Some Utah Pics

We had a FABULOUS time in Utah and it's been sad to say good bye to our family out there, but it's nice to be back home with Jack.

Here are some pics of some fun things we got to do.
We were lucky enough to have almost all the Lau siblings together. We missed you so much Cami!! Ezzie showed us around the animation buildings and we got to see some of his cool projects. Waaaay cool to see Ezzie in action. We also got to see Grandma Bastian and see some of the Bastian family.
I had the awesome opportunity to go to a temple session with my big sister who was also in UT visiting from PA.
Jaxon got to hang out with "the boys."
We got to go to Thanksgiving Point and see some fun animals.
It was so cute to see Jaxon with his cousin Lucy. They're barely a month apart and had very similar reactions to things. :o)
Jaxon got to ride on a horse and a pony. When asked which one he liked better, he said he liked the bigger horse more than the pony.
And of course we had some swimming time.
It was so much fun to introduce Mailee to so many of her aunts and cousins.
And best of all Jaxon and Mailee had soooooo much fun spending time with their Grandma Char.
Jaxon loved going on morning walks with Grandma Char and going to see the ducks and play on the tractor they would see along the way.
Char, thank you so much for taking such good care of us while we were in Utah!! We miss all of you soooooo much already.

Life with the Kiddos

Some days are like this...
and other days are like this...

Good thing Mailee's finally learning to hold her own. :o)

Memorial Day recap

I am soooo behind in the blogging world! It seems like all my posts are a couple months behind. Well, we got some cute pics from Memorial Day, so thought I'd get those up. :o)

We went to a cute parade and then to a ward barbeque for Memorial day and just enjoyed spending time together as a family.

Mailee was the star of the show though and had so many people commenting on how cute she is and we had complete strangers wanting to take her picture!...Kind of scary, but flattering at the same time.

And just a random pic of Jaxon who LOVES getting into Mailee's hairbows. I think he knows that it gets Mailee lots of attention and is hoping for some to come his way. :o)

Mar and Apr Recap

Wow, I can't believe how time got away from us and I didn't even post about Jack's birthday and Easter!! So, yes, Jack's birthday was back in March...and we kind of celebrated it earlier in the month because I was so excited about his present, I couldn't wait to give it to him.

We got Jack a juicer for his birthday and WE LOVE IT!!! We've been juicing quite a bit and it's AMAZING how much better juice tastes FRESH! And you really just can't go wrong with that thing. We've put in a wide range of things, including veggies too, and we've loved every kind of juice we get!

Here's Jack opening his other presents and singing with his fruit pizza "cake". Only sad part was we celebrated with the juicer early, he got his other gifts the day before his birthday and we were running so late on the Sunday of his birthday that I actually forgot what day it was. But we made up for it with his fruit pizza a couple of days later. :o) So, Jack will probably say his "actual" birth day wasn't the best, we celebrated his birthday all month long...isn't that even better? :o)
And here's Jack and Jaxon with their "cheesy" smiles. I love my boys! :o)
Then for Easter, we were super lucky to have some girls in the ward plan a big, amazing egg hunt and dinner, so we really didn't have to do much for Jaxon to have a great Easter. :o)
The little kids were supposed to find eggs in a certain color so that eggs could be distributed evenly for all the kids...but Jaxon was just too excited and picked up whatever egg he could find.
It was pretty serious business for him. He was VERY focused on getting those eggs.
I don't know if you can tell from the picture, but the egg hunt was on a soccer field and during our picnic, there was a soccer game going on at the other side of the field. Jaxon is REALLY into balls and loves playing with them, and unfortunately, he decided he wanted the soccer ball from the game that was going on, so middle of the game, Jaxon ran onto the field and picked up the ball and started running. The little girls that were playing thought it was adorable...but the coaches weren't very happy with us. But it was pretty funny seeing Jaxon running with the soccer ball in the his hands with two teams of girls running after him to get the ball back. :o)
And last, but not least, we also went to the Lodi outlets a while back and they have this cute little train that runs through the whole shopping area, so Jaxon and I got to take a little train ride while we were out there. Jack was nice to let me go with Jaxon since he usually gets to go on rides and things with Jaxon and I take the pictures. :o)
And Jaxon was even lucky enough to see the Easter bunny while we were out there.

Fun with the Grandpas

We were sooooo blessed to have my dad and Jack's dad stay with us over the weekend so they could be a part of Mailee's blessing. THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH dads for coming out to Ohio and spending some time with us. It was a whirlwind trip for them and we tried to cram in as much as we could in a short amount of time. We loved having you both and we already miss you!
We went to Jack's school and got the grand tour of OCPM.
We went to Kirtland.
It was nice having our dads here so we could get some pictures together with the family too. :o) This was Jack's first time out to Kirtland since we've been out here.
Kirtland Temple
Newel K. Whitney Store
Inside room where School of the Prophets met.
Out to dinner at yummy Texas Roadhouse.
Mailee's blessing day.
Mailee was such a little princess in her beautiful blessing dress! Thanks again Char for the gorgeous dress.