jack with his auntie nennie

at daddies surprise party!

I hate shopping!

in the cute outfit from auntie ash

*Six month pictures*

Oh by the way...

I started a daycare :) http://mrsbrittschildcare.blogspot.com/ check it out! more photos to come!

Deals!! :)

Yesterday I finally went out and got Jack some winter clothes! Good thing too because today was VERY chilly and it was nice having long sleeves and pants for his morning walk. I ended up going to target instead of Gap because I couldn't stomache the $150 for 3 pairs of pants and 7 shirts (on the clearence wrack). INSTEAD I got Jack 10 shirts, 5 pairs of pants, 6 pairs of socks, 2 crib mats (to keep his sheets dry), and me a new yoga top for all under $80! Yipee! Each clothing item ended up being less than $5 dollars! I <3 Target!

Our Family is "Avoiding Degrading Media Influences"

What happened to picking up the phone and talking with someone about their day, or actually practicing a friendship by actually doing something fun with them IN PERSON? Well I am about to find out :) I have had "cyber friendships" for far too long and I am ready to nurture and work on these relationships with all of you in person. I deleted my Facebook for good. It was an addiction and a serious crutch that I used to tell people about my life and how I feel. It also caused unnecessary arguments and hurt feelings, because nobody really knows a persons intent through "status updates" or "comments". I am hoping you will all forgive me for neglecting to nurture all of my relationships with you and I look forward to this new change.

I Love Tina

I made Jack this shirt for his great (great meaning awesome) auntie Tina's birthday. He was her birthday present for the evening, what a mush!

Cutest picture ever!

This picture of my son with his cousins actually brings tear to my eyes, I am so glad he gets to grow up knowing them :)

Jack without a doubt LOVES his grandpa Ewell, they have a special relationship because my dad will really get on the floor and play with him and go out of his way to make Jack smile. I am grateful to live so close to them and see Jack playing with my daddy, special moments like these are the ones I will cherish forever.

October 28th Craft Night!

Last month craft night we did the "Witch and Boo" decorations, if you check out my General Conference Weekend post you can see pictures. We being my mom and I because nobody else nailed down if they wanted to do it or gave me their money haha. It was still fun though and I am so glad my Mom made sure to push me to keep doing it because I REALLY like crafting and its fun doing ONE thing a month that's all for myself :) So if you REALLY want to join me this month keep in touch because I have to order the projects in bulk (meaning more than 4) two weeks ahead of time if there is a lot of people. So vote on your favorite project and I will list the prices below. For the block heads keep in mind you can mix and match which ones you want to do, you don't have to do them all :)

Give Thanks Turkey: $12.00

Block Heads:

Indian $5.00

Girl Pilgrim $5.00

Pumpkin $3.00

Boy Pilgrim $7.00

Turkey $5.00

Set Total: $25.00

Pilgrims: $12.00

Indians: $14.00

General Conference Weekend

Our family really needed conference this week, It brought so many answered prayers and good thoughts and feeling into our home. We watched all 4 sessions Saturday and Sunday, and Chris went to the Priesthood session with his Dad and brother in-law Cole Saturday night. Saturday morning we woke up early and watched the first session in our family room and then spent the day at my parents house watching the second Saturday session while my dad played on the floor with Jack and my Mom and I painted our Halloween crafts. It was soooo much fun my Mom kept commenting on how she must have "lost her touch" at crafting, but as you can see that is not the case AT ALL. Her "Boo" decoration turned out adorable! I crafted/painted the "Witch" Sign, I LOVE it. :) I want to do this every conference session! Saturday night I hung out with the Kenner ladies at our house, it was a nice low key evening and I made spaghetti for dinner and we watched "You Again" which was hilarious! Sunday morning we made sure to wake up on time and played in the family room with Jack while listening and watching conference. The second session is coming up and we plan on just staying home and being together as a family :) what a wonderful blessing General Conference is, I feel so blessed it is so accessible to our family and it is of great need to every one of us. It is so wonderful that we can hear not only from the wonderful leaders of our church, but given insight from our Heavenly father personally twice a year. I will never take it for granted again.

On a side note, here are some other crafts I've completed this month! Super Saturday in my ward was a few weeks ago and I was amazed that I actually went home with a finished product :)