living the simple life

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2010-11-29T18:55:00.000-08:00

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Happy Halloween

2010-10-31T17:21:00.000-07:00

Taegan was a tiger and Daxton was a monkey.

Oaklee the giraffe

My cute kangaroo and monkey boy.

All smiles...

Every time I go to Lindsey's house with Oaklee, Taegan and Kadence can't seem to keep their hands off of her. ( I think they need a new baby at their house....)

Oaklee always seems to have her tongue out and her mouth open most of the time.

Summer Fun

2010-10-10T18:39:00.000-07:00

I am a little sad to see summer coming to an end, but at the same time I am excited for cooler weather.Here are some pictures of what we have been up to this summer. We have spent lots of time at the lake this summer thanks to Chris and Lindsey taking us out on their boat almost every weekend and sometimes twice a weekend. Daxton has figured out how to swim with his life jacket on and he loves to kick and swim around with Taegan in the water. They don't care how cold the water is either.

Aaron and Austyn swimming

Gina, myself, and Stanton

Taegan and Daxton enjoying some treats for Kadence's birthday.

Lindsey went camping alone with her kids so I took mine up for the day to hang out.

We took the kids to Jumpin Jacks and they LOVED it!

The boys loved being pulled behind the boat on this tube, well until we started going a bit fast then Daxton started to cry. Taegan was all smiles though.

Oaklee

2010-09-15T13:16:00.001-07:00

Here are some pictures I had taken of our darling baby Oaklee. She is about 4 1/2 months old in these.

Austyn is 2

2010-08-03T10:28:00.001-07:00

Austyn will be 2 on Sunday. I took her in to get her pictures taken. I wasn't very sure that she would cooperate since she is so DANG shy. I felt lucky to get this picture of her smiling. She sure keeps life interesting for us. She is kinda a bully, and she can hold her own with other kids. She is very dominating. We love her and are happy to have her as part of our family.

Summer time

2010-06-14T17:18:00.000-07:00

Summer is here I am afraid. It is pretty stinkin' hot. We blessed Oaklee on the 6th of June. Aaron did such a good job and gave her a great blessing. We had a nice luncheon afterward at a park. It was only 106 outside during the luncheon, nice and toasty. We had good food, good company, and fun so that is all that matters. Oaklee has 3rd child syndrome. I didn't take one single picture the day of her blessing. I feel so bad. When it was my older 2's turn I have a few pages each in their scrapbooks. I had the camera in the car if that counts for anything.
Here are some pictures of what we have been up to.

Daxton and Aaron taking a picture of themselves.

We went up to Enterprise fishing with Lindsey and her kids. It was windy and cold, so Oaklee and I spent most of our time in the car watching.

Aaron took these two up to the red hill hiking this morning while I stayed home and cleaned.

The many faces of Oaklee. She still is the BEST baby ever. She sleeps about 8 hours each night. I am in love with her and so thankful she is part of our family. She is seriously such a sweet sweet baby!

Adjusting

2010-05-26T13:56:00.000-07:00

Oaklee is already 5 weeks old. I can't believe how fast the time is flying by. It makes me sad to see her change so fast. I am trying to enjoy every minute I can. It is hard sometimes to cuddle her in peace with 2 other kiddos that require so much attention. Lucky for me, Oaklee has been the PERFECT baby so far. She hardly ever cries and she still sleeps most of the day. She has been sleeping 6-8 hour stretches at night since she was 3 weeks old. That really helps me out. Sadly, she is loosing her cute hair. Especially in the very front, for the most part she still has lots in the very back. It kind of reminds me of an old man hair do.

Doing what she does best.....SLEEP.

Bright eyed.

She loves her bathes.

Daxton in his new swimming pool with a cool slide on it. I have a feeling we will be spending lots of hot summer days cooling off in here.

When Oaklee was a week old I ended up getting mastitis and I was miserable. Aaron happened to be off work for a few days, thankfully. He took Daxton and Austyn to the wildlife museum so that I could have a little peace and quiet at home.

Daxton and Aaron went to father and sons with the trailer. My sister and I had a birthday dinner for my dad/ mothers day dinner for my mom. I also had a girl from our ward for the night so that her dad could go to father and sons with his son. Here are some pictures from our mostly girls party.

Austyn in the swing.My niece Kadence.....eating chalk and mud....this child is funny. She wouldn't eat any dinner, but she was all about eating the nasty chalk. You always have to keep an eye on her because she will eat just about anything that isn't food.

Austyn, Kamrie, Taegan, and Savannah up in the tree.

Last weekend Aaron took Daxton and Austyn up to Delta for the weekend. I was pretty sad when they pulled out of the driveway and I knew that the house was going to be quiet for the next few days. They were probably gone all of 30 minutes when I realized how nice it was to have the toys stay in the toy box and to not have anyone kicking Oaklee while I tried to nurse her, etc. They had a blast with grandma and grandpa and hope to go back soon to visit. Oaklee and I also had a great time sleeping in and doing whatever I wanted to do. I even got to take a 20 minute shower without any interruptions.

We are adjusting as good as can be expected. I am tired and worn down at times, but wouldn't trade these little miracles for anything. Everyone says how this is the best time in my life, so I am trying to embrace that!

Oaklee

2010-05-02T19:58:00.000-07:00

Oaklee has been a good baby and Daxton and Austyn have been better with her than anticipated.

I guess we still need to include the other kids!

Daxton with his pet snail.

Baby is HERE

2010-04-21T19:25:00.000-07:00

This is Lindsey posting so I hope I get things right.
Brandy was called at 5:15 and was induced at 7:00.

By 10:30 she was dilated to an 8 so they thought things were going to go fast. She called me and my mom and told us we better get in there. She told me months ago she wanted me there for the delivery and I had Chris rearrange his schedule so I could be there.

I arrived and shortly after that and then my mom. We kept thinking it was going to be soon. Brandy was at a 9 forever. They kept checking her and the baby hadn't moved down far enough. We found out around 2 that she was turned the wrong way so they had Brandy get into a different position to try to turn the baby. My mom and I decided we would run down to the cafeteria to grab a sandwich.

We were gone probably 10 minutes and when we got back into the room we had missed it! Everyone....had missed it including the doctor. Brandy felt something and had Aaron check and he saw the head out. He ran out in the hall and grabbed a nurse who ran in and didn't have time to put on gloves and she grabbed the baby. Her doctor didn't even make it to the room until the baby was probably around 20 minutes old. It was a little chaotic because everyone was a little in shock and there didn't seem to be a routine like normal.

I am still a little frustrated over the whole thing and Brandy is too. BUT the baby (no name yet) is doing great. She was smaller than expected at 7 lbs 14 oz and 21 inches long. She is so cute and has a head full of dark hair!

It's a.....

2009-12-10T19:04:00.000-08:00

GIRL!!!

I am so excited for Austyn to have a sister to be close in age with growing up!!

We are alive.....

2009-12-02T17:48:00.000-08:00

It has only been close to 4 months since I last updated this blog......allot has happened in those few months. On August 15th we found out that we will be adding to our family. We are super excited and a little overwhelmed at the same time. 3 kids 3 and under will be a handful, but at the same time we just feel blessed to get them here while we still can. We will find out next week what we are having. Since we already have one of each it really doesn't matter, but if I could pick I would pick a girl so that Austyn has a sister to be close with. I don't know what I would do without my sister Lindsey.
Back in October Aaron's work gave him a week off so we decided to try and make the best of it. We spent a few days in Delta where I finished my first quilt. I will have to get a picture of it on here, it is pretty cute! Then we traveled up to Eagle Mountain and stayed with one of Aaron's missionary companions and his family for a few days. While we were there we took our kids to the zoo for the first time. It was so fun to see their faces looking at all the cute animals.
Then we celebrated Halloween. All these holiday just keep getting better and better as our kids get old enough to know what is going on. Austyn is still pretty young, but Daxton seems to be grasping the concept. This year Daxton was a rooster and Austyn was a baby chick. They looked dang cute!!
There are lots of pictures, but when you don't update in 4 months it is hard to leave any out......

Driving to Delta, don't let them fool you they aren't always this loving to one another....

Daxton the turtle at the zoo...

me and the kids

the cutest baby elephant....

Daxton and Austyn sitting on the tigers

Daxton riding the train at the zoo...

Happy Halloween
grandma Jill and DaxtonAustyn

Up to great grandpa Erwin's turkey pit

Daxton and Santa

I could not believe that Austyn actually sat on Santa's lap and didn't cry. She must be getting better at her phobia of strangers.

Hope you all have a happy holiday season!!

Delta, Utah

2009-08-06T20:51:00.000-07:00

We spent last weekend in Delta with Aaron's parents. Daxton was in his glory! He loved every single second we were there. We had a great time spending time with Will and Julie.Daxton was finally brave enough to let this bird sit on his shoulder, even though Daxton was pretty freaked out by it.
Grandma read lots of books to Daxton. This one seemed to be the favorite one.

Austyn and cousin Hanna cooped up in the play pen. They both kept trying to escape, it was fun to watch them interact with one another. Hanna was quite tolerant of Austyn's wild side.

These poor kittens were nice enough to let Daxton haul them around. It was so fun to watch Daxton with them.

Getting ready to watch Aaron light off the fireworks....in August. Both kids enjoyed the show. Daxton found grandmas snorkle and goggles. They will never be the same again....
We think he is pretty funny!
Using the pillowcase grandma made him as a hat on the ride home.

