First haircut!!

Jocelyn is almost three and I've never really given her a haircut. I've trimmed her hair before, but nothing major. So, the other day I got the scissors and decided to take off an inch or so. Well, after I finished getting it straight.......yeah, it's short. :) After I got over the shock, I decided I love it b/c her hair is so fine that it looks cute short. Daddy says he liked it better long. Oh well. Here are some pics. What do you guys think??? :)

We MISS our friends!

I've been meaning to put pictures up here of when Ashlee, Gavin and Tanner were here, but we've all been sick and I haven't! Until now! :)

We had SO much fun with Ashlee and her boys! Gavin and Jocelyn are too cute together and get along so well. Jocelyn will randomly tell Gavin that she loves him! Ashlee and I are hoping those two get married someday! :) Jocelyn adores Tanner too. She says, "Ahhh, Tanner. You are so cute!" Gavin and Jocelyn's favorite thing to do together was to run upstairs, lock one of the bedroom doors and all we would hear was screaming and laughing. I think they were jumping from one bed to another in the guest bedroom. We only had one bumping of the head incident, so that's pretty good. :)

We did so many fun things while they were visiting. We went to Chuck E Cheese....always a favorite for two year olds. :) We attempted to go to the Balloon Fiesta (the whole reason I flew them out here that week), but unfortunately they cancelled the balloons b/c of the wind. It was so disappointing, but after watching the fireworks and hearing Gavin's "oohhhs" and "aahhhs", it put me in a good mood! :) He's adorable.

We went to a pumpkin patch, which was lots of fun. The kids rode this "cow" train ride. I thought Jocelyn would be okay with it b/c Gavin was with her. Well....they took the kids around a big building and when they came back, Jocelyn had tears running down her cheeks. I look at Gavin and he tells me, "I didn't like that!" Well, I can imagine with someone crying in your ear, it wouldn't be too enjoyable. Sorry Gav!! :) We all rode the hayride, which was fun. They drop you off in the middle of the pumpkin patch and you get to pick your own pumpkin. It was quite the experience. I didn't realize how many vines were all over the place until Jocelyn and Gavin tripped probably twenty times each!! Their little legs would get all wrapped up in vines and down they'd go! Poor things! No tears, though, so they must have thought it was fun! :) Anyway, we had lots of fun that day. The kids feed the goats, saw the bunnies, played in a sand box filled with corn and lots of other fun things!

We also went to the zoo, carved pumpkins (the kids decorated theirs with stickers), played air hockey. Jocelyn and Gavin surprised us with how good they are at air hockey. They would get going and hit it back and forth a lot. The puck would get stuck in the middle occaisonally, but for the most part, they were hitting it.

It makes it so hard to not live close to Ashlee and her boys! We all have so much fun together. I am blessed with the best friend! Ashlee and I have been friends since we were 12 years old. It's so nice to have someone in your life who knows so much about you and you don't have to explain your life history...they were there for it. I've found it's hard to make really close friends the older you get b/c life just gets so busy, so I am especially grateful that Ashlee and I are still so close. I admire her strength and her attitude towards life. She is such a wonderful mother too. She's just the best!!!! :)

Here are some pictures from her visit out here!

Jocelyn, Gavin and Tanner on the slide at Chuck E Cheese.

At the pumkin patch

The picture above makes me laugh. We were at the zoo looking at the elephants and Gavin is falling here, grabbing ahold of Jocelyn! No one was hurt in the making of this picture. :)

I'll put more pictures up in a minute. This is getting out of hand! :)

Two things....

Jocelyn keeps giving me funny things to write about. She is our never ending entertainment! :)

One, anyone who is willing to fund Jocelyn's Christmas list, feel free...this is her humble wish list...
1) "A horse, a black one"
2) "A dollhouse"
3) "A Purple motorcycle!".....daddy loved that one!

Yeah, we'll think about number two, other than that...this child is OUT OF LUCK! ha ha.

Second, I now know how she feels when I change her stinky diaper. She decided her baby doll was poopy today and told me she had to change her. She got the diaper and wipes and started the process. Then SHE STARTED GAGGING!!! She told the baby that she stinks! I was laughing soooo hard! Anyone who knows me well, knows I can harly stand smelly stuff and I gag! My poor baby girl. Good thing we're potty training now. It's so much more tolerable than diapers! :)

Nothing gets by her!!

So I have another funny little story about Jocelyn. Usually Graham will ask me, "Is it time for b-e-d?" Or "Are we doing a b-a-t-h tonight?". We thought we were so sly by spelling things out, like Jocelyn didn't know what we were talking about. Well, she proved us wrong this weekend. Ashlee and her boys were visiting and we were all upstairs getting ready for bed. We gave them all baths and put their p.j.'s on, then I asked Jocelyn to tell Daddy it's time for bed and stories. She goes out into the hall and yells downstairs..."Daddy! It's time for E-B-D!" It was SO CUTE!! She had us all laughing! I wonder what else she knows how to spell....sort of! :)

She's a funny one!! :)

This weekend is General Conference for our church. You can watch it on t.v on Saturday and Sunday, which is what we usually do. Each day, there is two sessions. I was talking to John inbetween sessions today and of course, Jocelyn wanted to talk to him and asked him what he was doing. Since John lives in SLC, he gets to attend the afternoon session today, so he told Jocelyn he was getting ready for church. Well, this is what my cute little girl had to say about that...."CHURCH ON SATURDAY!! THAT SOUNDS SERIOUS, UNCLE JOHN!!!!!!" Ahh, I love her so much! :)

New Mexico State Fair

We went to the state fair a couple weeks ago with Michelle, Mike and Brianna. The girls had a blast! We saw the bear show, rode the horses, went to "Old McDonalds Farm" and rode some rides. The kids area was really cute. They gave you an apron to put on and a basket, then you had to go pick apples from the "orchard",

ride the tractors, feed the sheep, gather eggs, pick some vegetables and milk the cow. It was a lot of fun! At the end, they give the kids a popsicle for all their hard work!

After we did that, we took the girls to ride the horses. Jocelyn LOVES horses and this was the second year she's ridden them at the fair. Brianna had never ridden a horse before, so we weren't sure if she would like it, but she did! It was so funny b/c she didn't know what to do with her hands so she just folded her arms! Towards the end, she decided to hold on to the saddle. It was so cute!

Girls Just Want to Have Fun!!

Jocelyn has a new friend from church, Brianna. We've been everywhere together...Chuck E. Cheese, the fair, the park, museums, the aquarium, etc. It's been so much fun!! The girls get along great and LOVE to make eachother laugh. I think their favorite thing to do is dance! This picture is at Chuck E Cheese and they are dancing away to the music. I'll have to get a video of them dancing b/c it is the cutest thing! Brianna makes the BEST faces and Michelle and I just sit there and laugh until we hurt! :)

Beware!! She's on the loose and she has a club!!

Well, I was going to try to write in this and keep everyone updated, but so far I haven't been good about it! We have been so busy, so now I have lots of pictures to put up here and lots to tell about!

First of all, we took Jocelyn to Hinckle Family Fun Center a couple weeks ago. She's never played putt putt, but she was very excited about it! At first, we tried to teach her the correct way to hit the golf ball, but soon gave up and let her do it her way! It was so cute! She actually did really well and didn't get frustrated when it took her a few tries! She would tell Graham, "wow Daddy! You did a great job!" It was really funny! We had such a good time together and who knows...maybe she'll be a little golfer!