Jaxson's playing for the Utah Jazz!

Jaxson's favorite thing in the whole world are his 553 basketball cards. He plays with them all day long everyday. He sorts them into different categories and counts and recounts them. He has an amazing memory and he can tell you players names and numbers, the position they play and all the teams they have ever played for. He is of course obsessed with the Jazz. So I decided to make him his own basketball card. I thought it would be cute too to use it for his preschool student spotlight.

Alex is 3! Happy Birthday!

Alex LOVES birthday parties and birthday cakes so he was so excited to have his own finally! I let him pick a cake out of a book of birthday cakes and he wanted the monster birthday cake. It was all he could talk about for weeks. "I get a monster birthday cake mom?!" We had a little lunch time birthday party with his cousins and had the kids decorate monster face pizzas.

This is his monster birthday cake. He loved it! It's so nice to be appreciated!

This is Nelson and his cousin Annalyn at the birthday party.

All the kids playing with Alex's new bubble gun. He got 2 of them!

I don't think Alex even realized he was going to get presents. He was so excited for a birthday cake, he kind of forgot about the presents part of the birthday. So he was doubly excited!

When it was time to blow out the candles I wondered if I would have to show him what to do. I still think of the kid as my little baby! He knew exactly what to do though!

We got him this cute little tricycle. It has a little licsence plate on the back with his name on it. He was sooo excited! This is him doing a cool trick on it.

A little about my bestest bud Alex..........

Alex loves to help me in the kitchen. Never fail as soon as I start making anything within 2 seconds he is pulling up a stool to help. He especially loves to roll out dough. Oh, and make mac n' cheese. The only thing I do is put the water in the pot, and drain the water when the noodles are done. He has to do everything else or there is a major fit involved.

He loves to snuggle baby's and stuffed animals and put them down for naps during the day. This is a pic of him snuggling his Jazz bear. It was so cute the other day I was looking at a magazine and their was a little 3" picture of a sleeping baby and Alex reached out with his thumb and pointer finger like he picked it up and set in his arms and then rocked back and forth humming like he picked up that little baby right off the page and it was real! He has such an imagination!

He loves to drive Nelson crazy! Whenever Nelson is in the high chair Alex has to push his stool right next to him and help him eat. I turned around this day to see that Alex needed to be even closer and sit right on his tray! As you can see, Nelson was not happy about it!

He no longer takes naps unless he falls asleep in the car or if he's really tired he will fall asleep on the floor. The other day I heard a weird noise and I realized I hadn't seen or heard Alex for a little bit. I could not figure out where the noise was coming from and I kept calling Alex's name and then I discovered him, snoring loudly asleep in the laundry basket. What a cutie!

I think this picture totally shows his little personality.

O.k., just a few more cute things about my Alex. He is so polite and always asks me in the sweetest little voice for things. Of course if I don't answer him the first time or if I say no, he keeps asking over and over again and his voice raises each time until he is screaming at me! We are working on that one. :) Whenever he gets hurt even a little bit he cries and whines until I kiss it better and then he is immediately better. It's nice to have magical kisses!

He is such a smart, funny, cute little boy! I love you Alex!

My poor Boys have been Miserable! They all have a really bad cough and Nelson also has an ear infection. I had to set Nelson down the other day (I have been holding him 24/7!) and sweet little Jaxson was trying to make him feel better. He is such a good big brother! Even though he was feeling horrible himself he just wanted to help Nelson. Jax and Alex share a room and one night after I put them to bed they were both coughing really bad and Jax kept calling my name and when I would go in he would say "Mom, Alex really needs you." He was so worried about his little brother. I don't know what I would do without Jaxson. He is such a big helper.

The kids got this train table for christmas and when you put the lid on it is just a fun little table to color on and stuff. I was excited because we put the lid on it for the first time and turned on Cars movie and got out the big Cars coloring books. The kids Loved it!

Alex is a very picky eater so I have been trying to be creative to get him to eat more of a variety of food. So for a snack the other day I made this monster face. Jaxson loved it and ate the whole thing. The 2nd picture is what Alex did to his.

He immediately took off the spinach and orange and said "I don't like these!" and then he took the raisins off the apples and said "No, the raisins go on the plate!" So much for trying to be a fun mom!

The Binky is Gone!

This is a past picture of Alex with his 2 favorite things, his binky and his blanky. It shows him doing his weird habit of sticking the blankets tied edges in his nose and swirling it around. Weird and gross, I know! A few weeks ago I found out just how comforting his nose picking thing is to him. His stomach was hurting really bad for about a week and he was miserable and cried all the time. When I couldn't calm him down I would take his blanket and swirl it around his nose and his head would immediatly start bobbing up and down and his eyelids would flutter and he would just fall asleep! I mean within like 10 seconds! It was really funny! Anyway, I have been tring to figure out how we were going to take his binky away from him for awhile now because I was sure it would not be easy! But one day I just couldnt find it anywhere and so I made him go to sleep without it and it wasnt as big a fight as I thought it would be so I decided it would be lost for good. He only asked for it for 3 nights and then one morning he told me "mom, you give me a binky, but binkys are for babys. I'm a big boy. I don't need a binky." I was amazed! And better yet, I realized the other day that we were giving him his blanky everynight, but he wouldn't stick it in his nose. So I just started not even giving him his blanky and he hasnt said anything! I guess the binky and blanky were a package deal! The only downside is he used to go to bed very easy and now I have to lay down with him. Hopefully when he's feeling better he wont need that anymore. So I guess my Alex is turning into a big boy! Now, if only I could potty train him.

