Hello again!

I have really turned into quite the lacklustre blogger lately only averaging one post per month for the last 2 or 3 months. Oops. The next couple weeks are jam packed with fun stuff to keep me busy, so I figured I better play catch up and update you on the goings on of our life lately. At the end of January I decided I needed to beautify myself. Since I feel like I am in a never ending pregnancy and my body is going by the wayside I wanted to change what I could. So, I started lightening up my hair and getting my nails done! Yay :) It really does make such a big difference in how I feel each day. You will see my hair get lighter and lighter throughout the span of these pictures, and the ones to come. I figure what better time than summer to go back to being BLONDE! I may even decide to bite the bullet and chop it off again after a couple years of growing it out. We shall see...

We went down to Cardston at the start of February for a visit, and to spend my birthday with the fam. I hadn't been down there on my actual birthday in 7 years! Pretty crazy, huh. It was so nice to just relax and spend quality time with all the Schows.

Happy 27th Birthday to me.

Poor Nixon chose that weekend to get a double ear & chest infection and
had his first two teeth break through the gums. He was miserable :(

My parents came up to our house during the Family Day break and we loved having them around. It was fun to celebrate my Mom's birthday with her, and get to just hang out and go shopping. Dad & Nick kept very busy as they framed and insulated all the exterior walls in our basement. We are excited to be making some progress down there and hope to have another usable living room in the near future :) (Sorry no pics of that).

Nicholas turned 29 this year and we had lots of fun celebrating his birthday over the span of 4 or 5 days. We had an extended family dinner, a friends party, ate out with his immediate family, and on his actual birthday Nick got to go to an Oilers hockey game with his friend Mike. As I mentioned in my last post, I decided to attempt some sewing skills and make Nick a quilt for his birthday gift. I think it turned out really good, and boy was he ever surprised! The only problem now, is that he thinks I am a master seamstress and can sew anything. I think not!

In case you failed to notice, Nixon also got his top two front teeth in
and puts them to good use with some ridiculously cheesy grins!

Nick and I celebrated our 4th wedding anniversary on April 7th. Grandma Teressa was kind enough to babysit for us (as she does WAY too often :) ) and Nick and I had a great day and evening. We did some shopping at South Common, ate an early dinner at my favorite restaurant, Joeys, and went to a movie. A perfect date in my eyes.

27 weeks pregnant

Our little man has been growing and changing so fast I can hardly believe it! On April 1st he decided that he'd had enough of dragging himself around army crawl/mer-man style and taught himself how to crawl properly. He LOVES getting into anything and everything and making all sorts of messes. He prefers to chew paper and plastic bags, so we have to watch him like a hawk! Now that he has 5 teeth he has turned into quite the biter, and he bites HARD. Toes and knees are his favorite targets, though once he did come up behind me when I was sitting on a stool and bit my butt! Seriously it hurt so bad! We haven't cut Nixon's hair in a few months and so we discovered that he has some seriously cute little blonde curls. Fresh out of the bath is the best and we love it. Nixon also decided that he is SOOO over taking two naps a day, and we are currently trying to figure out a new schedule for him. At 11 months, he continues to sleep great at night (zonking out at around 7:30pm) but on average he likes to wake up around 6:30 or 7am and then only take one 1 1/2 hour nap throughout the whole day! Boy do I miss his 2 hour naps twice daily.....

Sometimes when crawling he'd just stop and take a break to lay there
and smile at us. What a poser! ha ha

I never thought I'd see him fall asleep in the highchair but I guess
all it took was a reduction in length and frequency of naps...

Who needs toys when you can swim through a pile of dvds???

Just getting around... (zoom in to fully appreciate the bedhead)

For Easter, we didn't want to do too much or buy Nixon a bunch of treats since he can't really eat most of them (or shouldn't...) but I still wanted to get him something he could be excited about. So we let him pose with his basket (full of treats that Nick & I ate - ha ha) and we bought him this awesome brown bunny that sings and dances. To say that he LOVES it would be an understatement. I have never seen him get so excited over a toy, and whenever we turn it on he smiles so big and waves his arms around. So cute.

Happy Easter Nixon, we love you!

Don't mind my pastiness..

Just tasting the chocolate bunny that Great Auntie Elaine gave him.
I guess he likes it?

And last but certainly not least, I had a FABULOUS Mother's Day. Nick got up with Nixon when he woke up at 6:30am, then later he surprised me with breakfast in bed. We had a relaxing morning and then after church Nick took Nixon to visit his parents so I could have a nap. We went back over there for dinner, where Nick and his Dad barbequed dinner and even cleaned up. Nick's Mom gave me a beautiful bouquet of tulips (my favorite!) and Nick even changed every single poopy diaper. Thanks hun, for making it the best day ever! I love you.

The mothers on mother's day:
Grandma Mena, me and Nick's mom, Teressa

My two favorite boys ~ I love you.