JON & JENNY

Windstorm

2011-12-03T22:35:00.000-08:00

Jon left for work about 7:00 and then I called him about 7:30 because I was freaking out. I saw that our fence was down, but what scared me was the sound of the siding coming off of our house. It was so loud and you could hear the popping of the nails coming out. I went down to the sun room and the door had come open and you could see the aluminum siding flapping around.

Here is the siding flying around the neighborhood.

This was a tree that went down and soon after the fireman came and I wondered why, but I didn't notice the house further in the picture with the tree leaning on it.

Make note of the standing pine tree closest to me in the picture. This is taken from my front yard.

Then that's my house to the left. I went across the street to take this picture. Jaxson and I watched this tree go down. A car had to swerve to miss it.

Our fences down. Hello Neighbors!

This is our fence to the north.

South side of our house.

This is our South fence. It looks like a tornado went through here because of the 'path.'

Here is our other next door neighbor's tree down now.

This house is on the corner of our street. I had a neighbor come to check on us and we were talking to him when we heard the roof section coming off.

On the left side of the road you can see the three trees down. This is taken on the corner of our street looking south.

This was my cute pink bear weathering the cold house.

We went to my mom's house later that night, since we still didn't have heat. It came on sometime in the night I heard.

I took these pictures the next day of my mom's Blue Spruce that had fallen.

Right after I took these pictures people from the ward came and chopped up the tree and hauled the branches off. Jaxson had a great time watching. Here is with uncle Clark.

We were worried about how we were going to get rid of the tree stump and the next day two guys came from the ward and removed it. My mom was so relieved.

A Month of Fun and Growing!

2011-09-10T10:46:00.000-07:00

This month was a fun one for our family. My sister-in-law, Amy, came down from Washington. It was fun to be able to see her and TJ. When Amy's sisters saw Violet's blessing pictures they asked why we had put TJ in a dress, so we decided it would be fun to get a picture of the two of them together to see just how much they look like each other. We kept trying to get a good picture of Violet and TJ together, but they kept taking turns smiling. This is the best picture we were able to get of the two of the smiling at the same time.

Every year Jenny's brother, Jeff, invites us over to go swimming at his pool. This was only Violet's third time swimming, but she loves the water. She loved splashing around in her little crab-tube.

Jaxson has always loved swimming. Last year at Jeff's pool he tried to jump off the deep end without a life-jacket or any other floatation device on. It was quite an exciting moment in our lives. This year Jaxson didn't want to wear the tube, but we finally convinced him that he would need the tube. We had a great time swimming at Jeff's Pool!

Violet has started to crawl!! It was only a few weeks ago that she figured out how to roll over from her back to her front going both ways. She has been rolling over to her right for quite a while, but hasn't been rolling to her left. Well one day she rolled to her left, and then she took off. When she first started crawling she would move her hands and then do a little hop-like maneuver to move her legs.

With a little practice she has become and pro and is crawling everywhere.

It didn't take her long to figure out that she can pull herself up to things. Jenny and I are keeping our fingers crossed that she keeps it to crawling for a while. We aren't ready for a walking 7 month old.
Violet has also started clapping. She crawls around the house until she finds us and then she will sit down and clap, and then we, being the trained monkeys that we are, always clap back and say Yea . . . She is so proud of herself.

The other recent development at our house is that Jaxson has started Pre-school. This year he is going to joy school with some of his friends around the neighborhood. He went for the first time this last Tuesday!! He loved it. He was so excited to be able to go to school, and to take his backpack. Jaxson loves school!

Violet Ann Lay

2011-08-14T20:07:00.001-07:00

It's been a while since we have posted and I figure that since we had a baby since our last post and she is now six months old, it is about time that we post about it. Violet Ann Lay was born January 25th, 2011 at 12:37 pm.
Violet was 21 inches long and 8 lbs 15 ounces. The nurse at the hospital originally told us that she was 23 inches long, but she didn't measure very carefully.
We blessed Violet April 10, 2011. It was nice to have most of the family here.

Our friend Krista came and took pictures of Violet in her blessing dress a couple of days before the blessing.
Our little family.
The Circle.The Grandparents Jaxson with his cousins from Jenny's side of the family. The cousins loved spending time with Violet. Jenny's Family. My Family In July, we went down to Saint George for my cousin, Laura's, wedding. Betweeen the wedding luncheon and the reception we took violet swimming for the first time. Jaxson also had a great time spending time in the pool. He loves spending time with his cousins and swimming. That day was a great day because he got to do both.Violet did really well traveling. We stopped by the St. George temple before we headed home.On our way home, we stopped by Kay and Lee's. We always talk about going down to Fillmore and seeing them, but it has been a while since we have made it, so we figured that if we are passing by, we have to stop.Since then Violet has continued to grow. She has started sitting up, and loves to play with her toys. She will lung forward to grab anything within reach, or even grab things that are just out of reach.
We love our little girl so much. She is growing up so quickly.

Jaxson turns 3!

2011-01-10T09:19:00.000-08:00

One of Jaxson favorite things to do is go on FrontRunner or the train. So I thought that we be fun for his birthday. I met my mom and Clark at Woods Cross Station and then we went to McDonalds and met my cousins. My cousin, Kristina, has a little girl with the same birthday as Jaxson.

Jaxson would get really scared when the other trains would go by, they were really loud.

Then after McDonald we went to Kangaroo Zoo in Woods Cross with Amber and Jaxson's friend, Davis. He had a blast! It wasn't busy so they practically had the whole place to themselves.

Gotta get fueled up.

Jon took half the day off and so it was nice to have him chase Jaxson around.

Jaxson and Davis loved the minature golf course. They must have done it at least 6 times. They are so good at it too.

Jaxson took a good nap after that.

Jaxson's Birthday Party

2011-01-10T08:58:00.000-08:00

We had Jaxson's Birthday party on Sunday Oct 31st, because we figured it would be easier to have everyone over on a Sunday. Yikes! Having Trick-or-Treating the day before made for a REALLY busy weekend.

Jaxson loved all of his presents and he even got to have his Grandma Lay be there for his Birthday. She gave him some awesome dinosaurs.

Jon made Jaxson his Train Cake. HE LOVED IT! I thought it turned out really good.

I can't believe I have a 3-year-old!!!

Fire Truck and Ambulance

2011-01-04T16:35:00.000-08:00

Joyce invited us to her Mom's group this summer and Jaxson got a treat- A Firetruck and an Ambulance!!

The firemen did a demonstration about fire safety and to get the kids comfortable with the guys in their fireman suits. Ben looked awesome as a fireman!

Then the kids did a walk through the back of the truck.

Then came the Ambulance!

Jaxson was so excited to get his sticker and hat.

I love that he HAD to wear it this way.

Train Park

2011-01-02T16:05:00.000-08:00

Once a month during the summer there is a train park in Farmington. We were able to catch the last time they had it in August.

Ben, Abi, and Joyce came with us.

They had a little train ride that we went on.

Jaxson loved the tunnels.

It was super hot that day, but it was worth it. Abi made a friend and got invited to her party. We didn't even know her name. That's Abi for you.