Our Baby Is almost 1

2009-08-06T19:42:00.000-07:00

Self concious

Here are the latest pictures of Austyn. I took her in today to have them taken. She wouldn't cooperate one bit. It was pretty frustrating to have her grabbing my shirt the entire time. She was being super shy and wouldn't even look at the picture lady without crying. I am really glad these 2 turned out as well as they did considering.....good thing I love this little stinker!!

She will be a year old on Saturday. I can't even believe how fast the time has flown. It really seems to fly so much faster with #2 for some reason. Austyn has been a pure joy to have in our family. She is so cute and LOUD!!!! Any of you that have heard her scream can attest to that, along with anyone in our ward because they all here her every Sunday at some point. She is walking pretty good. She really looks unstable when you watch her walk, but she does it just fine. She has 8 teeth...4 on top...4 on the bottom, and she sure knows how to use them to make me scream. She HATES baby food and hasn't been eating it for several months now. She just wants to be a big girl and eat what we are eating. She does pretty well chewing her food. She has quite the little temper (she gets this from her dad :) and she knows what she wants and when she wants it. If she has something in her hand and you try and take it from her, she has a great death grip on it. I even sometimes have a hard time getting things from her that she doesn't want to let go of. We have been blessed to have 2 very strong kids thus far. She is also a bully, she picks on her cousin that is Daxton's age, and she can hold her own. She is a big momma's girl, which can be fun and a pain at the same time. If you talk to her and I am holding her, she will bury her head in my shoulder and try and hide from you. She is pretty sober, and it takes her a while to warm up to people. She follows Daxton everywhere he goes and she wants to be right by his side (or in his lap). He doesn't appreciate this as much as she does. I think she is kind of a pest to him. It is cute to see her want to do big kid things though. She keeps me on my toes that is for sure. Just as Daxton outgrows a bad habit, like climbing on the kitchen chairs, Austyn starts doing it. One day we will be able to leave the chairs at the table, just not know.

Just wanted to share a few fun things about our baby girl who is growing up too fast!!

We love our Austyn Jay!!!

Fun in July....

2009-07-19T19:53:00.000-07:00

Here are some pictures of what we have been up to this HOTTTTTT month of July....

Daxton riding the train at the park's celebration on the 4th...

and he rode these swings...

it was pretty sweaty that day out in all the heat. We cooled off with some snow cones. Austyn loved hers!

We went with my sister Lindsey and her husband Chris and his parents and grandparents up to Enterprise fishing. We didn't catch anything worth taking home, or probably even worth taking a picture of, but Daxton was pretty excited to have his picture taken with dad's fish.

My parents took Lindsey and I and all 4 of the grand kids to Sand Hallow this past Friday on the boat. It was tons of fun. Nothing like cooling off in the lake on a hot summers day. Everyone had a blast. Austyn was a PERFECT ANGEL the entire time. I was kinda worried how she would do since she is such a busy body. Once I put the life jacket on her she acted paralyzed. She sat totally still and just used her eyes to look all around. My mom had to lay her on the seat for a minute to do something, and Austyn just layed perfectly still, totally content. That's my girl!!!

Taegan ready for a ride on grandpa's boat...

Daxton's cheesy smile...

Lindsey and I rode on the tube with both boys, but as soon as we started going Daxton said "I'm done". Taegan just held his hand over his nose the whole time we were on the tube, so I am sure he was a little freaked out. The boys were happy just to be in the boat. The best part they thought was driving with grandpa. They fought back and forth the whole time over who could drive the boat...

CHEESE!!!

Almost ready to head home!!

I am ready for summer to be over. October weather sounds a little better right now to me....but I guess we will just soak up the sun in the meantime.

Santa Claus & a frog in the tub

2009-07-03T15:55:00.001-07:00

We are working on the whole potty training thing at our house. It seems to be quite the process....anyhow. Today Daxton was messing around in his room and he had been pretty quiet. I went in to see what he was up too. This is what I found....

yes that is a pull-up on his face. I said "Daxton what are you doing?" To which he replied, "I am not Daxton, I am Santa Claus!!" He showed me that was his beard on his face. This little boy keeps me laughing everyday. I am truly amazed at the things his brain thinks about! I know I am his mom, and most mom's say this about their own kids, but I think he is pretty smart!!

We were having (& still are) some water issues at our house. Lucky for us, my parents live close by and are always willing to come help when they can. So my dad and brother came over to help Aaron. My brother had just caught this huge frog in the bug catcher so my mom brought it with them because she knew Daxton would want to see it. It was the funniest thing ever to watch him hold this handle. Whenever the frog would hop, Daxton would kinda shriek and was iffy. I laughed my head off. It was so cute. He wanted so bad to hold it, but he just couldn't make himself get near it. We took it outside and let it hop around on the grass. Daxton was just following right behind it trying to pick it up, but of course every time he would bend down to pick it up, the frog would hop. Daxton would kinda shriek and step back. It was really cute to watch!

Austyn never wants to miss out on the action!

Finally an update....

2009-06-10T20:51:00.000-07:00

I haven't posted on here in a while...all my spare time (which is minimal) has been taken up scrap booking. Thankfully I am totally caught up, well for now. It doesn't seem to take long to get behind again......

anyways here are some pictures of what we have been up to the past month.

We had a family reunion in Pine Valley last weekend. It was our first camping trip as a family. We survived, it was freezing cold at night, but we survived!! The above picture is of Daxton beating sticks on an electrical box...
Dad and Austyn, yes that is Austyn under all those blue clothes. I didn't have any warm clothes for her so I got Daxton's old ones out.

Happy to be out of the car!!

This baby LOVES water! Both my kids do, but Austyn really seems to enjoy it. My mom and I took the kids to the splash pad here in town. It was so much fun for the kids. Austyn usually just army crawls, but she didn't like the feel of the cement on her legs so this was her position.

Cutest chubby legs EVER!

If you have a runny nose, Daxton is the man to help you out.
Hmmmm wonder where he learned this trick.....

So sober!!

Love them blue eyes!

We took tin foil dinners up to Browse over Mothers day weekend.

Betcha' can't do this.

That is all for now.

Happy Mother's Day

2009-05-10T14:47:00.001-07:00

I just wanted to wish every mother out there a Happy Mother's Day! I know first hand what hard work it takes to be a mother! I am so thankful for my two beautiful blessings that call me mom! I am lucky to have been raised by such a wonderful mom myself!

My sister and I decided to get some pictures taken of our kids together since my mom doesn't have one of them all. It was such a pain to take 4 kids in and hope they all smiled.......it didn't work out at all. We ended up leaving without buying any of the pictures they took. So we took these ourselves.

Austyn..Daxton..Taegan..Kadence

Austyn Jay

Daxton Aaron

If only....

2009-05-06T20:28:00.000-07:00

Austyn had hair all over her head as long as these 10 or so pieces.....then she would have lots of hair for me to style! I just had to post these few pictures on here of her very first pony tail.

Long time no post.....

2009-05-01T13:35:00.000-07:00

I haven't posted on here for a while, so there are lots of pictures. When I read other peoples blogs, I like to look at pictures the best so here we go.....

There isn't anything new going on at our house. In a few hours Aaron is taking Daxton out on his fishing boat. He will be meeting up with his brother Hans & two of his 3 boys. Aaron is so excited to get out on the lake. I think Daxton is almost as excited. He had a blast last week when we took the boat out for it's first journey with us as the owners. We were supposed to be going camping tonight, but when we woke up this morning and checked the weather forecast it said we had a 90% chance of rain tomorrow, so we decided to cancel the trip until next weekend. Aaron is going to still sleep out in the tent in our backyard with Daxton. I am glad that it is them and not me. Hopefully this will give us a good idea how well Daxton will sleep next weekend if we make it out to camp.

Here is Austyn enjoying all the eggs Daxton found during 1 of his 4 Easter egg hunts. I am so bummed I didn't take any cute pictures of her in her Easter dress. I will have to take some the next time she wears it, it was cute!
Daxton wearing a helmet while looking for some eggs in grandma Jill's backyard.

Austyn sitting on a blanket content as can be at the kite festival. I am so LUCKY to have 2 super happy kids. (for the most part)

Daxton & Taegan riding behind the tractor. Daxton was so excited to ride in this!

Grandpa Durell and his boys!!

One of Daxton's favorite foods! Corn on the cob.

Aaron had Austyn riding on his shoulders, she noticed the leaves above her head and she kept reaching out for them.

Austyn's very first cookie. This is really not my child, she lost interest and only ate a tiny bit of it. I would never let a good cookie go to waste!!

Both of our kids have a great love for squirt bottles. Daxton loves to squirt my windows with them, and Austyn loves to try and suck water out of them. I am LOVING our backyard. Now that all the trees have lots of leaves on them it gets so shady around dinner time. It sure helps it feel lots cooler. Daxton has been spending hours a day out back.

My almost naked son. He got soaking wet in the sprinkler so I took off his clothes.

He loves that after you kink the hose that the water comes shooting out of the sprinkler.

Make up?!?!

