Sunday, January 3, 2010
Santa's Cookies
Here is the fam making sugar and gingerbread cookies for Santa on Christmas Eve. Jax wanted to make them weeks before. He was so excited to look on the plate we made for Santa and see that he had eaten most of them. Santa also left him a note telling him how good they were.
Thursday, December 31, 2009
Many Christmases
Here is a post that combines all our Christmases together. We all had a great Christmas and Jaxon got a ton of presents. Although I think Mommy had the best reaction when I opened up our Wii that we got from my parents! I was totally shocked and very excited. We have used it everyday since we got it. The other surprise was a new TV! My grandparents got it for us. They had won it from a raffle. Re-gifting is the best!
We all love getting new stuff but the best part was seeing the family and having fun together. We're games people so we played lots of games, watched movies and had a lot of laughs! Definitely a good break and what we needed.
Topeka Christmas
We went to Topeka December 19 to my mom's sister's, Aunt Janelle. Here are the pics. My Aunt has a daughter, Aidan, who is actually a few months younger than Jaxon so they always have a blast when they get together.
Christmas Eve
Christmas Eve was at my parent's. We decided to not have the traditional meal (which for us is ham or turkey, mashed potatoes, vegetable, rolls, and dessert.) We had a pasta bar with different pastas and sauces, salad, garlic bread, and dessert. I love Italian (so you know who's idea it was). I loved it! Jaxon did too. He has inherited his mommy's love of carbs and ate 2 platefuls. Jaxon was so excited all day to open presents and didn't get a nap. I just tried to keep him occupied. We made Santa's cookies (another post) and played. After we ate he went and sat on the couch while the adults finished talking and fell fast asleep. Our tradition is to open the presents under the tree Christmas Eve then Santa comes in the morning with his gifts. We had the Christmas Eve service to go to at 7:30 so we planned to open presents before. I hated to wake him but all I had to say was presents and he was up. The youngest one always passes out gifts so I read them and Jaxon passed them out. After everyone has their presents then we take turns opening one present at a time starting with the youngest or oldest and go in age order. Since we have Jaxon we've been starting with the youngest because it's hard for him to wait. Jaxon was still kind of out of it so his reaction was as excited as he normally would be but he loved his gifts. He kept saying this is what I wanted!
My dad got a guitar from my mom and brother and also lessons from my brother, Dustin. Dustin didn't want to wrap it so he just went downstairs to get it. My mom and Blake were holding up a blanket so that Dad couldn't see it then they were going to drop the blanket so he could see. Right as my brother got up the stairs and they were about to drop the blanket the electricity went out. Good timing! My parents have a generator so we were able to finish opening presents and the electricity was back on after we got back from church.
Christmas Day
Jaxon was so excited when he woke up to see what Santa had brought him that we could hardly get the cameras and stuff together before he ran upstairs. He actually slept in until around 8 so it wasn't too early (bonus of sleeping in the basement). He was a bit more alert and excited about what he got. One of the biggest things was a fish tank so he can have some pets. He could hardly wait to get back to Satanta. Again, he got a ton of stuff that he loved.
I don't have a picture but my mom gave me and my brother our high school basketball uniforms in a frame which is really special to me. I don't want to get all sappy but for many reasons such as it was my favorite sport, my friends and I had many great times playing, Lewis High School is no more, etc...
Anyway, we all had a great Christmas and we must have been very good this year or at least we fooled Santa.
Granny's
Christmas Day we went to my Granny's for supper and our last Christmas! My dad's sister, Aunt Jan, and her kids, Faith and Tyler, came through the snow from Kansas City to celebrate with us. Jaxon was so excited to see Faith and Tyler. We had our traditional dinner - ham, turkey, dressing, mashed potatoes, salads, bread, and dessert. Yummy! We all got great stuff. Jaxon finally gave the reaction we all wanted. He was the most excited for... wait for it... drum roll... a SLINKY! Can you believe all the stuff he got and the thing he was the most excited for was a slinky?! Anyway, enjoy the pics!
We all love getting new stuff but the best part was seeing the family and having fun together. We're games people so we played lots of games, watched movies and had a lot of laughs! Definitely a good break and what we needed.
