Peyton is Uno!!

A year ago this sweet little boy came into our lives....

And now he is ONE! Peyton had the BEST BIRTHDAY EVER! This is what we did:

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PEYTON CAUGHT A FOUL BALL AT A BEES GAME!

Kind of weird-ed out by the mascot lol

At Peyton's party he had 6 boys come and 1 girl!

The Most Amazing Cutest Birthday cake I have ever seen in my LIFE!!

We kinda went all out and Peyton had 3 cakes at his party. One for everyone, (which is in the back) a smash cake, and the amazing cute cake (which I couldn't bear to eat it was too cute)

Needless to say...he did have few bites but most of it he just kept smashing....

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Our friend Daniel Olsen took Peyton's 1 year pictures!

It was an amazing weeknd full of so many fun things! He even got a swimming pool for his birthday along with toys & clothes:)

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STATS:

WEIGHT: 18 LBS 10 OUNCES

LENGTH: 29 INCHES

HEAD: 18.3 INCHES

Peyton is into everything now! He is crawling everywhere and has 6 teeth! Not walking yet...He is still in the 3rd percentile for his weight. But once again the doctors don't seemed worried at all. One very exciting thing is now that he is a year....no more bottles! He goes on to whole milk:) And he loves it! A kind of sad thing...at his doctor's appointment the pediatrician was checking his heart beat and told me it sounded very strange and told me to go downstairs in the hospital to get an x-ray done...so the pediatrician rushed to give him 4 shots and to hurry him downstairs. I did and turns out we will be taking Peyton in to do an echo-cardiogram~which is an ultrasound of his heart. He didn't seem to worried. At his 9 month appointment the doctor had noticed he had a heart murmer. So hopefully, it's nothing serious at all. I'll keep ya'll updated. And remember if you're heading South come visit! Oh and PS we are going to start trying again....Soon!!! ha ha

Thanks for reading!

Loves

Love, Me

So Many Fun times are ahead....Mothers Day is on Sunday!!! It feels so cool to actually feel like Hey, this day is for ME!! Cuz I am a mom! Gives a good reason for Steve to shower me with gifts and It makes me feel so grateful to be a mom and for my cute little Peyton. Speaking of Peyton....he's turning ONE next Thursday!!! What the Heck!? Time has flown by so so fast! I am so EXCITED for his Birthday Party next Friday too....let's be honest I love planning anything!!

And am so excited for my friend Jamie to have her baby soon:) And so so excited to be going home next weekend for all this Fun to occur!! Steve just finished his first semester with straight A's in every class!! Goes to show you everything he's been learning has become so natural for him to grasp. He's off for a few weeks and starts back on May 24th. I'm so grateful to have a husband who values furthering his education and is pursuing a career in health care which is such a worthwhile, secure work place. Love you Steve! And am so dang grateful for my friends! And feel so spoiled to be living in this house! And Happy Mothers Day to all of you! Even with some of you who have your lil baby in the oven!! This day will take on a whole new meaning!

Ps. Go Suns!

Summer Already? Yes, Indeed!

Dixie Rock

It feels like summer already here in Sunny St. George! Come Visit!

Creative Side of Steve

So.....Steve cooks, scrapbooks, AND designs invites/announcements!!! Ha ha....these are his ones he's designed....it begins with his amateur to his most recent work of art:)

Randomness

I wanted to give ya'll an update in Peyton. He is doing SO SO much better! And are so happy to say he is cleared for RSV. No more of his cough, running nose, fever...nothing! How I love this warm weather in St. George. Everyday we enjoy playing catch in the backyard, playing on the grass, and taking walks. We really like it down here a lot. And as of right now, feel this will be home for the next 5+years. Peyton is SO close to crawling it's ridiculous. He gets in the crawling position and then flattens back out on his tummy! I want him to begin crawling so bad, but at the same time am not ready to proof the house yet. :) His two front upper teeth have cut through. I can't believe he's going to be turning ONE in like 6 weeks! Ps. for you all who have had kids, how did you personally come to know you were suppose to begin trying again? (maybe too personal, sorry:))

I have such an awesome experience coming my way this week...a convert from Georgia is coming to Utah and we are doing baptisms for the dead in the Oquirrh Mountain Temple....SO EXCITED! How amazing it will be to witness someone I taught the gospel to doing work for the dead. I've done baptisms with her before in the Atlanta, Ga temple. I want to go to Georgia right now SO BAD! But know it's a little unrealistic right now. Sometimes I wonder- does anyone remember me? Then at a moments notice am reassured from a text or a phone call from a convert letting me know how much they appreciate me.

So we all have a thing that we are overly obssessive about whether it be....decorating, cleaning, punctuation or grammar, gardening....well, mine is scrapbooking. This all began a little after we got married, I always feel so inclined when we take pictures to first save them on our computer then to develop them and scrapbook them. I think this could have started when I saw the commercial of these parents pictures being destroyed or something and they had their 4 year old standing in a crib and the parents were taking pictures trying to recapture the photos they had lost and the commercial was for some computer talking about the need to save your pictures etc. Sometimes I find myself second guessing if all my pics are accounted for....I know, I know I sound crazy! But just love pictures and the memories that are created from them. A little obsessive! Just out of curiousity- what's your thing?

Poor little guy:(

Peyton has RSV.......:( His test came out positive for it. I had a cold and then he must have got it from me. For RSV the only things you can do is vapor rub on their back, feet, and chest especially before they go to bed at night, a humidifier, nose drops along with suctioning. He's been so so clogged we've had to take him to a Bronchiolitis Clinic for them to suction him. What happens is they take a catheter and drop it up his nose and suck out all the crap. Needless to say he DOES NOT like it. When babies have RSV they have little to no desire to eat especially their bottle (cuz they can't breathe right) So we get him suctioned in the morning at the Clinic before he is able to eat his bottle in the morning. He's already so slender!!!:) So they have now discovered he has an ear infection too. So he's on medication for that too. We aren't able to go to church with him or any shopping centers of any kind for how contagious he is. The doctor has told us his cough can linger for a good month.....oh his cough is so so sad sounding. Nevertheless, he is still sleeping through the night! Hopefully he will get better soon!!

Baby Contest

This is the picture we submitted

So..we entered Peyton into Regis & Kelly's Beautiful Baby Search about two months ago. The winner gets $125,000 towards a 4 year college education and a year supply of Gerber foods. Unfortunately, he was not chosen as one the top 10 semi-finalists....:(

BUT.....

his picture will be on the show this week!! What day? We don't know...so we have the show recorded for each day this week:) Just something Kinda fun & exciting.