Christmas Time!!!!

Christmas was so much fun this year with Janalee. She didn't get the whole thing about Christmas, but she sure understood that he was going to bring her presents. She had so much fun opening presents and was totally spoiled by all who sent her gifts. I am hiding some of them so that we can bring them out in a few weeks and it is like she got new toys again. She had so much fun. Here are some pictures of the kids from that day, it was so hard to get both of them to look at the camera, it is pretty much impossible to get them both looking and smiling at the same time. These are still cute though.

Christmas outfits from Grandma Bible, aaawww so cute!!

Janalee's princess dress from Grandma Simmons

Daddy with his 2 kids and our tiny Christmas tree

Parker in his Santa suit, he looks so cute!!!!

Parker playing with his new toy from mommy and daddy. (You can see daddy passed out on the floor there, I think the kids got up a little too early for him :)

(P.S. I don't know if you noticed, but a few posts back I had some cards on there that I made. Well, I am pretty much retarded and spelled merry wrong on one of them-who does that- and Shaun didn't tell me that until like 2 days ago after we had already given it to his boss. What a nice hubby I have, I can't believe how dumb I can be sometimes. I think the kids are stealing my brain functioning-hehe)

Santa visit

Our ward had a party and Santa was there. I had been trying to get Janalee all excited to see him so I had been talking about it for a few days. They had this scary looking elf there next to Santa so I was afraid that she wouldn't want to go and see him, but she didn't care. She walked over and climbed right up on his lap, it was so cute. Parker was more interested in eating him beard. I wish we could have gotten a picture with all of us looking at the camera, but there were a lot of kids there who were waiting their turn. Next time maybe. We are loving our new camera that grandma got us for Christmas though!!! Now we can take all the pictures we want! Thanks grandma, you are awesome!!

I came home from dropping our packages off at the post office and found Parker like this. When I left both kids were sleeping and Shaun was playing on the computer. When I got home both kids were still sleeping, but Parker was now in Janalee's chair. It was so funny. Shaun even reclined the chair using Mr. Potato head, hahaha. Shaun cracks me up. It was so cute, I just had to take a picture.
Parker is now 6 months old. I can't believe it!! He is 15lbs 12oz and 26in long. He is getting so big!! He is crawling all over the house and pulling himself up on things. He is trying to walk around the furniture, but he isn't steady enough on his feet yet. Janalee likes that he is able to get around, but also doesn't like that he is getting into things now. He is such a quiet baby that sometimes I have to go on a search of the house to find him because he has crawled into a corner to play or is hiding behind furniture. My kids are so much fun, you can't help but love them!!

Cute girl

Can yo guess what she is saying? She came up to us and was saying this and it took me a minute to figure out what she was saying. It is a movie quote from one of her favorite movies. hint, hint She cracks me up all the time with the things she will come up to me and say.

I made cards this year for Shaun's residents and attendings and my family. My friend Kristen inspired me with her craftiness!!! I thought they turned our pretty good for my first attempt at card making. I need to recover now for a little while, I used up all my creative juices on these.

Fun times at the Simmons house

We had a great Thanksgiving here. We cooked a nice turkey for the four of us, well three since Parker doesn't eat yet. It was my first and I think it turned out pretty good. We ate on it all weekend, it was yummy!!! Parker is now crawling. He is loving that he is more mobile now, but I don't think Janalee is too excited all the time. He is now able to get into her stuff and she is trying to adjust to that. She does have fun playing with most of the time. She plays a little ruff, good thing the second born is durable!!
Last night I was getting myself some dinner, when I turned around janalee had jump off her chair and ran over to mine to feed Parker. It was so cute. She just couldn't get it in there fast enough for him. We will work on that, and also teach her how to change diapers too :)


This is our little Christmas tree and hanging on the lighting is our long Christmas countdown. We made some little paper decoration for it. Janalee didn't do so good with the real ornaments of the tree. I got tired after the first day of her taking the ornaments off and breaking them, so we went to paper. Now she doesn't play with them at all. Parker loves to try and eat it, yummy fake tree :)
I can't wait for Christmas, it is so much fun now that Janalee is older and understands more of what is going on.

Update

Parker has started to shuffle himself around the house. He is getting quite fast at it now. It is fun to see him inching around now. Janalee doesn't quite know what to think about him being mobile yet. He has started getting into her toys, haha.


