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!

Canada Trip: The Rest

Jaxson did such a good job on both flights to Canada. He was entertaining the flight attendants, the lady to my left, and the two ladies behind me. He is such a flirt! It was also SOOOO nice to have an empty seat beside me on both flights on the way out there. (unfortunaltey, I wasn't that lucky on the way home, and Jax didn't fly as well....but lets not talk about that not-so-pleasant memory). I also let Jaxson play with the sky mall magazine and he loved it (it said if we take it, then they will replace it, so I figured it was ok??) He loves playing with paper, I just have to keep a good eye one him because he also likes to eat it.
Jaxson meeting two of his cousins. Claire (Julie & Brian's) is in the middle and Talia (Jason & Kamry's) is on the right.

Jaxson loved seeing the other babies. He would start kicking his legs and talking when he would see them.

Eating buddies

Jaxson loved jumping in this jolly jumper. Thank you Amelia & Justin for letting me borrow it for the trip! He also tends to fill up his diaper when he is jumping .... right Leslie? haha sorry again for that!

Jaxson's prune mustachio.

Just playing at my house in Southern Alberta.

Julie & Claire playing at the house with Jax & I.

We drove 3 hours to our cabin on the lake in Montana. Jax was a champ the entire trip, except for the last 10 mins or so. I was also trying to teach him about basketball ... jokes, but we found this cool plush toy for him after Julie and I finally de-junked our room from our younger years.

Jaxson and Talia playing at the cabin at Echo. I love being at the lake! Spending weeks on the water, playing cards, eating food, and watching movies are just some of the fun things we have done for years at our cabin. It was awesome to be able to spend 1.5 weeks there recently!

Jaxson had fun playing in the baby pool. I tried putting him in the lake ... he liked splashing with his feet, but when I got him wet up to his belly, he was not a fan! ya, I think we will just stick to the warm pool.

Jaxson and Claire playing.

Jax & Talia had fun together in the pool.

I loved it how Jaxson started to be really cuddly at Echo. He would put my head on my shoulder, wrap his arms around me, and lay on his chest and would fall asleep. cute!

Karen did Jaxson's hair .... un-intentionally. We dry it after he gets out of the tub because there is so much of it, so Karen dried it his hair with a dryer and it was stuck flipped up like his for a couple of days.

Kara (Justin & Amelia's) was being cute and sharing the balls with Jaxson.

Karen playing catch with Zach (Justin & Amelia's)

Jaxson and my mom making popcorn.

Amelia with Kara.

We took turns making meals for everyone. This was Jason & Kamry's turn. Chicken fajita's - yum!

Mom (aka Grandma to Jaxson) entertaining Jax while I played cards.

My Dad (aka Grandpa) with all his grandkids. It was a struggle to get them all to look and hold still ... as you could probably tell from the picture.

Grandkids!

Can you tell anything about their personalities by looking at them? haha

Uncle Rob loved playing with Jaxson. Rob just got off his mission (California, Arcadia) -- he was a stellar missionary!

Kate (Justin & Amelia's) was helping to put Jaxson's paci (soother to the canadians) back in his mouth. It was cute to watch!

Getting ready for his first boat ride.

Cruising the lake.

Crazy Jax and his spoon.

Jaxson fell asleep in Karen's arms during Avatar --- it was super loud, so he must have been pretty tired!

waking up to basketball lessons.

There are about 4 turtles that live by our dock. Unfortunatley, they are super sensitive to noise and movement ("private" as my dad would say). There were 4 turtles on the dock, and when I got this close (mind you the zoom is on all the way) they dove in the water.

Karen & I getting ready for a tube ride. Jax & I on before leaving to the airport to fly back to Texas. We really enjoyed our trip & spending time with family. It was also nice to get back and see Ryan -- we missed him so much! Hopefully next time he can come with us! :)