Ward Christmas Party

Shaun took the kids to the ward Christmas Party over the weekend alone (Sadly I had to work) I thought this was very brave of him!! Sadly he couldn't get the kids to cooperate and look at the camera at the same time. Still looks cute though :)

Parker wasn't too sure about Santa at the beginning though, look at that face.

This is how Shaun entertained the kids in between feeding them and Santa visiting.

This is a future Primary president or maybe Relief Society pres!! (Please note that she has 2 bows on, count them people. One is just not enough sometimes:)

Here is my cute boy running around the primary room!

Biker baby

First off, I don't remember if I told you all that we are having another BOY!!! We are so excited to have another sweet little boy in the house! Today I went for another ultrasoud and got this cute 3D shot of him. He had the hiccups during the ultrasound and also refused to move his hand away from his face. What a cutie we have coming our way!


We had gotten Janalee a bike for her birthday and about 2 weeks ago she finally got the hang of it. She loves her bike and makes sure that everyday we go outside so she can ride it! She would spend the whole day outside if we would let her. The other day she was at our baby-sitters and they went to play at the dad's work. He is a welder so they had a good time running around and playing in his big workshop. Sadly Janalee wasn't paying attention and ran face first into a metal pole. Poor thing, anyway here is a picture of her that night after I got home from work. I don't know how she was able to get all the damage under her nose, but that is pretty funny if I do say so myself. I was going to get family pictures today, but I think I am going to wait until her nose heals. When I pulled out the camera to take a picture of her nose Parker came and planted himself in front of me and was waiting for his picture to be taken. Too cute. I told him to smile and this is what he did, what a ham!

This picture just cracks me up! This is how she came walking out of her room one day after her nap, hahaha! I was laughing so hard! She found an awesome way to wear 2 shoes!!! That's my girl, got to love her.

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first hair cut

Isn't this boy a cutie! This is how he came in from playing out in the back yard one day, yummy dirt! I put him on the counter and pulled the camera out and he started saying "eese, eese" (cheese), too cute!!

We finally broke down and gave him his first hair cut! This is a before picture

This is before from the back, look how long it is back there!

And here is after.

Shaun did it all by himself. I think he did a really good job for his first hair cut on a 1 year old. I think Parker is looking pretty handsome!!

Halloween fun

We have had a lot of fun with Halloween this year already! Here we are decorating our pumpkins. I got these kits on sell and thought we would try them out this year. I wasn't sure at first if it was going to be as fun as digging the pumpkin seeds out and getting our hands all messy, but the kids loved it and they love looking at their pumpkins!!

Isn't she so cute!

Here we are at the local pumpkin patch, they both loved it!! I couldn't believe how expensive the pumpkin's were there though. We bought a little one for a dollar, but the bigger ones were like 10 dollars (I don't think so). So we ended up getting ours at walmart.

We tried to get them both looking at the camera AND smile at the same time, but that is like asking for a miracle.

I found this cute design for a bat in a magazine, Janalee had fun making these. Of course she asked to make a pink bat, who am I to say no to that :)

Janalee's 3rd Birthday

I can't believe my baby is 3!! She is such a cutie!! I love her to pieces! My parents and sister Jamie and her hubby were in town so we got to have a family birthday party. Yea! She was loving all of the attention, if you can imagine that :) Well, she got totally spoiled by everyone! Both kids love having new toys to play/fight with. It was so much fun to have everyone here, I miss them all already. I have more pictures from my parent's trip here, but I never remembered to bring my camera. Luckily grandma saved the day and brought her's, so as soon as she sends them to me I will share them all with you.

Here she is opening presents!! (can you tell she is excited?!)

Here is Grandpa Bible watching (and sometimes sleeping) while she is opening her presents.

Here she is sporting her new shades

Here is the princess and the frog dress she got from Aunt Jamie and Uncle Josh. She loves this thing and has been wearing it on and off for the past week.

Shaun really wanted to get her a bike so we found a pretty good deal on this princess bike. Both her and Parker love this thing. She wants Daddy to take her out to ride her bike all the time. She is starting to get better at it and can petal several times in a row before she gets stuck. Parker loves to climb on it and pretend her is riding.

What a combo: princess dress, princess bike, princess helmit, and tap shoes.

We love our big girl!!!

Fun times

I have been really lazy with just about everything in life lately! My poor house and kids and hubby have suffered for it. I do have a good excuse though, we are pregnant again!!! I am 12 weeks along and feeling pretty good for the most part, except being really tired ALL the time!!! We are all very excited. Janalee tells me that she has a baby in her tummy too, hehe! What a cutie.
Well, this is what has been going on around here. We went to the zoo last week and it was really fun, but hot! The zoo was doing a birthday party for one of its mascots so we got to have free cupcakes and party hats.