Highlights of October

2010-12-30T08:58:00.000-08:00

We went to Jon's grandma's to rake leaves. Fortunatly for us Jon's mom was in town helping his grandma recover from knee surgery, so we got spend time with both of them. Barbara had the kids do this cute activity that made these cupcakes look like eyeballs.

Jaxson drove Hannah and Emily nuts because he didn't keep the pile together.

Jaxson's first Horse ride at Uncle Deans. He loved it!

Jon's work's trick or treat. Zach and his son Carson.

We went to Black Island Farms with Joyce's Moms group. The kids had a blast.

One of Jaxson's favorites: The animal train ride.

They have awesome slides.

Jaxson picked his own pumpkin.

This was the kids waiting patiently for the 'hay' ride to begin.

Every year we go to our friend, Amber's, Hallowen party.

Jon and I were: Jonathan and Martha Kent (superman's parents)

Jaxson: Superman

We went to the ward party and Jaxson had a blast with his friend, Thomas, AKA Batman.

Even Superman gets tired.

Grandma Lay brought this for Jaxson. He was soooo excited!

This was at our friend's neighborhood party. I didn't get any other pictures, because it started to rain about 15 minutes later.

A summer of fun.

2010-08-21T06:26:00.000-07:00

It has been a while since we have done a post, and we have had a few adventures this summer, so I thought I would post about the summer and all of the fun things that we did.Jaxson found out about the internet, and now thinks our computer is for watching Train videos on Youtube.We took Jaxson to see Toy Story 3 at the Movie theater. It is only the second movie he has been to, and he was very good throughout the whole movie. He loves Buzz!!I got my CPA License and rewarded myself with a video game and hours of playing nintendo. . . Jaxson took the picture.We have spent a lot of time out in the backyard. Jaxson loves to ride his tricycle.

We have also gone to a few fireworks shows and a parade. Jaxson loved the fireworks and would tell us Fi'eurk go BOOM!!!

We took Jaxson on his first road trip to Grandma and Grandpa's house. He did really well on the twelve hour car ride. He only had one half hour melt down on the way home. Jaxson loved playing with his cousins in the playhouse out back.This is them watching the neighbors shoot off fireworks.

The fireworks show at Grandma and Grandpa'a house. (VERY COLD.)On monday, the kids went and played down at the creek, by my parent's house, Jaxson had a great time playing with his cousins.
Tuesday, we went on a hike to horsetail falls, with all of the cousins, that live up in Washington.
This is a picture of all of the cousins at the falls, Ian is behind Matthew.

Jaxson had a great time playing with Bethany, climbing the walls and playing at the falls.

We took a day and went to the beach, We made the required stop at Mo's for lunch. It was delicious as always. Jenny and Jaxson at Cannon Beach
Jaxson loved playing in the ocean with his cousins.

But by the end of the day was worn out!

There was this baby Seal on the beach. They had a sign letting us know not to touch it or disturb it, that the mother brings it food.
We ended our trip to the beach with a tour of the tillamook cheese factory, and some ice cream.
After being in the car so many days, we decided the kids needed a break, so Thursday we spent the day playing at home, My sister, Ellen put out the swimming pool and filled water balloons for the kids to play out in the back yard. They had a great time, running around and getting wet.
We ended our trip at the Oregon Zoo. The oregon Zoo was huge, we went until we could go no more, and we still didn't see everything there was to see. (There is a Black Bear behind them.)

The bats were one of my favorite things, even though everything they had was really exciting. I was a little disappointed, because the lion exhibit had been closed for updating.

Despite the lion exhibit being closed, Jaxson had a great time with his gal-pal Bethany. We had a great time at my parents and were sad to go.

After four year of talking about it, my friend, Warren, and I finally backpacked the entire highline trail. 81.5 miles in 5 days. It was quite the adventure. Here are a few picture highlights from the trip.

This is me at the top of Anderson Pass. After all of the excitement of the trip, we were happy to get home, and be with our families again.

The latest Obsession

2010-06-13T09:33:00.001-07:00

Jaxson has been cycling through things to be obsessed about. First it was Toy Story

Jenny found these awesome pajamas that Jaxson just loves. He was so excited to be able to dress up as Buzz and Woody to go to bed. He thought it was hilarious one night to put his pajama pants on his head. He made our friend been and Kelsey put them on their heads as well. He still has a place in his heart for Toy Story, but then he became obsessed with . . .

Parks. He loves going to the park, especially with his cousins. Anytime that we drive by a park (Article Circle, or Mcdonalds) we get a resounding chorus of Slide . . . Slide . . . Slide. He loves to be oustide and especially loves to go to the park. The latest obsession . . .

Superman. He fell in love with superman about two weeks ago, and Jenny has been watching the superman movies ever since. She now knows random facts about superman that most women would never know. We went over to our friends house and they had this awesome superman cape, Jaxson wasn't too excited to put it on at first, but then loved it and "flew" around the house for a while. Ever since, he has been putting his blanket over his shoulders and running around the house pretending to be superman.

Easter

2010-05-03T08:18:00.000-07:00

This is what Jaxson did for the easter egg hunt.
Ben and Jasxon loved the swings.

After our Easter Egg hunt the boys watched Toy Story. Can you tell who is the biggest fan? Jake doesn't like to wear any other shirt than that one or go anywhere without a Buzz Lightyear.

Fire Trucks and Trains

2010-04-20T09:44:00.000-07:00

The chiropracter office I go to had a grand opening of the their new clinic and they had a fire truck there. The only thing Jaxson said while we were there was, "My turn!"

Do see him pointing at us to stay away?!

This is the day of my infamous Front Runner experience. I am proud to say I am going to try and again and not get stuck on there. Or hit my head.

Can't wait for Eclipse

2010-03-24T09:19:00.000-07:00

Aren't they looking good in this poster?! I like Edward's leather jacket, nice touch. I seriously can't wait! It's my favorite out of the four books!!!

Tarzan

2010-03-08T11:18:00.000-08:00

My Tarzan

So Jaxson started asking for his shirt to be taken off a while ago and we couldn't figure out why he kept doing it. Then one day Jon put Tarzan on for Jaxson and then Jaxson asked for his shirt to be taken off. Now we can't even mention Tarzan out in public, Seriously. The moment we mention Tarzan, Jaxson wants to take his shirt off. We were at Jon's grandpa's viewing and he wanted his shirt off.

Jaxson loves to sing along to the movie too. I need to get a video of it. Jaxson especially likes in the movie when Tarzan grows up into a man. He has to come tell me it's Tarzan!

CPA RESULTS!!!

2010-02-24T20:40:00.001-08:00

I PASSED!!!

AND THE VERDICT IS . . . .

2010-02-20T20:35:00.001-08:00

We have to wait until MONDAY or Tuesday!!!

CPA Scores

2010-02-19T12:02:00.000-08:00

Waiting for the CPA exam scores this time arounds has almost driven me crazy!!! The scores are supposed to be released this weekend, so hopefully I will know by tonight around 9, but there are no guarantees. I CAN'T WAIT FOR THIS NIGHTMARE TO BE OVER!!

