Solids.

Nixons first attempt at eating solid foods....
I went to a W.I.C. class to learn about feeding Nixon solid foods.  The girl said Nixon was displaying every sign to start him on solids except for one. I decided, well I will go ahead and try it out, so...I did!

He did well, a lot came back out...but thats just classic baby.  He seemed to like it because when I went to give up (haha I know...) he was getting upset and did his own way of banging his fists on the bumbo tray haha it was hilarious!! Anyways, even though I was told not to (due to chocking hazards) I now give it to Nixon in a bottle with his formula. It is just so much easier, but when his official 6 month mark comes I will for sure be feeding him his solids right from the spoon. Plus, by this time we will have a larger apartment, so it wont be in the middle of our family room.

Anyways, Nixon is doing great, and growing fast! Our friends just had a baby probably 2 weeks ago now, and she is so TINY! I cannot remember Nixon ever being that small! He is smiling lots, has an awesome personality which everyone totally loves, and he is a little mover!  He absolutely loves his car seat, and will always nap in it, and is so great because I feel like he is in it more than he should be.  He enjoys our walks a lot.  At first he kicks his feet and laughs, and then usually on my way back, he is sound asleep...well I shouldn't say sound because he snoors!! 

(I thought it was cute how he was holding onto his ear)

He got his immunizations, such a trooper! I liked how all 3 band-aids were different!

He is really into sucking on his fingers right now. He will stick them so far in that he starts to choke himself! Crazy little man! And every once in a while I find him sucking on his thumb.... I hope that doesn't take on at all!

Anyways, we love our little man, and his big blue eyes! :)

Brityn comes to townn!!!

So for my Birthday, one of my best friends Brityn came to Rexburg to visit us! It was awesome, what a trooper! While she was here I showed her the "sites" of Rexburg, along with some of Idaho Falls.  It was a blast to go shopping with a friend again.

We had some fun to say the least...

Anyways, she was here on my 21st Birthday, and we had a fun eventful night just me, Jeff, Nixon and Brityn! We started the night off with some glow in the dark bowling, followed by this game where you have "air guns" and you shoot balls at each other or targets to get points ohh man it was sooo much fun! Then we did a game of bowling. (I was the only one to break 100...normally its not that way...normally Jeff kicks my butt!)

(apparently the guy is too lazy to insert names, but thats me #1!!...literally ;) )

Anyways, we learned Brityn's not the most skilled at bowling hahaha but neither was Jeff.. in fact... mine was all by total fluke but it was loads of fun!! Then Jeff and I went and saw the movie fast five.... Sounds like a lot, but we had to take advantage of my free birthday coupons!!!
Here is a picture of me and Brityn posing with some bowling balls!

While we were in Idaho falls we hit up Texas Roadhouse!! :)

(Nixon is so great at restaurants, normally he just sits in his car seat and sleeps, its like he isn't even there!)

Brityn is sooo great at making Nixon Smile :)

 We Miss You already Brit!!! Come back soon!

Some recent pictures!

Nixon "sun bathing"....not really...we were just on a walk.. and decided to sit for a while and enjoy the nice day!

He is a sloberer......

Wearin' his daddy's shades!

hahah...couldn't resist.

I LOVE his blue eyes! I hope they stay that way. (fingers crossed)

In his sweet Gap outfit from Trish, Bryan and Hailey!

Nixon and Jeff.

He LOVES his elephant! Thank you Grandma and Grandpa Kenly!

We played a round of Mini golf with friends Colby and Natalie.  Nixon came along in his stroller and was a super star. Just hung out. He is such a good boy! I know you can't really see him, I thought it was funny that his bib was glowing in the dark.

Nixons "trick"

Nixon dancing to some Micheal Jackson....

Todays events!

Todays big event here at our complex. A little boy went missing. 6 cop cars flooded our parking lot, and soon people went door to door searching for him... not long after he was found visiting another apartment. Even though it may seem like its not a big deal, (because he wasn't missing that long) it must have been super scary for the parents, especially if they had looked long enough with no luck and then having to go to desperate measures by calling the cops to help find him! I felt bad because having a kid, I can kind of feel for what they went through. Of course I don't know it to the extend that family now knows it to...and hopefully I never will!
As for my eventful day, I was in the house doing paper work all day.  We are trying to get Jeff's green card so that he will have permanent residence here in the States. It is a lot of paper work to do, and very time consuming. Fingers crossed it will all go through quickly and smooth so that we can get the go ahead to go back to Canada to work on the 7 week break.  Mainly Jeff will be working, and me and Nixon will be livin' it up at the cabin! No worries though, we will let Jeff join us for a weekend..or two! ;)

Fun filled weekend!

We had an eventful past weekend!
THURSDAY - On Thursday night me and Jeff raced to Idaho Falls to take Nixon to Aunt Debs house so that me and Jeff could have a nice date night.  We went out to a movie - Something borrowed - It. sucked. Normally I love Kate Hudson movies but this one...total disaster. It gave you like a sick feeling as you watched it, and the ending...well thats time that we will never get back! Waste of time and money, but it was fun to hang out with my Jeffrey, and after we grabbed us some ice cream!
Date night = some what successful.
FRIDAY - Golfing! Aunt Deb and Uncle Pat treated Jeffrey to a round of golfing at their country club.  Jeff was super excited he LOVES golfing... and it currently isn't in the budget so we are super grateful that Deb and Pat could take him to have some fun.  Me and Nixon got to ride in the golf cart together! Nixon was great he slept for most of the time, but during the back nine he woke up, and we partied in the cart! I was thinking since the golf cart had a top on it that I wouldn't get a sunburn...wow am I an amateur or what?! I got fried!! Jeff too! Nixon however, still a whitey and I plan on keeping it that way for a while!
SATURDAY - Aunt Deb is a Realtor and works for Keller Williams in Idaho Falls.  They were a sponsor to a marathon/half marathon/10K and 5K run, so she was helping to guide the runners different directions. To be blunt...it was not thought out well at all the course of the runners, they were coming from different directions and we were on a T-intersection, so we had to pick out the numbers to know which runners were going what way, which was confusing enough because runners started coming from the wrong way!!! However, on top of that the T intersection was in the middle of a huge soccer tournament so it was super busy with vehicles. We had our work cut out for us thats for sure! However it was fun to help out and cheer on the runners! I did put sun screen on this day, however we were in the sun for like a solid 5 hours...so my sun burn was killing me! I am however really glad that I put some on because Jeff didn't and his sun burn was red for a lot longer than mine. hahaha! After the marathon event, we had to rush back to Rexburg so that Jeff could go to the dodge ball game at BYU-Idaho.  They are trying to break the world record for the largest Dodge ball game and Jeff got talked onto the committee however, this semester was a total flop. They only had 400-500 students and last semester they had 1100.... Currently University of Alberta (in Edmonton) holds the world record so even though it would be cool if BYUI beat it... I would rather have Albertans have it!
SUNDAY - I think I had a hint of sun stroke. I felt so sick and had no energy! Jeff and Nixon went off to church together and left me home to ... well I won't give you my sick details. Anyways, later that day (after sleeping like 20 hours!) we went over to Dane and Hilary's house for a pot luck dinner. We got to meet new people, and we had a lot of fun! I think Dane and Hilary are a lot of fun, and hopefully we will have more pot lucks in the future!!

Anyways, this weekend was a blast! We had lots going on, but it was really nice.