Royals game date night

We had a date night with James and Heather and the baby boys at the Royals game. We left the older kiddos with the babysitter. 

We had some really nice seats and we were lucky that it wasn't scorching hot.

Jayven looks a little worried because it was our first time trying a back carry with the moby but he really did like it and so did I.

Jayven had fun but he wanted to be on the go the whole time. He wanted to walk up and down the stairs the whole time.

We were sitting in front of a group of drunk people who were actually pretty entertaining. Jayven found them pretty interesting as well and they thought he was the cutest thing ever.

The two baby boys had lots of fun but the game was cut short for us because it started raining and the game was put on hold. We left early but at least we didn't have to fight to many crowds to get out of the parking lot

Random Happenings

My favorite time of year has rolled around! Consignment sales! I'm like a kid in a candy store when I get to go to a sale. I went to check out a few the other day and Jess got to join me. She had to take a picture by the balloons. We went sale hopping and the kids favorite part was getting to play with all the toys.

Jess spent some time with daddy a few days ago and she brought her and Jayven some bath toys from the dollar tree. She was so excited to give it to him.

Occasionally we go to the drive thru car wash and Jess likes to pretend she's not scared but starts freaking out as soon as it starts. So we unbuckle her seatbelt and she gets to sit up with us.

After the car wash we went to costco and Jess found this really cute blanket with a stuffed animal. She said "mommy, take a picture to me."  It was not fun trying to leave and telling her we weren't going to get it. 

She put this bandaid on her face and wanted me to take a picture of her. She's just like her mom. She always wants me to take pictures of her.

And sometimes she doesn't have to ask me to take pictures of her. I just want to because she's just so darn pretty!

This silly boy has some pretty serious facial expressions. He was getting frustrated because I mixed his goldfish with puffs. Whenever he got a puff out he would put it in his mouth and realize it wasn't a goldfish and would make a silly face then throw it off to the side. Now I know better not to mix them. Haha.

Sister laid out this blanket for her baby dolls and he kept trying to lay on it. 

And then she wanted to take a picture with Jayven and the tiny baby doll and said "We're a full family." But Jayven wasn't having it so I didn't get a picture with him in it on time.

Jess found the perfect goldfish! They are princess goldfish and they are pink! She was so super excited about them.

Preschool!

Jess started preschool last week! We are doing a preschool co-op with 9 other families in our ward including a neighbor. She goes two days a week for about 3 hours. We switch off houses each week so I will get a chance to teach all the kids.

This was her first day. All the kids were getting together to take pictures and she was too shy as usual.

She's always very shy in the beginning but warms up pretty fast and becomes a lot more outgoing. The good thing is she knows everyone so it's a lot easier for her to warm up and be social.

I always ask her what she learned and she always tells me "I don't want to talk about it." Not because she didn't have a good time. I know she did but she's just sassy like that.

Thanks to my dear friend Heidi for taking these pictures.

She is growing up too fast!!

Jessalyn Lately

Jessalyn will be four in October! I can't even believe it! It's more like 4 going on 14. I don't know where she comes up with half the stuff she says or does but she definitely has lots of sass.

She is still the girliest little girl you will ever meet. She won't wear anything but skirts and dresses so I've completely given up on buying anything else. She loves anything and everything princess related. She can't really choose who her favorite princess is because she loves them all so much. She loves to dress up like them in her dress up dresses and her favorite shoes ever in the whole world are her "cin-lella" shoes! They're looking a bit dingy since she has worn them so much in the last 7 months. 

Her favorite tv shows are Sofia the first, Caillou, Peppa Pig, The fresh beat band, and Doc Mcstuffins. She's pretty picky about what she watches. She loves all disney movies and has a nice Big collection of Barbie movies. One thing I'm proud of that she likes to watch is full house! It's one of my favorite shows ever and was happy to find out she liked it after I introduced it to her.

She loves to go to stores. Pretty much every day she's asks if we can go to a store. It really doesn't matter what store it is. Hyvee, target, walmart, the dollar tree, costco.... She loves to go. She got that from her mother. Haha. We don't go to stores a whole lot but when we so she never wants to go home and keeps asking to go to another store. Her favorite store has to be target. She loves looking at all the dolls and barbies. She even lets me look at my stuff and says "mommy you can look at your clothes."

Her all time favorite store of all time is the mall. It's like one big store filled with lots of stores. And two of the best ones ever. The American girl store and disney store. She calls the mall the "dolly mall".

Her favorite foods are pizza, pasta and rice. She also loves pretty much any fruit. Watermelon is probably her favorite followed my strawberries and oranges and bananas. Cheese sticks are her favorite snack. She doesn't like any vegetables. As much as we try she just doesn't like them. Maybe she will one day. She's not a huge ice cream fan. She has to be in the mood for it and it has to be "white" vanilla ice cream in a cone. But she will never pass up a "peek-able" aka Popsicle. She loves Popsicles! She doesn't really care for cake either. She does like cookies but they have to be a certain kind. She loves Oreos but only the middle. And one thing she shares her love with mommy is chips. We both love all and any kind of chips. Her most favorite being Doritos aka "the red chips". One thing she shares with her daddy is her love of drinks. Every once in a while we will treat her to a kid size "watermelon pop" from "somic". She loves pop anytime we actually let her drink it. Which isn't too often since we try not to keep it in the house since she would always ask for it. 

She loves to be crafty like mommy. The other day we got some scrapbook paper and stickers and her first pair of scissors. We had a good time putting together a scrapbook. I helped by cutting out pictures from her American girl catalog and she glued them and decorated them with princess stickers. She also loves to color.

She is such a good big sisters and loves her baby brother so much. Sometimes she doesn't know exactly how to be gentle and Jayven can get annoyed easily but they really do get along great. She loves to snuggle him because "he's so cute". She gives him kisses and loves to help him even though sometimes she's a little too helpful. She loves to play with him and pretend he's her little baby. I love listening to her talk to him. She talks to him exactly the same way I do and says the things I've said before in a really sweet voice. Sometimes she can get annoyed with him when she wants to play with her toys and he wants to take them away. All in all she loves her baby brother to pieces!

Jayven's Birthday Party!

We celebrated Jayven's birthday on last Saturday with some family and friends. It was a rough start getting everything ready but was worth all the complications that occurred before the party.

I made all of the decorations which was a task in itself. But I'm happy with the way everything turned out!

We had some yummy food and drinks. Thank you mostly to Jordan for being in charge of that.

Our cupcakes were yummy even though they turned out pink. They were supposed to be red but we learned our lesson with trying to make red frosting with food coloring. Jess liked them!

We has our traditional piñata. The kids always have fun with this!

Jayven gave it a try but thought the monkey was so cute he just kept pointing at it.

Jess gave it a try.

And all the other kids joined in. Nothing started breaking through until the bigger kids started working on it.

After the piñata, Jayven got to open his presents with daddy and sisters help.

Jess was super excited about this part since she did most of the opening.

Jayven got some great presents. We have some pretty awesome friends!

And then it was cake time!

He didn't dig in as much as we thought he would but enjoyed it up until uncle James smashed his face into the cake! He got so sad about it but it was still so darn cute seeing him so sad. Haha.

Thank you to everyone who was able to celebrate Jayven's special day with us!