Brotherly Love

When Jordan was born and Dawson came to the hospital to meet him, he didn’t really think much of his brother. If fact he didn’t like that I was holding Jordan and didn’t even want to be in the same room as Jordan and I! So needless to say I was a little nervous about what it was going to be like when we got home. Now there is SO much love, almost too much! Whenever I put Jordan down for his morning nap Dawson asks where the baby went, he will run around the house shouting “baby! baby!” until he finds him and will hop up on the crib and say “hi baby!”. Of course this will wake Jordan up, so I have to threaten him with time out whenever he starts looking for his brother. Lately I have been putting a gate in front of Jordan’s room when he takes a nap. (caught in the act!)
Dawson loves to share things with his brother also, many times I will be taking Jordan out of his car seat and find some of Dawson’s cars in there with Jordan. Dawson also tries to share his sippy cups and food with Jordan, which is all a little scary right now but I am hoping it will last as they get older. When we took Dawson to the Jazz game for his birthday it was the first time we left Jordan without Dawson, when we dropped Jordan off at my parents house and got back in the car the first thing Dawson did was look over at where Jordan normally sits and asked “where’d the baby go?” I had to explain that the baby got to stay and play with grandma and he got to go to a basketball game. I love that he misses his brother when he leaves him :) Any sound that Jordan makes Dawson will copy and laugh at, he thinks that Jordan is so funny. Jordan is also very entertained by Dawson! If I am making dinner and Jordan starts to cry I just tell Dawson to go talk to Jordan. Dawson will start to play with him and calm him right down, Dawson has been such a good help with his brother…most the time. When Dawson feels like he needs your full attention he will point to Jordan’s chair and tell you to put him down, but what more can you expect from a two year old. I love my little boys so much and I love to watch them grow and interact together!

A good two years!

I have a two year old!! Dawson turned two last week and of course he had another theme party, this year it was all about Cars the movie. Notice in the picture below Dawson was trying to blow out the candles before we even started singing.First I wanted to take a look back at the last few birthdays :) 4 Days Old

1st Birthday

2nd Birthday!
Dawson had a party the night before his birthday with some family and friends and had a great time!

This was after the pinata was opened, once the kids picked up a few pieces of candy they didn't want the rest, they just wanted to eat it.This was a "jack in the box" that was making all the kids jump whenever it popped!

The night of his birthday Dawson was able to go to the Jazz game! He had a blast!! This picture was just at the start of the game when it was really loud...he really did like it :)

He loved the Jazz bear! The bear come over during the game and gave Dawson a basketball that he had signed. After the bear left us he kept asking, “Where go? Where go?” and “the bear, basketball!” Now that basketball goes everywhere with him!

Dawson is such a fun little boy and always keeps me laughing. I love this little two year old!! A quick shout out to my two sisters that live too far away to make it to the party, we missed you girls!

30 on 30 & the Super Bowl

Dave turned 30 on Jan. 30th!! Dave had three Birthday parties to celebrate.

The first one, which was on his birthday, was dinner with some friends, then cake and some rock band at our house.

The next party was with Dave’s family and somehow I didn’t get any photos of that party. The last one was a Birthday/Super Bowl Party with my family.

Dawson was showing off his muscles, he thinks he is just a strong as the football players.
We had way to much food as always... I think this year we had even more then normal because I started out with a honey baked ham for lunch. Yum! As you can tell in this picture my basement gets a little cold, it's a good thing I've got a bunch on blankets.

This was Dave's gift from my parents, Dawson had a lot of fun trying them on :) Below is Dawson with Grandma Donna.

What a way to celebrate your 30th!

Because we had three parties we also had three cakes! It's a good thing Dawson's birthday is on Wednesday, because I don't think we have eaten enough cake yet!


Dave is such a great husband and father! Dave is always willing to help with the boys and around the house, we love him so much! Happy Birthday Dave!

Loving Memories

Three years ago we lost my grandma Janet. I still miss her so much, but she left us with some great memories. Dave and I were living in California, and I was at work when my younger brother Tyler called to tell me about her accident. I went straight home to buy my plane ticket to Utah and since Dave couldn’t get off work I came home alone. It was hard being away from my family when we lost her. On the flight to Utah I think the person next to me said about one word to me the entire flight, I guess she could tell I wasn’t quite in the mood for talking. When I got off the plane to get my bags, my brother Tyler and my sister in-law Rachelle jumped out from around the corner. They gave me huge hugs and made it so fun to be back home in Utah. During the week I was able to help dress my grandma and get her ready for the viewing and funeral. Everything went so well, it was a wonderful funeral. She was such a beautiful woman, I think about her often and we quote her all the time. I love you Grandma!

