Schlitterbahn

Jaxson loves this new little food strainer thing. He just ate a banana and it got everywhere!! Its cute to watch him eat though. He also likes eating pears or ice in it.
The last couple of days, Jaxson has thought it was funny to roll under my side table and get his cereal snacks out of my purse. What a smart kid!

Rhonda & Lee (Ryan's parents) came to visit for a couple of days ... they wanted to take Jaxson home in their carry-on.

So we went to Schlitterbahn for our anniversary gift from the in-laws (thanks!). It was a really fun and HUGE waterpark about an hour away from Austin. We had a great time :) Here is Lee & Jaxy right after a trip to the kiddie park. Cute picture! can you see any resemblance?

Me & Jaxson going down the slides at the kiddie pool.

We had fun floating down the lazy river...

I love this kid!

Jaxy and Grandma

Proud Grandparents!

In the calmer lazy river this time...

Family photo in the kiddie frog slide.

weeeee

Utah Trip!

We were able to take a trip to Utah a couple of weeks ago to see Ryan's family. We really enjoyed seeing everyone and Jaxson loved all the attention. Once again, my blogging skills are lacking, so these pics are in reverse order of when they happened. oh well!

Jaxson met his future-BYU basketball team mate- Warren. His Mom, Janica, and I played intramural basketball together and also did a basketball internship together. It was awesome to see her and to let Jaxson and Warren meet! It's funny to watch babies interact :)
We went to the olympic ski park in Park City and watched the jumping show -- super cool!
Ryan and his brother Jordan. Cool dudes eh?

Us in the shade watching the jumping show.

We went to a super sweet resort with an alpine slide, zip line, and roller coaster. Jaxson couldn't do any of those things, but he liked the merry-go-round. How cute is this kid!

Rhonda & Emily Croft, waiting in line for the alpine slide.

Ryan pulling some triple back flips! (ok maybe double, but they were still cool)

Ryan before going down the zip line. He started out beating me, but then half way through I just flew by him!

We swam in this really warm crater. It was super neat! This is everyone who came (minus Rhonda & Lee).

I love playing with Jaxson and he loves playing with my face. My favorite is he bites my chin, then I start laughing, and then he looks at me and starts giggling.

Ryan and his friend Daniel. They grew up together in South Carolina and were best buds in High school. Daniel just got a job working for the U of U -- congrats again!

Right after a walk we did near Park City. On the walk.

Happy 4 Years!

Yesterday, Ryan and I celebrated our 4th year anniversary! I love Ryan so much and am so glad we are married for time and all eternity. He is an awesome father to Jaxson and a perfect husband for me. I am so grateful for the time we have had together and I am looking forward to many more years together. Love you Ryan!!

Here is a look back to the years we've been married...

This is our engagement photo. Summer 2006

At the South Carolina Reception, July 2006.

Wedding Day, August 29, 2006.

Fall 2006.

Summer 2007, in South Carolina.

Miami, Summer 2007.

Halloween 2007.

Christmas in SC, 2007.

Waikiki Beach, Hawaii summer 2008.

2nd year anniversary, Hawaii. Aug 29th, 2008.

Summer 2008.

BYU graduation, April 2009.

Summer 2009.

San Antonio River walk, December 2009.

Dec 2009.

Baby Blessing Day, Feb 2010.

Park City, Utah, Aug 2010.

Aug. 28th, 2010.

Thanks for 4 wonderful years!! Can't wait for the rest of eternity!

catching up....

As promised, here are some photos to catch up on our family.

This was a few weeks ago in San Antonio. We wanted to show Jaxson the Alamo! He thought all the people walking around were more cool though.
Me & my Baby.

Sometimes Jaxson doesn't realize how strong he is. He likes to kick against the poles on the play mat and has folded it over on himself sometimes - haha.

This picture cracks me up. Ryan was feeding Jaxson some food, and he was just laughing so hard. I am so glad we have such a happy boy!

Crawling around our hotel room in San Antonio ... he thought it was funny to roll under his pack n' play.

Ew. This is a large beetle at the bottom of our apartment complex. You really can't tell how big it is by this photo, but it was gigantic. I thought these sort of bugs were only found in Africa. I guess everything really is bigger in Texas!

Sad Day. Our air conditioning was broken when we finally moved back to Austin. It was 92 in our apartment for 3 days. Lame! I felt bad for Jaxson :( This is him finally falling asleep at midnight in front of our largest fan.

This kid is a stinker. He loves to play in his Baby Einstein entertainer... However, about half the time he is in the thing, he has a major blow out. And about half of those blowouts run down his leg and all over the base. This is Jaxson waiting in the tub for mommy to clean up his mess.

Poopy leg...

Mobile Man

First of all, I want to apologize for hecka slacking in the blogging department. I will get caught up sometime soon! Here is my excuse. Since the end of May, we have stayed/lived/traveled to and stay at/in ... Austin, Corpus Christi, Houston, Corpus Christi, Houston, Utah, Houston, Corpus Christi, Canada, Montana, Corpus Chrisit, Houston, Corpus Christi, Austin, San Antonio, Austin, San Antonio, Austin, Utah, and finally Austin. Ummm, I am pretty excited to be home and hopefully for a long period of time. It is a little overwhelming to be home though because I have a LOT of organizing to do. Oh well, it will give me something to do while Ryan goes to school starting tomorrow (like I have a ton of extra time with a boy as crazy as Jaxson eh?) Our little guy has been trying to crawl for over a week now,. He is also saying ma ma & da da, which is super exciting for Ryan and I!! He also LOVES our tv remotes (and anything else we are using), so Ryan went out and got him his own real TV remote -- he loves it. We can bribe him to crawl to it too -- check it out. I love this kid.

Just some Random Videos ...

I just thought I would post some of the random videos we have taken of Jaxson lately. He is beginning to show his personality a lot more, and well, he is a pretty crazy individual. We just love him so much!

1. Jaxson and his basketball.
2. Jaxson playing in the tub - he loves splashing!
3. Throwing the basketball with his feet.
4. First taste of lemon ....
5. Our Dinosaur is back!