Christmas in NC

One evening while we were in North Carolina we went to go look at lights. Steph and Chad took us to this place where they have a restaurant and then they decorate their woods with lights. It is also a Christmas tree farm. You have to wait in line for a while, but it was worth it. We rode on a hayride to watch the lights. While on the hayride they played Christmas music. It was really a lot of fun. It was chilly that night, so it made it really feel like Christmas.

Jayce and his Aunt Steph

Dads and their boys after chicken fighting

Jayce TOTALLY enjoying the lights

Sweet Cousins with matching light up Frosty shirts on :)

North Carolina Trip!

Last week Layne, Jayce and I all went to North Carolina to visit Layne's sister and her family. Layne's sister was graduating from college and we got to celebrate Christmas with her family. I really enjoy visiting them and can't wait until they move closer to us!!!

So to go to North Carolina we had to fly on a plane! So Jayce got to ride on a plane for the first time. The sad part was that I was not there to see it. I had to fly out a day later than them and come back two days earlier since I had to work. So my wonderful husband captured some pictures to show me how he did. Layne said that Jayce did great on the plane!!!

Nana, Daddy and Jayce getting ready to take off!

Reading the safety procedures

Checking everything outYippee!!! Snacks!

Ready to Go

Like I said, while we were there Layne's sister graduated from East Carolina University. We are so proud of her to make it through college!!! She's such a great mom and such a hard worker that she was determined to complete college. Her last semester was even her best one!! GO STEPH! Here are some photo's of the recent graduate.

Steph and all her boys!

Happy Birthday Hubby!!

My amazing husband is 27 today. I am such a lucky woman to be married to a such a wonderful man. We have been together for almost 9 years and they have been wonderful!! Layne is truly my soul mate. He knows me like no one else. He takes such good care of our family and is an amazing man of God. He is such a hard worker for our family. He is the best Dad to our sweet baby boy. He is such a blessing to me. He works from home AND takes care of our 10 month old son. I just don't know how he does it. He finds the time to get everything he needs to get done and manage to raise our child. He is doing such a great job also!!

So tonight we went out to dinner with our families. Layne's parents as well as my parents and brother along with his girlfriend all went to Brio for some great food. We are so blessed to have such great parents who live so close to us. We are also blessed that our parents enjoy being with each other's families. I wouldn't know what to do without our families so close to us!! I didn't get to snap any pictures tonight, but everyone knows what we look like. So on that note----HAPPY BIRTHDAY HONEY!!! I love you a bunch and am so glad that you chose me. You are truly a blessing to me. You are amazing and I couldn't have a better life with you. Thanks for all you do for our family.

Woohoo--Snow in Texas!!

So everyone knows that Texas has some weird weather and we SURE do!!! Tuesday it was like 70 degrees or so and Wednesday it went down to the 30's. So strange!! And then to top it off it SNOWED!!!! We haven't seen snow in so long it was strange to see it. So Jayce loved the snow!! We put him in the grass and he got so upset when we decided to take him inside. Silly boy. Here's some pictures of our wonderful snow day!

Front of the house

Yippee!!! It's SNOW!!!

Our backyard

Snowflake in Jayce's face.

Ohh...Snow!

What the heck is this stuff??

Our family in the snow

Christmas Tree Farm

Today we went to the Christmas Tree Farm to go and cut down our Christmas tree for this year. The trees were terrible this year. I guess due to the hurricane a lot of the trees were damaged and very sparse on one side of them. So we had slim pickings this year. I was excited to take Jayce to do our family tradition of cutting down our tree. Layne and I started this tradition our first year of marriage and will continue until we get too old to cut down a tree. Jayce had not had a very good nap today, so he wasn't in that good of a mood. He slept most of time during the Christmas tree hunt, but Layne and I will remember it. Layne had a cute idea of putting Jayce next to one of the small trees and taking a picture. Jayce looked so cute, he would not touch the tree though. He did not like it all when I put his hand on the tree. Here are some pictures of our day and the finished product.

Our Growing Family

Tired of looking for a tree

On the Turkey

Thinking about cutting down his own tree

Jayce with the Charlie Brown tree

Layne cutting down our tree

centimeters from the ceiling

Before decorating the tree

The finished product!!!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!

A couple new videos

Jayce has started really walking with his little walker. He has had it for about a month and a half now, but just recently really started using it. He thinks he is so big and loves us to watch him walk. He will even sometimes wave "bye-bye" to us when he's walking away. When he first started walking with it, he would push it really far from him and then walk up to it. He's getting better now and so he stays with it much better. He pushes it all over until he hits something. He hasn't figured out how to move it out of the way.

He also has this toy that he loves to drive. He will sometimes get so into it! I think that it's hilarious, but I'm his mom also. I am a bit biased. He sure is turning into a real funny kid. He makes Layne and I laugh so much these days!

First Thanksgiving!

