Trip to Utah and Snowbird!

Nixon's first vacation down to Utah!

Since Jon was in Louisiana for a week I decided to go down to Utah with my mom. My mom had been up to visit me and I just bought a ticket on the same flight as her and went down to Utah. I was a bit nervous to fly with Nixon but I fed him on the way up in the air and he was SO good!!
First meeting of Nixon and Mac! Casey had Mac on July 8th so they are just a few weeks apart!

Cousins!

Lilly loved sitting by Nixon in the car and sang him songs so he wouldn't cry, it was adorable!

Gramsy was very excited to meet her new great grandson!

Chloe taking her doll on a trip!

Jon came up from Lousiana and met me in Salt Lake. We stayed at Gramsy's and Nixon got a bath in Gramsy's sink!

Jon and I left Nixon over night and stayed at the Anniversary Inn in the Enchanted Forest room... it was fun but SO hard to leave Nixon over night... but we all lived!

Uncle Mark was SO excited to meet Nixon, he LOVES babies!

My cousin AJ and his wife Adrienne!

Alec, Lisa and Emily! The green family was excited to meet Nixon!

TOUCH DOWN!

Nixon and Mac!

My mom has a condo up in Snowbird every September. They do a big celebration every weekend up there and it's lots of fun.
So here we are at OKTOBERFEST!

It is so pretty this time of year up there!

Nana and Casey

Hailey was a big helper with Nixon. She was very interested in changing his diaper!!

Lilly loved holding Nixon, she held him for about 20 minutes and he was so happy. Lilly was so proud!

Bella is taking after Nana and loves to do hair!

Bella holding her cousin. There was lots and lots of loves from cousins in Utah!!

Nana was so excited to have her two boys together!

Of course there was lots of naps in Snowbird too! I wonder where Nixon gets sleeping with his arm above his head??????

I thought this was so cute! Daddy and son hands!

Our family in Snowbird! I had just gotten my hair cut by Nana so yes, it is wet:)

September Fun!

Sleeping Nixon

Nixon loves to play in his bouncy chair but he also loves to sleep in it too. What an adorable boy I have.!
This is Grandma Spear and Jasmine meeting Nixon!

Jasmine was kinda nervous about holding Nixon so she had her dad help her.

Nixon just chillin'

My mom came up for the weekend the first of September while Jon was in Louisana working! It was so nice to have her here so I wasn't alone and she got some more bonding time with Nixon too!
While my mom was here I was able to go to church and she stayed home and tended Nixon. It was nice but church was way too long without him!

I thought this was a funny picture because this is what the dogs do all day, follow me and Nixon around the house. They are very protective! I can always find them hanging with Nixon though if they aren't with me.

More bath time!

Nana feeding Nixon after we went to Knitting group on the south hill. He just couldn't wait until we got home!!

Spear Family Fun

Well the Spear Family came to town and there was lots of activities.
I feel however that the most important activity was eating... whenever one meal was over the other one was being planned and prepared. I swear I gained 10 pounds in the last week. Although I can't complain because lets face it, eating is my favorite.
This is a picture of Nixon in the bouncy seat... which he LOVES and therefore I LOVE! I can put it in the kitchen or laundry room or where ever and he can sit and watch me and is happy as can be, then he usually falls asleep. It's lovely!Nixon is so cute, he sometimes has a hint of a smile on his face!

He gets this worried look, and his forehead gets all wrinkled, I LOVE it. I tried to capture it here.

Daddy and Nixon chillin' while mom relaxes!

I can't get enough of this boy!

OK, ok onto the Spear activities, although I could post pictures of Nixon all day long. I have already taken about 300 pictures of him....
I couldn't participate in ALL the Spear activities so I don't have any of the Lake trip or the bike ride trip but I will post some later of Jon on these adventures after I steal them from Jon's siblings!
SO, on Saturday we had a family Olympics in the backyard. We even made metals... which are my favorite!

Jon's aunt and uncle came up to visit from Price too this weekend, so they were the spectators at the Olympics! This is Jim and Marsha!

Thus this is how our Olympics went!!

We had the shot put and discus...

We had all the kids represent countries and made them signs, how cute!! This is Katie(Canada) and Kathleen(Australia)!

Jon marked off the spots for the shoot put and discus.

Then there was a water balloon toss. Which everyone participate!

Although this picture doesn't show it, Karen really caught the water balloon that Mark threw. But it broke so they lost!!

Then we did a long jump contest!

Then we had tug-a-war!

Pull, Pull......

Alas, they could pull no more and they lost!

I don't know what to call this game, but the older boys sure had fun. It was almost as if they were practicing for gladiators.

The metal ceremony.... they all got gold!

Nixon is too big for most of his clothes. We decided collars are not the way to go right now when they go up to his ears! Poor kid. Although his knitted booties fit great and they are super cute!

Uncle Josh holding Nixon

Saturday night we played Rock Band as a family too.

It's super fun, everyone is better than me but heck I just am glad when I don't get "booed" off stage!

After lots of family fun there is a need for nap time! Well at least Jon is getting a nap!!

My sister Katie and my niece Bella came up to visit this weekend also. Bella was very excited to meet her new cousin and she was a great babysitter!

After having three girls of her own, Katie learned how to change a baby boys diaper. She did good, she didn't even get peed on!

Our friends came up from college to visit their families and to meet Nixon also. This is Hillary.

And Cameron Lovinger.

Sunday dinner was crazy, we had 22 people ALL family of course!! Jon thought it looked crazy when I was filling the glasses!

Then we had more Spear Family Fun by taking family pictures up at Manito Park.

First family shots!!

Katie helped us take some pictures.

Nixon was done taking pictures, it got a little cold so we bundled him up and put him in the stroller. He was much happier!

After pictures we went and played woofal ball in the backyard.

Everyone always wants Jon on their team!! Although he always loses at least one ball over the fence.

Baby Will!!

Monday night we had family night together and had a little show in the backyard. This is 'Jenks' a guy that is in our stake and puts on a fun show with lots of songs for kids. Very entertaining, he did a great job!

The kids had fun dancing!

And of course there was juggling with fire!!

All in all we had an eventful weekend with lots of Spear Family Fun. We had so much being all together and meeting Will for the first time and lots of meeting Nixon too. Thanks Spear family for such a fun time!!