Jax is TWO!!!

 I can't believe my little man is 2!!! We celebrated in our backyard and had a little water party. Jax got a trampoline for his birthday! It is a cute little one, not a full size, but perfect size with a net around it. Jax has been really into Cars so my mom and I made him a cars cake! It turned our pretty good I think, thanks to my mom! I was too busy running around doing all the other stuff, that she pretty much did the whole thing, I didn't have the patience. Ha ha! Thanks Mom!

 The backyard all ready for the party!

 Birthday boy!

 Opening presents!

 All the loot, spoiled boy.

Jonah loved the birthday balloon. He would stare at it for hours, it was funny. We tied it to his ankle and he thought it was the coolest thing in the world!

Jax also had his 2 year check up. He is still way off the charts for height, 50% for weight, and 50% for head. He is a healthy, big boy! He had to get shots and it was awful...it's awful when they are big, he just cried and cried and kept saying mommy help me! It was horrible I felt like a horrible mother holding him down, but it has to be done right! 

We went to St. George a few weekends ago, I will post about that later, but it was super fun! 

Memorial Day etc.

 My brother bought Jax some mustaches and so we decided to put them on Jonah! He still looked adorable! :)

Josh and Jaxson went on the Father and Sons camp out a few weekends ago. It was freezing and I was worried about them sleeping out, but they did great and Jax loved it! Josh said that Jax woke up early in the morning and was hungry so they got him some crackers and then when they were going back to sleep a flock of geese were right by them and were so loud and Jax kept saying "tweet, tweet" and laughing. He thought it was hilarious! They went on a hike too and Josh said Jax loved riding in the back pack and hitting things with sticks! They had a good father/son outing!

Jagger, Jax, and Halle snugglin'!

 Jonah's new favorite toy! He just stares at that little lizard all day, it is funny!

For Memorial Day weekend we headed up to Midway to spend it with Josh's family. Saturday we got tickets to go ride Thomas the train! It was fun and Jax loved it, except the weather was awful so we didn't stick around much after the train ride because it was rainy and blowy. Then on Monday we went on a little hike, played a little tennis, and got super sun burned...I had been on an antibiotic because I just got strep throat (OUCH) so I think that is why I got so fried. We also took family pictures, had a BBQ and then came home! The highlight of the trip was that Ralph (Josh's dad) backed out of the garage and smashed right into our new car! SWEET!! So we will be getting that fixed soon. Other than that it was a great long weekend. It's hard to get back to real life!

Jonah enjoyed the train too!

Jax having fun! He kept saying "choo, choo!"

THOMAS!!!!

Jonah and Jax hanging on the couch. Jax had some MAJOR bed head...haha

Jonah had rice cereal for the first time! I have been putting it in a bottle before bed, but I decided to try it with a spoon and he did great. I don't think he cares how he gets food, just as long as he gets it! :)

Jonah's Blessing

Jonah was blessed on May 6th! It was a beautiful day! Josh did such a great job on the blessing and we had our whole family here to celebrate with us! We had a little breakfast at our house after, and it was a nice day so we had it in our backyard. Jonah is growing up so fast and is such a blessing in our lives! Oh how we love our little chunky man!

 Jax wanted "Papa" and was freaking...

 Grandma and Grandpa and the great grandkids!

 My family

Josh's family

Jonah's 8 week check up

Well, we have one HUGE baby! We had his 8 weeks check up today and he is a healthy boy! He was off the charts in both height and weight! He was 15 lbs 14 oz and almost 26 inches long! His head was in the 75th percentile. He did have to get shots today and he was a champ. He cried, and it was so sad because he never cries, but by the time they put the Band-Aids on him and I picked him up he was done crying. Jonah is such a fun baby. He is happy ALL THE TIME! He never cries. Even when he is hungry he just kind of yells. He smiles and has almost giggled but not quite. He is wearing 3-6 month clothes, but probably not for much longer, he is almost out of them. He is so easy going, even with Jax running around yelling all the time. He has been squirted in the face with a squirt bottle, rammed in the head with a train by Jax, and he still is just the greatest baby. He DID NOT like the water in his face though! ha ha poor kid. Oh how we love our chunky monkey! :)

Here is a funny video of Jonah talking....ha ha

Slacker!!! Blog Overload!

Well, it is official....I am the worst blogger ever! LOTS has happened in the Andersen family since I posted last! First of all was Christmas! Sad that I have not posted since then but better late than never right?! 

A few weeks before Christmas we went down to Richfield to celebrate! It was the weekend of the light parade so we went to that and opened presents. It was a fun weekend! Then we spent Christmas Eve and Christmas day with Josh’s family in Midway. Jaxson was so fun because he was old enough to get it and play with the toys! Right after Christmas we moved into a house! We have loved having more room and a big yard and stuff. Jax loves having more room to play.

 Jax in his car from my parents'

His Cars chair!

LOVES chap stick!

His horsey from Ralph and Heidi!

Making Christmas sugar cookies, Jax LOVED it!

January we celebrated my 24^th birthday! Oh dear I’m getting old!