Topeka Christmas
We went to Topeka December 19 to my mom's sister's, Aunt Janelle. Here are the pics. My Aunt has a daughter, Aidan, who is actually a few months younger than Jaxon so they always have a blast when they get together.
Christmas Eve
Christmas Eve was at my parent's. We decided to not have the traditional meal (which for us is ham or turkey, mashed potatoes, vegetable, rolls, and dessert.) We had a pasta bar with different pastas and sauces, salad, garlic bread, and dessert. I love Italian (so you know who's idea it was). I loved it! Jaxon did too. He has inherited his mommy's love of carbs and ate 2 platefuls. Jaxon was so excited all day to open presents and didn't get a nap. I just tried to keep him occupied. We made Santa's cookies (another post) and played. After we ate he went and sat on the couch while the adults finished talking and fell fast asleep. Our tradition is to open the presents under the tree Christmas Eve then Santa comes in the morning with his gifts. We had the Christmas Eve service to go to at 7:30 so we planned to open presents before. I hated to wake him but all I had to say was presents and he was up. The youngest one always passes out gifts so I read them and Jaxon passed them out. After everyone has their presents then we take turns opening one present at a time starting with the youngest or oldest and go in age order. Since we have Jaxon we've been starting with the youngest because it's hard for him to wait. Jaxon was still kind of out of it so his reaction was as excited as he normally would be but he loved his gifts. He kept saying this is what I wanted!
My dad got a guitar from my mom and brother and also lessons from my brother, Dustin. Dustin didn't want to wrap it so he just went downstairs to get it. My mom and Blake were holding up a blanket so that Dad couldn't see it then they were going to drop the blanket so he could see. Right as my brother got up the stairs and they were about to drop the blanket the electricity went out. Good timing! My parents have a generator so we were able to finish opening presents and the electricity was back on after we got back from church.
Christmas Day
Jaxon was so excited when he woke up to see what Santa had brought him that we could hardly get the cameras and stuff together before he ran upstairs. He actually slept in until around 8 so it wasn't too early (bonus of sleeping in the basement). He was a bit more alert and excited about what he got. One of the biggest things was a fish tank so he can have some pets. He could hardly wait to get back to Satanta. Again, he got a ton of stuff that he loved.
I don't have a picture but my mom gave me and my brother our high school basketball uniforms in a frame which is really special to me. I don't want to get all sappy but for many reasons such as it was my favorite sport, my friends and I had many great times playing, Lewis High School is no more, etc...
Anyway, we all had a great Christmas and we must have been very good this year or at least we fooled Santa.
Granny's
Christmas Day we went to my Granny's for supper and our last Christmas! My dad's sister, Aunt Jan, and her kids, Faith and Tyler, came through the snow from Kansas City to celebrate with us. Jaxon was so excited to see Faith and Tyler. We had our traditional dinner - ham, turkey, dressing, mashed potatoes, salads, bread, and dessert. Yummy! We all got great stuff. Jaxon finally gave the reaction we all wanted. He was the most excited for... wait for it... drum roll... a SLINKY! Can you believe all the stuff he got and the thing he was the most excited for was a slinky?! Anyway, enjoy the pics!
Thursday, December 24, 2009
'Tis the Season
Jaxonism:
"Tis the season to be lolly! Fa, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la!"
Merry Christmas Eve everyone! We are at my parent's house on the farm in Lewis and will be celebrating tonight with good food, presents, and Christmas Eve service. Tomorrow we'll get our presents from Santa and do more celebrating at my Granny and Papa's house (still on the farm).
Merry Christmas To All and To All a Good Night!
"Tis the season to be lolly! Fa, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la!"
Merry Christmas Eve everyone! We are at my parent's house on the farm in Lewis and will be celebrating tonight with good food, presents, and Christmas Eve service. Tomorrow we'll get our presents from Santa and do more celebrating at my Granny and Papa's house (still on the farm).
Merry Christmas To All and To All a Good Night!
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Church Christmas Program
Last Sunday, December 13 was our Church's Christmas Program. Blake was sick and had to give his part away. Jaxon had a speaking part this year. I really didn't think he would say it though because he wouldn't even practice it at home. But he surprised me and did a great job! The day of I finally got him to practice it but he had to have his paper in front of him so he could "read" it like the older kids did. He couldn't say it if he didn't read it.
