Javi 5s

We saw this on our friends the Farsworth's blog, so I am going to copy them. Here are some things you may or may not know about Javier.

5 Things Javier loves:

1) Playing with Max
2)Dragon Ball Z
3) Checking the Wall Street Journal website EVERY DAY (and commenting on the funny pictures of stock brokers)
4) Playing games (especially money games)
5) Toys! Whenever we go to my neices and nephews house Javier can always be found having a sword fight with my nephew and raving about how cool all of his toys are

5 Things on Javier's to-do list

1) Start a Business
2) See New York City
3) Write me a love song
4) Teach Max how to play soccer
5) Learn Italian, Potuguese, and French

Javier's 5 favorite foods

1) Shrimp Ceviche
2) Rice
3) Pizza
4) Root Beer
5) Top Ramen (Javier basically loves all food. I used to think I was a really good cook because every day at Dinner Javier would say, "MMmmm this is soooo delicoius. you should make this every day, it is my favorite food!" until one day I heard him say the same thing about top Ramen. Then I understood, its not that i'm a great cook, he is just easy to please.)

5 things about Javier that you may not know:

1) He actually loves Finance more than accounting
2) He LOVES cartoons. Whenever we turn on the TV, the first thing he finds some Marvel Comics/DC/anime cartoon and he gets really excited about it.
3) Javier is obsessed with spelling and grammer and every time he reads my blog he edits the spelling and grammer.
4) Javier actually really does brush his teeth after every time he eats
5) Javier probably checks his email 50 times a day.

5 things that make Javier special:

1) He has Super human hearing.
2) I know Max loves me too, but if I am really honest, he loves playing with Javier the most. Whenever Javier is home Max doesn't want to eat, play, sleep, or look at anything, he just wants to laugh with hisDaddy.
3) Javier is absolutely the most goal driven person you can imagine, and as a result he does a TON with his time
4) Javier is really humble. The evidence: He was willing to let his 20-year old wife teach him how to drive.
5) I love him like crazy because he's the best husband in the Whole World annd he is always sweet to me and listens to what I have to say and does what i ask him to do. He is my super Hero.

That's right

Just for the record, right before I started recording, he WAS nodding when we asked him if he loves Daddy, so we know he does.

Evidence that Max is Teething

In addition to all the other evidence ( constant drooling, biting everything he can get his hands on, little bumps on his gums, etc.) For two days Max has been going around with his mouth wide open. I have two pictures to document it.

Poor baby.

Fun with Dadu and Grandma

Every Wednesday I get to go to my grandparents house in Salt Lake. We love to see them and hang out and we have so much fun. This week, I came back from moving my car to find this:












Now do I have fun grandparents or what.

Late Thanksgiving Post

Well we had a Wonderful Thanksgiving Holiday in Boise! Mom and Dad, Maddie and Sophie, Seth, Cherie, Olivia, James, Bailey, Quinn, Natalie, Ellie, Laura, and David: Javier, and I, and Max loved hanging out with you guys and we all love you!

The first night we got there immediately my 6 year old niece, Olivia asked if she could hold Max and she did a super job! She is going to be a GREAT big sister to her little brother that is coming soon. Then my four and three and two year old nieces and nephew, James, Ellie, Laura, and Bailey gathered around Max and adored every little thing he did. Max loved it. After a few minutes he started giving them all big slobber kisses and those cute kids even thought that was cute! Max has the BEST cousins ever! Max was also very interested in Davy (my one year old nephew) but I think Davy pretty much considered him too little to play with.

We had a delicious Thanksgiving (as always), we played a ton of games, saw some awesome movies and loved being near the fam. One of my favorite things we did was go the temple (thank you Mom and Dad for watching Max). It was the first time Javier and I have been to the temple together since Max was born, so that was awesome.

While we were there Max also learned the cutest new trick. He learned to nod his head. It took so much concentrated effort and he was doing it constantly. It was so darling. I was a little sad when as soon as we got home he learned to army crawl for real, and he decided that was more fun than head nodding. Alas, I should have gotten it on tape while I had the chance. But here is a video of him army crawling, it is also pretty impressive. I especially like the snide little look he gives me in the middle:

So, it was pretty much an awesome holiday! I just wanted to say that I have the best parents in the whole world. I never seem to be able to say that, but it is really true. I hope you guys know how much we love you!

Ten things I am desperately grateful for:

1. A Father in Heaven who loves me and who cares enough about me to hear and answer my prayers
2. Jesus Christ who makes it possible for me to live with him and Father again
3. The Holy Ghost who helps me to know these things
4. A Wonderful husband who is my BEST friend in the world
5. A darling baby who brings so much sunshine into my life, every minute
6. My sweet family who are the most fun and best people I have ever met
7. Javier's sweet family who are nice to me even though I pretty much stole their son
8. Three little rooms which are our space in the world which are always warm, even when it is freezing outside
9. Always having a full tummy, and always knowing that Max has a full tummy.
10. The way life keeps getting better and better