1st Family Trip !!

My new sleeping position!!

I can actually chew on some REAL food...these teething biscuits are yum yum!!

Like my new car seat?? They call in Cowmooflage!! On the road to our first family trip!!

3 1/2 hours til we get there??!! I'm gonna catch some zzzzz's!!

We made it!! Can I order room service???

This place is cool!! Did you just say "Let's go to the POOL??"

WOW!! The POOL looks really BIG!! Are you sure my clothes are water proof???

(Jaxton's first time in a pool )

What about that BIGGER POOL over there??? Can we go in there??

Dad... your making it look like I'm tee teeing in the pool...ur gonna get me in trouble!!

Oh yeah... this is the life!!!

Dad...push me FASTER!!! Mommy...look I'm kicking my feet underwater!!

Where's my FLOAT???? I want it back!!!

That was so MUCH FUN!! I want to go back in AGAIN....NOW!!!

Where's my drinky drink??? Waiter!!!!

Oh Mommy.... this is so much fun BUT I think I'm about to vomit!!

GOOD MORNING!!!

Is the rain really not going away??? I want to take my new boats for a ride!! Whah!!

Hanging at the spa!!!! Why didn't they ever take me here before??

This spa pool has so many bubbles!!!

Our 1st Family Trip photo op!!

I can't smile because my lip hurts where Dad's finger nipped it when we were playing ):

It's time to wake-up ALREADY????

This is where they have a 18 hole miniature putt-putt golf course...awesome!!

Thank goodness Mommy brought me a hoodie jacket...it's cold out here!!!

NO FROGS!!! TOO COLD!!! This is the Chinese Water Gardens

I'm still waiting for the rain to go away!!!

Yacht Club pool where I was supposed to swim ALL DAY on Saturday!!

And the BEACH I was going to make my 1st sand castle in!!! Whah!!!

The adult hot tub at the Yacht Club!! WOW!!

After another week of all of us being sick I think we all FINALLY felt pretty good when we left for our trip last Friday to Horseshoebay in Marble Falls. I hadn't felt that crappy in a long time!! I even went to the Dr. and he gave me ANOTHER Z-pak even though he thought it was just viral ... but I did get weighed there and the scale came in at 116 lbs ... that is about what I thought I weighed. Now I just need to get into the gym and add some muscle to my lower half!!

Jaxton and I cruised around town last week getting together all the stuff we needed for our first trip. We even went to Gymboree finally and had so much fun there again!! I was SOOOO EXCITED for him all week because I knew he had no idea what we were about to do. Ross slept with the monitor for 3 nights before we left so I could get better faster and I think it worked AND I finally was able to sleep for at least 6 hours at a stretch without getting up to look at the monitor!!

Before this trip we bought Jaxton a new car seat since he has just about out grown his infant one. I was crossing my fingers he would like it and do better in the car and as it has turned out I think he really liked all the room to stretch out. We left on Friday morning just before he was about to take his morning nap and he fell asleep in the car for ONLY 30 MINUTES!! I was hoping it would be longer BUT he just played with me in his new seat until we got to Bastrop ( about 1 hr 45 min ) into the trip where he had a bottle and we stretched. He then slept another 45 minutes so he only had about another 45 minutes to hang tight before we got to Horseshoebay. We finally got there and I must say it was a VERY UNEVENTFUL car ride thank goodness...not much fussing at all!!! Whew!!

We arrived and it was just beautiful there!! I had reserved a room on-line which had a kitchenette with microwave so I could heat up Jaxton's food and a separate bath tub from the shower so he could take a bath AND a balcony so we could sit out there while he was napping so we wouldn't wake him up ( really though for us to just enjoy the view with a glass of wine too!!) AND the room was separated from the living room with a door so we could let him snooze in the dark. WELL the room had everything EXCEPT the BALCONY ( which was very IMPORTANT ) and a separate tub so I called to ask why it did not have these things it said it would. They called me back in 1 minute and said that it sounded like I was disappointed so they were putting us up in a suite with a BALCONY that overlooked the resort pool and water gardens and a separate tub!! PERFECT!! The only thing we had to ask for was a microwave which they brought to us. I also read they had cribs to I had bought crib bumpers thinking I was getting a REAL crib but come to find out they were just Pack-n-Plays which Jaxton wanted NOTHING to do with so needless to say he slept between us and we ended up really having fun with that and so did he.

