would the real Jaxson please stand up?

messy face, messy shirt, and making a mess in the house....BUT he's extra happy and playful....this is the real jaxson.
love that kid.

Happy Birthday Nate!

We had so much fun this weekend celebrating Nate's birthday! We missed Jaxson every second, but it was a great get-away. We hung out on sunday with Nate's brother Cory and they sang to him, that was very thoughtful! Troy and Sherrie and TJ were there as well. Then we got to spend the night in the Trump Hotel! It's a 5 star hotel, and there were no slot machines in the hotel at all, that's the part we loved the most! We probably should have done this trip on our anniversary...it was just very special. Happy Birthday Nate! I love you so much!

Suprise

SUPRISE FOR YOU! (If you are the fastest!)

My friend, Melissa, posted this to her blog. So here is the catch and here is your chance to be surprised too! What a fun and great way to do something for someone else.

The first five people to respond to this post will get something made by me! My choice. For you. This offer does have some restrictions and limitations:

1- I make no guarantees that you will like what I make!
2- What I create will be just for you.
3- It'll be done this year.
4- You have no clue what it's going to be. It may be a story. It may be poetry or an article on properly cleaning your face before a masque. I may draw, paint or sew something. I may bake you something and mail it to you. Who knows? Not you, that's for sure!
5- I reserve the right to do something extremely strange.

The catch? Oh, the catch is that you must repost this on your blog and offer the same to the first 5 people who enter on your blog. The first 5 people to do so and leave a comment telling me they posted this wins a FAB-U-LOUS homemade gift by me! I love the thought of making something just for you. I love this idea!
* Now if you don't have a blog, that's ok you can still sign up and pick 5 people on your own- surprise them!

Baby Tag

It's amazing how different everyone's experience is... so I tag everyone who wants to share their experience.


THE QUESTIONS:
1- Where were you when you first found out you were pregnant? Apt in Provo
2- Who was with you? Myself
3- How did you find out that you were pregnant? Weird body changes, because we weren't trying I wasn't expecting it, then I suspected and finally took a pregnancy test, and it was negative, then did three days later and It was positive.
4- What was your first reaction to finding out you were pregnant? shockers
5- Who was the first person you told? Nate, I had to wait three days to tell him because I suprised him on Valentines day
6-Did you plan to get pregnant? no
7- Did you tell everyone else right away? a few weeks later
9- Did you go out and celebrate? yes, dinner, yum
10- Did you want to find out the sex? yes
11- What was the sex? BOY
12-Did anyone throw you a baby shower? yep, Nate's sisters did, and my mom
13- If yes, who?
14- Did you get any outfits at the baby shower that you just knew you weren't going to put on your baby? Yes, hideous knit booties that were so girly, but blue.
15- How much weight did you gain? 25
16- Did you lose all of the weight that you gained? I lost 20, then gained 15 over the course of a year
17- Did you get a lot of stretch marks? yes, the last week of the pregnancy, crappy
18- What did you crave the most? ice cream, strawberries grapes, candy, orange soda, pickles
19- Did you crave anything crazy? everyone makes fun of me when I was eating pickles and strawberries at the same time.
20- Who or what got on your nerves the most? money
21- Were you married at the time? Yes
22- Did you have any complications during your pregnancy? just sick for 4 months
23- Where were you when you went into labor? at BYU waiting for Nate to get done with his homework, but it really was all day before that too.
24- Did your water break? Kinda, it's the weirdest thing, Jaxson pooped in the amniotic fluid and when I walked up the stairs home, I thought my water broke, and it was green, but not a ton of fluid, and contractions got SO painful after that, then when I got to the doctor they said it hadn't broke, just leaked.
25- Who drove you to the hospital? Nate
26- Did you go early or late? We were pretty late getting there, I was dialated to an 8 when I got there, and peed my pants ha.
27- Who was in the room with you when you gave birth? Just Nate
28- How long were you in labor for? 2 hours
29- Did you have any drugs for the pain? nope and boy I wished there was time for an epidural, the labor hurt like crazy, especially afterward when the doctor had to scoop out the never ending blood...ouch!
30-Did you go Natural or have a c-section? natural
31- What was your first reaction after giving birth? dazed
32- Did your Husband cry? A little, almost passed out from all the blood (but there was not normal amounts of it, so give him a little credit)
34- What did you name the baby(s)? Jaxson Kenson Holt
35- Does his/her name have any significant meaning? Yes, Kenson means humility in japanese because he was born under humble circumstances, and Jaxson is just a continuation of grandpa jack, aunt Jacquelyn, mom Jacquelyn, and Dad's middle name Jack.
36- Did you have any visitors? Yes, thanks mom for coming up in the middle of the night from St. george to Orem, and in laws, grandma, and even busy twin Amy!
37- Did the baby(s) have any complications? Yes, he was under stress, and swalled the mechonium and ended up getting pneumonia. He was a trooper though, after one week he was able to breastfeed, and after two weeks he came home, and was on oxygen for three months.
38- How old is your baby today? 17 months almost
39- When is the next one(s) coming? there is a next one? jk. probably when jaxson is 3 or 3 1/2
40-If you could, would you do it all over again? in a heartbeat, especially knowing now how fabulous Jaxson is in our life right now, what a character and sweetheart.

