Family Pics 5/9/12

When my brother and sister in law came home from Hawaii, we went to Seal Beach and Rach took some family pics for us.  I LOVE THEM!  I seriously think she did amazing! I'm so grateful for her and sharing her talent with us!  I will cherish these forever!  Z is about 4 1/2 months in these pics!  Thanks again Rach for taking these!  I obviously have a bunch and couldn't pick...so sorry for the overload!  I love all of Zealynn's faces!! Man she's cute! :)  

Time Out for Women- 5/5

Well...I had to take all of these pics off my sis blog since I didn't take pics, so I'm pretty much copying her post...but for those that don't look at my sister's post...here ya go! This was actually before my Birthday.  When we were in Cali, my mom got me and Jenn and her tickets to Time Out for Women!  I've only been once before and it was SO nice to get out and get spiritually inspired again! :)  Kev watched and took care of all 3 boys and took them to baseball and ji jit zu and i took Zealynn.  I love being able to count on my husband! He was such a help!  Anyway....it was in Long Beach and I thought it was awesome!  I reflect constantly about what was talked about there.  Thanks so much Mom for giving me the chance to feel the spirit so strongly!  I love inspirational talks and music that just makes you want to be a better person.  I hope I will take what I learned and apply them to my life so I can be a better wife, daughter, sister and Mom.  It was fun to take Zealynn to our little event.  She did really good...luckily when she was fussy I could walk around with her! :)  Here are some pics during our lunch break! 

 LOVE this one!!

One of my favorite speakers was by Chris Williams.  He talked about forgiveness as a man that lost his pregnant wife, daughter, and son in a car accident caused by a teenage drunk driver.  You can see his story at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7zwQ_7q-fU.   I am so grateful for the faith of individuals like him that help share his amazing story to help others truly see what this life is about. I am so excited for his book "Let it Go" that will be coming out in August!

There were so many wonderful talks and musical numbers.  I also LOVED Hilary Weeks and a song in particular called "Stand Still"  that talks about how sometimes she just wants the time to stand still with her children.  She stated something I had never really truly thought about.  After this life we will spend eternity knowing our children as Adults.  But at this moment and these next few precious years I will know Zealynn (and all my nieces and nephews and future children) as a child.  WHAT A PRIVILEGE! I get to experience my babies grow.  I get to experience their first laugh, the first time they see a flower, the first time they take their first step, the first time they make a mistake and feel the power of the atonement and the love of our Savior.  I get to experience that! What a beautiful tender mercy from our Heavenly Father!  I know there will be challenges, but I pray I can always remember and always be grateful for my own beautiful children and all that they teach me.  I am so grateful for our Heavenly Father's beautiful plan of happiness!

My 27th birthday!!! 5/10

Have I mentioned I love birthdays?! I really do love the older I get cuz so much fun happens!! It's inevitable you are going to get older so might as well enjoy it right?! I was in Cali this year! We stopped by Jenn's to visit and she had a yummy cupcake and a present for me! I thought it was so sweet of her! Zealynn was fascinated with the fire! :)

 Happy family and beautiful Jocie!

 After that, we headed down to Huntington Beach and went to the different shops.  I got 2 leather bands that I LOVE! I got them engraved saying on one "Z-XII XXI-Z" and "J-XII XXX-K".....meaning "Zealynn 12/21" (when she was born and "Jess Kev 12/30" when we were married.  I love them!! We also hit up the Hurley warehouse the night before so i got some sweet shirts! We did this after our family pictures my sis in law took! (seperate post for that...I'm sooo in love with them though!!) Then we went to BJ's for dinner! Loved my pizzookie too!!!

 Oh my baby girl I love you!

 This pic melts my heart for sure!!

Love my family!

We took Kev to the airport because he was flying out to New York for brother's trip then we went back to my brother and sis in law to pick up our family pics we took the day before!  so fun!!  Thanks so much for all the birthday wishes!!  Here's to another year...it's going to be a good one! :)

From 1 kid to 4! May 3rd-9th

My brother Jason and sister in law Rach were going to Hawaii.  They asked a couple months ago if they could fly us out to watch their kids.  Uh..yes!!! I was so so excited!  So I flew in May 1st, spent a couple days with my parents and then went to their place to keep up with their routine.  The first night, Kev was still in Utah for work, so it was just me with 4 kids.  It gave me a glimpse of my future...except our oldest will be the girl! :) I'm sure Zealynn was so confused because there were times I just had to put her down and let her cry for...well...a lot longer then she's use to crying.  I'm sure she was like, "uh, what the heck?! I've never had to cry for 30 minutes without any attention!"  The first night, Z didn't go to bed til 11, then she woke up at 1:30am and 4:30am and then Ty, the 5 year old woke me up at 6:15am to start the day off.  They didn't go to bed until 9, but Z didn't get to bed until 10:30...so that was a day full of fun! :)  That was the first time I wanted to go to bed when the kids did!  It was such a fun experience.  I love these boys!  Aiden, the oldest, had school everyday and Ty had preschool every other day.  We had a lot of baseball, catch, kickball, handball, uno, soccer, and just hanging out eating popcorn while watching a movie.  Kev held the fort down on Saturday and took the boys to Ji Jit Zu and Baseball while me and Z went with my Mom and Jenn to time out for women.  I am so thankful for Kev's help!  I think the boys had fun...almost as much as we did! :)  I didn't get much pictures in, but they were so cute I had to grab the camera!  They absolutely love Zealynn and wanted to keep holding her.  Nate (the 2 year old) kept wanting to put her binky in when she would cry.  It was really sweet.  I grabbed the camera after they were just staring at each other in the below pic. 

 They couldn't stop kissing her. (I didn't pose any of this btw!  Ty kept saying "Nate, do this!"...his Mom is a photographer!) :)

 Zealynn is always in a sit up "Crunch" position.  lol

 haha Ty

 Ty wanted to pick up Nate but Nate is very protective over here. lol

 This night Nate kept saying "hi" and she would bust up laughing.  She loves her cousins!

Thanks Rach and Jason for letting us watch the kids! Hopefully it's not the last! :)