Random Stuff from January 2012

Jackson trying to get out our gate - thankfully it is locked!! 1/4/2012

This is why Jackson is nicknamed destructo boy jr. (Cody is sr.) - ironically our screen door is messed up again thanks to Jackson

 Being a 2 year old BOY!!

 Having fun with dad - 1/7/2012

 Doing a muscle man pose

One day Cody had the idea to go out and build a campfire.  So we loaded up and headed out to a place called Bulldog Canyon.  We picked up some pizza on the way and had some marshmellows to roast.  1/13/2012

 Jackson with his cousin Shayne enjoying some pizza

 Shayne with Jackson, Kinnedy and Nikki around the fire - most of the pictures are a little blurry because of the smoke from the fire

 Had some marshmellow left on his mouth

 Stealing someones chair

 He had a really good time walking around playing with the flashlight

 I have decided that they don't make marshmellow roasting sticks long enough - in order to roast them good your face feels like it is going to melt because you are so close to the fire!!

 Cari and Garrett enjoying the fire

 Cody and Jackson before church he was wearing his John Deere tie a friend of mine gave to him for his baby shower and he looked super cute - it was hard to get him to let me take a picture 1/15/2012

New Year's Eve 2011

We spent New Year's Eve in Snowflake.  My nephew turned 8 and was getting baptized.  My brother and his family live in Colorado but decided to do the baptism in Snowflake so more family could be there.  We were excited because we were able to go.  We got up really early the day of and drove over to Snowflake.



 This is after the baptism when they were having a birthday party for Hayden - Jackson was enjoying playing with the ballons

 Jackson next to Hayden while he is opening his gifts

 Alyssa was the official holder of the opened presents

 The little kids were interested while Hayden was counting up the birthday money he got

 Jackson enjoying a cupcake - if he sees a cupcake or cake now he tells me I need a cupcake!!  Even thought he mostly just licked some of the icing off

 Playing Twister

 Alyssa with Jackson and Verity holding Caleb

 Jackson got to go on a golf cart ride with his Uncle Chris and cousin Alec

A nice shot of my brother's family - they will be moving to England this summer for several years - we are going to miss them - I am hoping to save up some money to go see them but it may be a long shot after I checked out how expensive tickets to England are!!

As we were hanging out at Rochelle's parents house Cody discovered that our car was leaking fluid.  Thankfully Rochelle's dad and brother Carl are really good mechanics.  They helped us get our car rigged up so we could get home and fix it since most of the car part stores were already closed on New Year's Eve in Snowflake.  We are so grateful for them they spent a lot of time helping Cody out.  It was nice though because I got to visit longer before we left.  The rest of our night was pretty uneventful.  We got back to our house around 9 pm I think.  Jackson slept the whole ride home so he was up for the New Year!!  I was dosing on and off on the couch.  I had a cold and we had gotten up pretty early to go to Snowflake and didn't get much sleep the night before.  I did actually wake up for the official New Year, but it was pretty lame and we didn't capture any pictures of it.  Happy New Year!!

Christmas Gatherings 2011

Most of Cody's family decided to do their own Christmas this year.  So they decided to get together the 2 days after Christmas.  Cari was so nice to host everyone at her house for a potluck dinner on the 26th and then we all went to see the temple lights.  The next day we met up at a church where we played minute to win it games, did a family auction, and had some good food.  It was a lot of fun. 

Nikki helping Jackson on her new pogo stick she got for Christmas

 Jackson liked this plasma car - he did ride on it a few times but most of the time he just pushed it around - he has a police car and can only ride it backwards so a lot of the time he just pushes it

 Posing for me - he doesn't do this much anymore

 He went up and down the driveway quite a few times

 Everybody gathered together to exchange gifts

 As you can see there were people everywhere

 Some of the little boys wrestling by the Christmas tree

 Grandpa Randy getting the gathering started

 Cari reading us a Christmas story

 Jackson opening a belated birthday present

 Giving Grandma Cindy a hug and a kiss

 Having fun on the stairs at the temple lights

 Getting a good view of the lights - it was a perfect night and it wasn't very crowded at all

 Just thought he looked super cute in these pictures in his hat

 This is the 27th - all the kids waiting to be divided up into teams for minute to win it - Jackson is sitting with Bailey

 Jackson with Taige

 Giving his Aunt Cari a nice hug

 Kinnedy, Nikki, and Cody playing the kleenex game from minute to win it

 Randy auctioning off some homemade kettle corn

 All the people anxious to bid on what they want

 Cody auctioning off the items we brought

 Modeling the hat I bid on that Maddie made

 Chase helping Jackson shot his nerf gun

 Chase is such a sweet kid - he let Jackson have the nerf gun that he bought from the aution - Funny story about this gun:  At our house I aimed it at Jackson and was pretty close to him.  I figured I would hit him in the chest.  Well it hit him right under his eye.  He didn't cry but he went on and on about how I shot him in the eye and told me not to.  He talked about it for several days and everytime you would aim it at him he would cringe and cover up his face and say, "no don't shoot me in the eye."  Oops!!

 Lined up to hit the pinata

 Cody helping Jackson hit the snowman pinata

It wasn't all the way full of candy, but there was quite a bit of candy

We had a good time and as always Jackson had a great time playing with his cousins.  For the minute to win it games I did the one where you have to shake the ping pong balls out of the kleenex box.  I was out of breath by the time I was done and I couldn't get all the balls to shake out!!!  I am sure the kids probably kicked my rear in that one.  Thankfully I don't have photo proof I am sure it wasn't pretty!!!