I know it's a little late but I still have 12 more minutes!


12 more minutes & Christmas is over. That makes me sad. But what makes me feel more sad is my tree no longer looks like this

I am going to miss you Christmas & tree which makes my house smell so lovely

Well I seriously have so many things I would like to blog & it's killing me I don't know why I am such a slacker! Dax's birthday was September 7th & I can't believe how quickly it came & went well 3 1/2 months late here is Dax's Birthday party pictures, it was still warm around his birthday so we decided to do it at the spanish fork water park & it was such a fun little water park! Can't wait till summer so we can go again

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Wow I haven't updated in almost 2 months! That's so long, mostly cause Jake has been in San Diego working & I just feel like I don't have a ton of time to post nor the motivation. Well I have so many things I would like to post trips, birthdays, & milestones But maybe I'll just have to start with Halloween since that is the most relevant. I kind of felt like it was a never ending holiday, so many halloween activities, Dax got some good use out of his costume this year!
First, we had his school Halloween Party! Here he is with his teacher Mrs.Brenda, she is about the sweetest lady you can come across, Dax was mad I made him take picture he wanted to go party and eat the cupcakes we brought
Then Trick-Or-Treating at Jake's company Pinnacle...


He got to meet MJ...

Capt'n Jack Sparrow!

Then the Gailey Family Halloween party which is every Halloween morning & there is a big breakfast, games, pinatas, and like a fun little play... with mad scientists who get the kids watching to eat corpse body parts made of food & candy. It was cute, Dax ate the veins which was licorice.


Lastly we went home & took naps, then passed out candy, then went trick or treating in our neighborhood, ordered pizza, and handed out candy for the rest of the night!

Jake has always wanted to go skydiving and I have never had a desire in my life to skydive. I am afraid of heights actually...So Jake knew I was always a no go on the skydiving and he wanted to go with someone not by his self. Well a friend of mine Cherish had been telling me how she was dying to go but had no one to go with. So for Jake's birthday I gave him a certificate for skydiving and my friend Cherish was flying to Denver to visit us... So I set them up to go skydiving at mile-hi skydiving of Denver apparently it's the highest jump you can get!These guys were definately not scared at all! I was soo shocked I was more nervous than them! This is Jake up in the sky Dax was so confused that Daddy & "Chersh" were jumping outta a airplane...When he saw daddy he was so excited! I asked him if he wanted to jump outta a airplane with Daddy & he said "uh huh YES!!" It was pretty cute
Jake & Cherish with their certificates...Jake pretty much has me convinced at some point I will go sky diving in the near future! I kind of want to! They had a lot of fun & Jake will hopefully work towards getting certified in the near future!

August 5th before bathtime Dax was showing interest in the potty and we decided to take advantage of it while it lasted. So the next day we started our journey into Potty Training. I have to say I was a little stressed about the idea. I was thinking he was a little TOO young at 23 months, I have always been told boys usually aren't potty trained till about 2-1/2 closer to 3, and just read a potty training book that said 37months?!?! Mostly that they just take a lot longer than girls. We are proud to say he is a quick learner and transitions well when life throws him something new. It took about 5 days to have him potty trained. On day 5 we had a successful 8 hr day at the airport flying/driving to Chico, CA, I was so happy but definitely tired of running to the bathroom every time he looked at me and yelled "CACA!!" Ya that's what he says every time he has to go even though that's spanish for #2, kind of embarrassing in a public setting. S
He isn't wearing pull-ups at all not even for nap time or bed time just his "chonies" again spanish slang for underwear...Like how we keep a bilingual household?


HOW WE DID IT: He spent the first couple days naked staying inside & on the patio doing indoor activities which was driving him nuts, the poor kid is just so active the "always have to be doing something type" chalk, bubbles, coloring, cheetos, jumping off our furniture, dancing, reading, legos, and a LOT of Finding Nemo & Thomas the Train. We made a potty chart in the bathroom so every time he went potty he got a sticker he LOVED that seriously best idea ever. Then gave him a pez or skittle every time he went potty then sang a little song! I reminded him every half hour till he started telling me when he had to go .
I am pretty sure the best part is when he would model his underwear to show people...not sure I can give it a description with the justice it deserves...He would like angle his leg out like he was showing you a cute shoe & then turn his whole body away from you see the picture & like pivot spin full circle with a shoulder slouched...get that image in your head?

Dax is so proud and so are Mommy & Daddy at what a big boy he is now! I am thinking of the money we are saving! YES!!! It's so fun watching this kid grow up he is just amazing and so full of surprises. He is hardly my little baby anymore no bottle, no binky, no crib, & now NO diapers... now what do I do?

Anyone that knows Dax in person knows he is pure boy. Seriously the kid is Manly his favorite things...Sharks, Dinosaurs, Trains, climbing and jumping off of anything that is a challenge to land. The kid even has a little skateboard trick.

