Learning About Life With 2 Kiddos!

I absolutely love my life right now!  (minus the financial side of it obviously!)  I have such a wonderful, hard-working husband and two of the most beautiful, perfect, loving children ever!  I often find myself in awe when I think about how lucky and blessed I am to have the life that I have.  I try to savor every snuggle and every sweet, slobbery kiss that comes my way because I know that one day these two wonderful children will have to grow up. :(  Since I have been MAJORLY slacking at updating my blog and posting pictures I have a TON of work to do so hopefully I don't leave anything out!

 

Nixon sleeping in his bassinet for the first time!  Lets be honest though...this didn't last long!  I absolutely LOVE having my babies in my bed with me!

 

Nixon in his adorable football beanie!

 

Berkley loving on brother!  It almost always makes her feel better to hold and kiss Nixon when she's sad!  SO DANG SWEET!

Nixon's first outing!  We went to Smith's to get mommy's pain pills!  He was just 2 days old!

 





Nixon getting his nails clipped for the first time!

 

Berkley is such a GREAT big sister!  She is always rushing to Nixon to give him his binky if he fusses (which thankfully isn't too often!) and she loves to stick her finger in the middle part of it!

 

That gets us through June, finally!  Now, on to July!

 

Nixon getting his first sponge bath at home!

 

All clean!

 

 

Berkley loves going outside to the backyard and coloring with chalk or blowing bubbles!

Berkley tackling the BYU fans!  HAHA!  Go Utes!  So cute!

 

 

Nixon's first doctor's appointment!  4 days old!

 

Just for fun...Me at 39 weeks and then 5 days after I had Nixon!  CRAZY!!!

 

 

Watching fireworks together on the 3rd!  Ryan and Ashley got to come too!

 

 

Nixon's umbilical cord fell off during the night sometime and I woke up on the 4th and noticed that it was gone!  It was in my bedding!!!  Kind of gross but I was glad it fell off because it was infected!

 

The 4th of July was when Nixon was only 6 days old and you'd better believe that we still celebrated it like normal!  Here are the pictures to prove it!

 

 

Our patriotic kiddos before the parade!

 

 

All of us at the parade!  It was seriously SCORCHING hot!  I couldn't stop sweating!!!  We ended up with tons of candy though and we got to go with Ryan and Ashley so it was still pretty dang awesome!

 

After the parade we went to my parents' house for a small BBQ and Nixon got to meet his great-grandma for the first time!  Berkley found the Sun Chips and kept sneaking into the kitchen to eat more and I caught my dad asleep with the little man!  We had a great 4th of July!

 

 

Watching TV together!  I love how Berkley was sitting!

It's true!  He is "Handsome Like Daddy"!  I love these two wonderful boys!

 

Nixon's cute little birth mark!

 

Berkley a little too close to the TV!  Haha!  We had a sleepover at Ryan and Ashley's house on the 5th and Berkley is just the right height to stand right in front of the TV and make herself blind!

 

On the night of the 6th we had planned to have Aaron's parents bring us dinner.  Little did we know that they were also bringing his sisters who were sneaky and planned a visit from out of state without us knowing!  It was a great surprise!  They sent us a picture of them by our SUV and said "Wish we were here!" and we were SO confused at first!  Once I realized what was going on I jumped up and ran outside and there they were!  It was so much fun to see Cherie and Dani so unexpectedly!

 

Berkley holding hands with Uncle Paxton!

 

Nixon's first big spit-up!  All over grandma!  :)

Grandma snuggling with both kiddos!

Berkley playing with her cousin, Kaylie!

 

All ready for church!  Daddy was singing with the men's choir in the ward so we went for Sacrament Meeting only because Nixon was only 10 days old!

 

Later Sunday night we went to cousin Boston's baby blessing!  Aren't these two just adorable in their Sunday best?!

 

When Nixon was 11 days old my friend from my ward, Sarah Miller (https://www.facebook.com/#!/sarahmillerphotos), came over and took some beautiful pictures of my two angels for me!  I love how they turned out!  Here are some of my favorites!

 

Aren't these two children just so perfect?!

 

Snuggling with both of my babies!  We took a nap this way that day!

 

Berkley wiping off Nixon's head after she kissed him!  We must wipe off her kisses a lot because now she always wipes them off for us!

 

Family snuggle time!  It's the best!

 

Berkley loves to sit in Nixon's bouncer and watch TV.  A few times she's even fallen asleep in it!

 

Too dang handsome!

 

Nixon's first time in the bouncer!  15 days old!  He was not too much of a fan but it's definitely grown on him!

 

 

While Cherie, Aaron's sister, was here from Washington she took some pictures for us on the 15th!  I love this one of Aaron and Nixon!

 

And here's a great family picture from that day too!

 

That gets us through the middle of July!  Yay!  I'm making progress!  The little dude just did a nasty #2 in his diaper and my princess is tearing my house apart so it's time to take a break and hope that I will get back to catching up soon!  It wouldn't be so hard if I didn't have so many pictures of 2 of the cutest kids ever!