DAVE, JESSICA, JAXON & ADDISON

Jax turns 2!

2009-07-29T19:49:00.000-07:00

My baby boy turned 2 last week!!! I can't believe it. It feels like just yesterday Dave and I were going crazy waiting for him to get here. I've put together some pictures throughout the last 2 years of our little Jax....

The day he was born...poor little guy was pretty beaten up.
Daddy's first night singing Jax to sleep.
Jaxon's hospital picture at 1 day old.

This is one of my favorite pictures of Jax! Jaxon was 3 months on Halloween.

Jaxon holding Addi for the first time.
Jax praying

Jaxon's 2nd birthday party. Here he is blowing out his candles.

Eating cake and holding his Cars. He loves CARS!!

Jax opening his presents. Each time he'd open a gift he'd say "WOW"

this picture is just because I couldn't help but post it. Poor kid looses his pants all the time. He's so skinny but so tall so it's hard to find the right size for him. I guess he lost his pants while going down the slide and when he ran over to tell us he stepped in mud. Jaxon HATES to be dirty so he just stood there yelling "Ohhhh what is that?" It was pretty cute!
Jax has brought us so much joy the last 2 years. We can't imagine our family without him. He's a crazy little kid but he is a lot of fun and is always saying/doing such funny things. Here are just 10 out of the 100 billion reasons I love Jax!

1. He has such a tender heart. He always wants to make people happy and hates it when people are upset. If he thinks you're mad, he'll come up and put his arm around you and say "hi" in this really sweet voice.

2. He is really good with his little sister. He loves to hold her (even though she weighs more than him) and always makes sure she is doing what she is supposed to be doing. Whenever she gets into anything she shouldn't he runs and takes it from her and says "No, no Addi girl"

3. Jaxon HATES to be dirty. If he gets anything on his hands he comes to me and says "ohhh noo mom" and shows me what is dirty. I love that because I hate anything dirty as well!

4. To follow that one...he also cleans for me. Whenever he spills something on the floor he quickly runs to get a towel to clean it up. It is amazing!! I have a story to go with this one....the other day we were at Dave's moms house and all the kids were outside playing with chalk. Jax saw what they were doing and ran inside, grabbed some wet wipes, ran back out and started cleaning the chalk off the sidewalk. It was adorable! I've taught him well!!

5. He loves to pray! Everytime we sit to eat, Jax is usually the first one with his arms folded and head down. He always just mumbles in this high pitched, sweet voice and then throws his arms up and just Amen! The other day Dave was at work and we were eating dinner and Jax stopped in the middle and started to pray. He was mumbling a bunch of words and then said "and papa and dada and mama. Amen." It was the most precious thing I have ever heard!!!

6. He now calls everyone "bud". Whenever he see's something that he likes he'll come up to you and say "That's cool bud".

7. He loves to eat anything, healthy and unhealthy. For the longest time he wouldn't tell me what he wanted, he would just cry and I would always say, "What do you want?" and now he thinks that's what eat/hungry means. Everytime he is hungry he comes up to me and says "what do you want?"

8. He loves to go "bye-bye" and everytime I start to get ready, he runs and puts his shoes on, then brings everyone in the house their shoes as well. Then he just stands by the door till it's time to go.

9. He loves to sing and dance. He has started to dance some of the dance steps to the hawaiian dances we've learned. He does them everytime he hears the music. He also is always humming or singing something. I'm soo happy he got the musical genes from Dave!

10. He is my little cuddle bug! He loves to climb up on your lap with his blanket and just snuggle up to you. It's is so precious and I know I'm going to miss that so much when he stops.

HAPPY 2ND BIRTHDAY JAXON! WE LOVE YOU!!!

Birthday, Island Friday and Peace Pavilion and more swimming

2009-07-22T15:15:00.000-07:00

I turned 21 last week. That's right, I now can....book my own hotel room, go to the cinema suites theater with Dave, at least get into a casino and...that's about it. WHO HOO!! I think Dave is pretty relieved to not have to be so limited in where we can go though. They have this awesome movie theater here where they serve you dinner and you sit in recliners, all while you watch a movie. Dave was pretty pumped to take me on a date there till we found out you had to be 21 because they serve alcohol. I guess that's what he gets for marrying someone so young...he doesn't complain much though. :) So, for my big 21, Dave took me to Macaroni Grill for lunch while his mom watched the kids. It was a nice little date. Then we came home and had cake and ice cream and relaxed. It was really nice. Here are some pics of me with my kids.

For the record...I do realize that I desperately need a new camera. The day will come...hopefully sooner rather than later.

A few weeks ago we went to Island Friday for our Halau group. Dave's brothers and sisters are all part of a Hula Halau group that dance all the polynesian dances. It's awesome. Dave goes when his job allows him to and I've started to do it as well but I'm nooo good. They are all natural and I'm as white as they come. :) They had a Island Friday where all of the Halau groups came and performed their dances and then the boys did a Fire Knife competition. I wish I had pictures of that but of course my camera died (yet another reason why I need a new one). My brother-in-laws Josh, Musu did the fire knife and so did our nephew Ikaika as well as our Kumu Kawika. Anyone having a hard time pronouncing those names?? It took me a while too. They did awesome by the way and I'm definitely going to get Jax started as soon as I wouldn't totally freak out watching him swing a knife with fire on it all around his head...which may be never but I guess I'll have to get used to it, Dave will insist.

Here are all of the keiki (kids) performing their dance. Yes, Addi will be up there as soon as she can walk!

Here is a short clip of the performance. The best is when they all start shaking their hips at the end! Sorry it is a little shaky... I was holding a baby while filming so deal with it. :)

Here is Addi, she is such a happy baby.Jax

Jaxon and Daddy
They have a place here called the Peace Pavilion. It's inside the RLDS tabernacle but it's a really cute kids place where they can make arts and crafts, play inside caves, watch puppet shows and learn about PEACE. The whole place is centered around that, hence the name, but the kids love it. So, we took all our kids there.
Here's Jax crawling out of the rainforest cave.

This was a little house that Jax was looking out the window of.
This are things you jump on and it plays like a piano.

Here is Addi with her cousin Naia.

Jax loves his "papa" He can't get enough of him and has to be held by him whenever he is around. It's pretty cute!

Once again, don't mind the crappy camera. If the lighting was better and Addi's eyes were open this would be a dang cute picture. Of course this is how it would turn out the one time I get them both to smile in a picture!!!
This is her new swim suit, which Dave doesn't like at all, but I love it with all her chub.
These pics were just to show just how chubby she is and just how blue her eyes are. Can you believe I have a baby with eyes this blue??!! I love it!!

Adam-ondi-ahman and the water park.

2009-06-25T21:11:00.001-07:00

Those go together, right?.....:)

On Monday we headed up to Adam-ondi-ahman. It's only about an hour and a half drive for us. Dave's mom and dad went with us and it was so much fun. It is such a spiritual place, you can feel how sacred it is there. Even though it is just land there is just such an awesome and powerful feeling that you get when you drive in and it is beautiful!! It was sooo hot though! The humidity here is just terrible. We ate lunch there and then headed to Haun's Mill and then Far West. It was an amazing day and I love being so close to all these church history sites. Hopefully our next church history trip will be to Nauvoo!!

Tuesday I took Addi for her 6 month check-up (no picutres). She is off the charts for her weight! She weighs 22 pounds!! This girl loves to eat and I love the chub! Also on Tuesday, Dave and I were able to go out to lunch and to a movie, The Proposal, which I actually really liked! It was a lot of fun and is always so nice to go out by ourselves once in a while. Thanks to Dave's mom and dad for watching our kiddos!!

