May 2015 at a glance

Here's the random collage of May's phone photos...How is May already over!?

Jayne's infamous "bwoooo shoooooze" make an appearance even when clothing does not :)

Watering the front flower bed always turns into water-time for Jayne. Even if we don't let her drench herself from the end of the hose, our hose has a small leak that she knows to find and plays in it to her heart's content. Simple pleasures! (You'll see how happy she is playing in the water in the video at the end)

Jayne's tea party I found her hosting one day while I was making dinner. She set it all up herself and even awarded her baby doll a cracker and her juice (before Jayne got thirsty)

Jayne went through a phase where she loved putting hair elastics on her wrists. On and off, such a fun toy!

Our $10 Ross purchase was such a success. This sprinkler keeps Jayne happy and makes it easy for this preggo momma to entertain her toddler. Win-win!

 Jayne reading a book to her line-up of toys 

While I get ready (or just for fun) Jayne likes to make a collection of Daddy's nightstand items on the bathroom floor. Hey, it keeps her busy and its harmless so I'm not complaining!

These next few photos are from Phil's US citizenship ceremony. That was a lot of fun to experience as a little family. Jayne raised her little hand along with the new citizens. It was cute!

I should note that Jayne's flag came in Phil's citizenship packet-she is obsessed with "FLAAAAA" (flags) and did not let it go all day.

My two cheesers!

The last of these photos are from BYU's Annual Duck Derby. This was a fun little even that Jayne and I went to one weekend while Phil was out of town with work. Jayne had her face painted, ate an ice cream bar, colored her own duck, and then watched it race. We found out that she really didn't care to race her duck and was devastated the whole time having to wait to get it back. Lesson learned :)

Jayne's "smile"

She loved the texture of the tree that day for some reason...

Face painted

My sweet sweet Jayne. Love seeing this girl explore the world!

And we'll finish off with a compilation of the videos on my phone from May. Simple moments but ones I want to save none-the-less!

Hogle Zoo - April 2015

We visited the zoo with my mom and sisters mid-April and Jayne LOVED it! She is so good at making animal noises and pointing out animals in books, saying their name and then sound, so she was in heaven.

Seeing a live lion vs. a book lion was no different. "Lyyyyyy", "RAAAAAH!"

"RAAAAH, RAAAAAAH"

 It was a perfect day-not too hot and not too cold. It was so nice and Jayne loved walking around, being outside and exploring everything. One of her favorites was this giant hollow log. She went back-and-forth, back-and-forth as long as we let her! We had to tell her that was were going to see some really cool bears to get her to leave her precious log :)

  

Funnily enough she was so excited about the "waaaaaaa" (water) in all the tanks even though she couldn't see any animals in some of them.

She made a cute little friend at one of the animal exhibits. They shared their water excitement, touched hands and looked back at mom & dad to show them their new friend.

Jayne's next best friend was this otter statue. She loved playing with it, holding its hands, kissing it, hugging it...you name it! She would look at us and tell us "cue, cuuuuue" (cute) 

It was a great visit to the zoo with our little animal lover. We had a lot of fun showing her all the animals!

Easter Weekend 2015

Our Easter weekend was full of perfect weather, family time, General Conference and easter egg hunts (Jayne just loved them!). We took Jayne and her new wagon out for a ride and she was in heaven!

 Her "smile"...look up and cheese it!

We walked to a local park with a duck pond and a playground, the best of both worlds for Jayne.

Jayne was copying everything Phil was doing :) 

 My heart, my whole.entire.heart.

Jayne loves animals and completely enjoyed feeding the ducks and watching them swim.

Then it was lunch at the playground

 This girl loves the "slyyyyyie" (slide) and "sweeen" (swing). 

Watching Jayne and her daddy play is one of my greatest joys. Love my two buddies!

 And to finish off the Easter fun, we have our Easter Sunday pictures. 

My heart just may explode! Love this little girl! ❤️❤️

Easter 2015

We had a lot of fun this Easter having a toddler in the house! Jayne woke up and we brought her to the living room to show her what the Easter Bunny had brought her. 

She obviously loves her suckers :) and liked to shake the eggs to see if there was anything inside. 

When we first tried to put her in the wagon she wasn't too sure...

But after a lap around the room she didn't want to get out!

She even stayed in the wagon to drink her milk and watch a show while mom and dad cooked breakfast. She loves her wagon!

Here's our little mini with her basket...

...just a (little) bit bigger than last year. Stay my baby forever Jayne! 

Jayne loved cuddling her stuffed bunny

Modeling her new "shooooos"

After breakfast we did an egg hunt for Jayne. Honestly, Phil has been doing mini-egg hunts with her since March so she knew what to do! She was so excited to fill her bucket with "aiiiiigs"

Afterwards she came inside to check out her stash...

...but just a couple minutes later she was at the door asking for another hunt!

So we threw the eggs back out on the lawn and she was in heaven (this happened a few times during the day actually!) Jayne didn't even care if there was anything inside the eggs, she just loved gathering them in her bucket. Pure joy, I tell you, pure joy.

And that wraps up our Easter morning/day this year! More weekend fun to come in another post!

Happy Easter!