Cancun

We have been wanting to take a little vacation for so long.  Every time we would plan a trip one of us would get sick.  Well finally last weekend we took a little family vacation, and Crew got another stamp in his passport!  Spoiled little boy.  Jason's friend from work Trent Moss and his wife Bonnie came with us too.  It was fun having them come with us!  We left Saturday morning on the 6am flight, which meant we had to be at the St George airport a little after 5am... that was the only bad thing about this vacation.  We flew to Salt Lake and then switched planes and flew direct to Cancun.  Crew seriously is such a champ!  He travels so good!  He would sleep, wake up and I would give him cheerios, or he would watch Toy Story on the iPad.  Random people kept telling us how well he travels.  I think that was like his 8th trip?  We want him to travel well so he can keep coming with!  He is getting at that age though where it's hard to hold still, so I am a little nervous about future trips.  We landed Sat evening in Cancun, found our rental car, and headed towards our hotel.  We stayed at a Holiday Inn Express, nothing fancy at all, but for $51 a night with free breakfast we were excited! The first night we just went to a little hole in the wall next to a flea market for dinner.  Then we browsed the flea markets for a little bit then we were all ready for bed!

Sunday we woke up and left the hotel by 8:15am, Jason had map quest where a LDS branch was.  He had been to this branch a few years back with his parents and he wanted us to experience it.  We were doing a 3 hour car ride today down to Chichen Itza, and this little branch was on the way.  Sadly the branch was not there.  So we didn't get to experience it on this trip.  So we just kept driving to Chichen Itza.  We took the free roads down there, it makes you slow down through all their little towns.  Speed bumps would pop up out of the middle of no where.  To see how people lived was truly humbling. We are so blessed.  We stopped at some random gas station, because being pregnant I have no bladder. This was the first stop of many where I had to pay to go pee!  And the bathrooms are nasty, but what do you do?  Finally, we made it to Chichen Itza! We spent hours walking around and seeing all the old ruins.  This place was huge, and never ended.  It's a pretty cool place.  Some of the ruins looked like they came out of a Book of Mormon story.  They had "Book of Mormon" tours you could take there but we didn't.  After we left Chichen Itza we drove just up the street to a complete hole in the wall, but that was probably the best meal on the trip!  A husband and wife owned the place, they grilled the chicken on the street in front of you, served it with rice, cabbage, and avocado.  So so yummy!  The husband and wife kept holding Crew and they just loved him.  So grateful Jason is able to speak fluent Spanish, I just smile and nod at everything!  Driving home we took the "toll road" which ended up costing us around $35 but it was worth it not to have to do the speed bumps again, and it shaved an hour off our time!

Monday was a very relaxing day, we just went to the beach.  It was overcast that day so we didn't get tons of sun, just enough to bring home a sunburn!  Jason was holding Crew at the beach, and we had lathered him up with SPF 50, so later that day we noticed half of Jason's chest was sunburned, and half was not burned at all, and he even had a hand mark on his arm where Crew had held onto him!  We went into downtown Cancun later to find another authentic Mexican restaurant.  My vacations are always about the food sadly!  I love food too much!  We hit up more flea markets, Bonnie was bound to find some vanilla to take home with her.

Tuesday morning our vacation had come to an end.  We had breakfast, and left for the airport.  It started sprinkling and was overcast again.  Cancun was gorgeous and I would love to go back!  Traveling home took forever.  We flew from Cancun to Houston, then Houston to SLC, then SLC to St George.  On the last plane ride Crew was so over traveling, but he still traveled so well!  We had a really fun trip, and coming home we made planes that we shouldn't have made. I am so grateful for the opportunity to travel and see the world, we are pretty spoiled!

Crew leaving the SLC airport headed to Cancun!!

Crew and I at Chichen Itza 

The best hole in the wall restaurant in Chichen Itza!  This lady and her hubby loved Crew!

Driving home from Chichen Itza, he was all tuckered out!  Look how old he looks in his tank top and shorts!! My baby is growing up too fast!!

  

First time at the beach!

 I just love his chubby feet!

Crew fell asleep on the beach... 

Had his first Pina Colada

Every meal would come with limes, and he would suck on them!! That's not normal!

My little Mexican baby!

Playing at the hotel out by the pool, he is such a ham for the camera! 

Cancun as we were leaving, it was all overcast. 

It's a BOY!!

Wednesday Feb 6th Jason and I went to Dr Kvarfordt's office to have an ultrasound.  We were so nervous and excited, we were finding out the sex of baby number two!  We both were hoping for a boy because they are so close in age, and Crew has everything and more that we would need for another little boy! I am laying on the table and the ultrasound tech is having a hard time finding the sex because the umbilical cord is between the legs.  She has me lay on my side, then get up and go pee, then come out and dance around to get the baby to move positions.  I lay back down and she finally gets a clear shot... It's a BOY!!  We were both so excited!!  

I called my Mom and Sister to tell them, but for Jason's family since they live in town we wanted to tell them with a cupcake!  One of my clients owns "Sweet Tooth Fairy" it's a yummy cupcake shop over in Washington.  Once we knew it was a boy, I text Cammi and told her to fill them blue!!  She text me once they were done, and we took the cupcakes to Jason's family!!  They had to bite into the middle to find out what we were having!  Of course I had to share a little with Crew, and clearly he is so excited for his little brother to get here!

