JNB: 10 Months

This month has been all about... MOVING!

Jess has a crawl for the carpet, a crawl for the wood floor and then tiptoes on all 4 when it comes to COLD tile!


She likes to make a tee pee or Christian to go under.

Jessie likes to scale her way around the kitchen and you can often find her clinging to someone's legs in hopes of being picked up. She loves to push the buttons on the bread maker and what a treat when she actually turns it on!


Jess is very helpful and loves to unload the dishwasher.


Her favorite naughty thing to do is hitch a ride up onto the couch and then crawl around and mess up her Dad's inricate sound system.




If Jessie gets tired out she wines till you pick her up and then stretches out her hand to tell you where she wants you to go.


This last month she got a nasty cold. She would wake up with crusted shut eyes and we felt so bad for our wittle pwincess.

Cleaning Off My Camera...again

Some sweet treasures.

Jazzin' It Up

Mike is the basketball coach for the Preists in our ward so the kids join him down at the church a couple nights a week for games and practices. Tyler has been instrested in basketball for a while and the girls may or may not have some crushes on some boys down at the church so they go "play basketball" too.

Guess it is that time to pull out the old Monticello Champion Video! Show Ty guy his legacy!

Tyler chose to take some Basketball lessons through the Jr Jazz Program at the Rec Center this winter.




I had sent Katelyn to get some shots of Tyler and I guess he wasn't too thrilled with the interuption. Ha!

Happy Valentine's Day!!

Hope you ALl had WONDERFUL Valnetine's Day because
WE LOVE YOU!

Dad's Traditional Yummy Valentine's Day Breakfast


Christian monkeying around

Lots of Love this morning!



My child who licks the syrup from her plate. Ahhh!

Brigham's Preschool Party Favors

Katelyn's 11 th Birthday Festivities

On the night of Kate's Bday she went to see the BYU Young Ambassadors at the Conference Center. She invited her best friend Lucilla to join us. Lucilla gave her a darling charm braclet that they can build for years to come. We went out to dinner at the Blue Lemon before the show.

Happy 11th Birthday Kates!!

Can you believe it?

Katelyn is 11 years old!

This year has been a year of growth for Katelyn. Her feet are almost as big as mine. I have to stand on a stool to do HER hair!
She is becoming a beautiful young lady and it is so wonderful to have her in our family! She is always helpful and loves to get all her siblings involved in some game or activity. I couldn't survive without her!!

Playing in the Snow

It has been a really mild winter here in Utah. So mild it is scary... we NEED water!
It finally came in the form of the wonderful white, fluffy stuff!
The snow plow cleans our circle up and plows huge piles of snow right to our curb. It all makes for great snow caves!

JNB: 9 Months

Jessie has made some big strides in this her- ninth month!
First tooth
Pulls up on everything
Crawls everywhere
Finally takes a bottle
Doesn't eat baby mush/food anymore
Loves reading/chewing books
Is my broom chaser
She is a happy little baby and always smiling!
Loves her Daddy





We are always having "mama" "dada" wars!
I have only had two babies to say "mama" first Christian and Jessie. The older four kids said "dada" first.
"If I had a nickle for every time you said my name I would be RICH!" Did you ever hear your mom say that to you when you were growing up? My mom said it all the time and I say it now to my kids. I think that because my older kids are always saying "mom, mom, mom, mom" all day long that the younger babies have made it their first word!

Sliding backwards across the kitchen floor. This time she was crying because she got trapped under the chairs.

Catching a glimpse of the cat is a real treat for Jessie. One afternoon she had been sleeping for a loooong time so I went to check on her to make sure she was still asleep. When I got to her room there she was asleep and Shorttail was laying next to her. Keeping watch I guess. This has since happened a couple of times.



She likes it when C takes her for a ride in his car. You can often see her "bouncin" to his car tunes.

I had run upstairs to get something and left Chris and Jess in the basement and here comes Christian saying "Mom- Jessie wants you bad". I wash my hands and go to the stairs and she is just one step from the top. She climbed the WHOLE stairs! Time to get the baby gate up!