Two years after she passed President Hinckley passed, the same day as my grandma. I was able to go to the viewing with my mom and sister; it was such a wonderful experience. So today I remember my funny grandma, who liked to speak her mind and our sweet prophet.

He just loves golf…really!

The other day while Dave and Dawson were watching a game of football, Dawson of course yelling “touchdown” and “wow”, there was a commercial and Dave decided to change to the golf channel during the break. This got Dawson on his feet!! He cheered after a long drive “ohhh wow!” and again as they were putting into the hole. Dawson has his own golf clubs and has played a few times but never really watched, he was loving it. Then Dave changed it back to the football game, figuring it would be back on and Dawson started crying “golf ball! golf ball!” So they watched a little more golf then football that afternoon. Who knew my almost two year old would love to watch golf that much! Now whenever Dave turns on a football game Dawson figures there must be a golf game on also so he starts asking for golf ball.

This was a few days after Jordan was born, on a nice day Dave took Dawson out to play nine holes. Dawson had fun golfing with just the two of them. Just a little note about the top picture, Dawson would not take a picture with any of the clubs, just his favorite. Not the putter or his 7 iron just his driver.

Where did the time go?

It has been a while since I have been on here so be prepared for some old photos of thanksgiving and such :) I guess I will start with what we did most recently; Jordan was blessed on January 4. It was such a wonderful day; Dave gave Jordan a sweet blessing. I am so thankful for Dave, he is such a wonderful Dad and he honors his priesthood so that is able to bless our family in so many ways. Jordan was such a good boy during his entire blessing, he is such an easy baby overall. We were able to have some friends and family over after the blessing; it was such a fun afternoon! Here is Dawson before church climbing on some chairs...
Thanksgiving was a lot of fun, what holiday isn’t with so much food. All the food made Dave and Jordan really sleepy...

On Christmas Eve we were able to talk to my bother Tyler who is serving a mission in Hong Kong. It was so fun to talk to him; I can’t believe he will be coming home in June! Two years have gone by so fast; I can’t wait for him to see how much Dawson has changed and to meet Jordan. Christmas was so fun this year, with Dawson being almost two he still didn’t understand Santa coming but he was very excited to wake up to presents! He got a Thomas train track set that we could not pull him away from ALL day! He didn’t want to stop to eat my Christmas breakfast which I didn’t burn this year (unlike last year); he didn’t even want to stop to eat lunch. Santa really got it right this year!

My boys and I waiting for Tyler to call:
Dawson checking out what Santa brought

This is where Dawson spent his entire day:

Jordan's gifts were bigger then him
Dave and Dawson also got to go out and have fun in the snow. I think it was more fun for Dawson since Dave was really out there to shovel the driveway. I love a white Christmas! We had so much fun over the holiday I am glad that they are over though, it is much more relaxing with out them! Dawson was testing out the new snow pants that he got for Christmas
This is the view from my back window it is so pretty when it snows!

Sorry about the Christmas pictures in January but I thought I should put a post on here before Jordan turned one ;)

Jordan Andrew

He is here... Jordan Andrew was born on Monday the 10th at 3:21pm, he weighed 7lb 9oz and we are both doing very well. It is so great to a have him here and he has been such a good baby (so far). This picture is right after the delivery, everything went so much better and faster then last time! I guess it helped that Jordan was so much smaller then Dawson was! He seems so tiny to me compared to Dawson, who was born with fat rolls all over :)

Here are a few pictures from the hospital...

Dawson was not to excited to meet his new brother, most the time he didn't even want to come into my hospital room. When he was in he would head straight for the door and say "lets go, in the car" since we have been home he has been a little more open to having a baby in the house. Sometimes he will even try to hand him a car to play with, so we have to watch him so Jordan doesn't get hit by any cars :)


Dawson watching Monsters Inc. while he waited for me to get ready to leave the hospital, little Jordan in the backround.
Getting ready to leave the hospital

A little family photo before we left for the hospital, as you can tell Dawson was more then ready to get out of there.

Now we are home relaxing and it has been going very well :)