Easter!

We had tons of fun this Easter because it was Mileena and Austin's first one with us and Mitchell's family were still visiting.




Hunting for eggs!

Mileena had a hard time getting this one out of Mitchell's exhaust! Good one, Easter Bunny!

Since General Conference was on Easter this year, the kids wore their Easter outfits the next Sunday.
Beautiful Mileena!

Handsome Riker!

Sweet Austin!

The Eggs

I always remember dying Easter eggs as being one of the best parts of Easter when I was a kid! And we still love doing it now!

The gang ready to get started!

Mitchell helping Riker write his name on one of his eggs.


Mileena's favorite egg!

We snuggled and I love it!

I Love My Valentines!

I have always loved Valentine's Day, I don't know why most people hate it. But even as a kid I loved picking out Valentine's for my class. And the only thing I didn't like about it in high school was all the girls carrying around huge stuffed animals and big vases of flowers from their boyfriend (kind of puts a damper on the holiday if you don't have a man). But regardless I still always loved it. My parents gave us Valentines too on Valentine's Day so we do the same with our kids. I feel like it's not just about celebrating the love of your significant other but about celebrating your love for everyone in your life.


I could tell Mileena was really excited about getting something from us. She said she had never gotten anything for Valentine's Day before!

After we got home from church Mileena came up to me and said, "I love you, Mom." Made my heart melt! Then she told me she had decided that she wants to call me Mom from now on. I love it, she is so cute and I can tell now that she feels like she can let most of the stuff in her past go because she has a Mom here. That was the best part of the day for me :)

And for dinner we had breakfast (I looooove breakfast for dinner). Complete with pink chocolate chip heart pancakes, bacon, sausage, bagels with pink cream cheese and red Kool-Aid. Riker loved the pancakes and kept wanting more but could careless about the color or shape. But Mileena loved all of it, she helped dye the pancakes and cream cheese, she was really into it.

(Sorry the picture is facing the wrong way, but you get the point)

After Riker was in bed Mitchell told me to go upstairs and wait. When I was allowed downstairs I found....


I could tell he was trying so hard ot be romantic and I loved it! He had "Amazed" by Lonestar playing the background. He is so cute! I love that he worked so hard to make something special for me.

I gave him his present when right before bed (basically because I had forgotten about it). It was a Survival Kit for Vermont (cause we're going to need it). He really liked it and I got to use my mad 'creativity' for it which was fun.


So it was a great Valentine's Day this year and hopefully all the rest will be too!

Life through Disposable Eyes: Finale!

I finally got my last roll of film developed! Woop! This is the end of December in the Jaggar household.

Christmas Eve--

Christmas PJs!

Cookies for Santa!

Then the milk, of course.

Christmas Day--

Riker got a 'choo-choo' from Santa!


Mileena opening her sewing machine! (She got an iPod shuffle from Santa but I forgot to take a picture of her with it.)


Mitchell got a ton of new PSP games and movies. And I got an amazing gift....a body pillow! Which I love and adore, the picture of me opening it didn't turn out though :(


After a day of lounging in our PJs, we headed over to some friends house for dinner and more presents!



Me--7 months prego!

Happy 2010 Everyone!!!

Life Through Disposable Eyes: Part 2

This is the middleish part of our month of December!

First came....Mileena's Baptism! We are all so proud of her for getting baptized. She is basically amazing!



Don't worry about me in this picture, I was just an emotional wreck (I blame it on being prego). And thank you Lenette for the dress! She loves it!!


Then it was the Festival of Lights. Around Christmas time Tallahassee has a big ol' party downtown. Complete with a Jungle Bell Run, lots of fattening and pricey food, and creepy Christmas characters. The creepiest thing about these characters is that in the pictures you can see the real people's faces through the costume. Check out the top of this little mouses hat. Ekkk.

Next came, decorating the Christmas tree!

And last, we went to a gingerbread party! Mitchell and Riker made one house, and Mileena and I made the other. It was tons of fun! Especially for Riker (once Mitchell decided to give up on making theirs perfect.)


ps-I'm definitely not getting any looove back on ANY of my posts. :( This makes me rather sad. *hint hint*

My Life through Disposable Eyes

Thank goodness for disposable cameras, even though they're not as luxurious as digital (obviously) they get the job done. But I had to resort to them this last month thanks to my amazing hubbster (we won't get into that subject again), I have been slacking on my posts. Thank goodness I have a scanner and can use my amazing digital enhancing skillz to make some of the pictures look normal. So here is part of the month of December (you'll have to wait for the 2nd half when I get my film developed, but don't worry I don't even know how they came out so we're in the same boat).

First Stop: Dorothy B. Oven Park
Man, I love this place. I've gone here every year as a child and how as an adult. For those of you who don't live here in Tally-ho, it's a park that get a dressed up for Christmas. There are thousands of lights and it is beautiful. Plus, lots of fun for the kiddos.


Second Stop: 6 Months Prego!
So I technically turned 24 weeks on November 30th, but I didn't get around to taking a picture til the next week. So I'm 25 weeks in this picture, but pretty sure the same thing.

Third Stop: Mileena's Christmas Concert
It was extremely weird for me sitting in the same lunchroom/auditorium, watching the same stage, hearing my same music teacher introduce the concert, and listening to some of the same songs I sang that night and it had only been 11 years later since I had done all of that. Pretty crazy. Anyway, Mileena did awesome in her concert! She was a La Fiesta dancer and definitely La Fiesta-ed her life away.


Fourth Stop: Visting Santa!
Riker had been talking about this moment for weeks on end. And he didn't cry at all while sitting on Santa's lap (which is a huge step up from last year). But he barely spoke! He had been telling everyone and their mother that Santa was getting him a Thomas and Percy choo-choo for Christmas, but once he gets up to the big guy himself he barely spits out the words "choo-choo". But all around it was better than last years visit.
(Compare photos below)

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2008:

Halloween Festivities

We had lots of Halloweeny things we did and since I haven't had the internet since the middle of October I haven't been able to post :( But now I'm back on track!

First me and Riker went to a Pumpkin Patch with our Playgroup. Riker wasn't entertained with any of the ideas or games at the pumpkin patch. He was a party pooper.

Next was picking out our pumpkins!

And then carving them. Riker enjoyed coloring on his pumpkin more than carving it. He didn't like to get all eeky from the pumpkin guts.

Mileena didn't mind the getting eeky part at all, sometimes I think she's more of a boy than Riker is.

Riker with his pumpkin.

And Mileena with hers.

Our little pirate and our devil!

Tradition: A picture of the kids throwing their candy up in the air.

Mother's Day!

Happy Mother's Day to all!

Mitchell was suppose to be discharged today but the doctor wanted to keep him for at least one more day. Boo. So Riker and I went to visit him after dinner. Mitchell felt bad he couldn't get me anything and couldn't be home with me, so he made me a card.

Cute Card By Mitchell:

To a mother so beautiful, wonderful, and sweet.
The best day of my life was the day we were to meet. (Good rhyming , eh?)
I wish I could have spent the day with you in my arms.
Instead I had to spend the day getting needles in my arm. (No fun.)
But while next year should be better.
I still want you to know how much I deeply love you and know you are the one.

Happy Mother's Day
From: Your Hubby

PS I love you so much.

He's cute, huh? I love him :)


Happy Mother's Day to me!

We played cards (I won of course) and Riker chilled.

This is from a few days ago. Riker was so excited me finally got to closer to Mitchell! The first little bit he couldn't get on the bed but this day he could. What a Daddy's Boy!