A Budding Pianist

Lately there is not a day that goes by that Jaxon and I don't spend spend some time on the piano. He loves pounding on the keys, and sometimes trying to eat them. Whenever I take him away from the piano he will turn and reach out his arms to it. I am glad he likes playing so much, I just hope it continues through the years.

Happy Valentine's Day

It is so nice to have a day to put that extra effort in to show love for those close to you. Today was a great day. Brett suprised me by coming home in the middle of the day with a beautiful boquet of flowers. I absolutely LOVE getting flowers. It is one of my favorite things! But I was in charge of valentines this year so I had a lot of work to do. We had the girls over tonight, so it was all about them. I made the girls and Brett a cute little scavenger hunt with candy valentines all around the house. Then I made each of them their favorite dinners and decorated the dining room with white lights, candles, and rose petals. We had romantic music playing through dinner and Brett and I waited on them through the whole thing. It was fun.

Here is a picture of me and my cute little valentine.

Since the girls were here tonight, Brett and I are celebrating Friday night. And yes I have big plans...can't wait!

Thank You Pinterest...

For giving me so many fun crafts and fun things to do at home. I LOVE Pinterest and all the ideas I get from there.

Example 1: An old cupboard door from when I redid Kyra's room. I turned it into...

something great to display some of my pictures. I LOVE displaying pictures.

Example 2: Brett LOVES Apple products. To him, a good date would be to go to the Apple store just to look around and play with stuff. So tonight I gave him this cute card.

I have also tried many delicious recipes from Pinterest. I have not been dissapointed yet. I am just excited to try out more fun stuff!

5 Months

I swore that when I had a baby I would make sure to blog about other things besides my baby. But here is the thing...I don't really do much. He's pretty much the only thing going on in my life right now, so that is what you get to hear about.


Jaxon has taken a turn for the better. We have a lot of fun together all day long doing things like going to the gym, reading books, playing with toys, and singing songs.

We always try to get together with his best friend Brayden as much as possible. Too bad he lives so far away so they can't play more :(

Jaxon and daddy are always watching BYU basketball or the Kings (because that is the team Jimmer plays for).

Jaxon LOVES the water and taking baths. He has already grown out of his baby bath tub. Sometimes I take him to the YMCA to float in their heated pool.

He finally started to do ok in the car, so now we get to go run a lot more errands.

We have tried to give him rice cereal a couple of times. But then learned shortly after as he was puking the rest of the day that his little tummy just can't handle it yet.

And he doesn't really like the taste anyway.

He's a regular church goer and looks pretty snazzy every Sunday. Of course we have 1:00 church so it completely throws him off schedule and it takes us a couple days for things to get back to normal for him.

Overall he is a super cute boy who smiles and laughs a lot. If we could only figure out how to get him to sleep our life would be perfect!

Nertz

Hey college friends, remember when the only thing we would do for like a whole year was sit around and play Nutz (nertz)? Well I spent all weekend playing this at Brett's house with his family and I can't believe how much I missed it. We were all so good at that game, and so competitive. I think we should get together again and have nutz parties! By the way, I trashed everyone when I was playing this weekend. Maybe that is why is was so fun for me!

Christmas Day

We had a wonderful Christmas day. It started very early in the morning opening presents, then off to a great sacrament meeting. I made a new breakfast (overnight french toast), then spent the rest of the day lounging around watching church movies and playing with new presents.

Jaxon opening his stocking. We didn't really get him presents. I just bought him some teething toys that he needed and put them in his stockings.

You know Kyra, always excited to take a picture, especially at 6:00 in the morning!

For Christmas this year Makenna said she didn't really want anything. Then she said, "Well maybe BYU things." So Brett and I got her a lot of BYU things. She absolutely loved all of them.

Brett got me this nice canvas picture of the family.

I let the young women borrow my sewing maching for a project. When I got it back I was only able to use one stictch. I don't know what they did to it, but Brett made it better by buying me a new sewing machine. SO excited!

Kenna is wearing some jammies that I made her. I only did a couple homemade things this year and they all turned out great!

All of us in our PJs in front of our tiny Christmas tree.

Our Christmas feast. It wasn't really a feast, but it was delicious!

Christmas Eve

We had such a fun Christmas Eve with my family at Kim's house. We enjoyed delicious food and had a fun time exchanging gifts with each other. You could tell all the ladies in the family were inspired by pinterest this year because there were a lot of homemade gifts.

My aunt made us all these super cute aprons. Yes I know I look pregnant in this picture.

My wonderful aunt with all of us kids.