JT said the funniest thing to me today.

I found tiger for him, his favorite stuffed animal. As soon as he picked him up he ran into the kitchen and shoved him in a cabinet. I said, "oh, are you playing hide and seek with tiger?"

He turned to me and with a huge eye roll said, "yeess, he wants to play, aaggaain!" as if he had been severely put out by tiger forcing him to play the game with him. It was really cute :)

Handcuffs

JT and I were sitting in the living room when I heard him say, "Look, Mom! Look at what I have on." I about had a heart attack because I didn't know if we had a key to the handcuffs at the house. I knew William had one on his key ring because he takes a pair of handcuffs to work everyday but he was at work right then. I also thought of Sam, JT's uncle, who would have a key on his key chain as well. I tried calling Sam, who didn't answer his phone (it turns out he was in a movie with his other brother.) I then tried picking the lock on the handcuffs, which always looks so easy in the movies. That of course didn't work. Finally, I rummaged in all of our junk drawers. Fortunately I found one otherwise he would have worn them until his dad came home :)

Day with our cousins

Cash and Isabell came over to play yesterday. It was tons of fun!



Here they are dancing in JT's room. They definitely all have some very smooth moves, like Cash's "standing worm" and JT's "airbending" (from the Last Airbender.)

JT's picture with his favorite animal...can't really see tiger, though.
He's riding piggyback.

It's kinda cold in my house since I am refusing to turn on the heater.
So all the kids sat in their carseats under individual blankets
and watched some Transformers, Generation 1 (JT's new favorite show.)

This blanket, if you remember from the last picture, was Isabell's.
She is now completely covered and asleep!

Why did the chicken cross the road?

JT has been doing this lately: But, Mom!
And he says it in that whiny voice that is so annoying!

Here's another conversation that we had this morning...notice this is the 3rd thing I've written down today :)

JT: Mom, if you don't play a game with me I won't give you the rest of my banana. (If I could record how he said it, I would because it's such a salesman's voice :))

JT: Here's a song for you, Mom. "5 little gingerbreads sitting in the road. You aren't going to eat me; no, no, no. Crunch, Munch, Uh oh..." Quiet down, train! You're too loud. Mom, the train is making too much noise!

JT: Mom, will you help me put on my clothes? I can't see anything.

(He comes up to me and his arms are through his shirt but his head won't go through the hole in the shirt. I'm pretty sure he wasn't joking around, either. What a goof!)

More funny conversation

JT: Mom, put your hand right here. [on his throat] Feel that? [swallows his food he's eating] It goes down, down, down to my tummy. Then down to my leg and my toe!

Heart failure

I totally felt like my heart was going to stop when I went into JT's room to check on him while he was napping and he wasn't in his bed. I had to pull out my camera when I figured out where he was!

Christmas Day

I didn't take a lot of pictures this year, I guess. Next year I'll probably take to many :) Thank for all the gifts, Grandma and Grandpa Jolley, Great-Grandpa Jolley, and Nana and Grandpa Rose!

Thanks, Miss Melanie for this great book!

Christmas Party

William's work had a Christmas party for the families. It was fun :) JT did such a good job seeing Santa. It's funny how much kids change within the year. Last year he was crying at being placed on Santa's lap!

JT playing the Grinch (or the Grunch as JT says it)

As soon as he sat down, JT folded his arms decisively...like he needed to be reverent in order to see Santa. (BTW...nice Santa, huh? The real deal, I figure!)

Opening the gift from Santa. All the kids who came to the party received a gift right then.

Ahhh, only after looking at this picture did I understand what he kept calling these trucks. I would always hear "twist wisters." But I guess they're called "tread shifters."

Another funny conversation

JT: I love you back to the moon and then back again!

(I'm trying to be better about writing down the things he says and I know this is a great place to do it, so I'm sure there will be lots more to come!)

Funny conversation

JT -- How old are you?
Mom -- 33
JT -- Hold out your hand and I will give you 33 of them (drops of hand sanitizer)

Gilbert Temple

The groundbreaking for the Gilbert Temple was a week ago but we are really excited about the Temple being built here. To show you how close it is, here is a Google map showing you how we would get to the temple from our house. (I guess you have to understand that we live in the middle of nowhere so a temple only 45 min away is really cool!)


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Also, here are some pictures of JT and Will at the groundbreaking ceremony. There were tons of people! As you can tell from the pics, JT didn't make it through the whole thing. They ended up leaving early rather than having him take a nap in the dirt :)

The pledge of Allegiance

Thanks Melanie for teaching my son the Pledge of Allegiance!

Our Little Monkey

Here's JT showing how he gets all the stuff I try to place out of his reach. He really has turned into a little monkey!

Carving Pumpkins

Happy Halloween

Happy Halloween everyone! (Yes, it is I, Tracey...actually posting on my blog. Try not to be too shocked!)

At the ward trunk-or-treat party: Luigi, Mario, and some random D-Back fan

Our masterpieces: My "mommy" pumpkin, JT's scary spider, and Will's pumpkin titled "It's me, Mario!"

My cute little Mario ("No mom, it's JT! I'm just pretending to be Mario.")
Put the costume together myself...bought the overalls and turtleneck at Goodwill (size 18 mos--yeah, my son is almost 4 yrs old.) Made the hat and mustache. I thought it was really cute!

It's 89 degrees in the house today...

Just thought everyone should know

Finally...a house!

I have not blogged in a few months because we are currently living with our BIL/SIL.

Today we got word today that the offer we put on a house was accepted.

Here's the story:

Mid-March we placed an offer on this house for $40,000; received a counter offer of 48,000; and then countered back at 45,000. We didn't hear anything back from the bank for a few days and so dropped our offer back to $40,000. (It was the beginning of our search at that point and with all the different houses on the market here, I was optimistic that we could find a better house/deal...)

We searched for another house and nothing worked. All of our offers fell through. I was super stressed and mad at the world. When the house popped back up on the market with a listing price of $44,900; I about passed out. We immediately put in a new offer of $40,000. This time, they accepted!

The house is 1630 square feet, 3 bedroom, 2 bath. It needs new flooring, paint, and a lot of cleaning but besides that its great!

I am so excited. Theresa's already planning on visiting every February (I'll head up to North Dakota in August as a trade :))

Here's a link to the model homes.

Love you all!
Tracey