Fun with family

Last week Branden's family came to visit and meet Jaxen. On sunday we took them to the VFW in Egale River. This is where they feed the bald eagles in the winter. What an amazing experience it is to see all of these wild bald Eagles up so close and in the wild! There are somewhere around 80 eagles that show up each week! I have never seen anything like this in my life!

Sunday afternoon we drove to Seward and went to the sealife center.

There were a lot of cool seacreatures to see!

And the view was amazing too!

We ate at a delicious Iltallian restaurant and stayed the night in a a townhouse at the Seward military resort, it was so fun!

Best buds Jaxen and Boston

 We went bowling on base a few different times while they were up here,

 during the day it is only 25 cents a game!

Blake holds the record for the highest score: 211

We also went to the Alaska Zoo.

 Branden couldn't go because he had overnight training a few of the days,

 but we still had fun...even in the cold!

I LOVE THIS PICTURE!!!

 Isn't he ADORABLE?

We were trying to get another picture of Boston and Jaxen together,

 but Boston preffered to eat Jaxen instead!

 We'll just pretend he is kissing him! : )

 We had so much fun having family up here!

 Thanks guys for flying up!

2 month check-up

Jaxen had his 2 month check-up today, a little overdue but we had family in town so I postponed it. Anyways, he is a perfect happy healthy boy! His stats are:

Height: 24" ~75%

Weight: 12 pounds 8 ounces ~50%

Head circumference ~50%

He had to get his first set of shots which was so sad : (

But other than that he smiled and talked the whole time : )

 

What a ham!

Just one year ago....

...Branden returned from his year deployment from afghanistan.

and now we have this sweet little guy in our lives!

We are so blessed!

I also got my neckalce that I ordered!

I love it!

Going Private....

Hey Everyone I think I'm going to go private for reals this time. I just think it's probably the best thing to do because you just never know who is looking. For the most part I don't care who looks, because I am admittedly a blog stalker myself, but there is a point when it could get scary.

So, please, please, please!

 Give me your email addresses so I can invite you!

That is IF you want to be invited! : )

You can put them in a comment, send me an email melissabnghm@yahoo.com , or on facebook, whatever you want! 

Thankyou!

Fur Rhondy

We bundled up and ventured out to the fur rhondy on Saturday morning. We saw a little bit of the parade, and walked around downtown where all the fur rhondy events were taking place. We bought Jaxen a pocket knife for when he is older, we wanted to get him something from Alaska since he was born here and we may be moving soon.

We also saw some sled dog races going on, they were pretty fun to watch...the dogs get really excited before they are about to take off!..and they run SO FAST!

 

Branden got one of the infamous reindeer hotdogs!

And we also saw some really cool snow sculptures from the snow sculpture contest that was going on.

 

And, just because we love him.... :)

He's such a big boy!

V-Day Part 2

On Valentines Day when Branden got home from work...actually he has been on jury duty all week...anyways he gave me these daisies, some chocolate, and a beautiful necklace that had Jaxen's birthstone in it. Although I thought the necklace was beautiful, it was a little too fancy to wear everyday so we went to exchange it for a mother's ring and ended up with the same problem, so I remembered this website that had stamped necklaces with names and birthstones and I thought I would probably wear something like that a lot more because it was more casual, so I ended up ordering one of them, I can't wait to get it! There is a picture of some like what I ordered below. Branden didn't mind, he is just glad I found something I will wear a lot!

I got Branden these Monopoly pj's that he had his eye on for a while at fred meyer, but thought they were gone and I found them a few days before Valentines Day. I also got him the Monopoly game for his Nintendo DS. Branden LOVES monopoly...if you couln't tell!

That night we went to Red Robin for dinner...yum!

I love my boys so much!

It was a good Valentines Day!

and here are some random cute pics of Jaxen

he's gettin chunky! <3

and he loves takin naps with daddy!

and here he is with our friends little boy Britton, he loves to hold Jaxen!

Happy Valentines Day!

Jaxen is 1 month old!

I can't believe it, time has just been flying by.

It's kinda sad to me because he is growing and changing so much so fast!

Here is his Valentines Day outfit, and it is so true, he loves his momma!

 Most of the time I can't even put him down or leave the room!

 He is starting to smile a lot more, and even use his cute voice a little bit : )

The lack of sleep is well worth it when you get to look at this sweet little face every day!

 We just can't get enough of him!

I made some Valentine cookies the other day, they turned out cute and were very yummy! 

I just had to frost some of them like this after I saw the idea online...too funny! : )


Have a wonderful day with your loved ones!