Beach Baby

Just a few more pictures.  I decided to run down to the beach just before we left to do a few fun pictures of Jack.  It was starting to get stormy that day so conditions weren't ideal but it was still fun to watch him play.  

Our attempt at a family picture with the timer and my camera on a bucket.

OBX part 2

Jack's cute little footprints were all over the sand.

Daddy burying Jack's feet.  Jack thought this was hilarious.

Cute little Olivia.

Everywhere we go Logan catches some creature.  So of course he couldn't resist a few crabs.

And then naturally he had to catch 2 so we could watch them fight.

A dead horseshoe crab.

OBX part 1

For Logan's fall break we went with some of the RELLS families (Rex E Lee Law Society, the LDS law group we are a part of) to Outer Banks in Corolla NC.  We all pitched in and got a beach house just a block away from the ocean.  We lucked out and had super weather.  It was so fun just relaxing and actually seeing our husbands for a whole week.  Jack loved all the attention from adults and to have some little buddies to play with daily.  There were 20 adults and 12 kids and somehow we didn't feel crowded in that house.  It was 3 stories and we all got our own bedroom and bathroom.  It had a theater room, game room, hot tub and pool for entertainment.  We got there Saturday evening.  So Sunday we caravan-ed to church which was about 45 minutes away in Nags Head.  After church we hit some famous Sand Dunes at The Jockey Ridge National Park and then to Kitty Hawk to The Wright Brothers Museum.  We spent the rest of the week playing at the beach and checking out things around Corolla.  We caught crabs at the dock which we cooked to eat. 

Jack loved running up and down the hills.  He had sand in every crevasse when we got home.

The Wright Brothers Museum. 

Hot tubbin'

The beach house.

Just dance of course.

Catching crabs by the lighthouse.

Jack helping.

Jack Attack

A little bit about Jack:

Jack has really started to enjoy having friends.  He gets excited to see them and always asks me to "play with kids".  Thankfully, he LOVES nursery and gets excited when he sees that we have pulled up to the church, or as he calls it "Temple".  He loves to play with a little neighbor boy named Andy.  It all started one day when Jack showed Andy how to swing on our railing and they have been hanging out since (pun intended).  Sadly Andy is moving back to China in December so we won't see them for much longer.  They are having a baby girl this week which is super exciting and they are even naming her Sara Ivy (we live just off of Ivy road).

I made Jack some magnets of his favorite things.  I couldn't believe how amazed he was by them.  He was so thrilled when I first showed them to him that he could barely spit out his words.  He loves to just go through and name each one over and over.  I love it when he says "Prophet Monson."

We have had a few big rainstorms recently.  It is amazing how dirty one little boy can get.  There was a giant puddle just outside our door and before I could catch him, he was knee deep in rainwater.  And quickly after that he tripped and was head deep in rainwater.  

A few more things: 

 He has this thing about food being hot.  I must have accidentally let him scald himself once or something because his biggest excuse for not eating food is it is hot.  So I hear this about 20 times a day, "Hot.  Turn Cold"  And now it doesn't apply to just food, just about anything this isn't freezing cold to the touch.

He loves peanut butter and honey sandwiches which he calls, "Peanut bunny sandweeches".

Andy and Jack swinging.

Jack naming his magnets.

The puddle.  Too bad I didn't get a picture of Jack in it.  I was too busy trying to keep him out of it.

Soaked.  You can't see the giant puddle on the floor very well.

Nothing a bath won't fix.

23 weeks

23 Weeks.  I feel that due to Logan's height and the angle which he takes my picture makes me appear to be a tad smaller than I am in this picture.  I think I have finally "popped" and it is now clear I am pregnant.  We will find out on Halloween if we are having a boy or girl.  Mckell suggested I paint my belly for the ultra sound.  Hmm...should I do a Jack O Latern or Bieber Fever, both are scary.