Hillary's kids

2010-02-16T11:45:00.001-08:00

This is Jaxson and his cousin Valerie. This is Jaxson first time holding a baby. Mind you she is 7 months old, a baby reguardless. Thank goodness she can hold herself up.

Jon's sister, Hillary sent me all of these photos. This one is of Joe and Jaxson in their matching pajamas, by coincidence.

These below are at Jon's uncle Dean's house with his new puppy. The kids had a blast with the cute puppy. Jaxson didn't want to leave. The dog loved Emily. Josh had a good time that day telling Jaxson what to do. I'm not sure if Jaxson understood.

January Overview

2010-02-01T10:07:00.000-08:00

My nephew's Jacob and Ben had a birthday party. 3 Years old!

My sister-in-laws made these unbelievable birthday cakes!

Their cakes were amazing. My cake that I made for Jaxson's birthday was really ghetto compared to these cakes. Holy Cow!!

Then I went to the zoo with Jennifer, Joyce, and all the kids for a free zoo day.

Doesn't this picture look cool! I told Brianna to look scared like she was right next to the tiger.

We could never get the kids to look at us when we took pictures.

Jaxson was spoiled and got to go on the Carosel (spelling?) 2 times!! I had to drag him off both times, screaming. Surprise, surprise.

Luckily they had a lot of exhibits indoors, so it wasn't too cold. This is the only picture I got of the group because Jaxson would not participate in the picture. He is already starting to run off.

This last weekend, my brother, Clark and I went up to Sundance to try and see some celebrities, but it was completely DEAD. We were going to go last weekend, but it was snowing and I didn't want to drive Parley's in the snow.

It was really fun though. We got lunch and walked around, best weather in January ever!

Then we went to the Outlet mall on the way out and I was in Carter- kids clothing and noticed Matt Harpring shopping with his wife and 3 kids. I felt like such an idiot asking for his picture, but I too excited not to. He was really nice.

I guess he is kind of retiring, because of all these injuries he has gotten the past few years. I always thought he was way cute and he is in person too!

2 year old pictures

2010-01-19T09:23:00.000-08:00

I forgot to post these a few months ago. They were taken in the 2nd week in November.

This is his blanket or "Blane" as he used to call him. He have it whenever he sleeps. His uncle Clark made it for him.

He loves the pictures of himself on the motorcycle. We ended up doing the session in two parts because he was not wanting to do it. But I was really glad we got a few good ones.

One of the best games!!

2010-01-15T10:21:00.000-08:00

I was there at that AWESOME game!!

I haven't screamed that hard in a long time. My voice still hurts. This is Boozer after things started to turn around for the Jazz.

I couldn't get the video to upload of the rookie player, Gaines, making the 3 point shot, which was the game winning shot. Towards the end things weren't looking so good and a good chunk of the crowd left. I was soooooo shocked when his shot made it in!! Everyone was jumping and screaming. I think we stood almost the whole fourth quarter. THANKS to Jon's coworker, Zach, and his wife, Jessica for inviting us!! We even got to sit in the lower bowl.

Did everyone know that the Shaq plays for the Cavaliers now? I was excited to see Lebron James play and he showed what an amazing player he is. There was a ton of Cavalier fans there, which surprised me. I am still jazzed up about the game- no joke!

Christmas

2010-01-04T13:50:00.000-08:00

This was at my family Christmas party on my mom's side. Jaxson was so excited for Santa! He could hardly wait to sit on his lap.

Then he didn't want to get off. He kept talking. Everyone laughed. I finally had to just take him off Santa's lap.

Christmas morning!

Jaxson really liked the car track.

It was a Cars Christmas.

This is Jake and Jaxson watching cars on Christmas night at my moms.

My brother, Jeff has become really popular with Jaxson and my nephews, that is ever since he bought his truck. They all beg for a truck ride when they see him.

This was on New Years day, which is also my mom's birthday, but I'm a butt and didn't get any pictures of her! Happy Birthday Mom! We took her to the Olive Garden for lunch and then we went and saw New Moon because she hasn't it yet, then we had the rest of my family to my house for pizza and cake.

Christmas lights and shoveling

2009-12-13T18:39:00.000-08:00

I don't know why, but liked to do this, so I showed Jaxson. He thought he was pretty cool.

Jaxson can't ride his car outside so he sits in it and watches movies.

I think we are going to be doing this for what seems like FOREVER!!

At least I have a helper, but even today he went in early.

Halloween/Birthday/Thanksgiving

2009-12-08T13:20:00.001-08:00

I'm catching up just a little bit. ha ha!

I went my sister-in-laws to the Black Island Farms pumpkin patch. This is almost all of the grandkids on my side of the family except for Ben, he was too cold and bundled up in a blanket with his mom.

They have lots of stuff for the kids to do, including these fun slides. Ben had just broke his collar bone, so we needed to be a little careful with him.The hayride was fun, but cold.

This was the awesome animal train ride!

Jaxson didn't want to get off so he got to go twice.

The next night we went back with Jon and our friends Ben and Kelsey.

This was the biggest slide I have ever been on. Holy Cow! Scary!

Jaxson was a dragon. It was a lot of fun watching Jaxson figure out this whole Trick-or-Treating thing. He got way too much candy.

These are the amazing pumpkins Jon carved. Unfortunetly they were stolen off our front porch about 2 hours later.

I made this "incredible" birthday cake for Jaxson's 2nd Birthday. He did not even eat a bite. He was too excited about the cars on top of it.

This is the GeoTrax train set Jon's mom and us got him for this birthday.

THANKSGIVING!

We flew up to Jon's parent's house in Vancouver WA the Saturday before Thanksgiving.

This is Sam. Cute huh?!

We had loads of fun playing all sorts of games.

"FORKS" HIGH SCHOOL!!

This is in Kalama. 30 minutes away from Jon's parents house. This is where they film the outside scenes of the high school in Twilight and New Moon.

This is where Edward saves Bella. In New Moon they must have added pine trees.

I was soooo excited! But I felt like such an idiot running around taking pictures, because school was going on and Jon's family was waiting in the car watching me. But it was worth it!

Jon's parents have a lot of little cars to ride on but as usual Jaxson likes the pink and purple car the best. We go to Toys 'r us and he goes straight to the barbie car. He got in a fight with a girl the other night over it.

The day before Thanksgiving we went on one of my favorite hikes in Oregon. Look at all the moss on the trees. I felt like I was in a fairy tale.

Jaxson didn't like the water spraying on him. Plus it was loud.

All 9 grandkids went on the hike. All of Jaxson's cousins are pros.

Jaxson and Bethany on their date.

Jaxson is pointing us where to go.

Jaxson is getting to be quite the frequent flyer, so my mom bought him this suitcase for his birthday.

Sorry this blog was soooo long. Hope everyone is having a great Christmas season!