Jazz Game

A couple weeks ago we decided on the spur of the moment to go to a Jazz game as a family. I was quite nervous to have all 3 kids at the game. With Alex's non-stop temper tantrums and Nelson constantly needing to be on the go, I thought we were crazy to attempt it! But it ended up being so fun! The kids were so excited the second we got to the hotel. Nelson was just in heaven exploring everything. He insisted on walking everywhere. He would just run up and down the halls laughing. He hated the elevator though, just like his brother Alex. We didn't get as many pics at the game as I would have hoped. We had 2 kids that needed carried and they were giving out big bear mugs at the entrance, so our hands were pretty full!
Jaxson was so fun. He knows all the Jazz players names and numbers so he knew who it was when they would make a basket and he would cheer really loud for them. Alex just stared at the game with a big grin on his face and when everybody would cheer he would turn and look at me and smile. He started chanting "Defense" a couple times but then got embarrassed and covered his face. It was really cute.

Nelson was interested in the excitement for the first couple of minutes and then he got pretty restless and just wanted to eat food off the floor. I was able to get him to last until halftime and then me and him went back to the hotel.

Before the game their were a bunch of team mascots there for the Jazz Bears birthday and they were autographing posters. The kids thought they were so cool. You can't really tell, but Alex fell asleep looking at his poster and he is still holding it right above his face.

Jaxson wanted me to take this pic of him and Nelson. He was like"Mom, look how cute me and Nelson are together. Take our picture!"

After the game we went swimming at like 11pm. Jaxson and Alex LOVED it, but Nelson was a bit tired and cranky. It was so nice to just get away and have a fun family outing even for just one day. We really needed it.

I've been BUG tagged, List 10 things that BUG you!
10 ThInGs ThAt BuG Me!

1. Telemarketers. Especially rude ones!

2. Getting woke up twice everynight and then again at 5:30 in the morning.

(by my beautiful children of course!)

3. When I don't get all my grocery bags at walmart because the clerk doesn't spin the bag thing around to make sure you got them all!

4. When I mop the floor and it dries all streaky and with little footprints in it because the kids just cant resist walking on it.

5. Pushing shopping carts in the snow.

6. When I'm late to get somewhere and the cat runs inside and hides from me.

7. My camera taking crappy pictures all the sudden and i don't know why.

8. That the pizza delivery man can never find our house on the first try.

9. When someone is coming over so I make sure the house looks spotless and absolutely everything is picked up and then Jeremy comes home and takes his shoes off in the middle of the floor, hangs his coat over the kitchen chair, and throws the mail on the counter.( sorry Jer, I do still luv ya!)

10. That I can have my house spotless one day and the next it can look like it hasn't been cleaned for a month!

10 people I "bug" tag:

1. Raelyn B.

2. Brittney B.

3. Stacey B.

4. Abby C.

5. Shawna R.

6. Brooke K.

7. Cami E.

8. Heather S.

9. Kristina A.

10. Leslie B.

SiLLiNeSS

Jaxson and I were having a little bit too much fun taking pictures of ourselves the other day! I just love this kid!

Nelson found a fun new game. He throws all the books off the bookshelf and then climbs inside it! of couse Alex had to join in the fun!

The other morning Alex was being silly trying to make Nelson laugh. It was really cute!

I gave Nelson a haircut the other day and I think he looks pretty darn handsome! The pics are backwards so the before pic is at the bottom!

Isn't he just the cutest!

This is right out of the bathtub and he did not want his pic taken!

This is his wild hair before. I just let him sit in the bathroom sink while I cut it and he did great!

Christmas Eve
We had our annual Christmas Eve party at Todd and wendy's this year. It was way fun and the food was Delicious! Wendy did a great job with everything and she even had cute ornaments for the kids to paint. They loved it. Thanks Todd and Wendy!

All the babies with their grandpa Terry!

Annalyn, Nelson, Grady, Stetson, Ashlynn

Hannah, Joanna, Miley, Jaxson, Britton, Toby being silly

Miley and Alex - Alex did not want his picture taken!

Jaxson singing Jingle Bells for the program.

ARRG! Matey!

All 3 of my boys got really cool pirate ships from their grandpa Terry. They loved them!

Alex learned how to wink and it is so funny. He has to open his mouth really big to be able to close only one eye!

Grady and Nelson in their cute matching P.J's

CHRISTMAS DAY!

We had a slumber party in our bedroom on christmas eve. We kept the kids up late hoping that they would sleep in, but to no surprise Alex was up at 6 a.m. and ready to go! I was up until 2 a.m. helping santa clause so I was very grouchy! I tied to get Alex to go back to sleep but then Jeremy woke up and like a little kid was like "Lets go see if Santa came!"

The boys got this cool train table and they loved it, but Alex and Nelson both thought you were supposed to sit on top of it.

My boys in their cute christmas p.j.'s

Nelson in his adorable John Deere sweatshirt. He also got boots to match.