Wednesday we went to this water park here with his cousins. It's pretty cool. They have all kinds of water equipment and buckets that fill up with water and then dump out on you and the best part....it's free! Although I was seriously concerned Jax would catch some horrifying foot fungus or something worse...Dave told me that the chlorine is supposed to kill that. I'm not sure I was 100% convinced but I decided to take the chances. We'll know where he got it from if he turns up with elephantitis....:)

He had sooo much fun. I think I'm going to have to take him there more often. I think he had a smile on his face the whole time. I guess he just felt like doing a sommersault here....ahhh!

And our little Addi. I didn't bring a swim suit for her but it got sooo hot that I had to sit her in the water to cool her off. This is her trying to decide if she liked it or not....

This was when she realized that she didn't....

No, she was much happier sitting in her stroller in the shade!!

Jax and Addi's Pictures

2009-06-14T11:20:00.001-07:00

My friend Erin just got this awesome camera and while we were at her house one day she decided to take some pics of the kids. FYI... I wasn't expecting pictures to be taken otherwise I would have had Jaxon's hair done and they would have been matching. :) They turned out pretty cute though I think. Here are some of them...

Look how chubby her little leg is!!!

This picture is cute because this is exactly how Addi smiles 98% of the time..with her mouth wide open!

Going Private

2009-04-18T21:24:00.001-07:00

We're going private on our blog. I've heard AWFUL things about not going private so I'm letting everyone know. Leave me your e-mail address so I can add you to my list. I'll give it a few days before I change it so you can leave me your e-mails if you still want to read our blog! Thanks!!

Jaxon Praying

2009-03-30T19:01:00.000-07:00

Jax has started to say prayers. He folds his arms and mumbles in this really high, soft voice. He tries so hard to keep his eyes closed. It is the sweetest thing. Here is a video I got of him doing it!!

Dancing and crayola cafe

2009-03-17T19:52:00.000-07:00

So much has happened in the past month! The kids are getting so much bigger, especially Addi. :) They really are jus so much fun though. I got my haircut. I cut bangs. Which is kind of hard to get used to but it always nice to have a change.

Dave had his 4 day this past weekend. I love those! It was pretty busy but I had so much fun. We started it off on Friday night by going to Hulau which is where Dave's brothers and sisters dance. I attempted to learn one of the dances and am pretty sure I failed but that's what practice is for. I hope that I can start dancing, I would love to be able to teach that to my kids so they can know their hawaiian culture. Dave is actually a pretty good dancer. :)

We had dinner with Dave's family a couple weeks ago and the kids all were learning some dances. Here is a video of Jax doing his own little dance.

We spent a lot of time with family this weekend which was so nice. It's always nice to be with family! Sunday we went to church and once again, Jax just loved nursery. When I went to go get him after church he didn't even want to come to me...:(

Also, Addi rolled over!! Only once and then I couldn't get it on video. Why is it that babies only do stuff like that when you don't have your camera handy?!

We also went to the Crayola restaurant here in Kansas City. It was a lot of fun! Jax had a blast and Addi slept the entire time. It was so fun to go do something has a family. I love that Jax is getting to the age of enjoying family activities. I can't wait for the Zoo this year!! Here are some pictures of The Crayola Cafe.

Aww...look at those chubby cheeks!

Jax is also in this new phase of carrying as much as he can in his arms all the time. He gets so mad if he can't hold all sorts of weird stuff. It's pretty funny. I guess I should buy him a back pack or something.

This was after he dropped it all.

We also got our new couch! I've waited so long for this day!! I love it! It's a brown sectional with white stitching on it. We also got Dave a recliner. That won't be here for a few more weeks though. I'm so happy though that we finally have a nice place to sit. Yay! Thanks Dave! :)

Doc Appt., Date Night, naps and Nursery??

2009-02-18T08:56:00.001-08:00

Okay, the is going to be long. You have been forewarned. Big news!! Jax went to Nursery! It was the craziest thing...ever! We thought for sure he wouldn't go. In fact, we almost didn't even try but I thought I might has well. So I was the one to take him in, thinking it would be much easier for him to leave me then Dave and I was right. The minute he saw the toys, he walked right in and didn't even look back at me. I even stood there for a couple mins waiting for him to want to come back and he never did. So I left and of course, spent the rest of church running to go check on him and make sure he was still okay. He stayed the whole time and LOVED it. He's gone for 2 weeks in a row now and is so good. I'm so proud of him. However, I'm kind of sad. I'll be honest, there were a few tears on my part. It was so sad to see that he didn't need me for that. It was a very bitter-sweet moment. It is nice to be able to be in class the whole time, at least that's what Dave has told me. I still have Addi :)

Jax, also has started saying prayers. It's the cutest thing. He has been watching us and has learned to fold his arms and then he tries so hard to keep his eyes closed. It's adorable. Here is the best pic I could get of him doing it.
He's such a cute kid. He's at such a fun age!This pic is so funny of Jax. He does that look all the time. It's pretty near impossible to actually get him to smile for a picture. :)

It is amazing where and how kids can fall asleep. It's pretty cute. The other day I had layed Addison down on Jax bed for a nap and Jax was in there playing with his toys while I was cleaing. All the sudden it went silent which is usually not good. This time however this is what I found.... He loves to play with ears, feet and hands which yes, I desperately hope he grows out of :) Anyways, he fell asleep playing with Addi's feet. It was pretty cute.

He also fell asleep in Addison's swing the other day....
and just randomly on the chair while I was on the computer one day. I must admit it is so nice to not have to hold him all the time for him to fall asleep now. I'll take what I can get. :)
Another thing, have I ever mentioned that BOTH my kids sleep with their eyes open? Yeah, it's freaky. Here is a pic of Jax sleeping with his open.

Poor Addi....After we put her in her car seat her bows tend to fall down over her eyes. It makes her really mad sometimes. It's sad but kind of cute too. This is right when we put her in....And this is when we get home....

Okay enough about sleeping, right? We went to the doctor yesterday and Addi is 14 lbs 3 oz. She is a chunk!! She is in the 95%. She is so adorable though. I love chubby babies!! She smiles all the time now. She is a pretty happy baby. She has the cutest blue eyes. I know every baby has blue eyes but hers are like sapphire. I hope they stay that way! She also has the cutest dimples. Two on each side right above her lips. It''s adorable.

After the doc appts. we went to the mall so Jax could play at the play area they have there. Yes, everytime I even look at the play area there all I can see is Hand, foot and mouth and all sort of other diseases but I tried to look past it so Jax could have some fun. (Which I quickly regretted when he woke up this morning with a fever and cough. Hmm...) Anyways, he had a blast. He just loved running all around and then we took him on the merry-go-round. He was so excited he just laughed and screamed the whole time.

This is Addi at the mall...she just couldn't stay awake. Poor girl just had her shots.

Okay, I haven't even gotten to my Date night with Dave. It was amazing though. We didn't really celebrate Valentines this year. Insteaed Dave took me out on Monday. We went to this really, really nice restaurant and went to a movie, He's Just Not That Into You. It was so much fun. I love going out with him! We also went and picked out some games for the Wii. We got that for eachother for Valentines and can I just say that is such a workout. We played the sports games all night and I was actually sore the next day. Embarrasing, I know, but it felt good. Anyways, it was so much fun. I'm so grateful for Dave's parents who came over and watched the kids. We had such a good time!

Addi & Jax

2009-01-25T14:14:00.001-08:00

Addi is getting sooo big, it's sad! I'm so attached to this little girl. She is the sweetest thing!! AND she is a mama's girl!!!! Yes, I finally have a baby that wants me!!! :) She's starting to smile at us and coo and is such a happy baby...minus the couple hours every night that she screams for no reason. Other than that, I can't complain. She woke up at 5 this morning and was so, so happy that I couldn't help but feel happy to get up with her. I love that!! Jax is starting to understand to be more careful around her. He talks to her in this sweet, high voice and kisses her all the time and is always giving her, her binki. This is a picture I got one morning....I love that he holds his mouth open when he tries to put her binki in.