The next week was my halfway mark... 20 weeks!!  I feel pretty blessed that I haven't been very sick with this baby.  There is times when I forget that I am pregnant, until I look down and see my massive belly!!  The last week or two I have really popped out too!  I just started getting heartburn, and I just feel constantly tired.  My back is always sore, but it's a combo of holding my 23 pound son, doing hair, and being pregnant.  So really I can't complain.  July 3rd, or most likely the end of June is not that far away! Now we are just anxious what the next baby will look like.  

Baby on "baby bump" picture

9 month stats.

I can't believe my baby is 9 months old! Being pregnant with him, it was the LONGEST 9 months ever, and the past 9 months have been the FASTEST months ever!  With another baby on the way I am sure time will not be slowing down anytime soon.

Here are Crew's 9 months Stats:

Length 29.92 inches, 92%

Weight 22.16 pounds, 74%

Head 95%

What he's doing now:

Has 6 teeth

Wears size 4 diapers

Wears 12-18 month clothing.

Size 5 shoes.

100% Daddy's boy.  He will cry when Jason leaves for work or if he comes home for lunch and if Jason leaves the room, Crew will through himself on the ground and start crying for Jason.

Loves his sweet potatoes and any fruit.  Can't get him to eat his veggies.

Loves to eat what we are eating.

Learned how to suck through a straw.

Crazy fast crawler.

Can officially open the kitchen cabinets, time to baby proof!

Pulls himself up and will walk down the couch.

Uses the baby walker, he's getting pretty good.  Thinking we are getting close to walking!!

Has had 4 haircuts.

Loves his bath times.

Loves to play with his cousins, but learning he is kinda a bully!

Horrible in church.

Super inpatient when it comes to his food.  

Barely learned how to hold his own bottle, but he would still prefer me just to hold it! So lazy!

100% spoiled.

Is a complete ham for attention.  When we go to Wal-Mart or Costco he will sit up front and just kinda hang out and cheese it up for everyone!

He got an ear infection the beginning of November, and it took us 6 weeks, 3 rounds of antibiotics, and rocephin shots to get rid of the ear infection.  It was horrible.  He wouldn't sleep more than 3 hours at a time at night.  If we get one more ear infection we are getting tubes.

We are 100% in love.

These are just from my iPhone, hoping to get out this week and take some better pics for his 9 month mark!

Like I said he is obsessed with his food.  

Christmas 2012

We started out our Christmas by going up to my parents house in Aurora Utah, and having a family party on Dec 22.  My family gets together as everyone, maybe once a year, so I was so excited to see my siblings.  Well it turned out Topher and Whitney couldn't get work off so my whole family was not together but we still had a fun time.

We went sledding up in the hills behind my Mom's house.  This was Crew's first time in the snow! First time sledding.  It made it feel more like Christmas going and playing in the snow for the day.

Crew looked like a big blue marshmallow!!

 We let him go down a small hill by himself like this...

Me and my sexy hubby!

Jason and Crew

Brooklyn, a pink marshmallow!

David and Boston

 Dan and Carolyn, Kamryn and Michael in the background.

Boston was fearless... He wrecked so many times but he would get right back up!

JJ just being silly in the snow.

After we went sledding we went home and got ready for family pictures.  My cousin Lana came and took a few pictures for us.  

I love how our pictures turned out, just wish Toph and Whitney could have been in them!

After freezing our booties off we went home and my Mom had made an amazing prime rib dinner, then we opened gifts.  This is Crew opening his first present.  He was more excited over the paper than the actual gifts.

On Christmas morning Jason and I woke up and did our own little Christmas.  Jason made me homemade buttermilk waffles and apricot syrup.  I love breakfast, wish my hubby loved it too!  

This is what Santa brought Crew this year... a little "Lightning McQueen" rocker!  

We went over to his parents home and opened gifts with his family, then Linda made a yummy dinner for everyone.  We did a family picture with the Trask's too!  

Crew loves the camera! He gets that from his Dad.  He smiled perfectly in all his pictures!

Just a few candid shots from Christmas Day...

Grandma Trask holding Crew face!

Bailee holding a little puppy!

Papa Trask with Eva, she is such a doll face!  Papa Trask is such a good "Papa" all the grandkids want to be with him!

This picture doesn't do it justice.  Jason and his Dad made these 3D snowflakes and had them hanging from the ceiling.  So fun.

It was a very good Christmas, being with our families.  We are extremely blessed.  We are so looking forward to the new year!

We're expanding...

We are so excited to welcome a new addition to our family on July 3rd!

 I am almost 12 weeks along and have felt pretty blessed to not be too sick.  When I was pregnant with Crew I was on the couch from like week 7 to 13, and with this pregnancy I have felt a lot better.  I was really nervous to go to our 10 week appointment because I was afraid we had already lost it.  We did an ultrasound and we were able to see the heartbeat, which is so amazing, and then the next 3 days I was dead on the couch. I get nauseous at nighttime, but have been able to work for the most part.   I am so looking forward to our next baby appointment so we can hear the heartbeat.  

I am so blessed with such an amazing husband.  He has been getting up more than me during the night and taking care of Crew with feeding and diaper changes.  I love him so much.  

We should be finding out the sex of our baby the first part of February.  My babies will be 15 months apart so we are looking forward to the crazy, fun times ahead.

 

This is how we announced to both of our families, just had Crew wear this shirt...

I love my little family so much, I am one lucky girl.  I love my two boys.