Jaxon's Birthday

We are such nice parents throwing a party for our one year old. In may Jaxon hit the big ONE. Now as parents we begin to rip our hair out. If you're a friend and beginning to think to yourself that you may not want to talk to us again because you weren't invited...then good, we don't want to talk to you either with an attitude like that. But on a more serious note, we decided to make it a family birthday. Now if you are a family member and didn't get an invite, then our bad.

Jaxon wearing the cap that aunt Chelsea made for him.

Me and Jared decided to make Jaxon a cake for his jungle theme birthday. I think we did a pretty dang good job.

Jaxon eating eggs for the first time on his birthday.

Most of May 2010

My muddy socks the next morning...that's some good starch.

I went on a 3 day backpacking trip with Kevin Jones and his family. We went up into Paria Canyon, which is located near the Utah/Arizona border. We had a ton of fun pooping in poop bags and hiking and picture taking and sweating and what not. Here are just a couple pictures from the adventure.

My wonderful friend Tori Houston received her mission call to Cleveland, Ohio and left on May 10th. I will miss her dearly, but she is serving the Lord full time for a year and a half and I am so proud of her.
Candice's Chelsea and Greg Lake along with their young blooded children were sealed in the Mesa Arizona Temple.

My brother, Justin, who flew all the way down here from BYU Idaho. I didn't ask him, but I bet his arms were pretty tired.

When we pulled up to Tia Rosa's my G pa was modeling this mini van. I don't think he understood that that wasn't his van.

My brother Shaun and his soon to be wife had a wedding dinner, thrown by my parents at Tia Rosa's. As you all know, one of the better restaurants in the Mesa area. When we showed up the dude was saying how we only get on pitcher of lemonade per table....that was nonsense....it was coming all night as the Mormon's did their drinking.

My brother, Shaun, finally tied the knot in being sealed to a babe. This day is to go down in History books. I'm talking about the history books that your children's children are going to be reading and studying in their long boring history classes in Jr. High. I had the opportunity to take their pictures a few days before the wedding. Here is my camera's offspring.

So sorry everyone, May and June updates coming soon I promise! I have Scout Camp today then we are going down to Tuscon tomorrow for Jared's brother's wedding reception. We will return home on Saturday so updates will happen then.

April 2010 update!

I was on a softball team and had a bit of an accident. I was playing second base and a ball was thrown to me. For some reason I decided to catch it with my leg instead of my hand. I can be a bit of an airhead sometimes. Long story short, I ended up in the emergency room because they had thought that from the severe bruise I had developed it was causing blood clots to travel to my lungs. After chest x-rays, cat scans, ultra sounds, I-V's, and hours in the ER I ended up being fine!

Jaxon developed a new hobby. CLIMBING!!!

Jaxon got pink eye, poor guy.

For Preschool we took a field trip to the zoo. Those kids are so sweet! I really am going to miss them now that Preschool is over.

Jared took pictures of his new nephew. Isn't he such a doll?
Jaxon is growing up so fast! He has become quite the terror.

Sorry everyone blog update coming soon!

RSV!

Jaxon got sick about a month ago. He wasn't getting any better so we took him to the doctor. The doctor took a sample of Jaxon's snot and sent it into the lab. Test results came back and he had RSV. RSV is a virus that goes around at a certain time of year that affects the baby's lungs, so they have a hard time breathing and stuff. Well for about a week and a half we had to give him treatments about 4 times a day. Now I am excited to say he has fully recovered and is healthy again!

Cameron's New Room!

My brother was chosen at the hospital to get a room make over from Room For Joy. They sent him and my mom away for the weekend so they could get to work. The people gave Cameron and my mom a place to stay and tons of gift card to keep themselves busy. I don't have before pictures which I wish I did. The transformations these people did on his room are amazing! Here are just a few pictures of the new room. Oh, my camera died so I didn't even get the picture of his closet, that they completely changed to look like an elevator! CRAZY!

The buildings were made out of carpet!

This is one whole wall! Someone hand painted this entire thing!

Pinewood Derby!

So I kind of failed to mention that I was called to be a Scouts leader for my church. I have been in it for about a month and I love it! Here are some pictures from the Pinewood Derby last week.

Jaxon loved when the cars went down the track.

Valentines Day!

So Jared decided to celebrate Valentines this year. I wasn't expecting anything big or romantic, but boy was I wrong. We had gone to this swap meet two weekends ago and when we were there I had found the most dreamy purse ever! He remembered that so this pass weekend he took me back there and let me get the purse! We also went to our ward Valentines party which couldn't be more cheesey. There was candle light dinner with Italian music playing and a really nice dinner served of spaghetti. We then were chosen to play a newly wed game with a few other couples. Yes, we did get last place, but hey it doesn't mean we aren't meant for each other. It just means we need to communicate more :). So anyways then there was slow dancing after wards which Jared doesn't do, so we just kind of goofed around on the dance floor. Then on Monday he took me to see the Valentines movie, I loved it! Thanks to my wonderful, sweet husband this Valentines weekend was amazing!

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IMPLANT!!!

So I got such great advice from people about ways I can keep myself busy being a stay at home mom, that I just need to ask for more advice. When I was about 7 years old I ended up cracking one of my back teeth. The tooth ended up with a cavity on it and as time went on got worse. When I got old enough to take care of my own needs I had a really good job with great benefits, so I decided to take care of that roughen tooth. The dentist gave me two options, one he can do a root canal on it but a few years down the road it will just get bad again OR he could just remove it and I can get an implant later. He did informed me that option two would be costly, but I went for it anyways. I got the tooth removed and then time past and I got married and then a precious baby boy came along. I chose to quit my job that I was at for 3 years and become a full time mommy. With quitting the job that meant no more insurance for me, but I was ok with that. Until I realized I really needed that implant. With insurance the implant would have been about 1,000 dollars. I called today to get the price on implants without insurance and guess what it was 4,180 dollars!!! So my advice I would like to get from all of you is what are ways that I could earn that much money in a year without getting a full time job? I already do preschool but that only gets me $200 a month. So please, please anyone with advice please hit me up. Thanks! And if any of you are wondering why in the world I am going to get the implant here is why. My teeth will eventually start to shift to close in the hole and my teeth that were once in the back will be in the front. That would not be a pretty site.

Stay at home mom's! I need Advice!

Please tell me what in the world you do at home. I feel like there are days where I have nothing to do I am so bored, I want to go crazy! I just always like to have something to do, I am out of ideas. So if you can please tell me what a few things are that you do being a stay at home mom I would deeply appreciate it. Thank you!

Jaxon's First Christmas!

My handsome man!