Merry Christmas!

I hope you all have a Merry Christmas and a safe New Year! We will be in AZ for Christmas this year. We will be there from the 24th through New Years day. Then we are going on a 7 day Western Carribean cruise with Jason's family. We are so excited for both. Can't wait to see everyone. :)

Priceless.....

I couldn't have asked for a better picture of Zayne with Santa. I love these! This was his first time to sit on Santa's lap and it will probably be the last for a while. He is definately scarred from this. Our apartment complex had a Christmas party with, food, live music and Santa. It was alot of fun.




Doolin's

Roach's

Phillips'

Playing outside

Isn't he so cute! I decided to take a few pictures of Zayne playing outside.

Messy....

Ok this is probably the messiest my kid has ever been. As some of you know, he hates to get his hands dirty. He usually freaks out and wants me to wash them. Just watch the video I posted on his first birthday. I put his hand in the cake and he started screaming and flinging frosting everywhere. It was quite funny.

Being Silly

I was getting ready in the bathroom one morning and I looked down and Zayne was sitting there with his blankie on his head. It was too cute, I couldn't resist snapping a few pics of it.

Gone Fishing

We took Zayne out to one of our many lakes we have here. Jason wanted to go fishing with a buddy of his, so Zayne and I tagged along for a little while. Jason actually caught a fish and he is really proud of it. Zayne didn't really like standing very close to it. It kinda freaked him out.

Halloween!

Just trying to catch up on some posts. It's been awhile. Halloween was lots of fun. We had a little Halloween party with our friends. We went trick-or-treating, ate pizza and played rockband. Well, the guys played rockband while the women watched the kids. That's the way it usually goes. We didn't make it to very many houses. The kids were so tired of walking and we really didn't want all that candy anyway. We are really going to miss our little parties with our friends when we leave TX.



Lilly, Zayne, Jake and Jackson

Cutest Turtle Ever!

Isn't this the cutest turtle you have ever seen? Our apartment complex had a Halloween party this weekend. Zayne won the costume contest, of course. Look how stinking cute he is. He had fun, even though it doesn't look like it in one of these pictures. We have a trunk-or-treat this weekend with our ward, and our apartment complex is having a trunk-or-treat on the 31st. So he gets to wear his costume 2 more times. I will definately get my money's worth. Which isn't very much because I bought it last year after Halloween. I love getting things for cheap.

Time for Change..

Ok, so my blog was hideously ugly. I really haven't paid much attention to it lately, because I have been working on my Photography blog. I did a little update today. It's not great but it will work for now. I didn't have a lot of time so it is what it is. :)

I love you Daddy!

Playing Outside

Zayne loves being outside. I feel sorry for him when we go back to TX to our apartment and he can't just go play outside when he wants. And it is so hot and humid, we will have to wait till it cools down a little before we can spend very much time outdoors. This is a video of him playing in some sand my Mom and Dad got from the beach in Mexico. He has had so much fun playing in the sand. My Mom won't have any left by the time we leave, but that's ok, she will get more. This video is kinda long, but I did that for Jason. He's really missing Zayne and wanted to see some video's of him.

Playing with the Hose

Zayne got to play with the hose while Shaundra washed her car. He was soaked by the time he was done, but he had a great time.

Playing in the Rain

It started raining and Zayne didn't seem to notice. He kept right on playing. He wants to play outside rain or shine.

Trip to Arizona

Zayne and I are in Arizona. We have been here for 2 weeks and will be here for one more. My little sister came home from a mission in Bulgaria. It has been nice spending a little time with her before she goes up to school at BYU. Poor Jason, he is really missing Zayne. I am posting some pics of our trip for him to see and for all of you to see as well. We went to the lake and had lots of fun. The kids love to go tubing. We also went to the Safford Airport and got to take pictures with the planes. Zayne's favorite part was playing with the orange cones. It's a small airport and the planes aren't very big but I thought it was fun. Oh, I took a few pics of the sunsets. Arizona has the best sunsets. You don't see sunsets like that in TX. It's been nice spending time with my family, we just wish Jason could be here with us. We miss him!




Granny gave me a ring pop

Lil Sis





Tubing

Papa on his stand up jet ski

My Photo Blog!

As a new hobby and maybe someday an extra source of income. You know, money I can go shopping with. I am learning portrait photography. I have only done one photoshoot so far but you can see some of those pics on my photo blog. It is www.KreativePix.blogspot.com. I would like constructive criticism. I am just learning and need all the help I can get. There is a link in the right hand column of our family blog. Enjoy.

