eating dirt and sniffing mist

Saxon loves to get into the dirt where our flowers used to be, before they died. Now he just digs in there, and occasionally tries a taste of the brown dirt! Yucky! But, an old man in the post office once told me that boys are just like plants, they need some dirt to grow... guess this works!

Saxon had a really stuffy nose so we broke out the humidifier. It was fun to watch him play with the mist. Having him that close, breathing it in, really helped.

8 things

So I've been "tagged" by Chelsea, which must be a very important thing here in the Blogger world. I think it's a fun way for us to interact with our blogs and get to know each other better, and I didn't do it the last time I got tagged (sorry Mandy), so here I go!.......

8 T.V. Shows I Watch... (we don't have TV at the moment but here are some I enjoy, an/or that I rent from Netflix.)
1. Arrested Development!
2. The Office
3. The Simpsons **can you tell I like comedy??
4. 24 (this one is way not a comedy, but we are obsessed with it right now. we started watching from season 1 not too long ago, and are on season 3 now. we usually stay up way too late watching "Just ONE More!!"
5. The Food Network: Rachel Ray and the likes. Gives me inspiration.
6. HGTV! Also gives me inspiration. I love to watch the shows where the room/house gets transformed.
7. THE news (in the voice of "THE bears")
8. Ummm, Dancing With The Stars

8 Things That Happened Yesterday... well yesterday was Sunday, but I'll try to make it interesting!
1. Watched Saxon walk! He's getting pretty good at going across the room to me.
2. Went over to Grandma's (Chris' mom's)
3. Went to a park up Provo Canyon
4. Jumped from rock to rock and cleared a huge distance, and surprised myself!
5. Played a silly game of "first one to ____ wins!" with Chris near the river
6. Cuddled lazily in bed with Chris while Saxon slept
7. Took Don's truck that we used for the bridal fair Saturday, back to his house
8. Watched 24

8 Favorite Places to Eat...
1. La Vigna
2. Anywhere SUSHI...happy sumo, damae, osaka, etc.
3. Ottavios
4. Bankok Grill
5. Ernie's Deli, what what!
6. RiKelle's house
7. P.F. Changs
8. Carrabas

8 Things On My Wish List:
1. Owning our own home
2. A huge, stylish wardrobe (including shoes!)
3. Confidence/Intelligence/Wittiness
4. Have a passive income so we can use our time how we choose
5. Travel to distant lands and exciting places
6. Have a wonderful, stress-free life with Chris and kids
7. Create value for hundreds of people
8. Porsche Cayenne

8 Things I'm Looking Forward To:
1. Yoga class... I'll get there one of these times!
2. Chris coming home from work
3. My Tuesday walk with Katie
4. Our annual trip to St. George in the fall (we need to go soon!)
5. The holidays!

6. Watching Saxon grow up

7. Snowboarding season
8. Comments on my blog! ;)

I now tag...
1. Mandy
2. Katie
3. Chris
4. Bridget Smith
5. Lori Frost
6. Tara Leavitt
7. Mom
8. Raquelle McManus

elko

Ok so this was a few weeks ago and I should have put it up before my last post, but better late than never! We went to the small town of Elko, Nevada with our good friends Donovan and Crystal Washburn, and Zach and Izzie Gerber. Zach is actually from there, so we paid a visit to his good 'ol home town. First we stayed the night at his parents awesome house, then caught some food at this burrito joint...fffrrrt. Who was that?
Then we made our way up to Zach's cabin, which was awesome. We got to ride this horse bareback, ride 4-wheelers, and the boys shot guns.

Crystal was a real help with the horses-that's what she does, and she's dang good at it.
This picture is of Izzie, showin' Saxon the ropes. He was a little scared and unsure, but I think he liked it! YEEhaw
Saxon sure wasn't scared of this horsie! Luckily there were little kid toys at the cabin so Saxon had a ball!

It was fun to have a small vacation together. It's amazing how a road trip can give us the time to have long, interesting conversations in the car that we probably wouldn't have had the chance to have. I'm glad we have good friends to take trips with too! If anyone else wants to go somewhere, let me know! I'm ready for another one.

autumn, our favorite time of year.

Both Chris and I love fall time. We went up to the mountains and I gathered this boquet of fall foliage. I love this colors of this time of year!

It feels so good to be up in the mountains...then add all the beautiful colors and scenery, a light breeze and it's blissful!

Saxon loves being outside, and we're so glad cause so do we!

This 'lil pumpkin is was a happy surprise--The plant grew practically spontaneously in the front of our duplex, in between the two flower beds. But the thing is, there's hardly any dirt down there and it looks like it's impossible for anything to grow there. But it popped out without any of us planting it or anything! Now we love our little surprise pumpkin plant.

Our lil punkin by the pumpkinHaha I love this goofy picture! Saxon is so good at making faces.

This swing is actually in our neighbor's backyard, across the fence. But Saxon always wants to swing it it, so I of course let him! He loves it.

Saxon also loves to swing in the hammock. It's so funny to hear him laugh hysterically when I swing him in it really high!

Bathtime Bedtime.
Oh, how he loves bathtime. In fact, he'll often crawl over to the bathtub and pull up on the edge to look inside. He's getting really good at cruising around on the furniture, his toys, cupboards, beds, or whatever. He's even been taking his first steps, walking between Chris and I.
So exciting!

on cloud nine

I can't believe Saxon is already almost 9 months old. He's growing so fast, but it seems like he's been part of our family forever at the same time. Lately, he has been developing very quickly, which happens at this age I guess. He is now crawling quite well, but mostly just wants to walk around, holding onto my fingers for help.I love this picture. Saxon had just woke up in his stroller from a nap while we were at a wedding, and was being so happy and cute. Chris and I were going nuts about this picture! We are so in love with Sax.

Here's another one...showing off his dimples!

Later that night Chris' mom babysat and we went out to dinner at La Vigna in AF. This is us by the fireplace... It is such a great restaurant. If you haven't been there, I highly suggest it. The food and service is amazing! We'll go with you!

It's so funny--as soon as I break out the camera, Saxon is ALL smiles! This day he was in a bad mood, so I took out the camera and...well, you can see how much he loves it.

We got a new hat for Saxon. He wouldn't keep it on for a while... then it was the only thing he would keep on!

Oatmeal time! Yummy.

The other day I let Saxon let out his artistic side in his high chair. I poured ketchup, chocolate sauce, mustard, and a couple kinds of baby food down for him to spread around. To tell you the truth, it smelled pretty funky...but I think he had fun!

Escapee!!
Lately, Sax doesn't like staying put for diaper changes--at all. He loves to roll over and crawl away! Here he's after his binky, which is on the couch. He loves his binky!
He's getting really good at cruising around on the furniture too.


SAILING IN THE MOONLIGHTThe other night our friends Don and Crystal Washburn took us sailing.
Don's got his sailing face on.
Here we are in the cabin of the boat. Chris' hair is wet because well...he's crazy and jumped in the lake, along with Don.
Oh yeah, don't mind my super cheesy smile.

Zach and Izzie are also our really good friends. Saxon usually is a huge mama's boy and doesn't let anyone else hold him, but he was cool with Izzie that night. I really like this picture.