Summer Fun & Jaxon's Blessing

I haven't posted in a while so here are some fun things that have happened this summer!


Andrea - one of my best friends that I met in Ecuador, came up from California for a weekend! It was so good to see her again! We haven't seen each other since my wedding over 2 years ago! Since then she has had a baby so it was fun to be able to meet each other's sons! Her son Owen is 10 months old and crawling and almost walking! He is so cute and we had so much fun! We went to the gateway and watched the fountain. Both of our kids are to young to go in and play - but it was fun to have them watch! Here are a few pictures of that!


Jaxon Loves to be outside!





Jaxon and I in front of the fountain!



Jaxon and Owen - Jaxon is very transfixed on the fountains LOL



Me and Andrea!



All of us!



Next, Jaxon had his 2 month appointment! He is doing great! He is now (well on Aug 20th when he was weighed) 11 1/2 pounds and 23 1/4 inches long so he is in the 40th percentile for weight and 60th percentile for height! He also got his shots at that visit and he did pretty good! It was so sad and hard to watch... I almost started crying when he did - but I managed to hold it together :) and then as soon as the nurse put his band aids on he stopped crying. Dan was with us at that appointment because we left right from there to go down to Cedar City! He got a fever that night because of the shots... but it was gone within 24 hours :)





Another fun thing that happend is we went to Cedar City to visit our cousins and see a play at the Shakespearian festival! This was our first family vacation since Jaxon has been born! I can't believe how much stuff you have to pack for a baby! It was pretty funny! Normally, we only have 2 suitcases, one for me and one for Dan, but now - we had those 2 for us, and then about 5 things for Jaxon! We had his stroller, his pack and play, a bag with his diapers, wipes, and bottles, another with his clothes, another with his blankets and toys for his crib - it was pretty funny but it all fit in our trunk and Jaxon slept the entire 4 hour drive so that was really nice!


Dan and Jaxon taking a nap
Waking up from the nap... nice hair Dan

Because of his fever, we would put a cool wash cloth on his head - he thought it was funny
This is Jaxon and Gavin (Dan's cousins baby who is a month younger than Jaxon)

This was at the green show before the play started... Jaxon slept through it all! But I loved it!

These were all the shows at the festival this year!

We saw the comedy of errors and it was SO FUNNY! We were lucky to get front row seats right in the middle so we actually got interacted with during the play - it was a lot of fun!


The next big event was Jaxon's blessing. We blessed him last Sunday September 6th! Dan gave Jaxon a BEAUTIFUL blessing! We are so lucky to have so many family and friends that are close by to support us! Before church we took a family picture and we took pictures of Jaxon. He was in such a good mood we got a lot of cute ones! He was asleep for the blessing so we didn't have to worry about him crying at all! And his blessing outfit is actually the outfit my little brother Landon wore when he was blessed. We thought it would be a nice way to include Landon since he is on his mission and couldn't be here for it. Here are some pictures of Jaxons special day!

Our Family!


Jaxon slept during all of sacrament meeting and the entire get together afterwards! This is him while the rest of us are eating, talking, and having fun lol.


Here are some pictures of the yummy food we had and the amazing family and friends who came to support! We love you all!

After a long day, here are the guys relaxing. Jaxon loves to be one of the guys and sit up like a big boy!

I am so lucky to have Jaxon in my life - he has brought Dan and I so much joy! This is what I get to go to bed to every night!
And this is what I wake up to every morning!

I love being a mom! This summer has been so much fun! And we are now looking forward to fall and the fun Holidays coming up!