Happy Easter (That came and went to fast!)

So, it has alreay almost been a month since I blogged. I am slacking pretty good. Dax turns 7 MONTHS OLD! In two days. WOW, where does the time go?
We had a very good Easter weekend. It was General Conference, so not only did we get to listen to prophets of the church speak what God wants us to hear, we got to have a visit from Daxton's grandpa. We had such a fun time with him.

So, about a month ago our camp trailer was "Fortunately" next to another camp trailer that burnt to the ground. Our had some heat damage done to it. Well..When the insurance adjuster went to look at it, they decided to consider our trailer a total loss. A total blessing in disquise. The reason that they totalled it, was that our trailer I guess had been discontinued and they would have had to special order the replacement parts which would have totalled over $25,000.00!! Well, our trailer we bought brand-new in 2007 for $21,000.00. We have been wanting to get rid of it ever since we bought our house but have had trouble selling it. So WHEW! Now, we are $400/month richer :D.

So, because of the trailer and us having some extra money and the generocity of Ray's brother and his wife.. We were able to finish the room that we started just about 2 years ago to date. It is so cute I love it. I can't wait until our whole house gets re-done.

I started making a denim quilt for Dax. It is so cute. It has cars pieced with the denim on the top, and coordinating polka-dots for the back. I got all of the piecees cut out, and laid out. I just need to get my sewing machine up and working and figured out so I can sew them together. I was going to give it to him for his birthday (that was my set goal) but maybe I will get it done before so that he can enjoy it a head of time.

Oh, one more thing.. So we have this family generation (my family) My mom every conference Sunday would make this yummy danish type things called Coffee Cakes for breakfast; but they are called Conference Cakes at our house since we don't drink Coffee. Well, since I have my own little family, and my dad came to visit, I made them for the FIRST time ever. They were so yummy. I did such a good job.

Dax's 1/2 Birthday!

So, I can't believe that my baby is SIX months old! Sheesh, could we slow down time a bit. I'm going to be sending him to school before I know it.
Dax had is Doctor Appointment on Friday. He weighed 17lbs and was 26 1/2 inches long. He did pretty good, only cried for a few minutes. But he did give his Doctor the meanest look. (too cute and funny!) We made an appointment for Dax to get his pictures taken at the Valley Fair Mall. With JCPenney Portraits. He did such a good job and even let me change his outfit THREE times.
When we were down in SLC, we met some friends also. We went to dinner at Red Robin, Mmm so yummy!
Here are some of Daxton's pictures from out Photoshoot yesterday.
(there are more pics at the very bottom)

Yay for WARM weather!

So, today I was really hoping and praying that it would be warm with no wind! I guess my hoping and praying paid off! Dax and I went on a walk (oh ya, Duke came too) We walked to the library to drop off Dax's books we got him that are due tomorrow. The library is about 5 blocks or so away, it wasn't bad until I came to the hill I had to climb with a 40 pound stroller and a dog that was trying to go the opposite direction. But we made it. Lets just say by butt was BURNIN'!!! So, after we left the library we were walking a different way home, and we crossed paths with our friends' house. They were home, packing to get ready to go to Utah. So I stopped and talked with them for a few minutes. When I was leaving I got a kiss on the hand and a plea not to leave with out him (Ha ha, cute little crush! Nick your a funny kid!) But, I left and we traveled home, and had a delightful walk in the WARM weather!

Easter

Ok, so in less than a month we will be celebrating the resurrection of our Savior. Now that Ray and I are parents we would like for Daxton to realize that Easter isn't all about the Easter Bunny and Easter Baskets.. but with the world that we live in it is/will be a hard task to accomplish. I think what I would like to do is yes, give him candy and let him believe in the Easter bunny, but in one way or the other, tie in church to this fabulous holiday.

So, now I am going to complain about our WONDERFUL stores that we rely on for providing us with yummy and "nutritious" items. I looked at Wal-Mart and Jubilee and Alco for the most delish Easter candy out there (besides the solid milk chocolate bunny from Mom's Candy Kitchen) CADBURY MINI EGGS!!! Mmm.. (mouth watering) I am on an Easter "egg" hunt! Ha ha. We are going to SLC so I will have to hopefully find them there. Fingers crossed.

