Nixon's Sun Glasses!!

Nixon is starting to like wearing sunglasses like his papa. It is so cute!! I got some great shots the other day when we were playing ball outside!!
When we go outside to play with the ball Nixon likes to make a basket and then he will just sit down on the ground and want to play pass instead. It is funny!

Two Points!

"One, Two.. Go" is what Nixon will say... who needs number three?

Whatever Papa does Nixon has to do too. The salt and pepper shakers where hats at dinner one night.

Slicked back hair in the tub.... sexy!!!

All the boys on ONE chair.

This is at the dog park one weekend. He wore his sunglasses for at least 30 minutes. He walked around trying to hug all the dogs. It was adorable!! Although we took a nice bath after the dog park:)

18 Month Pic's and Stats

Nixon is getting so big and time is going by so fast. I had my friend Konni take a few shots of Nixon now that he is 18 months old and I will remember the photo shoot as being "no happy face". I worked on "Happy" with Nixon all morning and got him all excited to go on a ride and then we got there and it was NO SMILES!! He wanted to play with Monty's toys and cars instead. So here are a few shots, that turned out THOUGHTFUL as I like
to see them. He is such a cutie with that mop of hair.

We tried a few inside.

He wanted to smile on the tricycle... but he just wouldn't.

He LOVED the tricycle though and made sounds as he pushed it off the back drop.

He would do "Surprised!" but not "Happy"

Then we went outside. I like this picture a lot!!

Playing with his cars.

Smile you turkey toes!!

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A little smile here! It just wasn't going to happen!! What a cutie pie!

Nixon's 18 month Stats:
Weight: (after being sick) 29.9 pounds
Head Circumference: 21 Inches
Length: 35.5 Inches

All in the 95th percentile!!

Post Overload!

WARNING!!
This is a post overload. We have been very busy this February... but I haven't posted in forever. Nixon got sick a week and a half ago and then gave it to me which threw us for a loop. Luckily we are all on the mend and better... so now I have time to blog!
Enjoy!!

Jessy and Will Come to Town to Play!

Jessy and Will came into town a couple of weeks ago. We got all the cousins together a few times and watched as the boys pushed and stole toys from each other and then hugged and gave kisses. It was quite the adventure.
While they were here we took them to Jump and Bounce.... I know again with the Jump and Bounce pictures. BUT it was fun and Nixon was able to enjoy it more this time, I think.
Here is Will going down the slide!

Nixon could climb up the slide "steps" by himself but once he was up there he wasn't so sure. Garret tried to "help" him down but Nixon was not going to go down alone.

So I went up there and pushed him down... probably my first mistake. I should have gone down with him FIRST then tried to see if he would go down alone. This is a classic picture I think.

After that it was "ma" take me to the top and "ma" take me through the course. So here I am joining in on the fun!

See now there is the smile I was looking for. He did LOVE the slides!

There is a little 'toddler' area and Nixon LOVED this little slide because he could do it all by himself. Up and Down he went probably 30 times.

Helping Nixon up the little slides, not as exciting as the big slides of course.

Wee.................

Jumping and Bouncing!!

Dive under!!

Riding on the cars... red faced and all!

Just the boys! Will, Garret and Nixon!!

Riding the dog too!!

Jon, Nixon, Jessy and Will ALL going down the slide together, What Fun!!

Nixon had SUCH a red face afterward, it was adorable!!

You would think Nixon would have taken SUCH a good nap after this but OH NO he wouldn't sleep at Grammie's so we got in the car and took a little drive to fall asleep. Nixon pulled his hat over his eyes and slept for a little bit so as not to be TOO grouchy later.


We all went up to Grandma Spear's after naps and had MORE cousin time. Will got to meet Imani, who is 7 months old.

Jessy, Will and Imani.

The cousins!!!
Garret, Nixon, Katie, Will, Imani and Jasmine!

Oh the joys of trying to take a group shot of small children!

Valentine's Dinner

Well you know how much I LOVE holidays!!
AND
I LOVE to bake for holidays.
So we had a Valentine's dinner at my house with all of Jon's family.
Here is the menu.....

Heart Shaped Meat Loaf

I had to mold the pans by myself, which was a little weird but I thought it turned out pretty good!

Heart Shaped Jello jigglers!

Red "Mormon" jello as I like to call it.

You can't really tell but the rolls are homemade and they are pink! They were the best part and this time I made them good, practice does make perfect!

Tanner's birthday is on Valentine's Day so we of course had cake and ice cream too!!
Tanner turned 10!!!