Lots of Pictures!!!

Brent has been working a lot, he started his surgery rotation the Monday before Christmas and has been working an average of 14-15 hour days. He is such a hard worker the hardest part is most days he leaves before Jaxon wakes up and doesn't get home until hours after Jaxon is in bed. Unfortunately Christmas Eve was no exception, but he was lucky enough to get the whole day off on Christmas. That was the first time since he started this rotation that he was able to see Jaxon while he was awake. We had a great day together as a family and then we went to a friend's house for dinner. Jaxon's first Christmas was so fun, he loved the wrapping and tissue paper, and boxes. He also loved all of his fun new toys. Here are a few pictures from Jaxon's first Christmas.

9 Months

Time just keeps going by way too fast, Jaxon is already 9 months old. He is so much fun and he is very busy. He loves his beanie and he is really pretty good about keeping it on when we go run errands. He is getting so big, I'm excited to see how big he really is at his Doctor's appointment next week and I'm excited because this appointment there won't be any shots!

It's a Parade

We live in such a fun neighborhood. As I was sitting at the computer tonight I keep hearing a honking noise, it sounded a lot like a semi truck's horn, sure enough that was exactly what it was. They had Christmas music cranked up and were driving up and down the streets honking their horns. There were only about 5 or 6 but it was fun to see and they were very festive.

Santa!!!!

We decided since this will be Jaxon's first Christmas that we would go to the mall and splurge a little and got a picture of him with Santa. As we were waiting in line Jaxon was all smiles, then as soon as Brent put him on Santa's lap the smiles were gone. This was the best they could get out of him before the crying began. Our option for pictures was this one or one of the back of his head as he turned to look and see who was holding him, then he started to cry. He was so sad he wouldn't even take the candy canes that Santa was trying to give him.

Snow Day

Saturday it decided it was going to snow all day long. I'm not a big fan of the snow or cold weather, but I decided that I needed to get over it because it wasn't going to stop just because I wanted it to. We all got dressed in our nice warm clothes and went out to play for a while. Jaxon really seemed to like it except that he couldn't get down and play in the snow so he and I only lasted a little while, just long enough to make a pathetic looking snowman.

By the time the snow finally stopped we ended up with about 4 or 5 inches, poor Brent went outside to shovel the driveway but luckily we have a very nice neighbor who happened to be out cleaning off his driveway with his snow blower and was kind enough to come help Brent out.(This was before our neighbor came to help; Brent had been out there for about 20 minutes and not even half the driveway cleaned off. Then after 5 minutes with the snow blower it was completely clean). Then on Sunday the sun was shinning and it was warm all day so now the snow is almost all gone.

We also had a Tacky Sweater Party at our friends house this weekend, which was tons of fun. There was lots of yummy food, a white elephant, and of course all of us dressed in our finest.