Is It True? Is It REALLY True???

It is OFFICIAL!!! Our little baby binos is finally CRAWLING!!! Pictures to come shortly!!!
(I guess this is what happens my FIRST day at the elementary school, I come home to find my baby is crawling!)

Nixon Update

I missed posting at his 9 months, so this is more like a 9 1/2 mo. update!
Nixon is always keeping us laughing. Just like my mom said, this is such a great age because he is constantly learning and figuring out new things. Some of the noises he makes are absolutely crazy and I have no idea where they come from. We definitely have an opera singer well in the making!

I always thought Nixon was 'behind' with being able to pick up finger foods and feed them to himself. But I am learning as we go too folks! I guess it helped when I just dumped his snacks on his tray and let him go at it. After a few minutes they were gone. Not on the floor, not in his diaper, but on their way down the canal to his BIG and jolly belly! 

Okay I'm thinking I am going to start boasting again. BUT, I think I honestly do have a legit reason to be boasting!! Nixon has been a ball player lately. My cousin caught him a little ball at the Juab basketball game, and who would have seriously thought that THAT .50 cent worth of a ball would be his FAVORITE! He loves playing catch. We roll it to him, he scoops it up, makes sure he has it in his hands exactly how he likes it, and then he throws it to us. He gets so excited and starts 'clapping' his hand and the ball together. We think he does shockingly well at this, but that could be because we are his parents! Either way, it is fun to watch and pretty impressive too!
Gamma and Gampa Edwards got him a "sports center" toy for Christmas. It has a basketball hoop that keeps score, a football/ goal post, and a baseball that you can hit with the bat. We have taught him how to make a basket in the hoop. It is pretty funny! (I'll post pictures soon so check back!)

Nixon also really loves playing peek-a-boo. The funny thing about this is when he hides his face under the blanket he does it for a wee bit too long! He'll cover his face and oh a good 10 seconds later he will uncover it with a big ol' grin!

We have TRIED to get him to eat real food or at least the jars of food like turkey or chicken noodle. He will have NONE of it. He prefers sweet peas, squash, and oatmeal mixed with fruit...Especially bananas!
He is a pill when it comes to drinking his bottle. Other than in the morning, the rest of the day when he has a bottle he has to take breaks in between and shake the bottle. This is pretty annoying because it gets milk all over us and himself! Oh, and everywhere else too!

He LOVES his binky! I try to take it out when he doesn't need it, but if he happens to see it, then he will stop whatever he is doing and go after his binky. I am nervous about weening him off of it! Wish me luck!!
I almost forgot about his blanky as well. He is VERY attached to his blue blanky from Uncle Kars and Aunt Linz. A lot of times he will cry if you take it from him!

I like to read Nixon a story before I put him to bed. He does pretty well at sitting on my lap and listening to me. Although he has NO idea what the story is about, it is still good for him and it is something I love to do with him!

Now for the big "C" word. The question is....Has Nixon started to crawl yet?!? Drum roll please.....................................NO! Ha, my dads new name for him is 'Stumpy'! This describes him well! However, I do think we have got something brewing!! The last couple of days he has gotten on all fours which is a new thing for him. TODAY he took a couple "crawling steps" here and there ( I have no idea what you call it!) My parents just left our house, but my mom predicted he will be crawling officially within a week. I'm not going to say when i think, because personally I thought he would have crawled a few months ago so I think it is better I just not say! It will happen when it happens!
He really likes standing up against the couch and he will take a few steps to get from side to side. If he loses his balance he gets really nervous! We will just have to work at one thing at a time!

This is how I feel about my baby....
In the morning when I first hear Nixon through the baby monitor my first thoughts are "No!!!" Getting out of my nice cozy bed isn't something I want to do, but when I get a minute to wake up and start walking down the hall I truly get excited to peak around the door and see my little boy propped up waiting for me! He always has the biggest grin which I totally love. I live each and everyday for him(...and Conner!). I am so grateful that I have been blessed to be his mother because it really is the best job in the entire world. We are all so lucky to have the closest things to heaven in our homes!
I am very anxious to continue to watch my baby grow and learn new things. It is bitter sweet. I want him to stay a baby forever, but at the same time I am excited for his next stage in life!
I love you little binos!!!


Tanner & Nixon @ Cheesecake Factory

Nixon playing w/ Aunt Linzy

Nixon's first BIG mess.

Mommy gave Nixon a new crazy hair style!

 

Nixon doing what he LOVES, cruising in the car.

For Gampa Rick...

New Years, Games, Family, and A Few Extra Stuff!

