Thanksgiving

This year for Thanksgiving we were able to spend the day with Dixie, Alan, and Baylee. The kids love going to their house. Everyone loved to hold Ruxin. When we walked in the house Allie saw the table with the pies. She ate her food really fast then wanted her pie. The kids colored and played on the piano.

Dixie had Cooper and Allie help take down her Thanksgiving decorations and put up the Christmas ones. While they were in the basement Allie can running back up stairs and asked if we heard the noise. Warren and I said that we did not hear any noise. Warren was joking around and said that it was a ghost. After that the kids went down stairs with Baylee and hunted ghost. Allie also told Dixie that she felt safe in the basement with a look of fear. She is always keeping us guessing.

before we left to go to Dixie’s house for Thanksgiving, Allie decided that she liked me shoes. First she saw the pink ones and wore them for a while, then she saw the brown ones and wore them. We decided that we didn’t want her going up and down the stairs in the shoes because we didn’t want a broken bone, so she wore the black boots. She was so excited to be able to wear the shoes to Dixie’s house. She was a little disappointed that she could not wear them home with mom that night. Melissa said there are some pretty big feet unless you’re an adult.

Pink Shoes ( these hurt her feet after a little while, she said that her feet were numb).

Brown Shoes.

On Wednesday Ruxin was TWO Months old. It does not feel like it has been that long. He is getting so big. He has been in a size 1 diaper for a little over a week. He no longer has a newborn cry, and he loves tummy time, for a few minutes. He has rolled over twice when he has gotten really mad during tummy time ( his arms where in a position that helped him do it).

We went to Malad on Friday to spend a little time with my family. When Brex got in the house he walked up to Warren and whispered in his ear and asked if Cooper and Allie were there. Brex was excited to see Ruxin. He just watched Ruxin. He also tried to feed Ruxin a cracker. He could not understand why Ruxin would not eat it. He kept telling me that Ruxin told him that he wanted the cracker. We all wrote a letter to my little brother Jayson that is on his mission. He has been out for a year.

Watching Ruxin

Brex thinks Ruxin is pretty neat.

Ruxin with Uncle Marshal.

Saturday the kids come back to our house. We had a fun day. Melissa was able to hang out with us for a little while during the day, and help decorate the tree and make ornaments. We made salt dough for the ornaments, the kids were not very thrilled about mixing the salt and flour together. they did not like the way it felt and the fact it stuck to their hands. We made had prints and snowmen and others. We painted the before they had to go back home.

Warren and I were sitting on the couch and saw Allie’s shoes on the floor and he asked me if they would fit me. So since Allie loved to put on my shoes I put on hers. The said part is, is that they fit perfectly. So we thought that we needed a picture of it.

We switched shoes!!

Cooper is the best big brother Ruxin could have gotten. He is such a big helper when he is with us. He loves to to feed him, and thinks its really awesome that he could help Ruxin to burp ( or thinks it is funny that he burps). Its up for debate. Coop will talk to Ruxin to try and get him to calm down and not cry or with bounce him in his chairs. Ruxin seems to be mesmerized by Coop. Well today Coop was trying to get Ruxin to stop crying so he gave him a Candy Cane off the tree. Ruxin liked it for just a minute. I don’t know what we would do without Cooper.

If only I could eat it mom.

Allie. She is a handful and I love it! After our busy day of decorating and making ornaments we had an Allie converstation.

Allie: Nicole I want to do something to entertain me.                                                                  

Me: What do you want to do. Watch a movie, play the Wii, watch tv, play with some toys.

Allie: No I don’t want to so that. I want to do something FUN.

Me: ok what is fun to do.

Allie: I don’t know.

Me: Hmmm.

So Cooper, Allie and I processed to go into the basement and I decided to help them make a fort. And by saying that I helped them make a fort I made the fort for them. Silly kids. Good thing the basement is theirs. We had a lot of fun making the “biggest fort ever” as Allie told me a few times. They like it some much that they slept in the fort. Allie asked where I can up with such fun things to do (ex: sliding down the stairs in a sleeping bag and landing on a bean bag). I told her that Uncle Lance and I didn’t have games like they do and we had to create our own fun.

