Saturday, July 3, 2010

James Video


So when we went to Wrangler's baby blessing, James was so tired and really close to tears but my mom took him and just worked her magic with her Donald Duck voice and made him laugh . . . probably the hardest he has ever laughed in his life. It was awesome. Most of the family was there, but this is for those who weren't and wanted to see. My favorite part was that right when Isaac started the video, Glen said, "You should put this on America's Funniest Home Videos" but you can't hear him say it so that made me sad. Anyway, I am glad that James can be the source of entertainment for so many people. Enjoy!

Saturday, May 29, 2010

Long Awaited Update

Ok so I have been so awful about keeping this blog updated. I was talking to my friend the other day and I realized I had forgotten completely that I even had a blog. Now THAT is sad. Anyway, lately we have just been going to school and living life like normal. Ryan and I are both taking classes for spring term, and Ryan is going full time summer term also. The other week we went to two BYU baseball games. James had fun, but I don't think he really knew what was going on. He met Cosmo though!
He is such a growing boy. Here are some clips of daily life with baby James:
He likes to play the drum set from our Band Hero game. He is getting pretty good at keeping a rhythm!
This is a bath picture because we don't have any of those and every baby needs a bath picture. :) He likes playing with his rubber ducky and other toys.

He also just barely started pulling himself up on anything he finds suitable: his crib, the couch, our legs, etc.
He loves his Grandma Heap!

Sunday, January 31, 2010

Happy, Happy Birthday

Yes, I had a birthday. Which means I am now 22. But I still feel like I am 18. Or maybe 16. I can't decide sometimes. But I definitely don't feel like I should be over 20 yet! Anyway, my birthday really was wonderful. Here's why.

Jenny was in town for Christmas and about a month after so we had some fun times with her. She babysat James for my birthday so we got to go out on a date without him!!! We went to dinner at Carrabba's, our favorite restaurant, and then saw the Blind Side which I would definitely recommend to anyone! Good movie.

Also, Jenny made me a birthday cake and we celebrated with Ryan's family the Sunday after. It was excellent. The chocolate cake was exquisite.



Martin Luther King, Jr., was kind enough to be born a couple of days after me so I have had the enormous pleasure of having school off every year for my birthday. This year we had Monday off and we had some friends over to play games and have cake. Ryan got me Band Hero for my birthday and Christmas and we absolutely love playing it! It was way fun to have some of our favorite people over to hang out with us.

Catch Up Time!

Ok so everyone probably knows that this semester has been the craziest of my life thus far, so I have not had time to update the blog. So here is a brief summary of things that have occurred that I haven't had the time to mention. :)

First, we had my sisters over for Thanksgiving and Marci and Lynn slept over at our house cause Marci wanted to learn how to make a turkey. I think we did an excellent job, don't you? ;) Lol. It was hilarious because we wanted to use one of those oven bags, but I didn't know how to do that so we had fun trying to figure it out together.


It was baby James' first Christmas and he loved looking at the tree! He really enjoyed the Christmas lights and shiny glass ornaments. We didn't get him anything for Christmas--we figured he wouldn't mind and we wanted to spend the money on each other instead. lol. Selfish, I know, but at least he has grandparents who gave him presents! They were so nice.

We spent the holidays up at Ryan's parents' in Bountiful and went sledding. We took James and got him all bundled up: he wore his older cousin Aubrey's snow suit and she wore his, since his was bigger and hers was smaller. Anyway, so she was in a blue snow suit and he was in her white snowsuit and we forgot to bring a blanket so then we borrowed Aubrey's and so James was wrapped in a pink blanket. Poor kid. Everyone probably thought we had a cute little baby girl! I hope he isn't scarred for life by that experience.

Also, Jenny's boyfriend brought these pink pool tubes that were super cheap and we were using those to go down on. It was so hilarious to see all these pink tubes going down the hill with men on them. So Ryan took one and was really serious about going off this big jump that was there. Well, when he hit the jump, his pink tube popped! It was the funniest sight to see. He had to pick up all the shrapnel and bring it back up the hill. :D Good times.

Other new fun stuff is that James is now laughing, sitting by himself, playing with his toys, and he figured out how to roll from his front to back. He sometimes is not successful with the rolling thing though, which makes him pretty dang frustrated. He is a good kid though and we love him. Sometimes we wonder if he really knew what he was getting himself into by agreeing to come down and have the two of us as parents. Hopefully he knew! I would hate for him to be disappointed. :S We tell him every day that we promise to be better parents once we are graduated. Life is a very different thing when you are going to school and have a baby. We are definitely happy though and James seems happy also, so we will just keep plugging along!