Goodbye Utah, Hello Colorado!

Well we have made it to our next duty station...Fort Carson Colorado! We are not sure about the area yet, it is pretty, and we love the mountains, but it has rained a ton since we have been here and we are not used to living in such a big city! It is SO confusing! And we haven't found a for-sure place to live yet, so we are staying in a hotel on post. Here are some pics of our last little bit in Utah and our trip to CO.

How do babies sleep like this? It looks so uncomfortable!

We had family pictures taken with both of our families before we left, here are some of Jaxen I took while we were waiting for the photographer...he has such a cute personality!

A quick family pic with my camera

and we haven't gotten the Bingham family pics back yet from the photographer, I can't wait to see them!

We took the Jacobs/Jones family pics with my camera on a tripod, so this was the best we got...not too bad!

We also had Jaxen blessed while we were in Utah, it was a nice blessing and good to have all of our family there for it.

On our way to Colotado we went a bit out of the way and went to Arches National Park because niether one of us had been there. It was pretty cool!

The infamous delicate arch on the license plate :)

Had to get one of these pics because we had an AK one too :)

And...we made it to Fort Carson!

We'll have to let ya know in a few months if we think it is the best hometown in the Army, haha!

Goodbye AK...Hello UT (for now)!

Okay- This post has a TON of pictures, but most of my posts do because i am not much of a writer, but anyways I just thought I would give you a heads up :)

I also just wanted to say thankyou to all of my friends and ward members in Alaska for taking us in for the 3 years we were up there. It really felt like home, and I am going to miss Alaska and all of the friends I met while we were there. Someday I assure you at least Jaxen and I will come back to visit...you all know how much Branden loved Alaska! :)

And on to the pics...This is Jaxen a couple of days before we left Alaska...the beginning of August, he was just getting into the crawling position on his own at the time.

He also cut two teeth sometime from the end of July to mid August, so at about 6 1/2 months.

So CUTE!

Here is Jaxen and his cousin Carter with their matching onesies! Jaxen thought everything Carter did was Hilarious!

While learning to crawl Jaxen did lots of push-ups...

and head stands...

We had a barbeque with the Jones family

Jaxen loved uncle Jeremy!

The gang

Grandpa Jones and Jaxen

Some pretty black-eyed susans

The friends and I went to dinner

Jaxen sure enjoyed himself...no he really did this just isn't a happy pic

Jaxen and cousin Boston, they're going to be best buds!

Kenai also made it to Utah...unfortunately, J/K! (kinda) On the plus side, Jaxen loves him!

Cousin Branden and Jaxen playing, they will also be best buds!

And as most of you know, we thought branden was lost in Canada for a couple of days, we're glad he's not and that he is okay. He has been helping his brother Blake build his house the whole time we are here.

Jaxen got to go swimming for his first time ever! He absolutely loved it!

Jaxen at the picnic we had with some of my friends

We also had a picnic/hike of our own!

Jaxen putting his feet in the river...

Daddy and Jaxen

Some pretty flowers on our hike

Mommy and Jaxen in front of the waterfall we hiked to

and here is Mr. Jaxen in all his glory! He is crawling everywhere now!

We celebrated Branden's 30th Birthday! I know...I can't believe he is 30 either!

Jaxen loves being outside so much! It doesn't matter what he is doing, but he does love to swing! And check out that stick in his hand, I tried to take it away and he flipped out, so I let him keep it!

We are having lots of fun being in Utah around family, but we are excited to get to our next duty station in Colorado springs at Fort Carson. We leave Utah September 12th. Hopefully we can find a place to live once we get there quick!

Anyways, that's about it for now!

Last Jump

This was from a while ago, but I am just getting around to posting it. Branden jumped his last jump as airborn infantry. It was cool because they got to jump into Big Lake. I wasn't going to go because it was about an hour drive and it was pretty early in the morning, but I have never been to one of Branden's jumps and it was his last one so I decided to go and I am SO glad I did! It was awesome! I seriously wanted to do it myself!

 Here is Jaxen waiting on the grass for daddy!

They jumped out of black hawks

Six people jumped out of each helicopter at a time

boats picked them and their parachutes up

Jaxen with his daddy

They did this video coverage of the jump which kinda gives you their perspective, pretty cool!

Alaskan Airborne Water Jump Operations from USARAK on Vimeo.

New Family Pictures

I had my good friend Dawn take some family pictures for us. I just wanted an updated family pic since the last one Jaxen was a newborn.  Jaxen wasn't in the best mood, but I still think they turned out really cute!