Failure to Follow-up

So, I noted in a previous Blog that I found a fluid filled bubble on the back of Dax's head.. Well I failed to let you all know that at the beginning of the year IT WENT AWAY!! Woohoo! I was so relieved, the year started out WONDERFULLY. So far this year there hasn't been any "weird" things happen to my little Stink.

Daxton's 5th Month!

So, we are almost to Dax's 1/2 birthday! Wow, time flys so fast. Well, lets see.. I can't even think of what has happened this last month, I guess that is what I get for Blogging at 10 o'clock at night.

A couple of weeks ago, Dax decided to sit up ALL BY HIMSELF! Little stink, he is just getting so big! He also has been playing Patty-Cake. I didn't realize that that is what he was doing until my mom said that he is playing Patty-Cake. I would play it with him, basically since he was born.

Last weekend we traveled to Idaho, Ray's grand-mother past away. Her funeral was amazing, she was such an incredible woman. I am just so glad that we got pictures of Dax and her before she was ready to return home to her Heavenly Father. Dax won't remember her, but we will be able to tell him what an AMAZING person she was.

So, Ray's job... Hm... where do I begin on that. We are hoping and praying that we can either find him a good one with benefits, and good salary, and good hours in the Rexburg area, just so that we can get him done with school or, find him a better one here in Kemmerer. But we are kind of picky because neither of us want me to have to work. My job is here, at home, with Daxton. (The love of my life)

Well, to sum things all up: Daxton has his 6 month well child on March 19th at 3:15 where we will find out how big he is getting. Then (hopefully) we will be getting his pictures taken in SLC on the 20th. Man, my little man is growing up!

It's been a while

So, it's been a while! I haven't updated since October.. LAST YEAR! Wow. So, here what has happened since then: November, we blessed Dax on the first. Family turn out was INCREDIBLE! We had so many people, it's great to know that that many people care about us! Ray blessed him, he was so nervous but he did an awesome job! I cried the spirit was so strong. A few days later I noticed that Dax had this fluid-like bubble on the back of his head as a new mom.. I FREAKED~ no other word for it. We took him up to the clinic here in Kemmerer and the Docs just felt it and said.. "don't worry about it" but me being a first time Mom I did worry about it. So, we took an Emergency trip to I.F. to take him to EIRMC so that we could get a second opinion. 4 hours in the ER and a cat-scan later, they didn't find anything. It was just fluid.. No explaination, so we just had to deal with it. The next day while we were in I.F. we got our first family pictures taken. Thanksgiving.. Hmm.. Can you say EXHAUSTING! We traveled to Rexburg on Tuesday Nov 23rd and stayed until the 29th. We tried to stay with each family (since we have 3) for a whole day instead of jumping around all day every day. That worked out pretty good. Lets see, I am not sure if anything significant happened until the 5th of December, we went and got Dax's first christmas tree! We went up in the mountains and cut it down our selves. Dax was so good! We had so much fun.

Christmas, Christmas, Christmas.. We did the same thing at Christmas that we did for Thanksgiving. We went down the Tuesday before and stayed until Monday. Dax got a bumbo, and lots of big-boy clothes. Ray got an iPod touch and Wii Fit Plus and I got a rocker-glider, sewing machine, and a cricut. We also got a 3 crock-pot deal which is pretty cool.

Before we knew it, we were bring in the New Year! Dax fell asleep at nine (but that was ok) We had some friends over and we talked about all night. After mid-night we went to bed about 1 am and silly Dax decided to let Mommy sleep for an hour and then he was hungry. I can't believe that the year my Baby was born is gone and done! (tear)

Dax and I went to a couple of Basket Ball Games (go Lady Rangers!) He was so good, he was cheering and screaming and had a lot of team spirit! We did get tired the first game we went to and he fell asleep and stayed asleep with all the loud yelling, and whistle blowing.

The end of January we as a family went to Salt Lake, we had some friends go with us too! We had a great time! We stayed at the Salt Lake Plaza and went shopping. We bought our first computer it is so awesome!

It is now the 8th of February, and we are going BACK to SLC. Julie my Mother-in-law was diagnosed with 4th stage Ovarian Cancer in November and she is getting surgery finally tomorrow. We are hoping all goes smoothly with the least amount of pain for her. We are excited to see everyone, but are sad for the circumstances. I am going to try to update this more often, so hopefully Dax can take good naps so I have enough time. Adios for now!