New baby...new house

We finally told our family that I was pregnant on Thanksgiving, so now it can be open news. Yeah! I'm pregnant. Jaxon pokes my belly button (kinda hard sometimes) and then kisses it and says "hello baby JoJo". Ryan always called the baby while it was still an embryo, JoJo the Embryo. And now that it is a fetus...he calls it Clitus. So now Jaxon says, "hello baby Clitus". It is really cute. He is going to be the best big brother. We are all very excited.
We also put our house on the market TODAY! Ryan and I were not planning on moving until we outgrow this house...maybe when we are pregnant with our 3rd child or something. But the timing is just perfect. We have already looked at a few houses in Hidden Springs subdivision and we will go look at a few in Southeast Boise just to compare. We love both areas. So now we just have to sell this beauty and then we will be in our dream home. We are so excited.

Farmstead

Jaxon has been looking forward to the Farmstead for over a week now. We finally got to go because it stopped raining for a day or so. He LOVED it. He rode a mini horse, fed and pet animals, ran through a mini hay maze (since Ryan hates corn mazes and didn't want to do it.) He rode a tractor pulled cow, ate mini doughnuts, played on the toys and picked out a couple pumpkins. He had a blast. It is kind of hard picking out pumpkins with a 2 year old. He picked up every pumpkin he could carry and set it in our cart. I was putting back pumpkins all night. He thoroughly enjoyed it though and that is all that matters.

My Baby Boy is Not A Baby Any Longer

Jaxon is 2 years old! I cannot believe it. Daddy came home from work as usual at 7:45am and had made Jax Mickey Mouse pancakes and eggs. Then we had a fun filled day while Daddy slept. After Ryan woke up around 3pm, we opened presents. Ryan and I got him a T-ball set with bases, a baseball mitt and a real baseball. He was in heaven. So we played baseball for a while until Ryan and I got bored. We then were off to Chucky Cheese (where a kid can be a kid) and adults can act like kids as well. I got an instant headache with 100 kids running around. It was all worth it when I saw Jaxon's face when we walked inside. He played games, gave the creepy Chucky high fives and won lots of tickets (which we gave to a cute little girl because we didn't want to wait in a huge line to redeem our tickets for a Tootsie Roll or something lame. As you can tell, Jaxon will never go to Chucky Cheese or anyplace like it with his Mother ever again. We drove down the road to eat pizza at Flying Pie. After pizza we went to the park to meet all his friends. They played on the toys, ate baseball cupcakes and icecream, sang to Jaxon, watched him open presents and then played some more. They had a great time. I think Jaxon had the greatest birthday a 2 year old could have.

Aloha!

Ryan and I just spent a week with our friends, Kerri and Chris from Arizona in Hawaii. We left Jax at the grandparent's houses and had a great time. Kerri and I hung out on the beach with the boys played frisbee for hours in the ocean. We ate a lot of delicious food, shopped, did a session at the temple and explored towns. We ziplined over beautiful waterfalls for FREE. The guy from the snorkeling shop told us to talk to Luke at the Zipline shop. When we called, Luke was out on a tour. So when we got to the shop the next day, Luke had totally hooked us up and gave us the zipline tour, which would have cost us $150/person, for FREE. The tour giudes from the zipline shop told us about a gorgeous hike up the river that leads to a waterfall that you can swim at the base of. That was the prettiest place I have ever seen. We bodysurfed and got sand in places I didn't even know were there. We swam with Manta Rays at night. Those suckers are 16 feet wide and swim right against you. It was insane and the coolest thing we did. I would recommend it to anyone. We went to a luau and ate TONS of crazy food and had great entertainment. We had a fabulous time. We stayed at Rod and MaryAnn's beautiful villa on the golf course. We had perfect weather the entire week. It was a perfect vacation. We loved everything about it.

Dirty Dash is Really Dirty

Steve realized he had to coach Max's first football game and asked if I would like to take his place at the Dirty Dash. I was so excited. I literally couldn't sleep the night before. I had my extra clothes and towel and everything ready the night before like it was my first day of elementary school. Lyric had quite a few of her friends doing it with her. We drove up to Bogus Basin and found tons of people dressed up. Girls with tutu's, chefs with whitey-tighties and aprons, wedding dresses, etc. We started the race by having to jump over 5 gigantic hay bales. Then it was up and down hills with little obstacles, like walking a straight line on poles, running through tires and crawling through tubes. Then after a major hill, there was our first muddy obstacle. We had to run up a little hill, which took me several times to get up, slide down and then crawl through tubes full of mud. Then climb over fences that were several feet high landing in mud on the other side. At the very top of the hill, beer was served. We took a few sips of Root Beer (which wasn't smart, because I was burping the entire rest of the race). It was downhill from there. A few little obstacles led us to the bunny hill where we had to run up and then slide down a huge boucey slip n' slide landing in mud. The last 20 yards of the race was a swimming pool of mud. Lyric was literally swimming- doing the back stroke. There were photo shots at the finish line. We were covered in mud. It was challenging and tiring, but the funnest race I will ever do. Thank you Steve.

