More Birthday Pics

Here are some pictures of our family birthday party for Jaiden.

Thanks Grandma Lyman for the fun Curious George decorations.
They were a lot of fun!

Well, since I am almost 8 months along now, I decided that it is probably time to get a few pictures taken of the pregnancy. I don't really like pictures taken of myself so I haven't had any taken of my big pregnant self until now. Thanks to Sara for taking these. She did great, even if I was a stubborn subject to photograph.

Happy Birthday Jaiden Boy!!

Jaiden's birthday was last Tuesday. Since Justin was still out of town, I decided to just have a little party for him and his friends (actually only one friend could make it) and then have another party when his dad got home. So him and his friend got to have an afternoon at the park. I wanted to do decorations and everything to but the wind was out of control that day so we just did presents and treats at one of the picnic tables. More pictures to come of the family birthday party that will be held tomorrow.

Jaiden and Tyrian playing in the sand.

Our little 3 year old.

The balloons that are attacking me in this picture were my very sad attempt at decorating.
I'll do better at tomorrow's party.

Thanks Grandma Lyman for the fun Curious George stuff.
He loved it!

Emily, the little party girl.

The past couple of weeks, Justin has had to be out of town for work. He was gone to Hawaii for two weeks and then headed up to Alaska for another week. While he was gone for the first week, I headed to California with my sister-in-law Sara to go stay with my in-laws for awhile. We had a lot of fun and it really helped to be someplace else to get my mind off of having my husband gone. Jaiden especially had fun hanging out with Grandpa & Grandma Lyman and the rest of the family who he hardly gets to see. Here are some pictures of us hanging out at Victoria Gardens, a shopping center in California. Jaiden had a lot of fun going on the train.

Helping Daddy

A couple of weeks ago, Justin had to work on a broken sprinkler head. Jaiden loves to go outside and help out Daddy whenever he can so he was ready to lend a helping hand on this project.

Here's their little project they were working on.

When Justin had finished fixing the pipe that he was working on, Jaiden looked
into the hole and said, "Dad, you fixed that all by yourself? Good job! I am so proud of you!" We got a good laugh out of his encouraging words.

More Home Improvements

I finally took a couple of pictures of our living room since we redid everything in it. I didn't take very many pictures of it before we started improving it but believe me, it is looking a lot better now.

Here is our old ugly carpet and heater with the funky rock behind it.
Justin had a crazy time taking that out. We also got rid of the outdated curtains
that you can barely see in the first picture. Hooray for new blinds.

Here is our finished living room. We painted the walls, put in tile by the front door,
put in new blinds, got a new couch

Took out the rock behind the heater, took out the heater, bought new carpet

Put in a ceiling fan, and took the popcorn off the ceiling.

We had two entries into the kitchen. We blocked off one with a new wall.
Justin will be putting a desk and cabinets in that area eventually.

Justin did a lot of hard work and we are so thankful that the
living room is almost finished.

Lyman Family Reunion

The Lyman Brothers and Sisters with Granpa & Grandma Lyman

The Grant Lyman Family

All of the Grandkids

Tyler, Ben, and Justin

Jaiden thought this tractor was pretty cool.

Amber, Shelly, Sara, and me.