Cry Baby

Jett's daycare is adorable. They had picture day in November, and even though we did not plan for him to get pictures (knowing that would be an impossible task for the lucky cameraman), they took pictures anyway of all the children and then sent home the photos for us to see to decide if we wanted to pay for them or not. Jett's were priceless! This is the result we got. Poor, traumatized child that even a stuffed rainbow unicorn could not calm. And his crying continues into their group photo where he is wailing away while shoving the well-behaved, darling girl next to him whom the unicorn clearly worked for. Sigh...young love. Needless to say, we gave in and purchased the group photo because it was too cute. It will be a fun memory to look back on and of course, pull out to show his future girlfriends. 

 

Utes vs. Ducks

Someone had a VERY happy birthday, and that person was Jake. For his birthday (November 13th), all he wanted was tickets to the University of Utah football game against the Oregon Ducks. He even banned me from buying any gifts so that all money for presents could go towards tickets since they would be more pricey because of it being a coveted, sold-out game. Well, I'm an antsy person and want to buy things ahead of time, so it was frustrating sitting around waiting for ticket prices to drop on KSL. I don't like last-minute plans! But, I was forced to like last-minute plans because it wasn't until the DAY OF the game that we found the right tickets for the right price. Thank you, rich person in Riverton selling their season tickets! 

And did we luck out! We ended up ROW 4 on about the 10-yard line!! Jake was beaming with glee, and I was feeling the excitement too being so up close with crazed season-ticket-holder fans all around us. The screaming and cheering was unreal! As Jake phrased it, "You can actually hear the action this close!"...referring to helmets slamming together when there's contact. I guess he thinks being able to hear the violence makes for a better experience. Of course, I was focused a lot on the dance team and cheerleaders throughout the night, wishing I was back in my spandex pants alongside them.

 

The game ended up being a real downer for Utes fans by the end, but Jake enjoyed all of it because he was rooting for both teams, being that he's from Oregon. While all of us Utes fans were silent (followed by cursing) as the Ducks scored touchdown after touchdown, Jake couldn't help but hide his smile and chuckles. Oh, that Oregonian of mine!

Oregon won 51-27

It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown

Seriously, it's half way through December already?! Well, according to this post, it will say November because I'm sneaky and posted it back in the past so that November doesn't feel left out and show zero blog posts. Let's rewind back to Halloween since it was an eventful holiday that should not be missed being spotlighted! ......zzzrrrrrwwwweeeerrrrrrrrr......(rewind sound)

Halloween!! I was extra excited for the holiday this year because of Jett. My little sweetheart was THE cutest Charlie Brown on the planet! I made his costume and found a stuffed Snoopy for him to carry around in case there were questions of what he was dressed up as. (A friend who shall-not-be-named thought he was a crayon. What?!) Jett got to go to my work trick-or-treat and was such a busy-body! Of course he didn't understand the candy part at every treat bowl we stopped at, but he did eventually learn to drop the treat into his pumpkin bag after taking one from each treat bowl. He wanted to explore everything! I think the trick-or-treat was definitely more work for me than him. Thankfully, Jake was around to help.

Once we were home, I raided Jett's candy bag and picked out a few that I thought he'd be ok to try (and of course the rest went to me...especially that lime Tootsie Roll). He sure loved it! He very much enjoyed eating his Twizzler straw and then got a mini 3 Musketeers candy bar and a Dum Dum sucker...which, as expected, made a slobbery, sticky mess. He was worn out by the time it was bedtime.  

During the week of Halloween, we were able to go to Hee Haw Farms in Pleasant Grove with our friend group. All the kids were dressed up in their costumes, so we as parents were all going snap-happy on our cameras. They were all so flippin' adorable! They got to enjoy petting farm animals (with the added bonus of Jett stepping in a combination of goat/sheep/chicken poop), going down a slide on burlap sacks (which Jake was volunteered by me to do), playing in a corn pit (except Jett didn't get to participate because he wanted to eat the rock-hard corn kernels instead), and a wagon ride at the end of the evening (the part where my buns froze). It's so fun being able to do activities with our friends so our babies can all get together. It is so enjoyable and rewarding seeing them interact. I'm excited to see what next years' costumes will be! We might even step up our game and do some neighborhood trick-or-treating...of course with myself raiding Jett's candy bucket afterwards.

Claire the owl; Winston the astronaut; Charlie Brown Jett; Superman Wesley

You're a winner, Charlie Brown! ♥

What a Hoot

I gave in and tried something new this year...foam pumpkin carving. It's so not-traditional and makes me feel like a traitor to the real pumpkins sitting in boxes in front of the grocery stores, but a $50 fake pumpkin on sale for $15 at Jo-Ann Fabric was too good to pass up. (Those savings, right?!) My main reason for wanting one this year was because I just don't have time to carve a real pumpkin with Mr. Jetty Jettson running around everywhere and having to chase after him with pumpkin guts all over my hands...especially because my typical carvings take an average of 4 hours! We moms just don't have that kind of time to block out. So, spending $15 on a no-gut pumpkin sounded like a worthy investment, and I'm happy to report it was. I can't say it really was that much easier to carve with my profesh carving set I bought a couple of years ago, but I did like how smooth my carving lines were afterwards and the one mistake I made was easily fixed with superglue instead of toothpicks. What I am most proud of is having a permanent pumpkin to display every year alongside my real pumpkins and very much like that it can be in my home lit up instead of shunned to the cold porch.