February!

I can't believe how fast January went by. I was hoping it would get warmer but that does not seem to be happening. Anyway now that it is February the ball is really rolling! Valentine's day is just around the corner and then we just have to make it through March. After March though all kinds of great stuff happens! My birthday, Jackson's birthday and Graduation!!! So to celebrate the beginning of the end of the semester, Jackson and I had a photo shoot today!

I know he will hate me when I eventually show these pictures to his future wife and children but for right now he is too cute!
FYI dressing up Jackson might be one of my favorite things ever. Favorite costume to date was his Harry Potter Halloween costume. I think it is my favorite costume I have ever made.

The Waiting Game!

So this week my little family accomplished two huge milestones. The first is that we applied for our first real job! Ike and I are both graduating in April and we have started our job hunt for next fall! We applied for a job in the tiny town of Fullerton, Nebraska. If you had asked me two months ago if I would consider living in Nebraska, I probably would have said no. But when we saw this job and did some research on the town I just fell in love with it. I am really trying to not get my hopes up though because who knows if we will get it. I think this will probably be the first of many jobs we apply for. Right now all we can do is wait to hear back from them. Hopefully we will hear sooner rather than later.

The second major milestone we reached this week was....WE BOUGHT OUR FIRST VACUUM CLEANER!! Yes, it is kind of sad that we have been married almost three years and have never bought a vacuum but now that we have one I know that we can never live without one again!!! I think the novelty will wear off sometime in the next few weeks but for right now I feel like a ten year old who just got the coolest toy ever for Christmas.

The Remote

So its funny what kids will attach themselves to. Jackson has always liked getting into things he isn't supposed to but lately I have noticed he has a weird attachment to our remote control for our TV. He carries it around and has even gone to bed with it a few times. I think this is funny because I try really hard to not have the TV on while Jackson is awake so he doesn't see me or Ike use it that much. For some reason though, he really loves it.

Best Friends.

I wish I was awesome at everything!!!

So I see other people do these awesome things and I want to do them too. I wonder is it better to be really good at one thing or just OK at fifty things??? Anyway I am slowly trying to be good at lots of things. This weekend I made one of those crocheted headbands everyone is wearing for my sister for her birthday. I learned to crochet a few months ago and after watching about an hours worth of YouTube videos I learned how to do flowers. Here is the end product!

So Christmas...

I realized this morning that I never really talked about Christmas. This probably didn't seem really weird to anyone else because I didn't really talk about any thing in 2010. But in light of me trying to be better at blogging in general I think I should talk about it because it was a major event. Jackson's first Christmas!

I made Jackson a Christmas Stocking and hopefully before next Christmas I will make them for Ike and me as well. His looks a lot like the kind I had growing up that my Grandma gave us. My mom wouldn't let me keep it when I moved out because she wanted the complete set. Crazy.

We really didn't get Jackson much for Christmas because so many other family members were getting him things and when a kid is less than one he really doesn't need that much. He already has way too many toys.

Oh Christmas Tree!

Ike the ultimate Boston Sports fan got a new Patriots T-shirt!

The last time I made a turkey I successfully gave myself the worst food poisoning I had ever had. Luckily, this year, we were all fine!

Overall it really was a great Christmas! Jackson's first and only one we will spend in our little apartment!

Gentle is as gentle does...

So I am really trying to teach Jackson to understand the word "gentle". I watch a friend of mine's baby twice a week and Jackson gets so excited by the fact that there is another baby around that he tends to overreact a bit.

Doing great. Nice and gentle.

Still Good!

...Not Quite.

We still have a little ways to go with that before he gets the hang of it. I do think it is good that he is around another baby twice a week. I want him to socialize more. I have a feeling he is going to be one of those kids in nursery who tackles other children and has to be sent back to his mother.

So Stylish!

So Jackson had his first real haircut a few days ago.

Hist bangs were getting way too long so I decided to just give him a trim. He really did not like the experience but he looked cute when he was done.



The next day I ended up just going over his whole head with clippers, which surprisingly, he thought were really fun. Now I know, ditch the scissors and use the clippers next time.