I hope you weren't holding your breath! haha.

Christmas at Seaside, OR

Ginger bread houses

Thanksgiving

One of my least favorite thing is choose which pictures to post...I'll probably post some more later of the '09 holiday season :) but these will do for now.

Sunday Montage (from a couple weeks ago)

Its so heart warming to watching Jaxon play with Bridget. She LOVES him and is so content when he is near. When I think that she might be annoyed with him smothering her...she starts to giggle. Jaxon adores her and is very attentive to her needs. He likes to soothe and comfort her. He gets her toys and tells her..."it be alright sister, it be alright" He's such a sweet boy. Its amazing how understanding he is at such a young age of her needs and when I need to sometimes cut things short with him to help or feed her. I am very lucky to have such an awesome little boy.

Its not halloween

haha, so finally something other than my Halloween pictures :)....I've had this typed for over a week and am now posting it...(I'll post the pictures soon at least I'm getting this part done :) )


Its amazing how having two kids just seems to fall into place. Before having Bridget I used to wonder how it was going to be having 2 of my own. (like all the time) Its not too bad. I hope this is how it is as you keep building a family. I am pretty blessed to have such easy going kids. Having a manageable routine helps... the days when I get a call that we are going to show the house and it throws off the routine...I get stressed. But again luckily, Jaxon is a trooper and is content watching Cars, Toy Story, or Incredibles while I scurry around the house getting it ready. Bridget is the sweetest chubby bunny ever! We all LOVE her! Lately I have been having anxiety about not giving her a middle name. (I know kinda silly) But originally I wasn't planning on giving this little girl a middle name and then when it happened that she was born on my grandmas birthday...I thought it would have been fun to give her my grandma name (Roma) as the middle or a nickname that my dad called me and my grandma (Jean). At the hospital I hadn't decided yet and it was making me sweat...literally. The nurse kept saying that I had to figure it out 'cause she had to finish the paperwork stuff in order to check me out. I found out after the fact that I didn't have to finalize her name so quickly. I was so torn, with all the excitement of her arrival and the stress of finalizing her name...I couldn't decide. At the time I was happy without her having a middle name, because I didn't have a middle name, my mom, Wills mom didn't either. But off and on over the last couple of months I keep thinking I should have made Jean her middle name. I've looked to see if I can change it, but I think I have to have to file it with the court and pay a bunch of money...so I think I just have to live with it. It will make a good story for her when she gets older, that her mom was having hot flashes over her middle name...how silly, right? Its pretty cool that she and Jaxon were both born on my Dads parents birthdays. (Jaxon on my grandpas and Bridget on my grandmas)

We still have our house for sale, we've been close to a couple of offers but have lost out to houses in Richland...errrr. I hate this waiting game. I keep the house pretty clean, but when I get a call to show it, I'm pretty OCD on getting it sparkly clean. The positive side is that it seems like we have professional cleaners coming all the time, but really it from the sweat of my own brow. Before we were selling the house I used to tell Jaxon we had to clean up the house to make the house "Happy." So now when I get the house super clean, he always says, "wow mom, the house is happy!...you make it happy mom" it sounds so cute from him. :)

Speaking of cute things Jaxon says...getting ready for a nap, after we've already read a bunch of books, "read me elmo book mom," "Jax, its time for you nap, no more books" "Just read me the elmo book mom, last one." "you want me to read you the elmo one?" "ok, you can mom."

With Will Christmas eve @4 am "Jaxon you need to go back to bed" "but daddy I can't...the presents!"

Whenever I ask Jaxon what he wants to eat he says, "just chocolate" or "Just cookies"....hmmm, I wonder where he got that from. I think I need to be a better example.

Kids are so stinkin' cute, some of the cutest things he says happen when I shouldn't laugh or smile. I love he is starting to do imaginative play on his own. He likes play duh alot and one day he was flying a piece around saying "come on, vamanos, you want me to take you to your family?"

