Cousins...what would we do without them?!

My sister and I had our first two kids around the same time (by no means was it planned that way, just how it worked out), so I love that they have a built in buddy whenever we hang out! (I dropped the ball on the third one :))The other day Jake and Kate were sitting on the stairs playing with each other. I got a couple of pictures of them. It is so cute how much they love each other. Jacob calls Kate "Katers" it is so sweet, I love it!

And as I was uploading these pictures on to my computer I remembered I had a picture pretty similar of Trevor and Brooke! I think they are a little younger, but not by much. Trevor and Brooke are the best of friends as well, more brother, sister relationship as they love/hate each other at times...but still the best of friends!

Cousins are the best!

Out of the mouth of my boys...

Out of the mouth of Jacob:
The other day I was trying to decorate my holiday shelf so I was looking at wedding pictures (which, I thought was fitting for Valentine's day, but I didn't end up using). I don't have any wedding pictures up in our house, so the boys loved looking at them. The first time Jacob saw me in my wedding dress he pointed at me and said "mommy a princess!" It was so sweet, cute, and funny! He said it the rest of the time we were looking!

Out of the mouth of Trevor:
Story #1
Trevor loves electronics....phones, computers, video games and now apparently i pads! He got home from preschool (about a week ago) and just keep saying over and over again "mom, I have an i pad...I am going to go play a game." And for about 1/2 hour he just keep talking like he had one, he would come downstairs and tell me he was playing another game and so on. I was very confused because we don't own an i pad. Finally, I stopped him and said, Trevor can I see your i pad...he said sure...he stopped reached into his pocket and pulled out his i pad. It was imaginary! It just cracked me up though because I didn't even know that he knew what an i pad was, but apparently i was wrong. I hope his pretend i pad works for a long time, because that is the best he is going to get for a while.

Story #2
To start this story I must preface...Nick isn't a huge fan of minivans, that is an understatement, he hates them. I on the other hand love them, huge fan, but haven't ever voiced my love for them in front of Trevor. Back to the story...about a month ago Trevor and I were sitting at the table eating breakfast and out of the blue he said "Mom, you know that car that Carter and Blake have?" I said, "A van?" Trevor, "Ya a van...we need one of those cars!" And I just chuckled, and said "why don't you tell your Dad that!" Then two weeks ago we were driving down the road and we were stopped at a light and Trevor said, "Mom, you know the car that Grandma Wadsworth has?" I sad "A van?" He said, "Ya, a van, we need one of those!" I chuckled again. And said "You should bring it up with your Dad!" And then, this last Sunday he was looking out our window and saw a friend's dad go by and he said, "Mom, you know that car that Owen's dad drives?" I said, "A van?" He said, "Ya, that is it! We need one of those cars!" So, apparently we need a van. Who knew Trevor had my same love for minivans. Too bad this story doesn't end with me saying...guess what, we now own a minivan...maybe one day...but Trevor still hasn't told his dad yet!

I am a robot...

Jacob is my little boy who gets into everything...he always has been. A couple of nights ago, right before bedtime, Jacob found these two trash cans (they are brand new and unused, they were under my kitchen sink because I was still deciding what to do with them) and Jacob and Trevor loved playing with them! It just melts my heart when they play so well together, it isn't all the time, but when it happens...I just love it!

They wore them as boots...

And they became robots...(I was to slow to get a picture of both of them) but they went around saying "I am a robot" in a robot voice...it was so cute!

Super Bowl Sunday....

The best thing about Super Bowl Sunday was we got to hang out with family! Nick's brother Shawn invited us to his house for a super bowl party! There was great food, great company, and a great game. This year was the most I have ever watched of the super bowl in my life! Trevor loved playing with Jackson and Jacob loved playing with Grandma!

Grandma and Jacob

People watching the game--we had some Giant fans and some Patriots fans--which kept the game interesting!

Nick and his brothers

This is John (Brittiani's brother), Trevor and Jackson loved playing with him, and he was such a good sport to entertain them!

It was such a fun night!

The next day Trevor went with Shawn and Grandpa Kim up the canyon to go sledding! We have had very little snow this year, so the boys haven't been sledding yet. Trevor had tons of fun! The snow was icy and hard, but they still had a great time!

Cookie Dough Monsters...