2009-04-07T14:38:00.000-07:00

I thought this was pretty funny....the other day Aaron was installing out new dishwasher (LOVE IT) and Daxton was in the house with him. Aaron yells to me to ask me what the heck is on Daxton's lips. I go check Daxton out and it sure looked like lipstick to me, but I don't usually wear that so I was unsure of where Daxton would have found it. Aaron asked me if I had left nail polish out or something. I went down our hall and Aaron had left both our bedroom and bathroom doors open, thus solving the mystery as to what was on Daxton's lips. It was lipstick. I laughed just because if any of you know my husband very well, you will know how he HATES stuff like this when it comes to his little guy. My mom gave Austyn a doll for Christmas and Daxton loved to carry it around. Aaron hated that, and for some strange reason I haven't seen the doll around our house lately. I know Aaron had something to do with her disappearance.
I was happy to see that Daxton only put the lipstick on his lips and no where else in the house. That could have been some trouble.

Coloring Easter Eggs

2009-04-07T14:31:00.000-07:00

Daxton had so much fun dropping the eggs into the colored water. He just couldn't do it fast enough. He keeps asking for the Easter bunny.

Playing outside!

2009-04-07T14:24:00.000-07:00

Olivia & Taegan

Danny

Daxton

Mommy's "helper"

2009-04-04T13:10:00.000-07:00

This is what happened when I asked Daxton to please get Austyn some more puffs....

no wonder she was happy after he helped out.

Conversation with a 2 year old....

2009-03-29T20:42:00.000-07:00

Aaron: Hey Daxton
Daxton: ya
Aaron: Are you ready to go night night?
Daxton: NO
Aaron: why not?
Daxton: cuz

Summer Time??

2009-03-27T14:24:00.000-07:00

Daxton sure is a big "helper".

He loves the hose. Notice his cute boots!! These are his favorite shoes to wear, because he can put them on all by himself.

Austyn really must like the feel of her 2 bottom teeth on her top lip. She does this all the time lately!

It has been warming up here. I got out all the kids' summer clothes. It has been so fun for me to finally see all of Austyn's body. She has been covered her whole life up until this point. And if I might add, I think chubby babies are the cutest! I love to see her fat rolls. She has been so content to roll all over the floor. Now she army crawls to whatever she sees that she wants. I wish they stayed little longer because she is growing up too darn fast!

Successful Fishing Trip!

2009-03-20T21:49:00.000-07:00

This first picture says it all. We FINALLY were successful this time during our fishing trip. We have been out 3-4 times and came home with nothing other than fun memories, not today. Today Aaron caught 4 fish. We got to the lake and he realized that he brought the wrong top for the pole he had brought. He was pretty upset because this meant that he wasn't going to be able to fish. Lucky for Aaron, Lindsey brought her pole and she was more than willing to share with him, since she was pretty busy with her kids anyways. After Aaron started catching fish Lindsey got the bright idea that she should try to put a hook on Taegan's little pole.
A few casts later, this is what she caught!! Pretty exciting.

We were really hoping to get some cute pictures of the boys with the fish. (Grandma Julie really wanted one of Daxton) But the boys were a little afraid of the fish, I don't blame them. I wouldn't want to be near those slimy things either with their tales flapping around.

Kadence and Austyn were both pretty good. They hung out together in this playpen for quite a bit.

Just getting ready to fish!

If these two don't look like trouble I don't know what does!Cautiously watching Aaron with the fish!

It has been so much fun to be together in the great outdoors! Hopefully soon we will be going out in Aaron's fishing boat.

Daxton's birthday & Chelse's wedding

2009-03-12T13:22:00.000-07:00

The first picture is of Daxton on his actual birthday a few weeks ago. He really wanted to put on his Halloween costume and sit in the bumbo, so what the heck. He is so funny! He had a good birthday. Several people called to wish him a happy birthday. Then all day long he kept saying "happy birthday". When you ask him how old he is he will say two. I still think he is too young to totally understand the concept of what was going on. We didn't have a party for him this year. We just had cake and watched him blow out his candle.

Last Saturday Aaron's youngest sibling, Chelse' got married. She was married up in Manti. She got married early in the morning, so Aaron and I woke up WAY too early and drove up there. As soon as we hit the black hill it was snowing like CRAZY. We were going about 20 miles an hour on the freeway stuck behind a semi because it was way to dangerous to try and pass him. After about 45 minutes of this I told Aaron he had better call his dad and let him know what was going on with us. We decided to wait it out until we got to Parowan to see if things were going to get any better. They did not, so after spinning around on the freeway we decided it was too dangerous to try and keep going. Besides at this rate we weren't going to make it to the wedding in time anyways. So we turned around and drove home. We came home and picked our kids up at my parents house. Then after a while we thought about it some more and Aaron called his buddy in Cedar to see if the weather was any better up there. Tyson confirmed that they had sunny blue skies. So we packed up the car (which we had just came home and unpacked) and headed out on the road again for attempt #2. We both knew we should be there for Chelse's special day. We missed the most important part, but that isn't what matters. We were able to be their for her reception and to help set it all up, etc. It was a long day in the car, but well worth every minute of it!

new pictures

2009-02-21T16:05:00.000-08:00

We took both kids in to get updated pictures taken. Austyn was being her normal SOBER self and wouldn't smile for anything. She actually cried as you can see in the picture! My mom says that I was just such a smiley happy baby, well I wish I could say the same for my little girl. She is so scared around strangers, and even people who aren't strangers. She will cry if you hold her and she doesn't know you. She let out a pretty good scream at church last week when someone touched her, apparently she didn't want to be touched. She just got her 2nd tooth today. It is so cute when they start getting teeth, but sad at the same time. I can't believe how fast she is growing up! I think she will be crawling really soon. She scoots and rolls to whatever she wants on the floor.

Then there is Daxton. He will be 2 next Friday. I was scared he wouldn't smile for his pictures because every time I tell him to smile he closes his eyes really tight and has a cheesy cheesy grin on his face. Luckily he thought the lady taking his picture was funny. After these 3 shots he was done. He took off the cowboy hat and said "all done" so lucky for us we got some cute ones.

"it's about the goin' not the gettin"

2009-02-21T15:20:00.000-08:00

There is a theme in Aaron's family when it comes to hunting, it's about the goin' not the gettin'. This is because they say that they are all about going out to have a good time with the family, not about what they bring home (or don't bring home for that matter ). I always love to joke with them about this saying, because my family is pretty much out there to get the biggest thing they can find. They have a good time while they are gone, but it is just different.

Well we are going to incorporate this same saying here at our home when it comes to fishing! We have taken Daxton out twice now and both times we have come home with NOTHING! It is totally alright with me though because I don't eat fish anyways. We have had such a fun time doing this as a family. Aaron is really hoping to get his fishing boat licensed soon so we can troll around on the lake and fish from the boat.
We got Daxton his own fishing pole & he thinks that is great. He sat still for a few hours just holding on to it, letting the fake plastic fish that is on it out, then reeling it back in. Aaron is sure going to love having a fishing buddy when Daxton gets a little older, since I am not a fisher!!

Children Brag Post

2009-01-18T13:20:00.000-08:00

I just wanted to post a little bit about my kids and what is going on in their lives. Surprise surprise huh? Well that is what consumes most of my day everyday so that is what I think about the most.

I didn't really want to jinx myself by putting this on here, but Austyn is sleeping SOOOO good at nights now. She will go 10-12 hours at night. I am loving every minute of that. I thought if I posted that on here then she might stop doing it, but she has been doing it for a few weeks now so I thought I was probably safe to say it. She has been such a fun baby. She is pretty content most of the time. She loves to play on the floor. She rolls really well now both ways. She likes to watch people. She has really good eyes from what I can tell. She seems to be able to see you from across the room and keep her eyes on you the whole time you walk away, etc. She is really good at squealing at the top of her lungs. This can hurt your ears, but at the same time it is cute to see ( or hear ) her be so happy. Austyn likes Daxton more and more all the time. Her face lights up when she sees him. Especially when he talks to her. It is so fun to have a girl after having a boy. I can't wait to see her learn new things, but at the same time it makes me sad that she isn't such a tiny baby anymore. Time really does go by faster than I would like it to.

Daxton on the other hand is another story when it comes to sleeping at night. We have him in a toddler bed now and he goes to bed like an angel. It is just getting him to sleep in in the mornings that has been an issue. He thinks that no matter what time he wakes up at night that it is time to get up and watch Shrek or Horton. Even if it is 3 or 4 in the morning he is ready to watch his movie. Myself on the other hand am not ready or willing to get out of bed that early to watch a movie. He goes back in his bed for a while sometimes, but he still wants to get up for the day around 6-6:30. I am fine if he weights until 7 or so, but I don't do early mornings. He has been growing up way to fast for us. He will be 2 at the end of Feb. and that makes my heart SAD! He is at a fun stage though. He is so smart ( don't all parents think there kids are smart?! ) he has a really good memory. Just this week I bought him a pair of cowboy boots at the store and he said "Gabe... boots" Yes his cousin Gabe was wearing a pair of cowboy boots when we were in Delta for Christmas a few weeks ago. Another example is that we go to buy bread at the bread store weekly. A few weeks ago when Aaron went and bought bread he also brought Daxton out a cookie that they were giving samples away of. Well the very next week when we pulled into the parking lot Daxton was asking for a cookie. He is such a fun boy, he brings lots of joy into my life every single day. He sometimes brings mischief, but the joy outweighs it all. It is so fun to see him grow into a little boy with manners. Most of the time he will thank you for giving him something or helping him out. He enjoys Austyn for the most part. I think he likes to steal her binky and put it in his own mouth the best.

I am feeling a huge responsibility to raise each of my children to know what is right and to live lives that are pleasing to our Heavenly Father. I am so grateful to be their mother and to have this privilege. I don't know how I got so lucky!!

