Family Adventures

Well, we're finally updated the blog after 4+ months.  Sorry for taking so long. We decided to go to the zoo on Saturday down in Salt Lake.  We had never been and thought it would be really fun for the kids, which it was, but by the very end I think we were all exhausted.  I didn't know it could be such a workout just to watch animals.  It was real fun for me though as I hadn't seen a lot of these animals up close before.  Lily's favorite was watching these little monkeys flying around their encasement.  I loved the fact she was holding her own monkey the whole time too.   We decided to go to the bird show yesterday as well and that was lots of fun.  Our biggest problem was getting Jacks to hold still.  But he was calm at least when the birds were flying overhead. On a side note, I for some reason had a really tough time taking photos yesterday.  I was out of focus on at least 50% of my shots.  Maybe I was just tired and didn...

Well, the big day finally came.  Jackson is now 3 years old.  Not that he understands what kind of accomplishment it is to survive with us for 3 years.  Actually, I'm more proud of us for making it this far.  Who would've thought of us being parents, and now we are 3 years into our lifetime commitment.  Still have a ways to go don't we? So we didn't really celebrate Jacks birthday with family, but to be truthfully honest, we didn't really have much time to do anything much.  On Friday, SHC was having a graduation and I felt the need to be there that night.  It was a good ceremony and I'm proud of our students for what they accomplished.  We held it at the Tabernacle in Logan and it was near full capacity.  I took a few pictures that i'll show below. Paul and Jackie came over on Saturday evening to give him his present.  A "big boy bike".  He loved it but it'll take a little while to get used to it I think.  Addie and I...

So Joey and Stina headed out to go play soccer the other night and we volunteered to take the Haze so that they didn't have to keep switching off while trying to play.  Something that you have to get used to with her is a sore lower back.  Not because she weighs a ton, because she's as light as a feather compared to Jacks or Lily, but because her favorite thing to do is to walk.  And it gets amplified if Jackson is within her sight. It was such a nice day on Tuesday that we stayed outside for as long as we could and Jacks played in the sprinklers.  Hazel would just follow him around wherever he went.  Those two are like two peas in a pod. On a side note, as you can see in the video I have my sprinklers going.  Well, when i turned them off they, well, didn't turn off.  I could turn on and off any other part of our yard but not the very front.  It continued on for a good 45 minutes before I was finally able to jiggle around the right wire. ...

Lily's doing it all lately..... So, Lily has begun to experiment with everything now.  In just the last couple days she has started to Crawl Pull up and stand Walk (okay okay, only if you hold her hands) Claps (she's been doing this for a few weeks now though, still cute.  Whenever she sees someone clap she starts to do so as well.) Here are some videos:  The first one is Lily playing in the crib...it's super cute to us but could be considered long and boring to someone who doesn't like just staring at a smiley baby.  Pardon the mess...sadly I make one every Sunday morning in her room trying to get her outfit and extra clothes ready for church. This second one is a demonstration of her crawling prowess.  She can 'real crawl' but prefers to army crawl it most of the time.  Also, she is trying to climb the stairs :) I'm trying to teach Jackson the days of the week by explaining what we are doing each day.  The first week I did this on W...

  Last night Jacks and Lily were wrestling. It was so funny to watch.  Lily would crawl over to Jackson and try to get his face, he would give her a hug and then fall backwards holding her (they were on his bed - thankfully) and then roll over a little bit.  She would fight to get away from him with a little help from me, and then go back for more.  Jackson kept saying, "Lily fun!" and they were both laughing.   Today I took the kids on a walk to deliver some invitations for our ward day of service on Saturday. When we got back to our house Lily started crying and when I looked down I saw Jackson biting one of her fingers. AH! The poor thing, there is a little bruise on her tiny nail. Jacks went to time out and I held my crying baby.  When Jackson was done in time out he went up to Lily to say sorry. As soon as she saw him her eyes lit up and she had a huge grin on her face. Goal: F orgive like Lily.    My mom is heading up potty training effor...

Well here's the update for easter that I never provided (chris).  I have run out of room for the blog for media content so I'm attempting to put the videos on youtube and then embedding them on to the blog. Once you click play you should be able to change the quality and the size of the video if you choose to.  The first video is of Jacks looking for Easter eggs in our back yard.  The 2nd video is with the whole Hancock family together (minus Richard and MaryAnn).  About half way through the 2nd video Jacks does something pretty funny so make sure you watch it. I then have a number of photos from the events down below the vids.  Any actual stories come on the post below this one from Addie.  Enjoy p.s. The videos seem to do a "wavy" shake because youtube attempted to fix the shakes in them.  just fyi