Christmas in ViRGiNiA!!

This Christmas we had the opportunity to go back home to Virginia! I was really excited to see both of my sisters for 2 whole weeks:) We enjoyed good food, good laughs, and just good times in general! Jake came after 1 week, and then after Christmas Ryan and his family came. It was great to see everybody and see all the grandkids playing and having fun together! It was great hearing sarah say... or scream "TUCKER!!!!" haha, she is the sweetest, tiniest little thing with the biggest voice!! We loved it. Mom actually took time off from work which she should definatly do more often! It was fun to be able to have her not HAVING to be on the phone or computer :) I love my mom, and having her all to us makes me very happy! We had snow the whole time we were there so it was fun to see Kurtis go out and sled and play in the snow with Derick and Katie! We rocked out on Glee Kareoke and Disney Sing It. Even tho Derick is a cheater and we WILL have a rematch one day ;) haha, jk jk. We loved being avble to see Nanny a bunch, Tucker loves Nanny and just laughs and laughs when he is with her.. We made Stew as soon as Jake got in, it was so great this year (thanks to me and my cooking skills lol ;) Katie you KNOW what im referring to haha) and im sad i only got 2 bowls... sad sad day... But it was great spending time together and having Tucker there for his first Stewing! We are so grateful for our family and the opportunity we had to spend time with them! We cant wait until we get to see yall again!!!!! Summer cant come fast enough!

Kurtis and Tucker.

Jake and Tucker before going out to stew. Nanny gave Jake Poppas leather jacket to wear. He smelled just like Poppa.. It was nice to have that smell while stewing! Thats probably why it turned out so good this year;)

Pops and Tucker

Tasting the stew, haha JK this is not how we taste it...

Kyle holding Tucker on Christmas Eve

Merry Christmas!!

Sarah in one of her new princess dresses

Jake FINALLY got his Redskins blanket, thanks to a christmas miracle:)

Kyler and Tucker. They are 6 weeks apart and the same size so it was fun to see them interact with eachother

Sarah in GGs silly hat, she LOVED it!

This picture is blurry but i thought it was so cute, lol

the kids under the table

Ella in her super cute Jammies

Kurtis building a snowman...

ok Derick was really building but we made Kurtis go touch it for a photo op;)

Kurtis sledding!

The Pikulas

The Saxtons

The sisters:)

this picture is SOOOO KATIE!

Mom and Dad

The Gholsons

The kids

The fam :)

Here is a video of Tucker laughing at Nanny. 

Christmas time is here!!!

So today is my birthday and i REALLY wanted to take my little boy to see Santa:) I have been waiting for the past 6 months for the time to come and its finally here!!!! Tucker did great with Santa, he laughed and wanted to grab Santa's beard and touch everything on Santa's outfit. We got an AWESOME picture and here it is!!

Tuckerman's first Christmas:)

And just for the heck of it here are some other pictures from this past week!

 Tucker sitting and watching the dogs.

 Me and Tucker

 All the kids, lol

 This is probably Jakes favorite place... Tucker and the dogs all laying with him:)

 My favorite man, and little man:)

Hope yall are all enjoying this holiday season as much as we are!!

Jackie

Scentsy

So, for those of you who don't know i have most recently started selling Scentsy products! Its something that was given to me as a gift and i fell in love! Pretty much they are wickless candles and have over 80 different scents:) If any of yall wanna check it out here is my website!

https://saxton.scentsy.us/Home

If you are interested in getting any for holiday gifts, they are guarenteed to get to you by Christmas as long as you order by Dec. 18th! Thanks!!!

Jackie

Trip to Washington

For Thanksgiving we got to go to Washington to go see some of Jakes family. Jake finally got his 4 generation picture, 4 Saxton men, which he has been so stoked for ever since we found out we were having a boy. All in all it was a great trip that (as they usually do) flew by. I wish i would've taken more pictures but i feel like ever since i've had Tucker, at family events my hands are full and i totally forget to take pictures!! i will try to do a little better about it:) and hopefully i can get some pictures from jakes dad that they took of Thanksgiving.. but here are a few pix for ya!

