Update on the Greensides Family!

Hello all! I saw so many people doing these blogs that I thought it would be fun to do one for our family. I am still playing around with it and trying to figure everything out, but I'm catching on slowly, just don't expect anything too spectacular! Please feel free to leave as many comments as you want, I love to hear from everybody!

Well, just a quick update on our family. We are currently living in Daybreak in South Jordan and we are loving it! We love everything from our great neighbors to the fun trails to walk along to the Lake just a five minute walk away. It is just a great place to live. We moved here thinking we would be here a couple of years, but now I don't know if you could get us to leave, we love it so much. We have been in this house for about a year and before that we lived in Salt Lake for about a year and a half. We have two wonderful kids, Jaxon who is two and Brynn who is almost three months. They keep me busy all the time, but I love it! I am going to attempt to post some pictures now so you can actually see our cute little family.

Jaxon's 2nd Birthday

Jaxon turned 2 on July 8th. About a week before his birthday, I heard him in his room singing "Happy Birthday to You". It was so cute, he must have learned it in Nursery. So when Jason and I burst into his room the morning of his birthday and started singing, he wasn't quite sure what to think. At first I think he thought we were crazy, but then he thought it was pretty cool once he saw all the fun decorations we had put up and especially the balloons! We had a small party with family and friends and he got very spoiled, as usual! We let him pick out his cake all by himself and despite my efforts he picked the Cars cake (the same exact cake as he had last year!). He had so many things to play with he wasn't sure what to start with. He loves his golf clubs and insisted that we took them with us when we went to St. George to visit Grandma & Grandpa a couple of days after his birthday. At least once a day I get to play golf with him. He loved all of his presents and can't play with them enough!

4th of July

On the 4th of July, Jason really wanted to take Jaxon golfing, but it was so hot that he didn't want to go outside, so we decided to go miniature golfing at Hollywood Connection. It was great! Jaxon had a great time miniature golfing. He would get a little frustrated that he didn't get his ball in the hole, so he would pick it up, put it right next to the hole and tap it in. I think this kids got the game figured out! They also had a couple of fun rides there for Jaxon to ride. He loved the carousel and wanted to ride it over and over again. Brynn wasn't too impressed...she slept the whole time, but I was fine with that. Later that night we had a bar-b-que with our neighbors. We had a great time!

Thanksgiving Point Petting Zoo 6/25/07

We went to the Thanksgiving Point petting zoo with some of our neighbors on June 25. Jaxon had a great time. He loved looking at the animals and was fine with most of them, but didn't like it when the big horses came close to him, but he was fine with the ponies. He loved his pony ride and would have stayed on all day if he could. We took him last year and he cried the whole time he was on the pony, so I think he liked it better this time.

Daybreak Luau 6/16/07

Daybreak had a luau on 6/16/07 so we walked down to the school with a few of neighbors and had dinner and listened to music and watched some great entertainment. Jaxon thought it was great that he could just run around all he wanted. These are pictures of us at the luau. Jaxon with his friend Halle, Jason, Kendra and Brynn (Jaxon chose not to be in this picture!) and Jason with his fun ball! We had a great time.

Bear Lake 5/19/07

We went to Jasons family's cabin up in Bear Lake with our neighbors Joseph, Cami, and Lily Humpherys and our friends Steve, Chelsea, and Conner Jolley. We had a great time. Jaxon and Conner are only a month apart and they look like they could almost be twins! Then we realized they had the same PJ's so we took their picture together because they look so much alike. We went to the lake one day not planning on swimming, totally unprepared, but the kids decided that they wanted to play in the water, so they did. Eventually all the kids were totally naked playing in the water and sand and Jaxon was fishing of course. They also kayaked a little bit too. They had a great time despite the fact that it was a little cold, we didn't have any swim diapers or towels, I guess we learned our lesson! We had a great time hanging out with our friends and Jaxon had a great time playing with his friends.

Welcome Brynn!

Our beautiful little girl Brynn Elizabeth Greensides was born on April 24, 2007. She weighed in at a whopping 5 lbs. 10 oz and was 18 inches long. She was only a week early, but she was so small because I had something called placenta deprivation so she wasn't getting all the nutrients she needed from me. They did an ultrasound on the 23rd and decided to induce me later that night at around 9:00. Well, around 5:00 p.m. I started having contractions (she must have know we were going to force her out, so she got things started on her own!). We got to the hospital at around 9:00 like they told us to and got checked in and everything and I was already at a three. We stayed the night there and not too much changed. Things went pretty quickly in the morning though and after a couple of scares with her heart rate dropping, she joined our family just after noon. She is a great baby! We thought since Jaxon was such a great baby, that our next one would be awful, but she has proved us wrong. By the time she was a week a a half old, she was sleeping through the night. She's put herself on a great schedule, she hardly ever cries unless she is really mad. We are so lucky!

Jaxon loves his little sister. He loves to hold her and give her kisses. He gets mad at me when I put her in her crib to take a nap because he wants to "play" with her, so we had to put a childproof thing on her door knob so he couldn't go in and wake her up to play with her. On Jaxon's birthday, we gave him some suckers. When I put Brynn in her crib later that day, I found a sucker in her crib, he was sharing with her! He really loves his little sister and she likes him too. I think she lights whenever she sees him.

We feel very blessed to have such cute, sweet kids. I don't think we could have asked for better kids.