Paxton turns 1!!!!

Our Paxton turned one about a week ago! Crazy! I can't believe it's already been a year... but a great year it's been. Some things that Paxton is up to nowadays:

Here is a picture of his teeth. Hahahahaha. He had 6 teeth at about 8? months old and got his 7th tooth the day before he turned one. :)

This is just a cute picture of Paxton swinging...in August?

He LOVES reading! He probably reads for at least 2 hours total a day! I'm so grateful because it's cute and quiet.

We blocked off the fan because he loves sticking his fingers in there and also unplugging things and then I found him one day in the area that's blocked off. The little sneaker found his way under the crib. I hate when they get sneaky...:) But seriously, he loves unplugging things and getting into EVERYTHING now that he is mobile.

The cute boy also loves playing the keyboard, and used to play for around 20-30 minutes a day until he couldn't stop unplugging it and eating the plug so now the cord is on top of a bookshelf...

I did Yoga one day and starting the next day he was doing THIS. Down dog pose anyone?! Haha. He did it CONSTANTLY for like a week or so. Hilarious.

He has LOVED playing with the light that comes through the holes in our blinds. He gets very confused when he moves and they disappear. Haha.

He LOVES the ties in  all of our quilts...esp the one he is attacking in this picture that his Grandma Steiner made him. He bites and pulls on them as hard as he can. I usually find at least 3 yarn ties around his crib or on the carpet everyday. He's...special. ;)

He has learned how to walk (a little before turning 11 months old) and still looks like he is going to fall over with each step. haha.

He loves playing with the couch cushions.

He LOVES LOVES LOVES baseball caps and his winnie the pooh winter hat . He wears them all over and gets so proud. It's so so cute! (And here he is with one of his favorite toys...a rubber spatula)

He LOVES other kids. I babysit for my sister-in-law three times a week while she goes to school. Here are all the crazies. Our apt is very boring, so you can see the exercise ball is a huge hit and the pillow accidentally left out on the couch. haha. Paxton loves when they are over!

We went to Grandma and Grandpa Day's to celebrate with some of his cousins and aunts and uncles and had cupcakes. (pictures are blurry...sorry).

Here he is with his cupcake and his favorite...daddy!

Paxton LOVES when we read to him...especially Trevor when he gets home from his all day shifts at work...

And Paxton LOVES leaves. He goes around and picks them up and eats them.  And his other favorite thing (since he was a newborn) is watching people. He is nosey and always watching people and wanting to be part of the action. Haha. I didn't know things like that could be inherited...sorry Pax.

We love our Paxton and absolutely LOVE having him in our family. He is getting cuter and more fun all of the time. We have been so blessed to have a very chill baby that is easy and not high maintenance, which has helped as we were both in school...esp when I was. We are so grateful for him and all that he adds to our family! :)

As of late....since August...

Well, a random overview of our last 2 1/2 months of living in Utah, that are actually captured on camera (which is not very much)...

My BEAUTIFUL friend Kaitlin Wimmer got MARRIED!!! To Clayton Davis. It was a wonderful sealing and I'm so happy that she is SO happy!!! :)

Us with the beautiful bride and groom! :)

 So Trev went out for an interview for a PA school in West Virginia. Long story shot, they told him he would have gotten in if he had applied earlier, but another PA school in WV lost it's accreditation and their 60 PA students got kicked out of their program half way through and all applied about the same time Trev did. So Trev got an interview, but you really can't compete against students who have already been through half of a PA masters program. So....the waiting continues. We have applied to other schools and will see if it works out even though we applied quite late in the cycle....
    Trevor stayed with Clayton's brother (so..Kaitlin's (above) brother-in-law and sister-in-law). A HUGE thanks to them for driving Trevor, letting him sleep at their house, and for their hospitality and kindness! :)
                           Here are pictures of Charleston that he took while there...it's BEAUTIFUL!

A large part of Charleston from the airplane window.

Our favorite thing to do since coming here is to go up the trail that goes by Bridal Veil Falls. We realized we live SOOOO close to Provo canyon and try to go on Trevor's days off and walk for a while. The fall weather is BEAUTIFUL up there!!!

Our ADORABLE Paxton!!! :)

Trevor's brother and his wife went out of town and let us use their student football tickets for the BYU vs. Oregon State game about a week ago. It was a lot of fun. Thanks Craig and Kylie for the tickets! We were on row 20 and it was a good game...until Oregon State caught our pass and ran it back at about 5 minutes left and got a touchdown, putting them 3 touchdowns ahead. That's when we left. :) It was a lot of fun though!!!

Trev and I outside the Stadium on our way out! 

Bridal Veil Falls. Beautiful!

