Children's Museum

I know this is out dated but I promised I'd put this on the blog for Grandma Shelley and Tara

CELINE DION!!! OMG! I had so much fun! It was the first real concert I have ever been too and it was so good. We had really good seats too, I just wish I could have snuck in my good camera. These pics aren't great, but that's all right. Besides the fact that she is a great entertainer, any woman who can perform for two hours, dancing, walking and working all four sides of the stage for 2 hours in 6 inch or higher heels the entire time definitely gets my approval. I could see her quad muscles from where I sat. If any of you get the chance, I highly recommend you go. And call me cuz I probably want to go again! : )

Guess who turned 2 months old today!!! I can't believe how big he has gotten in just 9 short weeks. But this must be a magical mile stone because I got to sleep for a total of 7 hours last night. I haven't slept more than 5 hours in a 24 hour period since he's been born. I feel like a new woman today. I hope it keeps up. Even if it is only once a week, at least I would have one day where I wasn't walking around like a zombie all day.
Of course babies are the cutest when they are sleeping. He just ate and just got out of the tub and just like magic he falls right to sleep. I think it is his favorite time of day. Eventually he does spit out the binky, but he has to be all the way unconscious.
This is one of Jax's favorite places to be. He LOVES chilling in the bathtub. Of course when I take him out it is a whole different story. This week is the first since he has been born that he didn't scream the entire time I did lotion and got him dressed. But I didn't mind so much cause then he always snuggled me extra tight when we were done.

This is the girls and I just before we went out on our "girls date". And yes they had us strike a pose. They chose to go to Applebee's for lunch and then we went to the big movies and say Inkheart. This was our first outing since Jax was born and it was so fun. I've missed my girls so much and to get that time with them was precious. I am the luckiest mom ever!
Out of the blue, Madi and Kenna decided they were going to play Nativity. Madi is the Angel, Kenna is Mary watching over Jesus ( cabbage patch doll ) wrapped in his "waddling" clothes, the colorful striped head thing is Joseph ( a kangaroo stuffed animal ) and the shepherd is the cat with the other stripes. They even brought me my scriptures so they could enact the story exactly how it goes.
No Madi and Kenna have not joined any runaway hippie groups in a VW van, they just had crazy hair day at school and this is their most beautiful creation. I love the things they come up with!

Here is Jax working on his tan. : ) Of course he is still just a little yellow and some nice sunshine is just the cure for that. Even though it is only 30 degrees outside, it was so warm coming in through the glass door. Jax loved it.

It has a been a lot of fun for the girls over the new year. Chris and Angie and their family all came up north for a few days and on one of them everybody went sledding. The kids had a blast! Then a couple of days later and with a fresh batch of snow, Michelle couldn't resist a perfect sledding day and asked if she could "play" with the girls. Another super fun afternoon. Thank goodness I have Jax to keep me warm and home. The pictures and stories are good enough for me. I don't hate the snow anymore, but I am still working on wanting to spend time in it. ; )

It's not too often you get a picture with a newborn's eyes wide open. He's playing with Aunt Lyndee.
Of course I can't have a perfectly healthy baby... that would just be too easy. This is Jax under the bili lights because he was a little jaundice. I love that he looks like spider man with the mask over his eyes.
The girls were so excited to come to the hospital and bring their baby brother home. As you can see from my pose, I am still in recovery mode. I don't know what I would have done without my mom and Bill here to help me. The C-section recovery may be longer because it's a surgery, but this recovery was way more intense even though I heal faster.
This is what Jaxon looked like when we got home. It's just funny because his face is under the hat, not the blanket. His head is so little that the hat fell down on the way home. Still a cute little outfit though!
I don't know what happened. I put an order into heaven for a nice, plump, chunky baby and instead I get another skinny runt. That outfit that is swallowing him whole is a newborn. We never stop laughing at the toothpicks that stick out of his diaper.
Aside from the tongue sticking out, it's his AWESOME hair that we love after a good nap! And check out all the blonde fuzz. He is a little blonde monkey. That fuzz is all over. I LOVE IT!
Love, Love, Love this picture. I'm not sure who looks cuter. I guess I'll keep them both!
I love how Jaxon looks like he is a little frog stuck to Ryan.
This is just cute cause he is all snuggled up in grandma Shelley's blanket.
gotta love the gas bubble smiles! I don't know how I shadowed it, but it's still cute.

