Here Comes Santa Claus!

Big week. If you know me well at all, you know that I always try and fit as much as humanly possible into the holidays. I love them. So, we started off the festivities with Jaxon's checkup/shots and our work Christmas Party on Tuesday the 14th, then the Fairwinds Family Holiday Dinner on Friday the 17th, then our annual Holiday Tea Party at our House on the 18th, then the week of Christmas we came home on Tuesday to Jaxon sick and him having a 102 temperature - his first high temp of his life and of course this scared his mommy. I had always heard the stories of when I was about his age and had convulsions when I was sick with a high temp, so Jaxon's first high temp was enough to scare me. Luckily with good medicine, a nice bath and rest (of course sleeping with mommy and daddy) he was feeling much better the next day. So, then on the 23rd Jaxon was scheduled to make a special appearance as Santa Claus at the big Christmas Party at Fairwinds for the residents. They definitely loved it and he had a great time. I was a little worried with him being sick just a day before and pretty fussy before we went out, but should have known, he is a born performer. As soon as we rounded the corner and came "on stage" in front of all those people, he was so happy and just went all around the room passing out candy canes to each resident. He had a great time - and so did the residents!

A little nervous, getting ready to come around the corner - isn't his outfit soooo cute?

Out in front of everyone

They loved seeing Jaxon as Santa!

He actually went around to each person and gave them candy canes - didn't stop or fuss at all the whole time - what a little angel.

More candy canes.

Jaxon update

Although I am way behind on pictures, I thought I would write a little update on Jaxon. He is just about 17 months old. He has a total of 10 teeth with the top two back molars just about all the way through, and all 4 of his canine teeth starting to poke through. I know that I say this each time, but he is so much fun!!! Each stage that we go through, he just keeps getting more fun! He is starting to have memories of the fun things that we do and will tell you about them the next day. He got a basketball hoop from his Grandpa Schuler for Christmas and he now loves playing basketball. We took him to a couple of high school games at his Aunt Heidi (or "Abum" as he likes to call her) school, North Central. He loved, loved it! Then we went to the Groovy Shoes Basketball Game at the Arena with lots of halftime shows, lights, etc. and he really thought that was great. He plays basketball in the driveway whenever the weather is nice with his nanny, and he loves watching any kind of sports on tv. His favorite food right now has got to be macaroni and cheese - he is such a good boy whenever we go out to each and will sit still in a booster seat and eat his dinner like a big boy! The biggest news is that he actually has started to potty train himself this week. He comes up to us and lets us know he needs to use the toilet, we take him in, and he goes! He is so proud of himself. Of course we are along way from being completely potty trained, but how great is he? Well I think that about sums up my update for now - more to come soon! And I will definitely get caught up on the pictures soon!

Work Christmas Party

Our work Christmas Party this year was held at Pattison's Roller Skating Rink. We rented out the whole place and it really was a lot of fun. There was about 150 people there! Jaxon also got to try roller skating for the first time. We weren't sure how he would do (he had actually had is 15 month doctor appt that day and had four shots - he's such a trooper), but he absolutely LOVED it! He actually cried when we took the skates off because he wanted to keep going. So, so, so cute! Also, his stats from his doctor's appt: Weight 23 pounds 13 oz (40 percentile) Height 32 1/8 inches (75 percentile) and he is doing great - brilliant of course :-) Here a few photos from our fun night.

Getting ready - taking a drink first!

Here we go! I still can't believe they carry skates that small!

A little help from mommy and daddy.

How cute is he - and I loved his outfit that night too. Such a little stud!

Going to check out the Christmas tree in the middle after he was done skating - he was entertaining everyone by dancing out on the floor! He loves dancing to any and all music!

Visit to Santa 2010

The first weekend in December we took Jaxon to RiverPark Square Downtown to visit Santa. Before meeting Santa we went on a horse and carriage ride around downtown which was lots of fun (freezing cold, but fun) Then we went inside to meet Santa. We didn't know that it was pet night, so it was really crowded and we had to wait about 45 minutes, Jaxon didn't mind though because of all the dogs (he loves dogs!) It was the same Santa from last year and Jaxon didn't seem scared at all which was great. Our official photo that we purchased he was even smiling in! It was so fun when we got home to compare the pictures from last year and this year - wow he has grown so much in 1 year.

Eating at Red Robin afterwards - he loves balloons...unlike his mommy at that age ;-)

Having fun on the horse and carriage ride with mommy, daddy, Aunt Heidi & Grandpa.

It was a beautiful (and really cold) night for a ride around downtown.

Telling Santa what he wanted for Christmas. (Santa told us that he said he wanted a truck) That is actually what finally got him to smile - Santa started talking about trucks and Jaxon smiled long enough for the photographer to get a good smiling shot!

Christmas Tree Hunt 2010

Ready for the adventure!

We took our annual trip up to Dietz Christmas Tree Farm at Greenbluff to search for just the right Christmas tree. Jaxon was on his sled and we were ready for a great afternoon!

He was great at pointing out the trees that he liked.

Tipped over a few times - he thought that was quite funny! It was kind of hard to keep him from tipping on the trails that were there.

"How about this one, it's more my size?"

Daddy and Jaxon with our tree just before Daddy cut it down!

Aunt Heidi with her tree.

Daddy hauling both trees down the hill to the truck.

More sledding fun!

Kisses from Uncle Jesse! Jaxon loves his one and only Uncle. He has great fun with him when he is home from college!

Grandma pulling Jaxon on his sled.

Grandpa, Jesse and Jaxon.

Thanksgiving 2010

We celebrated Thanksgiving with our usual tradition of having the Thompson family at our house. A little smaller group this year, but we were blessed with great food, great company and lots of great memories (as always)! I love holiday traditions and my Thanksgiving holidays wouldn't be complete without a few things: Debbie's turkey, scalloped corn, Grandma Thompson, little kids with olives on every finger and of course looking through the Black Friday sales ads and planning our route! Here are a few pictures from our great day!

Debbie and her masterpiece.

Jaxon trying scalloped corn for the first time (Mommy's favorite!)

Jaxon and Emma relaxing in his chair after dinner - or lunch I guess, our family always eats really early - at 1:00PM, so I guess we should call it lunch :-)

Here are the olives on the fingers - always a tradition imagine how many olives we went through when all 13 of us cousins were there together!!

Great Grandma and Jaxon relaxing!