engagement

We are excited to announce that my sister Jamie is engaged to Dan!!

As Jamie likes to put it, they were engaged the night before 1-1-11 :)  They had a fun night out to dinner and ice skating at the Gallivan Center then made a stop at the Salt Lake library where a dozen roses was waiting for her on the bridge and he proposed!!  Then Remi, my Mom, Trevor & Sandee and Erika were all there to congratulate them.  Sadly Paxton and I were at home sick and in bed.

We are so excited for them, they will be married on May 13!!

Christmas morning

Paxton wakes up and is ready to eat (this is like most mornings).

'I'M HUNGRY, FEED ME NOW!!!!'

'Yes this is what I want'

'It's about time!'

Haha, silly little boy.  When he is hungry he will let you know!!!

Then it was time to wake everyone else up.  Paxton was PRO at this!  Who wouldn't want to be woken up by this cute little boy?! He was all smiles after his belly was full.  Then we all had to get a picture on the stairs, it's a tradition.

Then it was time to open presents.

Paxton got this 'walker' to help him learn to walk.  He likes more to play with the stuff on the front of it rather than actually walking with it.

Paxton LOVES books and he LOVES music, so we got him an Elmo book that plays music.  It's one of his favorites (and Lilo's too).

Christmas was alot of fun this year with Paxton, even though he didn't really know what was going on.  It was hard to get him to open his presents because there was so much paper and boxes every where that he just wanted to crawl around in it all.

This one was from Grandma (to stay at Grandma's) good thing because we got ALOT of toys at our house.

This one was from Grandpa.

Even Lilo got a present and she opened it up all by herself.

Remember that present to Paxton from Grandpa... this entertained the big kids for several hours. They switched the track up several times and had BYU and UofU car wars with the blue and red cars.  It was funny to watch them get in to it :)

And one more toy that we waited to open until after his morning nap.  Could we say spoiled?

Remi and I got spoiled too with mostly money, now we need to figure out how we want to spend it :)  We had a great Christmas spending time with family and especially with Paxton!

Christmas Eve X 3

First Stop:  At 11 am we went to Remi's parents house for lunch and presents.

Paxton got this fun toy from Grandma Sorenson.  Some of the other kids wanted to play it with him.  (Lilo LOVES this toy- it's hilarious).

He got this toy from his cousin Tyson.  It is the cutest toy ever!  You can connect it to the computer and program it to say their name and some of the things they like.  So it says "Hi Paxton"  and it sings different songs, it's so cute.  Paxton likes to dance to the music it plays.

With the adults we did a gift card exchange and played the stealing game.  I got the home depot card and Rem got the Victoria Secrets card, it was pretty funny.  I was excited to switch cards but then his got stolen by his brother ;) and Rem ended up with an itunes card.

Second Stop: We went to Remi's grandma's house.  It was a full house with all his cousins! 

Great Grandma Hughes loves to hold Paxton!

We dressed Paxton up as a little shepard for the nativity.

The girl in the blue played Mary, she went right up to Paxton and pulled off both of his socks!  It was so funny!

Paxton didn't mind one bit.

Claire as the cute little angel.

From Great Grandma, Paxton got these awesome cars that he likes to make the noise a car makes whenever he plays with them.  And he got some cute socks.

Third Stop:  We went to my Grandma's house with all of my cousins.  We had dinner and shared some service experiences and exchanged gifts.

Paxton got a new outfit from Great Grandma (not pictured).

And we brought the gift that he got from his birthmom, Ciara... these cute Christmas jammies.  Thanks Ciara, they are adorable!

Paxton was so warn-out at this point, it was way past his bedtime and he did not want to get in his jammies let alone have his picture taken in them.  This face just cracks me up!  But we did manage to get one smile out of him (below).

Every Christmas Eve we get new jammies and it's so fun to get all cozy warm, ready to go home and into bed.  Now that I'm older and married, Rem and I don't get jammies anymore, but it sure is fun to give them to Paxton.

Cute boys in their new jammies.

It was a long day, but we had a ton of fun!  After all the parties were over, we drove home to pack up our stuff, get Lilo and head to my parents house to sleep over.

Family Christmas Party

On the Sunday before Christmas we celebrated with my Mom's side of the family.  Paxton got to hangout with cute Maya.  We had a delicious dinner that Paxton was loving.  Then with the cousins we do a $5 gift exchange- I got a $5 gift card to the movies and Rem got SpiderMan 3.

Then we each get a gift from my grandma. Paxton got two new books to read.  He loves looking at books and especially likes to turn the pages.

Cute little reindeer bums :)

and the winner is...

The Annual Gingerbread House Contest

Rem and I love having this party, we wish our house was bigger so we could invite more people.  I think this is the 5th year of doing this??  Everyone keeps getting more and more creative.  The new comers don't realize how big this compition gets.  We work on these "houses" for at least 2 hours!  It's a lot of fun!

 Some of the group getting started.

Paxton enjoyed his time eating his dinner and then crawling around on the floor visiting with everyone until it was time for bed.  I was surprised he slept through the rest of the party because we were LOUD.

And the CRAZY dog stuck either outside or downstairs so she wouldn't bug everyone.

My sister Erika and her date.   (They got 2nd place)

My sister Jamie and her boyfriend (now fiancee) Dan.  (They got 3rd place)

Post on the proposal of these two love birds coming soon :)

My brother Trevor and his wife Sandee.

My friend Alisa and her boyfriend Kevin.

Rem and I.

We called our neighbors over to vote on their favorite...

 and Trev and Sandee got 1st Place!

They called theirs 'Tangled' not having seen the movie.  On the right is the tower with Rapunzel and her long hair and on the left is a guy getting hung..haha.  Their castle looked awesome!