Bathtime Pigtails

Jaclyn finally has enough hair for us to play with. We thought these were just some cute pictures to share!

Valentine's Pictures~ 11 Months Old

We can hardly believe that Jaclyn will be a year old in NINE DAYS!!! This year has definitely flown past us. Here are her 11 Month photos from Valentine's Day. These, once again, were her best pictures yet. We can only hope we have this much luck with her one year photos!

Enjoy!

We don't usually buy the upgraded pictures, but I couldn't turn this one down!

Almost Walking!!!

Jaclyn is very close to walking on her own! We're pretty sure she'll be walking by her birthday, which is (it's hard for us to believe) only two and a half weeks away. We've been busy planning for her first birthday party, as well as with basketball season at school, so have not been able to update as frequently as we'd like. Here's a couple of videos of her practicing walking with her Princess Car Grandma and Grandpa bought her for Christmas. We taped this over the weekend. We will definitely update again after her birthday to share her special day with all of you!

Super Bowl!!!

One of the things we look forward to each year is Sammy and Alisha's SuperBowl Party! It's one of the few times each year that we get to see all of our friends and hang out together. This was the first year with babies at the party, and I have to say, Jaclyn and Charlee both were troopers, and let Casey and I enjoy ourselves during the game! Here's a shot of the girls at half-time!

Jaclyn loved playing with the foam finger during the game!

I love this picture!

Jaclyn and Charlee got to spend quite a bit of time together at the party. Here's their "Stare-Down..." ...and the end result!

It took a little while, but eventually Jaclyn warmed up to Charlee.

I love this picture of Charlee! She looks like a baby doll!

Here's Jaclyn trying to get Mike to pay attention to her instead of looking at Charlee... ...she's learning very quickly how to become an attention hog. I don't think she'll be ready for any brothers or sisters any time soon! Thank Goodness!

Grandma's 80th Birthday

Last night we went to Sacramento to celebrate my Grandma's 80th Birthday. We had a really fun time and it was nice to get all the Godfrey's together like we used to! I had to start with this picture, as it was the hit of the night. My cousin, Nate, spent the night trying to get my Grandma to pick a favorite, and since she wouldn't, he picked for her...
Here's Jaclyn with Grandpa

And Jaclyn with Uncle Geoff

Jaclyn kept trying to take Nate's A's hat, so we had to snap a couple of pictures with it on. (Even though she was trying to take something that wasn't hers, at least she has good taste! Go A's!)

Auntie Erin had to bring out one of her hats for Jaclyn to try also.

I think Grandma had a great Birthday!!!

10 Month Photos!

Although I'm sure I've said this before...these are definitely my FAVORITE pictures!!! We are having so much fun watching her personality develop and I think you can really see it in these.

ENJOY!

Jaclyn's 1st Christmas!

Christmas Eve:Jaclyn had an AMAZING First Christmas. We decided to start our own traditions this year and host Christmas at our house. On Christmas Eve we did a Taco Night with Grammie, Uncle Jake, Great-Grandma Cox, Great Uncle Ken, and cousins David and Donna from Wisconsin, on their first visit to California! It was a great night! We had everyone open one gift that night. Here's Jaclyn with all the presents under the tree!

Here's Jaclyn after getting to open her Christmas Eve Present from Mommy and Daddy. This was a HOT ITEM when Mommy went Black Friday Shopping. It's a Leap Frog Learning Table that she can pull her self up on and play with all the different buttons. The best thing is that it teaches in both English and Spanish. We think she was pretty happy with it!

Christmas Morning:

Grammie came over before everyone else to help Mommy with breakfast. We made biscuits and gravy with bacon, hashbrowns, sausage, cinnamon rolls, and Grandpa Mark's Bacon Explosions. We had a full house that morning with Grammie, Grandpa John and Diane, Great Grandma and Great Grandpa Dinwiddie, Great Grandma Godfrey, Grandpa Mark, Grandma Boss, Auntie Erin, Uncle Chris, Uncle Jake, and Cousins David and Donna, (in that order I think!) We had a great morning with Coffee and Baileys (Thanks Mom!), and we even introduced David and Donna to their first Mimosa.

Mommy got up early in the morning to get a picture of the tree after Santa came. Look at all of the RED presents for Jaclyn from him!

Here's a close-up of one of them!

Christmas morning, Jaclyn received her present from Grandpa John and Diane first; it was a bouncing horse that she easily figured out how to ride and bounce on. Carmen and Ruben (her daycare providers) have been working with her on dancing and bouncing. When ever you yell "Baila, Baila, Baila" she'll laugh and kind of jump up and down like she's dancing. Here's her bouncing on the horse with no hands!