Well Janalee has finally went pee pee into the potty!!!!!!! For the longest time she would hold it for hours and then when she was outside she would pee or if she was going to take a bath she would climb into the tub and pee. She didn't like to pee on the floor, which was good for me. Last night I told her it was time to go to bed and then she suddenly had the urge to use the potty. She pottied once and then said she had to go again. So we ended up staying up an hour past her bedtime waiting for her to use to potty again. Finally she did pee a second time woo hoo!!! I was so excited. I thought this was going to be a break through here and she would start using the potty once and a while. She had other plans. This morning she wouldn't take her diaper off for a few hours and then she held it until she was playing outside and went in the grass. Then when I told her it was time for a nap, she suddenly wanted to use the potty. I think I am being bested by a 2 year old. She is so smart that she is use the potty against me, hahaha. Who says a 2 year old can't play mind game!!!
She is so funny! It is a good thing she is so cute, she makes it all worth while in the end!!!!!

Parker is almost crawling

Looks like we got another crazy active kid here. The last two days he has been getting up on his hands and knees and rocking. I can't believe he is doing that already. He is almost 5 months. At this rate he might be crawling by Thanksgiving. Craziness!!! Janalee is really starting to play with him more and he loves that. He thinks she is the funniest thing ever and is laughing at her all the time. I'm sure with him crawling, she is going to enjoy playing with him more and more. It is so cute when your kids play together!!!
He is starting a little cold though so he isn't happy that I was making a video of him instead of holding him. He is still just so cute even when he is crying!!!

Parker's blessing

We blessed Parker a few weeks ago, but I never got to take pictures with him in his blessing outfit because while we were at church he had to poop on them. Crazy kid. So anyway, I finally remembered one day after church when Shaun was with us that we needed to pretend that today was his blessing day and take pictures.



We were trying to take this one ourselves, can you tell. haha

Halloween

We had so much fun this halloween! Janalee loved walking around and getting candy. She was even saying trick-or-treat (well more like wrik-or-reet, but people got it). She is still saying "wrik-or-reet" to people trying to get some candy out of them. Janalee was cinderella, her favorite princess (snow white is a close second). Parker was a rooster. He didn't stay in his costume for long because it was so hot here. I went as a nurse and shaun a doctor- I know we are lame people. I did wear my nurses cap and made shaun wear one of those mirrors on his head (well cardboard wrapped in aluminum foil attached to one of janalee's headbands-haha). It was a lot of fun with janalee this year!!!





P.S. On the way home from our ward halloween party, we just get out of the parking lot and I turn around and Janalee's mouth is glowing!!! Yep folks, she ate a glow stick that was passed out that night. Don't worry though, she is still alive and crazy as ever :)

Almost Halloween

We carved our pumpkin the other day and Janalee had a blast!! She loved to dig all the gunk out of the pumpkin. Daddy cut out the face trying to work around Janalee's "helping" hands. I think it turned out pretty good!!! BOO scary pumpkin!

Here are some cute pictures of the kiddos in their Halloween shirts. Parker was just smiling so big, posing for the camera. Janalee on the other hand, I could barely get her to look at the camera to get a picture. Aren't they cute though! (yes, I do love to brag about my kids, I can't help it)

Janalee is 2!!

Janalee is 2 already, I can't believe it! Am I getting old or something??!!! I think she had a fun birthday. Thanks for all the fun things people sent her!!
Here are the three of us, aren't we cute!

Here she is in the cute nightie that Aunt Brooke got her. She is really getting into princess stuff. We got her this motorized quad (we found it at a garage sell for way cheap) She still isn't quite sure what to think about it. She wants to push it with her feel instead of using the pedal, but she is starting to get it.

This is my sad attempt at making an Elmo cake. It wasn't as horrible as I was thinking it was going to turn out. At least janalee knew who it was and seemed to like it. That is all that matters right. Don't laugh too hard at it.



P.S. I have tried to many times to get that video of Parker laughing and it just wasn't meant to be. So if you want to see him laughing, you have to come see it for yourself. (it is worth it though because he is so cute!!)

Parker rolling over

I still haven't been able to get Shaun to sit down for a minute with me and figure out why it won't let me put that video of Parker laughing on here, he has had a crazy week. This weekend though he is all ours so keep your fingers crossed. In the mean time here is one of him rolling over. He loves to be on his stomach now and won't stay on his back anymore. I just love how Janalee says his name "parper"- just too cute!

Janalee time

I have been posting a lot about Parker lately and Janalee will not have herself being ignored, hehe. Here are some pictures of what she has been up to lately.
She is is destined to be a great painter someday, I mean look at this work of art!!!

