Things Jaxon says

Just to document - lately he has been saying....

-Trick-or-treat! - He is going to be so sad when he says that and candy doesn't follow haha

-Clean up (sounds like keen up) - He sings the clean up song after he says it. I think this is from nursery haha!

-Your turn and My turn - he has been getting better about sharing so these phrases are great!

-MINE! - he has also been getting possessive of his toys and everything he thinks is his!

-Do not hit - he doesn't hit kids - just Dan, he thinks it is ok when they wrestle so we say this phrase A LOT and he is starting to copy!

-Stegosaurus, Triceratops, Teranodon, and Fossils - he loves everything dinosaur and is learning their names

-Fossil's - read statement above haha

-Daddy and baby - this might not seem funny but let me tell you why it is. He is associating big things with daddy's and little things with babies. The other day I was giving him some ketchup on his plate to dip his corn dog in and I just did a little bit - he said - "no mama, I want a daddy, not a baby" - I was confused by this since he was pointing to the ketchup while he was saying it. I realized he wanted more ketchup - a daddy sized ketchup, not a baby sized ketchup. He does this with everything now. Anything that is little is a baby and anything that is big is a daddy. LOL. 

-Daddy's at school 

-I can do it

-I did it - and he gets so excited when he says this - I love it

-Singing - this is said whenever we sing, he wants us to sing, or when he just hears music

-Volcano (sounds like A - cano) and "a-cano's HOT"

He also is starting to play make believe a lot right now! When we get in the car he likes to pretend we are riding on the dinosaur train. He also pretends there are dinosaurs, tigers, lions, all sorts of animals in our house and we have to WATCH OUT (said like wat ouch - haha, he is putting the "ch" sound at the end of the word. He can say it correctly, but when he is in the heat of the moment - he always says it like that lol)

Again, there is so much more, but I just want to document these few things that are on my mind right now. Love that little dino of mine! 

The name

Since Dan and I thought for sure this baby would be a boy - we had several boy names picked out that we really like. As far as girl names go, Dan and I would talk about names, but he didn't like the ones I did and I didn't like the ones he did. There was one name I mentioned when we were pregnant with Jaxon and we didn't know if we were having a boy or a girl yet and we both liked the name. When we found out this baby was a girl, I brought up the name again and Dan said he loved it and that should be her name. We still talk about other options and we will wait until we see our sweet baby to make the final decision - but for now - we have been calling our sweet girl Addison. We both really like the name and it seems to fit. For her middle name, we thought if we are going to give her a middle name we want it to mean something or be after someone. There are several wonderful and amazing people in our lives that we would love to name our baby after - but when Dan brought this name up - I immediately loved it and love who and what it represents to us. Her middle name will be Rae - after Dan's sweet and wonderful Grandmother Betty Rae Lockhart. So as of right now - baby girl Garner's name could possibly be Addison Rae Garner. Again, the first name is not set in stone, but we do really like it and so far it's the only name we have both agreed on haha - but the middle name is a for sure thing! So any suggestions for our baby girls first name? It has to sound good with Rae! :) How did you pick names?

Tiger

Today at church Jaxon didn't match. He wore black church pants and an orange and blue striped polo shirt. Why? Because his orange and blue shirt is his TIGER shirt. Every time he sees that shirt he gets excited and says "I'm a tiger" and growls. I tried to get him to let me put on his white dress shirt with this super cute vest - and he threw a fit. So today at church, Jaxon was a tiger - can I just let him wear that as his Halloween costume? LOL.

A few of my favorite things

First of all - my friends Lindsay and Ally told me about this blog yesterday that I am now in LOVE with and obsessed with. I think I spent a few hours looking at everything on there last night. It seems like everyone BUT me knew about it... how sad! But in case you haven't heard about it - please go check it out. It is called Our Best Bites All the recipes on there seem easy but delicious! I already made one today and it turned out great! They also have so many cute ideas for the Holidays and so many other things!

My next favorite thing...my little man! He is so funny! When he is eating cereal in the morning he wants to be reading something. His favorite thing to read seems to be the coupon ads we get in the mail. He finds them, puts them next to his bowl and "reads" between bites. Sometimes he picks it up and holds it closer to his face and then sets it down to eat. I didn't get the camera until he was almost done eating so I only got this one shot before he ran off to play - but hopefully I capture him holding the paper soon because it is adorable!