My crazy guys

2009-10-19T21:16:00.001-07:00

Jaxson wasn't having a good time at texas roadhouse, so we gave him the camera and voila. We have 69 pictures and this is the best one.Jaxson has been becoming very independent. He decided that it was time to make his own breakfast, so he made a magical mix. . .

fruit loops, cinnamon toast crunch, and . . .

EGGS!!!! YUMMY.

These are Jon's peppers, he went crazy this year and planted a ton of pepper plants in our garden. The day before the first frost was supposed to come Jon went out and picked everything. While picking the peppers, he found a huge one, and so he picked it and there was another one the same size. He made stufffed peppers the next night for dinner.

Every year we go to our friend's (Amber and Mel) Halloween party. This year Jon decided to be the old Crone from Snow white. The only snow white costume that I could find was not appropriate, so I got a princess costume instead. No one realized that I was even part of his costume. Jon won the best costume award and we had a lot of fun. Jon went a little overboard and after running me all over the county trying to find the parts to his costume, he came up with this . . .

Annual Swimming Trip

2009-09-23T20:22:00.000-07:00

Every summer my family goes to the Roy Aquatic Center. We went just before school started. I think this was our 3rd or 4th year. It was more exciting this year with Jaxson. He had a great time with dad going down the slide. He liked it when they would go faster, he would giggle. I went with him and he seemed bored.

Ben and Abby are dolphins! They love swimming.

Brianna looked pretty good in her shades.

Look how tan Jake is! He made us all look so pale.

Ben is trying to work on his tan so he can be like his twin-cousin.

Jaxson has to be doing what his cousins are doing all the time. Brianna and Abby are usually inseperable. I'm glad that they make everyone get out of the pool, because then I was able to get all these great photos.

The Zoo

2009-09-22T09:49:00.000-07:00

We were pretty excited about the baby elephant. It was really cute!

Jaxson really liked the penguins. I might have to get some of those penguin movies now.

Jaxson's other favorite animals were the Giraffes . They were really active. Once again there was a baby giraffe- so cute especially when it went to sit down, it looked like bambi. Most of the other animals were hot and lazy.

See this "Cat" behind the fence. It did not like Jaxson. He didn't want to go back and see it, so he was screaming. I'm glad those fences are strong...

My mom and my brother, Clark, decided to come to the zoo because they hadn't been in a long time like us. They were great to help us with Jaxson. He can be a handfull.

Jaxson had a lot of fun at the end in the playground area. I was excited for him to play in the tree house like I did when I was a kid, but they took it out. We were excited to get out of the heat and get some lunch at the end. We went to Greek Souvlaki afterwards-one of my favorite places to eat! Yummmmm!!

A Kitchen floor Should never be replaced in 2 days!

2009-09-16T20:56:00.000-07:00

This last weekend was a fun weekend, but a long one. It all started on Friday night when I decided to pull up a layer of linoleum, and 12"x12" linoleum tiles. The linoleum tiles had started to come up, so the kitchen floor had to be replaced. I thought it would only take a few hours and I would be able to go to bed at 10, well at ten I had pulled up the linoleum, but there was still a layer of paper on the floor that I needed to get rid of. Thankfully my co-worker gave me a heat gun and I was able to get the paper up quicker . . . (quicker meaning that I finally finished at 2 AM.)

The next morning my friend Warren came over and helped me lay the new floor. The one good thing was that the floor was already level, so there was minimal prep work. After getting the vapor barrier down, things seemed to go a lot quicker. We got the glue down, had lunch, and then started laying tile. We found out that we were going to be pretty close on glue. It ended up that we used up all of the glue for the kitchen. It took all day. After getting the duraceramic tile laid, we went to dinner with Warren's wife and some friends. Then we returned home, and finished grouting. I had no idea that the project was going to take all day. I was grateful that Warren was willing to spend his whole day helping me put in my kitchen floor.

Sunday night we went to my sisters for dinner and then came home and started to scrub the floor to get all the grout residue up off the floor. It was taking a long time, so Jenny decided to just finish it the next day. After a long day of scrubbing the floor with help from her mom and brother, Jenny got the floor cleaned.

So after two long days and a lot of help from a good friend, Here is the finished product.

Bracelet

2009-09-07T18:21:00.000-07:00

I just got done reading all 4 Twilight books and when I was reading Eclipse I said "How cool it would be if someone came out with a bracelet-like in the book!" Jon said "If someone was smart, they would come out with one." Well I found one on the internet today, but it is $63 bucks! I bet someone will come out with cheaper ones once the movie comes out. I know, I am a Twilight dork.

The Fastest Trip Ever!

2009-09-03T11:51:00.000-07:00

Two weeks ago my brothers Jeff, Clark, and my "little-sister" Krista and I went on a bus trip to Disneyland. We left at 7:00 PM. This is us waiting for the bus to get there. My brothers and I have NEVER been to Disneyland and a few days before the trip Jon called me up wanting me to go with my brothers. I asked Jon if he wanted to come and he decided to stay home with Jaxson and study for his CPA exam. Plus I can't imagine Jaxson on the bus for that long. Yikes!!

We got to Disneyland at 6:30 AM California time. So we went to IHOP to kill a little time and then this is us below waiting to get in the park.

We had a lot of fun at Toon Town.

Krista and I had to be paparazzi--literally! We were running after them. But we got 'em!

This is a jungle boat ride with fake animals.

We were waiting for the Indiana Jones ride, one of my favorite rides.

Almost all of the rides had this pileup of strollers.
This is the Fantasmic Show. I thought this Peter Pan show on the ship was cool.

This is the ferry with almost all of the characters on it.

So I don't think I'll be going on anymore bus trips anytime soon. It was really hard to sleep with the swaying bus and I couldn't get comfortable. I did get sleep on the way home-thanks goodness. I didn't get to see anything else in California, because I woke up when we got there and fell asleep before we left at about 1:00 AM. We got back to Salt Lake at 12:30. Less than 48 hours! (42 hours)

Tear-Jerker Story on KSL

2009-09-01T07:37:00.001-07:00

ksl.com - Family finds treasured reminders of sisters killed in car accident

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I don't know this family, but I thought it was an amazing story.

24th of July and Hiking

2009-08-26T09:00:00.000-07:00

On the 23rd of July we went to the Bountiful Parade for a little bit but if you notice in the second picture, Jaxson doesn't do well in heat, so we ended up watching the rest of the parade from El Matador.

On the 24th of July we had my family come for a bbq and playing water games in the back yard. It was a lot of fun. We didn't get pictures of water ballon volleyball though, which was on of the highlights of the day.

When Jon's mom was here she invited us to go on a hike with her and Hillary's family to Donut Falls, which is in Little Cottonwood Canyon. Jaxson did pretty good for his first hike. It was also Valerie's, at 4 or 5 weeks old.

Jaxson loved throwing rocks in the creek. He loved it so much, he wouldn't hike back down the mountain. He threw a fit the whole way to the car. Sooo the way up was great, made me want to go hiking more, but then on the way down, I was ready to start crying myself.

This is Abby on her Birthday. She was given Hannah Montana jewelry and stuff to dress up in. I think she looks pretty awesome. She turned 5 years old on July 29th.