On another thought....my sister Lindsey finally gave in and created a blog!! YEAH!! She mostly has it for updates on Taegan's EE disease, she is hoping to find some other mothers out there who can help or give ideas, suggestions. I am just happy that she has joined the blogging world. If you want to check out her blog here is the link http://clmichel.blogspot.com/

Just some cute pictures....

2009-01-06T12:41:00.000-08:00

This made me laugh so hard yesterday. Daxton came up to me and asked me to put his leash on. So I did. Then next thing I know he is trying to put Curious George up between him and the leash. He needed my help so I did it. Then he ran and got on his bike to take George for a ride. He comes up with some pretty dang funny things some times. He for sure keeps us laughing.

Here is Austyn in her swing. She spends lots of time in here.

Never too young to start being addicted to the TV. Aaron had a show on he wanted to watch, and Daxton wanted to watch Shrek ( for like the 3rd time that day) so Aaron broke out the DVD player and they were both happy.

Christmas just wore Daxton right out, he slept the ENTIRE way home from Delta. Which is saying a lot because he doesn't sleep well in the car.

Will & Julie with all the grandkids

Just chillin'

Nothing like Daxton on a bike with Aaron's derby helmet on with a binky in his mouth

Uncle Hans helping Austyn open her first present

Daxton was helping grandma Julie hand out the presents

Austyn's first Christmas

Daxton checking out his haul from santa

Can't get enough binks for this boy!

playing in the leaves in our backyard

This is a paper that came on our tree, Aaron gave it to Daxton and told him it could be his ornament. Daxton remembered it was his and he took it on and off the tree several times.

Our future heartbreaker!!!

Family Pictures

2008-12-01T07:40:00.000-08:00

THIS WEEKEND WE HAD MY MOM TAKE SOME FAMILY PHOTOS OF US. MY SISTER ALSO HAD SOME DONE AND WE GOT SOME CUTE ONES OF THE BOYS TOGETHER.

COUSINS

LINDSEY, TAEGAN, + KADENCE

Austyn's Blessing

2008-11-25T13:16:00.000-08:00

We blessed Austyn on October 12th. I know I am late at posting this picture, but I just got it off my mom's camera. We currently don't have a camera that works. I am hoping to buy one SOON. Aaron did such a good job with the blessing! We were able to bless her in my parents ward and we had a combined blessing with my sister's little girl also. It has been so nice to be able to bless both our kids together!
We are looking forward to this fun holiday season. Aaron's parents are coming down for Thanksgiving. We will be having a lovely dinner cooked for us by Chuck a rama. It will be nice for them to do the cooking and cleaning so that I can also enjoy the holiday!

SETTING MY BLOG TO "PRIVATE"

2008-11-05T19:56:00.000-08:00

I have decided to set my blog to private. Leave your email address in a comment or email me at ablovell at hotmail.com

2008-11-05T19:48:00.000-08:00

HERE IS DAXTON'S "GRUMPY" EYES

Daxton is at a fun age, he can repeat almost any word you say to him. He is talking more and more these days. He has been surprisingly good with Austyn. I was nervous at first but he proved me wrong and he doesn't have jealousy issues.

AND SOME PICS OF AUSTYN

Lucky for me Austyn is a very good baby which is good because I
spend most of my time entertaining Daxton. She isn't sleeping
through the night yet

Nice Buck

2008-11-03T18:31:00.001-08:00

The Rifle Hunt is like a holiday in my Family. My dad got a really nice Buck this year.

Just Trying to Help

2008-09-23T12:38:00.000-07:00

As some of you already know, my sister Lindsey's little boy Taegan was diagnosed with a disease called Eosinophilic Esophagitis back in May of this year. It is a pretty uncommon disease, but it seems the more people we talk to the more people we are finding out there who are living with this disease. I just thought it might be a good idea to talk about it on here because I am not sure who all reads my blog and just maybe there is someone else out there who could be helped or could be some help to my sister who is trying to learn as much as she can about this so that she can help her own child out. Right now 1 in 10,000 are diagnosed but it is believed that 1 in 2,500 have the disease. It is sad to think that 75 % of people with this disease are suffering and don't know what is wrong. 80% of people with this disease are male.

Here is Taegans story: From the time he was born he always seemed so little. He used to spit up all the time in large amounts, it would POUR out of his mouth. He would be soaking with puke both his clothes and our clothes would need to be changed, the floor would need to be mopped. It was very messy. Here is a few pictures of one throw up-back before we had a clue what was wrong. This was before he got way bad so he still had some weight on him.

Lindsey brought up her concerns to her doctor over and over again. His weight started dropping off the charts and he didn't gain any weight for about 6 months. He was an ornery whiny kid. He didn't sleep through the night until he was 14 months old. His vomiting started getting worse as they introduced more foods. Lindsey kept track of his puking and they couldn't pin point why. Some days he would vomit 12 times a day. He also couldn't handle textured foods and still has issues today. He will gag or choke on a piece of apple so he still has stage 2 baby food. Taegan was put on different medications. At first the doctors thought it was acid reflex which is a very common mistake with this disease. But the medication wasn't helping and Lindsey kept pushing. They just knew something wasn't right. Taegan had an upper GI and chest Xray but didn't reveal anything. She took Taegan to a GI pediatrician who thought Taegan had this disease after talking to her for 5 minutes. They did a scope job on him a week later and that confirmed he had EE.

Eosinophilic esophagitis (EE) is a disease characterized by swelling of the esophagus caused by an allergic white blood cell, the eosinophil. Symptoms of EE can range from severe heartburn, difficulty swallowing, food impaction in the esophagus, nausea, vomiting and weight loss. There appears to be some age-related differences in symptoms, with younger children having more symptoms of weight loss, and older children and adults having food impaction and difficulty swallowing.

It is not exactly clear what causes EE, although this disease may be related to other allergic diseases, particularly asthma. People with EE frequently have a personal or family history of other allergic diseases such as hay fever, food allergy, eczema and asthma. Recently, there have been studies showing an association between food and environmental allergies and EE.

So Lindsey took Taegan and he had some skin prick testing done. He can't have any wheat, soy, dairy, eggs, peanuts, olives, garlic. He was also put on a special hypoallergenic formula that has to be ordered in. In 3 months he gained almost 5 lbs. He is almost on the weight charts now. He has drastically improved since removing those foods from his diet.

Many doctors have never heard of this. Lindsey took Taegan to San Diego for further help because that was the nearest clinic but they haven't been too helpful. She might go to Cincinnatti or Philadelphia where the specialists are. The only way to diagnose it is to do scope jobs and perform biopsies. Taegan has had 2 scopes so far and is now starting food trials and will scope about every 2 months to see if those foods can be reintroduced.

If you or anybody you know has this disease my sister would be interested in talking to you so she can learn more or help someone else if she can. You can leave me a comment. Also, if your kid is suffering keep looking for the reason. If you as a parent feel that something is wrong with your child keep searching. Taegan's pediatrician didn't seem to think his constant puking was a big deal.

Here are some links if you want more information or videos with kids with this disease.

http://www.curedfoundation.org/curedvideo.html

http://www.kvbc.com/Global/story.asp?S=8898952

http://www.apfed.org/video.htm

New Pictures

2008-09-09T13:18:00.000-07:00

Here are some new pictures I had taken of both my cute kids.

A little update...

2008-08-31T12:12:00.000-07:00

Well we are in Delta for a few days so I have access to the Internet. I don't how to move my pictures around on this Mac so they aren't in order, but at least they are on here and that is what counts. Last night Will took Daxton on a horse for the very first time. Daxton seemed to enjoy himself.

We are still adjusting to life with 2 children. It has been over 3 weeks now with little sleep at night, but we are all still alive. Other then the lack of sleep I am feeling pretty darn good. Daxton is doing a little bit better with having to share mom with Austyn. Aaron has been trying to take Daxton to the park after work or outside to play for a while everyday to help get some of Daxton's energy out. That seems to help a lot. Daxton is down to only one nap a day these days. It makes me so sad that he isn't taking 2 anymore, but it is life.

I wanted to let everyone know where we came up with Austyn's name. Aaron's dads name is William AUSTIN and my dad's name is Durell JAY, so we combined both dad's middle names to get Austyn Jay. We put a Y in there to make it a bit more feminine. We are loving her to death. I can't believe she is almost a whole month old, where does the time go?

Now for lots of pictures.....ENJOY!!

Daxton is ready to ride his first horse....with Grandpa of course.

Here is Daxton at the pond feeding the ducks....

Austyn doing what she does best, unless it is night time then she is WIDE awake....

She is just like her big brother and she LOVES her binky!!

Daxton loves to eat corn on the cob...

Me and my baby girl...

She has long legs....lucky girl.

Taking dad for a ride on the mule...

Daxton and Taegan playing at a water park in St. George

Pretty girl

This is what he looks like after he eats the corn on the cob.....MESSY MESSY!!!

Lindsey had her baby

2008-08-19T20:23:00.000-07:00

Lindsey had a baby girl on 8-14-08. She was 8 lbs 1 oz and 20 inches long and they named her Kadence.

Here is a picture of the 2 girls together.
They are 6 days apart. It will be fun to do this together again.

More Pics

2008-08-10T20:01:00.000-07:00

Austyn Jay Lovell

2008-08-08T19:15:00.000-07:00

This is Lindsey posting this. I have never done this before so...........

