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!

November and December 2014

November and December seemed to zoom by! November was full of bundling up for walks and preparing for the holiday season (which I blogged about here)

And Jayne mastered her carseat dance. We had the seat in our front room for a little bit and she loved sitting in her "special chair" :)

Jayne met Santa, which I mentioned before, but I didn't include her fearful photos...which eventually turned "happy" :) 

Candy helps the fear... :)

 And finally a small smile from our sweet girl

After the holiday season build-up Christmas came! And it brought some beautiful snow (finally!). Christmas morning was special as we waited for Jayne to wake up to take a peek at her presents. She loved her Frozen figurines and bike from Santa!

And remember that snow I mentioned? We made the most of it and headed out to the hills for some sledding. Jayne was a such a trooper and enjoyed exploring what snow is.

It was a quick end of the year and then we rang in 2015. Here's to exciting things in the coming year!!