Cutest ever!

Jocelyn learned how to clap, it's the cutest thing ever!!

Trying to move and playing in the mirror

She loves when we do selfies, loves seeing her reflection! 

Likes her new-old toy already, loves to eat the hammer

Jocelyn 6 Months

At her 6 month appointment Jocelyn was in the 90th percentile for height, 10th percentile for weight, and 50th percentile for head circumference.  So right on track for her! 27 1/4 inches long and 14 lbs 1 oz.

Here's some recent videos of her.

At Halloween, playing with cousin Aria

Trying to roll over, she's done it before but when she tries to do it on purpose she can't quite figure it out!

Halloween Decorations

Got this at Target in Idaho Falls

The pumpkin fairy dropped these off at our house!

Trevor let me get cats! Jk, but it was a lot of fun to make them!

Trevor made the little cowboy guy in his welding class.

Videos of Jocelyn

This lasted for more than an hour! She loves to kick!

This is her new favorite sound, with plenty of spit too of course!

4 month checkup!

She's been making this face a lot lately, love it!

Jocelyn's checkup went well, there was some concern about her low weight gain, but we talked it over and the doctor thinks she's okay because she's sleeping well, happy when she's awake, and she is growing taller and her brain is growing. So she's our happy, tall and skinny baby!

Weight: 11 lbs. 11 oz. (10 lbs. 4 oz. at 2 mos) - 10th perc. (20th at 2 mos)
Height: 26 1/4 inches (24 3/4 in. at 2 mos) - 95th perc. (90th at 2 mos)
Head circumference: 50th perc. (50th at 2 mos too)

We love her to pieces and are so glad she's happy and healthy!

Year in Review - May 2014-May 2015

Our third year of marriage was a great one! Wish I had more pictures, because this post might be a little boring without them, but oh well.

School:

My senior year of college began with summer semester, which was probably my favorite semester because it was so fun to be on campus when it was quiet and laid back. I spent lots of time at the library, eating lunch, watching project runway online, and doing homework.

My last semester was crazy busy. I had tons of readings and papers for each class. I took five classes: History of Africa, Russian politics, Latin American anthropology, Latin American politics, and a senior research class that focused on the Arab Spring. It was fun to study different areas of the world and as always I was surprised at how much the topics overlapped. I graduated in December with a Bachelor of Science in political science, with a minor in history. It is so exciting to be done! I wanted to walk in the ceremony in May, but it was less than two weeks after Jocelyn was born and didn't work out. 

Trevor had a good school year too. He did more secondary ed classes, did some clinical hours at a middle school, and had a pretty busy spring semester, plus had a new baby a week before finals! Luckily he worked with his teachers and was able to do some finals early, before baby was born. He only has one more school year now before he graduates!

We met one of my mission companions at Crown Burger when she was visiting from Canada! I think it was November or early December. 

Holidays:

To celebrate most holidays and birthdays this last year we ate out at Panda Express. This was true of Trevor's birthday, my birthday, Valentines Day, baby's arrival celebration, and our anniversary. We love Panda!!! For Halloween we went to a USU basketball game. Thanksgiving we spent at the Brown's. And Christmas we went to Idaho Falls. New year's eve we were at the Brown's also.

Our anniversary this year was great! We spent it moving to our new apartment that we love. It's so great to have more space for our own stuff and for all of Jocelyn's stuff. As we were unpacking some boxes that afternoon I said to Trevor, there's a box in our room with "SURPRISE" written on it! He acted like he didn't know what it was of course, and let me open it later. It was an anniversary surprise for me! Panda Express gift card, Legend of Korra season 4, and treats for the evening. Baby even cooperated and slept long enough for us to hang out and enjoy it all. It was so much fun and a good surprise. I really hadn't been thinking about celebrating our anniversary, so I'm glad Trevor did think about it!

In February we went to Salt Lake for a weekend when Trevor had a school conference he had to go to. I spent the day shopping and got to go to Europa Market, which had Eastern European imports, including a lot of brands that were in croatia. It was so fun to see that familiar did and get some favorites! 

Baby:

At the beginning of August we found out we were expecting a baby! I was so shocked because before I took the pregnancy test I was certain I was NOT pregnant, which just shows that it always happens when you least expect it. I had a great pregnancy, no morning sickness, only had heartburn like two or three times, no swelling up, I was tired but it was manageable, and I didn't get a ginormous belly until the very end. I actually was a little sad about that, I'd see ladies who weren't as far along as me and were bigger and I was a little jealous, which was weird!  I wasn't expecting that. After I finished school I kept working part time until a few weeks before or due date and had time to just get everything ready for baby to come. 

Jocelyn was born right on her due date too! It was a crazy day. I woke up around midnight Monday night/Tuesday morning and didn't sleep until after midnight Tuesday night/Wednesday morning. Even after she was born I couldn't believe that we had a baby!

 The belly - April 21st

Our sweetie pie! She was so small and sweet (and still is :D)

That's the short version of our year, which is all I'll do since I keep putting it off anyway! It was a fantastic year!

This is by our new apartment- it says "Beware of dog" and then says "no pas" - pas in croatian means dog, so it says beware of dog and then no dog. Hahaha!

Growth spurt

Last week Jocelyn could wear all her newborn size pajamas, and this week they are all way too small! She is growing so fast!

Baby Jocelyn

When she gets her arms free she likes to feel the back of her head/ play with her hair, it's the cutest thing and helps her calm herself down! 

 One of her many facial expressions, can be tricky to catch them on camera!

 Ready for a walk!  We have been trying to go on walks every day but it has been raining a lot :(

 Proud daddy, holding baby for the first time at the hospital! Trevor loves her so much!

One month to go!

Here's the baby bump as of March 21st, exactly one month to baby's due date!

As a bonus, I got free tickets to the cache Valley ballets's performance of Hansel and Gretel from work so we got to go to the theater! Our seats were on the third row! 

Here's an older bump picture, 34 weeks I think.

30 weeks

This is the first bump picture we've taken, wish we had done some before so we could see how fast it grew. Just a month and a half ago there was hardly anything there! Only ten more weeks to go!

Christmas break

Trevor got his wisdom teeth out a week before Christmas and was pretty miserable. But he had fun playing with the kids! 

 I made these stockings! Trevor made the table as a Christmas present to me, the manger to go with our new nativity set, and the entertainment center as a family gift and final project for his woods class. He also made me a frame for my diploma but I don't have a picture of it.

I made this blanket for our friends that just had their first baby!

Our Gingerbread houses! We also enjoyed looking at Christmas lights, playing games, shopping (for me, Trevor didn't have to come with since there were others willing to), and eating all the delicious food!