March 2017

Cute cousins made necklaces together with Grandma.  Graham even made one for his dinosaur name "Horny" haha!

Paxton and Dad just doing some reading together.

I love driving down our neighborhood in the spring time, it's so beautiful!  Pictures don't do it justice.

Boys will be boys.

Always doing some sort of tackling.  Paxton is a good brother to be somewhat gentle with Graham.

Grrr, the picture is sideways.  But I wanted to post this cute chicken-wire frame that Rem made for me.  It's perfect for highlighting someone on their birthday!  This month it's all about Paxton.  I love seeing some of the old pictures from when he was younger.

Paxton turns 7!

It's tradition around here to wake up with tons of balloons on your birthday.

Every year Paxton gets a new St. Patrick's Day shirt.  This year we found a Pokemon one, he loved it!

Graham picked out a toy lizard for Pax, he loved it.

We took Paxton shopping for a new bike later.

Paxton got to be star of the week and bring a poster all about him to school. On Friday that week (which was his birthday) Rem and I got to come in to help with a parent/child activity.  They started out with Paxton's teacher talking about Paxton and what she thought was great about him and then Rem and I talked about him.  Then the students got to ask him questions.  One thing his teacher said that we thought was very fitting to Paxton's personality is "he moves at his own pace", also that he is a friend to everyone!  We love that about him.  

We then had Paxton put on his Tae Kwon Do clothes and show some of his moves he has learned.  Afterwards we read one of our favorite books called Samarai Santa (yes it's a Christmas book) but the kids loved it.  Then for our activity to go along with the book we gave half the kids ninja head scarfs and the other half snowmen neck scarves.  We took them outside and had a snowball fight with fake snowballs.  Rem wore a Santa hat and got the kids all crazy.  They all had a blast, it was a big hit!  I even heard some younger kids that were playing on the playground say "where did they get the snow from?"

Walking home from school.

Party time!

We do birthday parties every other year so this year Paxton got to invite one friend to do something fun with. He brought his good buddy, Henry along to Classic Fun Center. They did scooters, bounce houses, video and arcade games and more! After spending a couple hours there, we went to Chuck-a-Rama for dinner. And even though Paxton was upset with me for telling him we weren't doing a birthday party this year, he ended up having a blast and loved it just as much as any other party. 

(it was hard to take many pictures of these kids at Classic because they were constantly on the move!)

Little stinkers would not look at me for a picture. 

After dinner we went and picked up my cousins boy, Sam for a sleepover. We made a fort with sleeping bags in the basement tv room complete with treats and they watched a movie before they went to sleep. The next morning we made waffles, they played nerf guns and after lunch we went to Scheels. 

Scheels!
The boys had fun walking around Scheels getting pictures, playing shooting games and going on the Ferris wheel.

After we took Sam home we went shopping for a new bike! It was a good couple of days for this birthday boy!

 

Oh and it's not over, that night we had some family over for cake and ice cream!

 

Cute cousins!

The next day we went to Sorenson family Sunday dinner. We celebrated Paxton's and a few others birthdays. This kid sure got spoiled this weekend!

The Zoo

This is Grahams friend, Elly. I watch her once a week and these two go to preschool together. They are good buddies. I decided to take them to the zoo one day while the big kids were at school. We also invited Sandee and cousin Jake to come along. These kiddos sure had a great time!

Family Skate Night 

at Classic Fun Center with Mcmillan Elementary School. 

Tae Kwon Do

Color belt testing

We signed Paxton up for some martial arts. He is really enjoying it with his friend Amanda that joined with us. Tonight he did great on his test and earned his yellow/white stripe belt. 

February 2017

We had some warm days in February so Graham and I spent one day at the zoo.  It was a perfect day hanging out with my little Graham.

We went with cousins to The Puppy Barn and saw so many cute puppies!  I think us moms enjoyed the puppies more than the kids did.  They were sooo cute!

Valentines Day

We always send the kids on a red yarn hunt around the house to a hiding spot to find their presents.  Pax got a small book to fit his Pokemon cards in with some more cards and Graham got some hot wheels and track (enough to go all the way down the stairs)!  The boys each enjoyed Valentines Day at school while I prepared for the rest of the evening.  We made sugar cookies when they got home and put hearts up all over the walls and then started preparing a fondue dinner for the missionaries.  That's right, we had the missionaries over for Valentines Day.  Let's just say I skipped the candlelight dinner thing this year.  After dinner we enjoyed playing some around the world ping pong with the missionaries.  It was a nice evening.

               

Tae Kwon Do

Paxton started Tae Kwon Do with his friend Amanda.  They go three days a week and are loving it.  They are learning some pretty cool moves.

St. George 

We went to St. George for President's Day weekend with my sister, Jamie and her family.  It was a nice little getaway even though we didn't quite escape to sunny weather.  It rained most of the time we were there, but we still found time to go to the park twice, go hot tubing/swimming, go on a hike, play pickle ball and visit Dixie Rock.  

The kids loved this fun new park called Thunder Junction.  There was even a zipline and a volcano!  There is a train too, but it wasn't running at the time we went.

We met up with our cousins Angie and Troy and their cute families to go on this fun hike to see some Hieroglyphs.  The kids had fun climbing all over the rocks.

Graham insisted one day that his sandwich look like the one on the peanut butter jar with the smiley face.

I love the red rock, it's beautiful.  Climbing all over Dixie rock and exploring is one of my favorite things to do in St. George.

Most of us stayed warm in the hot tub.  Paxton and some of the other boy cousins were crazy enough to swim in the pool.

The Aquarium

One morning while Paxton was at school, I picked up some of my nieces and nephew and took them to the Aquarium.  They were out of school and their parents both had to work.  It was Olivia's first time and she loved it!  They all had a lot of fun and then I took them back to my house to play with Paxton.  Pax was really excited to have his cousins over to play with.  It's a good thing we have a annual pass so we can go back to the aquarium whenever we want and hopefully with Pax next time.

 

Airborne

Paxton had a birthday party at this fun trampoline place, so Graham and I decided to stay and play.  I never could get any pictures of Paxton because he was off playing with all his friends.  But it was fun to hangout with Graham and do some fun jumping, great balancing and crazy climbing.