Jayne and Elle - October 2015

We snapped a few photos of our cute girls together today. I love these two little girls and seeing them interact. I can't wait to see them play together as Elle gets bigger.

 

Jayne thought it was so funny that Elle wanted to suck on her hand :) 

Sisterly love!

Phil's 28th Birthday

For Phil's birthday we were able to go and do the zip line up at Sundance Resort (thanks Mum & Dad B!) The fall colors were beautiful and I always find it refreshing to get up in the mountains. We are so lucky that this is a just a 15 minute drive from home for us! 

The birthday hunk himself on his special day

We went on 3 total stretches of zip line. Phil and I got to go down side-by-side and we both went as fast as we could! It was fun, especially to go down together!

Here is the view from the top of our final zip line stretch 

It was a fun experience and I loved getting to spend some one-on-one time with Phil. We came home that night and sang happy birthday (much to Jayne's delight) and Jayne and Phil blew out the candles a "few" times :) Happy birthday Mr. B!

Elle - 3 months

Our sweet baby girl is 3 months old now! I remember when she was born and we were in the newborn haze feeling like this time was so far away...and now here we are! We are loving having more interaction from sweet Elle and those smiles...oh they melt my momma heart!

Elle's 3 month stats:

• Smiling! She's a happy baby. We thought for a little while she might be a serious child, but she just took some warming up :)
• Coo-ing, screeching and talking it up these days. We love interacting with her and hearing her little noises
• Sleeping 11 hours each night-this is great for mom and dad's sanity!
• Loves to watch big sister Jayne. She keeps her entertained
• Has found her hands and often sucks on them
• Nuzzles into my shoulder/collarbone when sleepy

Love this little mini of ours - Happy 3 months Elle!!

Jayne's 2nd Birthday Video (and one last photo)

We decided to space out Jayne's birthday gifts a little bit this year. Sometimes a lot of presents all at once can just be overwhelming rather than exciting for a little kid. After Jayne's party ended and she had a nap and things wound down for the day, we decided it was a good time to give Jayne her last birthday present. She had outgrown her other push bike and she's working on learning to peddle and steer now. She's a happy girl!

Here's a little video of a few of the birthday moments. I just love hearing her sweet little voice. Kids are the best!

Jayne's 2nd Birthday Party

Jayne's second birthday party was a blast! It was fun as she was old enough to understand the excitement of a special party and of course, she was so excited to see the fire truck!

(Her cute shirt was made especially for her party by our friend, Jenni. Perfection!)

The firemen and fire station were amazing. They were so great with little kids, made Jayne feel special and even had a special "emergency message" come over their radios wishing a very special happy birthday to Jayne. It was cute! Here's some photos of our station visit.  

Giving a real fireman "knuckles"

She wasn't sure about it all at first, but then after her first time in the truck, she didn't ever want to get out! 

She LOVED driving the truck! 

They let the kids try out the hose as well, or pretend to anyway :) 

The kids got to explore an ambulance and a smaller/older fire engine as well. Needless to say, Jayne was in heaven - she loves trucks!

A group shot of the kids. Its so fun having lots of little friends for Jayne around.

The fire station was a big hit. This girl LOVED her party with the "fire twuuucks"

After the station visit, we came back to our house where the kids played in the backyard. We had a couple of games set up, opened presents and ate yummy food. It was a fun day!

The food table

We had fireman chow (popcorn), flaming jello, fire station PB&J, fire flames (cheetos), fiery fruit kabobs, water bottles and cupcakes.

I made these cute fire engine cracker boxes for a party favor 

The kids played on the swing set and in the play house in the yard. We also set up a coloring station to make fire-house dalmatians and a game for them to "put out fires" with water guns. The fires red solo cup towers with foam fire glued to them

Presents

 

 Cute little Elle :)

It was a perfect day for the kids to play together outside

It was a perfect day! Thank you Phil and Jocelyn for helping with the party prep, my parents for watching Elle and to the guests for coming to help us wish a happy 2nd birthday to this little cutie!

Jayne turns 2!

Two years! Really!? How did that happen? This sweet girl has changed our lives for the better and every day with her is so much fun. I love listening to her little voice and hearing her feet pitter patter around the house. She makes every day the best!

We started off celebrating her special day with opening some presents when she woke up. She was excited and opened her presents very carefully.

I have to explain the glasses. We are not just hipsters over here :) Jayne loves glasses. Always has. She wore her sunglasses as a baby without a fuss from the first time I put them on her. So earlier in the month we were at the optometrist getting new glasses for me and she was in heaven trying on every single sample pair she could. She loved it! So we thought a perfect gift would be glasses (from the dollar store) and we were right! She loved them!  

She still wanted to watch her morning "show" ("min-mins" aka Despicable Me of course!) but couldn't let go of her precious present. Too cute! 

Jayne asked for a "piiint chocwate cake" so that's what she got!

 She was excited when it was time to light the candles. And of course, we lit them and sang and blew out the candles a few times because that's what the birthday girl requested. :)

Happy birthday sweet Jayne. We love you sooooooo much!!