Up through Thanksgiving

Whew! I have a lot of catching up to do! So where to begin? Because I love looking at photos on other peoples blogs I will put on more photos than you wanted to see on mine! whoo-hoo!

Jazz is amazingly cute, and becoming more and more photogenic every day! Go little baby! But that is not the point of the very cute photo below. This little boy waves around all of his limbs all of the time. Not unlike most babies of his age. So I like to aggravate him by attaching helium balloons on his sleeves or footies so when he flails around the balloons go crazy! He is so fun to watch. This is his bored look because I attached the balloons to the middle of his pj's and not his arms or legs. So this is bored Jazz.

Here he is staring at the unmoving balloons lol.
Oh! And this picture is of the leaf picker uppers. I had no idea, but because of the amazing amount of trees Connecticut and the even more amazing amount of leaves the trees drop, the city here picks up your leaves if you rake them to the side of the road! Tyler spent many long hours of several days raking his heart out to get the leaves over there, and yup, the city didn't lie! Here they are with a giant vacuum on wheels sucking up all of our leaves.
Jazz is our king at the table. His throne takes up half of the table and just recently we have had to be careful about how close we put things to his feet lol, he will kick out and hit things if we aren't careful!
And I just thought this hat was amazingly cute.
We carved a pumpkin! Go Jazz's first Halloween!
Jazz of course slept all the way through it lol What a good baby.
Tyler dared me to eat some pumpkin lol, little did he know that I have eaten it before. I won a whole dollar! Yay! What can you do with a dollar? I don't know but I was still proud of myself.
Humm, wow I picked a lot of pictures from this pumpkin party. Oh well, what can you do?
So, my mom came out to help me figure out life with a baby, and I had been craving Outback Steak House foods several months prior to having little Jazz. So my dad said my mom should take me, and yay! She did! Here we are happily sitting at our table.
So now, more up to date. We just celebrated Thanksgiving with Tyler's family in Maine. It was great because Tyler had the chance to get up with Jazz a few times each night! Whoo-hoo! That was probably my favorite part of the vacation. Hearing Jazz fuss and then elbowing Tyler and making him get up to get him! Man, those good days. One funny instance happened though. After the first night of being so good and getting up each time I nudged him, Tyler was so tired. That next night he never actually came fully to consciousness and his subconscious was not willing to get up with Jazz. Here is that nights conversation:

Me: Ty, Jazz is up. Will you get him?

Ty: No, it isn't my turn. You want him to stop crying, you get him.

Me: Ummm.... Kay

Two hours later...

Me: Jazz is up again, will you get him now?

Ty: Only if you bring him to me

Me: Doesn't that kind of defeat the purpose of giving me a break?

Ty: Yup so you might as well get him.

Yeah, I like my husbands conscious self better too. When I told him about it he was so embarrassed lol. Because I also told his mother and she got after him. Which isn't entirely fair because I mean, who has full control of their subconscious? Not me, probably, I actually don't know. Maybe I do. I might be just amazing like that. But I thought it was hilarious. Now every night he asks me if he did anything stupid in his sleep lol. Which he normally doesn't. I just need to remember to not let him get too sleep deprived.

Jazz has been an absolute dream baby! He is getting so chubby and cute! He is actually out growing his newborn clothes now! I tried to put him in my favorite sleeper, and the neck is around his shoulders because his legs are so long! *Cry!* But that is ok, I hope that means that he will be tall like his dad, and not short like his mom.

One of our favorite things to do with Jazz is to take him places involving the car. He goes right to sleep and stays that way for a good chunk of time. Which is awesome! After I drop Tyler off at school (it has been way crazy rainy for a while here) Jazz is fast asleep so I can either catch up on some missed sleep myself, or I can get things done. Depending on how I feel. Anyway it has been amazing. He is fabulous at stores and restaurants as well. And when he does wake up he is fascinated by all the lights and new corners (he stares at corners like he is watching T.V.) Anyway, he is great, and I just love him to pieces!

Yay for Jazz, Yay for Tyler and Yay for the Holidays!

