Hope You Had A Merry Christmas too!

Some pictures of our family enjoying the season. Reese and I at Temple Square with kids in-tow, Mason playing with his new trains and train table, and Jaylee taking it easy like she usually does. We hope you had a great Christmas too! Time to set goals for the New Year!
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Best of Friends

Mason and Jaylee appear to be best friends.  Here are some of my favorite pictures of them together...and a couple more cute ones.

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Mason was found sitting at the counter with scissors and a bag of chocolate chips he had started cutting open.  I was pretty upset but you have to applaud his taking advantage of me being occupied.  Also, he found the chocolate chips in the cupboard, got his stool so that he could get at the scissors and just started cutting away at the package.

Jaylee is known as "Air Jaylee" when she wears this Michael Jordan beenie around the house.

Mason's Friends

Mason is always excited to see his best friends Otis and Ruby at Papa and Nana's house. He talks about them ALL THE TIME!

Sorry the video is shaky, he was moving around a lot.
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Jaylee's Stats

I forgot to post Jaylee's 3 week measurements in the last post so here they are. Remember she was 7 lbs 20 in at birth. At her 3-week visit she was 9 lbs 2 oz and 22 in. She's getting a good sized belly and some chubby cheeks that's for sure. She seems to respond when we call her "Chunker".
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There are curls

Reese had bright blonde almost white curly hair when he was little. It turns out Mason so far has inherited the light blonde hair maybe Jaylee has been blessed with the curls. This is right after her bath before I put her hat on. You can see the little curls right on top of her head. She has them all over her noggin but the ones in back get flattened pretty quickly since she is on her back 98% of the day.

I'll get more pictures of both the kids on here soon. Mason loves to play with Jaylee.
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Mason Loves His New Sister

Mason loves his new little sister Jaylee.  He makes sure she always has a binky close.  He also shares his toys by putting them next to or even on her face.  He will even put his blankets on her once in a while.  Keep in mind that NO ONE is allowed to touch his blankets so that's a big showing of love on his part.

Flashback to Summer

Here are Mason and his friend Jake going down the slide as a train.
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Home and Happy

Jaylee and mom are home and very very happy to be there. We both finally get to see family since we weren't able to have more than 2 total visitors in the hospital. Mason LOVES his new sister and held her for quite a while. We have pictures and will post them later.
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Our Little Girl

Here is our new little bundle, Jaylee Hulbert. She is so cute and some of her facial expressions we think she already learned from her big brother.
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Mason and Kate riding bikes during those hot summer days

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Random Photos I Found on My Phone

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Looking for Toes

Last night after family home evening, Mason started looking for everyone's "BIIIG" toes. He started with Daddy. He says,"Daddy toes, BIG!" and then grabs both of Reese's big toes. He then did the same to me but said, "Mommy's toes,BIG!" He then grabbed his own toes while emphasizing how big they were. Then he stood up, looked around and said, "Sis' toes?" Reese and I realized he was looking for Baby Sis' big toes so we said that we couldn't see her toes just yet. Then he looked slightly sad and said, "Oooooh."

It's nice that he knows she is a part of our family even though she's not here just yet. My due date is still the 21st of November (18 days) but my doctor also says that she could be here any day. We will keep everyone posted.

October Has Been Good So Far...

So far our fall has been fun and since I have been sick for the past week with head-cold stuff, I am just going to give you the pictures and not a lot of words...since everyone only wants pictures anyway. ;)

Here's Mason playing with friends in leaves. He loves it and I love it because leaves are easier and warmer to deal with than snow.His friend Kate helping Mason get buried.
He was so happy to be outside after being stuck indoors with a sick mom for so long.
Mr. Serious didn't know I was taking this picture.
All the kids together.
We also carved pumpkins for our Monday night Family Home Evening. I didn't get a great picture of Reese and Mason together so here is my favorite of Reese. Look how excited he is about his Spongebob carving. (You can't really see but it is really awesome in person. He even used a drill to make some of the sponge holes.)
Mason and Reese are both "scared" of the pumpkin. Mason was terrified last year of the jack-o-lanterns so they are mimicking his photo from last year.
Here's last year's photo...
Here's Spongebob...He really looks extremely awesome in person.
Here's my train. Mason loves both carvings. Since we didn't really let him carve with the knives we were using, we devoted our pumpkins to things he really likes right now...Spongebob and of course trains.
Mason showing off his mouth.
Reese had to work in Salt Lake one day so he took Mason with him.
Yes, I was in Heaven...
Yes, I did go shopping
Yes, I slept in. It was amazing.

