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I'm not very good about any kind of baby book so I figure this is as good as anything so that Jackson has some type of a chronicle of his young life. Rather than trying to catch up from my last post...impossible and far too much work...I will. Start with this weekend. We had a great weekend catching up with Gennivieve Cook, Dawson Williams, Paxon, Stokco and Huxley. Sledding, mini golf and pizza Friday...followed by several hours at Winter Palooza on Saturday!!!  Time was too short, but we had a blast and have started thinking about when would be a good time to visit Alaska!!

Sledding in Park City

Coming out of a pitch dark Laser Tag

Dustin is having as much fun as the kids

Brother on brother

Looking for a kill

Huxley's gun is just getting too heavy

SNAKES!!!

Looking for dad

Visit with Santa

Last week we went to see Santa. I didn't know how it would go because last year Santa completely freaked him out. This year all went well. Jack asked for a Transformer...with guns! It's doable. The good thing this year is I can tell Jack if he is not a good boy or if he doesn't do what I ask I threaten to call Santa...maybe there are better methods, but this one works!

Halloween 2011

Just a few pictures from Halloween. Jack finally got it this year and he would have trick-or-treated all night. He had such a great time with Uncle Merrick! The only thing he didn't like was how heavy his bucket got when it was full of candy. He only got to eat about half his candy because as far as he is concerned he is allergic to nuts...we are going to take him to the allergist in a couple of weeks and we will know for sure.

Stressful Week

Now that Thanksgiving has come and gone, I can now take a deep breath before we dive into the Christmas season. One week before Thanksgiving we were informed that Jack's school would be closing it's doors for good...on November 30th. Really...2 weeks was all the notice we got. The stressed out and anal mother that I am, after hearing the news, I got right on the phone and started calling places I looked at before Jack was born. Luckily one of the schools I had looked at had an opening. I was so relieved I just cried. Jack has been at his current school since he was 12 weeks old. He knows all of the teachers and is truly happy there. It is hard to think about starting over...developing new relationships with new staff. The good news is we have friends with their kids at the new school and they really like it so I am hopeful.

In addition to trusting a new staff I do worry about how Jack will do at a new a new school. I probably worry more than I should, but being a kid who changed schools a lot I know it is somewhat hard no matter what age you are. I did take him to his new school in Wednesday so he could meet I new teacher and see his class. In his previous school, since he was 12 weeks old, he has had 1, maybe 2 little girls and many times there have been no little girls. His new class will have 3 boys and the rest girls. It will be good for him, but I worry he will be too rough. The boys at his current school are rough and they all play rough together...I hope he will learn to be more gentle. I hope we don't get too many calls from his teacher. Stay tuned for how Jack adapts.

Thanksgiving was great...we were at PaPa Pete's house. Despite finding a blown hot water heater valve and over an inch of water in our storage room while finishing the turkey and stuffing...things were good.

Looking forward into the next week we will be starting the new school and my crazy wrestling season will start, but Christmas is coming and that I am excited about!

It's been a looooooong time!

I know it has been forever since I have posted anything, but now blogger has an app and I can just do it from my phone. In October took a trip with Brian, Kari, Janey, Bode, Grammy and Grampy to the beautiful island of Kauai. What an amazing trip! The kids loved being together and it will be a memory I will never. I huge thank you to Grammy and Grampy for making this trip possible. We love you do much!

Long Absence

So it has been a while since I last posted. I have no excuse unless you count working full-time, having a toddler that gets into everything, going back to school and volunteering with the wrestling team at Layton High School. No excuses.

Not too much happening...Jack is into everything and he doesn't just walk, he runs! That kid only has one speed and that is fast. It is so much fun though. He is just growing so fast. He is now talking up a storm. Most of the time I can't understand a word he says, he babbles and babbles. In fact, at school the teachers have to sit with him when he goes down for a nap because he talks so much. And when he first wakes up they have to get him away from the other kids or his talking wakes them up. Like mother like son I guess. He does say single words clearly, but doesn't up them together in a sentence. Words like: daddy, bubble, car, Daisy, fish, treat, papa, ball, football, etc. We went to the doctor last week and Jack was 50% in height, 75% in head size and 10% in weight. We just can't seem to get him out of the 10%. He is drinking whole milk, eating whole milk yogurt and eating pudding. he is a really good eater, but he just stays skinny. The doctor says not to worry so we will just we won't.

We had a lot of visitors this summer. Uncle Chuck came out for a visit.

Courtney, Ron, Whitney and Craig Hansen.

Genny & Stokely Williams

Darlene & Callie Zerwekh-Reardon

My 5 year class reunion

Over the last 3 months we have had a couple of trips that were so much fun. Our first trip was to Kauai, Hawaii. The trip was fabulous. It was a long flight, but Jack did surprisingly well. He had a little bit of of melt down on the way out, but that because our flight to San Francisco was delayed, making us miss our flight to Honolulu and thus our 11 hour trip (with time changes) took 15 hours (with time changes). So one melt down isn't too bad. On the way back we flew the red eye and he slept both legs of the trip...it was great. jack loved playing in the sand, floating in the ocean and playing in the pool. Of course this was a much different trip than in the past. We did not do as many activities, but it was nice to just hang out and enjoy all the beautiful ambiance that Hawaii has to offer. Dusting, Grammy and I did get food poisoning so this took a good 24-48 hours away from our trip. Of course it only took about 12 hours out of mommy's trip because Jack didn't understand that we were sick and he was ready to go so Jack, Grampy and Mommy took a train ride to feed some pigs and goats and then Jack and I spent a lot of time at the pool while Daddy recovered. All and all it was a great trip and we had a great time. I look forward to our next trip and hopefully a particular uncle, auntie and cousins can come too!

When we got home from Hawaii we had a fabulous Halloween with our little dragon and a fun trip to the pumpkin patch. Thanksgiving with Grandpa Pete, Uncle Porter and Aunt Chloe. We also went with some friend to see Santa, Jack was unimpressed.

Our next trip was to Medford for Christmas! I think Jack jinxes us however because when we got to Medford (on Christmas eve) and we went down for a landing and then pulled back up, circled and then had to go get more fuel because there was too much fog to land. We got more gas and went back to Medford, circled for 40 min and then finally landed. It was crazy! Once we landed all was good. Grandpa Bob picked us up at the airport and we had Christmas eve with Grandpa Bob, Grandma Cindy, Grammy, Grampy, Uncey B, Auntie Kari and cousin Janey. It was so fun to see Jack and Janey together. I think they had a good time playing together. I will have to say that Brian and Kari kept telling us how tough Janey was and how Jack was in trouble...so we spent some time before coming training Jack and he took that girl down and showed her who the older cousin was...It was funny the first time, but then we had to hold Jack back and stop encouraging him...I hated seeing my niece cry. Christmas day it was the above group with the addition of Great Grandma Korfhage and my Uncle Al, Cousin John, Cousin Debbie and her husband Steve and their daughter Elise. Another kid in the mix who is between Jack and Janey's age and they all ran around and Grandpa Bob was in the middle playing hide and seek and horsie riding. I can't tell you how much fun it was spending time with my family and it all went by too quickly. I look forward to the time we can all get together again.

All and all things are really good. we have been attending Ute basketball games, going to the library for toddler time and Jack has been hanging out with mom at some of the wrestling meets. I will be much better with my blogging and post more often. Sorry!