Announcing......


Baby Jackman! To make its arrival August 2010. We couldn't be more excited!

A Most Wonderful Surprise

Last Saturday my greatest friend Rachel (A.K.A. Pacha) surprised us with a visit. (Ooooo how I love surprises) She is from St. George and was here for her work. She is pretty much the greatest person ever. Our family loves her dearly and we hope for another visit soon!

Our little MJ is growing and learning so much. Last week was her first time in nursery and she did great! She learns so many new words each day and we are constantly amazed at how smart and clever she is. For her 18 month check-up her percentages were still the same, 25% for height and weight and 95% for her head! :) So she better be smart with that big noggin! My favorite thing that she does right now is saying "dip dip." She loves dipping any food she has in anything and repeating "dip dip, dip dip." Seriously cute. I love being a mother to my sweet baby girl.

Gracias Por Los Gorros!

A nuestra familia en la Republica Dominicana: Les damos gracias por los gorros que nos mandaron! Son muy lindos! Y ahora nosotros nos vemos lindos! Eh?? :)

Home for Christmas

We were able to spend Christmas with my parents, my sister and her family in Boise. We enjoyed every moment we were able to spend with them.

Searching for the pickle:

Waiting at the top of the stairs Christmas morning:

Opening presents:

MJ had a great time playing with all of her boy cousins. MJ just fell in love with her cousin Isaac during our time there. She always sought him out and wanted to be close to him no matter what he was doing.

Playing the games on the Ipod Touch - a frequent occurence throughout the break:

Going through Nana and Granddaddy's utensil drawer:

Thanks to Nana, Granddaddy, Tory and her family for such a merry time!

We had yet another exciting gift for us as we arrived back home in Utah, 42 degree temperature inside our home!!! Our heater had gone out while we were gone! We quickly built a fire and cranked up the space heaters. Here is MJ braving the cold inside:

Today......

3 Years ago today...........

Thank you Derrick for 3 wonderful years of marriage.

Giving Thanks

Since the Jackman Parents live in the Dominican Republic and we live in their house we have the opportunity of taking on Thanksgiving ourselves! We call it our "Youthful Thanksgiving" since no parents or "older" adults are there. And boy did we live it up! Not that we didn't miss the Jackmans, but we really had a great time all weekend long!

You have just got to see these two cousins together, they are soo sweet with one another! Well.....sometimes there's a bit of hair pulling......and slapping.

Yep, that's a green olive, the she was the only one at the table that would eat them.

Thanks to Sami, Amanda, Kade and Annie for making Thanksgiving so great this year!

Wipes Anyone?

Yesterday MJ was being her usual self walking around the house, causing all kinds of mischief. At one point she came from her room and brought out a wipe, I didn't think anything of it due to her obsession with wipes and wiping things down. A while later I hear her coming from her room again, this time grunting. She comes out carrying the box of wipes (hence the grunting) and shows me that she is frustrated that the wipes aren't coming out of the top like they should. I fix them and she takes one and walks off to clean more things. Later in her room I found a pile of about 50 wipes in her room! So I picked them up (laughing to myself) and took them out to put them in the wipe box that she had brought out to the Living Room. End of story you ask, no! So that night as I took MJ back to her room to change her for bed I discovered she was stinky, this was after I had gotten her undressed, I thought I could wipe her clean with just her diaper, I tried, nope wasn't happening. I needed the wipes that were out in the Living Room. So what do I do? I couldn't leave her on the changing table, worrying she would fall, I didn't want to put her stinky diaper back on, gross, so I resolved to put her on the ground (naked) for just 2 seconds while I ran and got the wipes. You can only guess what happened next, I came back to the room only to discover MJ playing happily with a box of diapers standing in a puddle of pee. When I asked her what happened she just pointed to her legs (that were covered in pee) and her little puddle and made her little "Ooohh" sound of cute innocence.

Here are a few recent pics: