May 2007

Jayna turned 8 months old and we have noticed such a big difference. She really seems a lot older now, her personality is starting to show and she's forming her own opinions. She is such a good girl and loves being held, except by anyone besides me or Gibb.

We made a road trip to London this month to go to Todd McClenaghan and his beautiful new wife, Ashley's reception. It was so much fun, not only spending time with the Hill's, which I always love. But I got to see a lot of old friends that I haven't caught up with in a long time, like Aleccia, Janeth, Carissa and Jeff. It was such a trip down memory lane, we had so much fun together growing up and I have the best memories with them.

We also got to go and see Brett's first soccer game ever!

Cassandra and Nathan, what a great picture

Jesse's adorable smile, probably keeps him out of a lot of trouble

Jayna loves playing with her tongue and tries to twist it all around

Me and Aleccia (BFFE)

Nathan is such a cutie

Jayna's first cheerio

Jayna is so funny when she tries new foods, it takes her a while to warm up to new things sometimes, kind of like her mom...

Orlando!!

We went to Orlando, Florida for a week with Brett and Jenny during Gibb's break. It was one of the funnest and most relaxing vacations we've been on. This was our 3rd time going to Orlando, and I think it's becoming one of our favourite vacation spots. Our condo was right beside the pool this time so it was perfect with Jayna. We could put her down for a nap and then spend the afternoon in the pool swimming! We had great weather and it was so nice to be able to spend time with Brett and Jenny, Jayna seriously loves them!

First Mother's Day, this will be pretty tough to beat!

Brett and Jenny riding Kraken, the sweet roller coaster at Sea World

the Dolphin show

Jayna trying to fend off the paparazzi

Jayna was loving the show

Until she got splashed

Sting Rays!

The Shamu show is always one of my favourites!

Brett and Jenny were nice enough to watch Jayna for us one morning so we could go do a session at the temple.

I LOVE the Orlando Temple, it's so beautiful and it's surrounded by palm trees, it doesn't get any better than that, except for maybe the Hawaii temple...

Jayna loved swimming in the warm kiddie pool

Dreams really do come true...right Brett?

So stylish

This was the hottest day ever, poor Jayna

And of course that's the day we decide to go mini golfing

Jenny won, she was so proud!

Orlando has the coolest mini golf courses. We always go to the same Pirate's Cove Adventure Golf every time, it's so fun!

Arrr matey!

Jayna snuggling with Uncle Brett as usual, I wish she would snuggle with me like that!

Our last night in Orlando, *sniff, sniff*, we really need to make this a yearly tradition!

April 2007

Jayna turned 7 months old and got her first tooth!!! Actually her first 2 teeth, she got both of her front bottom teeth within a few days of each other. She looks so different now. She is sitting up now and loves sitting and playing with her toys. It has finally been starting to warm up and so we've been able to spend a lot of time outside in the backyard. Jayna loves being outside and just looking at all the trees and grass and animals. We have so many animals in our backyard: squirrels, raccoons, rabbits, skunks, the neighbours cat, tons of different kinds of birds (blue jays red robins), and we even saw 2 deer back there one time.

Jayna's first time at the zoo, she loved the monkeys

Jayna and Dean

Love at first sight

I got a tooth!

Isn't that exciting?

See...

It kind of hurt...

But I'm so proud

Our little monkey

She loves bananas

Gibb thinks Jayna wants to be a dentist too

She enjoys inflicting pain on people, it sounds perfect

She started making this face when she is sad, how could we resist that face

Poor little sweetie

Posing

Jayna really likes bath time

She likes playing with her feet and splashing in the water

And she likes to play with her rubber duck

"I'm not so sure about this grass stuff"

Another fun day at the zoo, the Cleveland zoo is really great

So silly

Hanging out in the backyard

It's finally Spring!