Jaxon loves to talk on the phone more than anything!! He is always carrying a phone around. It's a whole bunch of jibberish but when he's talking in it, he even stops and waits for a person to answer on the other end. I can't believe how big and grown up he is getting. He is so much fun! I just love him so much! He is now old enough to go into nursery so I'll be trying that next week. Yeah, right though! I'm not holding my breath. Here is the best clip I could get...of course he won't do it when I pull the camera out...typical, right?! And NO, I haven't taken my Christmas tree down yet. :)

I am probably the worst picture-taker, ever. I'll take like 50 pictures in one setting and can never choose which one I like best. So, forgive me if there are more than one of each picture. But, here are a few of Addison. She sure is getting chubby. She only eats for like 8 mins every 4 hours. Which is incredibly convenient for me and...apparently it's enough. :) Oh, and real quick...that is Addison's birth annoucment at the top right and I have to do a BIG shout out to Natalie Clark (my sister-in-law) for doing them for me. She does amazing annoucements, if you ever need one. I still have to send them out to a lot of people...I'm way, way behind.

Here is her little snow suit...she can barely move in it but it keep her warm and she looks cute in it. :)

This is the typical picture I get. Everytime I pull the camera out to take pictures of Addi, Jax runs over and gives her a kiss, then poses till I take the picture. He's too cute! :)

This is right before church.

Waking up from the flash.

I MISS THIS BABY!!!

2009-01-10T10:25:00.000-08:00

I feel like all I've posted about the past while is pregnancy and Addi. Poor little Jax!! I was just looking through my pictures today and came across these pictures...and got a little sad :(. I can't believe how much Jax has grown up. I miss his little chubby cheeks and his BIG smile.
I miss how much he loved his jumper (and how nice it was to be able to just put him in there so I could get things done):)

I miss the very, very little hair he had...it was still so cute.
I miss him letting me hold him and kiss him. I miss being able to take pictures of him. AND I miss when my house was clean all the time :). I miss it all!! I know he's not that much older but it's so, so sad to see him grow up so fast. I do love the age he is at now though, too. He's starting to say so many words now! He LOVES to talk on the phone more than anything and loves to steal my cell phone....which may explain some phone calls to some of you :). I love this age even with the temper tantrums and whole not listening to a word I say thing, he still is the sweetest little boy!!

Now, he is 18 months old!! This is him in his new Christmas Pajamas. The only decent pic I could get! On a side note: I would post Christmas pictures but I realized late that night that I only video taped Christmas....NO PICTURES!! Can you believe that?!? I'm so sad. I did get a picture of Jax's Christmas presents by the tree though...so here it is.

Oh and our stockings :)

Crazy but wonderful!!

2008-12-23T12:14:00.000-08:00

I cannot believe how crazy life is with 2 kids....I can't imagine what it would be like with more than that!! How did my mom do it with 6?!?! I love it though, it keeps me busy and they just make me so happy!! Jax has been so good and hasn't had too many episodes since Addison came into the picture. The biggest problem I've had with him is running defense so he doesn't kill her!!! He's really just so fascinated by her and tries to be sweet by sharing his sippy cup with her or shoving his binki in her mouth or...like the episode we had last night when he threw my cell phone at her head....that one wasn't so sweet. How will she ever survive, I wonder. This past week I have been so exhausted that not once, but TWICE I slept through Addison screaming at the top of her lungs at night. Luckily, my amazing husband got up with her and tried to calm her down and I didn't even flinch...Thanks Dave :). Not my proudest moment has a mom and I'm sure it's a moment my own mom will never let me live down. I am proud to say that I have woken up every night since then. My mom was nice enough to come visit for a week and was such a tremendous help!! It was not only nice to have some help but so fun to hang out with my mom all week. I miss her already and am so grateful for all she did for us while she was here. I don't know what I'd do without you, Mom!! Thanks for everything.

Here are some pictures from the past couple weeks. It seems like I haven't taken nearly as many pictures as I did with Jax. Which explains why I didn't have any baby pictures being the last of 6 kids. :) I really do love having both these kids though. They are the joy of my life and as crazy as it is....I couldn't be happier!!

Doesn't she just looks so chubby and cute??? Aww
Here is Jaxon trying to hold her....he's a good big brother!

Okay, so Jax for some reason loves to still her pink or purple binkis. Something Dave is not very happy about. Jax would definitely loose in this "man test" to Hunter or Cooper :)

You can probably tell that Dave took this pic...:)

This makes me laugh because this is Jaxon's permanent state of being if I'm holding him when Daddy is home....sad, I know. He just loves Dave and I'm learning to deal with it!! Lucky for me, I have another baby that wants me again!!!

This picture is a little blurry but he's just too cute!

My mom and I took this pictures to add to her Christmas card. Since all the other nieces and nephews pictures were taken in the Summer at our sealing.

Addison Kamalani Kahananui

2008-12-06T10:35:00.001-08:00

We welcomed Addison into our family on December 2nd, 2008 at 1:31 A.M. She weighed 7 lbs 7 oz. and was 19 1/2 inches long. I had false labor all weekend and had contractions pretty steadily on Sunday and Monday. Monday they were pretty random but by Monday night I was in so much pain we just went to the hospital even though they were a little irregular. We checked in at about 11:00 P.M. and I had her at 1:30. It all went really fast by the time I got to the hospital. Everything went really well!!
I don't have too many pictures from the hospital because Addison had her blood test and tested positive on the Coombs test. It is a blood disorder that has to do with the RH factor. Addison's blood mixed with mine and her body had a bad reaction to it. It didn't make much sense because Addison and I have the same blood type. The doctor just told us that sometimes there are rare anitgens that are in the blood that can make the baby have this reaction. This caused her to get really, really bad jaundice. They had to take her out of our room and put her in the NICU and put her on phototherapy. The only time she came off the lights was when I needed to feed her. So we didn't see much of her in the hospital. She was able to come home with us but we have to use the phototherapy blanket here. She has to be on it all the time. We took her to the doctor today and got her blood taken again. Her levels have gone up more since we left the hospital so she needs to stay on the phototherapy. We go again on Monday to get her labs done and we'll see where she is at then. It's been pretty crazy and stressful but we just love having a little girl. She is so precious. Jax is adjusting pretty well, I think. He's having a little bit of a hard time but he's not out of control. It has been hard for me adjusting to two kids. I think it hit me today at the doctors office when Jax wanted to play with the stroller and I wouldn't let him....he threw a tantrum. I mean on the floor, kicking and screaming tantrum. While he was doing that, Addison went to the bathroom for the 10th time in an hour and was also screaming. So, I was trying to change her diaper, calm her down, deal with Jaxon's tantrum, and answer the doctors questions all at the same time. It was pretty crazy! I've heard that you're not actually a parent until you have two....I felt that today, for sure!!! Dave has been able to take the week off though so that has been nice to have his help! I don't know what I'd do without him!

I have taken more pictures since I got home but unfortunately, my battery died today and I haven't been able to go get more. So I'll have to post the others another time!

Dave's Dads Birthday!

2008-11-12T13:07:00.000-08:00

It's been a LONG time since I updated our blog. We've been so busy with getting ready for the baby, sickness, Dave's dads birthday party, family all being in town, and more being sick!!!

Dave's dad turned 70 this month and his whole family has been planning a huge surprise birthday party for him for the last year. We were even able to have his Auntie, cousin and Uncle fly out from Hawaii. Dave's sister Jennifer and her adorable girls were also able to fly out from Oregon. It was SO much fun to be able to spend the whole week with the family. We had such a good time.
The birthday party turned out so good too! They did a Hawaiian Luau. Dave's dad is full blooded Hawaiian for those of you who don't know...hence the last name Kahananui. Yes, I am also wondering what in the world I'm doing here in Missouri when my husband has family that lives in Hawaii....hello, right???!! Anyways, Dave's family has an awesome heritage. They all sing and the sisters dance all the polynesian dances so we had great entertainment for the party! So here are a few pictures and videos from the week.

