Happy Holidays

Well, I certainly have a lot of catching up to do. We've been busy the past month and there's a little summary of what we've been up do.

Lisa and Brent celebrated their 5 year anniversary at the beginning of the month and came up to Logan, so we got to see them. We went to lunch and then bowling. It was so great to see them and have a fun day. And Dax loved the black lights a the bowling alley.

Lindsey put in her time at USU and made it to graduation. I know how long and hard of a road it is to finish school, so I'm proud of her for doing it. Congrats Linds!
Snowboarding is becoming an expensive hobby so when we heard about Brighton having a $15 day pass, we couldn't pass it up. It was a beautiful day on the mountain and a great day of snowboarding. It was nice to get out of the house and get some good exercise too.
We spent Christmas this year in South Dakota with Luke's family. We spent a week with them plus and extra day because of bad weather. It was such a fun week laughing, playing games, rocking out on Rock Band, and just hanging out. As you can tell, Kara was loving this round of video games.
We did a white elephant gift exchange on Christmas Eve. I was the proud owner of a book about fishing. Wow, I'm sure you can hear the excitement in my voice. Luckily, Dennis is a huge fan of fishing and wanted to trade for his awesome prize... Superman underpants. Since both meant nothing to me, I figured trading wouldn't hurt. But the cost was that he had to pose before he gave the underpants away. I might have to use that for blackmail later.
My big gift this year was the Wii! It has been so much fun playing games that everyone can do together. Luke's brother brought over Super Mario Brothers and that was a blast playing with 4 people. We ended up buying the game because it was so much fun.

We came home for a week after South Dakota and then headed to Midway, UT for another week of vacation. We had a free trip from listening to one of those time-share things, so we figured local would be the easiest with a small child.

Near the resort was what we named Christmas World. I don't know where it came from exactly, but that's what Lindsey named it. It was a bunch of structures made with water fountains that would drip and then freeze. Very cool and very time consuming.

My parents, Lindsey and Tyler came to the resort as well and we celebrated Christmas a week late. As you can tell from the loot below, Dax got really spoiled. OK, not all of them were his, but he did get spoiled. His grandparents gave him a ton a books that he loves looking at! Thanks for spending a few days with us.

Thanks to Warren Miller, we had a ski day at The Canyons. It wasn't as good of snow as Brighton was, but still a great day. Jake and Kara came along with us. It's always fun to snowboard with a group.

This is the resort where we stayed. All the buildings were Switzerland themed. It felt like a little village in the mountains.
So that pretty much sums up what we've been up to the past month. Hope that everyone had happy holidays!

Pictures for the Grandparents

I decided to do a post with just pictures of Daxton that way I wouldn't have to talk about him in every post that I write while trying to catch up on events of the past month. They are in order by age - I don't know if you can tell a difference, but he looks older to me. Hope you enjoy!

Also, his 2 month stats are as follows:

Weight 12 pounds 10 ounces (66 percentile)

Length 24 inches (80 percentile)

Head 15.4 inches (25 percentile)

Photo Shoot

As I mentioned on a previous post, Jalene came and took pictures of Dax when he was 2 weeks old. Here's a few of our favorites. Thanks Jalene! We love how they turned out.

Who wants more pictures?

One of Luke's friends made a sarcastic remark that we needed more pictures of Dax sleeping. So here are some pictures of Dax NOT sleeping.

I love this picture :)

I think Dax is a little tired of the paparazzi always taking pictures of him. Eventually he'll get used to it.

Luke and I were able to go on a date, thanks to my parents who were super excited to watch Daxton for us. We went to the Transiberian Orchestra. It was AWESOME!

The lighting was incredible and made the show so much fun. I love that it was classical orchestra yet they were totally rocking out. They had 2 violinist head banging as they played. It was so cool!

We had a great night and a nice little break from Dax for a few hours. We loved the concert and now we just need to brush up on our Guitar Hero skills and then we can join their crew.

A week of many firsts

Since Dax is fairly new to this world, he is experiencing many things for the first time. We've had a lot of fun already. Here's what we've been up to:

My dad (AKA Grandpa) came up Saturday to see Daxton for the first time. Since the swine flu is such a threat they would only let 1 visitor in the hospital to see me. Not just one at a time, only 1 visitor. Being so gracious, my dad let my mom have that privilege. So this was the first time my dad got to hold him and actually spend some time with him. I think my dad kind of likes him... a lot!

The Great Grandparents also came up for a visit. This is their first great grandchild so they were pretty anxious to meet him.

We had to do a generational picture. 4 generations together.

Dax did not enjoy his first bath at home. We tried to make it comfortable with warm water, space heater and warm towels on hand. He wasn't having it, until...

... Hair washing. He LOVES his hair being washed. I don't know if it's the water rushing over his head or the brush giving him a massage.

Needless to say, after bath-time, we have a very content, curly-haired baby.

He loves sucking on his binky. He's also very protective.

I think he looks like an old man in this one.

What a poser!

Tummy time.

It's been a fun couple of weeks. We did his 2 week old pictures on Sunday and he did really well with all the posing and moving around. I'll post the pictures as soon as I get them back. Thanks Jalene for coming over and doing pictures with us.

The big debut

Here's the moment you've all been waiting for. Daxton Luke Nesbit is here! He was born November 1st - so today is his 1 week birthday. It was a long labor (almost 19 hours) but thank goodness for epidurals! He was 8 pounds 6 ounces and 19.5 inches long. I never would've guessed I was carrying something that big in my belly!

We are so happy he is here! He is such a great and happy baby. We are all still getting used to each other and eventually we'll have it all figured out. He sleeps pretty good and usually wakes up every 3 hours for some food. He makes the cutest little grunting noises.

Here are some pictures for your viewing pleasure:

Our first family photo

Opening his little eyes for the first time.
He is my little sweetheart :)