Tweety

2009-08-09T23:09:00.001-07:00

My friend, Kim, wrote in her blog about how her kids had a funeral for a bird that had died by there house. There is a link on the side to her blog--Way cute pictures of her kids and their special ceremony.

Anyway that got me remembering my pet Tweety. We had it for a few years and one Sunday my brother, Clark, came down the hall crying hysterically. That when he broke the news that Tweety had flown in between the bars of her cage and got lodged in it and died. So, my mom found a shoe box and we had a wonderful funeral. My dad found an awesome flat, big rock, that served as a tombstone....which later my uncle took and is now the center piece of there handmade waterfall.

A few years later, I think I was about 7 or 8 and my friend, Rachel and I were playing in the backyard and I showed her Tweety's grave. Somehow I got the idea that my friend needed to see Tweety. I started digging and decided to go get a shovel, when my brother, Jeff asked what I was doing. THANK GOODNESS he found out and stopped me. Could you imagine? I don't know what in the world I was thinking!!! May Tweety rest in peace.

Eclipse Switches

2009-07-29T09:21:00.000-07:00

This is Bryce Dallas Howard who is going to be playing Victoria in Eclipse instead of Rachelle Lefevre. I think it's weird they keep changing things. Like there is yet another different director for Eclipse. So every movie is going to have a different director. I do like this girl Bryce Howard. She had been in "Lady in the Water," and "The Village." She is also the daughter of Ron Howard. I can see the resemblance with the red hair. The shows I have seen her in, she plays a sweet girl, so it's going to be hard to see her as a evil vampire. But you never know.

Want a good laugh Twilight fans?

2009-07-22T22:06:00.000-07:00

My brother, Clark, found this awesome website where they have done spoofs of the New Moon trailer and also Twilight. You have to watch the Official New Moon trailer and then watch this. I thought I might PEE MY PANTS laughing soooooo hard!! I love it because they even use the same music. I think Jon liked the "Twilight Before Christmas."

http://www.twilightthemovie.com/ Official Movie Trailer for New Moon.

Then here is the New Moon Spoof ( Just click on the highlighted part):
http://www.take180.com/ "The Guinew Moon" and "Twilight Before Christmas"

PLEASE WATCH THEM IF YOU WANT A GOOD LAUGH. They remind of Saturday Night Live or Madtv bits.

Staycation

2009-07-21T07:49:00.001-07:00

Staycation: stay at home vacation

We started out our staycation with going to Jaxson's first movie, ICE AGE 3. My brother, Clark, my mom, and our friends, Ben and Kelsey came. Jaxson did good for about 45 minutes and then he started changing seats a lot and then walked around and sat on the stairs. Pretty good for 1 and half years old!

That night Jon's sister, Ellen arrived at our house with her 5 kids and then the next day was the 4th of July. We got Jaxson's pool out and turned on the sprinklers. It was fun. There ended up being 12 kids running around.

Then Grandma Lay threw pop-its with the kids while they dried off.

Jaxson was in Time Out, even though we didn't put him in Time Out, he decided to join his cousins.

This is Grandma with some of the grandkids getting ready to watch fireworks.

Matthew kept asking when we were going to do REAL fireworks, because he is from Washington where they do fireworks that shoot up into the sky. It's too bad we can't do them here.

On Monday July 6th we went to the Oquirrh Hills Temple open house.

It was kinda crazy going through a temple with 12 kids and not enough adults. Jon had to work and 2 husbands weren't in Utah yet. Jaxson would runaway from me and I couldn't yell at him to stop. I just had to try and weave my way through people, while getting glared at. It was really peaceful....

Great picture huh?

Below the group photo, is a picture of the kids helping to sand Grandma Atkin's posts at her house. We went there on Tuesday and spent some time helping/destroying her house.

We also went to Hillary's on Wednesday July 8th and the kids had blast playing in the pool. We didn't even have them come inside to eat dinner.

Then I'm sure you noticed the beautiful newborn baby, Valerie Anne Bolander. My newest niece. Jon's sister, Hillary, had her July 9th. 8 pounds 13 ounces. She is so precious.

Elllen and I went and saw Hillary before we went to Lagoon with all the kids. I didn't get many pictures of Lagoon because I had my mom babysit Jaxson in the afternoon and my camra got left there. Jaxson liked Bulgy the Whale and Puff the Magic Dragon, and that was about it. He just wasn't into Lagoon yet. We had a great time though going with all our nieces and nephews.

The last picture of Jaxson he is crying because the ride worker had ended the ride and he needed to get out. He didn't understand lines or turnes at all. It will be a lot better when he older.

The next day was Jon's grandpa's 90th Birthday party. I haven't been that exhausted in a long time. We had a good time seeing everyone. Ellen and Andy went home right after the party. So that is why I haven't posted much, because I have been recovering from my staycation.

Harry Potter

2009-07-16T07:36:00.001-07:00

Look at how cute they were!!!

I can't believe they started this series when they were this young!

2000

2009

I put this in honor of the movie coming out this week. Jon is going to go see it Friday night and he can't wait. He is way excited.

Jon was watching Harry Potter the other night and Jaxson started pretending he was using a wand. I thought it was cute. He might be Harry for Halloween.

Dr. Phil.com

2009-07-02T20:22:00.000-07:00

I saw this show today that made me so greatful for life and my healthy boy. Holy Cow. My heart just aches for this whole family. Also I was procrastinating cleaning my house....

I'm not the biggest fan of Dr. Phil, but it was about a woman who had a healthy baby girl and then three years later she gave birth to triplet girls, who she later found out are deaf and blind. She was already having marriage problems before she had the triplets, so she ending up getting a divorce. But has since remarried, but now her new husband is wondering what he got himself into.

I just can't even imagine having the patience that this woman has. There are times I think I am going to crazy, but after watching this, I think I can make it.

The link is below if you want to a 30 second clip. It will make you feel better about your life.

Dr. Phil.com

Girls Camp and Family Reunion

2009-06-30T22:03:00.000-07:00

GIRLS CAMP!

Below is a picture of when I first got to girls camp on Wednesday. Camp started on Tuesday. They were having a lesson about Joseph Smith and the Sacred Grove. It was really neat for the girls. I was so pumped when I got there. I couldn't really sit in my seat.

We went to Payson Lakes for Girls Camp. Isn't it beautiful?

Holy Cow! That water was sooo cold! When I jumped in, I could barely breathe!! I swam so fast to get out of it. I did jump back in again for fun.

I didn't realize Jon's eye's were closed. Oops!

This is Kenzie below. She is a gymnist. She isn't doing a flip here, but she did some amazing back flips earlier.

Bath Time!!

These are our HOTTEST IS MODEST leaders. They did a little joke at the end.

This is the whole group in our pajama pants that we made. I wish you could see the girls all close up. They all looked so cute considering they were so dirty. Leaders on the other hand were another story.

MY FAMILY REUNION!!

We went to my family reunion and Jon's high school reunion on Saturday which--- was JON'S BIRTHDAY!! Happy Birthday to you!! Last year was scout camp, while I was in Indiana. At least I got to spend the day with him and he got his favorite cupcakes!