Well, our month long vacation has come to an end a lot quicker than we had anticipated. We could NOT wait for the Christmas break to come, and now we are looking back wondering where in the world it has gone! We had a great time in Nephi spending time with family and friends. We always have a great time there. But after being there a good 3 weeks (Or longer) I think we can ALL agree it was time for us to head to our real home, so that we did.
New Years
To start the night off we had dinner and played games at my parents with Kaydee and her kids. A little while after we were invited to my brothers house for their ugly sweater party. Kars and Linzy looked so good! haha

Tyler and Karly's
We left Nephi a week ago (last Sunday) and stopped in Lehi to stay a couple of days with Tyler and Karly again. We did the same old stuff, eat, watch movies, plays games, and talk talk talk! We always have such a good time with them. Besides Settlers, they introduced us to a new game. Skip Bo truth or dare! It is such a better way to play the game and it makes it SO intense. We played with us girls on a team and the boys on a team. Before each game we have to come up with a good dare for the loser to do. (That's why I'm not sure why it is TRUTH or dare?!) Our first dare was for the loser to get in their undies and ride the bikes up the street. Keep in mind it is dead winter!!! The losers were....CONNER AND TYLER!! Tyler was hilarious. He would not do it until Karly turned the lights off outside because he didn't want to draw attention. The next game the dare was to slow dance with each other...AWKWARD! Losers, CONNER AND TYLER!! I think that dare was A LOT more awkward for two guys to be slow dancing. Game three, American Idol. Losers...CONNER AND TYLER! They had to be dead serious, come out and introduce themselves and sing solo. It is a lot more difficult than it seems. Game four, lick chocolate of each others fingers, blow a belly fart on stomach, and stare at each other with a serious face for 1 minute. Losers, KARLY AND KYLEE. The last game we lost again and had to fast dance with each other. We had some great laughs! Thanks again for letting us stay!

 

Baby Berkley

 

Ps. I am WELL aware that you can clearly see my stretch marks. Go ahead, laugh! I was debating rather or not if I should post this picture, but than I thought...you know what, who cares!! Ya, it sucks. Ya, I feel totally embarrased for my own husband to see me with my shirt off, but now I think there is SO many more horrible things that could be wrong with me. If my baby wanted more room to be cozy, and these were the result of it...then so be it! So, there! (Ps. I know...they're HORRIBLE!)

Another reason I could be depressed if I wanted to, I have NO jaw line. I have a fat chin with a fat neck. Isn't that how the Victoria Secret models look? (Now if I had a picture of my bust, then you'd be laughin!) Why am I so blessed with such a perfect body?


Elder Austin Edwards
Conner's little brother, Austin, left for the MTC December 30th. He was really excited. We picked Austin and Micci up from the aiport and then went out to eat and did some errands. When we got back to Grandpa Murrary's Micci was making sure everything was ready to go for Austin. Conner slipped in a couple of things for Austin. When we came to tell me, I couldn't help but laugh and take a picture. 
We are very excited for Austin! He is going to make an awesome missionary!

Making Out

 We had the discussion with our cousins about making out. You can cringe at what I am about to say but we ALL know it's true. Making out is a sort of 'rush', that is when you are DATING. It is actually quite fun to make out when you are dating that person you love. You can't beat the butterflys you get in your tummy! So, isn't it funny that for a lot of us making out is a lot more fun when you are dating, which is actually when you are NOT suppose to be doing it. When we were talking to our cousins we were discussing how we just DON'T make out anymore. I mean why would we when we can just cut to the chase? Well, a couple of nights ago my handsome husband and I decided to give it another shot. It was going good! Up until this moment....

 

I think I'll end my post at that. Until next time!! :)

love you all!

Free Photoshoot!

I saw Mariah's post about a photo session giveaway and couldn't resist seems how Nixon will be needing is on year pictures not too long from now. This photographer, Wendy Anderson, did Mariah's little boys one year pictures and they are SO stink'n cute! Here is her site....http://wendyandersonphotography.blogspot.com/

Our Christmas Break Thus Far...

The nice thing about being in college is you get a stinkin' long break during christmas. This year our break is a week longer! We got done with our finals on the 8th and we don't start back up until January 11th. :)

So far we....
* Hung out for the LAST :'( time (in Logan) with our best friends. They will be moving to Draper and leaving us behind...

* Went to the SLC temple for our friend, Brian's, wedding.

* Had a {Western Night} and watched the NFR. (One night a year is enough for my hubby to pretend he's a cowboy!)

*Went to the 36th(?) annual Kay Family Christmas party. Nixon wasn't even scared of Santa...maybe just a little tense. It's expected.

*We had a coloring contest. Can you guess the winner? LUKE. Of course.

* My baby is still not crawling. Am I worried? I was, now...I'm taking everyone's advice and figuring the longer it takes the better. I won't have to chase the little buckaroo around everywhere! But, we still TRY to help him with tummy time. He cries and cries. But now he tries to hint to us he'll do it on his own time by just laying his head down and not making ANY effort. What a kid!

Wow, he's up on his hands...WITH A SMILE!

* We went to visit Tyler and Karlee and stayed at their house again. We always have SO much fun. We stayed up till three playing settlers, Conner and I still hadn't won!

