Sunday, November 30, 2008

This Just In!!!

Where to begin! First and foremost, Jacob has his first wiggly tooth!!! That's right, he'll be losing his first tooth soon! :-D

While Jacob is in the process of losing his teeth, Jenna is gaining teeth! A few days ago her second tooth popped through, YAY JENNA!!!



We have found a new way to bribe (or threaten!) our kids!!! ;-D Jacob keeps talking about how much he loves Santa Claus. He thinks that Santa is the only one that brings him presents (even though we keep telling him that Mom & Dad get him presents too). So I have been singing the song "He's making a list, checking it twice, gonna find out who's naughty or nice, Santa Claus is coming to town!" He's really making that connection now, and we keep asking him if he's being naughty or nice. Well tonight Matt brought it to a whole new level! We were joking around about Jacob not doing something, and we said "What if Santa finds out???" So Matt picked up the phone and said "That's it, I'm calling Santa at the North Pole..." He pretended to talk with Santa, asked him what kind of cookies he'd like us to set out, asked if Jacob was on the nice or naughty list (meanwhile Jacob keeps looking back and forth between me and Matt, like what...is that real...oh my...), he got off the phone and said "Santa said you're on the naughty list, but he'll put you on the good list if you clean your room." He JUMPS UP, and runs upstairs while exclaiming "I gotta go clean my room!!!" :-D HA HA HA HA HA!!! (it wasn't even very messy, had like four things on the floor, and the rest was clean) I took a picture of him in his clean room and Matt said we'd email it to Santa. Jacob got really sad - "I don't know how!" Matt told him I'd do it for him, he was quite relieved :-) Anywho, cracked us up! Wahoo!!!
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And lastly, Juliana brought down her treasure chest which had some hair stuff in it, including Easter bunny ears. Of course we needed to put them on Jenna :-) Just mixing up a few holidays in our house, no biggie!



Saturday, November 29, 2008

Holiday Festivities!!!

11/29 - Our bakers in training: Jacob and Juliana helping Daddy make crescent rolls!
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Jenna's first look at a Christmas tree
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I think she likes it!
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Jacob LOVING Santa Claus!!!
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Juliana loving Santa Claus too!
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Jacob figuring out all the letters :-)
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Jacob hanging Christmas ornaments
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Juliana hanging Christmas ornaments
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More ornaments :-)
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The finished product! Yeah, I didn't need to take a picture of the ENTIRE tree as there is just a "circle of ornaments" since they placed them all in the same area :-)
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Juliana in a Santa Hat (and fishing medal)
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Jacob made a WALL-E costume, I LOVE IT!!! (Daddy made the EVE)
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How cool is that?!?
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Thanksgiving at Grandpa & Grandma Hirst's House!
Juliana making her craft
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Aliya and Jacob making their crafts
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OK, this is the last of my pictures...FOR NOW! :o) WHEW! It sure has been a fun and eventful couple of weeks! I'm not sure when we're heading up to the mountains to cut down our REAL Christmas tree, but our little fake one will tie us over in the meantime :-) Let the Christmas festivities begin!!!

A Couple More...

11/24 - A pretty and quite "cool" Juliana
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11/25 - Jacob and Mommy having fun with the camera

Yeah, Like I'm Done!!!

11/23 - Baby Shower Day!!!
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Jenna with Grandma Hirst and Great Grandma Plute
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Karen about to open her gifts :-)
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Sweet Jenna in a pretty dress.
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Jenna cracking herself up :-)
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She's so funny :-)
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Siblings, Juliana and Jenna :-) They are really starting to bond since Jacob's in school, it's so neat to watch!

Yet Even More...

11/22 - Jacob and the Awana Grand Prix car at church!
Second race day!!!
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Matt throwing Juliana in the air at the pool party
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Matt and a very happy Jacob and Juliana at the pool party.
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Kevin and his not-so-graceful dive.
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Jimmy's turn!
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James' first jump!
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Abby's first jump!
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A very happy Abby after her first jump!
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James jumping again
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Ron "swimming" the waterwalk - ahh, good times :-)
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Ahh, much better dive, Kevin!
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Abby jumping again (I'm taking these for Karen who couldn't come due to sick kids) (and cuz I'm a proud auntie of course!)
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Birthday boy, Austin, jumping to Kevin
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Sweet Emma :-)
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A very very hot Jenna!

More Pictures

11/13 - Haven't been getting many pictures of Juliana lately :-)
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11/21 - Left to right: Jacob's car (Phineas & Ferb), Matt's car (Thurdercats), Juliana's car (Tinkerbell)
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11/21 - All three from the back.
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11/21 - Jacob's super cool Phineas & Ferb car.
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11/21 - Juliana on race day at church!

I Warned You!!!

OK, I warned you! I am catching up on about 3 weeks worth of photos!!! I'm trying to narrow it down...but as Joey says, "It's a moo point." :o)

11/9 - Jenna having oodles of fun with her feet :-)
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11/9 - Jacob and Juliana gettin' down to Nursery Rhymes on OnDemand!
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11/9 - See??? This is how much fun they have when Jacob's been in school half the day... This last week of him being home all day every day has been the cause of much bickering! School must start back up again!!!
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11/10 - Jenna getting closer to rolling over...if that other darn arm wouldn't get in the way all the time!
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11/10 - Jenna lasts about a full minute now for Tummy Time...we're making progress...