Jimmer is 2!

I thought I'd try to at least get a few pictures up of Jimmer's 2nd birthday. I made him a small basketball cake (half of which collapsed) on his actual birthday and let him open his big present that day (a basketball hoop). Then when my sister and her family returned from their vacation, we had Jimmer's "party". Streamers from the dollar store make it a party, right?

Yay! I'm two!

Why do you keep taking pictures of me, Mom?

The birthday boy
Jimmer could tell it was a basketball...that's all that counts.

Jimmer loved blowing out his candle. He kept saying "Do it again! Do it again!" And Grandpa would let him :)

Awesome decorations for the party

How old are you?

Loving all his presents!

Fun work bench from Grandma and Grandpa!

Blowing out his 2 candle again! (and again and again)

Showing me the basketball ring from his "puh-cake"

Swimming with Dad and Papa (and Will)

A look back to his 1st birthday :)

And he's growing up right before our eyes!

So long Camry...

I have a few more pictures , but I'm not sure how to upload them from my iPod without using Facebook. So I don't want to keep uploading pictures to Facebook just to get them on here. Anyway, you get the idea.
Almost two weeks ago James, Jimmer and I were on our way to my parents' house for dinner (like most nights :)) and we were stopped at a red light when a guy in a truck slammed into the back of our car and pushed us into the SUV in front of us. The driver of the truck must have been distracted because he did not even slow down before hitting us. It was a really scary experience. As it happened, time seemed to slow down, and I felt helpless as we're just being crunched back and forth between the two cars. James couldn't hardly pull the car over to the side of the road before I was trying to get my door open and get to Jimmer. We were all fine and only had some soreness in our necks for a little while. Thank goodness!!
We are now looking to replace our car since our insurance let us know this week that the Camry was totaled. We're actually happy about that, in a way, because we didn't really want to drive around in a car that was damaged so much. However, we are finding it very difficult to find a used car that is in good condition like ours was. We had low milage, a nice interior, and just a few door dings. As we've looked at some newer Camrys than ours, all we have found so far is ones that smell like hotel rooms, have beat-up interiors, and have lots of miles. We may end up buying a new car, but we don't necessarily want to pay thousands more to have it new again. James wants to buy a Corolla to replace the Camry just because we can pay for the entire thing. I don't really want to lose my roomy Camry! Oh well, I guess that's why they call it an accident! A lesson learned though, not to text or get distracted while you're driving or you could cause someone else this headache!!

Oh my goodness...a post!!

I know you can hardly believe your eyes. Let's face it...I haven't wanted to blog lately, ok? Don't get too excited, but here are some pictures from our Easter festivities.

For some reason, Jimmer and Will did not want to wear the awesome trash-bag aprons I made them. Whatever. :)


Some of our best eggs (I'm especially proud of the "James" egg with the yellow hair. There is a face on the other side of it. James didn't find it very amusing...but I did!)

Jimmer and Will being crazy (as usual!)

Checkin' out the basket

Jimmer's egg hunt was short-lived because he found the red ball that he'd much rather play with.

Jimmer and Dad

This was the only way to get Jimmer to take a picture with us.

I can't think of one thing...

to blog about...blah!

I never win...but maybe you can!

I have been entering a bunch of contests lately, and so far have only won a box of granola bars. What the heck?! They are probably gross too! Apparently, I have no luck.

But I'm excited that my first product review and giveaway for Family Time Felt went live today on Minnesota Mamas Must Haves Blog! You can check it out and enter if you're feelin' lucky.

Just go to http://tinyurl.com/49ulp8n and enter by March 2nd.

We were worried...

(this is what happens when we say "smile")

about the 1:00 church time and not knowing if he'd be okay with us leaving him, but Jimmer loves Nursery so far! He just walks in saying "Toys!" Yay for us! Teaching Primary is so much easier without Jimmer running around. Last week when James went to check on him, he was bent over at the waist halfway into the toy bucket. We think he'll be fine.

This December....

We went to our ward Christmas breakfast...

and Jimmer wouldn't stand still or look at the camera for the cute pictures they took.

We got snow...

lots of it. Poor mail lady.

and Jimmer kept a watchful eye out for us.

Jimmer turned the long-awaited 18 months - yay! No nursery visits yet...you'll see why.

We found out Jimmer LOVES the snow and needs some snow bibs pronto.

Jimmer opened his Christmas jammies on Christmas Eve.

We spent Christmas Day at my parents' house. It was great. We stayed in our pajamas ALL DAY and didn't care one bit. We played a game called Bananagrams most of the day. Jimmer didn't really care that much about opening presents on Christmas Day, but he's enjoying all of his toys now (and liked all of his cousin Will's stuff on Christmas). And for those wondering, he loves his new baby doll I bought.

Jimmer has decided he loves to put his shoes on...even if he doesn't have pants on.

Jimmer got sick in the afternoon on Christmas day. He was so sick for his 18 month "well" child check-up. He had a virus and he's still got it. This picture is from today....hence no Nursery on Sunday. I hope all the friends and family we visited with don't get sick!! I just found a new tooth in there today too.

There are of course some things I don't have pictures of...like Will's birthday party, Navie's birthday party, the lights at Temple Square...etc. This is as good as it gets I guess.