Starting School All Over Again!

Christina failed to mention that she has decided to return to BYU this Winter and maybe this fall if things work out right. Today we went and talked to the admission counselor who kept congratulating Christina for making the decision to go back. She is going to study Communication Disorders! Way exciting! Sure she will have to get her Masters but now she will be able to complete her goal of finishing school a lot earlier then planned!! Yay for Christina!! I am so proud of her. I think I am more excited then she is that she is going back, but she is so smart, she will do great going back!

Adventures of Jackson

Jackson has been moving around like crazy. He has mastered pulling himself up to stand on pretty much anything he can get his little hands on. He is also getting better at using his opposable thumb. He can now get anything small into his mouth- good for eating food, bad for small items he finds on the floor. Just the other day I hear Andrew say, "I think Jackson ate a penny." I thought that was a weird way to say that so I asked him what he meant. He then showed me Jacksons poopy diaper with a penny in it! Yeah! We couldn't believe it! We never noticed any distress when it was going down or coming out! We try to be careful and make sure to check the floor for any small item but for some reason Jackson has radar vision and will find the one penny on the floor.
He also knows how to clap now and LOVES to do it. Its quite funny. Sometimes he will clap when I am getting his food ready. He also says dad/dada. He gets very excited when Andrew calls during his break and I put the phone on speaker. He just starts saying dad-dada-dada-dad repeatedly. Quite funny.
I've also discovered that he likes ALLfood. He has yet to reject anything that I give him. If you put something to his mouth he will eat it up.
I'll need to get the camera and put pictures up. That'll have to come at a later time though.

3 Years!

Andrew and I celebrated our 3rd anniversary on Wednesday. We went to lunch at Olive Garden and it was super yummy. Then Andrew surprised me and had taken the night off so we were able to just relax together and watch So You Think You Can Dance. It was fun to have him home at night. He bought me a pair of shoes! So exciting! Although we had to return them because they were a half size to small (not his fault though- he got the size that I normally wear these just seem to run small) and I bought him the Complete Thin Man Collection. Thin Man are probably his favorite movies. Anyways, we had a very enjoyable day together. Its crazy to think its been 3 years that we have been married. So much has happened during that time. I look forward to a bunch more years with him.

Andrew Signed with a School District

On Tuesday Andrew interviewed with Wasatch County School District in Heber City, UT. Then on Wednesday he was planning on going to Cederedge, CO for another interview. But about an hour after the interview they called him back in Heber and offered him a job! Finally a job offer in a normal place! So we prayed about it that night and really felt right about it, and he signed a letter of intent on Wednesday morning and ended up not going to Colorado. And of course as soon as he signed with Heber, he got an email for a second interview in Sweethome Oregon and then a phonecall from Eagle Point Oregon, but thats alright we really feel good about this opportunity and we are excited to get to see our freinds for at least another year!

Pictures!

Okay, I am finally putting some pictures up. No, none of them are from graduation because we cant find where they were saved on the external hard drive so these are just some pictures that we have taken over the past little while.
Jackson absolutely loves his bath. One Sunday while we were getting ready for church he kept trying to climb into his tub. Andrew finally just sat him in it and that kept him happy until we were ready to go. He has now graduated to the BIG tub and boy does he love it! He realized a couple of days ago that he can crawl around and lay down in the tub so he takes full advantage of that. He also takes full advantage of drinking the water. Yeah, some battles just aren't worth fighting.

Just a happy boy!

He knows exactly where his toys are at and if he isnt happy with the ones he already has out he will go and grab his baskets and pull ALL of the toys out. Yeah, not such a fun game but it sure gives us a laugh.

Jackson posing with his "ugly" monkey. This is one of his absolute favorite toys. We think it is because he likes to chew on the legs, arms and tail. Plus it still has the tag on it and he LOVES tags.

Jacksons other favorite toy. For some reason he absolutely loves my pump. We try to keep it up out of reach but occasionally he will find it. He loves playing with the tubing.

One day while we were at work, we were playing in the back and I had to go help a customer so I let Jackson stay back there. WhenI got back he was trying to climb over the diaper bag (yeah dont know why he didnt go around it). He started to get really frustrated because he was high centered and couldnt get off. I had to get a picture of it because it was too funny. The best part was seeing his legs high in the air. Still makes me laugh (does that make me a bad mom?)

These are my great grandpas sheep this year. The picture is kind of far away, but you get the idea. This was actually really funny. Andrew and I were working in the garden and the 5 sheep would take like 2 steps closer to us and then stop and stare.

