Jaxson Knight is ONE!

I can't believe this day was already 2 weeks ago. This post is just about his birthday celebrations, I'll do another one with his stats and things about him. We had a party for Cam and Jax on the 18th (wish we could have had Blakey here too). We decided to make a Y and U cake and give the opposite to the boys so that they were "tearing" up the other one. It turned out really cute. His birthday was on Monday the 20th which was president's day so James had the day and was really nice that we got to spend the whole day together. We went to the aquarium in the morning, grabbed some lunch, all three of us took a nap together, and then we went out to dinner. THEN on the 26th we had a party at our house with James' family.

I will never be able to describe how grateful I am for this sweet boy. Can't believe it's already been a year since he came into our lives. I love him more than anything, and this has been the best year yet!

one year check-up


after getting his blood drawn :(


grandma and her one year olds (minus Blakey)


he has really gotten into cars and trucks lately


Riley just LOVES Jaxson


Carrie's is much prettier than mine


smurf





Cam loved his cake


big boy car seat


at the aquarium








birthday dinner at Applebees


they gave him a little scoop of ice cream


his cake for his second party







nom nom nom


I am in love with his eyes in this picture


his cousin Ashlynn wanted to hold the "baby"

I'm on a dinosaur

...computer that is. My laptop broke last April, which is why I got the Ipad. Now, our desktop broke a little while ago and James has yet to fix it. So, that is why there has been a lack of bloggage and pictures on facebook. Finally, James had this almost 10 year old laptop sitting around from work and I decided to use it last night to put Jaxson's birthday pictures up. No joke, it took 3 hours to put my pictures from January to now on the computer, organize them, and upload them to facebook. 3 freaking hours! How did we use to live like that?! Anywho, now I'm tackling the blogging which shouldn't take nearly as long since I already have the pictures ready to go on the computer. So, here we go.

9 Months!

Day by day my little baby boy is turning more into a toddler. It is so sad. But also sooo much fun. Jaxson is just such a good baby and we are so lucky he is in our family. (I probably say that everytime I do an update) but it is so true. So here's the update on our 9 (almost 10 month old).

Stats:
21 lbs - 70%
29 in tall - 76%
Head 18cm - 82%

So he is thinning out a bit, but is still very strong and abusive :)

Facts:
- He loves to hit, bite, punch, pinch... anything that hurts really bad, he is really good at
- When he's not in one of those moods, he is such a sweet boy and loves to cuddle
- He is walking all over when he has something to hold on to. He can stand for about 15-20 secs, and he takes one or two steps between objects to get to the other one
- He loves to dance and dances EVERY time he hears music
- He loves to clap and will anytime you clap, or say yay!
- He eats only table food now and is doing well with that. He doesn't like to feed himself though so I still have to feed him every meal which isn't very fun for me.
- He loves loves loves his bath and will drop whatever he is doing and take off for the bathroom as soon as he hears the water. Whenever he goes in the bathroom during the day he will stand at the tub and just whine and whine.

There's probably a lot more little things I could say, but that's the jist of who our little babe is these days. Words cannot describe how much I love this boy, and I am love watching him grow up and learn new things.

Love those gorgeous eyes (and he found a pen)


such a stud

he loves Ellen

baller!

just chillin


LOVE this picture of Jax and gpa

my 8 month old

Since I've been severely lacking on the bloggage, I haven't updated about my sweet perfect baby in a while. Jaxson is now 8 months old (well, 8 1/2 now). I know everyone says it, but seriously, where does the time go? This little boy has been such a blessing in our life and we love him so stinking much.

8 month facts
- He weighs 20.6 lbs and is in the 75% for height and weight
- He can crawl, but doesn't really like to. He prefers to stand and try to walk.
- He's slept through the night since he was a newborn and still sleeps 12 hours like a champ
- He still sucks at taking naps and has no schedule with them. Sometimes he sleeps for 3 hours, sometimes for 45 minutes.
- He loves to eat and is now on stage 3 foods and eating off of mom and dad's plate a lot
- He can clap, give kisses, loves it when you sing to him especially songs with hand motions, and he laughs when you laugh.

We are constantly getting comments on what a sweet disposition he has and how happy and sweet he is. We love him so stinking much and are so glad he is ours forever.



We call this his playboy pose. He spends a lot of time like this

Halloween festivities

Halloween was fun this year having a child to dress up. But it will be even more fun when he knows what's going on and can participate. Since Jax could care less about getting a pumpkin, we went to this free "patch" for the church and they just ask for donations for the education fund. And then on Halloween mom had her annual party for all the grandkids and we went about two blocks of trick or treating with Jax before he was ready to go home and go to bed. Utah got really lucky this year with the weather. This is the first halloween in a long time that I remember the weather being ok. It's usually freezing and often times snowing.







cutest little tiger ever!


Jax and Cam with grandpa




bingo


cake walk


Kay and Jax


Baylie and Avrie bobbing for apples


Sabra was such a cute little witch


all the Utah grandkids

Baja Cruise 10/17-10/21

James and I had the great opportunity to go on a cruise last week. Neither of us had ever been on one and didn't really have any idea what to expect. Well, we are both now big advocates of cruises and would recommend one to anyone. We loved it so much and are already planning on another one for our 5 year anniversary. I also need to send a BIG thanks to Lori and Jodi for watching Jax for us so we could have that time together.

We got a certificate from James' sister last year which covered a good portion of the cruise. We chose the one we did because the coupon covered it and we didn't want to spend too much more money. Next time we will go to a different place for a longer period of time. So we went on the Baja Cal/Mexico cruise. We ported in Long Beach and left Monday evening. We spent the day Tuesday on Catalina Island, Ca. Wednesday we spent the day in Ensenada, Mexico. Thursday was a full day at sea, and we got off the boat Friday morning back in Long Beach.

We can't say enough how much we enjoyed this experience and how grateful we were to spend it together.


our cozy little room




Catalina Island


Sea lions on a buoy


dolphin 1 foot away from me





this describes the whole feel of the island, its a retirement community with 4 roads and everyone drives golf carts. it was a cute little place


bald eagle


scorpion


4-wheeling in Ensenada


bear


seal rock in Catalina


view from our room (we were on the bottom deck)


And here is a highlight of the trip, a wild dolphin excursion we had on Catalina Island

life these days

James - still working full time for Utah Imaging Associates. He loves his job and they treat him really well. He just got called to be a Bear den leader at church.

Kiley - Still enjoying being able to stay home with Jax. Planning on going back to school in the spring for some type of x-ray tech, ultrasound tech... something of the sort. Nursing school is on hold for the time being because we don't have the money or means right now - hopefully in the future. I just got called to be the relief society pianist.

Jax - just turned 8 months old and is still the happiest baby ever. He's huge and strong and he makes us laugh every single day. He's got 8 teeth, can crawl when he wants, gives kisses, and claps. We love this boy so stinkin much

attempt to update

I love blogging. But ever since my laptop died and I got an Ipad, I do not get on the computer anymore. James promised he would get my laptop fixed cuz it has all my pictures on it and it's how I like to blog (sitting on the couch) but he has yet to fix it. And getting on our desktop really sucks because of who James is it is a huge pain and I have to go back and forth between operating systems for blogging and pictures... needless to say I haven't had the motivation to do so. But now that our computer is in the living room (instead of our bedroom) I have a little more motivation. AND, today I have the bug to blog.

Not like any of you cared about all that, but I felt like saying it anyway. So here is my attempt to update, don't know what order it's gonna be in or what, but here we go.