Here's a cute picture of Jaclyn with Grandma and Auntie Erin. Auntie Erin was very practical with Jaclyn's Gifts (which we totally appreciated), but also wrote a really nice, sentimental message in her card for Jaclyn that I'm keeping for her scrapbook for her to read when she's older. It will definitely prove how much she was loved from the very start! It means a lot to me that Erin has taken such an incredible interest in my daughter!Jaclyn has also been practicing her Princess Wave at daycare. Carmen and Ruben are definitely making a little Ham out of her. She had perfect timing, showing off her wave while riding her Princess Car from Grandma Boss! This is such a great toy for her to practice walking behind. It moves a little fast for her right now; she takes two or three steps and then it slides out in front of her and she falls. This doesn't stop her for long though, she usually gets right up and tries again. She's definitely determined!

She didn't do too badly opening presents. She was definitely alot more into it than we thought. She would rip off one piece of paper at a time, play with it for a little while, and then hand it to Mommy while saying "Pweez" which Carmen Ruben tell us she does understand, but we're still a little skeptical as to whether or not we can write "Please" down as her first word. Opening presents was an incredibly slow process, but very cute! We took a couple of videos, but there was nothing on them exciting enough to share; it took her close to ten minutes to open up each present and that was a bit much to upload.

We think Boots got a little jealous with all the attention Jaclyn was getting Christmas Morning.

Uncle Jake and Uncle Chris bought Jaclyn this Rocking Giraffe. Jaclyn absolutely Loves this! She crawls over to it all the time to pet and climb on; it's really soft and the Giraffe giggles whenever she squeezes it's ears, which she's already learned to do.

Funny story for this one:

Uncle Jake and Uncle Chris bought Daddy a really nice set of tools to work on his Bronce, BUT before he could have it, they made him put on these footed Bunny Jammies that they some how found in his size. It was hilarious, and we do have pictures, just not that I could post on this blog.

Christmas Day:

Just about everyone went home at noon once Jaclyn had to go down for her nap. Grandpa John and Diane stayed for a little bit until Uncle Chris had to go to work, and then it was just down to Grammie, Uncle Jake, and Cousins David and Donna. We opened all of out presents while Jaclyn was napping, and then let her finish once she woke up. Grammie baked a ham with Scallopped Potatoes and Green Bean Caserole. David and Donna also had their first taste of Silver Oak that night. Mommy, Uncle Jake, and Cousin David played around on the piano and guitar for a little bit and we ended the night with Grammie's AMAZING cheesecake! This was definitely the BEST CHRISTMAS EVER! Being a Mommy at Christmas is even more fun than being the kid at one!

Once Jaclyn went down for her nap, John, Chris, and Jake opened their stockings from Grammie, which contained remote-control cars. They spent almost half an hour playing with them in our court and even built a ramp before Chris had to go to work. It was so great to see the brothers getting to "play" together! When everyone's so busy, it's times like these that really matter; John and I both really miss getting to hang out together with them like we used to!

Grammie also bought her boys tickets to the last RAIDER'S game!

Here's one of my favorite pictures that John took of Jaclyn during her lunch. You can't really tell it's a Christmas picuture, but I think it's probably one of the best!
These are pictures of Jaclyn's big gift from Santa. Uncle Jake put it together for her while she was napping. It's a pretty cool toy, even if it does take up a good portion of our family room!
Finally, here's Jaclyn before opening her last present. If you can't tell, she REALLY loves being the center of attention.

Grammie bought Jaclyn her first "American Girl, Bitty Baby" doll. Jaclyn loves this doll, and the coolest thing for us is we get to see how much she's learned already and how AWARE she is of everything that's said around her. We're pretty sure she tried to say "Baby" when she opened this doll, and since Christmas, we've put it down with all of her other toys and asked her, "Where's your Baby?" Every time, she'll go right to it and pick it up. She's done this correctly over a dozen times, and has encouraged us to test what other vocabulary she understands. So far she for sure knows what her "Baby," "Book," and "Ball" are. We're also pretty sure she understands the word "No," but has also decided that she won't obey it every time. We can't believe how much she understands already. She really is growing up fast!

Here's Jaclyn with Grammie in her Christmas Day outfit. For such an eventful day, you'd never be able to tell by looking at her would you? We hope you enjoyed seeing a "snapshot" of Jaclyn's first Christmas. More importantly, we hope you all had as great a Christmas as we did!