Jaxon's 1 month pix

Does anyone else think it's stressful when you go get your kids pix taken? They show you tons and tons of cute pix and you came with this coupon and you just want the one package and it's soooo hard to choose! Well, I only ordered a few of these poses and I am really wanting to order more. There are so many cute ones...

I got this pic (above) but not as a birth announcement

too bad I wasn't ready to be in the pictures :)
This above pic is the one I got for the package
I love this pic (above) and wish I ordered the package for it!

I got the above pic

Anyway, at least I have the smaller versions all saved to my computer and on my blog. Jaxon is such a cutie and we are so happy to have him in our family!

5 hours 45 minutes

(Jaxon's 1st sleep stretch longer than 4 hours last night) Sleep is a beautiful thing... now if we can just go to sleep at the beginning of his longer stretch instead of 2 hours into it!

M-a-e-l-i-e and random pix

I asked Maelie if she could write her name all by herself. She did it! - without looking at my version and without me telling her what was next - way to go Maelie!

This is her copying my version!

Little Jaxon hanging out on the bean bag

Jonas with his 3 little munchkins - the red eye reduction thing turned Jaxon's face all funny colored - whoops

5 weeks

All Smiles

Jaxon has hit his 1 month mark! Yeah, it really feels good to have that first month behind us. He went to a checkup yesterday and got a shot - ooohhh he was mad! But when he got on that scale it sure surprised me! 11 lbs 14 oz! I was shocked he had grown so much - the doctor asked me if I would feed a few more babies... I said 1 was plenty! He has been making little smiles occasionally since he was born - but now we can make him smile!

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!!!