Jake and Jaxson at RockPort Reservoir. Jaxson didn't like the cold water, but he did like the rocks.

I gave Jaxson a cupcake..... I don't know what I was thinking!

It was like Jaxson's first birthday all over again.

I wish I would have gotten more pictures of my family. It was great to see my Dad's family. I haven't seen them in two years. They were all so kind and we had some good laughs. I also wish I could have had more time with my family. We didn't camp since we just had gotten back from girls camp and then we had to rush back to Jon's High School Reunion. Maybe I can see them another time soon.

Scrapbook

2009-06-11T14:57:00.000-07:00

Yesterday I found a good reason to push through scrapbooking projects. When you start something-FINISH IT. I went to Roberts Crafts yesterday to get some paper to finish my wedding album. Mind you.... Jon and I are celebrating our 5th wedding anniversary in August. Anyway, I went to Roberts and they did not have the scrapbook paper that I used in my book. That's how long it's been since I worked on it. I am sitting here thinking though, that maybe I got some at Michaels. So there is hope for me to finish it and get going on Jaxson's Scrapbook, ya know, since he is a year and half now.

I am TERRIBLE. What excuses do I have. I am a stay-at-home mom. Give me a break!!

Air Show

2009-06-09T21:02:00.001-07:00

Saturday we were planning on going to the airshow, but then Jon decided it would be too loud for Jaxson, so we went to a park by my brother's house in Clinton. BUT it was as close as we thought it would be. The kids ended up just playing around the park. My nephew, Jake, liked talking about the birds instead of the jets.

On Sunday we were getting ready to go to my mom's when the airshow started. Jon and I went outside and saw how close the jets were. We were so excited. Jon went and woke up Jaxson--who was already waking up because of how loud it was outside and I grabbed the camra.

Jon brought Jaxson out and the first jet flew over us===the lowest and loudest one of the day. Jaxson started shaking. But then one the next one he said "Plane." I would point and then he would point.

The pictures do the jets a huge injustice. Plus I just suck at trying to take a picture of a moving object. A lot of the jets went right over our house.

This is Jaxson this morning. He came out of our bedroom wearing the necklace and shoes. It didn't dawn on me for a few minutes how funny it was. I haven't worn a necklace in months, so it's funny that he knows it goes around your neck.

Memorial Day Weekend

2009-05-28T20:37:00.000-07:00

We went to our friend's parent's cabin in Heber this last Saturday for a night. Jaxson really liked the fourwheelers. Our friend Ben was nice enough to take him on a little ride.

This is a picture of the back of the Cabin. It was really beautiful up there. I wish I took more pictures. They have a really pretty view of Heber.
Jaxson is such a BOY!! He loved the fourwheelers, dirt, and rocks. It was hard trying to keep him in the cabin or even near the cabin. So I was relieved to get home and let him roam our house and yard.................

On Decoration Day (My grandma called it) or Memorial day we went down to Bountiful and ate lunch with my mom and two brothers and then went to the cemetary. It was a great day.

I think my grandma and grandpa have enough stuff around their grave. Holy Cow!

So as I was saying earlier... we got home and let Jaxson roam the yard. We had some friends over for a BBQ and my mom warned me that I should put a rock in front of our gate, but I forgot.

I was making frosting and everyone started to trickle into our house. All of sudden I said "Is Jaxson in here?" Everyone looked around.... "NO." So I rush outside, I keep thinking he is going to be right there, but he wasn't I go out in front of my house and there he is at the neighbors, going down their driveway. I thought my heart was never going to stop pounding. I AM SO MAD AT MYSELF FOR NOT LISTENING TO MY MOM. I am the world's worst mother. SERIOUSLY!!

Jon put on new latches on our gates---on the outside to lock Jaxson in. I'm sure our neighbors think it's looks stupid, but they know why, they see him running away from me all the time.

New Moon Poster

2009-05-19T09:10:00.000-07:00

I AM SO EXCITED!! I think this looks pretty good. I like how they have Jacob look so muscular and protective. 6 MORE MONTHS TILL THE MOVIE COMES OUT! I am going to read the book again before I go see the movie. I hope the new director does a good job.

What a Makeover!

2009-05-15T09:26:00.000-07:00

Oh, my goodness! I can't believe that was Kate Gosselin from "Jon & Kate Plus 8"

Did anyone else know she used to look like this? I didn't even recognize her. I gasped. I wish she could find a better hair style though.

Lately I have been watching the show here and there. I watched one recently where they went on a 2 week vacation where they drove to the beach. I wanted to know how they could do it.

HAPPY EASTER!!!!

2009-04-12T13:55:00.000-07:00

Happy Easter!

Jaxson woke up this morning and the easter bunny had brought him a basketball hoop and a shake-and-go lightning Mcqueen. He just thought that life was great. He played at the bastekball hoop for about an hour. He loved it.

Watch out NBA!!

Shock

2009-03-29T22:47:00.000-07:00

Okay, so a few days ago I was wearing capri's and I bought a new swimsuit. Last Saturday Jon and my sister-in-law transplanted rose bushes out of our garden---we were a little sunburned that day. Luckily we were fine the next day.

Then tonight Jon and I were driving home from my mom's in a blizzard. I had to pull over in Fruit Heights and have Jon drive the rest of the way home. We slide a few times trying to get back on the road. Further north on Highway 89 there was an accident with a semi truck. I was scared to death. And all the while I'm thinking "It's Spring, it's MARCH 29th!!!" So right now I am in SHOCK from the past few weeks. I have been planning our garden. That will have to wait about week. We did buy a new Lawn Mower. We are kinda scared about having this huge yard to take care of.

Lets all pray that it won't snow that much so we don't have to be shoveling in APRIL!! Crazy, Crazy UTAH WEATHER!!

Silly Pictures

2009-03-17T21:46:00.000-07:00

My Handsome Little Boy

Isn't he ALL GROWN UP?! Jon put him in this outfit and said this is the first and last time you'll see him it, so take a picture. The shirt is too small.

This is Jaxson's new hat which makes him look older. I swear I never had a baby.

The SHOE STEALER! Watch out if he comes to your home. Lock up your shoes.

This is Jaxson in my mom's shoes.

This is Jaxson in my shoes. The other day he was able to walk around in my high heels. I need to get video of that.

Now---to my in-laws. Does this picture below look like Joseph to you? When he was younger and had lighter hair. I had to take a double take of it. Tell me what you think.

(This was last year of Joe on Cinco de Mayo, when we were hitting the Pinata.)

My Superman!!

2009-03-11T23:03:00.000-07:00

Create your own FACEinHOLE

Isn't this Hilarious! I was in tears, I was laughing so hard making up photos for Jon.
Jon likes Superman a lot so I hope he gets a kick out of this when he gets to work. Surprise!

Cookie Monster

2009-03-11T20:27:00.000-07:00

This is our COOKIE MONSTER!! The first 2 pics he helped himself to the cookies Jon was making. He kept going back and getting more. He was pretty proud of himself.

