Baby Shower

My sweet ward threw a combined baby shower for me and a friend in the ward who had a girl the day after me. It was awesome and really nice - they did a great job with way cute decorations and yummy food and a good turnout. Thanks so much for doing that for me - I got lots of great stuff - I feel so spoiled! The pic above is Jaxon with his cute diaper cake that my friend Kristi made!
Maelie even got some presents - she was pretty excited! The girls have been playing with all the tissue paper and the above cake, having birthday parties - it is so cute how they can have fun with the simplest things...
Mommy and Jaxon at the shower

opening presents with Liane who had a baby girl Kennedy

Oh, and I saw my good friend Emily Adamson last night and she has some exciting news... if you know her, ask her to tell you! I wish I had gotten a pic with her. CONGRATULATIONS EM!

Lifting, twisting, and bending - the Cheerios got away from me!

Conference is awesome, all of it! I missed cute President Hinckley waving his cane and smiling and just being his happy self... but Pres. Monson is a prophet and his talks were awesome, especially his talk on Sunday afternoon - an amazing man! We can learn so much from these faithful and humble men! Elder Ballard gave my favorite talk yesterday and is probably the same for all young mothers. But this talk came at a time that was really important to me. I cried through most of the talk and felt such I'm not sure what it was... releif, a feeling that I can do this if I just trust in my Heavenly Father. Anyway, it was awesome! I loved how he had the different questions and guidance for mothers, husbands, children, etc. I feel like a better mother today because of the talk. I have been trying to spend more time with Maelie and Kyla. I have been trying to talk to them more and play with them more. Live in the moment! I am always in such a hurry and I multi-task wayyyyy too much, I want to slow down and enjoy life more. Listen, laugh, and play together. I also need to find time for myself. JK, blogging, that's time for myself. But I do need to make sure I am replenished and ready to take care of my family. Whelp, Jaxon is hungry, gotta go! If you missed it go to lds.org and listen to it, it's awesome!

Jaxon at 4 weeks old

Jaxon is 4 weeks old today, I can hardly believe it - time flies! He already looks so big to me - probably because he has grown a lot since he was born! He is a sweetie and we are doing well. He still isn't sleeping much at night, about 3 hours is his max, but there is an occasional 4 hour stretch... I am looking forward to 5, 6, or maybe 8-10!

$1,009

If you read the post months ago from christmas, we lost our suitacse on our way to Canada for christmas. Well, recently we got a check in the mail from Air Canada for $1,009. Apparently, they won't be finding our suitcase. The $1,009 is the exact amount I told them we had lost when I itemized everything. I was hoping we would get some extra money for pain and suffering like you do in car accidents! It certainly did involve a fair amount of pain and suffering. And are we going out and replacing everything we lost? Not $1,009 worth... we are puting it into savings so we can get Jonas a Phd! Word from the learned... make sure the airline puts a tag on every single piece of luggage and make sure you get a claim ticket for every piece as well. (since we didn't even get a claim ticket for this particular suitcase)

It's hot enough for this already!!! - and Jaxon at 2.5 weeks

Piece of Cake

All 3 kids under the age of 4 that I am now responsible for are sleeping, phew! I can do this!

***HAPPY EASTER***

Maelie hunting for eggs in Grandma's backyard

Maelie in her Easter dress

Daddy and Maelie hard at work

Kyla finds an egg!

silly Kyla in her pretty Easter dress

Kyla dyeing eggs at Grandma's house on Saturday morning. The girls had a lot of fun with their cousins. Kyla kept sticking her hands in to get the eggs and had very blueish greenish hands when she was done!
the girls dyeing eggs with silly daddy

the egg hunt!

HUGS! - beautiful girls in their beautiful Easter dresses on Easter Sunday!

oooooohhhhh! An egg! They had so much fun on the egg hunt!

Maelie holding her baby brother

Jaxon with his uncle Trevon

Jaxon looking sweet

Jaxon's 1st real bath, since his umbilical cord fell off, yeah!

Isn't this blanket awesome? My mom made it for Jaxon, so beautfiul!!!

All 3 cuties on the blanket!

"Little Rookie"

getting out!

Thanks to my sweet friend Kristi, Jonas and I got out on a little date this morning. She watched the girls who had so much fun playing with her girls while we went to WalMart with Jaxon. It was mine and Jaxon's first official outing besides dr appt and PKU test. It was great! We bought stuff for the girls' easter baskets and then we went to Starbucks and got a Vanillabean Frappaccino! Soooo yummy! It feels good to be doing better and getting out again! I can't wait to exercise!

oh, one more thing...

My little brother Trevon is going to the Jacksonville, Florida mission on June 18th, CONGRATS!!!

Happy St. Patty's Day

Jonas made green clover pancakes today - aren't they cute???

Jaxon's 1st week

Jaxon is 1 week old! We are all doing well. Jonas is working 4 hour days the next 2 weeks so I am at it alone and so far so good. I mean, I am blogging so it must be going well. As of right now all 3 kids are sleeping and I probably should be, too. :)
my brother Jason and neice Brooke came to see Jaxon on Saturday.

1 week!

little sweetheart!

Maelie loves her baby brother. I am surprised with how well the girls have adjusted. She is always saying how cute he is and watching him.
Kyla is also doing good with Jaxon, she is a little more rough and loud so we have to be more careful when she is around him. But she hasn't acted jealous as I thought she would, I mean no more clingy that she always is and we are used to that. =)
such a sweet pic

Jaxon's 1st bath at home, a sponge bath since he still has his umbilical cord. He liked it for the most part.


sleeping in his 2nd favorite place to be - his first is eating.

all clean after bath

the scrubber thing - washing his hair - he liked that

Maelie and Kyla playing this little piggie.

"Thank you for blogging."

This is what Jonas said to me this morning! And I can say that I am grateful I blog as well. Why?... Last weekend our computer was having issues so Jonas decided to erase the entire computer and start over. Well, we had most of our pix and videos and other important things already saved to cd. EXCEPT for a folder containing Jaxon's birth pix and videos as well as Kyla's 2nd bday pix. So I told him as long as we were sure we got that folder saved to cd then go ahead. Well, he spent some time saving pix and then this morning, after he had wiped out the computer, he was looking for this particular cd so that he could put a pic from it on the desktop and can you beleive that he couldn't find that CD?!?!?! Well, I had a rough night last night. Jaxon is having a growth spurt and I am in the sore stage of nursing. So, when he told me a bit of my baby blues took over and I was pretty upset about it. ANYWAY, thankfully it turned out that when you click on the pix on blogs, it makes them to their normal size so I was atleast able to save all the photos I had blogged back onto our computer. So Jonas said, and I agree, "Thank you for blogging!" I do understand what he was going through because I accidentally erased Maelie's 1st birthday party pix and was so devastated! I love digital cameras but we all sure need to be better about getting them on hardcopy or some sort of copy, like blogs!