Raquel singing to Tucker

Tucker and Grandpa

Broden and Tucker with their footsie pjs:)

Jocelyn, Broden, and Raquel with Tucker :) They called him "cousin Tucker" it was adorable.

Kissing Tucker :)

Finally Aunt Megan gets a turn! It didn't last long... Bro said Tucker really wanted to go see him;)

With Grandpa Saxton

Visiting Grandma Saxton 4 generations. She is such a trip!!!

4 generations of Saxton men:) I wish i wouldve taken tuckers plug out... but whatev!

Playing with Great Grandpas bracelet. Wes (Jakes grandpa) kept sayin, "keep pulling! just a little harder!" too much

Heres a video of Tucker at the VA hospital where Jakes grandpa lives. He was in SUCH a good mood like thiey much the whole times we were there! Pretty safe to say my child LOVES attention and when he gets it he is "happy as a lark" as my nanny says;)  

New favs!

Tucker tried baby food today! Pretty sure my childs appetite is going to be JUST like his fathers. Doesn't matter what it is as long as it's edible, and he will eat A TON! i swear, he would eat just as much as us if I would let him! I took some pix of his first baby food meal, sweet potatoes. He hummmmmmed while eating, which is JUST like my Dad, haha so it fits.

First bite!

Lunging for the second bite!

Loving it!

haha his faces are a trip

LOVED THOSE SWEET POTATOES!

REALLY happy after eating:)

Also, for those of you who ask how the dogs do with Tucker, heres an example of how much Dolly LOVES Tucker:)

Love it!

Here is another picture i LOVE! So this morning im laying in bed and Jake gets up for work. I get up to help him with something and while im up i hear, "Hellloooo" come from the monitor... "WHAT THE HECK WAS THAT?!" is what jake says....then we hear a,"ahhh, oooooo, eeeeee" I start dying laughing.... "It's that sing-a-ma-jig! the thing mom gave him!" We named him fish. so i go into Bubs room with the camera, and this is the look that i get.

"Mom...pretty sure i was playing and you can leave me alone until i call you in here.. k thanks. bye!"

Well thats 3 blogs in a week! im doin good! haha

Jackie

All Hallows Eve:)

So I am fairly diappointed that i didnt get to watch Hocus Pocus this year before Halloween... this is a classic that is really one of my favs!

Another disappointment... So last Thursday Jake comes home and says, "my schedule is open at 7 am so you should come in and get your wisdom tooth out." so i say, "OH, ok cool, thats good so i will be able to stuff my face saturday at the ward party:)" so Friday (the next morning) we go in and Jake takes out my wisdom tooth. He did a great job, no pain, in and out of the chair quick, me and Tucker got home before 8! So that was great! We got home and went back to bed haha

 THEN, around 2,  my friend Jamie texts me and asks me "are yall going tonight?"  Me being on drugs wondered to myself... am i forgetting some event that we are supposed to be at!? so i quickly ask,"Whats tonight?" and she says...."trunk or Treating and the chili cook off" back to me........ a very sad face....BUMMER! not only could i not stuff my face but Jake was REALLY excited about entering his Pork and Pineapple Chili into the cook-off..

So... i ran to the kitchen, threw the chili in the crock pot and hoped it would get done fast enough! Long story short... it wasnt, and now we have chili for the rest of the week, (we froze half of it of course) and i did NOT get to stuff my face with chili.

I will also add that i havent had chili in a year seeing as last year i was pregnant at the chili cook off in Gig Harbor and was asked to be a judge.... another long story short, my morning sickness decided to start up the following morning, after tasting a million and a half different chilis, and i havent wanted to eat or be near or ever HEAR the word chili mentioned! haha but back to the other story!

Our ward party was still fun, we hung out with some of our friends and then passed out candy to the trick or treaters:) Tucker was the CUTEST little lion i have ever seen in life. (Thanks Jamie, best costume EVER!) and i will definatly never forget all this craziness of Tuckers first Halloween! here are some pictures of our little lion:)

Theres  lion in our Truck!

Tucker and Mommy

 I had more pictures but for some reason they arent uploading! Oh well, ill just have to blog again and add some other pix:)

Jackie