Brandy was induced today at 10:00 am. She had an epidural that had some issues and I guess she was miserable. They didn't tell me too much because they didn't want to freak me out since it will be my turn soon so I'm sure Brandy will post more about it later.

Anyway, she ended up getting a 2nd epidural about 5 minutes before Austyn was born. She only pushed 3 times to get her out. She was born at 6:28 p.m. 8lbs. 8 oz and 20.5 inches.

Let the count down begin.....

2008-07-29T13:02:00.000-07:00

I went to the doctor today for a check up. They scheduled me to be induced 2 weeks from today if I haven't already had this baby. I feel so ready to have her here, but at the same time I know from past experience with Daxton that the babies are way easier to take care of while you are still pregnant vs. after they enter this world. Besides that Daxton is at a stage right now that he is kind of a handful. I am hoping that he will adjust to having to share his time and attention with his little sister.

I gave both Daxton and Taegan haircuts a few weeks back.
Daxton looking a little freaked out.....The finished product, I know it doesn't look much different but I did cut a little bit of. It would kill me to have his hair too short because I love to spike it and have it kind of wild looking.

Taegan after I cut his hair. He actually looked like he got a haircut when he was finished.

Next time there is a post on here hopefully it will be pictures of our cute, yet to be named little girl.

Changes

2008-06-17T13:46:00.001-07:00

We sure have had lots of changes around our place the last few weeks. We got rid of our puppy about a month ago. She was just too much work for me right now. I knew that was a possibility when we got her, but she was just too cute to not take home with us. I couldn't give her the attention she deserved, and I felt really guilty about how much time she spent outside in our backyard. She had so much energy and she would knock Daxton down every time we would play with her. She was to big for him to handle. She did go to a good home, and I felt really good about that part. I missed her for the first few days, but know I am so glad she is gone. It is allot of work having a puppy.
Next both Aaron and I got new cars. He bought me a 2005 Ford Freestar. It only has 15,000 miles on it so it is practically brand new still. I absolutely love all the extra room. I love that Daxton has a/c in the back now, that has come in handy the last few days here where it has been over 100 degrees. It will be so much nicer to travel in also. We won't have to decide what to leave behind because of lack of trunk space.
Aaron was lucky enough to be given his new car. It is a 1995 Jeep Cherokee Sport. He has put a few new items on it, but for the price we can't complain. He has wanted a 4 wheel drive vehicle for some time now, so I am happy that he has one now.
We were both fortunate enough to sell both of our cars in the same day. Mine was only up for sale in our front yard for 2 days before it sold. Aaron didn't ever even have to put a for sale sign in his car and it sold. Some guy at his work wanted it when he heard that Aaron would be getting rid of it.
We realize that we live on the PERFECT street if you ever need to sell anything. We have sold a couch, treadmill, & my car out of our driveway. The street we live on gets lots of traffic.
Another new change is that Aaron got a calling in our ward. He is teaching the Teachers quorum. He will do so good at this. He has a touch with younger people. They will all love him being in there.
Lastly, (I think, there is allot that has been going on it seems) Aaron bought himself a new fishing boat last Saturday. Well it is new to him, the boat itself is quite old. He has been having lots of fun working on the motor in our backyard the past few days. He is looking forward to spending lots of time on the lake catching big fish.
I can hardly believe that I only have 8 weeks left with this pregnancy. It seems to have flown by compared to when I was pregnant with Daxton. Probably because I have a toddler to chase around all day.
Here are some pictures from the last month of our lives. Daxton thinks he is big enough to feed himself, I just don't like the big mess that comes along with that.

This is the face that Daxton pulls when I get out the camera to take a picture of him and he comes running to take the camera from me.

Daxton just chilllin' on the couch/chair

This is the face he makes whenever he is concentrating on something. His tongue is always out.

Someone from Aaron's work brought him this hat back from Disneyland. Daxton loves to wear it around. It is pretty funny.

We got this swimming pool out in my mom's backyard. Daxton was pretty content to play in the water, Taegan on the other hand didn't want to get wet.

Taegan didn't want to put his feet on the grass.

We went to Pine Valley one Saturday for a family picnic. Daxton was sad that he couldn't hold the fishing lure.

Aaron let Daxton help him fish. Daxton LOVES anything shaped like a fishing pole, or rake, or broom, or hose, etc.

Til next time......

Pictures

2008-05-14T13:26:00.000-07:00

Daxton inside a big box playing.

Daxton and Taegan playing in the box.

Looking up at the camera from outside the box.

We went to Red Cliffs for my little sister Kamrie's birthday party. The boys thought the water faucet was great!

Daxton has discovered the hose, and he is in love with it. He likes it best when we will turn it on so that he can get soaking wet with it. Here soon it will be plenty hot outside to do this daily.

Daxton and daddy!

Here are Daxton and Taegan enjoying an ice cream sandwich outside on a warm day.

Daxton LOVES to play tug a war with our puppy. He was laughing his head off in this picture.

Here are Hiett, Gabe, & Daxton. These are Daxton's two cousins on the Lovell side.

The two boys swinging in grandma's backyard.

He loves to climb in the drawer on Lindsey's stove and pull every pot and pan out to bang on the wood floor. He is ALL boy!

My mom and sister came over and we went through all my totes of girl clothes. The two boys both wanted to be on this red car the whole time. And Daxton is feeling pretty proud to have Taegan's juice in his hand because he knows he isn't supposed to have it.

One of Daxton's favorite times of the day....bath time.

Happy Mothers Day!

2008-05-11T08:59:00.000-07:00

Here is a picture my sister Lindsey and I had taken of both our babies. We gave this to my mom for her mothers day gift. We may be bias, but we don't think it could have turned out any cuter! We had this taken a few weeks ago, but I couldn't put it on here until today after we gave it to my mom.

Hope all you mothers out there have a great day!

NEW FAMILY MEMBER.....

2008-04-09T09:41:00.000-07:00

call us crazy, because I would also agree. A week ago today we got a new puppy at our house. She is a cocker spaniel. She is so cute. She is 3 months old. My dad is the Schwan man and so therefore he comes across all sorts of fun treasures on his routes. He goes to this house in Panaca, NV. where they had only 1 puppy left. They had sold all the rest for $300.00 but were willing to give her away for free because she was getting older and she also has what is called a cherry eye. We will be taking her into the vet to have this removed. It is where there is a piece of skin that is on the eye by the tear duct. It looks really red and sore, but every vet I have talked to says that it doesn't bother the dog. (What I really want to know is how would they know if it bugs the dog???) The other day I came home from shopping and went outside to play with her and darn it, both of her eyes have cherry eye now. The vet won't operate on her until she is 6 months old because they have to put her under to do the surgery. If we are going to have her spayed then they will only charge us $40 on top of the fee to get her spayed. Aaron really wants to bred her and sell the pups one time, but I am kind of against that. There are PLENTY of cute dogs in this world that need a home and don't have a good home, why bring more into this world?? We will see I guess because he really wants to have a litter of puppies first.
We named her Sadie. She has been so good so far. She has only had one accident in the house. Daxton really likes her, but she gets so excited to see him that she will jump up on him and knock him to the ground so I really have to supervise them when they are together.
For the next 3 weeks I am house sitting for one of my parents neighbors while they are on vacation. They have a dog here that I am taking care of. We are looking forward to having access to the Internet for these 3 weeks and satellite TV. Aaron isn't going to want to go home after being this spoiled.

We are having a......

2008-03-26T09:40:00.000-07:00

GIRL!!!!!!

We went to the doctor last Friday to have our ultrasound. Within the first 5 seconds of our ultrasound our doctor announced that we are having a girl. I didn't really believe him so I asked him if he was sure. He said 100% then later in the ultrasound he pointed out where the proof was. We are SOOOOOOOO excited. It still doesn't seem real to us. Aaron is worried if he will be able to financially support a girl and all the ribbons and bows that come with having one. I am trying to restrict myself from going to crazy buying cute pink and purple items. We have a few names picked out, but we are 80% sure we will be naming her Payton Lovell. The other names that we both like are McKinley and Ashtyn. We are half way thru this pregnancy. Just wanted to share our new exciting news. This will be the first grand daughter on both sides of our families, and the first great grand daughter for my grandparents.

A lot has happened since I blogged last. We had a way fun birthday party for Daxton. All of Aaron's family was able to make the trip down, except for Amanda who understandably couldn't fly out from Connecticut. We had a fun barbecue in our backyard then ate cake and opened presents. We also got a few new windows installed by Aaron's brothers and dad. They look so nice!! We are getting 4 more new windows this Saturday. Slowly we are going to redo all the windows.
Daxton and I went up to Salt Lake with my sisters and my mom for a few days a couple weeks ago. We were able to visit some family and friends. It was nice to just get away.
Just a few days after we got home from Salt Lake my mom ended up in the hospital and she had to have emergency surgery. She had about 14 inches of her colon removed and she was in the hospital for 6 days it was a pretty serious deal. We are so thankful that she went to the hospital when she did!
Softball season has started up again so that is where you can find us on Wednesday nights for the next while.
Now I am going to overload the pictures......

This is Daxton not quite sure what he is supposed to do with his cake...

now he is having more fun making a mess then putting any in his mouth...
how about some for the hair?!?!?!?!

Gabe was such a big helper when it came time to open the presents, Daxton didn't mind

a hammer, just what he needs to bang the walls with!
Here is Kamrie, Lindsey, & Gina.
Safety First, Hans wearing safety glasses while installing our new windows!