Nick has created two little cookie dough monsters! Nick loves to make chocolate chip cookies...and I love that he does. The boys love to help their dad make the cookies and then they love to eat the batter. Which, call me weird...I don't love so much... I have just heard how we shouldn't eat raw eggs, so I always say "just a little", "okay no more", "let's wait until the cookies are done!" Nick came up with a solution that makes us all happy... cookie dough minus the eggs. Instead of putting eggs in he adds a little bit of milk. Then we all can eat it batter to our hearts content! The boys love it, and so do I. More often then not Trevor will just ask to make the cookie dough, not cookies!

Nick making cookie dough with Jake and Trev. Jake is eating the beater and Trevor is licking it off his hands.

Trevor eating the cookie dough!

After we got our cookie dough, we played an intense game of chutes and ladders.

Trevor beat us all! Trev and I both got the long ladder, but then on my next turn I got the long slide...Trev just cruised on to victory! Let's just say Nick had a rough game.

It was such a fun Saturday night and I just love our little cookie dough monsters!

Baby Shower

At the beginning of January my mother-in-law and I threw a baby shower for my cousin (her niece.) I was in charge of the decorations and the theme of the food, so I decided to do a hot cocoa bar and cinnamon rolls. And here is how it turned out....

My favorite thing was the bunting flags...I just loved them, and they made me so happy. I hadn't ever made them before and I love the finishing touches it gave. This was also a party I put together in a day (I had bought everything over a few days, but actually putting it together was one), and I couldn't have done it without Jeana! Thanks Jeana.

And here is a picture of the mom to be! We are so excited for her and her husband and this new adventure! They are going to be the best parents!

Happy Birthday Jacob!

We celebrated Jacob's 2nd birthday yesterday. And there are a lot of pictures because I wanted to show my mom/family who couldn't make it. We had a great time. We love having Jacob in our family and we can't believe that he is 2! He loves Elmo a lot so I decided to do a Sesame Street party. I didn't start working on it until Friday morning (actually working on it, I had been thinking about it for about a week)...I really need to learn how to not procrastinate :). Jeana was my right hand lady and I couldn't have pulled the party off without her. Thanks for ALL your help! We had a small friends & cousins party to start the afternoon off with the Miles, Murphys, Birds, and Williams. Following that we had a family dinner with Papa Kim, Grandma Cyndi, Grandpa Brad, Shawn & Jackson, Heath, Brittiani, Rob, Jeana, Brooke, Kate, and Halle (I am lacking in pictures with everyone.)

Uncle Heath loves Utah, and is starting Jacob out early on the right track. We will have to remedy that before to long :).
(Just kidding, I think Utah is great...as well as BYU.)

Here is a picture of Jacob blowing out his candles. Jeana and I attempted our first fondant cake...and this is what we ended up with! (It was really fun to work with marshmallow fondant...we need a lot more practice but it turned out so-so...nothing like the picture I had that we were trying to mimic (I had really high expectations for us) ...but it was okay.)

All the cousins...(minus Halle)

Kate and Jake eating the marshmallow fondant circles. These two are such good buddies.

A family picture.

Jacob opening up his presents with his brother's help.
A group shot of the friends & cousins party!
All the kids playing with balloons at the very end of the party.

The following pictures are of the decorations. It was a lot of fun making these things. If you are ever in the need for some Sesame Street themed decorations let me know, I have some :).
A picture of the cake table.

I made some Elmo and Cookie Monster cupcakes. I loved how they turned out! I should have just made these and forgone the cake :).
Nick was such a trooper...he colored the posters that are on this back wall. They turned out fantastic! A lot of people might not know this, but Nick is great at coloring.
We played 4 different games around the characters...
Cookie Monster--We helped him find all of his cookies (like an Easter egg hunt, and then the kids could eat the cookies.)

Elmo--We pinned the nose on Elmo.
And I just deleted a picture of Big Bird...Big Bird was sitting on a bunch of pillows and we played musical chairs with all his pillows (feathers). I foresaw this going one of two ways...perfect or kids running into each other and getting hurt. It went more of the later way).
And last but not least we threw trash at Oscar...(like a bean bag toss.)
Here is a sign that you saw as you came in to our house. The poster on the adjacent wall said "this party was sponsored by the letter "J" and the number "2".
We brought the characters upstairs for the dinner.
The taco bar...
And this awesome Elmo veggie platter (thanks Jeana for making it.) Jacob wasn't feeling well until about 7 pm...but it was such a fun night, thanks for everyone coming!
Here are a couple things about Jacob --
* He loves Elmo.
* He loves Thomas the train
* He won't sit down at the table, he always is standing up to eat. This is something we are working on.
* He is a very independent boy...he favorite phrase is "I got it!" (he says it in such a cute way.)
*He loves his older brother, Trevor. They are such good friends! (for the most part.)