This little....friend...walked in front of us as we were going on the trail the other day. Cat Faced Spider. Gross. And HUGE! It was seriously like a mini-tarantula. But it was cool seeing one in real life, because I had just been looking them up the day before. A cool video I came across showing one in action...haha.....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8VC0s2kDHM

Beautiful! i love FALL!!!

Our cute cute Pax again! He's one now ya know! :)

And those are some things we have been up to. :)

June and July

Warning: This is really long (like all of my posts...) Sorry!

Well, July was an interesting month for us. We started it out with dropping Trevor off in Utah to live with my parents while he looked for a job down here in Utah Valley. I went back and finished the last three weeks of my semester and internship. Trev did get a job at an assisted living place in Orem and found us an apartment to live in close to his work as well. So we were living with each other's parents for three weeks. Then my parents and Trev came up to my graduation on July 20th and we packed up my parent's car and trailer with all of our stuff and left for Utah right after my graduation ended. We are now moved into our apartment and are enjoying living together again and so close to all of my family and part of Trevor's siblings as well. We're excited! And I'm SOOO happy to be done with my bachelor's degree (In Marriage and Family Studies) and am excited to be a stay at home mom for my little Paxton.

Paxton will be 10 months old in about a week and is loving walking with help and along furniture. He did finally start crawling at about 8 1/2 months old and started trying to walk at around 9 months. He's a lot of fun with his 6 teeth and laughs and we love having him around. He is going through his stranger danger stage which was cute at first and is getting exhausting being the one who isn't a stranger, but we love him anyways.

So now for pictures....

This is from June...but the present Pax and I made for Trevor for Father's day:

The Front

And the Back

And some pictures from two different hikes that Trev has gone on with his brother Richard while in Utah. The first was to some hike up Little? Cottonwood Canyon and the second one was up to the top of Mt. Olympus.

From the top of Mt. Olympus

Paxton LOVES biting things-namely me and blankets. Here he is one morning in bed with us and he goes down face first into whatever and comes up with something in his mouth...

Paxton also LOVES dogs nowadays. Trev's brother's dog Tikko has been staying at the Steiner's house and so we'd go out in the backyard and see him sometimes. Pax started saying "woof" for a few days but won't do it anymore. This day he was doing it and it was ADORABLE. He'd do it everytime Tikko was barking.

We also went to the Idaho Falls zoo with Trev's family the weekend before we moved. Here is Paxton on the big rooster in the play area:

 

The HUGE turtle

It started raining just as we were finishing up and Paxton LOVED it. He  thought it was hilarious and we got soaked.

And Graduation Pictures:

My sweet friends Kaitilin and Sarah came up to Idaho surprised me and came for my graduation which was SOOOO sweet of them to do. And then my parents, Trev, and Trev's parents were there:

Me and my Sweet boys!!! I'm so grateful for these two and all they've done to help me through school!  I sure do love them! 

My sweet friends Sarah and Kaitlin

My wonderful parents who have taught me so much! I'm so grateful for them and all they've done for us.

I don't know why I love pictures of Paxton crying so much. He just looks so so cute!

HAHA. My mom was sprinkling grass on Paxton and  he was making this hilarious face. He's so funny.

Me walking across the stage getting my diploma cover

Me and Trevor's parents. They have helped us SOOOOO much-more than we could say-so I could get to this point. I'm so grateful for all of their help with babysitting, letting us live with them, and their support and love. They're the best! :)

I'm so grateful for this experience I've had of going to school with Paxton in our family. It's been hard, but I know that I've been blessed to have it not be THAT hard. I have many family members and friends doing MUCH harder things than this in order to get their educations and I admire them even more now that I've gone to school with my one baby. I'm so grateful to have my bachelor's degree though and loved the experience I had at BYU-Idaho. There aren't enough good things to say about BYU-Idaho. It's an amazing school. It is definitely unique and the unique things about it can seem weird and not the best way, but they are WONDERFUL and have provided the education that I needed and wanted and I know they were inspired! I'm so grateful for all of the prayers in our behalf as we've finished up our degrees at BYU-Idaho and know I wouldn't have made it without them! So thank you!!! And thank you for all of those who listened to me complain and vent and who encouraged and supported me! I appreciate it more than I can say! Thank you!!!!


And last but not least, we got to go to Bear Lake with my family this past week at the end of Bear Lake. Unfortunately our camera battery died the first day, so we only have this one picture, but it was a blast and I'm so grateful to my parents for doing it every other year so our whole family can be together. We missed our Derek who is doing great things in Sweden, and wished he could have been there, but know he is where he is supposed to be! And Jeff also wasn't able to come since he had to work. LAME!!!! But luckily his family came. We missed him A lot too!!!!  I love my family!!!
Here is Paxton after he woke up the first morning. He got really hot during the night in our tent and so we took off his pajamas and he slept like a rock after that (thank goodness):

The end. Sorry it was so long! :)