The Year in Review: Jaxon Thorpe

2008 was full of firsts...

You were born.

You took your time and gave us all a great scare, but now you're here, and the world is a much better place...

You made us a family...

...and then you came home from the hospital...

You looked so cute in your first pair of blue jeans...

You were so tiny the very first time we took you to church...

You peed in the air, more than once, and I caught it with my camera- also more than once...

You celebrated your first Easter, in clothes that were ginormous on you...

You went to your grandpa's wedding. You wore a tux and you were adorable...

You started making facial expressions and your personality blossomed. You are so full of personality and I love that about you...

When you were seven months old, you started sleeping in this room, in this bed...

You were dedicated to the Lord during a beautiful special service at church...

You were always a good sport as you happily took part in a many photo shoots with your mother...

And you made her first mother's day so special...

You went swimming for the first time...

And you looked so cute in your tie at church on Daddy's 1st father's day...

You learned to hold your bottle when you were four months old...

You took a trip with your family this summer and went to the zoo for the first time...

And spent your first 4th of July watching baseball and fireworks...

You loved napping with your pancake bear...

You slept during the day. You could even sleep sitting up. But you did not sleep at night.

You ate your first popcicle...

You had your first taste of baby food. You absolutely loved it for four months, but now you've given it up. You think you're too big for baby food.

You danced at Aunt Ber and Uncle Josh's wedding...

You did this to your face and made me feel like the worst mom in the world... But you were still happy.

And we learned that you love to play in boxes... and squeeze yourself into tight places. Like on Christmas day when you got your head stuck in between the washing machine and the wall. Oh, the joys of raising a strong willed child...

And you made this face. But no one knew where it came from. And we haven't seen it since.

And you went to your first luau...

And this is my favorite picture of you to date... so handsome.

You got a new hat just like Daddy's

And you ate your first oreo (and loved it) on your daddy's birthday...

You were hospitalized for three days with pneumonia...

And you were the cutest puppy dog on your first Halloween that I have ever seen...

You celebrated your first Christmas...

And here you were on the last night of 2008. It was a good year, simply because you were here...

Here we go into the New Year boy. Can't wait to see what you get into...

Happy New Year!

To bring in the New Year, last night we went over to our dear friends, The Wyatt's. We watched guys flip trucks and jump onto buildings on dirtbikes, and we watched a ball drop. My husband also built a tower out of plastic sparkling grape juice glasses...The Mason's first pic of 2009...
And the Wyatt's. Poor Micah Dale couldn't figure out why everyone was at his house four hours after his bedtime...

And the Fricks...

And Megan and Bobby...

And Uncle Mark and Jaxon...

And Heather and Kody...

Oh, how did Jaxon spend his new year's eve, you ask?
Well by wearing his pj's and playing ball with Uncle Josh and Aunt Ber, of course...

And he sat on the game board while we played (aka, the girls kicked the guys butts) in Battle of the Sexes...

All in all, a hysterically fun time was had by all. Can't wait to see what 2009 holds!

This and That...

At the Mason house, we have gone from this... ...to that...

Yes, the Christmas tree has officially been taken down and replaced with a toy box to hold all of the loot that Jaxon racked up on Christmas...



But before I took the tree down, I decided to take some pictures of some of my special ornaments and share them with you...

My dad painted this ornament for us this year.

My Mom gave me this mother/daughter willow tree angel ornament in 2004. 2004 was a very hard Christmas for our family...

Justin's brother and his wife gave us this ornament on our first Christmas, 2006.

I bought this pregnant ornament last year, because we were expecting our little boy. When I bought the ornament, Jaxon didn't have a name yet and he was referred to as Baby Mason...

This one is also from our first Christmas...

My best friends gave me this ornament in 2004. Written on it are the names of the girls that I grew up with, and that I will always refer to as some of the most special girls in my life...

This ornament is from 2005, the year that my husband proposed to me. It says "My Knight in Shining Armor" and has October 22, 2005 written on it.

I honestly cannot even remember who gave me this one, but it reminds me of each night, carrying J-man to bed. He's about that size now, and he wraps his arms and legs around me, and nothing feels better...

and we'll end with the Baby's 1st Christmas ornament...

Because he's so stinkin' cute!