This is Dave's dad, Auntie Eliza and Uncle Ben.

Here is Dave's dad at the party with Courtney (Jennifer's girl)

Jax doing what he loves most...eating!

Here is Dave's sister, Jennifer. She did an awesome job of keeping everyone entertained while we waited for the dancers.
More eating!

And a picture of us.

Here is a video of Dave's sister, Kanani and our Sister-in-law Becky dancing a Hawaiian dance. I tried to add all the videos I could...but it just takes too long so here is one.

Jaxon

2008-10-29T13:55:00.000-07:00

I was walking through the mall one day and I passed The Picture People place and they were standing outside and the girl said to me "Please let me take his picture and I'll give you a free 9 by 13 picture." So I was like okay. So she took Jax back and did a little photo shoot of him. It took him a while to warm up and even still...he's not smiling in any of the pictures, but I must say, I think he is just so handsome :). So here are some of the pictures...they sent them to me in an e-mail wanting me to buy them.

Anyways, I just love him! He such a sweet little boy! Not bad though for not even planning on having his pictures taken, right? I'm still trying to decide which ones I should get.

Happy Day!

2008-10-27T12:32:00.000-07:00

I know I just did a post but...One more thing....here in Independence, Gas just dropped to $1.99!!! Did you ever think you'd see gas under 2 dollars again??? I didn't...but I'm in heaven. I think I'll go fill up...just for fun!! :)

Baby showers, Utah and yes...Hand, foot and mouth disease

2008-10-27T10:39:00.000-07:00

Okay so the last few weeks have been so hectic and crazy!! I actually don't mind though...that's better than not having anything to do, right? We left for Utah a couple weeks ago, just Jax and I. Dave couldn't go because of work :(. It was so much fun to see my family...it always is. However, Jax is so clingy to me when we go there and as much as I love that....it also gets a little tiring. He wouldn't let me put him down the whole time and wouldn't go to anyone else either. It was exhausting, to say the least. He did however, really enjoy playing the piano....just like his daddy :).
Alyssa is quite the piano player, I must say. She was so sweet to help with Jax all week. All the girls were!! Sadly, these are the only somewhat happy photos I took all week.
This was Jax's carseat for the week. Kristi was nice enough to let us borrow the brand new pink flowered car seat she had just bought for Whitney. Not Jaxon's manliest moments. Is manliest even a word??

My sisters and my mom threw me a baby shower while I was there. My sisters, sister-in-laws and my mom came. It was so much fun. The ladies in my ward also threw me a shower right before I left for Utah. That was so great too. It was so nice of them to do that for me, I'm so grateful :). Of course, I don't have any pictures of that shower. I wish so much I did though...we played fun games, talked, ate yummy food and I got the cutest little girl stuff!!

We went to Liberty Land while we were in Utah...it's the cutest little kids amusement park. It's mostly for little kids. You can tell by the pictures though that Jax wasn't having any fun.....

This was my attempt at putting him on the train ride with Mckinzie. It didn't work out too well though. He did let my mom hold him for about 2 mins though!

Not the best picture because of the sun and both Jax and Hunter are looking down. By the way, Hunter is my mom's little shadow. We're all pretty sure he is the favorite grandkid....right mom??!!

This was Jax the rest of the time. I was so grateful I didn't actually pay money for him to get in :). Anyways, you can see how much he enjoyed Liberty Land, right?

After we got home though, the poor kid started getting a fever. Since all the kids had been sick all week I thought it was just the result of a cold. He kept getting sicker and sicker though and the next day at Church I noticed he had canker sores all over his tongue. He couldn't even eat the Baby Ruth Uncle Jake had given him. It got worse that night and the next day the cankers were all over his mouth and tongue. He couldn't eat or sleep or even play. I started to get worried and took him to be checked. Turns out he has Hand, foot and mouth disease. Yep...it's as bad as it sounds. Poor little guy. All I could do was give him some numbing medicine for his mouth which didn't even work. He was so sick the remainder of our trip and lucky me...I got to fly home with him feeling that way. He slept the flight to Denver which was such a relief and then he screamed the whole flight to Kansas City. It was so stressful and awful...could have been much worse though. I'm pretty sure most people just felt bad for the pregnant lady with the sick screaming baby. Dave had the next two days off and we did all we could to get Jax better. Dave gave me a much, much needed break.

Jax broke out all over his face, hands and feet the next few days but is starting to feel much better. He can at least eat now. I didn't take any pictures since Jax got sick...he looked awful though :(. Yesterday, he broke out on his tummy so I got some pictures of that while he was sleeping.

Here's what is left of the rash. The doctors say he is still contagious until the rash is gone so we've been stuck in the house since we got home. I just don't feel right even chancing getting someone else's kid sick. I hope so much that none of my nieces or nephews have gotten it since we left. Thank heavens for clorox wipes!!

Anyways, it is a new week and I finally feel refreshed! I've started making my baby blankets and am now just anxiously awaiting the arrival of our 2nd baby...ah!! and hoping that Hand, foot and mouth disease doesn't plague our home ever again!!

On a side note...don't you love how I wait like 3 weeks to update my blog and then when I do update...the post takes you like an hour to get through. I'm sorry...if you're even still reading :)

Introducing Peleana Kahaleiwai Fuimaono

2008-10-07T20:12:00.000-07:00

So Dave's sister, Kanani had her baby early this morning!! They named her Peleana. They'll call her Pele for short. She was 7 lbs 3 oz. and 18 in. long. She is so cute! It really makes me so excited to get to have another one!! You forget how little they are...and look at that hair, I love it!!

After we went to visit Kanani in the hospital, we went to Red Robin. Jax went crazy!! He loved it so much. From the minute we walked in and he saw all the balloons he was dying. He was flirting with the waitress the whole time. He was playing peek a boo with her and couldn't stop laughing. It was adorable! Sorry the pictures are a little blurry...I'm not sure what is up with my camera but all my pictures are coming out blurry. I don't know how to fix it! So, Jax got a balloon on our way out and was so happy the whole ride home and then Dave accidentally popped the balloon right when we got home. Needless to say, Jax had a little fit. Anyways, I think it's safe to say that Red Robin is definitely Jaxon's favorite restaurant.

Jax's haircut, pregnancy, gas prices and a new temple?!!

2008-10-04T16:06:00.000-07:00

Jax went with Dave to get a much needed haircut the other day. It's impossible to get a decent picture anymore so please excuse the before and after pictures. He was SO good!!! He didn't make a sound. I took pictures because I knew my family wouldn't believe me if I said he was good...so here is the proof :)

This is him in the car before...

This is right before....
And during..... He almost looks like he was ready to fall asleep...so relaxing I guess!

And after....I know you can't really see his hair but it looks much better. I love these pictures because his two front teeth are my favorite...I love his gap!!

Jax and I also get to go to Utah next week to see my family. I'm so excited!! It'll probably be the last time I get to for a long time since I'll be having a baby here soon. It should be a fun trip and I'm really hoping that Jax will be extra good this time....for some reason my family scares him to death. :) I'm 31 weeks tomorrow...according to my doctor (33 weeks according to me) :). I'll be honest...I'm already sick of being pregnant. It's just terrible at this stage. I'm meeting with my doctor every two weeks now and after every appointment, I wonder why I'm paying him to tell me every two weeks...that I've gained weight. I don't need a doctor to tell me that....I can very well see that on my own! :)

Jax is teething right now. He is so grumpy!!! He has gotten up every night and screamed for at least 2 hours. I feel so bad for him. Poor little guy he's getting at least 4 teeth...if not more! His gums are so swollen it's hard to tell.