We spent Christmas with Will's family on the Oregon Coast @ Seaside, it was so much more fun than we expected...we had sunny days and fun people to play with. The pool was outdoors and heated so, jaxon "just" wanted to go swimming all the time. We had fun playing on the beach. Jaxon loved walking up to the waves and then running away from them with Alex and Beth. Santa found us there and brought all of us exciting new things. Jaxon's favorite toy was his buzz lightyear!! After that nothing else mattered. When we got home and got out his other toys he was super excited all over again. It was great to have Derrick, Michelle and their two kids around for a little bit. Jaxon LOVED playing with his cousins!!! He can't wait till they come again soon. Too funny and kinda gross...Jaxon and Daphne were eating cutie oranges together and she had juice dripping down her chin and he licked it off! "Jaxon, don't lick her face!" They thought it was funny.

It seems like a lot of blogging post worthy things have happened since halloween, I have just been too lazy and BUSY to post them. so here they are: (pictures coming soon)

-we had a yummy thanksgiving here in Washington with Will's family
-Bridgets Blessing, I made her dress which was fun to do.

-we made gingerbread houses, thank you Ali for the great recipe!!!
-we got a new car.
- my cute kids growing way too fast !!!

Happy Halloween!

He Loved that his costume had a tail!

1st bath

Play time with big brother

Within the last couple of weeks...

Before Bridget arrived we took Jaxon to the Prosser Hot Air Balloon night show. He LOVED riding the pony, he kept saying "yeeha!" After his pony ride we got some pizza and took it over to the stadium and found a spot on eat and watch the set up. It was a fun family night and so cool to see the balloons.

Jax found Will officiating hat in its case and was walking around the house saying, "I go to the game mom...bye."

The week before I delivered.

the night before I had Bridget...We decided to clean out the car, when Will came in to check on Jax..."Jax where are you?" "I eating chocolate!" Little sneaker found this bag in the pantry, he made a chocolate mess! He did look super cute :)

Will got to play doctor...he liked it so much that he was figuring out how much more school he would have to complete to switch careers...I laughed at him, he'd be about the age to retire before he'd finish :)...sorry honey;)

I don't really remember if I had the "shakes" with Jaxon, but after i delivered Bridget i had some serious shakes!! So they bundled me up, the shakes are so crazy weird!

Bridget was a cubby bunny face! with lots of pretty DARK hair. She weighed 8lbs 4ozs.

She is such a blessing to have in our family and we all LOVE her! We are so grateful that we had a smooth delivery and no problems after...I am truly blessed!

Will...the football official

For those of you that don't know, Will likes to officiate sports. Currently he is in football season...duh :) then next month he starts into the lengthy season of Basketball. This will be his 3rd year of college ball and about his 6th year of high school....yes, you are probably thinking...he enjoys doing this...yep. Why anyone would enjoy being yelled at is beyond me. Here are some pics off the internet of some of his fb games this season...yay Will. Can you find him in the picture above?

HI Dentist!

Today was Jaxon's first visit to the dentist and he was a super CHAMP!! There are a couple of posts to come like his birthday last week, happy 2!, and our FUN trip to California...cross your fingers I get them up this weekend :)
But back to - today! I can't believe that he was awesome for his first visit today. Last week I bought him a Dora book that is all about going to the dentist to help prepare him for today...(Jaxon loves Dora's show and books, so I thought that this book might help...and it totally did!) He was so excited be at the office and meet the dentist! He stayed in the chair and opened his mouth wide..."abre!" He let the dentist count his teeth and then he let the assistant brush, floss and paint the vitamins on!! YAY JAXON!!! Not one fuss?! They couldn't believe it since he just turned 2...for being so great he got to pick out 2 things from the basket :) how COOL! haha. He didn't want to leave! I took Jax to probably the best pediatric dentist office ever! When will was doing his internship here while we were engaged he did the remodel on this office and built the founding dentist's home (he is now re-tired). But this office is TOO cool. They have everything...several video game stations, fish tank, a huge ball roller coaster, a train that rides around the whole lobby, nooks built into the wall with activities everywhere...it was perfect! The rooms were equipped with tv's and for older kids video games were avaible...I want to play video games while they are drilling my teeth!!! Darn I am too old to be a patient :(
It is such a great feeling when your child has a good experience with something that you dreaded as a kid. I am proud to say that Jaxon has healthy gums and teeth!!
Great jod today JAX!! I LOVE YOU!