Exciting News!

I'll just make this short and sweet.... It's a boy!  We are soooo excited!

Here's what we've been up to....

Wow! I haven't been on here forever! We've had a pretty busy few months. Cody got a new job working with the same group of companies. He's now a Regional Sales Manager which requires him to travel a lot. Jackson and I also traveled quite a bit this summer. We went to Utah a couple times, went to Disneyland with Cody and some family members, and we also traveled to Las Vegas with Cody for work and from there went to St. George for Cody's family reunion. Things are slowing down a bit and we're looking forward to it cooling off down here. Jackson is getting so big and he does the cutest things every day. He's really into letters and numbers right now so we've been working a lot on the alphabet. He knows all the capital letters and we're working on lower case. He also knows the numbers 1-10. I just can't believe how mature he's getting, my baby is growing up! I will slowly add pictures as I have time. But here's just a few...

Jackson and his cousin Madi at Disneyland

at the beach in California

One of the Utah trips, we got the whole family in a picture!  (except Cody)

This is us in Vegas with Elvis :)

Jackson at the Family Reunion trying to steal the show

The Pheonix Zoo

Cody took the day off today and we went to the zoo. We were a little worried that Jackson might not like it but he was an angel the whole time. We fed the girafes, saw all the great animals, went to the petting zoo and rode the carosel. Jackson loved everything except the carosel, by the time it stopped spinning he was screaming. Oh well, you can't win 'em all, right?

Easter

We had a great Easter sunday.  We got up in the morning and ate crepes and jackson got a little Easter basket.  Then we got to watch conference all day and what great talks this session!  Especially all the talks about moms.  Then we went to Grandma and Grandpa Power's house and had a great dinner.

A Play Place for Jackson

So I decided to sacrifice my sectioned off garden area for a sand pit for my little man. His Mommy and Daddy worked for 12 hours straight. Hope he'll know we he gets older how much we love him!

We went from this...

to this...

and finally...

this!  He loves going in our back yard and playing in it now!

Here's a little update...

Jackson is just about to turn fifteen months old!  He is getting so tall, he's starting to thin out but all his shirts and pants are getting too short for him.  These pictures are proof that I shouldn't turn my back on him even for a minute because I swear all this kid thinks about is how to climb, destroy or get into anything he can get his hands on!  I let him down for seriously 30 seconds this morning and he went in the bathroom, got his body wash, and poured it all over the bathroom floor!  What a silly little man. He is at such a fun age where he wants to be outside constantly exploring.  He has now just stopped taking a morning nap and  takes just one long afternoon nap and I like it so much better. 

This is him saying "I didn't do it"

He got into the linen closet and took out all the blankets and used them as a stool so he could climb into the closet

Then, he ran into his room, dumped out his hamper, and then began to remove all of his nicely folded clean clothes from his dresser.  He did this all in a matter of two minutes!