Emily & Michael's Baptism

A few weeks ago our neighbors were baptized. I invited Emily to a Relief Society activity and it sparked her interest. A couple weeks later Emily was asking me some questions about the book "Our Search for Happiness" that her member brother sent to her. I told her that Ryan and I could help answer them but that we knew some people who could help her a lot more. She knew I was talking about the missionaries and told me that they were thinking of inviting them over sometime. I was so surprised. The next day, Emily asked if she could come to church with me sometime. She came the next Sunday by herself. The following Sunday her daughter was sick but her husband, Michael asked if he could come. Michael has mentioned a few times that he does not want any part of organized religion, so we were all shocked when he wanted to come. He even stayed for Sunday School. They have been coming ever since. The missionaries taught them and they were progressing perfectly. They were accepting everything, reading and praying. They gave up many things that were very addicting and hard to break. Let's just say, they have a big sweet tooth now that they can't have their past addictions. They got baptized 3 weeks ago today. Ryan baptized and confirmed Michael and Emily's brother came from New York to baptize and confirm her. They are so happy and so are we.

Big Boy Bed

Ryan and I just finished Jaxon's big boy room. It is all baseball stuff. Brenda gave Jaxon a Braves baseball bedding for Christmas. So Ryan was so excited to have a baseball room in our house, even though it isn't for him. Jaxon spent his first night in his new BIG BOY BED. He fell asleep right away. He stayed asleep until 7am. I heard him pounding on his door and yelling, "Mama." He is growing up way too fast.

4th of July

I love the Fourth of July. It is one of my favorite holidays. We drove our new Cadillac convertible to the famous Melba parade. All of the kids loved the sweet cars, floats and espacially the horses. They recieved too much candy and was generous enough to share with the adults. Then back to my parent's house for a bbq. After naps we went to Hilary and Andy's for another bbq with some of their friends. We then drove to the Bodily's for fireworks with all the kids. Jaxon loved throwing the snaps and then stomping on them. He wasn't even afraid of the louder fireworks. While we were driving to the Thueson's house to watch the city fireworks, Jaxon was getting really tired because he only napped for 45 minutes. He was screaming for his "mimi" (binkie). I forgot it and so we stopped by the only store open, which was Walgreens. They didn't have the binkie that he is used to, but i bought it anyways. He didn't want to have anything to do with that stinkin' mimi. So we just took him home and he fell asleep right away. So even though we missed the big fireworks, we still had a great 4th of July.

No we do not sell drugs

Ryan and I just inherited a sweet 1985 Cadillac Convertible. Ryan's uncle Holland just gave it to him. He has always wanted it since he first saw it when he visited him in Georgia his Senior year of High School. Holland just had it shipped to us and Ryan's parents got it detailed for Ryan for his birthday. It is in perfect running condition. It is a boat and a gas hog, but it will be so much fun to drive. I told my neighbor about our new car and she said that she could watch Jaxon while Ryan and I do our drug runs. It is the type of car that we will have to have thug music on really loud and get some hydrolixs and have a gun and drugs in. It will look extra pimped out with Jaxon's car seat in the back.

Life in Seattle

Ryan and I took a little vacation to Seattle. We were thinking about our sick boy we left with Ryan's parents the entire time, but we still enjoyed ourselves. We shopped, walked around downtown, ate at delicious restaurants, took a ferry ride to the cutest little island called Bainbridge, went to Chinatown (which is totally lame), saw the entire city from the top of the Space Needle at 11pm, the famous Pike Fish Market and the best part of the whole trip...we went to the Mariners verses the Braves baseball game. We had amazing seats and Ryan insisted that we go at least 2 hours early so we can watch them practice. It was so much fun and I'm not even the biggest baseball fan. If any of you are wondering who won, the Braves were down 3-0 and then won 5-4. That is how intense it was. Ryan was in HEAVEN.

There better not be scratches on my car!

Hey sexy cowboy!

Jaxon freaking out that a bear is right in front of his face.

What gangsta' taught my son to shoot?

Old Faithful erupting.

Dang, my boys are dominating that bear.

Right off the side of the road in Bear World.

How may I take your order?

There is a BEAR on our car.

Hello Bear, right next to my head!

The cutest bear cubs playing King of the Hill.

This last weekend, we spent up in Jackson Hole, WY for Alyssa's 21st birthday. While we were downtown, an antler festival was going on. I had no idea that antlers sell for hundreds even thousands of dollars. No wonder people like to hunt. Jaxon loved all the people, animals and things to look at. We wandered around the cute shops and enjoyed our amazing house we rented. We also spent one day in Yellowstone National Park. Jaxon threw up and throwing tantrums, so after Ryan and I got to the first cool spot to stop and look around, which was Old Faithful, we drove right back home with our sick lil' boy. On our way back home, we stopped by Bear World. A BEAR GOT ON OUR CAR! Then we got to see the cutest little bear cubs. Even though Jaxon was sick, we still had a great trip.