BABY ON THE WAY!!!

Paul and I are happy to announce that we are expecting our second child! I am due Oct. 20th. We are extremely excited about the upcoming arrival. We would like a girl this time around, but we will be happy with what ever our Heavenly Father blesses us with. I'm really excited for Maddox to have a sibling. So far I have been feeling extremely tired lately and sleeping whenever I can. I also am nauseated a lot, but don't throw up- it stinks!!

Baby Shower

On Feb. 7th Maddox and I took a nice trip up to Challis, Idaho to attend a friend's Baby Shower. Kristal is having a boy and is due March 27th. It was great to be able to travel up there to see her and her family. The baby shower was tons of fun and there were a lot of people. I'm so excited for her and Mike! They will make great parents!

HAPPY "1st" BIRTHDAY

Maddox turned the big "1yr old" on Feb. 3rd. For Maddox's first Birthday he got to celebrate it twice!! On Jan. 31st, we celebrated Maddox's birthday early with Paul's family down in Utah! It was so much fun and Paul's sisters did so much, thank you. Jenn decorated her home, made Maddox a cake just for him, and made dinner for everyone! Dc special ordered a cake just for his birthday! Once again thank you so much.

On Feb. 3rd we got to celebrate Maddox's Birthday again. We invited family over and had dinner and cake. Maddox received balloons from Paul's parents and just went crazy with them. I had big plans of making a great cake, but when we heard that if it is your child's 1st Birthday, Albertsons will make them one for free. Well we couldn't pass it up (and it was a very nice cake). So we got that cake just for Maddox to tear up and then got another from Costco for everyone else. It was a great evening and lots of fun. We made sure to get a lot of photos.

Maddox received tons of great gifts, but I think he had more fun with the tissue paper and boxes.

First Steps

Just wanted to share some video of Maddox when he started walking two months ago. Hope you enjoy.

Jaxx's First Birthday!

The 27th of December was Jaxx's first Birthday!! Since it was only a few days after Christmas, we celebrated it with the whole family there and some of Enoch's friends. We ate a nice dinner and Rachael and Lyndsay finished icing the cupcakes. We then put Jaxx in a high chair and sang him Happy Birthday and gave him his very own cupcake. Jaxx has a big sweet tooth. At first he didn't know what to do with the cupcake, but as soon as his parents showed him that he could eat it, he tore into it and made quite a mess. It was so cute. After the clean up we went into the front room and watched Jaxx open up his presents. He got some more toys and clothes. He was more interested in the tissue paper, than the contents that were underneath them. Man is he cute. I can tell you right now when Jaxx and Maddox are together it is pure mischief.
Later that evening Maddox and Jaxx took a bath. They had a ball playing together in the tub. I included pictures. It is soooooo cute!

**Christmas**

Christmas was great!! We had the opportunity to spend it with my family this year. Rachael, Maddox, and I drove up on Monday. Paul, unfortunately, had to work and met us up there on Christmas Eve. It was nice and relaxing. Christmas day we woke up and we all went straight to the front room to open presents. (I've noticed since all of us are older now, my dad is the one waking us up instead of us children waking my parents up.) After the opening of the presents we ate breakfast and got ready for the day. After getting ready Rachael and I helped my mom finish Christmas dinner. Later that evening we all sat down to eat the beautiful meal. Man was it good!!! A little while after we ate we all loaded up in the vehicles to go to the movie theater for our traditional Christmas Day movie. This year we saw 4 Christmases. We originally wanted to see Bedtime Stories, but it was sold out. I didn't like the movie, but was happy with the time we got to spend together. It was nice to have the whole family there for Christmas.