mother i love you

I feel so lucky to be a mom to such a sweet little boy, it's the BEST thing in the world!

On the Saturday before Mother's Day it was Birth Mother's Day so we went and celebrated with Paxton's AWESOME birth mom.

Thank you Ciara for being such a good and selfless person with such a big heart.  And thank you for making me a mom!!

We had a good time just hangin' out and talking.  Cute little Addison (who is now 5!) was so cute with Paxton, they had alot of fun together.

Then on Sunday, we were invited over to my Aunt's house for dinner.

4 generation picture:  Grandma Soderberg, my Mom-Peggy, Mindy and Paxton

my sister Erika, my Mom, my sister Jamie, Mindy and Paxton

I just have to say that I have the BEST mom ever, she is my best friend and such a great example to me and I hope to become more like her one day.  Love you Mom!

Hope everyone had a Happy Mother's Day. 

 And I send my love to those who wish to become a Mother.

Sunshine!!!

Last minute we decided to go to Sunny Saint George with my parents and sister for Easter break.  We were so glad we went with all this crummy weather we have been getting here.

(warning: LONG post with tons of pictures and video's)

We put Paxton forward facing in the car so he could watch movie's.  He had the comfiest seat in the car.  I love how he crosses his feet.

Erika shared her head phones with Paxton and this is what he did...

I love his dance moves!

We stayed at my Grandma's place .  Paxton LOVED the golf cart!  We took him for rides in it everyday, a couple of times a day around the neighborhoods and to see the ducks.

He loved it so much that sometimes when we were done and you took him out, he would start fussing.

Paxton ate the bread instead of feeding the ducks.

On one of the days we went on an early morning hike.  It was so beautiful and nobody was out on the trail but us.

We also went golfing.  Paxton had a blast tagging along for the ride.  He even had his own set of plastic golf clubs.  Erika and I had fun playing scramble, we played a pretty good game.  I surprised myself with how well I did especially for not going in a long time.  (Remi and my Dad played also and my Mom watched Paxton most of the time).

And we did LOTS of swimming!!!

On the way to swimming...

wrinkly feet

And on the way home he zonked out and the pool was less than 2 minutes away from where we were staying.

 And we had a Happy Easter!

Can't wait to visit again!

If you ever drive to St. George...

you must stop in Scipio

We got to pet the... rabbits

and the sheep

we didn't pet the chicken

we did pet the ducks

even an emu

the donkeys stayed put

we also pet a zebra and some ponies (not pictured)

but the best of all was the

2 week old baby goats

they were so soft!

(eating Paxton's zipper)

We actually stopped here twice.  Once on the way to St. George and these pictures are on the way home.  I didn't get any pictures from the first trip because my camera died, but Remi and Erika got to feed the baby goats some milk out of bottles, it was so cute.  Too bad those goats didn't stay cute like that- we were all tempted to take one home as a pet!

The Zoo

We were so excited to take Paxton to the Zoo since he has been learning a ton of his animal sounds.

He knows what an elephant says, but he wouldn't do it.

Rem brought his sketch book to draw the animals.  This monkey climbed right over to him like he was watching what he was doing.

Aunt 'KaKa' (Erika) came with us.

ROAR!!

The giraffe's tongue was sooooo long!!

It was fun to watch Paxton make some of the animal noises...

Doesn't he look so cute in his tiger hat?!  He roar's whenever he see's it.

Triple Header

We had a joint birthday party for Paxton and his cousin's all turning ONE!  It's so much fun to see these boys growing up together.  We also combined our Easter Egg Hunt with all the cousins.

(I'm still trying to play catch-up so there will be lot's of new posts coming soon)

gratitude

 

All the words in the world could never express

the way we feel about you.

You have given us a treasure worth far more than silver or gold

a precious boy, a child of God, whom we will forever hold.

We are grateful to you for giving him life,
so we just wanted to say... 

 We love you so much and
 Happy Birth Mother's Day!!!

mini GOLF

We took our friend, Nate the Great mini golfing.  He's been wanting to go for a while and this crazy weather kept messing up our plans.  But we finally got out and we had a blast!

Nate was really good at mini golf, he must go a lot.

Paxton even joined in on the fun.

Then we played some arcade games.

Paxton loved getting the tickets.

We had a lot of fun hanging out with our good friend Nate!