Good Morning!

Lately Jackson has not been sleeping well, at all. It just seems to be getting worse not better. The last two nights I felt like I spent the night comforting him in his crib, then walking to bed and walking right back. After two nights of this and him waking up about every hour the nights before, I was exhausted. 

So last night when I'd already gotten up about twenty times in two hours I decides I was just going to swaddle him and put him in his swing. He can't be swaddled in his crib anymore because he rolls over and it's not the best for him to sleep in his swing because his back isn't flat and he snores more. Well I put him in his swing and got him to sleep. 

I woke up about four hours later and almost panicked, he was sleeping and was just fine thank goodness. It was so nice to get four hours of sleep in a row! Maybe there is light at the end of this long, long, long tunnel after all.

Weekend Fun :)

Steve had a rough work week this week and I wasn't able to work until the end of the week.  Which meant I had to work two days in a row. When I work two days in a row Jackson decides he wants to be a bottle baby and life becomes quite difficult.

Luckily this weekend he didn't struggle with eating. He sure did struggle with sleeping though. Ugg! He rolls over now, so we can't swaddled him anymore. Otherwise he rolls onto his stomach with his arms pinned down and it's kinda scary.  He did pretty well at sleeping like a big boy during the day on Friday, but really struggled at night. He woke up almost every 15 minutes for a few hours every night. It was exhausting for him as well as us. On Saturday we sent him over to grandma Shauna so that we could try to catch up on some sleep.

On Sunday we missed church again. Church at nine with a baby that doesn't sleep well is nearly impossible. We were able to go down to Sandy to visit grandma and grandpa Kemp though. Jackson wasn't his usual happy social self. Probably because he was tired from our sleepless nights. He cried and screamed when his great grandpa held him and also every time I tried to feed him. It was still a fun visit though.

Luckily, when we got home Jackson finally slept well for a night.

Shaylee's (and Baby Alice's) Ocean Baby Shower!

Steve's sister Shaylee (my favorite SIL :) ) is having a little girl in April. She's going to have an ocean themed nursery, so Steve's mom, Shauna, (the best MIL ever) and I got to throw her an amazing ocean-y shower.

Shauna decorated every nook and corner. It was fantastic! Everywhere you looked it was like you were at the beach or in the ocean with the sea creatures. 

Shauna also got lots of onesies and supplies for decorating them. Almost everyone who came stayed to make a onesie for Alice. It was such a fun and special shower because everyone stuck around and visited and ate. It didn't feel like it was rushed, like a lot of open house events do. I think the onesie decorating had a lot to do with everyone sticking around :)  And they all turned out so cute!

Jackson and I stayed the whole time too and really enjoyed ourselves. He smiled and visited with just about everyone. He really didn't even want to take a nap but grandma finally got him to rest for a few minutes.

3 months!

Jackson turned three months on Friday! He celebrated by rolling from his back to his tummy to his back to his tummy and almost back to his back again. At that point I picked him up because he was getting really cranky. 

It's been a lot harder to be a mom than I ever thought it would be. Especially at first! Sometimes, I seriously thought I couldn't do it. Everything that I read or was told, said that the first three months are especially hard. I just kept praying that we would make it to that magical three month mark. We did! And it really is getting so much better everyday.

I love him so much more everyday. His personality is really staring to show (less of the stubborn cranky part of his personality thank goodness!). He babbles and talks, blows spit and smiles, grabs his toys and our hands, and loves being around lots of people. He's a little social butterfly. We love him so much and are so thankful to have him in our lives.

iOnce Meses!

Steve and I have now been married for once meses!  (or in English eleven months).  It's been probably the best eleven months of my life :)
We started out with a great honeymoon to Los Cabos, Mexico.  We really didn't make many plans but still had quite the adventure and I really want to go back again sometime soon.  We stayed in this cute little hotel/resort that was very cheap and much more authentic Mexican than any of the surrounding resorts.  It was so hot while we were there, but that made the water even more inviting.

Oh yes and the water in the pool was either heated or just very warm from being in the hot sun all day.  It wasn't very refreshing but it was still very nice to be in for as long as you wanted, because you didn't ever get cold.
Our real adventure down in Los Cabos was in riding the public bus with all of the locals.  There really weren't any tourists on the bus and it was fun because it felt more like a real experience, not just the tourist experience, but at the same time I definitely felt out of place.  We took the bus to a snorkeling beach that was off the highway between San Jose Del Cabo and Cabo San Lucas.  The bus driver missed our exit and then realized a minute later and dropped us off on the edge of the freeway and apologized and pointed which way we needed to go to the beach.  So we got off, crossed the freeway, and walked down an abandoned road that used to be the freeway through the nice Mexican desert to the beach.  We were completely safe and nothing happened to us, but it felt really dangerous and stupid at the time.
Here's a picture of the old highway we walked on to get to the beach.

After we got back from Mexico we went back to work and trying to get our house put together.  It really was a mess at first and it was making us both crazy, but we were able to get it all put away and make it work.  Steve worked part time for Petzl on and off for quite a while and I worked nights on the weekends down in Salt Lake which wasn't so fun.  On our first anniversary I came home from work in the morning and found my wedding bouquet on our coffee table in a vase and pictures from our wedding hung up all over the walls and a sign that Steve had colored himself that said "Happy one month Anniversary!"  It was pretty awesome :)

Now we're coming up on our big one year anniversary.  I can't wait!  We're going to go camping and river rafting up in Jackson Hole with Steve's family at the end of July and it happens to fall on our anniversary.  I can't really think of anything funner to do for it.

Ojos Asi-Shakira

On Tuesday I spent a lot of the day watching a playlist on Youtube with Shakira's top music videos.  Some of them were pretty amazing, some were kind of funny or cheezy and some were pretty skanky.  I love her voice and how her ethnic background plays into her music.  She is from Columbia, but her father is Lebanese and her name is actually from the Islamic language.  Her song lyrics in Spanish are amazing, especially her older songs.  I've now picked out a few favorite songs to help me work on my accent and on practicing Spanish again.


This music video is Ojos Asi.  The song is gorgeous and you can hear the mix of Latin and Middle Eastern influence in the music.  I also think her belly dancing in this is pretty amazing.  Enjoy!

Keep on Dreamin'

This song is so inspiring to me.  I love the story in the song.  It's such a powerful message "keep on dreamin' even if it breaks your heart."  I also just love how the music is and his voice.  I love the advice to always follow your dreams no matter the risk :)