So here are Mason and Grandma Hulbert reading before bedtime. She took him to Hogle Zoo the next day, which was great because he had never been. I guess when they pulled into the parking lot Mason started saying, "Train...Choo, choo!" There is a train at Hogle Zoo and they rode it but it was funny that he knew there was a train when he had NEVER been there before and he couldn't see it from the parking lot. Maybe he has a sixth sense for where trains are located.
Here are my boys.
If I had an office and in that office I had a desk, I would put this picture in a frame and stare at my two loves all day long. They are my world.
Mason was an Angel while I was sick. He just let me chill and was very patient with my lack of patience. Reese also came home early from work a few days so that I could have a parental sick break.
As for the baby, no we don't have a name so don't ask. Whenever we talk about it we end the conversation how it started...without a name. Everything is looking great and we are both healthy. Less than 4 weeks left now.

Apples...or Cupcakes

Mason is such an apple lover. He wanted so badly to sit up at the table and eat an apple. So, me being proud of my healthy little eater, put him on a chair at the table and gave him his little "treat."

Oh how I underestimate the good intentions of my 2-year-old boy. I heard some giggling and looked over at him and this is what I see. Next time I need to remember to NOT have the apples next to the cupcakes! He is still trying to show how angelic he is by holding his apple in one hand and have the other hand covered in frosting.
You can see the entire top off of one of the cupcakes...there were 2 other cupcake top casualties.

Another much needed update

Here is another update that is a bit overdue. Nothing like starting a post with a picture of you and your boy showing off your personal hygiene skills. Mason is a pro at brushing his teeth as long as he doesn't have to stand in the bathroom to do it. He probably gets this from me. I am always walking around multitasking while I brush my teeth.

Mason and Reese made some cookie/brownies for one of Mason's friends. Here he is celebrating his brownie whisk and his cookie whisk. He always has a lick of the spoon too.
Here is our weekly pick from our tomato plants. A couple beefsteak tomatoes and a couple handfuls of grape tomatoes.

Here we are happy about our tomatoes.

Our awesome neighbor dropped off these beauties! A GIANT bowl of grapes and two LARGER THAN LIFE zucchinis. This picture doesn't do them justice. I should have had something else in the picture so that you could see the scale of these babies. They were delicious too! Thanks Sarah and Waylin!

Here is a belly picture...

I am 32/40 weeks in this picture. Only 8 weeks to go! I look at this picture and I feel a WHOLE LOT BIGGER than I look in this picture. I believe this picture was also taken before noon, which is when I show a lot less. I look like I have a watermelon under my shirt after about 4:00 pm each day. Everything is measuring right for her to make a big appearance on the 21st of November.

Here are some cupcakes that Mason and I made. First, we made ghosts with chocolate chip eyes. Have you ever seen a happier boy than one that is about to eat a freshly made cupcake?

He is in Heaven.

Here is his "Blue Steel" look. He kept pushing into my head to either be close to me or to just get me out of the picture.

Top of Utah Half Marathon

Last Saturday was the Top of Utah Half Marathon. Most of my family came up to run in the race. Here they are at 5:45 in the morning all energized to run 13.1 miles. I'm so proud to call them my family. Reese, Lynette, Brett, Mom, Sara

My dad, Mason, and I waiting for our crew to pass the finish line. Mason kept saying "Go, go!" I'm sure the runners appreciated it :)

Yet another toy in front of Mason's eyes.

Here come the runners...
Here's Reese still feeling good after running about 1:45. Not bad for just deciding that morning that he wanted to run. He did it for both of us because there is no way I'm going to run that far...I'm more of a sprinter at heart.

Here's my brother Brett.

He looked the least excited that he had just ran 13.1 miles.
Brett's wife Lynette was so fast coming into the finish line that I was only able to take a picture of her flying past us.

How fun to run together!

Here's my sister Sara. She is currently training for a marathon in San Fransisco in October. She was excited to run only 13.1 miles that day because she was actually supposed to run 16 miles for a workout.

Here is my amazing mom cheering down the home stretch.