We were all so tired and hot coming home. Shaun gave Parker the big water bottle that still had a few ice cubes left in to and Parker held it all the way home. He looks so tired.

Janalee and Parker like to play it hard! The other day Janalee ran, and I mean RAN into the corner of the wall. She had a bruise on her other eye that just faded so I guess she thought it was time to get another one. I was laughing so hard, I felt bad for her though, my poor baby!

Parker had a small obsession with soda cans, whenever Shaun has one Parker will be close by. Shaun was getting ready one day and the kids were playing in our room and a little while later I went to go to bathroom and found this surprise for me. haha, I made Shaun fish it out.

Cute kids!

Parker got some new clothes from my awesome cousin. This little suit was in there, he looks so grown up!!I can't believe he is almost 14 months old. Time is flying!!

Here he is with his little suit jacket on. It is still a little too big for him! Still a cutie!

When we put Parker's suit jacket on Janalee ran in her room to get her jacket! It is summer time so she only had this one vest jacket in her room. She had me put it on and wanted a picture taken. She even sat halfway still for the picture. What a little cutie!

Simmons reunion

A few days after my sister and her hubby left we drove up to Georgia for a Simmons family BBQ. We had so much fun up there. It was so nice and peaceful up there! I hope we get to go again!! Janalee's favorite part was feeding the fish on Uncle John's lake and playing with his three dogs. This is a little clip that will give you a few of the place and here is everyone feeding the fish some boiled peanut shells!

On Saturday we had a huge BBQ. Uncle John smoked some chicken and ribs and invited a ton of people and we all had a blast! Here is our family with Grandma Simmons!

Here are the kids with Uncle Kris

Shaun and Parker taking a walk by the lake


Someone brought their DJ stuff so some of the girls were singing songs to everyone. Janalee and Parker thought this was so cool. It only held Parker's attention for a minute, but Janalee spent the rest of the night with the girls here they are all dancing together



Here is all the Simmons family that came to the reunion!

hello again

So it has been a really crazy month or so at the Simmons house! I haven't had time to do a whole lot except keep the kids fed and alive and the house somewhat picked up-that is the important stuff right:)
So I am going to play catch up with all the stuff that has been going on around here and then hopefully I will get better and start posting regularly again for my faithful 3 readers:)

So one morning we are eating breakfast and Janalee, for the 3rd time that week, spilled milk all over the chair. We had fabric chairs and so I had to go outside and hose the chair down and then wait for it to dry. So I decided I was done!! I went to JoAnn's and got some material and some plastic covering and whipped out the staple gun and fixed the chairs. I love it. It is much better now during meal time clean up because I can just wipe them off. I was very proud of myself!!
Before

After




Next, my sister Tiffany came for a visit! YAY!!!! We were all very excited to have her here. We of course had to go play at the beach, what else would you do in Florida?
Before we went to the beach, Aunt "Tippy"-as Janalee called her, brought some gifts for the kids. The dress here is one from a cousin(thanks Steph!) and Janalee LOVES this dress and I pretty much have to steal it from her in her sleep to wash it. She wears it almost every day. The shoes here are Cinderella slippers that light up when you walk. Janalee LOVES these too!! We had to hind them from her after a few days because she was getting blisters from them, poor thing.


Good times at the beach!!






SEAWORLD!!!!
Tiffany's hubby came out for a few days too and we all went down to Seaworld. My sister is preggo-I am so excited- and with the kids we decided that we couldn't really do ride so we would take them to seaworld and see all the shows. I was a little worried about the kids sitting for all the shows, but they did awesome!! They loved watching all the fish do tricks and swim around. Let me tell you people, it was HOT!!!!!!!!! I don't think I really want to do a theme park again when it is 98 degrees outside with 1,000% humidity. Let me tell you, we were all sweating like pigs!! Still had tons of fun though. Shaun and I can go again anytime for the rest of the year for free, so come on out-when it is a little cooler though:)


Here is Aunt "Tippy" and Janalee watching the fish swim around!

Parker loved the big aquariums so that some of the fish were down at his level! He would have spend forever watching these fish if we didn't finally pick him up and walk to the next tanks haha.


Ya, that is a shark that is swimming right over us. How cool is that!

Here we all are waiting for the big Shamu(or however you spell his name) show!!!

Not a bad picture with a one year old sitting on my lap trying to grab the camera:)

We pet the sting rays, which was really slimy but cool! Janalee was a little unsure at first, but when she saw all of us doing it she gave in to the curiosity. This is uncle Jonny helping her pet them.


They had a little splash park for the kids too. I brought their swimming suits and had brought a change of cloths just in case; so I decided that instead of waiting in line to change into their swim suits and then again to change back into dry clothes we just would skip a step. Pretty smart, right!!