Busy Board

I saw this project on Pinterest called a busy board and I loved it. It is the perfect thing for an active little guy. Jax was loving helping Luke with the construction.

 My handsome handy man. He is always a good sport helping me create all these projects I find to do.

 The finished project. The one I saw was much cuter but I think ours turned out OK. 

 It doesn't keep his attention long (nothing does) but he has a good time playing with it. 

National EMS Week

Our local EMS station had an open house for the community to come and see what they are all about. They had the life flight helicopter, a firetruck, and ambulance for us to tour. Jax had his first hot dog, which he thought was delicious. He loved seeing the helicopter taking off. It was his favorite part. 

Playing on the firetruck. He was not sure how he felt about being left on the step but he thought it was interesting once both feet were on the ground. 

 He like the ambulance much better. I had just told him not to push the button and you can see his sneaky smile as he reaches out to push it anyways. Little stinker!

May So Far

It wouldn't be spring with out a snowstorm. The day after Mother's Day this is what we woke up to. I am wearing my new shoes that Jax got me. Jax is wiping my nose with a tissue. 

 Luke brought home a doughnut from work. Jax saw it and wanted it. I gave him a few bites then set it in a bowl on the table so hopefully he would forget about it. A little later I noticed that Jax was being unusually quiet, which usually means he is up to no good. I find him up on a chair with the doughnut in hand. He saw me coming and started shoving as much of it into his mouth as he could before I could take it away. Silly boy. 

 Luke loves his sambas. He wanted Jax to have some daddy son matching shoes and I thought these would be perfect. I got them for Jax's birthday and now they finally fit. My boys are so cute!

Idaho

After St. George Jax and I went to my parent's house for a week to spend some time with the grandparents and to go to the play Wicked. Jax loves all the animals. They have two cats and a big old golden retriever. Jax liked to use Izzy as a big pillow. 

My mom loves gardening. Every spring she plants tons of flowers. It always looks beautiful but is so much work I have taken a more minimalistic approach to my yard. Jax was enjoying helping Grandma plant. When she was watering Jax would pluck petals and give them drinks in the hose. 

We also helped my dad celebrate his birthday by everyone but him going to Wicked and him staying home to golf and play with Jax.

 While we were all singing "Happy Birthday" and trying to get Jax to help blow out the candles Izzy decided to get in a lick of birthday cake.

 We drove up to Boise to see the play which is about the Wicked Witch of the West. Lindsey and I painted our fingernails green in honor of the occasion. Brett didn't want his nails painted so he just bought a green cookie.

 The crew. We had awesome seats front and center surrounded by a lot of people from my parents' ward.

 The next day Jax and I headed home. It is always a beautiful drive through the Tetons. We were almost stampeded by buffalo like that State Farm commercial and of course saw tons of deer and elk and also got to see three moose which was an added bonus. We were really excited to get home to see Luke!

St. George

Vacation time! My family had a family reunion down in St. George to play in the sun. Luke, Jax, and I went down to spend the whole week so we had a few days to play with Luke's Grandma. We went to the temple visitors center and walked around the temple.

Jax's favorite new food is a whole apple and he usually eats all of it. Funny boy.

We went and spent a day hiking in Zions Park. Lots of red rock and sun. Jax kept getting distracted. He could spend all day throwing rocks in the river.

He also enjoyed climbing the rock after he gave it a good taste.

More hiking when the family got there. Jax was napping so Uncle Brett got to babysit while waiting for a phone interview.

 Aunt Diana and Uncle Duane took us out on the boat to enjoy the water. Jax wasn't really sure about the life jacket.

First tube ride!

Grandma entertaining Jax while we played tennis.

Cutest little tennis player in the world.

Happy Easter

Happy Easter! Some friends decided to put on an Easter egg hunt since the city's is apparently pretty competitive and chaotic. We had it in a big backyard. They had sections for the big kids, the middle kids, and the little kids. The little kids were more excited to put rocks in their baskets instead of eggs. Jax wasn't too sure why all this should be exciting and was pretty much done when he discovered candy in an egg.

Our friend Adie taking the opportunity to sneak an egg out of Jax's basket.

 The egg hunting group. It was a fun morning with friends.

Easter morning we had bunny cakes made by Luke. Jax was loving them.

 It was a beautiful Easter day so we took our family picture outside before heading off to church.

 Jax won these mustaches in the egg hunt so we decided to model them. Jax was trying to figure out what was on his face.

 The Easter bunny came and brought some books, socks, and a bunny.

Lately

What we've been up to lately: We are building Jax a busy board. Here is Jax helping Daddy pound out a hole for the light switch. He loved the hammer.

 Jax's favorite thing to do is to pull the pots out of the cupboard and carry them around the house. Here he was pretty excited that he was carrying two at once.

 Decorating the dog. Baxter is super excited about it.

 Jax got himself stuck under a chair and he didn't think is was very cool that I was taking pictures instead of getting him unstuck.

 He also has been trying on our shoes and walking around in them. Daddy's boots were too heavy to walk in but he was pretty excited to try them on.