We pulled out the good old exer-saucer the other day and Janalee just had to make sure that it was safe for Parker to get in and play.

Janalee loves to go with Shaun and "drive" his truck. When he told her it was time to come in, she wasn't very happy. So she decided to show her anger through banging her head on something, it just happened to to be the seat belt. How do you bruise a nostril, I mean really. She is such a crazy gal, there is never a dull moment with her around the house haha.

This is what happens when Daddy and Janalee play alone with no mom supervision.

Sorry

I have been trying to upload the video of Parker laughing for 2 days now, for some reason it won't do it. It was "uploading" for seriously 7 hours today and I finally gave up. I am going to try to get Shaun to help me so I can show it to you.

Swim time

We haven't been up to much lately, but we did buy a pool this weekend. They are 50% off now so we decided to go ahead and get one. Janalee is in heaven! All day she wants to go in the "waer" and "wim". The water goes just above her shoulders so it is perfect for her. Parker even likes to go in the pool, he was sleeping when I pulled out the camera today. I have a really cute video of him laughing but this computer isn't letting me load it, I have to wait for Shaun to surrender the good one.

PLAY WITH US

Shaun is going to play a free multiplayer online game with his brothers and his dad. It is found at www.ddo.com He will also be playing a pay-to-play game at www.aiononline.com Anyone is welcomed to play with him in any of those. I totally support Shaun playing this and will keep the kids quiet and away from this so that he can freely play all he wants because he works all day and I just relax at home all day.

Apple Bread

Hey there Rebecca, sorry it took me so long to get this to you. I used to make this in college a lot and it is yummy. It makes me hungry, I wish that I had some apples to make it.
3 cups flour
1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
2 cups sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla
3 eggs
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 cup cooking oil ( or use apple sauce)
3 cups sliced apples

Mix flour, baking soda, and cinnamon together
Cream together sugarm oil, eggs, and vanilla
Add flour mixture
Bake at 325 until lightly brown and done, about an hour

You can freeze this but I always end up eating it before that point.
Enjoy

First hair cut

So I finally couldn't take it any longer, I had to give her bangs. She won't keep hair clips and pony-tails unless we are out of the house. So she walks around all day long with her hair in her eyes. Drives me crazy!!! Right now she has a touch of a cold and so there is snot all over her hair GROSS!!!!! I didn't want to do it because I wanted her hair to grow out, but it had to be done. I think she still looks cute.

Before

After

Space Shuttle

This was really cool! The space shuttle launched about 150 miles from our house down here. We stayed up until midnight to see it. Totally worth it! We didn't think that we would see a whole lot but as soon as we went outside we could see this huge ball of fire in the sky, so I ran inside and grabbed the camera. We are going to try one time while we are down here to go and see a shuttle launch. Sorry about the camera shaking, I was zoomed in as far as the camera would let me and so every little movement it really noticeable. It was really cool. The shuttle should be connecting with the space station sometime tonight.

Cute Stuff

One of my friends has her own little online boutique. It has the cutest stuff for girls, I am so going to get some here. Don't you just love dressing girls up?!!!!
The address is
http://littlebowtique.net
Please everyone check it out!!!

Back again

So we are back from AZ again. Kristi's wedding was wonderful. I think it turned out really pretty. It was nice to see everyone again, I won't get to see them all for a long time :(
The kids did pretty good on the planes this time. Janalee even knew when we strolled up to the securety line what she had to do and started taking her shoes off. ( you think we have been flying too much?) On one of the flights back we sat behind this kind of crazy lady. She was moving down to Florida and was was traveling with her two kids-who were like 3 and 4 maybe (and she had her little boy in a butterfly shirt with pink flower sandals- I hope she doesn't send him to school like that because he will get beat up or something) and three cats and another couple of bags. Ya she was a little crazy and had a break down on the plane and almost got thrown off the plane because she delayed us for 35mins trying to get her kids carseats in correctly. My heart goes out to her because she was in way over her head, but she was also a crazy lady in general I think. She even got her finger stuck in her seatbelt during the flight- I mean really.
Anyway- it sure made for an intersting flight.
Back to the wedding- Janalee was just loving all the attention she was getting. She was just running around like a crazy-lady and loving every minute of it. while we were setting up that day I had gone to feed Parker in the mother's lounge and I guess no one was watching her. We had all the cakes for the reception in a room off the kitchen with the doors closed. janalee was able to crawl under the counters in the kitchen and into the cake room. She grabbed 2 handfuls of carrot cake and came to show everyone her dirty hands. We were all just laughing. Crazy kid. More cake for mommy- woo hoo.
Well it was a ton of fun going back for another sisters wedding. Grandma Simmons, Aunt Brooke, and Avie were able to come over from Clifonia to see us. That was great because I haven't seem them in a while and they were able to meet Parker. Thanks for driving all the way to see us. I don't think Amelia is getting married anytime soon, so the Bible family weddings will be on hold until then, haha.

