August fun

The month of August was really fun for us! We celebrated our anniversary, we got to go on two campouts with our family and Paxton got his two first teeth! Paxton can now pull himself up to knee level, sit by himself, and he is still doing the army crawl (not because he can't crawl up on his knees, but because it is much faster for him to be down on his belly-silly kid). Caiden is getting very excited for pre-school to start tomorrow! We got to go buy two new outfits for school this past week-he now wears a size 5/6. He looks stinkin huge to me!

This is a picture of Jayson pulling Caiden and Paxton around on a blanket. Fun for everyone!!

Paxton crawling through the table-he does this several times a day usually. Most of the time he can manage to get out without hurting himself!

One day, our neighbor Brock came over with all his nerf guns. He and Caiden had a great time playing with them and when Jayson got home he wanted in on the action too! I was in my bathroom and I was called out very innocently by Jayson and this is what I saw waiting to attack me! They pelted me with bullets before I could jump back into the safety of my bathroom-they all thought that was pretty funny! As you can see from the picture above, even Paxton wanted to play!

My co-worker Kristi has a pool at her apartment and she invited us over for a swim one day. We really liked cooling off and Paxton loved to kick his little feet in the cool water too! She was so nice to take this picture for us. We are going to miss having her and her husband here-he is in the military and they are being transfered to Illinois.

9 years and still going!!

Yesterday we celebrated our ninth anniversary! Hard to believe that much time has gone by! We had such a fun day celebrating too! We went boating at Willard Bay with my sister and her husband. Jayson and I had never tried water skiing until yesterday-let's just say that Jayson mastered it faster than I did. He was able to get up and go on his first try! I tried three times with no luck then three times more, but only getting up for maybe five seconds each time. My sister was great at it and made it look really easy, but she's been doing it for years. My brother-in-law was so good at it that he had to show off and hold on with one hand while drinking a can of coke with the other! I'm not even making that up! We have video footage of it!
We also did back flips off the back of the boat, which again Jayson and I had both never done. I have to say I mastered that better than Jayson. But I look worse than he does now because my first two times I hit my legs on the water instead of my feet and now I am bruised on both lower legs-I bruise really easily. Just to brag about myself one more time, I also dive better than Jayson, who had never tried that until yesterday! You guessed it-he belly flopped!

Caiden was really scared to get in the water at first, but he was begging us to let him stay in by the end of the day! He loved riding in the boat and swimming with Jayson and I. Once he knew that the life jacket would really not let him drown he was good!

This is Caiden driving the boat with my brother-in-law Jacob and my sister Cailin! He thought he was so so cool!

We ended the night with dinner at Red Robyn and a movie at home after putting the boys to bed. It was a great way to celebrate if you ask me!

Lovin the splash pad!!

So I did a post earlier about the splash pad, but this time we went with different people so I had to post these pictures too! We love the splash pad so much so this time we invited Aunt Kimmie and Grandma ViAnn to come with us! We ate a picnic lunch and splashed in the water with cousins-what a great summer day!! Have I ever mentioned that I have the best baby in the world! He is always so happy and smiling, which is good cause we just pack him around everywhere we go! He is learning the army crawl pretty good now and he has discovered he can make loud noises so he has started to squeel really loud sometimes now. We love this cute little chunky boy!

Caiden and cousin Josh,

Caiden and cousin Alana.

Utah holiday!!

In Utah we celebrate pioneer day on July 24. It fell on a Saturday, but I had the night off so we went to dinner with some of Jayson's friends and their kids! We ate at Texas Roadhouse and then came to our house to do fireworks!! We had a great time and the kids got along great! Paxton went to bed early so we really got to enjoy the evening!
This is a picture of the cute kids. Kenzie age 7, Caiden age 4, and Tanner age 6. I can't believe how tall my son is-maybe these kids are just short, but either way it is pretty funny.

I love this picture of them in the smoke bomb! They liked to run through the smoke-really good for their lungs I'm sure.

Everyone loves sparklers!

Camping, four wheeling, and beaching!

Caiden love to go to the beach- or as he likes to call it "beaching". We went camping with Jayson's parents a few weeks ago to a nice quiet place up near Bear Lake. We enjoyed three days of four wheeling, camping and beaching. We also took my niece Brooke-she is great at keeping Caiden entertained so we don't have to be constantly finding something to keep him busy. Can't wait to go again next week!

fourth of July fun!

For the fourth of July we celebrated with both sets of parents and watched fireworks here in West Point after having a wonderful free sloppy joe dinner! We have done this for the past three years and we enjoy it pretty well! There is lots of fun things to do like bounce houses and rock climbing walls for the kids and it is all free! Good job West Point city!

