August 12, 2015

March 2015

Excited for the snow!


This is what he did when I told him to do a silly face.  

Handsome boys all ready for church. 



Super Cousins!

This is my Easter craft that I made for The Wood Connection blog, I love how it turned out!


Making Faces with Paxton




I'm an aunt again! My sister, Jamie had her second baby. Lincoln is so dang cute and I'm so lucky I got to be there. I was nervous that she asked me to be the photographer at the hospital.  Luckily I did a pretty good job ;) See pictures here.

Preschool fieldtrip
I thought it was so cute when Paxton went up to this picture and knew exactly what a Tasmanian Tiger was.  He surprises a lot with his knowledge on animals.


Happy St. Paxton's Day!!!
We were living at Grandma's house at the time, but we still did birthday balloons.  The kids always have fun with the balloons.  Can't believe this kid is already 5 years old!






Paxton was super excited about his ninja shirt, he thought it was super funny!  This kid sure makes us happy.  He is so full of character and makes us laugh everyday.  Sure love this kiddo!



I let him choose where he wanted to go for his birthday lunch and he chose his favorite, Chuck-a-rama!  It was fun to have GG Moss join us!


Birthday Party
Then later that day we had the best birthday party ever!  We went back to our empty house that we just moved out of and had a nerf gun/foam sword party.  I printed out pictures of bad guys and taped them to the walls and hung ninja masked balloons from the ceiling, invited a bunch of boys, turned on some music and let them go to town!  I know Paxton was in heaven the whole time, he had a blast!  It was the perfect birthday party for this awesome 5 year old!  And how great it was to have an empty house to do it in!









They even sat on the floor to eat birthday cake.  These boys were hilarious!  It was so funny to watch them interact and hear them laughing at each others jokes (yes a lot of them were potty jokes).  Crazy kids!

Pax & Ethan

Pax & his best buddy, Grady

Pax and Jack from preschool

Pax and Konner

Pax & Miller

Pax & Jagger from preschool

Pax & 




Birthday dinner
We went to a mexican restaurant for dinner and Pax got more spoiled by Grandma and Grandpa with some awesome ninja turtle toys!  He was in heaven!





Family Pictures
I had my sister take some last photos of us in our first home before we moved.  We lived in that house for 9 1/2 years, it was bitter sweet leaving it.

Getting ready to move...


Graham was really good at "trying" to be a good helper with packing up the house.  Sometimes it actually was somewhat helpful, other times not so much.





My sweet Young Women came and helped me clean my house.  They are so awesome, I will miss them a lot!




Here is my empty house...
On the last day I came and walked through it and took these last photos.  I thought I would get emotional about it, but I didn't.  All my stuff was out so it didn't feel like my home anymore.  But as I started driving away out of the neighborhood, that's when I started to get emotional.  I really loved my neighborhood and ward.  It was such a great first home and we made some really great friends!







Jazz Game





Graham got tired and tried sleeping on the floor.


Happy 10 year Anniversary!
We originally were wanting to plan a vacation for just the two of us for our 10 year.  But with purchasing a more expensive home we decided that buying a new home was a pretty great 10 year anniversary gift to us.  So instead we planned a weekend away, just the 2 of us.  We ate dinner at this fun place in Park City where we played pool and shuffleboard.




And then we drove up to Stein Erikson lodge where we were spoiled with this big beautiful room where we even had our own hot tub on the deck!  My parents neighbor hooked us up and even left us a note and yummy treat in the fridge.  It was definitely a much needed night away from the kids.




We explored the lodge.  And the next morning we had a super fancy continental breakfast.  This place was amazing! 


We then drove into Heber where we went horseback riding.  We told the people that we had some experience riding horses, but not tons.  And they took us straight up a mountain hillside.  It was a lot of fun, but coming back down was definitely more scary then going up.  We had a great time spending time together just the two of us!



Excited for our new house!
So I realize this house looks like our previous one from the outside.  I was hoping to find something different, oh well.  I still like this one.  More importantly we love the neighbor, location and it just felt right.  We actually had an accepted offer on a home in South Jordan the night before we found this house, so we had a huge decision to make that weekend.  It was a hard one because the South Jordan home was bigger, newer and move in ready, it was a beautiful home.  Where as this one was more of a fixer upper, it's not too bad but we definitely wanted to make some changes.  In the end we did what we felt was right and location was a HUGE factor!  We are happy with our decision and are loving it here!

Graham came with us to sign lots and lots of papers!

May 28, 2015

February 2015

This kid likes to eat whatever I'm eating even if it is spinach salad. And even if he already had his own lunch. 

Reading books at the library. 

Paxton made an "All About Me" poster for preschool. 

While at grandma and grandpa's house, I found Graham in the playroom all by himself trying to play video games. Made his daddy proud ;)



Playing at the park with grandma.



Silly kid, stacking his lunch
and putting pretzels in his sippy cup. 


Cute brothers


                 Aquarium Field Trip

At the aquarium with Paxton's preschool for a field trip. We buddied up with Jack and Jagger. 



We tried out the 3-d movie. Both boys weren't too sure about it and would not wear their glasses. 



The Zoo

Zoo time with neighbor friends, the Bells. 



Valentines Day


Happy late Valentines Day to my boys. I was really sick on valentines day so we did not do anything, I didn't even pull out my decorations. So a week later I tried making up for it and got them each a little gift. And then we spent some time together in the backyard. Because mommy and daddy have been super busy getting the house ready to sell. 





January 2015

Apparently not a lot happened in January.  Here's some everyday pictures around the house.
I love it when Paxton and Graham get along, they have a lot of fun together!



We don't give Graham the iPad very often because if you do he will NOT share.  Paxton has learned to sit farther away to try and watch the show with him, but if Graham sees that he is watching he will turn it away or sit closer to it so Paxton can't see.  

This kid has a crazy long tongue just like his birthmom.  He can almost touch his nose with it, he's super close.


Sure love these cute boys!

January was the month that we started working on getting our house ready to sell.
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Also I found some other pictures of our...

YOUNG WOMEN WINTER RETREAT
I took all the Young Women and leaders up to my cabin for an overnight stay.  We got to have dinner, play lots of games, do a pajama fashion show and be silly.  The next day we had breakfast and then went sledding on the big hill just right outside.  Rem and my brother were nice enough to come up and help snowmobile all the girls to the top of the hill so they could sled down again and again.  We had a blast!