Happy Birthday Uncle Jared

Our kids loved having Uncle Jared Lund here this past weekend. His birthday is Tuesday so we helped him celebrate this weekend. As you can see he started the day in the Arizona sun playing in the pool!

Jared's niece and nephews loved playing in the water with him!

We had a great pork tenderloin and polenta for lunch.
For dessert we had Jared's favorite Eclair Cake.

Everyone gave a good effort trying to blow out his candles!!

We ended our day at the baseball park! Thank goodness they use air conditioning in Arizona! The temp outside at 8:00 pm when we headed home was still 105 :) Happy Birthday Jared. We are glad we could help you celebrate!!

4th of July Fireworks!

Adam and Andy put on a fireworks show for the kids this year! We had fountains and sparklers which kept the kids very entertained.

The little ones thought they were a little on the loud side though! Lucky for us the neighbors didn't think so!

I love this picture! Alex had fun watching the sparklers.

Addison moved around and waved her sparklers a lot more this year!

As always Adam was a little cautious at first, but he warmed up and started having fun by the third sparkler :)

4th of July Water Fun

We spent our 4th of July pool side this year! Our friends the Ashton's invited us over for swimming, food & fun.

Adam had a great time swimming without his floaties! His swimming lessons have been worth every penny :)

Addison is still feeling the need for her vest, but she didn't let that stop her from having a fantastic time on the slide!

Alex is our daring one! He found this ring that gave him way to much confidence in the water. As you can see he went down the slide all by himself.

At swimming lessons yesterday he got to the point of taking off the ring and jumping into the pool by himself. He even jumped off the diving board with me in the water to catch him. He truly has no fear which is a little scary for me!

Divine Intervention!

Surprise! After months of tests and blood work we have learned that we are pregnant. I have been on the birth control roller coaster trying to get rid of my cysts and pain, but I can now tell you that the Nuva Ring didn't work for me :) We found out on May 30th (that is how we celebrated Emily's birthday)! I am 10 weeks and as you can see we have a heart beat of 169 beats a minute. While I was having the ultra sound today the baby's arm was having reflux so it looked like he/she was waving right at me!
I am sick as a dog of course and as our luck would have it, I don't have any baby stuff anymore!! We have a crib and jumper and a few clothes that I was sending my expecting sister-in-law. We are really starting from scratch right down to the maternity clothes :)
My due date is January 25, 2010 and we will most likely have our little one on Tuesday, January 19th! I am sure that we will be updating the blog as we grow into our new family of 5 A's & a J.... We love you all :) Jennie

Fun with Friends

Last Thursday the kids and I loaded in the van and headed to Gilbert to pick up Hayden and Brynley. Their little brother Zac needed to have surgery so they stayed with us for a few days! We made homemade pizza as you can see above as well as cinnamon rolls for breakfast Saturday morning!

Each of the kids created a homemade Father's Day card for their Dad :)

I think the kids enjoyed playing together outside the best though!! We set up the slip-n-slide for them and Big Adam even put dish soap on it so they could slide really fast :)

When they got board with the slip-n-slide it was time to break out the big guns! We put their pool at the bottom of our slide and they had a great time making a splash!

We are happy to report that Zac is doing really well! We loved having Hayden and Brynley stay with us for a few days. The kids had a blast and built lots of fun memories!!

First Day of Swim Lessons

We started swimming lessons today! Adam went in the water first. I looked at the outside temp before we got out of the car and it was 80 degrees. The lifeguards were talking about the pool temp as soon as we arrived. The water was a brisk 72 degrees this morning. Adam did a great job. His teacher was really impressed with his efforts and progress.

Addison and Alex had a harder time with the cold water. Addison did a little kicking, but she didn't want to lay on her back and float! Alex hung onto his teacher for dear like. At one point he said Alex should be in UFC because of his grip! Hopefully the pool will warm up by Monday!!

Happy Birthday Adam & Alex

Alex sat back and relaxed while opening presents. As you can see he has a sucker. We did the pinata before opening presents and the sugar took over!

Alex was willing to put his candy down once he opened a car that made noise!!

Swing Batter...We had to move Alex away from the other little ones when he opened his Mickey Tee. He had a great time hitting the ball :)

Adam wasted no time opening his presents! He received a lot of fun gifts. He has a Slip-n-Slide, Chick Hicks semi & car, Shrek Uno and lots of Wall-E!

Adam with his new remote control Wall-E :)