Thanksgiving!

This year for Thanksgiving we stayed home with my mom! Everyone else was out of town so no running around for us this year! :) It was a nice change! We had a very different Thanksgiving meal.... my mom does not really like turkey, so we decided to have....

Yep we had steak for Thanksgiving!!! My mom and Joel made them and they turned out great!!! We had a very non-traditional meal which included.....Homemade garlic mashed potatoes and.. Platanos!!! (Fried plantains for those of you who don't know what they are!) Everything was amazing! My favorite part was the rolls! :) And the homemade peach pie from Michelle!

Jaxon takes after his mom and LOVES rolls!!! He chewed this roll to death!!! Haha it was nasty when he was finished, but he loved when we gave him bites!

Of course we had to take pictures of our little man on his first Thanksgiving! Can I just say how much I love his outfit? He looked so grown up!

I have so much to be thankful for this year! Both sides of our family have been AMAZING in helping us through a rough year! They have all done everything they can to be there for us and help in any little way they can! I am also soooo thankful for a wonderful loving husband who is always there to listen and support me when I am having a bad day! He is a great dad and adores his son and Jaxon loves him to death! Jaxon is the most amazing little boy and is such a special part of our lives! I am so thankful I get to be his mom and raise him in the church! I love waking up every morning (even if it is a little too early) to his smiling face and a kiss from my hubby! I am so lucky!

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving like I did!!!

The Joys of Mobility!

Jaxon LOVES his newly found mobility! He scoots everywhere and is already into everything! Especially power cords and heat vents for some strange reason! He keeps me much busier now chasing him around and clearing his way of dangerous hazards! I have no idea why he is grunting so much in this video! Haha but he is getting pretty fast and has so much fun playing now!

Here is video of a fun game he likes! Hitting the bottle cap around and chasing it! Keeps him entertained forever! Remind me why I buy so many toys????

Recent Discovery!

Jaxon decided he really likes......

It might look like more is on his face then in his mouth... but I promise he really does like it! :)

He won't eat a whole can yet... only a little at a time! But its better then nothing right???

No WAY!!! Really???

Jaxon is 8 months old today! He is growing up so fast! It seems like this last week he has gone from a baby to a little boy! Here are some things he just started doing the last couple weeks....

• Scooting ALL OVER the place!


• Saying Dada Dada Dada (only says Mama when he is crying lol)


• Getting his first tooth for real now.. 1 corner has broken through!


• And last but not least... IS WILLING TO EAT RICE CEREAL a couple times a days!

I will try and upload a video of my little buddy scooting around! Its crazy to me that he is old enough to do that! I love this kid so much! He makes our lives so much happier!

Trick Or Treat!

We were so excited to have Jaxon to dress up this year! I remember being pregnant on Halloween last year and all I could think about was when I could dress up our little guy! This year I was Cruella Deville, Jaxon was my lil Dalmation and Joel was an old man! Haha! We took him Trick Or Treating to mostly friends and family just to show him off! Here are a few pictures!Yep Joel had a cane and everything! Haha He even had the slow weird walk down! Is he not the CUTEST dalmation ever! Oh I was in love with him!

Our makeup and my hair took FOREVER! But we had fun getting ready! I had to shampoo my hair 3 times, condition twice and it still felt like horse hair after I brushed it out!

Babys FIRST......

Jaxons FIRST tooth finally popped through today! After his morning nap I was tiggling his tummy and looked into his mouth and saw the corner of his first tooth had broke the gum!! It is a top tooth, just right of the 2 middle ones! Yeah I know random place to get a first tooth huh? But we were excited for Jaxon to hit that milestone today! Just thought I would share! I doubt I can get a pic yet... but I will try!!
Love ya buddy - hope you start feeling better (and sleeping better) :)

Walk to the Lighthouse

From my aunts apartment we could see the coolest lighthouse. So we decided one morning to walk to it along the beach. We didn't get right up against it, but we got to this old dock and had a great view of it! It was a beautiful morning and the 20 minute walk was very relaxing! It was what Florida considers a cold front... 50s-60s with a nice breeze! Jaxon even fell asleep on my shoulder on the way back!
You can not tell me this first picture does not belong in a calendar or magazine! The water was SOOO blue from the storm the day before!

We did finally get a good beach day! Jaxon was loving it!!!! He was full of smiles and just wanted to play!

I sat Jaxon down in the sand for a few minutes and he was very interested... he kept wiggling his little toes and grabbing more sand in his hands!

Ok I really am almost done with the Florida posts.. Just one more! This is more for me then anyone else at this point so that when I scrapbook these pictures I can remember the stories behind them all! Yes I am that far behind in Jaxons scrapbook!

Party, Beach Rain-Out, Amazing View!

My uncle and aunt had their 25th wedding anniversary party while we were in Florida! They always have the funnest parties! Anyway, the new popular thing is Hora Loca (crazy hour), everyone puts on masks, hats, act crazy and of course dance! It was fun!

Jaxon had just woken up and was really not a huge fan of the hats! But he was a good sport as usual and just stared!
The next morning we went to the beach... as soon as we got there it started POURING rain and it was super windy! We ran under a pavillion and called Kathy to come save us!

After a couple hours of waiting out the storm we went on the roof of their 15 story apartment building! It was a GORGEOUS view!!!! Even with the dark clouds behind us!

Check out the boat cul-de-sac!!!!

Don't worry I still have a ton of pictures and stories to post from that fun trip! But we will save that for another day! :)