Baby Jazz!

I meant to have the hang of blogging by now, but life likes to throw surprises at me every now and then. The October 7th lifes surprise was my beautiful little boy! He wasn't due till the 19th but I was very happy to have him come earlier rather than later. Jazz was 6 pounds and 3 ounces and 19 inches long! Everyone who saw me even days before Jazz was born predicted that I would go over my due date. So yay for me and yay for my healthy sized baby! Here are a few pictures just so you can admire how adorable he is. And just for the record, he is much cuter in person, the pictures just don't do him justice!
I know I look awful, but hey, I just had a baby!

Here is my handsome hubby with little Jazz.

And here is my hubby's favorite thing to do while holding the sleeping baby. (Play on his i-phone... I am sure this will help Jazz to form good habits lol)

Jazz, though it was mostly me, got very lucky to have his Gramsie come stay with us for a while. Not only did she help take care of us, but she also made our food, washed the dishes, and sewed things for us during her stay here. She was sure a life saver! Here she is with her favorite and currently only grandson.

You can't see Jazz very well in this picture so just for fun I will include some more photos of him. And just so you know, Jazz is so much more cuter in person! Pictures just can't do this boy justice!

This is our first family picture!! Yay! We are an official family now!
And this next picture is a personal favorite. This is Jazz's other grandma who has been so excited for him to be born. This photo just shows her excitement. I love it!

Introductions

Hello new blog!

In an effort to get to know how to use this blogging tool I am notating the differences between living in Rexburg, Idaho to living in Farmington Connecticut.

The biggest most noticable difference is the greenery here. In Rexburg you can actually see the sky. And the sky looks huge! It carries on for hundreds of miles. You can see mountain ranges that are so far away! Here in Connecticut you can't see past your neighbors yard because there are so many trees. I remember when I went to New York feeling like the buildings took up all the view of the sky, but that is the same here, except instead of buildings it is trees. In our house we have two skylights and you still see more trees than you do sky out of those things. It is crazy!

Another difference is the weather. Rexburg, though windy and cold more than it should be each year is generally pretty dry. I would put on lotion constantly there all year round. Here we go for weeks without seeing the sun because it is raining so much. I like the rain and all, but it gets a little gloomy after not seeing the sun for days and days. We never have to even worry about washing the car though, because the rain keeps it looking pretty clean on the outside.

Difference number three is the price of things. The average price of milk in Rexburg is maybe $2. Out here you can expect to pay about $4 per gallon, unless you are on the constant look out for a good deal. I personally can't justify spending that much on a gallon of milk so I rely on Wal-Mart like crazy.

Difference number four I get so lost here! lol. Rexburg is nice because you can pretty much see where you are headed the minute that you walk out your door. You have ample warning of most all stop signs and lights and the roads are set up on a pretty rigid grid system so you know that if you took a wrong turn then if you just follow the block you can eventually get back to where you started in most places. But in Connecticut there is no grid system. They built roads over deer paths. One road will change names about four or five times from beginning to end. I would never leave our house if it wasn't for our GPS. Thank heavens for technology! I can though successfully get to my husbands school as well as to Wal-Mart without using the GPS. I am very proud of that fact. But other than that, I need that little device.

I love how pretty it is out here though. There are so many trees, and other fauna that you can't miss how beautiful the world really is. Especially in the fall time! People here say that it has been a really dry year (have they not noticed the rain?!) so the trees are taking their time turning colors and they are losing their leaves really fast, but the colors are amazing! I had no idea that one tree could have green, yellow, orange and red leaves on it at one time! It is so beautiful! I love just going on drives around the towns here to look at the trees. I also really enjoy looking at the cute little houses people have here. Some of the houses are so old! Built in the 1800's and people keep living in them! It amazes me, but the houses are so cute and quaint. I love driving around and looking at all of them.

And I especially love my little house! It is so cute, and we have been making home improvements on it. Maybe when I figure out how to use this blog a little better I will add before and after pictures. It looks so good now! I love this house!

Yay for differences and yay for Connecticut!