Christmas and Birthdays!

Chris gave me some beautiful roses for my birthday, which was a week before Christmas. What a sweetie! We also went snowboarding that day with our good friend Donovan. Of course, this is the best way I can think of to spend a birthday! Later, Chris and Saxon took me out to Macaroni Grill for dinner and the waiter sung "Happy Birthday" to me in Italian...nice.
Merry Merry! We ended up having a great Christmas this year! We were pretty stressed because we didn't have much money for presents, but we ended up getting a lot of help and Chris got a couple random extra jobs, so it turned out awesome. We are so grateful that we were able to get Saxon some great presents, and a new car seat! He is 1 year old now, so he needed a "big boy" seat, and he loves it so far!


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Happy Birthday to Saxon! This is a big one, his first birthday!! And it's just the day after Christmas.
We took him sledding for his first time and he loved it. He kept wanting to go again and again! Later we went to McDonalds and got his first Happy Meal, and he played in the playplace (with my help). It seems like he had a great day.

yay for snow!

I'm so excited that we finally have some snow, that's sticking to the ground and everything! Now it really feels like Christmastime. Saxon was born last year on the day after Christmas, and we are excited to celebrate his first birthday! I don't think he remembers "snow", and he was pretty excited about discovering it.

guess who.......saxon of course!

Well, not much exciting has happened lately..but I always have cute pictures of our baby! He's looking more and more like a toddler now though. His first birthday is this month!
Lately, he's pretty much mastered walking, can bend over and pick things up, dances to pretty much any music, and loves to talk his baby talk! We love our little guy.

Saxon loves to listen to our Ipod. He's often holds the earbuds to his ears, even if there's no music playing! Chris is helping him out by following him around with the Ipod :)
Saxon loves to be outside! We've caught a few more days at the park, even though it's getting cold, some days have been surprisingly warm!

AFGT (Annual Fake Gileadi Thanksgiving)

Every year, my family gets together and holds a "fake" thanksgiving, and celebrate early. This is great, cause that way we get two thanksgivings and can also celebrate later with our spouse's families. This year we unfortunately were missing Daniel and Chava, but we still had a lot of fun, and there were still plenty of us to go around! My family is so goofy and fun, it's always a blast when we get together!!





beat up on Avi time!







mmmmmm *slobber* amy's famous thanksgiving turkey was sooo good!

my pies weren't so bad neitha!

ground of play!

It is so fun to go to the playground with Saxon! Especially when Daddy comes! Saxon is getting so big! He even goes down the slide by himself :)

eating dirt and sniffing mist

Saxon loves to get into the dirt where our flowers used to be, before they died. Now he just digs in there, and occasionally tries a taste of the brown dirt! Yucky! But, an old man in the post office once told me that boys are just like plants, they need some dirt to grow... guess this works!

Saxon had a really stuffy nose so we broke out the humidifier. It was fun to watch him play with the mist. Having him that close, breathing it in, really helped.

8 things

So I've been "tagged" by Chelsea, which must be a very important thing here in the Blogger world. I think it's a fun way for us to interact with our blogs and get to know each other better, and I didn't do it the last time I got tagged (sorry Mandy), so here I go!.......

8 T.V. Shows I Watch... (we don't have TV at the moment but here are some I enjoy, an/or that I rent from Netflix.)
1. Arrested Development!
2. The Office
3. The Simpsons **can you tell I like comedy??
4. 24 (this one is way not a comedy, but we are obsessed with it right now. we started watching from season 1 not too long ago, and are on season 3 now. we usually stay up way too late watching "Just ONE More!!"
5. The Food Network: Rachel Ray and the likes. Gives me inspiration.
6. HGTV! Also gives me inspiration. I love to watch the shows where the room/house gets transformed.
7. THE news (in the voice of "THE bears")
8. Ummm, Dancing With The Stars

