Naked and Frog skates.

So when we did our family pictures with Becca, we knew it was going to rain so she suggested that I get him rain boots to use for some of the pictures. When I first got them he refused to wear them. I let it go and left them in his room hopping he would warm up to them in his own time. One morning he came running my room yelling "look at my frog hockey skates" and he has loved them since. I don't know how or why he came up with the idea that his rain boots are hockey skates but, he loves them. Now he is also revolting against clothes. So, when we are home he is naked most of the day...except for his frog stakes.

Our first family pictures.

So I have been stinking at this whole blog thing lately. Not because we have been super busy and I don't have time, I just haven't felt like blogging and I have been a slacker with my camera. However we have been staying some what busy. We have been enjoying this warm weather and have been spending a lot of time at our neighborhood pool, playing in the back yard and just any fun activity we can do outside. We are also trying to plan a family vacation to Washington and Los Angeles in August and we really hope everything works for that. So that is the Garrett family update in nut shell.

Anyways, a few months ago our friend Becca of Rebecca Martinez Photography was visiting Alabama (she lives in FL) and was gracious and did a family session with us. She also did John and my wedding 6 years ago so it was great that she could our family pictures. This was our second attempt to do family pictures, the first session the previous month rained out and this one was also VERY close to being rained out and would have been if I wasn't so stubborn. We did them at Sloss Furnace in Downtown Birmingham. We were only able to last outside for about 20 minutes because it started purring rain and the temperature dropped unexpectedly and it was freezing. So this is what we were able to get in that short time. Over all I am very pleased with them. If you are in need a great photographer and are in the Tampa area she is amazing!

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Big Boy room in progress...

I started redoing Jax's room last month. It is of course it is all hockey, mostly LA Kings. He loves it. I still want to get new furniture but I have not found anything yet.

We had this picture done of Jax at Downtown Disney this past Christmas.

These letter were originally white when they were in Jax's newborn nursery. Then baby blue and brown for his toddler room. Now they are dark purple, black and silver, LA Kings colors.

His big boy bed. Thank you Aunt Nicole and Uncle Jason for the LA Kings blanket, it is perfect! The pictures above the bed are actually picture we bought on our honeymoon 6 years ago, who knew they would have ended up our son's room.
I have since replaced the lamp shade with a black one. It is coming together slowly...

Watermelon

It has been crazy here in the Garrett house. John has been working on a merger with his company so he has been working like a mad man. So that gives Jax and I lot of quality time. We have been outside as much as casper's skin can handle. We should buy stock in sunscreen we have already gone through 1 1/2 cans (in about month) and with no end in sight we could probably get a nice return on our money. Our neighborhood pool opens today we won't make it down there today but we will be there next week! Jax is such a water kid as I think most kids are at this age. Anything outside and then when you add water it is like Christmas morning. I also introduced him to watermelon this week and to say he loves it is an understatement. I am not sure if it is the flavor he like or they way he eats it, maybe both. I hand him a big chunk of it and watch him go to town!

Jaxon's best friend...Ava

Jax has his first little best friend and they are so cute together...well most of the time. They are becoming more like brother and sister and they fight like it sometimes...then they have these sweet moments together just like brother and sister. They are great little friends. She keeps in his place by "mothering" him and she is girly yet is ok getting dirty. She is such a sweet little girl and he loves her. His whole face lights up when he sees her. She is his best friend..."Aya".

Pool and Projects...

About a month ago Jax and I bought 3 little planters. (However as you can see in the first picture there are only two. He dropped one the day after we painted it.) We brought them home and painted them. We then took a trip to Wal-Mart, I let him pick out some flower seeds and we got some soil and went home to plant them. Also while we were there we got a strawberry plant. Now I have a "black thumb". I have killed literally every plant I have ever had. My poor husband has bought me 2 separate orchid plants and both have died. So I really stink at gardening, but I really wanted to try and grow something with Jax this spring/summer. So far so good. We have gotten 2 strawberries off our little plant and our African Daises are sprouting. We will see how long they all live before the inevitable happens....I kill them.

A few weeks ago I could no longer resist, I had to let him swim and do water play. The water was so cold, it only slowed him down a little. Since then we have not gotten the pool out again, but we have played in the sprinkler and water buckets.

The Zoo with MiMi

Jax and I picked up my mom at the airport on Thursday and we headed to the zoo. Jax had so much fun and so did Mimi and I.

Jax and Mimi rode a camel.

We fed the birds. Then I sat in the "juice" that you feed them, someone spilled some the bench, and I had a yellow line on the back of my shorts the rest of the day.


This gorilla was amazing! He sat there like he was posing, while everyone stared and took pictures, it was so neat. Jax was yelling, "gorilla mommy, gorilla, oOOooOO. (that is what a gorilla says.)
There was this mean and wild much older boy also playing in the fountains and he knocked Jax over and literally rolled over on top of him. Then did it to 2 other little boys. And the boys parents were no where to be found. It took everything inside to not grab that child and make him take me to his parents.