June 2010

Some things we were able to do in June are:

Send Ben Off -  My brother Ben is officially a missionary in the Seattle, Washington Mission.  We're proud of his decision to serve the Lord.

Go to the Zoo -  Thanks Thierry for inviting us to the zoo. It was fun to do something different!

Buy a New Dishwasher - Our old dishwasher was on the fritz and decided to leak water and bubbles all over the kitchen floor. This is on top of refusing to drain at all. What a mess!

Celebrate Sterling's Birthday - Our baby is now 1 years old. We celebrated by taking him to Chuck E. Cheese and let him go on some rides after eating some pizza. He enjoyed it thoroughly. He is such a great kid and super smiley to be around. (That is, unless he has had shots recently. Holy cow, his 4 shots have affected him for a week.) Sterling can successfully walk around and knows how to scream to let us know Makayla is teasing him again.

Go to Lagoon - We took Makayla to Lagoon with some Paxton cousins. She was super excited the whole day. As soon as we got off a ride she would ask, "What's next?" "Where do we go now?" Even though we hung out in kiddie land most of the day, it was enjoyable to see how happy Makayla was.

Get World's Best Deal - I found a bike for Makayla at a yard sale for One Dollar! Although the training wheels were an extra Ten Bucks, that is a steal of a deal and I know it was a big blessing to find it.

Our Anniversary - Yesterday (the 29th) was our 8 year mark of marriage. Really, it's already been that long? So we celebrated by bouncing back to Lagoon, this time kidless. It was really awesome to go on the rollercoasters and thrill rides that we couldn't go on last week. We're also getting a babysitter this weekend to go on another real date :)

Grow Some Grass - Although you can't mow it or really walk on it, it's there, grass!!! So we've been watering like crazy to get it to grow.

See you next month :)

May-ish 2010

You're probably wondering what's happened to the Paxtons. Or, maybe you haven't even noticed that we're about 2 weeks behind our goal of posting at least once a month.  Well, the truth is, May just flew by, and the past 2 weeks, we've just been working like crazy on our front yard.  We've gone from weeds to hydroseed and from piles of dirt to a nice curbed mound of rocks and bushes. And every spare second we've been outside shoveling rocks pretty much. So yeah, we've been pretty busy, not to mention sore, when you're shoveling 32,000 pounds of rocks by hand and putting them where they'll look nice.  And the 30 plants that Scott and his mom picked out and planted for us are surely appreciated. At church last week on Sunday, the 20 compliments we got sure made us feel worthwhile.  Also, the strangers that have stopped on their bikes and others who've held dogs on leashes to put in a good word about our yard, have made us feel happy.  So, thank you, people for noticing. Yes, it's been a lot of work. And we did run out of money for the backyard this year, but, hey, it's a start. And we still have a little work left to do on the mound, but we have accomplished a big task.  One that will benefit us for the years to come.  It'll be nice to actually have a yard to run around on. And great to have a buffer before kids run into our busy street.  So, this is what we've been up to.

Makayla has been a good big sister.  Almost every day, Scott finds her in Sterling's crib in the morning, just playing with him and entertaining him.  That's helpful since Scott works nights and is not always completely alert in the mornings while I'm at work.  So Kayla makes sure to wake up her dad to let him know that Sterling is up for the day.

Sterling has been walking more and more. Yesterday, I counted him taking 49 steps around the house - IN A ROW- without even falling down.  He is so much more confident with the walking thing.  He hardly even has to think about it. Of course, when I tried to film it, he wasn't that in to trying, but I did get a clip of him for a bit. He now has 3 teeth and 2 more are about to pop through.

I have wrapped up yet another school year. Now I have 8 years under my belt. I never would have guessed I'd still be teaching, but it does pay the bills. And at least Scott is there for our family, so we don't have to pay for daycare, and we can be there for our kids.  I am officially out for the summer, YEAH!!