So in case anybody didn't know, my sister Melissa had her baby last month and today was the first day Ryan and I got to meet our new niece. Her name is Gracin Rulene Fox, after DJ's mom. We met up with my sister and her family for a day at the park. The girls were beside themselves with excitement. They hadn't seen Rylee since we moved 3 months ago. Now of course I was a little more excited than he was, but turns out Ryan wouldn't go pick up lunch for us until he had a turn to hold Gracie. I think seeing such a tiny little munchkin gets him excited for what is on the way in his own family . I have to say I was a little worried whether or not he would even remember how to hold a baby seeing as how our girls are 6 years old now, but he handled her like a pro. Gracie curled right up on him and I had to pry her away before I starved to death! : )

After we spent the first half of the day at the Coral Canyon park, we all went to the visitor's center and picked up Granma Nancy and Papa Bill. We went and got ice cream cones and went right back to the Vernon Worthen park this time. The weather was irresistible. There was no way any of us wanted to be inside for 5 seconds. Not to mention the playground is a great distraction when I haven't spent time with my family for a couple of months. No complaining about a little grown up time. : )
Now for all of you who are wondering whether or not I am really pregnant, here is an up close and personal view. Of course, I just love it because Gracie makes all those curves look so much cuter. I don't think I put her down the whole day. It was such a gorgeous day. What a wonderful weekend it turned out to be.

Well if this doesn't end the weekend just right I don't know what would. The girls look so happy and they really missed Rylee. I love when they get together. Sometimes I really wonder if Rylee isn't a triplet that is being raised at a different house. The three of them are so connected. I LOVE IT!!!!

We started off our weekend in St George with the Matthews family halloween party. Which this year included Papa Steve's and Madi and Kenna's birthday party. Since we moved we gotta work with what we got. Angie and Chris got the girls some Hannah Montana pajamas that were an instant hit! The girls LOVED the gift and the second they are clean, that is the first pair to get dirty again. Grandma and Tara spoiled them as well. They are some very lucky girls. I just liked this picture with Papa and the grandkids. Just a couple more months and there will be one more!

Here is some of the family hard at work. Party over, time to get creative with pumpkins. Tara and Chris had us laughing when they say they saw "hangover" pumpkins somewhere on the internet and the pumpkins were carvings of faces and they were throwing up. The throw up being the pumpkins insides. Kinda gross, but really kinda funny.




This is the final show for the evening. The littlest one in the middle was actually pretty cool, it was a tiny pumpkin that Angie carved and it's a spider. Kind of hard to tell. But the winning prize goes to Angie with the bat to the far left. She carved that on a white pumpkin and although the picture doesn't show it very well, with the candle inside the whole pumpking glows.

Snow days are here!!!!! The first morning after it snowed we took the girls up Millcreek Canyon to let them play in the snow. They had a blast. This is the mini-snowman they made and you can see that dad has his hands in his pockets because he did not have any gloves on. What a good daddy! Anyway, if I can catch just one ounce of the excitement the girls have for snow, I will be able to survive the winter just fine.

This photo was taken at about 1:30 am the first time it snowed in Salt Lake. We were just getting home from an obviously late night and the girls saw the snow and freaked out! There was no way I could tell them no to playing and go to bed; seriously, that would be like a meanest mom moment ever. : ) Anyways, this is Madi's sheer joy after she just hit daddy with a snowball.

If you look to Madi and Kenna's left, that is Emily and Olivia the other set of twins that are in the class. This is the group pic before we went out to do the pinata. Of course being an all girl party, we had to recruit Ben from across the street to even break the pinata. Kinda funny.
Thanks to all our family and friends who sent up birthday cards. The girls were so excited to receive mail. As you can see below, that is the winter wonderland landscape that Ryan and I created last night. No easy task seeing as how Ryan and I never quite see eye to eye on projects like this. I was so proud of us that we went to bed without having gotten mad. Maybe after 9 years you get a little more patient with each other. I have to say that even though it was a GREAT day, it wasn't the same. We love and miss all of you in St George so much! Days like this make it harder to be here, but I know we are where we need to be. LOVE, LOVE, LOVE you all!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO US!!!!!!!!! Madi and Kenna turned six today. HOORAY! Their wish was to have a christmas party, but because that made my life a little difficult with it being Halloween and all we all decided on a winter party. As you can see they are holding their projects. All of the kids who came got to make a snow man to take home. So fun! I couldn't have done it without all my grown-up friends who came and helped with the hot glue guns. : )