December 2013

When we tell Paxton he needs a bath/shower, he complains but if we ask if he wants to take a bath with Graham, he is all for it!

Paxton had fun setting up his own nativity set in his room.

Rem and I got spoiled this year by my parents, they gave us an early Christmas present... a snow blower!  Paxton likes to go out with his shovel and help his dad.

Rem was so excited about his new present that he went right out and did our driveway, they neighbors and all the sidewalks in our circle and the next circle over.  I think he would've kept going, but it was already 10:00 pm.

"Too much love!" We say this a lot to Paxton, he just loves Graham SOOOO much!

These two share a room and it works out for the most part.  But on occasion I will find these two just laughing their heads off either before bed time or in the morning.  How can you get mad a that?!

In case you were wondering... we still use a nebulizer for Paxton.  All during the winter months we do a treatment every night of the Budesonide (preventative) and if he gets sick and is having troubles breathing we use the Albuterol.  He does well with it because he knows he gets to read books while he has it on.

My best friend growing up got married!  I'm so happy for her!  Her wedding was beautiful and I'm so glad I got to be there.

Paxton went through a phase where he moved all his stuffed animals around with him.  They had to go to bed with him, but he would bring them into our room at times and into the family room... ALL of the them :)

This was at our ward Christmas (breakfast) party.  (I was at work)

Paxton put these legos together all by himself to take to Preschool for show and tell.

Festival of Trees

Spanish Fork Lights

Dickens Festival

1st time at the dentist

My friend Nicci works at this cute dental place by my house, so it was perfect for us to bring Paxton here.  Although, I think because he knew her he was refusing to let her put tools in his mouth at first.  It took quite some time for him to let her do it, but in the end he did great!  He never cried, he was mostly being super talkative and wanting to watch the movie on the ceiling (I had to turn it off).  I think next time he will do much better.

Movie night

I can't even remember what we went to see, I think it maybe was Despicable Me 2.

Annual Gingerbread House Party

Erika and Ben got first place.

It was all just my siblings that came this year, we had a few people cancel and we weren't able to find anyone else last minute.  But we had a good time!  Everyone loves this party and looks forward to it.  Heck, even my neighbors look forward to coming over to be the judges!  

Rem and I never have enough time to work on ours because we are always helping everyone else.  It's supposed to be WhoVille, but we had to throw last minute stuff on to make it look finished.

Some of the people didn't want to have to take the gingerbread house home and we didn't want to keep them all so we took them outside and destroyed them.  The boys had fun doing this!

Grandma Soderberg's Christmas party

Making Cookies

Paxton was pro at helping me decorate the cookies to take to the party!  He loved it and it was so great to have a helper!

Visiting Paxton's birth family

Grandma Moss' Christmas Eve Party

Christmas Morning

I had to block off the hallway to remind Paxton that he couldn't go in the front room until we were all awake.  He was the first one up and came and woke us up saying "there's a rocking horse in there"!  As you can see Graham still looks sleepy, yes we woke him up to come be with us.

Santa brought Graham a rocking horse and Paxton a bow and arrow.

Paxton loved helping everyone open their presents.  He was being so cute with Graham.

Then we took him in the basement for the present that we got him.  We put these "saloon" doors on our space under the stairs that Pax calls his clubhouse.  We put up the window mirror, hooks and bought him some guns and a rope.  He loved his big gun!

Love his face in this :)

Then off we went to Grandma and Grandpa Moss' for breakfast and presents.

Matching jammies from GG Hughes

Surprise for my Dad!

My siblings and I usually have a hard time knowing what to get our Dad.  This year we had an idea to re-do his office.  It was just getting cluttered and there wasn't much room to add more pictures of all his cute grand kids.  So a couple of days after Christmas on his day off, most of us headed to the office.  We had everything planned out already.  We got to work right away.  Dan and Rem did all the painting and hanging up pictures and Jamie, Erika and I did all the cleaning, designing and more.  We were able to get it done just in time for him to come see it.  He had no idea we were there, he thought he was meeting the guys there to head out to a basketball game.  He was so surprised and he loves it!

before

before

during

surprise!

after

after

after

So we kept most of his stuff, just organized it better.  And put the frames up in a collage so it would be easier to add more to it.

Sunday Best

My handsome boys!

New Years Eve

We just stayed in, we were going to go the cabin, but some of us were feeling sick.  We played some games and had our Martinelli's.  I think Rem was probably the only one that was awake for the New Year.

Happy New Year!