When we went to Salt Lake I bought him this swing to hang out our patio. He absolutely loves to be outside, I like it best when he is restricted!!

Now this picture deserves some explanation. We went out to Pacoon for our traditional Easter get together with my dads side of the family. Daxton happened to pee through his outfit all over and onto Aaron's shirt whom he was sleeping on at the time. Luckily Lindsey was prepared and has an extra outfit on hand for Taegan. This was a 9 month outfit and Daxton wears a 12 month size these days. He looks cute in capri's don't you think???

Aaron and Daxton out in the mountains. Daxton LOVED to be on the ground playing in the dirt. I wasn't so fond of the dirt all under his nails.

Lindsey and Taegan. It just happened to be Taegans first birthday when we went out to Pacoon.

We watched Taegan so that Lindsey and Chris could go out for once. We bathed both babies together. They were so funny in the bath. In the bottom picture Taegan was trying to help wash Daxton's hair.I will try and update more often, I just never get a chance to use the Internet these days unless I come over to Lindsey's house to do it. Until next time...............

Our baby is 1 year old today

2008-02-27T08:43:00.000-08:00

I can hardly believe that it has been a whole year since our lives have been forever changed! Daxton is a year old today. Here are his year old pictures. My absolute favorite is this first one that shows his entire body. He is such a sweet boy. We love him SOOO much. He is 100% all boy. Aaron can't wait until he gets a little bit bigger and he can play rougher with him. I am kind of sad that he is so big so fast, but at the same time I am loving every new thing he learns to do and all the new words he is saying these days. He is walking more and more every day. His favorite is to hold onto one of our fingers and walk around the house like he is so big. Aaron has been working on our yard this week. Last night he was mowing the front lawn and Daxton was crying his eyes out that he could only watch from inside the front window. He wanted to be outside with his dad so bad. I finally gave in and took him out there and put him in his stroller so he could feel like he was apart of it.
I just want to wish Daxton a happy first birthday! We are having a little birthday party for him this weekend with my family and Aaron's family. It should be a good time!

BABY #2

2008-01-29T09:07:00.000-08:00

Yep, it is true. We are going to have a new addition at the Lovell house. We are due with our new baby on August 13th. I will be 12 weeks along tomorrow. So far this pregnancy hasn't been as bad as when I was pregnant with Daxton. I have been pretty nauseous and WAY tired, but I have only thrown up twice. It is so different to have a baby at home to take care of when I don't feel good. Last time with Daxton it was all about just taking care of myself and not worrying about another child. This time around I get wake up calls several times in the middle of the night, thanks to Daxton. He keeps me on my toes all day everyday.
We couldn't be more excited to know that we are going to be able to be parents at least one more time. I know it is going to be during the hottest month of the year to be 9 months pregnant and miserable, but we are so thankful for this blessing.

And to add to our excitement, my sister Lindsey is due just 15 short days after us.....AGAIN. Last time her and I were due 12 days apart. We figured that the Lord knows that we can't do anything without each other so why not let us have our babies together again.

Our Doggy

2008-01-29T08:39:00.000-08:00

These pictures were taken on Christmas day, so they are older but I thought they were so cute. He has mastered the doggy door at my parents house. He thinks he is pretty big to be able to climb outside.

Today is Aaron and I's 3 year anniversary. It is crazy to me how fast time flies. Who would have thought in 3 short years we would have a baby and another one on the way and be in a new house. I am so grateful for all my husband does for me. He is a dang hard worker and he loves his family. He is the best dad in the world, anyone who knows him knows that he is so good with children.

Yes we are still alive....

2008-01-08T10:29:00.000-08:00

We moved into our new house the weekend before Christmas. We love it! There are still boxes everywhere and I am unsure where everything is, but we are in and that is what matters.
Now for the bad news....we don't have the Internet anymore so I am unable to update this thing very often. I will be able to update it when I am at my sisters house.
Daxton is still just as busy as always, if not more so than normal. He is on the verge of walking. He has taken several steps, but he prefers to crawl if he wants to get there faster. He gets his feelings hurt very easily these days, especially if we tell him NO. He loves to SCREAM at the top of his lungs in his crib if he thinks he has been in there too long. He is so much fun and we are so glad to have him as part of our family.
Aaron has been working his butt off the past few weeks. This week he will work 6 days at 12 hours each shift. He is working nights so I feel like a single parent. I am grateful that I have a husband who is willing to work hard so that I can stay at home and raise Daxton.
Next time I post I will try and get some pictures on here also.

House Update

2007-12-13T16:15:00.000-08:00

We were informed last night that both banks have FINALLY accepted our offer. Today marks an entire month that has gone by since they were supposed to get back to us. They have sure taken their sweet time, but that doesn't matter anymore because they approved it. We are just waiting for our lender to get the loan going, etc. we are really hoping to close here in the next few weeks. It has been crazy having our lives in limbo not knowing what to do, but now we have some direction! YEAH

Ward Christmas Party and other happenings....

2007-12-09T15:19:00.000-08:00

Last weekend we celebrated Christmas with Aaron's side of the family. We enjoyed ourselves. Here are some pictures of Daxton opening his first present, Daxton with his 2 cousins Hiett and Gabe, Daxton and Aunt Sharisa, The men in the Lovell family doing what they do best....watch T.V. , Daxton standing by himself for grandma Julie.

Here we are at our ward Christmas party. Daxton was begging for a bite of my ice cream, so I gave him some. He gave us this extremely funny reaction. The funny part about the reaction is that this was probably his 5th bite before he even pulled this funny face. He sat on Santa's lap and did just fine. All the other kids in our ward who are his age screamed when they sat on Santa's lap, not our boy. He was just engrossed in his beard.

This is a video of Daxton playing with the tractor that he got from grandpa and grandma for Christmas. He loves to push it around the house. When it tips over he will just look at us because he knows we will come and set it upright for him to keep pushing around.

New Pictures

2007-11-29T17:18:00.000-08:00

I took Daxton into Kiddie Kandids to get some 9 month pictures taken. Since it is this close to Christmas/ winter I figured we should have that be the theme. I think we got some way cute pictures taken.

As far as our house goes.......we don't know anything new. The banks are taking FOREVER. Apparently there are 2 banks that own it, one of the 2 has approved our offer, the other bank is taking there sweet time. We told them that they had until today to let us know, otherwise we aren't interested anymore. They were supposed to let us know 2 weeks ago today if they accepted it or not. Hopefully they will get back to us today. They also have another offer on the house. Since we were the first ones to put in an offer they are looking at our offer first.

Today all of Aaron's family (except for Amanda & David, who we will miss) is coming down for the entire weekend to celebrate Christmas. It should be fun!

9 months old

2007-11-27T15:55:00.000-08:00

Today Daxton is 9 months old! I can hardly believe how fast the past year and a half has flown by. Sometimes that is a good thing, but overall it makes me kind of depressed that he is growing up so darn fast!

This is one of the only pictures I have that you can kind of see his 2 bottom teeth. He has 4 teeth now, 2 on bottom 2 on top.

This picture describes him to a T, he gets into everything and he moves so fast it is hard to stop him before he grabs something he shouldn't.

Here are the stats from today's appointment.

Weight: 21 pounds (50%)

Height: 28 1/4 inches (50%)

I can hardly believe that he hasn't even gained a pound in the last 3 months. He used to be in the 90% for his weight and 80% for his height. It is due to how active he is these days. He was pretty good at the Dr. considering we were the first appointment of the day and we still were there for almost 1 1/2 hours. He only cried for a second when he got a shot. The top picture here shows you what Daxton's Binky is supposed to look like. The bottom one shows what Daxton looks like with Taegan's Binky in his mouth. The funny thing about it is that they are 2 different brands of Binky, but that doesn't seem to bother Daxton in the least bit. Most of the time he will put Taegan's Binky in upside down and leave it that way. If he sees Taegan with his Binky in he will crawl right over to him and grab it out of Taegan's mouth. We need to teach this kid some manners. I am really hoping he isn't a bully when he grows up!!

Thanksgiving Festivities

2007-11-22T20:28:00.000-08:00

Let me start out with a fair warning of possible picture overload....I need someone to tell my how to get the collage thingy on my blog....
We had an awesome Thanksgiving this year. It all started out last night when we went to the turkey pits to be with friends and family. It is tradition that we go up to some property of my grandpa's friends and we wrap the turkeys in burlap sacks then put them in the pit. It was pretty cold last night up there. Then this morning we started off the day by going to watch Aaron play in a ward flag football game at the school. That was fun for Daxton and I to watch. He plowed over a few of the younger boys, but they forgave him. We had Thanksgiving at my aunt and uncles home with all my dads siblings. We had close to 50 people there. It was nice to just all be together. We were just missing the 3 family members who are out serving missions plus 4 other family members, otherwise we would have had the entire crew there. After dinner we went out back and started a game of softball-go figure. That lasted for a few hours. Everyone had such a good time. After we left that party the party continued on at my parents house. We went there and had yet more pie and then watched a movie. Now we are stuffed and tired from all the days festivities. Tomorrow we aren't going to be out hitting the black Friday sales if we can help it. Aaron is going up north to help his brother Hans' work on his house, then Sat. he will be in attendance at the big rivalry game BYU vs. UTAH......let the games begin!!

My Sisters

The assembly line of turkeys

The man of my dreams!

We went to cheer on Aaron

Flyin' High

The Davenport gang

We were observing the softball game from these comfy chairs!

