tea parties & splash pads

Jayde has loved spending more time with her friend across the street Tayli. 

We've loved going to the splash pad with our friends and their kids. They are so cute playing together, and Jayde loves it!

I think I should have probably gotten him a summer hat... hey pink works right?!

Lux, Spencer, Rowan, Beckham & Jayde

Friends from grade school

My two very good friends (since elementary school) came to visit.
It's coincidence that Kristina & Tia live only 4 hours away from us, and is fun to catch up every now and again.
Their two kids (Zeek and Rainey) are adorable and we had a blast socializing and just hanging out.

The only thing we didn't anticipate was Jayde getting sick and throwing up all over the place the first day (luckily she didn't get their kids sick), and the fact that all three of their sleeping schedules were completely different from each other.

Nonetheless we were able to have lots of fun swimming, at the park, seeing the piggies, and dressing up in costumes.

After a couple days Jayde was feeling much better. Let's just say I was not prepared for a throwing up toddler! The fact she couldn't tell me when it was going to happen was the hardest part. She got better pretty quick though, and hopefully we won't have to deal with that again any time soon.

Getting my hair done from the 'stylist'.

It was fun dressing them up in their Halloween costumes and they did pretty well sitting there....

Except when this little lady decided that she was done and bolted down the walkway.

Fun with the Fellows... OH and Jayde went to Nursery!!

Here is Jayde after going to the nursery at church for the first time. Technically she is only 16 months old and you can't go in until you're 18 months, but the teacher is one of our neighbors and she loves Jayde. During singing time while we were watching the 3 year olds we teach Jayde was being super squirmy and not cooperating so Tyson took her out in the halls for a walk. They passed the senior nursery while they were doing a puppet show and Jayde said, "Ooooh". Catherine (the teacher) asked Ty if we wanted to leave her in there and he said they were just walking the halls. She persisted saying she can watcher her no problem so Tyson was like, "Okay!"

He led her in and she never looked back!

After church was over (and a very wonderful 3 year old lesson was taught without baby distractions), we picked her up as she was sitting by the wall sucking on a rice crispy treat. She handed us this drawing, and acted as if we'd been there the whole time. Danielle said she did better than most the older kids even, that she was a little 'table dancer' (wonder who she gets that from), and that she was a very good vacuum - supposedly she would eat all the fruit loops other kids accidentally dropped on the floor haha.

AAAAAnd that weekend our friends the Fellows FINALLY came and visited us after years of us pressuring inviting them! We had a blast and it was so much fun seeing their little boy Griffin interact with Jayde. She didn't really know what to think... as you can see from the below picture sequence from our Costco run.

I think he was elated! We went to Samaurai 21 one of the nights which was amazing as always. Griffin just talked loudly in his little corner the entire time which was super funny.

We also went to the pool which was less than appealing. Supposedly the pool by Tyson's parents house is heated but it was overcast that day and the indoor and outdoor pools were both freezing!

Needless to say we were in and out of there pretty quick... at least we got some cute pictures.

Afterwards we rinsed the kids off in warm water so they weren't in cold clothes on the drive home from the pool. Jayde has never shared a tub with another kid before and she didn't know what to think. It's so funny seeing her reactions to new things.

We had a BLAST with the Fellows - staying up until 2am the first night they got there, staying up the next night until midnight trying to remember stupid jokes from childhood, talking about babies, jobs, and playing card games for hours. Just so you know Fellows - you can come visit any time!!

(and I totally mean it!)

Tia's Baby Shower

Tia is one of my best friends that I grew up with in El Centro.
We met for the first time at Girls Camp because her family had just moved to EC from Hawaii of all places!
That week she threw up in my shoes and broke my glasses
(both on accident)... it was actually really funny looking back on it.
We have been friends since.

Well this little lady is having a baby and Kristina and I wanted to throw her a baby shower!
They threw me one, and Tia and I threw Kristina one.
We wanted it to be special since she was the last of us having her first baby,
so we decided on a cookies & milk theme and it turned out way cute!

I made the sign in the pictures above.
I also made these onesies by appliqueing (spelling?) a tie since she's having a boy, the state of Hawaii for Tia since she loved it there, and the letters 88 which was her hubby's football number and high school color.
While we set up Jayde did very well napping and playing with the balloons
(not the toys I brought for her the little stinker).
Kristina bought these cute milk containers and I made the labels with chalkboard paint so we knew what types of milk were which.
I also did the same labels for the cookies displayed.
We drank the milk in those little mason jars.
Kristina also thought of getting Tia the "If you Give a Mouse a Cookie" book to have people sign a little note for her which turned out adorable!
Oh, and the labels on the cupcakes say, "Nom Nom Nom" - CM (for cookie monster)


Here is Kristina's little baby Rainey Jane who is absolutely adorable and was born with immense amounts of hair!


The games we did were the clothespin game - if someone says 'baby' then they have to give up one of their clothespins to the person to calls them out on it. I mod-podged the clothespins with paper so they were cute.

The baby jar game - people have to guess what the baby food is just by looking at it. We covered the jar labels in that same paper. so it matched (in first picture).

We also did a game where we asked Tia's hubby Kevin common questions like how many diapers does a newborn need changed? How many do you plan on changing? And then Tia had to guess what he answered. Supposedly Kevin thinks that babies are potty-trained at one years old!
Us El Centro girls who were able to make it.
kristina, christian, tia, and me

We had a blast, and are so excited to meet Tia's new little baby boy soon!

Their little man - Griffin

While up in Salt Lake we finally got to meet our friend's little boy Griffin.

He was born a few weeks prior and was so small and adorable!

It's amazing that they're so tiny when they're born. Seeing Jayde next to him made her look Huge.

He looked just like his mama Jackie, and was just a cute bundle of joy. (Oh, and doesn't she look awesome!)

They are great parents and we are excited to hang out with the 3 of them again soon!

a baby shower for Rainey Jane

Do you see this gorgeous girl? Well she has been my best friend since the 5th grade and she is having a baby any time now - isn't that exciting?! She is having a little girl who she is naming Rainey Jane. So cute. My friend Tia and I threw her a polka dot baby shower which was so much fun. Everything turned out great and she got lots of adorable things.

the diaper cake I made as part of my gift

Tia made this adorable banner and I made a few pom pom things for the nursery

the favors were cookie cutters which said, "THANKS for making my shower so sweet!"

Stephanie who is also from our home town El Centro, CA

they are both expecting - how fun is that?!

We had a blast planning this shower. Those two girls also threw me one when I was pregnant, and Kristina and I are going to be throwing one for Tia in a couple months. It's so much fun to have home-town friends live so close.

ThRiLLeR @ TuAcAN

We went to see Thriller that was playing at Tuacan with our friends Charlotte (Jayde's nanny) and her hubby Chayse.

I really didn't know what to expect, but it was awesome. The dancing was amazing, and it was all very entertaining.

Our favorites were the Mr & Mrs Frankenstein, and the dancing skeletons. It is definitely not a show for little kids because of it's Halloween blood and gore themes, but we will for sure seeing it again next year!

I'm sure they'll be good friends

Our friends Zach and Christy Takos had their little baby girl a few weeks after us and we didn't meet her until about two months after Jayde was born. It was fun seeing the differences between them being so close in age.

We're lucky to live so close to them after meeting on the East Coast while our husbands were in Law School.

At just 4 weeks old we -

(Kristina - please don't stop being my friend for posting this)