Flying home

So I'm finally posting pictures from our excursion up North. It was so much fun to see our families again! We're so blessed to have such amazing people in our lives, and we love you all more than you'll ever know! Enjoy!

Jaxon was a little sad to leave...
Oh I love these people!

I love these people too! Cute family pic on the boardwalk!

Uncle Spencer and Action Jaxon. They bonded:)

We had a birthday party for Jax while we were there. It was a lot of fun, but I think he was more interested in the boxes and wrapping paper!

We went to a Chief's game and it was 'toss-a-bear' night. When the Chiefs scored their first (and only) goal, everyone threw teddy bears on the ice that they had brought from home to donate to charity. It was really cool watching all those bears fly out onto the ice. It took 3 pickup trucks to take them all out and then some! Soooo many bears!

Thanks Ben for the tickets, we had a ton of fun!

We were able to bring Nick's family along with us. It was lots of fun!

Ben also got us tickets to an Eastern Washington basketball game. Even if it was a women's game, it was still a lot of fun. We had the best roadtrip ever going out there, then we got a pizza for $3! You can't beat that!

Recognize this horse? He was able to sit on it a little better this time:)

Happy Birthday Mr. Jaxon!

Wow I can't believe that one year ago we were still waiting for Mr. Jaxon to come, going through labor, surgery and finally holding this sweet little boy in our arms for the very first time. This year has gone by extremely fast and we have loved having our little boy in our home. He has brought so much happiness and laughter to our home! This post is a tribute to my sweet little boy! We love you Jax!

He has always been a very good-natured, well-behaved kid.
He doesn't cry very often, even when he was brand new.

He has always been an extremely happy child. He always wakes up smiling and laughing (very ulike his mother), and just about anything will make him crack a big lovable grin. His smile is contagious and he makes everyone around him so happy.

He lets us dress him up in funny things and laugh at his expense.
It's almost like he can sense that he's the center of attention and he LOVES it!

He is so interested in the little things of life. I know all babies are like this, but it's a neat lesson we can learn from them. He doesn't take things for granted, he's happy about everyday life. He enjoys what he has and doesn't get upset about the things he doesn't have. Unless he's hungry.....

Let's be honest...the kid is ridiculously good looking!
He's going to be a heart breaker someday!

He has such a special, sweet spirit. After his blessing, a lady in our ward came up to Nick and told him that she could feel that Jaxon has a very special spirit. I've felt it from before day 1. There is no doubt in my mind that he's extremely close to the spirit and that the Lord has something great planned for him on this Earth. So...no pressure, right?

I think most kids hate their carseats. Jaxon, not so much. He's never really minded his carseat. In fact, he usually falls asleep in it. Good boy!

He is one strong kid! He tried holding his head up at the hospital the day he was born. I used to call him 'mommy's little linebacker' before he was born, and for good reason! He'll be some sort of football player someday, I'm sure!

Again, he's just happy all the time. He had croup this week, and even through all that, he was still smiling and laughing. He couldn't breathe, talk, cry, or laugh, but he smiled through it all. What an example!

There are just little things he does every day that
just make us smile and giggle a little bit... :)

I believe that he understands reverence in a way that we don't. I think this is part of the reason why he is so calm and well-behaved. He did this with his hands by himself at the hospital, by the way...

And here is my kiddo today. Just to show you how much he's grown, that is the outfit we brought him home from the hospital in. It used to be too big for him! He's grown so much in so many ways and has taught me so many valuable lessons. I love my baby so much, and my love for him grows every single day. I hope I can continue to learn from him often, and help him become the person that Heavenly Father wants him to become. Happy Birthday Champ! We love you!

Welcome home Elder Pingel!

So, my little brother, well, younger brother, just barely got home. This is hot off the press! I was crying before I even opened the attachment on my phone. Thank you Katie for sending me this video! Welcome home Spencer!

My boy is getting so big!

So, we've been trying to help Jaxon learn to walk. We do this every night that Nick is home before we put him to bed, he's getting better!

An Early Thanksgiving

This past weekend, we were able to drive to Idaho Falls to see our beloved family. Adam and Darcy had their sweet little boy, my parents were coming to town, so we decided we couldn't pass this opportunity up! We got there around 3 am Sunday morning and even though we were exhausted, it was an amazing day! We had an early Thanksgiving dinner since we were all together. It was such a happy time! Here are some pics! Enjoy :)

My baby Jax and his cousin Jack. So cute, I can't

believe Jax used to be that little!

