Not what was planned, but what a BIG weekend!

Wow, what a big weekend we've had! Jason and I had to cancel our weekend away since both of the kids got sick on Friday, Jaxson of course with another ear infection and Peyton with bronchitis. I guess after being snowed in for what feels like forever, what more can we expect than everyone to get sick.......

Peyton did put some of his time to good use while being stuck in the house. He had to do a project for school celebrating the 100th day of school. The project had to be something consisting of 100 items and grouped in a manner so that the kids could easily count to 100. Here's his jellybean art.

He did a really great job of sorting all the colors, counting them out in groups of 10 and then glued everything to the page. It was a lot of fun to be able to have some time to sit down with just the two of us and watch him work so hard to do his own project.

Jaxson also decided to put his time to good use. He's WALKING!!! I'm so proud of our little man! He's taken about 7 steps at one time. Crawling is still much faster for him and if he catches you watching him while he's trying to walk he'll just fall down and laugh, but he's doing great.

Here he is standing on his own. I think he's just about mastered this part.

He's actually walking towards me in this picture.

Just look at the smile in these pictures. He seems to really love his new found freedom!!

Snow, Snow and More Snow!!!

Ok, so I'll be the first to tell you that I LOVE snow! I'd have to say that Fall is probably my favorite season, but I still like winter and the snow. HOWEVER, I believe 30 inches of snow at one time has hit my limit.....and the good news you ask, well there's another storm scheduled for Tuesday or Wednesday of this week!!! Here's what we woke up to Saturday morning - this is a picture of Jason's truck under the trees next to our driveway........

Jaxson's still a bit too young to go out in the snow. He's not quite walking yet and I still haven't found good shoes that will fit his chunky little feet! But, Peyton absolutely loves the snow, even if he can't walk in it this time because it was so deep and had to be carried back up the driveway!

Here's some pictures of the feast that was going on in our front yard too. Peyton loves birds and has painted and/or built two bird feeders and a bird house for our front yard. I think they really appreciated his efforts after all the snow!!

A little something about my boys!

So I don't really know much about blogs and have never tried to create one before, but I thought I would give it a try. I've read a lot of great blogs and met some truely amazing people on facebook thru one of the best groups I've ever belonged to, POLP. Alot of the members have these wonderful blogs that have given me the opportunity to learn about their families. We have had the pleasure of joining this wonderful group all thanks to my youngest son Jaxson!

Jaxson, was born in September 2008 and I was told he had achondroplasia, a type of dwarfism, about eight hours after his birth. Jaxson's story is something I may write some day, but I don't feel that I can do it justice right now. Even though we had a rough start he has completed our family perfectly and I do believe that sometimes we are given blessings that we honestly never realized we needed.

Peyton is my oldest son and has started kindergarten this year. He has always been such a grown up kid that we always tease him that he's a little old man in a boys body. He has this wonderful "old" soul and you can see it in how much he cares for his younger brother.

My husband, Jason, and I always wanted a younger sibling for Peyton and a second child for our family. Jaxson has filled that need and completed our family just as we always wanted. So.....I hope to be able to keep up this blog and let you into a little piece of our lives by reading it.

Oh, and I just want to say thankyou to all of our Little People friends who may read this for making us feel like part of their family from the very first day. This is an unbelievable group that we have had the privilege to become a part of!