The next 2 photos, we were getting ready for church, when suddenly Jaxson was quiet. This is what we found. We hadn't fed him breakfast yet. We are terrible parents.

Obviously he LOVES cookies!! Especially fresh ones.

I was making rolls and he helped himself to the dough. I had to take it away to finish and this is what his reaction was. Messy, Messy BOY!

Also, Jaxson doesn't mind butter either. We feed him a really good diet as you can see. If we end up being on the Maury Povich show for our obese child, you'll already know why.

And it snowed . . . and snowed . . . and snowed.

2009-02-17T17:01:00.000-08:00

A couple of weeks ago, I saw grass in my front yard, and I thought, Yay, winter is almost over. Oh was I ever so wrong. We had a storm about a week ago. I was at work during the storm, and I thought, "oh good, it was just a small storm (because all of the snow down at my work had melted away by the time I went home.) I don't think I will even have to shovel when I get home." WRONG AGAIN. We had over a foot of snow at our house. Fourteen inches to be exact. Luckily I have the best wife in the entire world and she had already shoveled once, or twice, and all that I had to shovel was the huge Ice ball at the end of our driveway that would keep any normal sized two-wheel drive car from entering the driveway. Well that was the last storm of the season. WRONG, we have had two since. The last one was a small one, but today, we had another one like the first one. On my way to work, a truck turned over and dumped hamburger all over the freeway, MacDonalds will be short on a few hundred pounds of hamburger this week.
Once again, when I left work . . . no snow. But when I got home, over a foot. I love living in Layton.

Highlights of December

2009-01-03T13:54:00.000-08:00

This is at our house sometime in early December. Jaxson loves to be outside, even if it's cold.

We couldn't find Jaxson's gloves, so he got to wear Jon's.

This is at my family Christmas party. My mom gave all the kids p.j.'s.

We went to Jon's parent's on December 18th for Christmas.

Jaxson had a blast with all of his cousins.

This is at Kid's Club

Jaxson loved all of his cousin's toys.

We went sledding over at the Church.
I'm not sure but I think that is Ian. Bethanie didn't really like the snow that much, but Grandma made it better.

Jaxson went down with Andy and it scared him. But he did like watching the other kids do it and hearing them laugh.

This is us trying to do the nativity. Mary didn't like everyone coming to see her (She has learned to tell people to leave, so when her brother came to see the baby, she pushed him away and said, "leave.") One of the wisemen (Jaxson) didn't want anything to do with it.

Up above is the family singing Christmas songs with candles. I really liked this.

This is Christmas day. Jaxson liked Bethanie stroller the best.

We came back from Washington on the 29th and then on the 30th we went to Temple Square with some of my family. The kids did pretty good considering how cold it was.

Look at my mom, she is so cold and she can't hide it. It's so funny.

The latest

2009-01-02T13:50:00.000-08:00

Well for those of you who are wondering, Jenny did survive. We had a pretty good time up in Washington, we did get snowed in, which did put a damper on things, but we made the most of it. Most nights, we played cards with everyone and had a great time. Even with the one or two spats over the rules.
Our flight home was quite entertaining. On our way to Washington, we were in a pretty full plane. We ended up on a row of three. Two rows ahead of us there was a guy sitting by himself. So while we were taxing, I asked the guy if he wouldn't mind trading us when we got up in the air. He begrudgingly said yes. After a minute I thought, "wait a second why doesn't that guy move?" So I asked Jenny to ask the guy sitting by the window if he wouldn't mind moving up. She said, "well you said it loud enough that if he wanted to move up he would have said yes already." I said, "Just ask him, it is going to be easier for him to move than for us to switch," or something along those lines. So Jenny asked and the guy, all put out, moved. After he moved, Jenny said, "I can't believe you made me do that." I said, "I don't care I won't ever see that guy again in my entire life." Well I ate those words. He was on the flight home with us. We were sitting in the terminal, waiting for our plane to get there and up walks the same guy. Jenny and I just laughed hysterically.
Then right before we were supposed to board, I got Jaxson to fall asleep. I thought, "Oh good, He is asleep and hopefully he'll stay that way so the flight home will be a peaceful one." Well in an attempt to keep him asleep, Jenny carried all of our carry-on baggage onto the plane. Now, there was a lot of baggage because we didn't plan to well with the suitcases that we took up to Washington, because we weren't planning on getting a lot for Christmas. My mom and I had a discussion before we went up there and we deicded that it would be best if we didn't get a lot, so that we wouldn't have to pack it all home. Well I should know my mom better. We had to borrow luggage from my parents to get everything home, and everything just barely fit. (our bags were 49 and 50 lbs. each. By the way we loved everything we got.) Anyway, to get to the point, we had a lot of carry-on baggage as well. We had my computer bag, a duffle bag, Jenny's purse a video camera, Jaxson's stroller, Jaxson's diaper bag, and all of our coats. So with Jaxson in my arms and a couple of the coats, Jenny loaded up all of our carry-on baggage to get on the plane. As we go to board the plane, the lady at the desk picks up the microphone and says, staring down Jenny, "I would like to remind all of our passengers that they are allowed only one piece of carry-on baggage and a personal item per passenger." Nice . . .
Jenny and I have had a good laugh about that one.
Well our trip to Washington was great. It was good to see my family and to spend some time with them. We hope that everyone had a Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year!!

Cabin Fever

2008-12-22T12:43:00.000-08:00

I'm going to go nuts! I'm pretty pathetic. We are snowed in here in Vancouver Washington. We flew here on Thursday the 18th and went shopping on Friday and then Saturday it started to snow more. I was able to go to Fred Meyers and get a fountain drink and some gossip magazines. That was my last venture. We were suppose to go to a ward christmas party Saturday night- cancelled. And also Church was cancelled.

It's funny. It's been two weeks in a row that church has been cancelled for jon and me. Last week a pipe busted in our church in Utah. It's so different here when it comes to snow, because they don't have plows, they don't use salt on the roads, they use lava rock and according to my father-in-law it just makes cracks in your windshield. Then on top of that, there is tons of ice. So everyone please pray that I can get out of this house. I want to go to a cheap mexican restaurant called Muchas Gracias. I hope everyone has a merry Christmas.

Little Rockers

2008-12-05T21:33:00.000-08:00

Look at these cool rockers! This was a couple of weeks ago. Jaxson is playing the drums (which he is pretty good from watching daddy). My niece, Abby is the beautiful singer- Sweet Home Alabama is her best song. My nephew, Ben is our awesome lead guitarist.

Jaxson has been doing some new things lately. Like he says "HI" and Da Da" and "whats that?" and "Cookie." Also he loves throwing anything and if he is anywhere by a stairway, stuff gets thrown down them. He loves to Jibber-Jabber. Especially while sitting on the stairs. Today he took my mom's phone and was walking around the house jabbering on it. I just wish I knew what he was wanting to say. The best is when he says something quietly and then laughs..... like he telling a joke. Kids are just too smart!! They grow up way too fast. Last year at this time I was barely getting him to smile and also to stop crying non stop.

