Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve is always one of my favorite nights, the excitement of things to come and all the craziness in preparing for it. We had Christmas Eve at Jeff's parents house, it was wonderful. The food was delicious as usual and we shoveled it all in as usual. The kids then did talents for the first time this year and Jaxon gave the whole Aunt Mandy poem! This poem was Great G-pa Hawkins favorite poem and since he has passed on we had Jax memorize it. He had it memorized in less than one week and the poem is 30 lines!!! Amazing. The boys then did "All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth". The cousins did their parts and it was wonderful. We then did the nativity and it went a little smoother than last year, at least the kids wore their costumes for longer than a minute. Bev then had these new chimes and we tried our best to play Jingle Bells, maybe next year. It ended with the kids opening their pjs and then these amazing boxes!

Our little nativity, baby Jesus (Hunter) only cooperated for a minute though

Our shepherd boy (Jake) and Wise Man (Coop)

Jax had been looking forward to being Joseph for weeks and Jadyn was Mary as usual.

My boys on the donkey with their Christmas jammers!

All the cousins in their pjs wrestling as usual with those cool boxes in the background.

These are the boxes each one was personalized according to each grandkids interest. Bev's friend Janna is absolutely amazing and painted each one. Her brother-in-law actually made the boxes. Jake is all about saving the princess and being the hero with a sword usually. His is a pirate theme, with a map on back (pictures don't even do it justice) with a pirate ship on front. Jaxon has always been into sports especially baseball. So his has a baseball jersey on top with a bunch of balls on front and a baseball diamond on back. Thanks Beverly! We love them!

Blessing Day

We blessed Hunter today, and everything went great surprisingly. Minus my skirt zipper breaking there were no mishaps. He was so good the whole time, I am always afraid they will be screaming in the middle of it, but that has never happened and I've never heard it happen to anyone else. Maybe he knows how special it all is. If only I could remember all that he probably still can. Someday I suppose. Thanks to my great families for all of their help getting everything ready. Hunter, we love you and couldn't ask for a sweeter little guy to add to our family!

I had to tell the story of this quilt. We were at Grandma Hawkins house and she had just finished it and brought it out to show everyone. Jaxon was particularly interested in all the animals on Noah's ark. We all talked about it and then she put it away. Well, about 10 minutes later Jaxon went up to her and said, " Great Grandma, can I see the blanket again with all the animals?" She said sure and got it out. Then he went on the tell her, "I think my mom needs that blanket for her new baby!" (That was when Hunter was still in my belly.) Grandma thought that was so cute that she gave it to us. She is so talented and it is beautiful! I am thankful Jax was so bold to ask her because it is my favorite blanket. It almost tempts me to change our nursery from surfing to Noah's ark. Thanks Grandma H!

Polar Express and Thanksgiving

For Thanksgiving we went up to Ogden this year. We tried to figure out how long it had been and we don't think we had ever been up there for turkey day officially, we were in Hawaii last time. It was so fun to have all of us there together which doesn't happen very often! Thanksgiving day was busy! The guys went golfing for free at El Monte Golf Course. While we started our day of cooking and boy was it a lot of cooking! The turkey was our biggest fear as usual and it turned out great, thanks to Jeff who kept a close eye on it. All of my cousins on the Squires side came over for pie later that night and it was fun to catch up with them and see all their cute kids. On Friday Mitch and Cami went at 4:30am to shop with all the crazies! We then went up to Park City and shopped a little, next time we should go there earlier, they had some killer deals! Then for our final event we went to see the Polar Express! It's the Heber Creeper turned into that and it was amazing! Next time I am going to put the kids in matching jammies just like the story. It was decorated all Christmas like. We drank hot chocolate, ate cookies and read the story the Polar Express! Mrs. Claus came to visit and give us her cookie recipe and than who stopped by!? Santa himself came and gave the kids bells from his sleigh! We sang Christmas carols to top it off. When Santa came Jake closed his eyes and didn't want to see him, while Jax was all about it. Then when Santa gave him a bell he brighted right up and said I want a motorcycle and a Woody! Jax told Santa he wanted a motorcycle and a Buzz. Jaxon was so cute with the bell, he kept holding it up to his ear and shaking it just like in the movie! This was a great way to kick off the Christmas season! Hopefully we can do it every year or every other year. Thanks mom and dad!

