Jaxen Turned 1!!!

On April 23rd my baby turned 1! It is crazy to think he went from THIS to.......

To This!!

He is the best baby! He is always happy and smiling! He is such a boy, give him a Basketball, Baseball,Football,Soccor ball or any kind of ball and he will think you are the best person in teh world! He will play all day with it or a car. He is really good at making the car noise too. He says Mom,Dad,Please,More, and his latest is aaaaammmmBer. It is so cute he crawls around the room yelling it. He is not walking quite yet but he stands up all the time and will take a couple steps but then gets scared and sits down. We always are saying how he is our middle child in the sense that he isn't as little as Amber was but not as big as Masen, He has Green eyes instead of the blue or brown teh others have and he looks alot like both of the other kids. It is crazy how it all worked out :) We Love our Jaxen and are so glad he is part of our family!!! It was funny on his birthday he was so tired and ended up falling asleep right before we were getting ready to do cake so we ended up giving all of his guests their cake and let him sleep then we woke him up so he could Digg into his cake! Well he hated it on his hands and was so mad when I put his had in it. Nic ended up giving him a fork and he ate quite a bit of it with a fork. The was a first for us all of our other kids dug right in. Hahahaha

Easter

We Had a Great Easter this year! We were all sick and had Strep Throat a couple days before but luckily we felt well enough to enjoy the weekend. I Love when Easter and Conference are in the same weekend! What a great way to remember our savior by listening to our Prophet and all of the other wonderful speakers talk to us about him!!! We have the Easter Bunny come to our house on Sat. instead of Sunday so that Sunday can be all about the real meaning of Easter. It is something my Mom has always done and has now become one of our traditions too! I think it is a wonderful idea and we love it! The Easter Bunny spoiled the kids against his year. The 2 oldest got those ball things that have a handle on them and you bounce on them and lots of other little things and of course Candy! Jaxen got some cute little animal cars. And of course Amber got a cute Easter Dress and a shirt, Masen and Jaxen got matching outfits and matching polo shirts for church. We had a fabulous Easter morning and it is so much fun now that we have older kids that understand that the Easter bunny was coming and going to leave them stuff. Amber was up at 7 and couldn't wait any longer for us all to get up so we let her wake the boys up so she could see what she had gotten :) After the first session of conference we went to my Moms and had some yummy food and a Easter egg hunt for all the kids then the Boys all went to the Priesthood session. It was fun to have a Family get together will all of us there. Even Jenni came and cheated a little on her bed rest ssshhhhh Don't Tell ;) I am so grateful for the savior and all the sacrifices he made for me! I Love this time of the year when we can remember it all and teach our children about the Resurrection and the savior!

Zoo

My sister in-law Connie invited us to go to the Zoo with them a couple weeks ago , her kids didn't have school so we decided to tag along. I decided to pick up my nephew Dakota since Jenni is on bed rest and he has been begging her to take him to see the baby Elephant but she couldn't do anything about it. At first I was thinking what am I getting myself into!!!???? 4 kids 4 and under am I crazy!! But it turned out really good and Connie was there to save me when it wasn't going good :) The kids loved it and got to see the Baby Elephant and the Baby Giraffe which died a week after we saw it :( Amber was sad the Zebras were not there since they died not to long ago too. We went on the train and had lots of fun running around seeing and acting like Monkeys!

Amber and the Baby Giraffe!

Dakota and Masen on the Train

Brotherly Love


Cute Dakota

Best Friends (watching the Apes)

Monkeys!

Dakota watching the Lepard

Jaxen wanting to go in with the Penguins


Penguin

Cheeeeessseee!!!


OOOOOO!! Wood chips and Peguins

Mommy and Baby Elephant!

Goofy Boys

Mommy Daughter Date!

Amber and I went on a mommy daughter date and got our Nails done! It was lots of fun and she thought she was a Princess being all pampered and the ladie doing her nils just loved her and was so nice to her! Amber got Silver with Sparkles and a flower and then told them I needed a flower to :)

Amber Funny

So we went to Artic Circle to get a ice cream cone last night and Amber has been wanting one of teh dumb bunnies they have forever. I always tell her no she dosen't need another stuffed animal and then we have a huge break down for an hour and she gets over it til she sees them again. Well last night she was begging Nic to get her one and of course he gives in and gets her and Masen one. Well we went and got gas after that and while Nic was out pumping the gas I turned around and told Amber seh was so spoiled and has her Daddy wraped around her finger she then askes what that means so I tell her. Nic gets in the car and Amber proceeds to ask him " Daddy are you wrapped around my finger" and Nic said " Yes ! gosh " and Amber looks and me and said " I knew he would say that" hahahahaha she is such a little princess and I don't know what Nic is going to do if we ever have another girl! He better start to make lots more money at work that is for sure :)

Birthday,Murder Mystary,and another Birthday

Us waiting for the Movie to start!

I Turned the big 24 on the 15th of Febuary! I will be honest I do not feel any different than I did last year , I honestly have a hard time thinking I am still 19 LOL. I had a really good birthday and got super spoiled from my husband and kids! I got a new camera, a digital frame to go with that a shirt some flowers, a new purse from my mom which I LOVE , and a movie and dinner date night with my hubby from the in- laws. Nic took me out to dinner that night and we went and saw When in Rome, I really like the movie and Nic said it was actually pretty good too :) Thanks to my mom and dad for watching the kids so we could have a kid free night!

In Febuary we had a game night with our long lost game night friends :) We had it at our friends Jedd and Darci's house. We did a Murder mystery party, it was lots of fun dreesing up as our characters , playing our parts and trying to figure out who did it with the silly funny story we had. I wish I could remember all the names of everyone cause they were so funny! I remember Cal Q. Later , Dee C. Ducer, and Penny Loafer , but I can't remember all of them. Cal Q. Later aka Matt ended up being the murder! We had lots of fun trying to figure it out an dlistening to everyone else and what they thought happened and who they thought did it. Thank you Jed and Darci for hosting it was so much fun! Hopefully we do something again real soon!

Me and Nic ( this is not a good picture of me)

Jed and Darci
Matt and Melissa
Todd and Connie

Me, Darci and Todd

Our Cute Pregnant Host Darci :)



Todd took this picture, we all thought it was funny all the detail that was in it!

Melissa , Matt , and Nic

Nic had a birthday on the 28th! He turned the big 26. He too got spoiled this year and got his PSP he has been wanting to get so being the wonderful wife I am I thought I would get it for him :) Masen picked him out a shirt and hat too. Amber picked him out a game to go with the PSP and a game for the PS3. Since his birthday was on a Sunday we didn't go out but we did get take out on Friday for him ssince we had sick kids and no one wanted to watch sick kids for us, which was fine with us :). Happy Birthday Nic I LOVE YOU!!!