June 22, 2014

April 2014

11 months old
Just started standing up on his own without grabbing onto anything.

Swings with cousin Jake

I know this picture is blurry, but I love it.  Paxton is such a good brother and is learning how to play with Graham.  He loves him so much and is always telling him so.  

New jammies all the way from Australia!  Thanks aunt Sara and uncle Ryan!

Graham found one of my headbands, I put it on him and he just left it there for quite a while.



Rem reminded us of the earthquake drill.  Paxton was in the basement so I yelled down to him "pretend earthquake!"  Graham and I got under the kitchen table and then I went down to Paxton and talked to him about earthquakes and where the best place to duck and cover would be.  He first started to run upstairs, so we had to talk about why he couldn't do that.  Then the rest of the day Pax would randomly yell out "earthquake!"



-Pax and his buddy Grady love to play in the dirt for hours!  I don't think I'll plant anything in this pot this year, because this is their favorite spot to play.
-Pax is such a good cousin to Jake.

Paxton brought home these papers from church to color while watching General Conference.  Well as you can see I benefited the most from them.  They helped me stay awake and pay attention, which was great because there were some very good talks that I needed to hear.  Love conference!


Neighborhood Easter Egg Hunt

They had a limit on how many eggs they could find.  Paxton was having so much fun that he kept going so we had to make him put back several eggs.

St. George!
We went over Easter weekend with my whole family except for Jamie, Dan and Lucy.  It was a short and fun trip, but I don't know I will do Easter weekend there again unless we can stay longer, it was just super busy!


We had a fun time doing the Red Cliffs hike.  Paxton was a champ and did the whole thing by himself.  Pax, Rem and I had fun walking through the water.



Paxton always finds a good stick to carry around as his weapon.


When we got back, he zonked out!

Then later on we took them to the river walk.  Graham didn't care for it too much, I think the water was too cold.  But Paxton loved it!  I could barely catch a picture of him because he was running all over the place.



Easter time
After church we had an Easter Egg hunt for the kids (mostly Paxton).



Grandma got them new outfits.



Learning how to shoot a cup with a BB gun.  He was in heaven and he actually shot it!

St. George was such a short trip, that we never found time to color the eggs.  So after preschool, we took our eggs and stuff with us to color them with Maya and her mom Kristi (my cousin).  Kristi and I enjoyed it much more than the kids did.  The came and colored a couple, but didn't have the patience for it, they just wanted to play.





Preschool Field Trip
to Red Butte Gardens



Meet Parker, our new nephew.  Rems brother, Randy and Kelsey just had their first baby.  He is so adorable!  We are so excited for them!

Graham didn't seem so much like a baby anymore next to Parker.

June 5, 2014

March 2014

Graham is crawling all over the place!

Loves the bath tub!

It's hard to do the dishes when this kid is awake.


St. Patrick's Day & Easter wall :)


Pax is a good helper when it comes to making cookies!




Sunday dinner
After dinner at my parents house we went outside to practice soccer with Paxton.  The babies ended up joining in with their dads.  It was hilarious, we were laughing our heads off!






Happy Birthday Paxton!
We had Sunday dinner at Sorenson's the day before Paxton's birthday, so we had a little celebration while we were there.  He got his very own little cake and he got to open a present from Grandma and Grandpa.






Tracy Aviary
One of Paxton's and Maya's preschool field trips was at the Tracy Aviary.




The New Salon
I moved to a new place and I'm loving it!  One of the girls that I worked with at Capelli Hair started this new place and Stacey (the nail tech at Capelli) and I followed her over.


The New Aquarium
We went to the new aquarium the Saturday after it opened (I know we were crazy, but it was the only time Rem and I could go together).  It was kind of disappointing because it wasn't fully finished.  But it was still really cool to see.  I loved their main attractions though! Paxton and Graham sure seemed to enjoy it!





Happy St. Paxton's Day!
We surprised Paxton with balloons again this year when he opened his bedroom door.  It kind of scared him right at first.



The Leprechaun left us some Lucky Charms for breakfast!


Time to PARTY!
This was the first year we did a cousin/friend party.  It was so fun to watch Paxton get all excited for his Super Hero party and help me shop for the party stuff.  He had such a blast!




He invited his Sorenson cousins that are his age, Tyson & Keaton, and my cousins kids, Maya, Gavin & Sam and his best buddy that lives across the street, Grady.







Silly Stringing the bad guys.

Thor explaining the Super Hero's mission.

Each Hero was times to see how fast they could knock over all the building and punch all the bad guys (the balloons).











Present time...


Thank you hugs... so sweet :)



The decorations...



It's not the prettiest cake, but it was one yummy homemade icecream cake!  I wanted to just order a cake, because I am the type that just makes a box cake in a 9x13 pan or cupcakes.  But with Paxton's allergy to eggs, I attempted making my own ice cream cake, and it actually was quite easy!  




Although it was a big mess to clean up, it was very well worth it to see Paxton's face light up and have a good time fighting crime with his friends.  We sure love this 4 year old!