What a good lookin family!

June

These first two photos will catch up the end of May for everyone! Paxton has started eating solids and he loves it! He loves to eat anything that is put in front of him, rice cereal, peas, sweet potatoes, popsicles, etc. He still is nursing very well too- a little to well since he still wants to wake up for it in the middle of the night. He sure is a little chunker, but I love it!

So I can't believe June is almost over! We have done some pretty fun things and I really need to find time to get on my computer more-oh well. We started June with Jayson leaving on a trip to Tennessee to see his best friend J.R. get married. He married a girl I set him up with while we lived in Tennessee-her name is Jennifer. So anyways, he felt like he wanted to do more than just go to the wedding then head home so he left me for 9 days!! I had to work for four of those days so it made it interesting!! Thank you to all the family and friends that helped out with the babysitting!! The wedding was beautiful and wonderful and I only wish I could have been there too! The boys and I did have some fun while daddy was gone. The pics below are of a really fun park in Kaysville that is shaped all like a castle. I took my sister and her little girl Brooke and the two kids really liked it!

When Jayson finally got home (thank goodness he didn't die while rafting down the river or messing around in the rental car--I don't think I could handle being a single mom!) we spent some time together that Sunday night then we worked opposite shifts the next two days followed by a really fun day together at Lagoon! My work knows how to put on a good party! We thought Caiden would really like it this year, but he only went on one ride and screamed his head off before even giving any of the others a chance. We ended up calling my sister and having her come pick up Caiden because it was not fun at all.

Today we went to the splash pad in Riverdale and again took my sister and cousin Brooke with us. We stopped and let the kids eat free lunch at the elementary school first and then headed out to the park in the 90 degree heat. They had a great time running around getting drenched then warming up on their towels. The best part is that the splash pad is free too! We will definitely be hitting that up at least once a week!

Look how cute they are-holding hands- I love it!

Never a moments rest!

So it seems like I always look to some point in the future and say to myself, "When such-and-such happens, then I'll have more time." Does anyone else ever do this? I thought when I graduated that I would be so bored I wouldn't know what to do with my self-what a laugh! I can't believe a month has gone by since I last posted something!

I have been working nights and weekends and it seems like I never see my husband anymore. We have had a few trips planned(such as one this weekend) and the weather has just not cooperated. We ended up selling the big fancy trailer from the previous post because my car pretty much died-sigh. We traded it in on a new Toyota Corolla that we are leasing and hopefully when the lease is up we'll have a little more money to spend on a car than we do now.

My job is going well, but sometimes I wonder why I ever wanted to be a nurse. Some nights I literally run my butt off all night! But all-in-all we are happy that I have it and for the way it works for our family.

I snapped some cute pictures over the last month so I thought I would update everyone a little and show off my cute boys!! Enjoy!!

I won this tent at my last work staff meeting and Caiden claimed it as his own. We set it up in the basement and he loves to pretend we are camping. Funny thing he said when he saw it was, "We don't need a trailer anymore, we can just use this tent!" We laughed at the time, but he might be right about that after all!Well it's no bubble mower, but Caiden has a great imagination!

1st camping trip of the season!!

Jayson was so excited for the warm weather (and that means 65 for all those not here in Utah) that we packed up the trailer on Friday and headed out to do a little camping! We couldn't go too far from home as there is still snow in the mountains, but also I had to work on Saturday morning so I had to wake up at 5 and drive to get to work on time. We went to Crystal Hot Springs which is kind of lame, but fun because they have hot tubs to sit in. The weather was good, only a little cool at night but that's why we have a heated trailer!

We look forward to camping season every year, especially Jayson since he bought us a nice, new, fancy, trailer in January. He's been dying for a chance to use it! In two weeks we are going to Moab and then after that we'll park it up on our property that we rent. We love summer-it's about time it started warming up!

I colored my hair for my 30th birthday-what do ya'll think?!!

Cutest baby I've ever seen!

Paxton's blessing

We had Paxton's blessing this past Sunday and everything went great! Jayson was nervous, but he always is with that sort of thing. He gave a nice blessing in spite of his nerves. We decided to only invite family to this one because I just didn't want all the people in my house and the headache of figuring out food for an army and all the hassle that comes with a crowd. Plus i had to work at two so I just didn't want all the work of a big party-that's not what it's about anyways. We had a nice brunch at our house afterwards and the day ended up being very nice. Jayson got to take the boys to the park after I left for work(the temp is finally in the 60s now!).

I definitely have to thank God for the wonderful, healthy, and happy boys that I have. I am lucky to be a mom.