On a much happier note....Gas here is $2.89!!!! It pays to live in Missouri!!! :) I never thought I'd be so happy to have gas be 2.89 but it's amazing!!!! Also, today President Monson annouced that their building a temple in the Kansas City area.....yay!!!!! It probably won't be done for a while but it's so great to know that we won't always have to drive to St. Louis to make it to the temple once a month. Hopefully we can go once a week!!!! We're really excited!

Our Weekend

2008-09-24T13:59:00.000-07:00

Dave just had his four day weekend! That is definitely one of the perks of not having a Monday-Friday job. He can take Saturday, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday off. I love it!!! I started the weekend off on Friday by making yummy Sugar Cookies. I'm really starting to love baking more and more. I still have quite the aversion to cooking though...I never seem to excel at it....Dave's cooking is always much better. Anyways, my sister Kristi, makes the best sugar cookies. They are so moist!!! So I attempted to make them and I think they turned out pretty good. I should have taken a picture. They still didn't turn out as moist as Kristi's but I will keep trying till mine are just as good. :)

Saturday we went to the temple for Dave's sister, Kanani's endownments. It was so good. I love going to the temple!!! Dave's sister, Malia, was nice enough to come over and watch Jax all day long. After the temple, we all went out to lunch. We drove around forever looking for a Hawaiian BBQ place and ended up at.....no place other than Jack In The Box. Hmmm....not my favorite place ever. Personally, I haven't been able to get over the whole E. Coli thing. I know there are so many people who love that place but I just don't see what the big deal is. It was still fun to go out with everyone though.

Also this week, we went out to the Legends. It's just a big outlet Shopping Center and it also has Nebraska Furniture Mart. I love that place. Even though we weren't going to buy anything...I still had to go. I fell in love with the most beautiful leather couches...ever. Too bad I don't have thousands of dollars to spend on furniture :(. Maybe one day, right? After that we took Jax to the T-Rex restaurant again. He enjoyed it so much more this time and kept pointing and saying wow. The restaurant really is so cool. It is quite overpriced if you ask me but it's the experience that makes it worth going. We decided to get him a build-a-dino too. He loves stuffed animals and loves his dinosaur!! I forgot to take a picture of him with it afterwards though. Sorry, I only got a few pictures of the whole weekend.

I love this picture
I tried and tried to get a good picture with Jax but he has become such a daddy's boy...that's the only person he wants ;(. I try to not take it personally but I must say it's getting kind of sad. Notice the picture with Dave above, Jax has the biggest smile on his face.

This was the only picture I got of Jax's dino. My bad!

We also spend a lot of time at home watching The Office. I'm such a fan of that show and I cannot wait for tomorrow....the season starts again!!!! Dwight is by far my favorite.

Dave also got me the 3rd book in the Twilight series. Yay!! I finished the 2nd so I just started the 3rd yesterday. Dave is back at work tonight and I have the whole night to myself. I know I'll be reading a lot of it!

Sorry for this long post...if you're still reading. That was pretty much our weekend though. It was so nice for Dave to be able to relax and have some time off. I love 4 day weekends!!!

2008-09-15T11:02:00.000-07:00

Here's another video of Jax dancing. I'll try to get some more recent pictures and videos and I won't let it be two weeks before I post again.

2008-09-15T10:49:00.000-07:00

Here is a video of Jax dancing, doing his cough that he does ALL the time, saying hi, and of course just being so dang cute!

Finally...a new post!

2008-09-13T09:21:00.000-07:00

K so it's been two weeks since I updated and still I don't really have anything to exciting to talk about! How pathetic is that?! I don't even have any new pictures of Jax because I'm slacking in that department as well. We've been really sick at our house the past week or so. I just got better and now Jax has it :(. I must say having your kid get sick is such a sad experience, especially when you were the one who got him sick :(

I am 28 weeks and I have my next Doc. Appt. today. Then after that I start going every two weeks....I can't believe how fast that went. Friday, I had to take that wonderful Gestational Diabetes test. Yummy...Not really! Every pregnant woman should know that, that drink isn't the most pleasant one! It's no Diet Pepsi that's for sure! :)

Anyways I have been trying to find ways to occupy my time while Dave is at work and I have to admit that the Twillight series is starting to take up most of Jaxon's naptimes, I never thought I would enjoy a book that was about Vampires.
Jax is learning new things everyday. It's crazy to see how much he picks up from watching me and Dave. He loves to dance and bang his head to music. He also can say baby and bye bye. He of course thinks everything is a baby! He is so much fun!

We love our new ward!! I just got called to be Ward Music Chairman. I'm still learning exactly what it is I need to do but I'm so excited. We're supposed to be going to the temple on Saturday for Kanani's endownments...but I'm still not sure what I'm going to do with Jax. Out here, going to the temple isn't exactly....a quick trip. We'll be leaving at 4 in the morning and won't be home until close to 5 or 6. I wouldn't dare ask anyone to watch Jax for that long and even more wouldn't want to subject anyone to him screaming the whole time because we're not there. We'll see what happens. I hope so much I can go!!!

This video Jax isn't really doing anything other than I think he is adorable!!!!

2008-08-29T16:06:00.000-07:00

A girl that used to work for Dave got married last week and so we went to her wedding. This is Jaxon in the car before....isn't he handsome?! We were really nervous to take him to wedding and have him just sit there the whole itme. He was really good until the bride came down the aisle.....then he hit his head and started to cry. Uh....what in the world do you do when your baby starts to cry right when the bride starts walking down the aisle???!!! I tried everything....his binki, his milk, toys, finally I just started putting all the snacks in his mouth and that calmed him down but it was still pretty embarrassing. :)

This is Jax just playing. I just love this kid!

These next pictures are after church one day. We got him the wagon for his birthday....he LOVES it!!! He'll sit in here forever! He loves it even more if we'll pull him around in it. So here he is just hanging out in his wagon.

This is a new face that he does. It's weird...but cute! Whenever I try to kiss him or anything he'll give me this face. He does it everywhere though even in church...it makes all the people around us laugh though.

Dave got Jax this monkey while he was gone on his trip. Jaxon loves it so much! This is him after he fell asleep with it one night.... he's such a sweet boy!

Our Week

2008-08-19T09:00:00.001-07:00

Well it's been a little while since I updated the blog so I figured I'd write about what's going on in our lives.....just in case anyone's curious!! :)

Not much has been going on with us the past couple weeks. Dave is just working hard at work and I'm just staying home with our baby. There's not much to do out here in Missouri, especially with a 1 year old little boy. I did take Jax swimming the other day with Dave's sister, Kanani and her kids. Jax seemed to really like the pool....it's too bad that Dave and I both hate going to public pools otherwise I would take him more.

Jaxon is now almost 13 months old and gets into EVERYTHING!!!! He's quite the active little boy. He's so much fun though and starting to get the cutest personality. Being pregnant, I tend to gag whenever I have to empty the diaper genie or sometimes just changing Jax. So Jax has seen me do this and a few times even thrown up. The first time I did he went around all day pretending to gag!! We thought it was so cute that he was just imitating me...but now he does it a lot!! He does it so much some times that he'll actually throw up. I don't know how to make him stop!!! It's not so cute anymore when you're cleaning up throw up! :)

This pregnancy really has been such an easy one though. I went in for my check up yesterday and everything looks great! It's amazing how different your second pregnancy is. With my first I was counting down the days till I was due and with this one.....the nurse asked me yesterday how far along I was and I couldn't even remember!!! I had to think and calculate in my head. I'm 24 weeks by the way! Anyways, if every pregnancy was like this I could be pregnant all the time.