8 things

I've been tizagged so many times before and I never ever do any of them. Well I decided since I'm bored in my stress management class, that I would do one of them...

8 things

tv shows i like

1. Biggest loser

2. The office

3. American Idol

4. Lost

5. Prison Break

6. Heroes

7. Lie to me

8. So you think you can dance ( can't wait)

favorite restaurants

1. Samurai 21 (or anything japanese)

2.Goodwood BBQ

3.Olive Garden

4. Pasta Factory

5. Tucanos

6. Carrabas

7. Mexican restaurant (any)

8. Cafe Rio

8 things I did yesterday

1. Slept in (yay presidents day)

2. Booked Nate's suprise birthday present!

3. Homework

4. Went to costco with Nate (thanks babe)

5. Sunday we travelled back from Salt Lake for our weekend trip

6. Saturday we ate sushi for valentines!

7. We also had a volleyball tournament, the girls got to the gold bracket this time! Yay!

8. Played with Jaxson!

things I'm looking forward to

1. Family reunion in Seattle in July

2. Nate's birthday this Saturday

3. Volleyball tournament on saturday

4. To see Jaxson today after my long day at school in Cedar

5. To lose weight

6. To be done with school...who knows when

7. For Jenny to have her baby!!

8. For Christ to come, haha.

Things on my wishlist

1. Go to New York again and visit Amy

2. Money for reunion trip

3. A new dress

4. More time to spend with Jaxson

5. To lose 20 lbs

6. Nike Reax

7. My hair dyed

8. Twin babies, not for a while though.

people I tizag

1. Jenny

2. Heidi

3. Hollie

4. Jacquelyn

5. Mindy

6. Cicely

7. Stacey

8. Melissa

Catching up

Well I can't believe its been over a month. Jaxson is growing really tall, and plays plays plays all day long. And is messy messy messy!! We had fun at St. George's most fun park over in hidden valley if anyone hasn't been there yet! It's so worth it, kids of all ages just love it, especially during the summer when the water is going! Jaxson recently learned to slide forward, before he kept sliding down backward on his tummy. He loves to play.


Jaxson with his cousins Kaylie and Abbey


Jaxson's new truck for christmas! He got so spoiled this year, I think next year when he really understands christmas, we'll just make sure he only gets one present from us!
Merry Christmas!
Jaxson trying to get into all the presents
Sean, Nate, Kaitlyn
Cousin Jaden was so nice to share with Jaxson
Our fun fam
Brinda, Kaitlyn, John and Jaden!
As for Nate and I we are busy this year. We are both in school, Nate at Dixie, me at SUU. Nate is graduating with his associates finally after this semester then about a year and a half more then he'll be done with his bachelors. I am about two semesters away from graduating, and probably have been that close for three years! ahh, well at least I am working hard still to make sure I get graduated. I am also coaching for Southern Utah Volleyball Association, a 14 year old team and we have our first tournament in Salt Lake this weekend, wish us luck!! We are really happy right now, now I'd be even happier if I could lose my goal of 20 lbs, wish me luck on that too!