Tis the Season

2008-11-29T21:36:00.000-08:00

I can't believe it's already Christmas! In less than 3 weeks we are going up to Washington for 2 weeks to spend time with Jon's family. I have a lot to do in that time! I love all the Christmas lights I see. I can't wait to get ours up. If anyone has any good tips about putting up Christmas lights on the outside of the house- let me know.

I hope everyone is having a good holiday season. Please enjoy it, because it comes and goes too fast and then it's the long months of January and February. See ya later!

Catch up

2008-11-20T22:06:00.000-08:00

The pumpkin patch

Ben and Jaxson

Ben, Abby, and Jaxson

Us at our friend's Halloween party

Jaxson made friends at the party

This is my friend, Amber's little boy, Davis.
He is Edward (from Twilight) He was thirsty!

Halloween night, Jaxson's girlfriends
(Krista and her friend)

Jaxson's 1st Birthday!

Jaxson's first Birthday Cake!

He looks excited.

Lets get down to business

Yummy, Yummy, that was good!

We're in our new house

2008-11-11T20:08:00.001-08:00

I just wanted to let everyone know we are still alive. We were busy moving, having birthdays and Halloween. And now we don't have the internet. Hopefully we will get it soon.

The biggest annoucement we have (according to Jon) is WE HAVE GUITAR HERO-WORLD TOUR!!! So we are having fun playing-if anyone wants to play, please come or call.

/';
)X (Jaxson says he loves you.)

Can't wait for Halloween

2008-10-07T23:08:00.001-07:00

Jon and I are soooooooo excited for Halloween. This was Jon and I two years ago. I was a vampire and Jon was a scary skeletor type of guy. Last year I was a few days shy of giving birth. I was a witch and Jon was a cowboy.

Jon and I are going to be pirates this year. Arrrrrrrrrr! Jon has already begun looking for next year's costumes. I don't know why we love Halloween. Maybe because we're still kids.

This isn't what Jaxson is going to be for Halloween. He is going to be a monkey. This was at Jon's sister's, Hillary. She was kind enough to see if any of her kid's costumes fit. Unfortunely he barely fit into this one and it was over a month ago.

I really wish this could have fit.

Peek-a-boo

2008-09-29T11:08:00.000-07:00

This is one of Jaxson's favorite things to do. He goes in our bedroom and there is mirror on the closet door. At first he thought it was another person. Now he plays peek-a-boo and talks and kisses himself. It's pretty cute.

As Promised . . . here are the pictures.

2008-09-27T09:19:00.001-07:00

We had our inspection yesturday, so we went to the house and took some pictures. There are a few things that need to be fixed if we are going to buy the house. The roof being one of them, but hopefully the sellers will agree to a few minor repairs and one major one.
Well, here are the pictures.

The front of our house.

The side yard.

The Back yard.

The Deck.

The sports Court.

The Kitchen, not the greatest, picture, but you get the idea.

Jaxson's nice PINK bedroom.

The ORANGE bathroom.

The front room.

The Basement.

They aren't the greatest pictures. But they give you a general idea.

Our New House

2008-09-24T12:46:00.000-07:00

We got a house! It is on the East side of Layton. We will post more later when there are pictures and stuff.

Growing up WAY too FAST!!

2008-09-17T20:30:00.000-07:00

Jaxson has done a lot of growing up today. We were eating dinner tonight and Jaxson just kept staring at what we were eating. Jaxson has been really funny about eating the pureed foods, and has been staring at Jenny and I as we eat. The other day we went to taco time and Jaxson has some of Jenny's Crisp Bean Burrito.
Tonight, Jenny decided that he might like a little taste of her sweet potatoe, so she gave him a little bite. He loved it. So I told her to shred her chicken and try to give him a little bit of her chicken. She did and he loved it as well. Usually Jaxson gags on bigger foods, but he didn't gag at all on the chicken or on the sweet potatoe.
After dinner, we were sitting around and Jaxson was standing at a toy that Jenny just bought him, and so Jenny went over by him and put her hands out and said, "come here" and Jaxson took his first step toward her.
So Jenny had me get on the floor and try it with her, at that point Jaxson took three or four steps toward me, so I ran and got the video camera and took the following video.

It's a lot of fun to watch him grow up, but he is doing everything way too fast. I can't believe it.

Some pics of Jaxson and me in Chicago

2008-09-15T14:49:00.000-07:00

Boat ride through downtown Chicago

Jaxson liked the bridges, where cars were going over us

Mitch and Kelly (Friends and tour guides) Just a few days before their wedding.

Clark, Kelly, Mom, Mitch, and Jaxson at the Fields Museum

The view from the Sears tower. Big City.

We kept talking about Ferris Bueller's day off the whole time we were in Chicago and My Best Friends's Wedding. We only spent two days in Chicago and then we went to Southbend Indiana for Mitch and Kelly's wedding. It really was Clark's bestfriend's wedding. Ha!Ha! I am going to get more pictures as soon as I figure this blogging out.

OUR NEW HOME!

2008-09-09T09:43:00.000-07:00

lunenburg taupe house on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

If you click on this link above you can see our new home!

(of course this is a dream home. One day when Jon and I are like 100 years old we could afford a house like this, but then the house will be too big for us to get around in. ha! ha!)

Teething

2008-08-19T12:13:00.000-07:00

Jaxson has been way grumpy the last few days and we suspected he was teething and then the other day you could start feeling a tooth, especially when you feed him food, he clamps on the spoon and you can tell there is more than his bottom two teeth.

Then today I decided I wanted to look at it. I should say them because there are 4 coming through. 4. So I have been giving him everything I can to make him feel better. Hopefully they'll all be through soon. Now Jaxson can have steak!!! ha, ha!!

Video Library - Channel 2 News Utah

2008-08-16T16:11:00.000-07:00

Video Library - Channel 2 News Utah

Click on Top Stories

Then search for the story

Title: "Neighbors Growing Tired of Refinery Incidents"

Surprise, Surpise

2008-08-16T15:58:00.000-07:00

So, yesterday Jon and I just got back from spending the day at Jon's grandma's house doing yard work and Jon's work picnic, when I got a knock at the door. My brother, Clark had just called and said he would be stopping by, so I automatically thought that it was him. But it wasn't. It was a beautiful news reporter from Channel 2 news. I was soooooo caught off guard, because I was just watching the olympics and Legally Blonde and letting Jaxson destroy the front room. She asked if she could interview me about the leak that happened that day at the refinery next to our house. So I said yes and ran in and told Jon. I hurried and put chapstick on and then went out.

Mind you that I had been pulling weeds and so my allergies were terrible. My hair was completely out of control from being in the wind and letting it air dry. So I was a little hesitant about doing the interview. Jon refused to come out with me. I can't even remember what I said. I was laughing so hard after they left. We called our families and had some good laughs. If you also want a good laugh, view this video.

The best part is, is when we went to watch it, Jon's all "it's not going to be on for a few minutes." IT WAS THE TOP NEWS STORY. We could not stop laughing. Especially when they said my name a billion times. I hope you got a good laugh like we did.