We're really hoping we can move back closer to Utah soon. Phoenix has kind of been the most likely place we'll end up since Dave can just transfer there with his job. That way we'll be a little closer to my family and my sister Amy lives there so maybe I won't be so lonely while Dave's at work :). I'll have a friend to go to lunch with or even to babygap!!! I hope it works out so that we can but we'll see...you never know till it happens.

Other than that there's not much to blog about....our lives are pretty exciting, right? We did get to go to the St. Louis temple the other day with our ward. I can't tell you how different it is to have to get up at 4 in the morning and drive for 5 hours on a bus to get to the nearest temple. I was so used to Utah where the temple is like 15 mins away. Dave's mom came over and watched Jaxon all day!! We are so grateful that she did that for us! It was such a nice temple trip and we'll be going again next month when Dave's sister, Kanani gets her endownments out. :) That'll be great!

I haven't taken ANY pictures the past few days....I've been slacking big time! So here's a picture of the St. Louis Temple!! I'll try to post more pictures later!

Jaxon's first X-Ray

2008-08-11T10:04:00.000-07:00

So last week Dave went out of town for work for 5 days. I didn't know if I could last because I have never really been alone that long before and I am a baby when it comes to being home alone at night, I know it's pathetic but what can I say. It doesn't help that I watch Fox News all day....every day! I didn't think I could keep myself occupied either while he was gone. Surprisingly though....I did okay. I got a little nervous when I would hear a noise or something but I didn't freak out, hide in the closet or call anyone in tears because I was scared......I think I'm growing up!!!! :). I am pretty proud of myself, I must say. Anyways, I was able to keep myself occupied with Jaxon running around ever second of the day. A few days into it, he managed to swallow a vial of perfume, yes, the actual VIAL. The picture above was the best one I could find to what it was like. So, I was standing in the bathroom tweezing my eyebrows, of course, while he was playing in the drawer next to me. I thought I had gotten everything out of that drawer that could be potentially dangerous, I was wrong. I looked down and he had the perfume in his mouth, so I grabbed it but all that came out was the lid. I saw he was still chewing on something so I frantically reached in to get the rest of it out. He quickly swallowed the whole thing, choked a little and then ran out. I went searching all over the bathroom to look for the vial because I thought for sure there was NO WAY that is what he swallowed. I couldn't find it anywhere. I went to look in his mouth again and sure enough, all I could smell was perfume!!! I called poison control and they said that the perfume wasn't enough to hurt him but the vial was something to be concerned about. I took him into the doctor and they weren't sure if it would show up on an X-ray because it was probably plastic but wanted him to get one just in case it was glass. He got one and nothing showed up so I've been the lucky one to go through his diapers the past few days looking for any remains of a plastic perfume vial. Of course the one time that Dave goes out of town, something like this happens. Mother of the year right here!!! He sure did smell good for the rest of the day though! :)

Jax Sleeping

2008-08-06T10:30:00.000-07:00

I had to post this picture because I think it is so cute! It happened in Utah. Amy and Maren convinced me to let Jaxon start crying himself to sleep. Yes, I made the mistake of putting him to sleep and letting him sleep with us. Anyways, in Utah I tried to make him just cry himself to sleep in the pack n play. I'm pretty sure it has traumatized him for life though.

So one night he cried himself to sleep and I went in about an hour later to go to sleep and check on him. It was dark and I didn't see him laying there so I ran to turn on the light and I found him just like this. His head kept bobbing back and forth but he was dead asleep. It broke my heart!! It was adorable though.

Oh and if any of you are wondering.....Jaxon is back to sleeping with us ....not a good idea, I know I'm going to pay!! Hopefully I will have learned by the time we have our little girl! :)

2008-08-04T20:28:00.000-07:00

Okay so it's been forever since I've blogged, Im' really slacking! We've had a lot going on! It was my birthday then 9 days later it was Jaxon's birthday and then 9 days after that....it was Dave's birthday. Yes, July and August will always be busy and expensive months for us!! Anyways, I guess I'll just be posting some random pictures throughout the past little while. Jaxon's birthday was fun. He just turned 1 so of course, he had no idea what was going on...but he sure liked the attention!! We got cupcakes to have and he HATED them. It was shocking. What 1 year old hates cupcakes?? I have this awful habit of giving presents early. Gap had a huge sale and I was able to find the cutest clothes like a 2 weeks before his birthday so naturally I had to have him wear the clothes I had just bought. I need to break that habit fast!! We did get him some toys though to open on his birthday, which he wasn't interested in at all either. It was still a fun day though!

ONE YEAR LATER.....

So, this is not the best picture but it's so rare to ever actually get Jax to smile at the camera anymore!! Whenever he sees the camera, he smiles and then comes running for it!! Most of my pictures are just close-ups of his eye. So of course, the one time that he does stop and smile, the lighting is way off! Anyways, he still manages to make it cute.

Jax and Daddy on Jaxon's 1st birthday.

Memory Game

2008-07-21T08:01:00.001-07:00

K I'll try this but I don't actually have many people that I know that blog so the few of you who do read this can fill it out if you'd like :)!

1. As a comment on my blog, leave one memory that you and I had together. It doesn't matter if you knew me a little or a lot, anything you remember!

2. Next, re-post these instructions on your blog and see how many people leave a memory about you. It's actually pretty cool (and funny) to see the responses. If you leave a memory about me, I'll assume you're playing the game and I'll come to your blog and leave one about you. Thanks!

Jax Singing

2008-07-20T14:07:00.000-07:00

I'm not sure how Jaxon knew that you sing into a microphone but he came in our room the other day singing into our Playstation 2 microphone! It was the cutest thing and he loves to do it. Maybe he learned from watching his daddy!! :) I hope he'll be a singer just like Dave!! For any of you that don't know, Dave is an amazing singer and piano player and I'm hoping that Jax will be just like him.

IT'S A GIRL!!!!!

2008-07-19T10:55:00.000-07:00

We're having a little girl!! We had our ultrasound on Thursday which also was my birthday! It was the best birthday present to be able to find out what we were having!! So now we will have a boy and a girl!! I have to go buy all girl stuff now though, I only have blue things!! I'm so excited to have a little girl though.
We are thinking of names and but you never can know until they come! We did, however, decide on a middle name. For those of you who know us, Dave is hawaiian and so all our kids will have a hawaiian middle name. Jaxon's is Kawika Iosepa which is David Joseph. That is David's name so it was very appropriate we thought! Anyways we've decided on Keona Okelani which means God's gracious gift from heaven. Anyways, wanted to share the good news!!!

Our Temple Sealing

2008-07-15T08:32:00.000-07:00

We're finally home. Sorry but I'm pretty sure this will be a long post...so you've been warned! We had such a great time in Utah with all my family we did miss Adam, Nat and their kids though!!! It was sad to come home and leave everyone but it's always nice to be back home too. Jaxon was so grumpy the whole trip!! All I ever talked about to my family before we left was how good Jax was and how he NEVER cried and how he'll go to anyone. So naturally, the day we get there he clings to me and starts to cry if he even senses that I'm going to leave the room. I just think he wasn't used to having so many people around all the time. Yes, I'm making excuses!!! :) I'm pretty sure my family will never believe a good thing I say about any of my kids again! For the record, he has been so good and happy since we got back! :)

So I did bring my camera but I'm afraid I only took ONE picture the whole trip!!! However, thanks to my "Super Sister", I have tons of pictures. She took so many and made us all CDS of them. Thanks Amy!

We got sealed in the Timpanogas Temple on Tuesday July 8th! We were sealed by George Durrant...he was so good!!! He is a mormon author if any of you have read his books. It was such an amazing experience. Poor Jaxon cried the entire time but it still was such a sweet and spiritual day. I am so grateful that I can now be sealed to my wonderful husband and beautiful little boy for eternity!! Here are some pictures at the temple.