The preschoolers did knock, knock jokes. Jaxon's joke:
Jaxon: Knock, knock
Audience: Who's There
Jaxon: Wayne
Audience: Wayne who?
Jaxon: Wayne in a manger
Notice in the pics that Jaxon picked the most colorful outfit because it had yellow in it. There are also some pictures of our family friend's daughter, Emilia. She looked so cute in her old lady hat. Her parents were helping with the program so I was helping watch her during parts of the program so we did a photo shoot to keep her happy.
The preschoolers did knock, knock jokes. Jaxon's joke:
Jaxon: Knock, knock
Audience: Who's There
Jaxon: Wayne
Audience: Wayne who?
Jaxon: Wayne in a manger
Notice in the pics that Jaxon picked the most colorful outfit because it had yellow in it. There are also some pictures of our family friend's daughter, Emilia. She looked so cute in her old lady hat. Her parents were helping with the program so I was helping watch her during parts of the program so we did a photo shoot to keep her happy.
Footsie Pajamas
As you have seen, Jaxon wears only his underwear at home most of the time and bedtime is no exception. He pretty much always just wears his underwear (or pull-up) to bed. So I was surprised awhile back when he dug out some old footsie pajamas that I had put away and wanted to wear them. I told him they didn't fit anymore but he didn't care and somehow squeezed into them. He wore them for awhile. I've always loved those kind of pajamas on kids so I got him some for Christmas. We'll see if he wears them or only wants the ones that don't fit. Here he is in the stretched out pajamas.
Monday, December 21, 2009
Christmas Jaxonisms
We went to Kansas City this weekend to see my mom's side of the family and see the lights at the plaza. We had a great time and I'll post pictures of that later. For now, before I forget, here are some Jaxonisms from this weekend.
"I'm freaking out!" ~ Jaxon while trying to ice skate with his feet going crazy while my brother and I tried to keep him from falling and also ourselves upright. You really had to hear him say it over and over.
Jaxon had been bugging us the whole trip to go swimming because he thinks that is what you do when you go to a motel. Ours had an outdoor swimming pool so we told him we couldn't go because it was too cold - we eliminated the other facts like we didn't bring his suit or ours, didn't want to go buy them, and we didn't have time. After going to breakfast one morning, we had to walk by the pool and there was a girl in a bikini in the hot tub and Jaxon said matter-of-fact, "I'm going to marry that girl."
I'm not sure if it was the fact that she was swimming like he wanted to or the bikini - since he's a guy probably the bikini.
Last but not least:
"I think I'm going to cry when I open all my presents from Santa Claus that I asked for because I'll be so happy."
"I'm freaking out!" ~ Jaxon while trying to ice skate with his feet going crazy while my brother and I tried to keep him from falling and also ourselves upright. You really had to hear him say it over and over.
Jaxon had been bugging us the whole trip to go swimming because he thinks that is what you do when you go to a motel. Ours had an outdoor swimming pool so we told him we couldn't go because it was too cold - we eliminated the other facts like we didn't bring his suit or ours, didn't want to go buy them, and we didn't have time. After going to breakfast one morning, we had to walk by the pool and there was a girl in a bikini in the hot tub and Jaxon said matter-of-fact, "I'm going to marry that girl."
I'm not sure if it was the fact that she was swimming like he wanted to or the bikini - since he's a guy probably the bikini.
Last but not least:
"I think I'm going to cry when I open all my presents from Santa Claus that I asked for because I'll be so happy."
Christmas Cookies
The same day we saw Santa, Jaxon wanted to make Christmas cookies for him. Since Christmas was still about 2 weeks away, I tried to explain that they wouldn't keep very well. He wasn't having it but I finally got him convinced that we were practicing so it would be ok to eat them. He loved the eating part so it was ok.
Here are the pics of us making sugar cookies. I have all my cookies cutters stored together so inside he found not only Christmas cutters but also Halloween, Valentine's and Easter so you'll have to see if you can find any.
Here are the pics of us making sugar cookies. I have all my cookies cutters stored together so inside he found not only Christmas cutters but also Halloween, Valentine's and Easter so you'll have to see if you can find any.
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