This is Jaxon so excited and you can barely see Jake in the background with a sad face which immediately turned happy when he got the bell! Hunter was more than great the whole time! They are ready to Go!

 A Family pic by the Engine!

Tri Blog

Just for those of you interested in the training required to do an ironman, Jeff created a new blog and is updating all his training, nutrition, and insights. The blog address is: burgessironman.blogspot.com. This is a once in a lifetime chance and it should be really tough and exciting all at the same time. Check it out, maybe it will inspire a few more budding triathletes. The more friends involved in the triathlon experience the more fun it will be to do races! Check it out!

SMILE!!!

I can't get enough of this smile lately! Hunter gave us his first smile at two weeks old and I've been trying to get a pic ever since. It finally happened! I don't think his smile can get any bigger! 

So big you can't even see his eyes hardly!

Trick or Treat

What a halloween! We had so much fun! I never could have done it without my family, they are amazing. The boys had a great time, as did I, playing with Cooper! Hopefully he is still young enough he didn't learn any bad habits. The boys were wild now that they had an audience besides their mom. We stayed up late Friday night talking which was so nice. I don't know why but in my family we always sit around the kitchen table to talk, ever since I can remember. Saturday was busy, my parents were so great to take the kids as well as the cousins and play and go see the sheep parade down Cross Hollow Drive. We dressed the boys up and they were so cute. Woody and Buzz Lightyear! I figured it might be the last time I can talk them into wearing a costume I like. We went to the ward trunk or treat. First time for me, it was pretty fun, the boys were more interested in what all the other kids looked like than candy. The hit was Cody's yo yo's. Again my parents were great to hand out candy to all the kids while we took them around. We came home to dinner in a pumpkin, which was yummy. Even Jake my picky eater gobbled it up. We then trick or treated around the neighborhood and Jax ran the whole way while Jake chattered to me nonstop. We went to Grandma Burgess' next. It was great and I was sad to see them all leave on Sunday. Love you guys! Thanks for your help on Sunday Cami, it would have been wild without you!

Buzz Lightyear and Woody

The three oldest cousins

My little Mickey Mouse! Hunter was a trooper even with a tummy ache he was great. Thanks for all the loves Grandma!

Could Woody honestly look any cuter than this?

To infinity and beyond!

The baby is here!

He finally made it here! We had Hunter John Burgess on Thursday, September 24th at 10:40pm. I honestly don't think I could have waited another day. I had my first real painful contraction at 5 or so and Jeff was sure when he got down running we would be going to the hospital. No such luck. Then at 7ish they were finally consistent every 2min! Jeff pulled out the watch and was the timer! We waited till almost 9pm and they were bad enough that I knew we had to go. When we got there I was a 5 not too bad! They put the epidural in at 9:30 and at 10 a was a ten and needless to say the epidural was not working. He was out by 10:20pm and the cutest thing in the world. I was able  to walk around right after which I hadn't been able to do with the others and the recovery has been great. The only thing that is sore is my back from the useless epidural, I haven't been able to hardly walk especially at the end of the day. Hunter is so so sweet and I can't get enough of him. Its been so long since we had a baby. He is eating good, sleeping good and just making us all melt. The boys are so good with him, Jax could hold him all day! Jax is having the hardest time adjusting so far, a little overly emotional but not jealous at all. Jake likes him and plays with him a little but is done after not too long. I couldn't be luckier! 

Our first family picture

Proud dad!

Aren't they sweet, Jake is obsessed with his nose and belly button!

3 days old

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