The Long Awaited Update

I know! It has been quite awhile since we have updated our blog! A LOT has been happening around here. First off, both our families came into town 2 weeks ago for Andrews graduation! He did it!! It was great to see him walk across the stage and get the empty folder. It was also so much fun to have both of our families here. We had a blast with them. We have pictures but they are all on the external hard drive and I dont know how to get them off so Andrew will have to update again. Now on to finding a job that we feel he should take. He has had a couple of offers but none of them were right so he keeps on applying and interviewing with different school districts. Who knows where we will end up in the fall.
Jackson turned 7 months on the 1st. I can't believe how time has flown (I know, everybody says that). He is eaing all sorts of baby foods now but he prefers whatever we have on our plate (tomatoes, cucumbers and strawberries are some of his favorites). He has also started crawling!! He has been moving and rolling and scooting for quite awhile, but he finally figured out how to move his arms and legs at the same time together. Being even more mobile he can get into more things but it is so cute to watch him crawl. Now he is now working on climbing up on things and standing up by himself. If we are sitting on the floor he will crawl over and climb up on us. Evidently we are now his jungle gyms. We have been trying to get video of him crawling but everytime we turn the camera on he stops and smiles. Hes such a ham.
Well I think that that is all of the exciting things going on right now. Life in general is just keeping us busy. Ill have Andrew put pictures up on the blog tomorrow.

New Family Pics by Emily!

Wahoo! Blue Easter Eggs!

So this morning we had an easter egg hunt where Jackson had to pick up all of the eggs and put them in his pail. It was a lot of fun. The very first egg he found was the blue egg. It went right in his mouth. Because it was a colored egg, thats exactly where the blue dye stayed...on his mouth! haha it was pretty fun. Here are some pictures of our hunt.

Preparations for Easter

So today we started preparing for Easter by coloring eggs and also painting Jackson's Easter pail. We had a lot of fun, Jackson even helped put the eggs in the cups, and he tried to help paint, but of course he wanted to eat the paintbrush. First here are the pictures of painting the pail.

Now here are the ones from us dying the easter eggs.

Portland Job Fair

So this last weekend we went to Oregon for Andrew to go to the Teacher Fair in Portland. We flew into Portland and then we drove down to Medford to stay the weekend there and on Monday Andrew set up a couple of interviews with Medford and Central Point School Districts, then we went up to Portland and he had a lot of really good interviews, but because of budget cuts the districts arent hiring much yet. So we will find out more here at the end on May.

We stayed two days in Portland and the second day there we just hung out in Portlnad going to a couple of different places like the OMSI and saw the exhibit on DaVinci and Powells bookstore which is huge. Not just like "borders at the local mall" huge but like "the size of the mall where borders is at" huge! It was awesome to see tons of old and new books! We ended up buying Jackson a couple of books which he absolutely loves!

I think the most ironic thing was that while we were in Oregon it didnt rain at all, even while we were in Portland! But as soon as we landed in dry Utah it was pouring rain! haha

Anyways, here are some pictures from our trip.

Hes on the move!

So between scooting backwards (still hasnt figured out forwards but we know hes close because he gets up on all fours and rocks back and forth) and rolling (he has decided it is okay to roll to his back) he is getting into all sorts of trouble. The first picture Andrew laid Jack on his back on our bed while he was putting his shoes on. Jack rolled over and kept scooting backwards into our pillows. The other picture Jack rolled all around and ended up underneath the bassinet! Oh that kid!

Bath pictures

These are from a couple of nights ago. As I was giving Jackson a bath and washing his hair he managed to wiggle to the side of the bathtub silly boy! Doesnt look very comfortable but he was happy!

What a day!

Today after I ran a couple of errands I came home and was changing Jacks diaper. Right as I was about to put the fresh diaper on he starts to pee! He sat there smiling at me and thought it was kind of funny. So after he finishes peeing and leaving my sofa wet I put him in the bath. After the bath I put him on my bed to lotion him up and dress him. Well, right after I move his towel to put his diaper on what does he do? HE PEES! AGAIN!! Oh my goodness! Now I have a wet comforter! I finish getting him dressed and put him in his jumper. I throw my comforter and sofa cover into the wash. I come back to find he had pooped and it had come out of the diaper! All this happened within like 20 minutes! Holy cow! So another change of clothes and we are good! Let me tell you though, that was crazy!

After our pee/poop incident I moved our coffee table and laid blankets on the floor so he could roll around and play while I was folding and putting away laundry. This is what happened. He went from being in the middle of the blankets to being by the door. I guess he wanted to get away.

Laughing Jackson

So tonight we captured Jackson laughing and we thought it was pretty funny.

Graduation Pictures By Emily!

So as we have been talking about in our last couple of posts, my friend Emily did some more family pictures and pictures for graduation. First we went to her Mom's house and did some pictures there, mostly of Jackson but we did some of the family then we went to BYU and took some graduation pictures for Andrew. She is so talented!! Here is a preview of some of the pictures that she did: