"BEAR"izona

Nic had his yearly baseball tournament in Phoenix again.

We love these baseball trips.

A lot of our best friends are with us so we always have a blast.

Nixon calls Arizona "Bear"izona.

So that's what we call it now.

I can't even tell you how excited he was to go to Bearizona.

I had to make a countdown chain because he would ask me multiple times a day when we were leaving.

He was seriously in heaven the entire time we were there.

He played and played and played for 4 days straight.

I love watching Nic play.

He looks SO good in his baseball uniform.

Nixon had to wear eye black just like daddy.

He would not take it off either.

At night when we gave him his baths, he made sure that we didn't wash the eye black off.

He's our future little baseball stud.

Dirky boy and Nixon.

Taytum was a peach the entire trip.

She hates her car seat so the drive was horrible.

But as far as the trip went, she was great.

Both kids slept great in the hotel room which we were thankful for.

These kids seriously had a blast together.

Nic had two games everyday and these kids just played so good the entire time.

I felt like I barely saw Nixon during the baseball games.

Nixon and Hudson.

They are SO cute together.

The boys after their last game.

Nic hit a homerun during this tournament.

I was a pretty proud wife!

My little sweetie pie.

We got so lucky because we missed that nasty snow storm here in Utah.

And we were in mid 70 weather the whole time.

We had a blast.

Can't wait til next year!

Packing

We went to Arizona at the beginning of the month to watch Nic play in a baseball tournament.

Nixon was SO excited for the trip.

We made a countdown chain and everything.

So the day before we left I started to pack while he was awake but that definitely wasn't working.

So throughout the day I got everything out of his room that I needed to pack and decided that I would pack after he was in bed.

After he was in bed for about a half hour, Julie came down and told us Nixon's light had been on so she peeked in and came and got us.

This is what we found.

Nixon was packing his stuff.

It was seriously the cutest thing ever.

It even made me cry a little bit.

He was so excited to pack his own stuff.

And he was so serious about it.

He had his socks and swimming suit all lined up.

He was putting so much thought into the way he was packing everything.

He had his shirts laid out on the bed.

So neat and organized.

(these are all his jammy shirts)

He even changed out of his jammies and put some random clothes on.

He pretty much got everything out of his bottom two drawers and packed it all.

I had to take a picture of his pants on backwards.

We were finally able to get him to sleep.

And the next morning he made sure that his suitcase was still packed.

And we HAD to bring it with us.

So we had an extra suitcase full of random clothes with us on the trip.

We even had mismatched house slippers and big boy undies that he doesn't even wear yet.

He is such a little stud.

This & That

I am so super slacking at blogging these days.

Here's random pictures from the end of summer.

We went up to Park City one day to ride the Alpine slide.

Taytum and I stayed behind and waited for the boys to come down the slide.

She loves to eat her snacks.

Here are the boys at the end of the slide.
Nixon LOVED it!!

Nixon is OBSESSED with baseball.
(he has one proud daddy)
He found Nic's catcher mask and wears it all the time.

Nixon loves to get in the crib and play with Taytum when he hears that she's awake in the morning or after her nap.

She's loves it too.

I told Nixon to make a funny face and this is what he did.

Taytum's side pose.

Nixon used to do the same thing.

Daddy being funny with Tayters.

These two are starting to play with each other.

I love it!!!

Nixon is amazing with his little sister.

He loves her.

He is so protective over her.

For the most part, he's pretty patient with her.

She's starting to get into all his toys.

If he's playing with something, naturally she will get in the middle of it and he doesn't like that but he's getting better with sharing.

 Nixon loves to build tracks for his cars and trucks.

Taytum usually ruins these tracks but he just rebuilds them.

She's our happy little baby.

So content all the time.