I think maybe she's hungry?

Typical...

Grandpa has such a magical touch...

This is how excited they were to see us!

Grandma with her newest grandson! Precious!

Hahaha I love this one, Jaxon is giving gramma big kisses.

Gramma seems a little surprised!

I love to sit in the middle.

Dad helping to prepare Thanksgiving dinner. Nice...

This is Jaxon's first snow experience. Last time it snowed, he was too little

to play in it. I'm not sure what he thought about it...

This was a video of his first snow angel. Too funny!

Jaxon had his very first snowball fight. The last one accidentally hit him in the face, I felt so bad! The look on his face was pretty funny though!

Funny Rachel

So, I was looking through old videos on my phone and I came across this. This was about a year ago, and Uncle Nick was apparently hilarious this night. I thought this was too cute to not put on here, I hope this is ok Ben and Michelle!

Epistle #2

Dear Thanksgiving,

I'm so sorry that I skipped you and wrote to Christmas. I really do love your special day. It's the one day of the year I can eat all I want and not feel guilty about it. For that, I am forever grateful. I love how you bring families together and then tag-team the holiday excitement to your brother Christmas. You rock.

Sincerely yours,
The Cysewski's

A letter for a friend

Dear Christmas,

Can you please come now? This year, Christmas means we get to go home to our families. We want Christmas here now. Please?

That is all.

Love,
Cysewski's

Jaxon is such a silly boy...

So, Jaxon likes to make these silly faces these days. It is
hilarious when he does it, he even does it on command
sometimes! We love our fat-cheeked little person so much:)

Aunt Bekah came to visit!

So this past weekend, we had my sister Bekah come visit. It was lots of fun and we really enjoyed having her! Here are a few pics from the weekend.

The Christmas bug kinda hit us hard and early this year, so for our family night, we set up our tree. We bought this decoration, its a Winter Wonderland Halfpipe. Snowboarders go down the halfpipe as it plays Christmas songs. It's kinda funny, we love it though!

Here's the finished product! Small, but our apartment is small too. So, our Charlie Brown christmas tree will be perfect this year :)

Sometimes he makes this face. All the times it is funny.

Pretty sure he is the cutest little boy ever. He loves wrestling his bears.

Dear Aunt Bekah. Thank you for sticking foreign objects in my nose. Love, Jaxon

Whenever he sees a camera, he automatically smiles.

Maybe he'll be some sort of male model when he grows up?

Bekah wearing the old forgotten tree skirt.

I am a tree, I am a tree, Oh glory be I am a tree...

Good little sleeper. He loves to sleep with his turtle, Russell.

Not sure what kind of face he's pulling, but its cute!

Decorating the tree! Blogger wouldn't let me move it to the top, so here it is...

So...we gave Jaxon a warhead today...kids are so much fun!

What a good day!

Wow what a day! We got to find out the gender of our 2nd baby today! We were told that it's 90% sure that its a girl! So, Jordin Brianne, welcome to our family! :) Here are some sweet pics of our little girl:)

She's waving hi!

These are her feet, she's sitting criss-cross applesauce on the right.

Another cute profile. They actually changed our due date to March 31st, so we're not as far along as we thought/hoped. But, She'll be here soon enough! We hope!

Oops!

Alright...so it's been a while...I hope this makes up for lost time. Here are just some pictures of what we've been up to lately. All of these are on Facebook already, but some people do not have access, SOOOO, here we go!

We enjoyed a nice walk to the mailbox:)

I love this picture. I think its the hair.

We bought him his first pair of wranglers. Too cute!

This just makes me so happy.

He bit Nick during church one day and it actually hurt. Lo and behold, we have teeth!

He really is such a happy boy.

I love it when we catch him making funny faces.

Huge mohawk!

At my Aunt Janet's house, listening to a baby boom-box. Too cute!

One happy fella!

So deep in thought...

He seems a bit puzzled...

And our favorite....He's going to be Buzz Lightyear for Halloween. Nick is going to be Waldo, like, where's Waldo? Anyway, these are the glasses that came with Nick's costume and we just had to put them on Jaxon. The funniest part was that Jaxon just left them on his face and looked at Nick with that huge goofy smile. We were laughing so hard, and it is now the background on the computer so we get a pretty good laugh everytime we get on the computer. Funny funny kid!