Friday, February 18, 2011

Having fun with Cousins!



Josh had to go home soon after Thanksgiving but Jessy and Will were able to stay a little longer and we had some fun cousin time together. Will and Garret came over and played with Nixon, which went ok at first...until Nixon hit Will with a toy and gave him a bloody nose. Sorry Will, one day these boys will be best friends.
My trouble maker.

Garret, the one boy Nixon can NOT get along with... it is amazing how much they dislike each other right now. It is so strange.

Will loved playing with the dogs, Nixon found this to be his time to be extra protective of his dogs and held on tight to Gauge.

Cute Sadie!

Jon took this picture of me one morning while I was holding Sadie and returning emails...how motherly of me...lol

Nixon and Jon dancing in the kitchen. They are adorable. I love how Nixon follows Jon in all his moves!

My crazy boys!

They really do love each other, they are two big kids all the time!

My cute kids! Nixon wants to hold Sadie all the time and every time you place her in his arms he says "take a picture." Thus I get these random pictures of Nixon and Sadie.
Then of course he only lasts a few seconds after I put the camera down and he wants to let go of Sadie and take pic's of just him.


He loves the camera.


Nixon also loves the crib with Sadie. He is an adorable big brother.


Sadie's cute foot prints from the hospital hang in her room.

My sister and I did her hand print...made me respect those ladies at the hospital...how do they keep these babies so still for the good prints????

Me and my girl.

Mama with her two cute kids.

Nixon being silly.

The dogs like to lay on Nixon's bed when we are in there playing together. They find it nice and warm. Nixon thinks it's an invitation to "slam" them on his bed. Poor dogs!

Nixon and Gauge have a very special relationship. Pretty much Nixon runs the show and poor Gauge will take whatever he does to him.

Nixon and Gauge.

Gauge looks at us with those "what are you doing to me" look.

I laid down on Nixon's floor one night and the dogs of course think it's a time to snuggle, Nixon thought it looked like a good idea.


Silly, Silly moments at the Spear house!

Back over at Grammy's Jessy plays with the boys and makes them go on a bumpy ride.

They loved it.

Then the horse rides began.

Jessy and Will.


They took turns running down the hall too, they boys have unlimited energy.

Here they come, the stampede.


Later Nixon and Will watch a movie in Grammy's room, we were trying to settle them down, crazy monkey's.

Bad pic of Sadie, but still cute.

Friday, January 14, 2011

Cam's wedding and More Utah Visitors

So I have been waiting for these pic's of Cam's wedding which are on Jon's laptop, which is having technical difficulty right now. So I am going to just move on and post...cause I am so far behind anyway and I will post Cam's wedding and more of my sister and her girls visiting when Jon's laptop gets fixed and I can get the pic's.
So for now...moving on.

Sunday, January 09, 2011

Thanksgiving and Sadie's Blessing!


For Thanksgiving we had all the family in town so we decided it would be a good time to bless Sadie as well. That meant MORE family:) My sister and her three girls came and also my dad and step mom. It was so fun to have them stay with us and be there for Sadie's special day. My sister was excited to meet little Sadie Sue.
Each girl took a turn holding Sadie and meeting her for the first time.
Sadie and Lilly

Nixon was super excited to see Bella who he loves but he was MOST excited because they brought their dog, Coca... Nixon was in heaven.

Sadie and Hailey

Izabelle and Sadie

Katie cleaned out her toys before she came and brought Nixon some fun new toys. He got his very own computer...now he can stop pretending to play with mine:)

Katie gave Sadie a bath.

Sadie is liking them more and more...thank goodness I always hate when they cry in the bath.

Thanksgiving dinner was at Mark and Karen's with all of us. Ryan and Jon carved the turkey's.

Granny made gravy and potatoes and rolls...she was amazing.

Katie and Izabelle

The kids table.

The adult table

It was kinda fun to have a lot of people there, makes it a great Thanksgiving.

Jon and Sadie on her special day



Our cute little family.

All the men who were in the circle.
Josh, Kirt, Dad, Mark, Cameron, Jon, Jeff, Ryan and Jim.

Us with Dad and Linda

Us with Mark and Karen

Granny made Sadie's blessing blanket, she is so sweet and talented.

Jim and Marsha came up from Elmo, Utah.

Us with Katie and the girls.

The Utah travelers.

Just the siblings.

Us with Jeff, Natalie and Daxton.
It was an emotional day for me and I totally have crying eyes in most of these pictures...what a mess I was. After the blessing I took a picture of Jon and Jeff and I just lost it. Looking through the view finder I was reminded that when we blessed Nixon Jon's best friend Trevor was there, it hit me that he wasn't here for Sadie's blessings and the friend circle was disrupted. We miss him so much and I know it is hard for the all of us, but some days it is harder than others.

Grandma Linda with Sadie

When we got home I took some pictures of Sadie in her blessing outfit with her blessing blanket. Sadie is wearing the blessing dress that I wore when I got blessed, it was so fun to have my daughter in the same dress.



I got some smiles even.

This is my favorite, I actually got a little smile from her.

All the kids and Katie in Sadie's room, she is so cute how can you not want to hang out with her:)

Nana has a tradition to give all the grand kids Christmas pajamas on Thanksgiving and so we took a picture of the kiddo's in there fun new pj's.

Lilly and Sadie Sue

Nixon and Bella

Sadie and Katie.