What is that doing in my kitchen

So I woke up this morning and was doing stuff at the sink and then all of a sudden this frog jumped onto my counter from the sink. AAAAHHHH! I almost screamed out loud because I wasn't expecting anything to jump out of my sink. The only way I can think that this frog got in is through the doggie door and then climbed up my counters and into the sink. Craziness!! Frog soup anyone? (yuck)

hello

Just thought I would share some more cute pictures of my kids with you all. We are about to go down to AZ again for another sister's wedding. It should be fun, but I wish that we could be transported there like in the star trek movies, you know "Beam me up Scotty" (sorry, Shaun has been watching the star trek movies while we fall asleep). A plane ride with and EXTREMELY active 1 year old is not a very fun experience. She can't even sit through a portion of sacrament meeting without screaming and running all over the building-sigh. Anyway here is some pictures of them before we when to church this Sunday. I don't know why Janalee didn't want to smile, but oh well. Also here is a video with Parker rolling over at 6 weeks. We can hardly keep him on his tummy for tummy time anymore. Soon he is going to be all over the house getting into stuff. Good times. Anyway, I am off to AZ here in a few days so I will post more when we all come back.

GROSS!!!!!!

I was about to write a post about something else, when I noticed that Janalee wasn't going to sleep like she should so I went to investigate. This is what I found.

Yep, that's poop!
She has been digging into her diapers during nap time if she hasn't pooped before. Then she "paints" the walls or the bed, or whatever strikes her fancy. It is so GROSS I can't believe she does that. She hadn't done it for almost a week and so I thought we were over that stage, but she proved me wrong. I don't know how to get her to stop. If she hasn't pooped before nap time I usually stick her in a onsie so that she can't to her diaper as easily, but I wasn't thinking today and I paid the price. HELP!!!

Story Time

I thought this was just too cute for words. I found Janalee sitting in front of Parker, "reading" him a book. How precious!

Update

Sorry that it has been so long. We have been busy here at the Simmons house. Parker is now a month old, wow how time flies!!! We just got back from my sisters wedding in AZ. Poor Shaun had to stay back in Florida all by himself because he was on call all last week and I don't think they would have let him take time off already because he just started his residency on the 1st. He is liking it so far. He has to stay all night at the hospital tonight so I am all alone :(.
Anyway, my sisters wedding was beautiful!! It was so nice to see everyone down there and show off Parker to them. He is getting so big!! He has already rolled over and is smiling now. He is just so cute!! I love him to pieces! Janalee is doing good too, but I think she is really missing the attention of her aunts and Grandma. She wasn't really jealous of Parker before, but now the it is just the three of us all day, I think she is starting to now.
Here are some picture from the wedding weekend and the beach here.
Jacksonville beach- it is only 30 mins away!!

Tiffany and her new husband Johnathan

The three of us at the wedding

This is the way cool punch bowl that we carved out of ice- ya, my family rocks!

We were only able to get a half smile on camera right now, hopefully we will catch a really good one soon.

Together again

We are all together in Florida now, yeah!!!! It was a long trip down there, but the kids did really good. Thank goodness for my mom, she was wonderful taking care of all of us on the trip down. Shaun was awesome and he had a lot of the house aready unpacked and ready to live in. So now I just have to get the rest of the house set up. It is coming along. I am going to try and get some more picture of the Parker, and get some of the whole family now. Florida is nice, but it is hot and humid!!! It is a beautiful state and I am glad we are all together again!

Welcome to Parker

Baby Parker is finally here!!! He was born on Shaun's b-day, June 10th at 2:26pm. He weighted 7lbs 12.8oz and was 20 inches long. He is such a cute baby, we are excited to have him join the family! Janalee is doing really good with him and asks to hold him all the time, it is just too cute. I am going to try and get it on video to show you all. Sorry it took me so long to get pictures of him up here to share, it has been a busy weekend. Shaun is down in Florida right now getting our house all ready for the rest of the family to show up. We are hopefully going to be with him soon.