Our little chunker!

                         

                                 

Over the last month Alexis has been eating baby food and rice cereal. She actually prefers vegetables to fruit, which was very surprising. She is getting better with the spoon feeding but she still manages to make quite a mess all over her face. I am sure I help her with that a bit however. Lexi is also a pretty good little eater.  She has really begun to develop quite the little rolls on her arms and legs. On Sunday she wore the cute little blue dress with a bracelet but the bracelet was hard to see underneath the layer of chub! :) We love that she is so chubby though because it gives us something to squeeze and hold on to. 

Our Anniversary

                                     

              

I figured since Jaron and I just celebrated our 2nd anniversary on June 10th, I should post some of our wedding pictures. I wanted to give a little history about how Jaron and I met and our story for many of you who don't know Jaron. It all started back in August 2005 at a ward BBQ. I had just finished my intern year teaching 4th grade and graduated from BYU. I moved to south Provo with Suzi Doll, a friend I had met while teaching. We were still in a BYU ward but the people were much older and I was one of the babies of the ward. Jaron noticed me right away and quickly was in pursuit. I however was only interested in going the friend route. We hung out a lot though, just as friends but he was always trying to trick me into going on dates with him. He also started showing up at the gym later so that we would be working out at the same time. He was pretty sneaky! My roommates knew I didn't like him the way he liked me so they were always helping me out. Jaron was unaware of this and therefore didn't get along with my roommates so well. Jaron was pretty persistent so we had to have the dreaded DTR and I told him I wasn't interested in dating him. This didn't phase him a bit. He continued to come over, call me, and still wanted to hang out. I didn't mind being with him as long as he knew I only wanted to be friends. Well to make a long story short, I had to tell him a 2nd time I only wanted to be friends and that just about killed him. In December I even told him I was going to pick up my friend from the airport with my roommates to get out of being with him. I got in the car, waited for him to go down the street and around the corner, and then went back in the house. I was so mean! About 2 weeks after that, I started to feel differently somehow. Jaron and I were both FHE leaders so we were constantly paired up. Our groups were doing a sub for Santa and since we were the leaders we had to go shopping together. Of course once we were done, Jaron wanted to go to dinner and a movie. This time I wasn't that hesitant to go, in fact I found myself really wanting to go. We ended up going to Outback, his favorite restaurant, and to see The Chronicles of Narnia. I had a great time and was totally falling for him. Anyway we ended up driving down to Vegas together for Christmas. He was from California so after I got home he continued the rest of the way with his sister. A few days after Christmas, my family went down to Disneyland and Jaron met us and came too. That night he took me to Newport beach and we walked along the beach and the pier. There he kissed me and we were together ever since. Needless to say, many people were shocked when they found out we were dating since I had been so adamant about NOT dating him. So to sum it up, we started dating December 28th, we knew we were going to get married eleven days later but didn't get engaged until February 3rd. We then were married in the Las Vegas temple on June 10th. It is a fun story and Jaron loves to tell it, since he knew way before me that we were going to get married. Everyone thought he was crazy to keep pursuing but he wasn't about to give up. Jaron is the man I have always looked for and I love him so much. He treats me like a queen and works very hard to support our family. He is very ambitious and won't stop until he has achieved his very best. I am so grateful to have realized what a wonderful guy was right in front of me for so many months. He and Lexi are everything to me and I am a much better person having them in my life!

                               

Hicky!

                                 

Over the past few weeks Lexi has discovered her hands and continues to suck on them. She seems to like it better than the pacifier. The bad thing is she slobbers so bad and everything gets soaking wet. Yesterday, my sister, Stacy came down from Draper to babysit. Jaron and I needed to go to the temple so she was the only one I felt comfortable leaving Lexi with. Being the paranoid mother that I am, I left a million instructions. Stacy seemed very capable though so I felt alright leaving her. Going to the temple was great since we haven't gone in a while, but I did think about Lexi a lot. When we got home, everything seemed fine and Stacy said Lexi was very good. However I did notice some funny looking red marks on Stacy's arm. When I asked her about it, she said they were from Lexi. She said that Lexi was crying and my mom had told her to hold her face-down on her stomach. Well apparently Lexi started sucking on Stacy's arm. When she tried to pull her off and give her the pacifier she started screaming, so instead of listening to her cry, Stacy gave in and let Lexi give her a hicky. I guess Lexi really prefers flesh to anything plastic. We could have some real problems in the future if she keeps this up!

Dress up

                        

                                       
 
Lately one of my favorite things is to dress up Lexi in fun little outfits and take pictures. She is growing so fast and I don't think she will be able to wear some of her clothes very soon. Since she is drinking formula now, she is becoming a little chunker and developing lots of little rolls!