Okay on to the vacation!! This was going to be Jaxton's 1st time in a pool and I was SOOO EXCITED to see his reaction!! So right when we got settled we headed down to the resort pool and HE WAS SO EXCITED he couldn't keep his feet still in his new baby swim boat!! HE ABSOLUTELY LOVED THE WATER!! He even stuck his own face in the water and just blinked his eyes a bunch until he could see again and drank down a couple sips of that pool water!! I have a feeling it is going to be hard to keep him out of it!! This pool happened to be heated so it wasn't freezing cold thank goodness. After swimming around and playing in the pool he took a great nap so I feed him his bottle and dinner quickly and we all got dressed to go down to the resort restaurant for dinner. WELL I think I feed him TOO QUICKLY and he was TOO EXCITED that he projectile vomited all over me and him at the table...poor baby!!! ( he hadn't thrown-up in 2 weeks either) Needless to say my white skirt was now speckled orange and yellow from his carrots and squash!! SO we decided to just bring dinner back to the room since we all had a very long day!

So as we woke up Saturday morning we saw the clouds had moved in a lot sooner than we thought they were going too and ended up ruining the rest of our outdoor fun in the pools!! Whah!! I was pretty disappointed for us and him. But we made the best of it and decided to go up to one of the restaurants at Cap Rock Golf Course which sits at the 18th hole and have lunch which turned out to be a pretty drive and good food BUT it was pouring!!! ( By the way this is all part of the resort and they have a pool there too that we WERE going to go play in!!) Ross had ordered me a massage so we headed back to the hotel and I left and they played until I was done. The massage was great and just what I needed ( a little quiet me time!!) Ross had his in the morning when he went for a run around the resort so we both were pretty satisfied. The girls at the spa were sad for Jaxton that the weather was so bad that he couldn't play in any of the pools so they said for us to bring him into the spa and use their heated pool and have some fun!! WOW!!! How nice was that!!! So I called Ross and said grab our stuff and I will meet you in the lobby and we can play at the spa for awhile!! So when they came down 2 things had happened while I was away ONLY for about 1 1/2 hours....Jaxton had a cut on his upper lip which Ross said his finger nail accidentally got Jaxton while playing AND Ross had to call housekeeping because when he was changing Jaxton's diaper he pee-peed all over the comforter!! What would of happened if I was gone longer???????

Well we ended up having some fun at the spa pool that afternoon. We headed back to the hotel room THINKING Jaxton would surely nap for a bit BUT he was just TOO EXCITED with all his surroundings and didn't. So Ross and I got showered and dressed and said we would just go downstairs and have a glass of wine and appetizer on the restaurant terrace and see how he does down there. Well the little boogie ended up falling asleep in my arms and we were able to have a nice dinner outside.

Sunday morning we woke up HOPING all this rain would be gone BUT instead we had very cloudy skies and it was COLD!! Whah!!! So we took Jaxton to see all the birds that were around the 18 hole putt-putt course ( which was SO COOL..... I was like a miniature REAL golf course) and waterfalls and then to the Chinese Gardens to see more waterfalls and he really loved that too!!! ) We then headed over to the Yacht Club (where we WERE going to spend our Saturday afternoon) just to show Jaxton the sand BUT AGAIN it was way TOO COLD so we just looked around!! It was a beautiful place though!! I was so bummed because I knew Jaxton would of had a blast.....SO WE WILL RETURN TO HORSESHOEBAY VERY SOON!!!!

Our trip home was uneventful too...Jaxton actually slept for 2 hours since he was so worn out!! It was just great to get away for the weekend and we had so much family bonding time with Jaxton that it was all worth it!!

So just a little bit about Jaxton these days. He is sleeping with his HINEY WAY UP in the air and is turning over and back with no problem!! BUT he is doing this at diaper changing time too!! He is scooting more and more each day...he just needs to figure out how to use his arms to help him crawl. He has been making tons of sounds...like he is trying to talk to us...which I wish I could understand!! He is just continuing to want to EXPLORE everything! His hair is growing more and more each day and I think the red is finally being taken over by more sandy blonde. His upper teeth have not emerged yet so he is still chomping down on his fingers ALL THE TIME!! He is eating really good at his meals and is starting to act like he is chewing so I gave him his first teething biscuit which he liked a lot ( really just sucked on it and banged it on his highchair tray to make a mess...oh well!! ) I have started making his food with just a little bit more texture and I think he is finally figuring it out that those pieces are supposed to be in there!! He would just give me the yuckiest face and close his eyes until he either swallowed the little piece or he gummed it enough that it was like puree!!! This week he is going to try cherries and corn ( or asparagus ). BUT the corn will be pureed and put through a sieve so we won't see it again in his diaper!! Haha!!