He has also been very into being a cowboy lately! He has his own horse thanks to my amazing mother and father in law that made him his first rocking horse last Christmas. He loves riding it and yelling "Yeee-haaa", I just need to get him a cowboy hat! :) Don't mind the garlic press he is holding LOL, he likes to go through the kitchen drawers and use things in his make believe world! :)

Last but not least, little girl Garner in my belly! I am 25 1/2 weeks now and I figured I should probably take a pregnant shot. Dan said the dress I was wearing showed off my belly pretty good so we decided to do a pic. I am not a fan of me in pregnant pics haha so I try to take as few as possible but want to document the pregnancy so I'm glad we did this one. I should have turned more to the side so you could get a better view, but oh well! And don't mind the toys and cords all over - Dan is doing homework and has his computer stuff out and on a table we set up in the living room and Jax, well Jax of coarse plays with toys all over the house. Seeing it actually makes me happy and could be another one of my favorite things - I used to dread seeing the toys everywhere - but after women's conference I have change my outlook and now love seeing that we are fortunate to have toys scattered everywhere and I have a healthy active son that loves to play!

 We are very blessed! 

Decisions...decisions

Wow - well without giving details right now - Dan has had the opportunity to interview with some great companies over the last little bit for a summer internship and he has a couple more this week that I am REALLY excited about. With that being said, there is also something else that we have seriously been considering and can I just say - I hate the uncertainty of not knowing where we are going to be this summer. I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that this time we will not just be moving our little family of three, but there will be another little baby with us - baby girl Garner will only be 4 months old and moving last summer back to Utah was great but our one car didn't even fit everything we needed for the 3 of us - next summer we will have an almost 3 year old and 4 month old baby - and everyone that has kids knows that you need A LOT of stuff for kids and especially babies! Where will we stay? Will we rent out our house again here for the summer? If so - to who - last summer everything just worked out so perfectly and it all just fell into place and into our laps, this year there are so many more options and big decisions I just feel very overwhelmed. I'm probably feeling this way because I'm pregnant and all my emotions seem to be amplified 1000% haha but I just want to know RIGHT NOW what is going to happen. Apparently I am not very patient. I am such a planner that this kind of stuff is so stressful for me - I have already started looking for living arrangements in all the locations we could possibly be this summer and I'm pretty sure that doing that is making me go more crazy because hello... we wouldn't be moving for 7ish months and we don't even know where yet. I need to stop - I just wanted to document my feelings about this time of uncertainty in our lives and even though it is uncertain, it  is also very exciting and I just need to focus on the excitement of it all!

Conference

I LOVE Conference. It has been harder to listen to now that we have little energetic Jaxon in our lives - but I still love it and love the messages! Women's conference last weekend was amazing and I'm sure everyone has seen the pictures circling around with the forget-me-not flowers and the 5 things President Uchtdorf talked about. His talk was amazing. Although I love ALL the talks, there are a few general authorities that are just AMAZING - Uchtdorf was added to this list awhile ago and I love it when he speaks. In today's morning session he said something that hit me REALLY hard for some reason. I was actually in the other room when he said it and so I don't know if I got the quote down exactly right, but it went something like...

Compared to God, we are nothing, but to God, we are everything.

Wow - I think I have always focused on the compared to God we are nothing part - but his talk was such a wonderful reminder that everything God does is FOR us. The world was created FOR us. He wants us to succeed and be happy. To God - we are everything! How amazing! I can't wait for the rest tomorrow! 

Pink or Purple

One of Dan's cute law school friends is throwing me a baby shower and she asked me to go online and register at a couple of stores. One of the main things I have been excited about (besides all the dang cute clothes) is the bedding. I remember when I was pregnant with Jaxon I was so irritated because I felt like there were SOOO many cute options for girls, and not very many CUTE options for boys. Well now I am getting frustrated that there are so many options because I can't decide on what I like. HAHA - what a problem right? Well the main thing is....... do I want pink or purple? Those who know me well know I am not really a pink kinda girl. There is nothing wrong with pink and little girls decked out in pink are darling, I just like purple more. So when picking out bedding I am drawn a little more to the purple but there are so many cute pink options too! Below are two bedding options I think are cute - these are not the only two I like - I like about 20 lol - but I wasn't about to post them all! I like the butterflies though! :)