Another Snow Day Story

We had another snow day, like right after I posted the first snow day, and this one put the other one to shame. Well, st. george is pathetic I think, well used to think at least. We got three inches yesterday morning, and they cancelled school yesterday. I thought that was the pathetic part, but I just found out why...St. george doesn't have plows for the city, and the buses don't have snow tires or chains, and the bus drivers are not trained to drive in the snow, so it's a legal thing why school is cancelled. They haven't cancelled school in 10 years, when I was in 7th grade, I remember that was the best day of the year to get out of school for the snow. Funny story.

Snow Day!

There are not very many snow days in St. George, so we had to go outside and take advantage of it. We made a small snowman, Jaxson tried to help a bit. He actually kept his cute hat on, that's a first!! What a cutie!

Our Free photo shoot

This was so funny because we had a place in mind to get photos taken from my sister, but it happened to be closed on sunday and we didn't have anymore time. So we just found a place in south Jordan where the city offices are, an ice rink and precut trees and just took pictures. It wasn't anything special, we just needed to get a cheap christmas photo. But I think they turned out nice. Jaxson was a pain the whole time, You can't tell too much but we didn't get any good smiles. Most of you who see my blog will get a christmas card with these pics anyway, but here's a sneak peak!!








Jaxson was extra scared of the weeds we put him in, if he would have smiled it would have been the cutest picture of all.

Thanksgiving/Christmas reunion weekend 2008

We have a family reunion on the Holt side every two years at Thanksgiving time. There are a lot of Holts thats for sure, and it just keeps getting bigger and bigger every year with marriages and babies being born. This year there were only 100 that could make it to the reunion and there are well over 200 I think. This year we had a big family picture, a talent show, crafts for the kids, karaoke, basketball, volleyball, a fabulous thanksgiving dinner, and yummy pie. Nate's sister Jacquelyn planned it all and it went so well. Nate is a big gamer, so when some of the cousins get together to play cards then we're always there til really late. Friday we have a tradition of shopping day after thanksgiving stuff. We got shoes at big 5, then I went into old navy right by it, and lost my wallet and we were searching for an hour for it. Once we gave up and started driving, old navy called and said someone just turned it in. How blessed are we??!! But we were done shopping after that long day. Then we went to Twilight for the first time. All I have to say is that I'm sorely disappointed in the movie. With all the money the book made and all the money that is floating around in that industry, why couldn't they have made it a better quality with a better director. If they don't make the next one better quality then I think they are pocketing a ton. Off my soap box now...the other tradition we have is doing the live Nativity at tuacahn. That was a fun experience. We all dress up as parts like mary and joseph, the wisemen, shepherds, angels etc. there are live animals and we act out the nativity.
Saturday was the Christmas party that I had the opportunity to plan this year. We had lunch and it was so yummy, soup bowls and lots of salads and sides that the family brought. I love the food when the Jack Holt family gets together. We had a lot of fun games for the kids, santa dress up relay, balloon battle, the christmas present game. All the grandkids are so much fun. Then Santa came and asked the kids what they want for Christmas. It was a lot of fun and worth all the preparation. Grandma Kaye said that they were wore out by sunday, but if it's only once every two years for all the fun reunion stuff, then it's totally worth it!! Jaxson was so much fun this weekend and was suprisingly good. Gotta love that kid!
Happy Thanksgiving, and Merry Christmas!!

SC volleyball night out

Snow Canyon Volleyball, State Champs!

I had the opportunity to assistant coach the Snow Canyon volleyball team this year from august to the first week of november when they went to the state tournament at UVU. It was so much fun, I went to SC myself, graduated in 2001, and we were only able to take 3rd my junior year, 2nd my senior year. So to be a part of a state championship team this year was super fun. This is their 3rd year in a row taking state, with Dixie (our region 9 rival) taking 2nd each of those years. It was such a great experience. I learned a lot from the head coach, Coach Parker, whose husband was my coach at Dixie College. I'm glad I had the opportunity, and I will continue coaching. I'm coaching a 14's team for SUVA club starting in January. Here are some pics from our fabulous experience.














The fans were great. Because of the game before starting two hours late, Our game didn't even start until 9:45, so the girls were tired. But it actually worked to our advantage I think, we beat Dixie in 3 games instead of the thrillers that we had earlier in the season that went to 5 games. I probably won't coach next year there just because we'll probably be moving to Cedar for school, but participating was a lot of fun.