OUR FUN WEEKEND

Friday morning I woke up around 7:30 in the morning. I walked outside to see these hot air balloons! It was cool. Not that I haven't seen them before but it was fun. Stevie and I decided to go down and see where they were taking off and landing. We were able to see them land and take off! It was a good way to start the day.

This one was right above us! They are a lot bigger than what I had thought.

This weekend we were able to go and have a family reunion. I have not seen my cousins for quite awhile now so it was fun to get together and hang out! We had fun riding 4-wheelers, going wake boarding, tubing, and having a carnival!

We took Daxen out on the tub. He liked it at first and then by the end of it he was ready to get off. Halee came with me first because Stevie was taking pictures but then half way through wanted to get on. I have to tell you, I was laughing pretty good at Stevie because he weighs more than Daxen and I combined so he was weighing down the one side of the tube. So it was kind of folding in half he continued to yell "BABE THE TUB IS DEFLATING"...when in all reality we were just fine he was just heavier than us!

Stevie and I on the tube

Stevie and Halee

Steve wake boarding. He did such a good job!

Until...well he looks like he is doing a trick when in reality he ended up doing a complete belly flop.

Daxen and I on the boat.

Sleeping. He stayed on the boat for about 3 to 4 hours and did PERFECT. Took two naps while we were out there. Played in the water. Didn't even cry once! He is such a wonderful baby.

Stevie and I

Daxen at the front of the boat with Dad.

Right after he woke up from one of his naps.

Me wake surfing. This is my favorite thing to do. I did get up but not for very long. For some reason it just was not working out for me that day. Hopefully I will be able to go and do it again.

Daxen driving with Dad. We just sat in the boat on the way back from the lake. He loves his steering wheels.

Aunt Halee and Daxen

After we ate lunch. We go ready to have a little carnival for all of the kids. It turned out great and they had a blast. At every game they got tickets which could be turned in for Prizes.

Daxen winning the limbo contest!

Picking out ducks.

Playing ski ball...(he just cheated a little bit)

Not sure what the name of this game is. But he dropped the rings into the holes.

Ring the alligator!

Tossing the rings!

Daxen splashing Dad with sponges.

I love this picture. He was trying so hard to fit all the way through or maybe just showing that his muscles are just as big as the guys on there.

This is how Daxen falls asleep in his car seat. He was so tired on the way home. It took him about 5 minutes to fall asleep.

Daxen's Birthday Party

This weekend we celebrated Daxen's birthday at my Mom and Dad's house. Once again didn't really know what was going on but liked ripping the paper off of his presents. He didn't do as much damage as I wanted him to on his cake but he did a pretty good job! Thank you to everyone who came and celebrated with us! He has so many people who love and care about him!

Opening presents

His beautiful cake that Aunt Halee and I decorated.

Not sure what to think

Cut a piece out and then he took the knife from me and that is how he destroyed his cake.

Not the safest object but it worked!

HE WAS TOTALLY DONE BY THIS POINT!

THE FINISHED MESS!(with a little help from MOM)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAXEN

Today for Daxen's birthday we took him to chuck-e-cheese! Amy, Jason, Dawson, Carter and Sean came with us! It was a lot of fun! Daxen was pretty chill and didn't really care that we were there...but us grown ups probably had the most fun! The boys were in competition of ski ball...Jason came out on top! It was fun and we had a blast! Thanks again for coming everyone!

Daxen was just not sure what to think of him...they had a time where the threw tickets out to everyone who was there and Daxen did nothing but stare. He might have noticed that mysteriously Chuckie shrunk about 4 inches from the first time we saw him!

Didn't seem to impressed by this little ride. It took him in a circle and well he almost fell asleep.

He loved driving the cars. That was his favorite part!

LOVE THIS! and yes folks it only took us one try!

All of Daxen's prizes from the tickets that we got!

Later that evening we went with Hongtao to go on a hike. We were going to head up to one that I thought would be cool but of course it was on some kind of private property! Well needless to say we headed back down the mountain (But why would it saw on the Internet that you could hike when you need a code to get in? LAME) But we had fun. We went to bridal veil falls just right off of the road up Provo canyon. It was fun to hang out there for awhile.

Crossing the stream...with the streams:) oh yeah...always have wanted to do that with our name!

We went back to the car were Stevie ate Dumplings that Hongtao made for us! BEST COOK EVER! He is so much fun!

Again favorite thing to do! DRIVE CARS

Stevie was teaching Daxen to bang his head on the window....well sure enough, Daxen followed just like a good little boy and banged his head pretty hard on the window which made him tear up a little bit!