Alyssa, Kinzie, Brooklyn, Ashely, Libby and little baby Whitney waiting outside the temple!

This is us just coming out of the temple.

Jaxon after the temple!!
All the nieces and nephews. Our eternal family!!

This is all of my family.
Us with my parents.

On a side note: Yes that is really how white I am, it's not the lighting of the picture so don't be fooled. I don't even look like I belong in my family, right? :)

Anyways, that's only part of the trip! I'll post more later.

My 6 Quirky Habits

2008-06-30T07:41:00.000-07:00

Okay, so Amy tagged me so I'll tell you what my 6 habits are....and even though I have a lot of the same as Amy, I'll try to do different ones! :)

1. I have to tap the top of a soda can before I can open it. Since I have been married, my husband has informed me that you don't need to do this, it won't explode all over you. Even though I see him open the can without tapping it and I know it's not going to explode I still HAVE to do it.

2. I have a little OCD with tweezing my eyebrows. It's so bad that I even try to tweeze with my fingers sometimes (I know so weird, right?) I could sit in front of the mirror for hours and tweeze my eyebrows. I tend to get a little out of control though at times....when it's been a while since I've seen my mom she usually tells me my eyebrows are way too thin and I need to grow them out. I don't notice it until I look back at pictures :). We'll see if she says anything tomorrow.

3. I am so bug phobic!! If I see the smallest spider in my apartment, I'll spend the next week looking in every corner and underneath everything for more. I love my new apartment because they spray pretty routinely.

4. I am the pickiest eater. Poor Dave loves seafood and meat and all kinds of food. I only eat certain things. I eat chicken but most other meats I won't eat. I'll eat hamburger meat in tacos or lasagna but I won't eat hamburgers. I'm really weird and really high maintenance when it comes to food. I usually don't try anything new either. If it looks weird, I won't eat it. Sorry Dave :) I'm trying to be better but for me, it's more of a mental thing I think. If my mind says it won't taste good then it won't. However, my sister Kristi used to be like this and I hear that she now eats all kinds of things so...there is hope!! :)

5. I have a real problem with loosing my license and credit card. I have a wallet, which is always in my diaper bag but for some reason I won't keep my license and credit card in there. I loose them all the time and find them in such random places like Jaxon's crib or in the bathroom drawer. I've even been pulled over and been caught without my license (talked my way out of it though :) ). I don't ever seem to learn when I get somewhere and don't have them. However, I did just have a big scare I couldn't find my license and I am going to Utah so I have to have I.D. for the plane. I looked all over and couldn't find it anywhere and didn't know what I was going to do! I finally found it about a week ago and it has been safely kept in my wallet ever since!! I hope I can make a habit of that!

6. I am the queen of asking questions....actually my mom is probably the queen but I come in second. I'm so curious and I won't stop till I know. Even when I do get an answer I'll usually ask the same question just with different wording. I think it drives Dave a little crazy!!! I even catch myself after like the 10th question and remember what it was like growing up with 50 questions being asked if we went somewhere and when we came home!! Love ya mom :)! Dave jokes that I'm going to make the kids fill out a 100 question test whenever they want to do something! Of course I don't think I'd ever be that extreme.... but you never know...these days you might need to do that!

Anyways, those are a few of my weird habits. I tag Nat and Steph.

Blogs

2008-06-23T07:47:00.000-07:00

So I found the cutest web site for blogs. For those of you like me, who can't figure out for the life of you how to make your own blog. My sister-in-law Natalie sent me an e-mail explaining how to do it and I'd like to think that usually I'm pretty handy when it comes to the computer but I couldn't even try to pretend to know where to start. Thanks for taking the time though Nat!! :). Anyways, I like this web site so check it out if you'd like!! It's on my sidebar of Links I Love.

2008-06-11T15:57:00.000-07:00

We are getting sealed in the temple!! We're so excited and it has all just worked out that it'll happen in Utah on July 8th, 2008 in the Mt. Timpanogas Temple. Most of my family will be able to be there...except Adam and Nat :( sorry guys!! We are so happy though that we can finally be sealed together as a family for eternity. It'll be such a wonderful day for all of us and we can't wait!

2008-06-03T20:22:00.000-07:00

My sister-in-law Malia and I decided to take our kids to the T-Rex Dinosaur Restaurant on Friday. It is the coolest place! It is this huge restaurant filled with all kinds of big dinosaurs, bugs, mammoths, jelly fish etc...it's awesome! It's definitely a place for boys!! It also had the cutest store in there where you could buy all kinds of things and also had a build-a-dino store where you could build little dinosaurs instead of bears. It was so much fun! I must say the food was amazing, but still is definitely worth going for the experience. However, just like the zoo...I'm sure Jax will enjoy it so much more when he's a little older. Sorry the pictures aren't the best quality but they'll do!

Jaxon drinking his juice

Mommy and Jax. Doesn't he look like he's having fun?!

Here we all are at our table.

Jax and Me in front of all the fish.

Here is an overview of a part of the restaurant

The outside

This is the ride home, Jax was exhausted!!

2008-05-30T10:36:00.000-07:00

SWIMMING....

We took Jaxon swimming for the first time the other day. It was FREEZING cold!! He really liked it at first and may have liked it a little more if I had actually swam around with him instead of complaining about the cold water :). He splashed and played for about 5 mins....

Then the cold hit him and he started shivering....so we quickly got out and went home. I hope they are going to heat the pool so that we can actually swim this summer!

THE ZOO.....

This is Jax's first day at The Zoo. Yes, he slept for A LOT of it!! We thought he would enjoy seeing the animals but it didn't really phase him...he did love the Sea Lions. I'm afraid that one of his favorite parts of the whole day was eating the Chicken Nuggets we got him...and after spending 30 dollars for food that isn't even Wendy's quality we were glad to see that he at least enjoyed them!
This is Jax doing more of his favorite thing...eating!

Jax loved wearing his hat (for the 20 seconds that he would actually keep it on) it always makes him smile so big!!

Jaxon and Daddy!

It always surprises me in the springtime to see how pretty Missouri is. You would never really think that Missouri is pretty....but it gets so greeen and there are trees everywhere. It's beautiful!!!

This picture pretty much explains how all the animals were all day....far away and with their backs to us. It was so much fun though!! I can't wait to go back when Jax is just a little bit older. Next time, we will be packing lunches though!!!!!

Jax and More!

2008-05-19T10:04:00.001-07:00

2008-05-17T18:11:00.000-07:00

Jaxon is walking. He's 9 1/2 months old!!! I can't believe how big he is getting. It's so much fun to have him walk around. Each time he even takes two steps he looks at me and gets a big smile on his face! He is so proud of himself! When Dave came home from work today, he was so excited to see him he walked all the way from the bedroom to the front door! Anyways, I never thought I would be so excited about somebody walking...but being a mom is amazing!! It makes you so excited over everything!!!!

2008-05-14T18:13:00.000-07:00

So it's been a while since I updated my blog. My friend Alexa came out from Utah and stayed with us for a week. It was a lot of fun! Anyways, I decided that I would just post some of the pictures that I have taken over the past week or so. Jax is now standing on his own and will take one step before falling. He loves our chair that swivels...he'll hold on to it and walk around in circles for the longest time! He has a blast with it! He also has this new crawl...he puts his head all the way down like a bull and then starts crawling really fast in circles. It's really funny and cute to watch. He's such a sweet and funny little boy. However, it is impossible for him to understand NO! Most babies I have seen, at least get scared when you yell at them. Jax laughs at me when I do it. Whenever he's doing something he shouldn't we'll tell him no...he'll look at us, smile and keep on doing it. Eventually I yell, to at least scare him out of doing it...that is when he laughs...I'll move him from it and he'll get mad at me and crawl right back to what he was doing.
The other day I was cleaning and he spilled soda all over the carpet as I was cleaning that up he managed to somehow find more and spilled that one all over. Needless to say, I was a little upset and got pretty mad at him....he started clapping and bouncing up and down and gave me the biggest smile. I'm not sure if he'll grow out this but I hope so :). It's so hard to stay mad when he's being so darn cute!!!

