Jaxy at 14 Months!

I wanted to get some updated pictures of our little squirt. He is so full of personality.We LOVE it

Isn't he the cutest?

Laughing at mom when I would say cheese!

Jabbering to himself and looking out at the birds.

Trying to touch the camera.

I LOVE him.

Such a handsome boy.

Guess who he sees? Daddy just walked into the room. Jax is crazy about his daddy!

Oh no, dad just left the room.

Oh there he is again.

Why does he keep leaving my room?

Happy again!

Enough is enough! I am sick of this!

I took these pictures of Jax after church today. I was trying to get him to take a nap and he just was not having it. Joe had gone to do his home teaching and had come back home at the end of this pictures. We were trying to get his cry face and it took a few times as you can tell. We are so mean! He is so stinking cute, and is such a funny kid. We laugh at the things he does and says!

Jax can almost walk and will take about 10 steps. He doesn't quite have the confidence that he can really do it. We are so happy that he is so close to walking. I remember when we had his first surgery for his hips, the Doctor telling us it would be 18 months or older before he would walk. It crushed me! But, Jaxon has proven them wrong many times. We are so thrilled about it! We are nuts about him and can't seem to get enough of him!

All About Joe

I have no words for this picture. Other than Joe will kill me for putting this picture on here.

Anyone that knows Joe, knows that he is the hardest working man on the planet. He also falls asleep in about 5 seconds and I am not even kidding you either. We will be in full conversation at night and he is out cold right in the middle of it.

Joe and I have been working in our backyard gutting it basically except for our grass and two trees. We have been digging trenches and putting in sub pumps and ripping bushes and trees out. It is finally all out except for our trees and grass. We took a load to the dump and it weighed over 4000lbs. It is nice to see that we are finally getting somewhere. The sub pump will pump the excess water from our yard from the rain, snow and sprinklers. It goes from the rain gutters into a deep whole into the ground with lots of connecting tubes. It then goes to the front of our yard and out into the street. Lots of work went into this and lots of opinions. Now we don't have to worry when it rains, or watering the lawn and constantly watching to make sure it isn't coming into the basement. Now we are preparing for our cement patio. I am begging Joe to let us have a Saturday off so we can either go to the zoo, or take Jaxy to the pool. Hopefully he will give in. I am not going to plan on it.

More Home Projects

This is in my laundry room and has made my life 1000 times easier. I found the idea on pinterest and Joe built this for me for Mother's Day!

I finally convinced Joe to get rid of the love sac. Too bad that we still have it, it is in the corner of our crawl space. I have loved not having to fluff it every time I see the dang thing. I like this set up so much more.

More, and more projects keep happening around our home, we were doing things right and left and now it has slowed down and our focus has been our backyard. I should have taken pictures of it. It wasn't bad by any means.. just not our style. So it seems that every Saturday we are stuck at home working in the backyard. It will be years before it will be done. It is going to be so fun when it is finally complete.

4th of July!

At the Kaysville City parade right before it started. It was so hot!

Jaxy's face is so red and he is spitting milk at me.!

This was when the fire trucks and police cars and all the loud noises were happening. Didn't even scare him one bit.

Jax and his favorite person "Da" As Jaxy calls him.

Jaxy caught some beads

Enjoying the parade.

We had a firework show at my brother Brett's home. Jaxy loves Grandpa!

I love the this picture of Jax and my dad. One of my favorites.

We had a wonderful 4th this year, So nice to be back with our family and doing our annual traditions. I love going to the Kaysville parade and melting to death in the sun. 

We have a delicious bbq are my bro's house and do fireworks there, and then head over to Davis High School along with all of Davis County and watch the firework show.

Joe decided to go on a trail run and was gone for 6 plus hours. I was so ticked off that he was gone for so long. He got lost and had a hard time finding his way out. I am so glad the he was okay and finally got home so we could continue on with the fun traditions.

Jax and the Pool!

Don't knock on his goofy swim hat that his dad hates! I don't want his head to get burnt!

Jaxon's favorite thing to do is swim. He loves the water and loves to splash the water and put it in his face and crawl all over the place. We have gone to a lot of splash pads and lots of trips to the local swimming pools. I have to keep my constant eye on him or he will head straight for the deep end. He loves to go down the slides and will go all day long. He screams his head off when you take him away from them. He even shivers to death but that doesn't stop him at all. Anytime I take him out and make him get a drink it is a pure tantrum. He is a little fish...... It has been so much fun to take him and cool off in this blistering wonderful heat. I can't wait until he can walk, he is so close to walking, and will even take a few steps!

A Little Water In The House

These two adore each other. Minutes before the water came into our basement.

We got a little bit of water into our basement from the sprinklers. Happy Father's day to Joe.

We rented this fan from Home Depot and it dried everything so much faster.

Had to move our couches down the hall.

It was about 2:00am on Father's day, Joe had fallen asleep with Jax downstairs and I was in bed when Joe came and woke me up and said we have a flooded basement. I was sick to my stomach immediately. We got towels and blankets and started to get as much water off the carpet and tile as possible. Luckily it went mostly into the middle of the room. We pulled the carpet up and had fans going immediately.  

I had turned the sprinklers on and had been watering our lawn for a few weeks while Joe was gone and thank goodness nothing happened while Joe was gone. We have cut some sprinkler lines in preparation for a cement patio, I know that I didn't turn on that specific sprinkler. Well, I heard a loud pop and didn't think anything of it. That sprinkler that had been cut hadn't been sealed yet, and that is where all the water had come from. It is right by our back porch and ran down the stairs and the mat that is by the door covered the drain when it got wet and then clogged the drain. So the water ran right in..... Come to find out that if you turn our sprinkling system on the same time that the previous owners had it set for, it will run the full course in which it did the night I had turned them on. So.... I am basically saying it wasn't entirely my fault. A few days later it did  the same thing, we heard the pop this time and paid attention to it this time just at the water started coming down the stairs. Thank heavens it didn't happen twice. 

I am so glad it wasn't as bad as it could have been. Luckily no mold, and nothing got ruined. We just need to have someone come and stretch our carpet back. 

I felt so awful that it happened at all, let alone that it was Father's Day. Joe was so nice and patient about it. 

Jaxon's New Hiding Spot

Such a goof, he loves to climb in there and sit while you are either taking a shower or getting ready!

I find Jax climbing in and out of the bathroom cupboards all day long!

Just had to throw this one in. Jaxy's favorite way to sleep.

Jaxon is such a funny kid. He loves to learn and explore things all the time. He has recently discovered the bathroom drawers and cupboards. He likes to pull everything out and throw it all over the place. When it is all cleared out he will climb in a sit, and sometime he closes the door too and laughs really hard cause he knows we are going to open it. He is such a good ball.

Fun Times!

We LOVE to hang out with Kurt and Ash! We miss them so much and will take anytime we can get with them.

I LOVE Ashley to death we have been good friends forever! Oh and that darling babe! it was making me baby hungry holding the cute little guy!

We love anytime we get to hang with the Thompson family! When we lived in SLC we hung out with them as much as possible. It was some of the funnest times in our life. We love them, and are so thankful that we get to be great friends with them.