Our New Arrival

Britton Thomas Jewkes
Born May 26, 2009 at 10 pm
Weighed in at 8 pounds 1 ounce
21.5 inches long

My little gardener

We finally decided to work a little on a garden in the back yard. Andrew was right in the middle of helping with the work. He loves to be "outs". I love that he wants to be right with us all of the time and loves to be active and outdoors.

Easter Fun

The Easter Bunny brought Andrew a fun basket this year! He got eggs with candy in them, a Berentstein Bears DVD, bubbles, and his own little drill. He loved it all, but especially the drill!

I worked the night shift leading into Easter Sunday, but I still wanted to go to church to be reminded of the real reason for the Easter Holiday. We had a wonderful musical sacrament meeting and it was nice to be at church despite the lack of sleep. After church we went over to granny and grandpas house for other fun activities including the egg toss from the roof and tossing Andrew in the towel.

Coloring Easter Eggs

We had a fun time coloring Easter Eggs this year. Andrew wanted to throw them all down and crack them before we dyed them, but we managed to save a few to color. He didn't like that he dyed his hands and wanted them clean as soon as we were done. Aunt Tawny was staying the night with us so she got to share in the fun!

parking citation?

On April Fool's Day, I got a call from Isaac saying the Accord had died in a park while he was studying for his accounting class. He had called his brother to come and jump it and it hadn't worked. He came home and after a few hours he went back to the park to try to tow it home with his dad. They came back to the house saying that the car wouldn't even come out of park and that we had received a parking citation...needless to say...I wasn't very happy. Isaac started reading it out loud and I didn't understand why he wasn't upset til I finally clued in that it wasn't a real citation..

When he read the part about Fleas of a thousand camels infesting your armpits is when I clued in that it wasn't real. Well, we drove the Odyssey over to jump the car and it started right up....thank goodness...I guess it was an April Fool's Day joke that ended up working out okay.

Happy April Fool's Day!

We had fun making these great treats for April Fool's. I saw them on Studio 5 on KSL this morning and thought they would be fun to make. Here is the final outcome...spaghetti and meatballs cupcakes!

Andrew loved having his cousins and aunt and uncle at our house this week. He was pretty excited about having a baby in the house and any time he could he would try to hold him or play with him. It was fun to watch him with the baby. It is always nice to have more people to play with! Thanks for coming to visit Ryker and Michelle, Tory and Elizabeth!

My Big Boy Bed!

We set up Andrew's new bed just before his 2nd Birthday and boy did he love it. He wanted to play in it all the time and would constantly say "up" so we would lift him to the top bunk. We weren't quite ready for him to sleep in it so we kept putting him in the crib to sleep. One night he decided he was ready for his bed and marched right in when we said it was bedtime and knelt down to say prayers by the bunk bed. We said prayers and gave him some toys to play with and said good night. We left the room with no thought that he would stay and didn't hear anything from him after that. This is what we found when we went back to check on him and he hasn't been back in his crib since. What a big boy!

Birthday Boy!

We celebrated Andrew's birthday twice...first, on his actual birthday and second on Sunday with all of the family. Andrew was spoiled by Granny and Grandpa Jewkes, Grandma and Grandpa Thornton, and his aunts, uncles, and cousins. It was so fun to watch him open his presents because he was completely into tearing into the packages. He got some really fun presents that should keep him entertained for a while.

*Cabbage Patch Little Boy with lots of hair

*Harmonica

*Books

*Magna Doodle

*Tool kit with box

*Two sweat outfits

*Shorts outfit

*Crayon and marker set in a back pack

*Hot Wheels Cars

*T-Ball set

*Charlotte's Web DVD

*$10

We asked Grandpa Jewkes to make him a baseball player cake and he did a great job. I made sugar cookies and we had a fun time eating and celebrating. The kids all got balloons to take home with them. It is so fun to be able to live close to family and have a great time when we all get together.

Like Father, Like Son

As you can tell, this blog is all about our little guy! It has been so fun to watch him grow and become an adorable little boy. Daddy was cooking dinner the other night and Andrew was a big helper...he even wore the apron to be just like his daddy!