8 Things That Happened Yesterday... well yesterday was Sunday, but I'll try to make it interesting!
1. Watched Saxon walk! He's getting pretty good at going across the room to me.
2. Went over to Grandma's (Chris' mom's)
3. Went to a park up Provo Canyon
4. Jumped from rock to rock and cleared a huge distance, and surprised myself!
5. Played a silly game of "first one to ____ wins!" with Chris near the river
6. Cuddled lazily in bed with Chris while Saxon slept
7. Took Don's truck that we used for the bridal fair Saturday, back to his house
8. Watched 24

8 Favorite Places to Eat...
1. La Vigna
2. Anywhere SUSHI...happy sumo, damae, osaka, etc.
3. Ottavios
4. Bankok Grill
5. Ernie's Deli, what what!
6. RiKelle's house
7. P.F. Changs
8. Carrabas

8 Things On My Wish List:
1. Owning our own home
2. A huge, stylish wardrobe (including shoes!)
3. Confidence/Intelligence/Wittiness
4. Have a passive income so we can use our time how we choose
5. Travel to distant lands and exciting places
6. Have a wonderful, stress-free life with Chris and kids
7. Create value for hundreds of people
8. Porsche Cayenne

8 Things I'm Looking Forward To:
1. Yoga class... I'll get there one of these times!
2. Chris coming home from work
3. My Tuesday walk with Katie
4. Our annual trip to St. George in the fall (we need to go soon!)
5. The holidays!

6. Watching Saxon grow up

7. Snowboarding season
8. Comments on my blog! ;)

I now tag...
1. Mandy
2. Katie
3. Chris
4. Bridget Smith
5. Lori Frost
6. Tara Leavitt
7. Mom
8. Raquelle McManus

elko

Ok so this was a few weeks ago and I should have put it up before my last post, but better late than never! We went to the small town of Elko, Nevada with our good friends Donovan and Crystal Washburn, and Zach and Izzie Gerber. Zach is actually from there, so we paid a visit to his good 'ol home town. First we stayed the night at his parents awesome house, then caught some food at this burrito joint...fffrrrt. Who was that?
Then we made our way up to Zach's cabin, which was awesome. We got to ride this horse bareback, ride 4-wheelers, and the boys shot guns.

Crystal was a real help with the horses-that's what she does, and she's dang good at it.
This picture is of Izzie, showin' Saxon the ropes. He was a little scared and unsure, but I think he liked it! YEEhaw
Saxon sure wasn't scared of this horsie! Luckily there were little kid toys at the cabin so Saxon had a ball!

It was fun to have a small vacation together. It's amazing how a road trip can give us the time to have long, interesting conversations in the car that we probably wouldn't have had the chance to have. I'm glad we have good friends to take trips with too! If anyone else wants to go somewhere, let me know! I'm ready for another one.

autumn, our favorite time of year.

Both Chris and I love fall time. We went up to the mountains and I gathered this boquet of fall foliage. I love this colors of this time of year!

It feels so good to be up in the mountains...then add all the beautiful colors and scenery, a light breeze and it's blissful!

Saxon loves being outside, and we're so glad cause so do we!

This 'lil pumpkin is was a happy surprise--The plant grew practically spontaneously in the front of our duplex, in between the two flower beds. But the thing is, there's hardly any dirt down there and it looks like it's impossible for anything to grow there. But it popped out without any of us planting it or anything! Now we love our little surprise pumpkin plant.

Our lil punkin by the pumpkinHaha I love this goofy picture! Saxon is so good at making faces.

This swing is actually in our neighbor's backyard, across the fence. But Saxon always wants to swing it it, so I of course let him! He loves it.

Saxon also loves to swing in the hammock. It's so funny to hear him laugh hysterically when I swing him in it really high!

Bathtime Bedtime.
Oh, how he loves bathtime. In fact, he'll often crawl over to the bathtub and pull up on the edge to look inside. He's getting really good at cruising around on the furniture, his toys, cupboards, beds, or whatever. He's even been taking his first steps, walking between Chris and I.
So exciting!