A good laugh...

No, a GREAT laugh! I was looking through some old emails and found these pictures. It is late at night and Jon might make me take these down tomorrow, but these pictures are soooo hilarious. I hesitate to post these pictures because I know Jon looks like a total "Chester." Just after Jon and I were married, we were in St. George for Christmas with my family. Jon challenged my brother to a ping pong match. The stakes were high, but Jon was the one who set them. If Jon lost, he had to shave his head and if my brother (who is balding) lost, he had to grow a comb-over. Well as you can see, Jon lost the match. These are pictures of him while we were shaving his head (I know he looks like a creepo, but I can't help but die laughing when I see these pictures). It was scary shaving his head because we were headed to Mexico in 3 days. Although, after we got all the hair off, he looked hot with the shaved head (i included a picture from our trip so you could all see how good it turned out). I love you babe, you always make me laugh!

ps...don't hate me for posting these pictures:)

A few extra's

Lately it seems like Hayley is just growing and changing everyday. She is learning things all the time and she has been making us laugh non-stop. She is just entertaining and her personality is bursting through.

Here are some pictures of her in the bath that are just priceless

This morning we hiked the Hollywood sign. After being in Utah for a few weeks, it really makes us appreciate the 73 degree weather!

Hayley's First Christmas!

Sorry it has been so long since I have updated the blog...I know that I am so lame. Life got busy and time just got away from me. The holiday season was so much fun. Hayley and I drove up to Salt Lake (we were there for a total of almost 3 weeks) before Christmas and I got some good sister time in. Jon joined us a little later and we spent Christmas with Jon's family. Hayley had a blast with all of her aunties and uncles, cousins, and grandparents. She got so much attention over the break that when we got home for the first few days, I literally couldn't put her on the floor to play unless I was sitting right next to her! Jon got in plenty of snowboarding, there was a ton of new snow that fell in the mountains. Hayley was hilarious on Christmas morning. She must have been a good girl this year because Santa was good to her! Everything is so much more exciting with a baby around. Here are a few pictures from the trip...

We visited the lights at Temple Square

This toy was a big hit...she dances to the music, it is so cute!

Here's Hayley in her Christmas dress

She was a little nervous with Santa, but at least she let us get a few good pictures...

But she didn't last long!!!!

Three Peas in a Pod

Here are some pictures from Hayley's first Halloween weekend. These pictures were actually taken on Sunday at our friend's Nathan and Emily. It was Emily's birthday and she cooked us a fantastic meal. For Halloween night we actually went to a birthday party that wasn't a costume party so we wanted to bring Hayley in her costume to Emily's birthday. I especially love the last picture...what a ham!

Daddy's Girl

Here are some cute pictures of Hayley and Jon that I have been meaning to post. They are cheering on the Red Sox...apparently they didn't cheer hard enough:( That smile is priceless! She is always so happy to see Jon when he gets home from work, I think she gets sick of looking at my face all day.

The Pumpkin Patch

Life has been crazy and I haven't updated the blog for a while, I have some catching up to do. I am the Primary President in our ward and today was our big program! The kids did amazing! They really brought the Spirit into the meeting. It was a lot of fun to see it put all together. It was a lot of work, but I had some great help. The chorister, Brook, is incredible...she has really helped the kids love the Primary songs and (in her words...) "the old grandma's in the back could even hear!" Yesterday we practiced and she brought Magic Singing Spray for all of the kids to help them sing. Today, right when we went up on the stand, one Sunbeam Lawrence said, "Ms. Brook (he started preschool recently and calls everyone Ms.), I remembered my magic singing spray!" I am not sure anyone in the congregation heard him, but it was a great way for us to start the program with a smile. I also have great counselors and teachers who were a giant help, Thanks everyone for your help! I truly appreciate you all. What a great experience and challenge this calling has been for me, but I feel like I am learning a lot (although I still have MUCH to learn). I feel blessed to be able to work with the kids, they are the best teachers:).

Hayley seems to be growing up too fast. She is starting wave at us, and today we noticed that her top tooth just poked through! Poor baby, but she is in pretty good spirits anyway. Last weekend we went to the pumpkin patch with the Means. We had a bunch of fun and got a few cute pictures.



Hayley on her first John Deer ride with Alexa!

Jon is trying to recreate Hayley's face...I think he did a pretty good job, they look EXACTLY alike!

The Volkslauf!

I don't know what got into me(I think I was really motivated to get all the baby fat off)...but about four months ago Jon and I signed up for a 10k mud run with our friend Sara from church. And it snuck up on us yesterday! For the record (and I am kind of embarrassed to admit), I have never run that long before. Not only that, but there were also a ton obstacles we had to get through! Here is a quote from the website:

"Counting all the hurdles, slides, tunnels, pits, berms, ladders, swings, rope climbs and low crawls found on the course, there are well over 75 obstacles in all for the 10K course... Add to that several million gallons of water and mud on the course and you can easily see why this isn’t just any old mud run: this is VOLKSLAUF, The Ultimate Challenge!"

When I read this on Friday night I was freaking out. But I got through it and had a really fun time too. Jon was the only boy on our team and he was a true gentleman, he stayed with us the whole time and helped us through the obstacles. We didn't get any pictures of us during the race because no one came up with us, but here is a link for a video on YouTube of last years race just to give you an idea of what it was like (It is worth checking out if you skip over the first 2 min) : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFrwk2mlZk8.

I think Jon and I will make it a yearly tradition! I am not a runner, and I don't love the mud...so I feel pretty cool that I was able to finish. Although, I am sore today it is worth the feeling of accomplishment and the memories! If anyone wants to join us for next year, we'd love to have the recruits! These are the pictures we have: before and after!