Spinach Smoothie Recipe

I know, sounds gross huh. But its not, if you make it right. I got this recipe at Enrichment night. Zayne and I share one every morning. It has a ton of spinach and is so good for you. Especially for all of us who don't get enough green veggies everyday. You can probably get your kids to eat it also, just call it Green Candy, but don't tell them what is in it.


3 Cups vanilla soymilk
Spinach to fill 3/4 blender
3-4 frozen bananas (broken up in chunks)
Cinnamon and nutmeg to taste


I make it in my Bullet blender, so I make about 1/3 of the recipe. What it means by fill blender 3/4 full is, pack the spinach down into the milk until the milk and spinach fill the blender 3/4 full (Yeah, it's several hand fulls). Make sure your bananas are ripe, like when the peel starts to get brown spots. If they aren't really ripe, they aren't sweet enough to cover up the spinach flavor (I made that mistake). Also, don't leave out the cinnamon or nutmeg. If you don't have those spices, go and get them. I left out the nutmeg because I didn't have any, and it tasted very green and spinachy. Enjoy!

Zayne's Bday Party

Zayne's Birthday party was a lot of fun. We had a BBQ at the pool and swam. We had a bunch of our friends come. Jason's Mom and Dad were also in town. Although we don't have any pictures of them at the party... Well not any Margo would let me post. :) They helped me make Zayne's Turtle cake. It took 3 of us about 3 hours. Thank goodness I didn't try to do that on my own. Now I know you have to color the fondant ahead of time, like the day before. It turned out really cute though. Zayne missed his afternoon nap because of the party. So when it was time to eat his cake he wasn't in a very good mood. I shoved his hand in it to get him started and he started to cry because he doesn't like to get his hands dirty. He was flinging frosting everywhere. I should have given him a fork to begin with. He would have had more fun. His friends came over and helped him eat his cake though. It was cute. He got tons of cool presents. THANKS EVERYONE! He loves them all. All in all it was a pretty Awesome Day! Except the poor little girl that was swimming in the pool and swam right into Zayne's little Torpedo Penguin and got it's propeller twisted in her hair. We had to break the toy to get it out. (the slideshow below can be viewed in fullscreen for a closer view)

Zayne's Cake

Here is a close up of the cake, for those of you who wanted to see it. Click on it to make it bigger.

Our Baby isn't a Baby anymore

Yep, its true. Zayne will be 1 on Saturday, May 24th. He is at such a fun age. He has his own little personality. He talks non stop. None of them are words we can understand except "DA DA". He says "MA MA" but only when he is tired. He also tries to "Meow" like the cats. He is always happy and smiles all the time. Our little baby isn't a baby anymore. :( We can't imagine our life without him though. We can't even remember what it was like before we had him. It must not have been very exciting. Ha Ha! :) This is the invitation I made for his party.

Our Little Monkey

We are raising a monkey! He climbs up on top of everything. I walked into my bedroom to see what he was up to, because he was very quiet, and found him up on top of the cat tree. I don't know how he got up there. Then while I was typing this post I turned around and found him on top of the coffee table. He just learned to walk a month ago and now he is climbing! He is so proud of himself when I find him on top of something. He grins from ear to ear.

Mommy's Little Helper

Zayne has a thing for cleaning lately. He finds the broom, the fan duster, the swiffer or whatever and starts sweeping the floor. He walks all through the house sweeping. He thinks its fun now, wait till he has chores. He will change his mind. Here is a little video of him using the fan duster to sweep my bedroom floor and a picture we took with him using the swiffer. Jason put a handkerchief on his head to be funny.

Zayne is walking!!!

Yep, it's true. He can walk. It's exciting and sad at the same time. Here is a video clip of him walking. It didn't look that dark on the camera but you can still see him. He gets better and better at it everyday. He still doesn't know how to stand up once he falls. He has to crawl over to something and pull himself back up. then off he goes again.

Think Chiropractic

My buddy just made a new blog that has basic and sometimes controversial topics that hit those of use that are chiropractors and those that just want to know basic topic on certain issues. It's just been formed so it doesn't have much, but I asked him to add a really good video. The video is about the CDC and how they try and beat around the bush about linking vaccines and autism. For those of you who don't know I'm pretty passionate about vaccines and how they need to be changed. So take a few minutes to view it and leave your comments so we can get some feed back.

Zayne's First Easter

These pics were taken Easter morning. The Easter Bunny brought Zayne a soccer ball easter basket. His favorite part was the bubble wand. He loves bubbles.

Easter Egg Hunt

Zayne went on his first Easter egg hunt. Jason's school had an Easter luncheon for all the students and their families and then an Easter egg hunt. Ok, so we only found 2 eggs, one for each hand, but he was happy. We gave him a cookie at lunch and he loved it. When Jason tried to take it away he cried. See his sad little face. Mean Daddy!