Merry Christmas!

It's Christmas time! Luke had to work Christmas Eve so we stayed in Wyoming. When he got home we had our traditional (on my side of the family) Chinese dinner. I don't know why it got started but its delicious with little clean up. Jaxon only got squash but was still a happy guy.

I tried to take some nice pictures of Jax in his Christmas pjs but he kept trying to come and eat the camera. He was very excited about it!

The stockings were hung on the bookcase with care. I love that we have four now (Baxter gets one too)! After we put little man to bed Luke and I finished our puzzle. Another Christmas tradition. This year it was Yellowstone that I won in the family Christmas exchange :)

Christmas morning! One family picture by the tree before the festivities started. Jax enjoyed eating the peel of his orange more than anything.

Jax wasn't really sure what to make of all this present opening. He kept trying to open everything with his teeth and to eat the wrapping paper.





Baxter had his chew toy ripped apart in ten minutes. Maybe that is how Jax learned to open things with his teeth!

After we put Jax down for his nap we had some Christmas crepes and strawberries. Yum! 

Jax disappeared for a minute and we caught him sneaking out the doggy door. Smart little guy is figuring everything out. Good thing Luke built us that deck railing.

After lots of phone calls and video chats with family we had a nice finish to the day by building a gingerbread house (another tradition). We had one crash and burn before we got the finished product. Luke was the architect and I was the designer except for the snow on the roof. We had a very merry Christmas.

 



Jax and his Cuteness

These are just some videos of Jax and his cuteness that I love! Here he is playing with my parents dog Izzy. He thought she was a great big pillow and she was a very patient doggy.

My little boy is too big! Walking at nine months. He is cruising around.

Playing with Daddy. We love when he comes home from work!

Christmas Fun

I love Christmas time! We get to spend time with family and celebrate the birth of Christ. I got to have a ladies night and went to see the Nutcracker. Its one of my favorite traditions.

 I am loving hanging out with these two guys. We have been having a great time putting up decorations, making treats and dancing around the living room to Christmas music. We got all dressed up the other day to go see Santa only to find out there was no Santa! Instead we have been taking lots of pictures in front of the Christmas tree.

 This little guy is just too dang cute. His smile just makes me melt!

Christmas Party Part 2

Jax got to spend a week with my parents. When I went to pick him up from my parents house I got to go to another family Christmas party! We are all about the white elephant parties. That owl had been sitting in our storage room for as long as I could remember. Its creepy eyes would follow you everywhere. Now it is sitting in Uncle Peter's office. Jax had a fun time fighting over toys with his cousins.

 Spencer ended up with the best awful present. Brett ended up getting all the presents he opened stolen. He felt pretty picked on.

 Jax has his Grandpa and Grandpa wrapped around his little finger. They
 call every day since we left telling me how much they miss him. He is such an easy little guy to love!

Hola Mexico

At the beginning of December we had the opportunity to go to Mexico. It was supposed to be a big vacation with all the siblings and nieces and nephews but everybody cancelled so we got some one on one time with Luke's parents. We stayed near Tulum. It was hot compared to the weather we left behind in Wyoming (in the negatives!!). We had a lot of fun in the sun.

Here are the ruins of Tulum. It was a hot, sweaty day. The wind was blowing pretty good and the tide was up so the beach was not great but it was still beautiful. 

 It was Christmas time but didn't look or feel like Christmas so I kept making Luke take pictures in front of Christmas trees.

This place was called Xcaret. There was lots of culture and lots of animals. Luke kept pushing me closer to the parrots. One whipped me in the back of the head with its tail feathers. I tried to stand close to the mariachi band to get a picture and they came right around me for the picture.

 This place was called Xplore. It was my favorite. There were zip lines, swimming in underground rivers and I saw a jaguar!

 It was warm and sunny in Mexico but I think that my skin is immune to tanning! I look as pasty leaving as I did coming :) I made Luke wear lots of sun screen too so he won't get skin cancer.

Jax got to visit with Grandma and Grandpa while we were gone. They were so excited to have him stay. It was way too hard on Momma and will not happen again any time soon. Grandma and Grandpa loved it so much they didn't want to give him back to us!

Happy Thanksmas

This year for Thanksgiving we went to my side of the family for the first time since we got married. Normally we go to Luke's family for Thanksgiving and my family for Christmas. My cousin Drew came from Texas with his new baby that everybody wanted to meet so the whole extended family was pretty much there. It was tons of fun! Luke had the whole week off so we went to Rexburg early to have a mini vacation. We got to have a date night and went out to dinner and went and saw Catching Fire (way better than the Hunger Games!).

Then the family came. We had lots of fun playing games and talking and playing with babies. We also did lots and lots of eating! Yum Yum. The Turkey Bowl family football game helped burn some calories.

I have so much to be thankful for this year!

1. I am thankful for our sweet little Jaxon. He has such a happy spirit. He is an amazing blessing in our lives.

2. Luke. He is an awesome, loving, thoughtful husband. He is an amazing dad to Jax. I LOVE him so much!

3. Family. I have such a great loving family. They always support us and it means so much to me that they love Jax as much as we do!

Since we were already all together we decided to do the Christmas party the same weekend. Jax wasn't really sure what to do with the presents. Mostly he was uninterested while they were wrapped. He was getting lots of love from everybody. Here he is getting snuggles with Aunt Char.

 Kennedy ended up with the Duck Dynasty blanket. She opened it up so only one eye was showing and it scared all of us. Claire was loving the socks her mommy got and Drew was modeling the panda hat/mittens.

 This is my favorite picture. Claire is so petite and Jax is such a tall boy. Cousins are fun!