We hope everyone else enjoyed their day of thanks as much as we did. We are truly lucky to live in such a great country and we have tons to be grateful for! I know we are thankful for all of our many wonderful blessings, but especially our precious baby boy!!

Splish Splash...

2007-11-21T09:05:00.001-08:00

He LOVES to put things in his mouth and just carry them around in there. He does this allot with toys when he needs to crawl somewhere and he needs to use both hands to crawl.

Daxton just loves to be in the bath tub. He would stay in there for hours if we would allow him to. He is at such a fun stage! Well except for his new found temper!!!! His temperament has completely changed in the past week, and not for the better. He will totally start screaming in a new tone of voice when he gets mad or frustrated over something as simple as me wiping his nose with a tissue, or cleaning his face off after he eats. I thought it was kind of cute the first day it happened, but now I am hoping this phase ends quickly. He has also started to get his feelings hurt really easily. He used to never care what happened he would never cry if I got mad at him or told him no, but now he does.

On a completely different note.....we don't have our house yet. We are still waiting for the bank to approve our 2nd offer. What we didn't realize when we made our first offer was that we can not include our closing costs in our loan. Therefore we made the bank a second offer telling them that we will pay them $4000 more for the house then our first offer that they had accepted, if they will pay up to $4000 of our closing costs. They are taking FOREVER to get back to us. Our lives are kind of on hold until we find out what is going on with the bank! I have already given our 30 day notice where we live and we have already packed up about 1/2 of our things. Hopefully we hear back soon so we can get on with our lives! I doesn't help that tomorrow is Thanksgiving and the banks will be closed. That just slows us down one more day.

Yay!!

2007-11-12T16:08:00.000-08:00

Just thought I would do a quick post to let everyone know that the bank accepted our offer. We are totally shocked. I thought they might laugh at our offer, but they didn't. If everything goes well we should be in our new home before Christmas. We are super excited!!

New news?!?!?

2007-11-11T13:01:00.001-08:00

So I haven't posted anything for over a week. Not a ton has been going on here. Our exciting news is that we have put an offer in on a house in Bloomington Hills. We will find out tomorrow night if our offer has been accepted or not. We would love to be home owners after wasting our money renting!

Yesterday we drove up to Parowan to help out on Hans and Shellie's new home. All the men were working on the roof. Us girls ( my sister in laws Shellie, Sharisa, & I) were working on the rock fireplace. Sharisa and I were more like moral support for Shellie. She was doing most of the work. Sharisa and I were just pointing out what rocks would look good and where they should go. We had a fun time up there being together. Daxton was SOOOO good. I left him in his playpen for most of the time we were there. He just played by himself in the playpen. I couldn't believe how well he did in it. I was worried I would just be stuck holding him all day, but he surprised me. Here are a few pictures of the day.

-Our nephew Hiett, he turned 1 in May-

-Our nephew Gabe, he turned 3 in July-

-Shellie & Sharisa hard at work-

Happy Halloween!

2007-10-31T20:41:00.000-07:00

This was a fun first Halloween for Daxton. We dressed him up as a lion. I think he looked so dang cute!! He loved to try and pull his hat off, but he wasn't very good at that since it was attached to his head. We took both Daxton and my sisters baby, Taegan into Dixie college today to show them off in their costumes. Then this afternoon we went to watch our friends little girl in the parade at her school. We saw tons of costumes. Tonight we did our traditional set up the TV in the drive way and watch a scary movie at my moms house. This year it was a bigger hit than any other year in the past. We had 2 TVs going and quite a few friends stopped by to partake in the fun.

Here are some pictures of Daxton in his costume. Some are from the ward Halloween party last night others are from today's events.

Taegan thought it was so cool to pull on Daxton's costume. Daxton on the other hand didn't think it was as cool.

Daxton trying to eat the table cloth at the ward party.

Once again Taegan pulling on Daxton's costume, this time he had Daxton by the tail.

Taegan & Daxton

Taegan, Jaxan Davis, & Daxton. Amy Davis stopped by with Jaxan to come trick or treating. Jaxan was such a cute cheer leader!

Aaron trying to keep Daxton warm.

Daxton's first cookie

2007-10-30T20:25:00.000-07:00

Notice how clean his face is....
getting messier.....
and messier....
time for a BATH!!!
Yesterday I decided to let Daxton eat one of these cookie things. He absolutely loved it!! He couldn't get enough of it. Man they are a messy treat though.

Aaron's family

2007-10-30T20:17:00.000-07:00

On Sunday we went to Parowan for a funeral. Aaron's older brother Hans is building a house in Parowan and we hadn't seen it yet. We stopped by there after the funeral to look at it. It is coming along quite fast (easy for me to say, it isn't my house). So of course I had to take some pictures! Here is Daxton before church. I think he always looks so adorable in his church clothes. He wouldn't hold still long enough for me to snap a picture, this is the best I got.
Daxton and I on Hans' property
Grandma Julie and Grandpa Will with Daxton
Aaron and his older brother Hans
The baby of the family, Chelse'
Grandma Lovell is showing she is a fan of BYU while Aaron is rooting for the U of U. Aaron LOVES to harass grandma about this all the time!

Pumpkin Pictures

2007-10-28T19:32:00.001-07:00

My mom bought these outfits last year for both boys. We took them to the pumpkin decorated lawn at Holiday Inn. Pictures were allot easier to take back before Daxton became so dang mobile. Now he crawls to whatever he wants to get to. It makes it hard because he is so easily distracted (just like his dad :)He has discovered how to rip hats off as soon as we put them on his head. "oh no you didn't....."
He looks so innocent!

Daxton crawling away from the photo shoot towards a light on the ground.

8 months old!!!

2007-10-27T20:17:00.000-07:00

Our baby is 8 months old today. We can hardly believe how fast the time has gone by. It makes us sad that he is growing up so fast, but at the same time he is at the funnest stage of life so far. We feel so blessed to be his parents, it is the greatest thing on this earth!!

Here are some pictures of him along the way. I only could find a few from when he was first born. If I come across the rest I will have to post them later.

[a few days old][two weeks old][five months old][six months old][seven months old]
[eight months old & cuter then ever]

Walking????

2007-10-25T13:54:00.000-07:00

We bought Daxton this walking toy when we were in Vegas. He seems to really like it, especially all the noise it makes and the bright flashing lights!

Viva Las Vegas

2007-10-23T10:20:00.001-07:00

Aaron had to fly out of Vegas yesterday to go to South Carolina for work. We decided to make a little family trip of it all. We went down to Vegas and shopped for the day and then we got a hotel for the night. Aaron had to be at the airport pretty early so we just dropped him off and headed home. We had a fun time being together. We will miss him this week while he is off at "work". I say it like that because I am not sure how much work he will really be doing. The company is going to be taking them out for lunch and dinner everyday. He said he is excited to be able to get to order what ever he wants off the menu for once. I told him that he had better order a pop at every meal since I never let him order pop when we go out for dinner. I think he will enjoy himself while he is gone. He is going to be able to see one of his friends that lives back there while he is gone.Daxton getting ready to shop shop shop for the day!He thinks it is pretty neat to see himself in the mirror these days.We never feed this kid, so he had to resort to eating his own sock.He thought he was on top of the world riding on dads neck. He loved to pull Aaron's hair and try to get it in his mouth, lucky for Aaron it was too short to reach into Daxton's mouth.All the shopping just wore Daxton out.

Here we are in our hotel room. It felt nice to actually sit down and relax after being on our feet all day.We went to dinner at the Macaroni Grill. Daxton had to have some of Aaron's water. I love the fact that he knows how to suck water out of a straw. He has been able to do this for a few months now. Look mom, no hands. Now that he has a few teeth it seems like he has better traction. He loves to bite the spoon when we feed him.
Future artist??? He loved the crayons that he was able to play with at the restaurant.

Here is a video of Daxton laughing. I love to hear this noise more than anything else. Most of the time after he laughs this hard he will get the hick ups. I am not sure why, but he does.

TAG I'm it

2007-10-22T21:59:00.000-07:00

The rules: Each player lists 6 facts/habits about themselves. At the end of the post, the player then tags 6 people.

- I met my husband in the gutter, no joke. One day I was helping my friend move into some college apartments and my future husband was walking down the street in the gutter bouncing a basketball. He recognized my friend from his college ward and he said hi, the rest is history. Apparently he and I had been in the same college ward for almost 2 years and we had never met each other!

-I am a shop-a-holic!! I love to shop! I would do it every single day if money permitted. I love to find a good sale. Something about finding something on sale plus using a coupon makes me feel like I have accomplished something! Now that I have a baby I LOVE to buy baby clothes. Actually I have been addicted to that since I got married. I love baby stuff. For our first Christmas together I got the carseat, stroller, playpen, & high chair in the print I wanted. We weren't even pregnant for another 7 months after I had all these items. Oshkosh is my favorite store to spend money in.

- I love to smell good. I always have to have some sort of perfume on or smelly lotion from victoria secret or bath and body works. I probably use to much perfume when I spray it, but in my opinion you can never have too much on. Some of my favorite scents are : Very Sexy by Victoria Secret, Ralph Laurens Romance, & Armani Mania by Giorgio Armani.

- I only have 1/2 of one ovary. When Daxton was 6 weeks old I had to have my left ovary removed. The doctor was concerned it might be cancerous. When he operated to remove my left ovary he found that my right ovary had the same problem, just not as bad. Since he knew I wanted to have more children he left 1/2 of my right ovary. We have been told that if we want to have more kids that we should not wait. Luckily the cyst that was removed was not cancerous!

