Easter Outfits

With Easter being on the same Sunday as General Conference this year and our family getting sick the weekend after that, the boys weren't able to wear their Easter vests until a couple Sundays ago. Jackson was being so silly and doing the funniest poses and faces.

This was probably the best part of taking pictures of the boys. While I was taking pictures of Andersen, Jackson was getting in the way of the camera so Andersen grabbed his hair. Jackson screamed like a little girl while Andersen obviously was loving it. Here he is caught in the action...
And right afterwards... Andersen is still laughing!

Easter 2010

With Easter being on Conference Sunday this year, we waited until the boys got home from Priesthood that night before to color eggs. Jackson and Nana made sure every one had their own egg. He was so proud of his eggs!
Here are the boys Easter morning right before they got to go see their Easter baskets.
Andersen's first Easter... He obviously doesn't know what Jackson is so excited about and is just relaxing. He is such a mellow little boy!
Jackson's Easter
Andersen's Easter
And then the egg hunt begins


And this is what Jackson has been doing since... riding his scooter all around the house. I can't wait for warm weather so all his birthday and Easter toys can go outside.
Andersen also enjoying his Easter toys.

HAPPY EASTER BOYS!!

Jackson turned 3!!

Jackson's birthday was Monday, March 29th. With Nana's Sunday tradition, we started Jackson's birthday Sunday night. Nana and Grandpa Paul, Chase and Tia all joined at our house to have dinner and do a few presents. Thanks to Uncle Chase, Jackson got the best present first! Jackson had no idea what it really was, he just knew it had something to do with Spiderman. After he opened all his presents the boys went outside to let Jackson play with his new bat and ball. I was told to set up "Spiderman" so it was ready when he came back inside.

Here is the video of what happened right as he walked back inside...

A couple squirts later Andersen was covered in silly string

With Nate having work all day on Jackson's actual birthday and school all night, we met up with Nana and Grandpa Paul at McDonald's for lunch and came home to open our presents to Jackson really fast during Nate's lunch break.
Two days later, the party continues. Jackson LOVES Chuck e Cheese so we celebrated there with his friends and some more family. Here is Nana and Jackson already to go!

Jackson absolutely loves his Uncle Chase and Tia is starting to come in at a close second. They were big little kids all night with Jackson and helped him play games and win a bunch of tickets.
Jackson latest obsession is Baseball, so all of his birthday revolved around it. He got a new baseball bat, tee, bunch of balls, glove and even a baseball field cake and cupcake balls.

This is Jackson's highlight of his whole birthday. He was so excited to see "Chuck"... (Or that is what Jackson thinks his name is) When he came out of the back room Jackson was one of the first kids to see him and yelled "Chuck" and ran up to him to give him a big hug! He wouldn't leave his side and wanted to hold his hand forever.
Do you think this boy had a fun birthday? By the frosting all over his face, tokens leftover in his cup to play games, and still smiling after 4 hours at Chuck E Cheese... I would say a definite YES!
This little guy had fun as well with all the lights, people, and music, but just couldn't take the 4 hours of this place.
But the real question is... Who had more fun, the Dads or the kids?? The answer is the MOMS, because the Dads had all the kids occupied with playing games. Thanks to all our friends that came and celebrated Jackson's party with us!

Dear Happy Boy,

I can't believe you are 5 months old today! You are such a happy little boy. You are always smiling and always content with whats going on (As long as you aren't hungry, tired, or in your car seat for longer than 20 minutes) You love your cereal or I guess anything that you can get in your mouth.



Thank you for being such a sweet boy and for making these past 5 months even better for our family! Now please just learn to sleep through the night!
Love,
Mom

Update on my boys...

Before I give an update... I get asked all the time if Andersen looks like Jackson when he was little. You be the judge...
This is Jackson at 4 months...
And here is Andersen at 4 months... Definitely brothers to me!
JACKSON
I can't believe Jackson is going to be turning 3 in a month or so and man has he definitely reached those terrible 3's I have heard about. Although he can be such a naughty kid, he still finds many times during the day to make me smile or laugh. Jackson seriously is hilarious when you get him in his own comfort zone. A couple posts ago I showed a picture of Jackson doing his business on the floor, well we have officially made it to the toilet and is officially potty trained!! I didn't think this day would ever come. It still feels too good to be true. Look how cool he thinks he is...
He is all about being a "big boy" since his brother is the "baby". With my parents living in Colorado, Jackson loves to Skype with them. He now has to hold the laptop just like Mom or Dad would do it. Jackson was so cute this day, he wanted Andersen to come sit by him to talk to Grandma Kay. This boy definitely loves his Grandmas.
Here Jackson is with Nana on another date. She took him to get pizza and bowling the other night, and lucky for Nate and I, we got to join in on the fun this time.

Jackson currently loves his chocolate milk, and always asks for 5 pieces of licorice first thing in the morning. He still can't forget about Santa, and every toy he sees on TV he says to us "I want that for Christmas. We'll have to tell Santa". I guess I can just skip the birthday presents this year. We are also trying to get Jackson to sleep in his own bed. Jackson started sleeping in our bed right as Andersen was born because one of his friends told him monsters were in his room, and because of my surgery I couldn't put him back in bed so he created the WORST habit ever!! Now that its 4 months later and many hours over due on sleep we are working to get him back in his bed. Last night was the first night in who knows how long he stayed in his bed to fall asleep. The next step is to get him to sleep all night and stay in his bed. Wish us luck! Feel free to share ideas...

Now ANDERSEN
What an angel this boy is! Andersen just had his 4 month check up weighing in at 16lbs 6 oz (Jackson was 18lbs 14oz) and measured 27" long (Jackson was 27 1/2") He has recently started sleeping through the night. He will go to bed around 8 and sleep until 7ish with an occasional bottle around 5 if he wakes up.
If Andersen isn't sleeping, he is doing this! This is the happiest kid I have ever met and is such a good baby. He is always smiling. He will be wide awake in his crib and you won't even know it and I'll go in to check on him and I'll see this big smile just waiting patiently for me to get him out of the crib.
Baby #2 goes by so much faster than #1, so to me Andersen seems too young to be doing things on his own, but here he was holding his own bottle one night while I was making dinner.
Some things that Andersen loves right now, besides his bottle, would be his bumbo chair...
His bouncer...
And his jumper (Thanks Aunt Chelsie!)
And as of Thursday, he learned how to roll over! Luckily Nate and I were able to get it on video (This video is the 3rd time he rolled. The first I saw and didn't have a camera around, the second Nate saw and then we were finally prepared when the next one happened.) 2 days later he acts like a pro and that he's known how to do this for weeks now.

Family Pictures

Here is a sneak preview of our new family pictures and Andersen's 3 month pictures we had taken a couple weekends ago.

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