Biggest Fort Ever!! (Special thanks to grandma Smith for the BIG Blankets)

Needless to say we had a really FUN Thanksgiving weekend. We are very Thankful for our little man Ruxin! He has added some much to our lives. For Cooper and Allie for being such wonderful kids, and for the laughter that they bring into our lives. And for Melissa. She has been so great, always helping us out. Ruxin really loves her. We love our families and are grateful for all that they do for us.

Richard Came to Visit

This week was a busy one for me.  First off I did not get the Sales Manger position at Nucor Cold Finish.  It was not good news but we keep plugging along.

Ruxin has really started to show who he is lately.  He giggles and laughs a lot now; it is just fun to see him growing up.  It is also nice because he is starting to sleep much better at night.

Like the title says Richard came to visit.  He was on his way to work in Las Vegas and stopped on his way to see us.  This was the first time he had met Nicole and Ruxin and it was the first time I have seen him in over 3 years.

We had a good visit and Ruxin even was fed by him.

The last few weeks

Two weeks ago, we had a very busy week. It was Warren’s drill weekend. Ruxin didn’t like that Daddy left Friday night. Warren is a big part of the nightly routine with Ruxin, and without him here, Ruxin was not about to sleep.

On Saturday night Warren and I went to the Military Ball in Idaho Falls. It was a lot of fun for the both of us to get out of the house and have a date night. Grandma Sandy was nice enough to watch Ruxin so that I could go. At the Ball a few couples had their babies their and it made Warren and I wish that we had brought him with us. We kind of like the little guy!

During the week Warren and I were getting things ready for Ruxins Baby Blessing that Sunday. He was six weeks old when we blessed him. His daddy did a great job. We also had a very special visitor that day. Cooper and Allie were very excited because they had not seen grandma Smith for more than a year. you could see it in their faces that they were happy.

Allie brought her baby doll to church and would do everything Grandma Smith would do ( ok she takes a baby doll everywhere since Ruxin came along).  Warren would ask how the baby was doing, and Allie would say “that she changed her baby and burped her but she was still fussy.”

We had a little dinner after the blessing. It was nice to have the family get together and visit.

Alan and Dixie Hatch

Nicole’s Great Aunt Rose Lee

Uncle Lance. Ruxin was named after Grandpa Dee and Uncle Lance.

Uncle Endrit, Aunt Rachel, Marsi, and Grandma Smith

 

This past week we had to take Grandma Smith to the airport. We didn’t want her to go, we thought about just making her stay with us! We cant wait to see her again with Grandpa Smith.

I also had an appointment with a Gynecologist/Oncologist specialist doctor in Riverton, UT. Talk about a really long drive for news that wasn’t what we/I wanted to here. Since Ruxin is a formula I was told that they could take out the fibroids that he had to fight for room with. Well the Doctor told me that I had to wait until the middle of December to have an MRI to determine which ones if any can be taken out so we still have the option to have more kids. So we are waiting for December.

Cooper and Allie came over this weekend. We love when they come, so does Ruxin. The kids love to play on the computers. We were all in the living room and the kids were playing games while Ruxin was laying on the floor. Well he could see them and hear them but for some reason they werent playing with him. So like all babies do, he starts to cough. Coop asked me whats wrong with him. I told them that he is trying to get their attention. 

Later that day we order some pictures and went to pick them up. Cooper and Allie were talking about something. All I got out of the converstation was Allie Telling Cooper “that’s enough chatty chat chatting Cooper.” she says that funniest things. warren and I got a pretty good laugh from it.

We love to start fires. The smell and the cozy feeling, make for the perfect day. Since I have been with Warren, I have been told and have witnessed that the Smith boys like FIRE! Why throw something away when we came just burn it. Gee never would have thought about that.

Well I do believe that Ruxin will follow suit when it comes to flames. He loved looking at it. He was so excited when the fire was big. So all day Saturday and Sunday we had a fire going.

Some pictures of the kids playing with the computers.

Warren and I would like to send a specail Thanks to Charles and Gloria Pope for helping to get Grandma Smith out here for the Baby Blessing. We really appreciate what you have done to help make it a special day.