Sewing gets me uber frustrated...

...but in the end, it usually works out. This is the carrier cover I made for Chase. I'm pretty happy with it, I just wish it hadn't taken me so long. Hopefully the next one will go faster!

Jon's been busy

Jon has had a lot going on at work these days. He was invited to be on the SWAT team (a couple of months ago) and has monthly trainings for that and recently has had 2 or 3 calls outs a month. It is really good training and I'm glad he is learning more tactics. He has really enjoyed it.

He was also invited to be on the Honor Guard, which is an elite group that does more military style presentations for community events. The event pictured below was the funeral for Captain Bolda. Some of the police wives made ribbons for the wives to wear to the funeral, it was a very sweet gesture. It was also nice to meet many of the officers I have heard so much about.

Jon is third from the right.

(For some reason these pictures got out of order, sorry)

On top of all that, the past three weeks, Jon has been interning with the Public Information Officer. That's basically the officer that works with the media in releasing information about different cases. Jon has done quite a few interviews, on tv and radio, and has done an awesome job. Jon obviously isn't that guy who loves to have his face on tv but is very eloquent with words and has enjoyed seeing how the administration works in the department. Here is a link to a tv interview he did and here is a link to a write up he did for the internet. Pretty awesome, huh!

Good job, honey:).

A play date with Auntie Em & Sawyer

On Monday, I went to Emilie's house for the day. It was so fun to get out and have face to face adult conversation. I love their home and felt so comfortable, Emilie and Jake are so great. Sawyer is a very active little boy and loved trying to figure out what Chase was.

That night I noticed my eye getting really red, bummer. Tuesday I ended up at the doctor getting it figured it out. Some bacterial infection, ugh. I want a week with no sickness!

Our little man

I haven't taken any pictures with Chase in a while so these were an attempt to take them on my own. I had just bundled him to take Aspen out and be outside for a little bit.

I think Chase looks so much different when he is sitting up on his own in his Bumbo. He can now sit in it for five minutes or so while holding a toy (even if he drops it a few times) without getting frustrated and crying. And on Saturday, Chase giggled for the first time, it was SO CUTE! Jon was talking to him and he giggled, we laughed so hard, it was so fun. He did it again while we were singing to him. Another of his tricks is turning over from his tummy to his back. He doesn't love being on his tummy so he flips over almost every time we put him on his tummy now.

Getting over his first cold

Chase survived his first cold this past weekend. On Friday, he started to get really stuffy and by Saturday night he had a 100.6 fever. I was on the phone with the pediatric nurse and I did everything they told me to. It was nerve wracking for him to get a fever and to be so congested. He was super fussy and just not himself. It made me so sad to see him so uncomfortable. I took him to the doctor on Monday and although he had all the signs of an ear infection, he was free from infection. The doctor told me what to do if things got worse and gave me some drops for his nose, which he hated, poor thing. Finally today he was back to his smiling cooing self with just a little stuffiness in his nose. It was a long five days and I'm excited to get out of the house tomorrow.

Notice in the first two pictures he is holding on to a little giraffe? The giraffe's name is Jeremy and I think he is Chase's favorite toy. Jeremy squeaks and is easy to hold on to and suck on, which Chase loves. Just the fact that he is opening his little fingers to then grasp on to something is a big deal. Babies have so much to learn and it is so fun observing all of Chase's new tricks, this being one of them. I am in awe of this little boy. Tonight he really laughed and it was so cute! We love him so much, it's hard to even describe.

Chase and Addie

This is Addie Jensen, she was born one day before Chase. I was one of four Police wives that was pregnant and due at the same time and all four husbands (Provo Police Officers) are good friends and at the time were on the same shift. What are the odds, huh? In fact, while we were in the hospital, hours after I had delivered, we got a vm from Devon, Addie's dad saying we could come visit them and meet Addie. Jon's response was, sorry, we just had our baby.

This picture is evidence that when Chase is tired, he's going to sleep, no matter where he is. We hope they will be the best of friends.

Kansas City, January 4-11

Sometime in December, I picked up my phone and saw that I had 6 missed calls from my mom. I quickly called her back worried that something was wrong. She informed me that she bought me a plane ticket for Chase and I to go to Kansas City to visit Heidi! What awesome news!!

Chase and I courageously headed to Salt Lake airport very early on Wednesday, January 4th to catch our flight. I was a little apprehensive about traveling alone with Chase but I think I (and everyone else I told) prayed us there. It was a really long day, not arriving in KS until after 7:pm but Chase was an ANGEL. I also sat next to some very nice people and the Stewardesses were also very kind.

Heidi, Lincoln, Paige and Kloe were at the airport to meet Chase for the very first time, it was so fun to see family love on Chase. I'm pretty sure Paige fell in love with him from the beginning because she held him just as much as she could and was my little helper while I was there. I actually didn't take any pictures, I brought our video camera to document it, so these pictures are from my mom (Thanks mom!).

My mom and Austin flew in later that night and Hilary flew in on Sunday evening. It was a great reunion. While we were there we did lots of fun things, it was so nice to have so many hands to help, it made getting out of the house so much easier. I really didn't care what we did though, it was just nice to all be together. It was awesome to see Heidi and Matt's new home, it is gorgeous and so uniquely decorated, sorry I don't have any pictures to show of that. Enjoy a few shots from the fun times...

I miss ya'll! Thanks for all the fun!