So for me it was no surprise I was rushing him to the ER, I always thought it would be for a broken arm... not a quarter of his finger falling off and spurting blood everywhere. Yes...spurting...sounds worse than it is...

Dax's finger got shut in the back hinge side of the door that was metal, it was one of those doors that were soo heavy just so they would shut by themselves no matter what. It shut so hard...The scream was so loud...It pulled his fingernail out from the cuticle & cut straight down & broke the bone.

Worst Part was we were driving to Denver from Utah, this was just a few hours after the dinosaur museum, Dax was hungry and we were stopping to get him something...1 hour from Denver. I had no idea where I was. It was the worst...
Jake drove to where we were thank goodness I know I couldn't of handled the procedure they had to do trying to put his fingernail back in & stitches through his nail. Jake has had a near death experience and said this by far was the worst, holding Dax down screaming and crying "Daddy help Daddy" over and over while they did it. I think just seeing your child in pain...I cried the whole time probably as much as Dax.
*We are currently potty training right now and it's going great! He survived an 8 hour shopping trip & 2 hour car drive in just his chonies (spanish slang for undies hah) no accidents so excited to post about that*

We've drove back and forth from Denver to Utah a few times this summer and every time we stop in Fruita, CO which is right by Grand Junction...it's at the halfway mark so we usually stop there to let Dax play at a McDonalds play place and run wild...There is also a Dinosaur Museum right there. Somehow Dax got a Dinosaur obsession...So on our way back the end of June I decided it was perfect opportunity to go to the Dinosaur Museum! He LOVED it so much! It was so much fun seeing him learning and making dinosaur noises at the dinosaurs...he would try and run off around a corner then come back freaking out a little cause around the corner would be a scary dinosaur Pretty cool Museum an area to pan for fossils, dust dinosaur bones, aquarium, dinosaurs that shoot water, robot dinosaurs you could control



Brachiosaurus Heart

I have been like the worst blogger EVER, I kind of turned anti-blogging I think but the truth is I really love to blog all our summer activities, it was so fun for Jake & I go to go back & look through old posts during the winter months when we were missing the sun, & even now to compare Dax from this moment to 1 year ago exactly, we just seriously laugh... our pasty bald fat headed baby. Jake would do some crazy things with Dax last summer & there are a few babies here this summer that are his age then & I can't imagine them doing any of those things...I guess Dax is my wild child NOW for those reasons. It's fun to go back so I am going to post about 100 posts...totally kidding...but seriously since I've blogged we've made about 6-8 trips. I think maybe we've just been too busy! SO I am gonna play catch up

When he isn't stuffing his diaper with food, coloring my cupboards, throwing things off the balcony, drawing all over his body, free falling off our furniture, throwing cell phones, pooing in the tub, breaking drawers, unplugging everything, throwing all of his toys outta his room, crumbling his food into little pieces & throwing it, staining my white clothes, getting into a jar of Aquaphor pomade which is THE hardest thing to clean!.... He sleeps and it's pretty much the most precious thing.

Love you thanks for being such a wonderful Daddy Jake

















































Happy Father's Day to our Dads whom are amazing Papa & Grandpa to Dax

May 31st was our 4th Anniversary...The sweet boy I married always does something special, I love it! He always has something special all lined up and ready to go, I have never planned an anniversary now that I think about it. That's one of my favorite things about Jake he is always planning and trying to impress, well most of the time when he isn't growing out a massively long head of hair, trying to grow a mustache, or prancing about in a speedo. I have to say those are the times I am un-impressed :) Despite being a little goofy I have to say he is the greatest thing that has ever happened to me & brought more joy to my life than I knew was possible...Getting married at 19 was kind of a wild thing to do where I come from, but it has been the best decision I ever made.

Anyways this year we stayed in downtown Denver at a hotel called "The Curtis" it is completely fun & funky pop culture themed boutique hotel. I never knew what Nostalgic meant, Jake kept saying it & I kept looking confused...but the definition is that hotel. It was so awesome! Took me back, they had Zots, sixlets, & pixie stix in the room it was too fun. There were 13 floors and each had a theme well the halls did NOT the rooms that could be weird. The halls were decorated with old photos, art, or cutouts....some of themes were... musicals, sports legends, pedal to the medal, big hair, opposites, one hit wonders, dirty dancing, & more specifically the hotel's 13th floor which is dubbed "Dun Dun Dunnn" and this tagline greets you when you step out of the elevator: "We've traced the call, it's coming from the hotel."
When you arrived at your floor the elevator would say some line relating to the theme it was fun. We walked the halls for like 2hrs just having fun looking at the cool decorations.

We went out to a nice dinner that night, then the next day we went to a Colorado Rockies Baseball Game, it was sooo fun! Jake let me pick the seats & it's easy to say I wanted 4 hours out in the sun to get that nice Bronze tan we all crave. We loaded up on nachos, hot dogs, & ice cream you know all the healthy stuff.