Christmas Break

Weston, Jackson, and I have been in Vegas since the 19th and it has been heavenly! I love being around family, eating good food, doing fun things, and having help with the baby. Weston and I ordered this before we left and had it shipped to my parents' house...
Weston LOVES it and I'm pretty sure he is more gentle with the camera than he is with the baby :) It takes great pictures and we are both really excited to learn more about photography!


We had a great Christmas with my family. We went bowling, explored City Center down on the strip, had a great Christmas Eve dinner, and a fun Christmas day.

Jackson got spoiled of course!

All of the Christmas excitement wore him out.

The day after Christmas we drove up to Springville to see Weston's family and bless Jackson. I was so scared that he was going to scream through the whole thing, but he was a little angel and just slept.



Tomorrow is our last day here and we are very sad to have to leave :(
Thanks mom and dad and Weston's parents for a great Christmas!!

2 Month Check Up

Jackson had his 2 month doctor appointment yesterday. He is 23.5 inches tall, 11 pounds 1 ounce, and his head is 15 inches around. He is a little above average for height, 50 percentile for weight and his head is a little under average. He also had to get two shots :( The first one wasn't so bad and he didn't cry a ton, but the second one must have hurt because he screamed like crazy! Poor little dude. He was a trooper though and calmed down pretty quickly. Now he's back to his smiley self!

Here are more pictures and some family pictures that our good friend Katie took. They turned out great! Thanks Katie!

Jackson's First Photo Shoot

more to come

I love this baby!

2 months!

Jackson is 2 months old today! I can't believe how fast he is growing up!

please disregard the unmade bed...it was a long day

Jackson at 2 months:
- smiles and laughs a lot! (as long as he is fed, burped, and changed)
- LOVES looking at mobiles and lights
- goes to sleep like a little champ! I don't have to rock him to sleep at all. I just put him in his crib pretty much wide awake and turn on his fishy light toy. The other night the toy turned off before he was asleep and he just talked to himself until he fell asleep. So cute!
- has an official bedtime at 8:00, he sleeps for 6 hours then goes back down for 3. It's great!
- HATES tummy time and getting burped (I don't know why he hates getting burped so much)
- is still mama's little cuddle bug. After the trauma of tummy time, he clings to me like a little koala...I love it!
- the head control could use a little work. His head isn't even that big, what the heck?
- Weston swears he is just moments away from saying "hello." I think Weston is crazy.
- gets lonely in the back seat of the car and starts crying if he isn't asleep

Weston and I get a kick out of making him laugh, talk, and smile. He is so much fun! We can't wait to go show him off to everyone at Christmas :)

In other news, Weston is smack in the middle of finals. It pretty much sucks. We can't really get too excited for Christmas until that school nonsense is over. I am so proud of him, though, for finishing his first semester of school! Only seven more to go...

Recent Happenings

I would have posted about Thanksgiving and such earlier, but our cord that connects the camera to the computer (nice alliteration) went missing for a bit. Not to worry, it was found and I can now upload pictures.
Anyway, we spent a wonderful, fun-filled Thanksgiving with some friends from the ward. The Ellsworths made a fantastic turkey, and it was nice to have people to spend the holiday with since we were away from family. Sadly, I don't have any pictures from that day. I know, lame.
Last weekend, while talking to my friends Kim and Amelia, they mentioned that they were going to go get Christmas trees. I told them that Weston didn't want to get one this year since Jackson is too small to appreciate it, and we aren't going to be here for Christmas. Apparently they thought this was unacceptable because later that night I was scared to death by a loud knock on the door. When Weston opened it (after I almost convinced him not to because I thought it was someone waiting to kill us) we found this note:
Our wonderful friends bought me a Christmas tree!! I put it up this week and I love it!


On Black Friday, Weston and I decided to head on down to Hobby Lobby to see what kind of deals they were having. Much to our delight we found that most things in the store were 50% off! woo hoo! We have been wanting to put some wall decor in our living room, but didn't want to spend the money to do it, so this was the perfect time to do it. We found some great stuff. I also have been wanting to finally finish Jackson's nursery since my craftiness comes and goes and I haven't made it very cute yet. I got some letters to spell his name and some scrap book paper and this was the result:

The room isn't quite done, but it's definitely close!
And now for some super cute pictures of our super cute baby!

Jackson's New Favorite Pastime

Jackson loves playing on his toy mat. He has recently begun to smile and giggle which brightens my day. His favorite time of day is in the morning when we all first wake up. He is such a joy!

Best Thing I Have Ever Bought

I've only read half and it has already changed my life!! Jackson has recently decided to become a little more fussy (I think he is having a reflux or cow's milk allergy problem) and it has been exhausting! He would only sleep about 1.5 to 2 hours at a time and he would want to be held 24/7 so I couldn't get anything done (or shower...sick). So, I heard about this book and I decided, what the heck, it couldn't hurt right? Best $11 I have ever spent! I can stop him from crying in just minutes AND last night I had to wake him up for a feeding! Seriously, this little gem was sent straight from heaven. I highly recommend it to anyone with a new baby.