*We went to the {JUAB} basketball game. Nixon really enjoyed it, especially when my cousin Tevan caught a ball for him! Tevan know claims the title of BEST cousin. :)

*We took my nephews and niece Christmas shopping to buy gifts for their mommy and daddy. We had to make a stop at Carl's Jr so they could play in the playland.

* Tanner had a birthday! He is FOUR! Kaydee had a party for him the day before. Nixon liked playing with Ellie's stoller. Then Ellie attacked. Or was it a hug? We'll say it was a hug!

*I had one of those priceless moments....I got to rock Nixon to sleep. This was my FIRST time. He's not a cuddler and when you hold him he doesn't just relax. He HAS to be moving. Therefore, because I got to do this I was a VERY VERY happy mommy!

*I had a party! It turned out a lot better than I had imagined. It was so good to see all of my friends from HS. It had been a very long time. We played games, ate yummy food, talked, and laughed {ALOT}.

*** And then came CHRISTMAS EVE! We had a busy day planned. First it started off with breakfast at Aunt RaNaes. We had breakfast with my mom's dad, Grandpa Kay. A little after that we went to the cemetary to visit Grandpa Keith (My mom's stepdad). He died a couple of years ago and his birthday is on Christmas Eve. THEN, we went out to Grandma Reds (my mom's mom) to have our traditional christmas eve night. This consists of dinner, the guys watching football (grr..), exchanging ornaments with the cousins, and getting pajamas from Grandma.

Every year the cousins exchange christmas ornaments. The ornaments usually have something to do with what went on that year for that specific cousin. My aunt Angie knows a girl who has been making them the last few years, this way we can get really specific!

Kayden: him on the computer

Austin: graduation 2010

Shaylee: golf

Jamileh: Graduation 2010

Alex: bike crash. :(

Brayden: Indiana Jones

Shayda: University of Utah

Tevan: his Pinto he got from my grandpa to fix up

Keaton: a cat...long and weird story...

Jayden: Toothless on his fourwheeler. (He had a big wreck and lost his teeth)

Nixon: Baby's first Christmas in his BLUE blankie

Talysha: SUU student

Kameron: Soccer player

Trevan: Soccer player

Tanners( not shown): is him holding his two imaginary friends little friend and little Kameron (SO CUTE!)

Ellie (Not shown): her with her cute pig tails in jammies

Some of the other ornaments were not made by this girl, I don't have a picture of them but they were cute as well!

***Christmas Day!!!

Conner and I had fun our first year being HoHo! I was so excited I had a hard time going to sleep! This was our little set up.

We woke up at 8:00 and had our little families Christmas (Nixon, myself, and Conner). My parents were good sports to sit through the 1 1/2 hours of it. Conners parents sent us a couple packages from Seattle which was super nice of them. They really did spoil us!

After {Our} Christmas, we went over to my grandma and grandpa morgan. (Most know them as Pooper and Papa, that is ALOT more normal for me). We had breakfast and had our Christmas there with my dad's side of the family. Sadly, I didn't take many pictures there...but we had a good time!

We came back to my parents and had a short time to relax until we had our THIRD christmas with all of my family. This year we did it differently by having it later in the evening. We really liked it this way because it spread the day out rather than rushing so much. My parents spoiled Nixon with more toys and clothes. After the kids opened their presents it was time for us to open. (Us as in Kaydee, Karson, myself and our spouses)

This year my mom was pretty creative. It started with a poem my mom wrote that told us we had clues to follow (she kinda tried to do her own little amazing race kind of thing) Our first clue was in our stockings. We all went through our stockings quickly trying to find the clue. We ALL missed it. The clue was the color of our wrapping paper! we then had to go over to the tree and grab all of the presents that were in that same wrapping paper. Once we did that we had to organize the boxes in the right order. Then, we had to open each gift and find a letter hidden in each one. Some of the letters were pretty tricky! After we got all of our letters we had to fill our a paper, and try to unscramble the letters to make the right word. Once we filled out the paper correctly and figured out the word than she gave us each some nice backpacks or fanny packs! haha they were styling! (they were more of a joke!) Once we all got to that point then we opened up our bags to find out main present....We each got something that goes towards our trip to Hawaii. My mom is always so great at doing our gifts in fun ways like that! I hope I can be that way when I have more kids. It was an awesome Christmas!

Thanks Mom, Dad, Rick, Micci, Pooper, Papa, Grandma Red, Conner and everyone else for our great gifts!

We ended the night playing games with Karson, Linzy, Mom, Conner, and myself...(Thanks again Tyler and Karlee for letting us borrow settlers...we've played it ALOT!)

{The best news of the night...}

My parents got the best gift of the night...They were given a present with two items in it.

These were the items...

We were all so excited that everyone was in tears! We couldn't be more happier for these two. I know they will be amazing parents! I can't wait to meet my little Niece or Nephew!!!

My Favorite Picture....

You had to be there, but when he woke up and I took the carseat cover off this is what we found. He stayed like this with a straight face for a good 3 minutes. Everyone got a good laugh!

Merry Christmas everyone! Love you all!