I cannot believe that Daxen is already one. It has gone by way to fast. I still remember that days saying that he will never grow up and be able to do those things. But he did and it came faster then I ever thought. Some things about Daxen and 12 months:

1. He can crawl...its an interesting crawl but it gets him to where he needs to go.

2. He is walking...he is just a chicken and won't let go of things unless he knows someone is right there to catch him.

3. When I clean and do laundry I crank up the music and we dance. He loves to shake his booty.

4. Loves his blankets. Whenever we pick him up from the crib he is either holding it or when you grab him and he doesn't have it he points to it until you pick it up for him.

5. LOVES HIS DADDY!

6. Loves food. Except vegetables...still working on that one! He actually took beans the other day and ate about 10 of them until he realized what he was eating!!:)

7. Does the hulk impression.

8. Loves to get things out of the cupboard and push them around on the floor like he is driving a car.

9. Loves Steering Wheels!

10. Never shows much emotion on his face. You are pretty lucky if you get a smile out of him in a public place.

11. No longer has a bottle! He did very well with just going to whole milk.

12. Loves to cuddle right after he wakes up from his naps.

13. Loves animals...when he sees them he gets so excited he does the hulk impression.

14. Loves to brush his hair when I am doing mine in the morning time.

15. Loves to pull the toilet paper off of the roll...which now sits on our bathroom sink!!

16. Likes to play the piano..and sing!

17. Is starting to like reading books more and more!

18. Is the chillest kid ever!

We love Daxen so much and are so grateful that he is in our lives! We are so blessed to have our first child be so chill and lax. He is exactly what we needed so that we could learn to be good parents. HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAXEN!! WE LOVE YOU!

DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY IDEAS

I am having problems finding things to feed Daxen. I would really like a to set a menu every week but I just run out of ideas what to give him. If anyone has anything that they have done in the past or have any ideas on meals please let me know! Thank you!

SO MANY THINGS

A couple of week ago Kylee and Michael were so generous and watched Daxen for Stevie and I. Stevie went to his softball games and I went shopping with my mom and sister to get some more wedding things:) I was so thankful that they did that for us. They even bought their dog ZOE..(spelling) She is so cute and Daxen loves her.



Monday we went to the parade of shoes for Miss Utah. It was fun and there were some creative shoes. Daxen loves water so of course we were by the water playing in it:)




Today we went to Moab for my sisters bridal pictures. It was good weather and everything turned out wonderful! She was beautiful and usual. THANKS DAD AND KYLEE FOR WATCHING DAXEN!! Ryan and I had our climbing moments and it was a lot of fun!

Not sure what I was doing here, FLEXING maybe:) There are not any pictures of Halee because Schyler hasn't seen her dress yet, but believe me she looked beautiful:)

When we came home Aunt Halee was making cakes and well Daxen wanted to eat some of it:) He just got a little messy!

A LITTLE BIT HERE AND A LITTLE BIT THERE

We have been up to quite a bit lately! First we went to my brothers graduation that was held at the BDAC in Price. It was fun to go and watch him. Thanks again Allie for watching him for us..it would have been a rough round if he would have been there.

Aunt Halee throwing Daxen in the air!

This happened the night after Ryan's graduation. Stevie in the black hoodie and Jason in the blue. They planned on scaring Ryan and his group of friends that they had down stairs. All doomed to fail when they hid in a car and we were suppose to text them when the "group" was on their way out. Well so much for phone service delivering text at that moment. They did not receive the text until after they had got in the car and pulled away. After much debate we hopped into the car to try and scare them at my grandma's house where they were staying. DOOM TO FAIL AGAIN....while we dropped them off in back Ryan just got in his car to go back home. We were thinking of ways to scare Ryan and called him up to ask him to stop and get a Root Beer from the gas station for Halee...(FYI...it was past midnight by this time....who in their right mind would want a ROOT BEER, but he fell for it)...OUR PERSISTENCE WAS NOT IN VAIN! Scaring Ryan was the best...He took off as soon as he saw both of the scary masked men running towards him. (You know when you see someone running with all of their might, their head is down and arms are pumping as fast as they can) That was Ryan...I tried to get it on camera but night vision was no where to be found! But it was worth it.

I was also able to help with the proposal to my sister from Schyler. They will be getting married July 10, 2009 in the Manti Temple! I am so excited for her and love helping her with everything! We had a BLAST picking out a wedding dress...(laughing in the dressing room while others chuckled outside that could hear us)....pretty great experience if you ask me! I love spending time with her..I LOVE HER TO DEATH!

Last but not least. Daxen is starting to walk. He hasn't got it down quite yet but we practice with him all of the time. (Sorry it is sideways)

NEW E-MAIL ADDRESS

If anyone wanted to know I finally got a new email address! It is mlstream22@hotmail.com!