-I am TERRIFIED of cockroaches! I hate them more than any other insect. For some strange reason (probably the fact that one crawled on me in the middle of the night years ago and totally freaked me out) I want nothing to do with them. I can't even pick one up with a tissue if it is already dead. Something about them gives me the creeps! I have been in tears over these obnoxious bugs.

-I am addicted to taking pictures! I have a camera with me 95% of the time. I have always been one to take a camera with me for fear that I might miss out on an important picture opportunity. Due to my huge addiction of taking pictures, I also love to scrapbook. Daxton already has 2 scrapbooks of his life and he isn't even 8 months old yet, well not for 5 more days anyways. I have been able to get some really great pictures at times I would really regret not being able to capture the moment.

I now tag: Chelsey, Brooke, Shellie, Amanda, Lori, & Amy

Car Seat

2007-10-20T12:11:00.001-07:00

Notice his cute shoes (thanks Chelsey)

Daxton just loves to play with his car seat. It is one of his favorite toys to climb on when we leave it sitting on the ground. He spends hours just pulling himself up to it and playing with the straps. I am glad he is easily entertained!

Deer Camp

2007-10-20T06:51:00.000-07:00

So we decided to go to deer camp last night. We only went out for a few hours though since we have Daxton and it was too cold to stay over night with him. It was my first year out there ever. Lindsey has been going all along for the past 10+ years. She has always told me that I should come out. A few people were shocked to see me show up. I guess they had heard we might come out, but they didn't believe it until they saw us show up.

We had a good time out there. Daxton was so good the whole time we were there. I was worried he would want to get down and crawl around in the dirt, but he was content to just be held, or to be in his play pen. Lately he has been such a busy busy baby. He doesn't like to be restrained or made to sit still.

After the sun went down it cooled off really fast. We had Daxton all bundled up, if anything he was probably hot from all the layers. We headed home after we ate some of grandpa's famous dutch oven potatoes. It was nice to be in the outdoors once again with family! Just maybe one of these years we will have to go to deer camp for the whole weekend and sleep over, etc. I am glad we decided to go!

~Daxton "tasting" his play pen~~Me with my future hunter~~Daddy's boy~~Our Family~~Aaron chopping wood for the fire~~Lindsey getting her tent situated~~Grandpa getting the fire just right for his dutch oven potatoes~~Brian showing Lindsey where the big bucks are~~Aaron keeping Daxton nice and warm~

~Eating Dinner~

~Brian and Doug telling stories around the fire~

Red Cliffs

2007-10-18T20:50:00.000-07:00

We took a picnic up to red cliffs after church on Sunday with my family. My moms room mate from college met us there with her family. We had a good time being in nature. The weather was perfect and we all enjoyed each others company.
Here Daxton is trying to put the branch in his mouth! He wasn't successful, but it made a cute picture!
Taegan
My two cute boys!
My family's dog Dodger. He is 1/2 Yorkie 1/2 poodle, and the most loving dog!
Taegan, Amanda, & Lindsey
My HOT husband!!!!!!
So these 2 pictures need a little explanation. Lindsey's baby, Taegan is THEE most picky eater ever. His bottles have to be just the right temperature (quite hot) or he will have nothing to do with them. Well since we had been in red cliffs for a few hours, we didn't have any hot water. Lindsey tried to use her bottle warmer in the cigarette lighter, but it wasn't getting hot enough for Taegan. So they came up with this cleaver idea....heat the water over a fire in a used pop can. It worked like a charm!
Kirk, Amanda, & Roxie
Me and Daxton

Family get together

2007-10-13T19:15:00.000-07:00

My cousin Aaron Staheli was baptized tonight. We had a family get together before hand. We had dinner at the pavilion by the stake center. The weather was pretty nice, kind of on the chilly side if anything. I didn't really get any pictures of anything but Daxton....go figure. We did take a few that weren't of only him.

Daxton loves to suck on his bottom lip like this. I think he looks kind of funny when he does it!
Cheesing it for the camera!
Friends forever, my sister Lindsey, Sandra, and I.
Taegan and Daxton chilling in their strollers. Daxton just wants to take the toys away from Taegan. Taegan is happy to just watch Daxton.
My cute sweet baby boy! He loves to put his hands together and then chew on them.
Standing on the table. I think he looks pretty cute all dressed up! He has the hardest feet to find shoes that fit! I love to have him wear shoes, but it never lasts too long because they always fall off. Darn fat wide feet. So we had to get a picture while they were both still on!
Here he is sucking on his fingers. Ever since he got his teeth he loves to put his fingers in there and feel them. I think he just likes that there is something actually in there to touch.

Here is another thing he likes to do lately. Spit!

Daxton crawling & pulling himself to stand

2007-10-12T09:02:00.000-07:00

Here is some video of Daxton crawling. He gets wherever he wants to go. I was so excited for him to learn how to crawl, but now he is getting into everything. I am kind of wishing he wasn't so mobile. It is fun to see him learn how to do new things though. He is changing everyday. He has a way fun personality. And he is strong willed. If he sees something he wants he is determined to get it. For example a few weeks ago Aaron and I were eating fudgesicles. Daxton spotted this and wanted some. He crawled over to Aaron and started crying until Aaron gave in and shared with Daxton. Even after it was all gone Daxton was just happy to have the stick still in his mouth. If any of you know my husband at all, you will know he isn't one for sharing his food or drink with ANYONE ( well except me ) he has a huge phobia of germs, etc. that you get when sharing. So it is TRUE love that he will share with his boy! It even surprises me when I witness him doing that. Especially with a baby that slobbers all over the place.

Here is a video of Daxton pulling himself to stand by Aaron's love sac. Daxton loves to crawl over to his carseat that is sitting on our floor and pull himself to stand. It makes me nervous because the carseat will rock and then Daxton will fall. He does the same thing with the love sac. I am hoping that he doesn't walk too young or I will have my hands full.

Video Clips

2007-10-10T11:49:00.000-07:00

Don't mind the slobber all over his shirt. He got his 2nd tooth on Monday. He has been drooling like crazy lately.

He has started babbling a lot lately. I think he just likes to hear his own voice for a change.

Here are some videos of Daxton. He loves to get in the walker, he can go pretty much wherever he wants to go. He is really good at steering it. He loves to chase Lindsey's cat, Cleo in it.

Daxton's twin cousin

2007-10-09T16:09:00.000-07:00

Here is Daxton's cousin Taegan. He is my sister Lindsey's first child. Daxton and Taegan were born 3 weeks apart. Actually Taegan was born on Daxton's due date. They are more like twins to us then cousins. Since Daxton and Taegan spend most days together. Daxton is Taegans bodyguard. They love to watch each other and play together. We just have to watch them very closely because Daxton plays alot rougher than Taegan. It has been so much fun to have these two boys so close in age. They will be the best of friends when they grow up.....unless Daxton is a bully.

Here is a picture of a typical day. Daxton will try and eat whatever body part of Taegans he can get in his mouth.

We bought them these swimsuits. They sure looked funny when we put them on.

Best Buds Forever

Missionary

2007-10-09T16:02:00.000-07:00

Here Trevor is holding his two cute nephews, Taegan & Daxton. They are dressed like missionaries also.

My little brother left for the MTC last Wednesday the 3rd of October. He is going to be serving in the Indianapolis, Indiana mission.

Pine Valley

2007-10-08T12:33:00.000-07:00

Danny, Olivia, and Maddi. Aaron already has dibbs on Maddi. He wants Daxton to marry her when they grow up.

The Staheli Clan
Daxton snuggling inside Aaron's jacket
Me with my baby boy

Last weekend we took a picnic up to Pine Valley. The weather was so cold up there. It was nice to just be in the out doors with our friends the Staheli's. We didn't stay too long because it was cold, but we did enjoy the time we spent up there. It made me realize that we need to get in the out doors more often. I am thinking of going to deer camp this year for the first time. We will see....I have heard tons and tons of stories and thought I might check it out for myself this year. I don't want to be a witness to bambi getting shot though.

Family Pictures

2007-10-07T20:43:00.000-07:00

Daxton doing what he does best......getting ready to eat something that isn't meant to go in his mouth....

We hadn't had any family pictures taken yet. Aaron asked my mom to take some for us. We took these a couple of weeks ago, and I think they turned out great!

I finally gave in and created a blog!

2007-10-07T17:30:00.001-07:00

Daxton's 6 month pictures

Everyone seems to already have a blog. I guess it is time we get started on one for our little family. I love to read everyone else's blogs all the time.

We are just living day to day. Daxton is growing up so fast. He is now 7 months old. It makes me so sad to see how fast time has gone by. At the same time I am happy to see all the new fun things he is learning to do. He is crawling all over the place and he loves to get into EVERYTHING he can find. He just got his first tooth this past week. He wasn't even onery. He is the best baby. He is happy most of the time. He brings more joy into our home then I ever imagined was possible. He has his dad wrapped around his little finger. Aaron will jump up and get him whenever he makes a peep. He loves his dad also, he is such a daddies boy.

Aaron works hard so that I am able to be a stay at home mom and raise our child. It is the best job in the world! Tons of work, but totally worth it. We have been blessed!

Hopefully I can keep this blog up to date. We don't normally have anything too exciting going on, but I do take tons and tons of pictures, so if nothing else I will try and keep the pictures coming!