Thanksgiving was pretty cool this year. It was Jayce's first Thanksgiving and we spent it with my parents. We went over to my parents house and Jayce thought it was so much fun to discover their entire house. He found my mom's Tupperware cabinet and loved it!! He had the lids ALL over the kitchen! He enjoyed just being able to play in a new area. He played so hard that day that he splept longer than normal. He slept almost 12 hours! Jayce loved Thanksgiving dinner!! I gave him a sneak taste of the candied yams that my mom makes. HE LOVED THEM!!! He kept making this "ummm" sound. It was hilarious! He still doesn't have teeth yet, so it was hard for him to eat the turkey. Here are some pictures of our day.

9 months old...or so.

I feel like such a bad mom! Jayce was nine months old last week, but I haven't had the time or the energy to post about it. I have been SOOOO tired lately. I don't have a cute pic of my cute boy....but here's what we found out at the doctor. My wonderful hubby took our sweet baby boy to the doctor and while they were there we found out that he now weighs 19 pounds. He is 29 3/4inches long. Everything looks great! He is such a healthy little boy. We are truly blessed!! While they were there, Layne asked the doc about Jayce not feeding himself....he said that was fine. He will learn to in the next few months. He did ask us to try to get him to hold his bottle so that he's not 2 and still wanting us to hold his bottles. No thank you!! Jayce is such a happy, bubbily boy. He almost never has a sad look on his face. He still likes to scower at people until he knows that it is okay to smile at them. He is standing on his own. He thinks it is hilarious to stand up in the tub and fall down so that the water splashes all over him. Mommy and Daddy tell him he shouldn't do it, but he doesn't like to listen to us. He is an early riser. 6:30 is normally our wake up call in the Laughter household these days. He is still so cuddly and I LOVE it!!! He loves to crawl over and give Mommy and Daddy kisses. He also loves to watch Dazi eat dinner and sometimes try to help her eat dinner. Gosh I love that little boy. Hopefully during Thanksgiving break I can get some cute photos of our little love.

Snapfish books

This lady I work with was watching Oprah..or she heard about this on Oprah and told us about it at work. Oprah and Snapfish are offering this thing where you can sign up on Snapfish and get a free picture "scrap" book. I signed up Layne and myself, so we are getting two. They are a $30 value and all you have to do is pay shipping. What great gifts!!! So go to this site and sign up. The only kicker is that you have to sign up by tonight!!!!! After you sign up you have until Sunday to get all your pictures set up and completed. Check it out!! I have several friends at work who have already done it and they only paid shipping!! What a deal.


This is a deal from Snapfish where you can get one of their cool books that displays your kids artwork or pictures of your children in a hard-bound book- all for only the cost of shipping. It is a $30 value and it is real. I did mine last night! They would make great gifts if you have the time. You have to sign up for the offer by the end of today, but you have until Sunday night to put in the pictures. Share with anyone!
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Heart beat time!!

So today I finally was able to go to the doctor. It was so wonderful!!! When the doctor walked in the first thing he said was, "you guys sure don't waste any time do you?" HAHA--Dr. Strong--you are so funny. Anyways today was pretty cool. We got to hear the baby's heartbeat--and for all of you that said we were having twins....YOU WERE WRONG!!! There's only one baby in there. :0) So as of right now my doctor set my due date to June 23. He pushed it back one week because the baby is measuring a week smaller than what I thought. So he wanted to be safe. I guess it probably is good that we didn't go last week. We might not have been able to hear our sweet baby's heart beating. What an amazing thing. We couldn't really see the baby very well, but I saw a little blob. So there you have it!! It's official. The baby's heartbeat was very strong, so the doctor said that there is very little chance of a miscarriage. That is music to my ears! So--we will go back in one month. Yippee!! We get to start this whole process over again! :)

Dr Appointment

So today was my first doctor appointment.....or so it was supposed to be. Layne picked me up from school today and I called the doctor's office to tell them that we were running a little late. Well it sure was a good thing that I called. This is how the conversation went:

Me: "Hi, this is Kristyn Laughter and I have an appointment at 11:30, but we are running a little late.:
Receptionist: "Oh okay...(looking at the calendar)....What did you say your name was? What time was your appointment?'
Me: "Kristyn Laughter and 11:30."
Receptionist: "Um, you are not on our schedule."
Me: "WHAT?!?! I called two weeks ago and scheduled this appointment. How can I NOT be on the schedule?"

SOOOO...there you have it. I was so upset. I was really looking forward to hearing the baby's heartbeat and making sure everything is great. NOW I have to wait until NEXT Wednesday. GRRRR!!! So----you get to wait with me :)

It's the little things

The weekend before Halloween, Layne, Jayce and I went over to Josh and Danielle Agnew's house to do some pumpkin carving. While we there our friend Elizabeth was there with her little boy Tyler. Tyler is about 2 months older than Jayce and they sure had a great time playing together. While they were there, Tyler found Danielle's plastic sack drawer and then it was all over for the boys. They wanted nothing to do with anything but those plastic sacks!! It was so cute watching them grab them out of the drawer and try to get them from each other. I have a few pics and some video of the fun times.