JAX EATING CRACKERS....

I came into my room the other day and Jax was getting into his crackers...
He loves to drink from cups...so he automatically tipped the bottle back and began to drink....
Which, of course ended in him pouring out the whole bottle....
Which made him really excited and he started to play in them....
He finally realized I was taking pictures the whole time as he grabbed a couple to eat.

Tornados...

2008-05-02T08:27:00.000-07:00

The Damage done here in Kansas City, Mo

So, you might have heard that we had some pretty severe weather Thursday and Friday. Dave was closing so it was just me and Jax. Living here for more than a year, I've gotten used to hearing about tornado watches and severe thunderstorms but it ususally was just that...a watch. It never actually seems to hit us here, it always hits everywhere around us. Nothing has ever gotten bad, until last night. The news interrupted my Grey's Anatomy and within 30 mins our watch had been upgraded to a WARNING, this means that a tornado has been spotted and is very likely to touch down in our area. Needless to say, I was freaking out, and that's an understatement. I'm a little humiliated to say that I actually called my mom, crying. I was ready to say my goodbyes to the people I loved.

I frantically tried to get a hold of Dave at work and he headed home knowing that I would be a wreck. When he got home I was in the closet...I didn't dare leave it. Dave, being used to this kind of thing, was asking if I wanted something to eat and went in the kitchen to start making something. I couldn't believe he wasn't even worried. Anyways, two tornados ended up touching down the next morning. Luckily, it didn't come by our place but it did destroy the Arbys we go to all the time.....Nobody here was killed so that's really good as well. It is really scary and I'm not sure if I'll ever get used to this weather.....

This is the Arbys....

Jax

2008-04-30T16:21:00.000-07:00

Jax loves to play on the big chair. He'll go up to the arm and just jump right off. He's gotten hurt many times but still gets right back on. I'm not sure when he'll learn that he can't do that.
He loves to look out this window..he could do it all day. He just stands there staring out, banging on the window and gets so excited when somebody walks by....maybe I should let him out more...:)
This is one of Jaxon's favorite toys. It is the scooper from the formula can. He just walks around with it in his mouth and laughs at himself...it's really cute!

He also loves to lay on the laundry right when I get it out of the dryer when it's all warm.

All ready for church

2008-04-25T19:59:00.001-07:00

Jax looks so cute all ready for church each sunday. However, he hates to get dressed and usually just uses his ties to chew on!!! I guess it's all more for me anyways. I love the ties though!! Only 7 dollars at Childrens Place...you can only get them at Christmas and Easter though so stock up!!! Anyways, I love him in his white shirt and ties!!

2008-04-22T09:41:00.000-07:00

I was cleaning the other day and I went to my room to grab something and when I came out, Jax had managed to find this root beer can that I had thrown away. He was trying his hardest to drink out of it but was confused when nothing was coming out, he started to like pant and bounce up and down when nothing came out.. He loves to drink but he WILL NOT drink out of a sippy cup, it has to be a real cup. It was cute that he wanted Root Beer so badly. Probably not a good thing though that he's only 9 months and already loves root beer.

He would never eat the baby food, he HATED it. I tried it all and he would only drink his bottles. Me, being a first time mom, I would only give him bottles or baby food. I was scared to give him real food but it seemed like everytime we were eating anything he'd come crawling over as fast as he could to get his hands on what we had. So I finally gave up and we now feed him most the things we eat, besides nuts or dairy things. He loves real food but...he won't even eat real fruit or veggies. He loves bread and rice and crackers and cereal and noodles and every other kind of carb. And as you can see from the picture he likes root beer and sprite. He eats so unhealthy. I'm hoping he'll grow out of that before he stops drinking his bottles, but I guess we'll just have to see...

New baby and Jax

2008-04-22T09:16:00.000-07:00

Here is a picture of our new baby, so tiny!!

Well as some of you may know, I have been having some bleeding with this pregnancy. Not so much that I thought for sure I was having a miscarriage but still bleeding. I went to my doctor yesterday and he had me get an internal ultrasound, if any of you have ever had one of these, you know it's a little invasive and awkward. Anyways, they found that there was a little bleeding around the sac. She said that that could be normal but wanted me to go get some blood work done. Anyways, it looks like things are fine, which is of course very good!

She did find on the ultrasound that I'm TWO weeks behind what I thought I was. My due date is now Dec. 7th. For all of you who have been pregnant, you know that being two weeks behind what you thought your due date was, is a little depressing. I have to be pregnant for two weeks longer!! Haha. We were really happy though that everything seemed to be okay.

Jax was such a good sport all day going place to place with me. He gets cuter and cuter each day. The other day he was taking a nap and I heard him clapping, when I went in to check on him, he was still sleeping and then he started to laugh. It was so cute. I love those little moments.

TRIP TO SAN DIEGO

2008-04-10T13:12:00.000-07:00

We recently just went to San Diego. Dave had some meetings there and it just so happened that my dad had some meetings there the very same week. It was so much fun to get away. It rained the whole time though, so we were able to do that much but it was still so much fun. My parents stayed at the Hotel Del Coronado. It was beautiful!! We stayed in the city since that's where Dave had all his meetings. After a few days in San Diego, we went to visit my grandparents in Thousand Oaks. It was so good to see them and spend some time together as a family. It was a great trip.

Dave has meetings there every year in Feb. so I can't wait to go back! Hopefully it will be more sunny next time!!!

Daddy's Little Boy

2008-04-10T12:08:00.000-07:00

Dave is the best daddy. Jaxon loves him so much. As I said before, when daddy's home Jax won't leave his side and he just loves the attention that daddy gives him. Dave is so helpful with Jax too! He such an amazing person and I couldn't ask for a better husband!! We both love him so much!

2008-04-10T12:01:00.000-07:00

This was Jaxon's birth announcement! Natalie does such an amazing job with these! Thanks Nat!!

2008-04-10T11:41:00.000-07:00

Jaxon loves to smile for the camera!

We're Expecting!!

2008-04-10T09:01:00.001-07:00

We're expecting another baby!!! I'm about 7 weeks along and my due date is Nov. 25. Jax is getting more and more demanding so I know it won't be easy but we're still really excited. We'd love another boy but we'd also love a little girl too. Dave has twins brothers and his family keeps joking that maybe it is twins. Hopefully not!! Although that would be great and exciting. I don't know if I could handle 3 kids so soon!!! Anyways, just wanted to get the great news out!!

Jaxon

2008-04-10T08:54:00.000-07:00

Jax is getting so big. He's now 8 months old and getting into everything!!!! He loves his bottles. He gets so excited when he sees his bottle and then when he drinks, his eyes roll to the back of his head like he's getting his fix. He's at the cutest age. He's getting such a little personality and it's so much fun to watch him learn new things each day.

He'll go to anyone, when we were at church the other day we were talking to the bishop and Jax put out his arms to go to him, when the bishop picked him up Jax put his head down and cuddled right up to him. It was really sweet.

He's such a daddy's boy right now. He usually doesn't want anything to do with me when daddy is home. It's a little depressing but cute at the same time.

Jax does love to help me with laundry and the dishes, well he loves to play on the dishwasher, dryer and lay in the clean, warm clothes.

Every time I pull out the camera he gives me a big smile, it's like he knows exactly what to do. We just love him so much, he's such a happy baby and it's been so much fun to be a mom , I love it!!!