February was a BIG month for us! First of all my brother and sister-in-law had a baby! She was born February 3 and they named her Elle! It was so neat for them to have a baby and I became an Aunt! It is awesome!

Then we had Valentines Day! Jaxson got some candy and some new Valentine’s Day pajamas! Josh got me some beautiful flowers and I got him a balloon bouquet with some fun little sayings attached to each balloon! The last thing that happened in February is we had our baby!!! I will tell the labor story etc. so if you don’t want to read that skip down.

Jax helping Dad put together the crib! SO helpful!

On February 22^nd it was just a normal day and I was home with Jax. I had a sinus infection so we were just hanging out at home. All the sudden I started getting really light headed and dizzy and nauseous. I thought maybe I needed to eat something so I went and ate a bunch of stuff and I was still feeling weird. I called Josh and asked him to come home because I was afraid I was going to pass out. He left and was coming home and I called the doctor. They asked me to take my blood pressure, so I did and it was through the roof!! They told me I needed to go in to labor and delivery right now. As soon as Josh got home we left to go to the hospital. They admitted me and got me all hooked up and sure enough my blood pressure was really high. My doctor thought it was best to just start me since I was only 2 weeks from my due date. We had not packed anything or brought anything to the hospital because we did not think we would be having a baby that day! Any way they started me and we called our families. My parents left Richfield right then and Josh’s mom came down to the hospital. Jake and Chelsi left Provo to come too. My brother came and got Jaxson from us at the hospital and we were ready to wait. They started me at about 1:45. An hour or so later I was progressing quickly so I got an epidural. My parents arrived a few hours later and I was getting close. My doctor was supposed to get off at five and the on call doctor would have to deliver me, so I was hoping I would got before five so my doctor could deliver me. She came down to check on me a little after five and I was almost ready, so she said she would go do some paper work and wait as long as she could. Some time later I was ready to push! I really wanted to push, but the doctor was not there yet. As soon as she got there I pushed for 5 minutes and Jonah was here!! They put him right on my chest and just let me hold him for a long time! I kept thinking they needed to take him away and make sure he was ok, but they kept reassuring me he was fine and to hold him. With Jax they had to take him away right away because he was so little and had a few issues, so I thought they would have to do the same. It was so nice to just hold him and bond for the first few moments of his life. He didn’t even cry! He was so content and just laid and looked around. Jonah was born at 5:52 PM and was 8 lbs. 13 oz. and 22 inches long! He was a BIG boy for being two weeks early! Soon they moved us up to our room and Jonah was doing great. He didn’t have jaundice, he was eating and nursing well and it was great! We came home a few days later and it has been great. Jonah is such a good baby and Jax has adjusted really well to being a big brother! Jonah is so mellow and hardly ever cries, unless Jaxson sprays him in the face with a squirt bottle! Ha ha. It is so different with two. I have been SO exhausted, but Jonah is finally starting to sleep 6-7 hours at night so I am starting to feel better. We are so blessed to have these two little guys in our lives!

Here are just some random cute pictures! Jax loves books!

March was a bit of a blur because I was a walking zombie for most of it. The end of March we bought a new car! We got a Mitsubishi Endeavor and we have loved it! It is big so we can fit all of us in it and the double stroller, which was not possible in the Prius! In April we headed to Richfield for conference weekend! It was our first road trip with both boys and it went well, except for Jax got car sick on the way down and puked all over….that was fun in our new car!  Jax got his skin tags removed the first week of April. He did such a good job. I thought it was going to be so much worse than it was. Primary Children's is awesome. They had this lady come out while he was waiting and gave him a hospital buddy to decorate and brought him a bucket of all the different things the doctor uses like a stethoscope and the breathing mask and stuff for him to play with and get used to. Then when it was time to take him back, they got him a wagon all ready with toys, pillows and books and put him in it and wheeled him off. He did so good! Didn't even cry. Then after they monitored him for a bit, because I guess when they took him off the breathing thing after surgery, he didn't start breathing right away, which I guess is pretty normal with kids? So they had to give him this drug to reverse all the medications and he did great after that. The next day he was completely fine and back to himself! His ears look so good! I'm so glad that is over!

Then we had Easter of course! Holidays are so much more fun with kids! Jax loved the Easter egg hunts and dying eggs. We are still trying to eat all of the candy he got!! He got spoiled! :)

 Before surgery

 After surgery...a little groggy

Easter!!

We got together with Josh's family on Saturday and dyed eggs and had an egg hunt in our back yard!

 Sunday morning we had a little egg hunt in our front room and of course the Easter bunny came!

 Jonah on Easter morning!

 Looking at all of his candy!

 Tyler and Cori blessed Elle on Easter Sunday so this is before church....that great awkward Easter outfit picture! Ha ha.

 Grandma and Grandpa with all three great grandkids!

 Sunday night we had an egg hunt at my cousin Angee's house with all the cousins! Jax loved it!

Phew!! There we go! I think I am all caught up now!! Here's to staying on top of it now! :)