Introducing

Jaxton Harrison Hodges

7 pounds 8 oz

He is very Sweet and we love him to peaces.  His sisters adore him. 

He did not come with out being a little stubborn.  You see about 36 weeks I got high blood pressure.  That was to be expected since I had the same problem with my girls.  The doctor was not so inclined to induce me this time around however due to the fact that he was a boy and there lungs seem not to develop as well (trust me he has a set of lungs that are fully developed that was not a problem.) so we did the weekly routine of blood pressure checks all the way to 39 weeks which is the longest I have ever been pregnant and I was more than ready for him to come.  Finally I went for a blood pressure check on the 11th of august and my doctor was on call and was so nice and decided to induce me on the one time that I thought it would be a smart idea for brody to stay home.  I told Brody just to stay home it would be easier!  I should have probably made him come.  After 5 different tries at an IV and 2 blown veins I had I was on my way it took less than 4 hours and he was here in all his glory!  We are still adjusting as to what to do with a boy but we wouldn't change him for the world.

9 months of no blogging.

I guess I am off the blogging strike or I finally have some cute pictures to post. 

My really good friend took some darling pictures of the girls.  They are getting so big I can't seem to keep up with them.

Elisa is getting so big!  She just finished her first year of pre-school and thinks she pretty much knows everything.  She know all her letters, The sounds that go with them, She loved to right her name and tell us her phone number.  She is really into horses right now and wants to get one for are back yard.  She is dreaming but why can't a girl dream.  She is really excited to have little brother she asks everyday when he is coming. 

 Kennedy is Growing so fast.  She will be 2 at the end of this month and for the most part she is just sweat and mellow.  Some days I look at her and wonder where she came from.  She never leaves my side for to long and always needs to know right were I am at.  She repeats everything that we say and loves her sister.  She on the other hand may not be as excited to share me with a new baby.  She always has a smile on her face and she loves to be outside.  But she does not like to be dirty in the slightest.  She may be more like me than is good for her.

I just want everyone to know I have been trying to get a good picture of them together for almost exactly two years and We finally accomplished that!  They might like each other after 2 years!

Brody is keeping busy with work, school, and church and loves when he gets to just relax!  I am ready to have this baby already and have a little boy around.  Although he may never have a name because we don't agree on anything and I am not sure what to do with boys. 

Elisa's First Day of Preschool

Elisa started preschool last week and has fallen in love! She is so obediant to get ready in the morning when I wake her up. She loves learning and telling me all the things that they have done in class. It is weird not to have her around two mornings a week but I am glad she is doing well with this!

Redfish Lake

I am for warning you this may be a blog overload! I haven't blogged forever and have tons I want to blog about. First off is Redfish Lake. At the End of July we went to a family Reunion at Redfish. I have been going there my wholE life so it is nice to take my kids and let them enjoy it!We went to the fish Hatchory and went fishing and watched them mark Salmon.

We did lots of Jet Skiing! Even my grandma took a go at it!

These to trouble makers had alot of fun together!

These two are pretty funny! Riley was really into putting her head on Kennedy!

"1"

I can't believe my baby is "1" !

Kennedy is a happy girl all the time. She loves to smile at everyone and when in church thinks that is time to start entertaining people! Things that Kennedy love to do at one are: walk, say go and dada, she loves dogs, she still loves to cuddle and she most importantly loves her mommy! I have to be in sight at all times if she can't see me she lets me know it! She loves to swim, play outside and follow her sister everywhere!

My sister did a little photo session and Kennedy especially liked sitting in the cup she thought it was so funny!

Dance Recital

Well the following videos are of Elisa's dance recital. The videos pretty much explain how well it went. I guess I should tell you that Elisa has Quite the personality and if she is not going to do something she is not going to do it! She had a dress Rehersal earlier in the day and did every move to the dances but not for the recital she was not having it. Plus I think she had to go the bathroom! Finally for the Final they got her to dance by bribing her with Candy. If I would have thought of that sooner then maybe she would have danced the whole time!

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Easter

This post is a little late and my blogging is long overdue but here it is! This year for easter my parents happened to be here! The girls were way excited to have them around!`The girls and my dad! Elisa kept him busy all weekend with all sorts of things.
We took Elisa to the easter egg hunt at the city park, she was all excited until 200 hundred kids started running around and then she just got scared and stood there.

As you can see Kennedy was thrilled about her easter basket! So thrilled she didn't wait for Elisa to wake up. She unpacked hers and started in on Elisa's!

The girls in their cute easter dresses before churchElisa looking so innocents

Kennedy looked so cute! but I think she was mad I put her in this chair and wouldn't let her crawl around in her dress outside!

Sail Away Sail Away

Brody and I just got back from an amazing Cruise to Cabo San Lucas I was in heaven! I have wanted to leave the girls for awhile now and get away together and we finally did it! This arch was the view I woke up the first morning we were there! It was beautiful.
Every night on the ship are room man Comrad would leave a different animail made out of towels we were always teasing him that he was going to have to out do himself the next night. On are final night this is what we found a bulldog going after legs it was to funny!

This is brody and I on are snorkling adventure. Lets just say that we saw whales and that was my favorite part. The snorkeling thing was a little crazy in freezing water and there was not really any amazing fish so we will try that somewhere else with clearer water!

This is the mommy whale we saw we also he baby was also putting on a great show! we really were that close to them and it is as if they new we were watching they were totally putting a show. We even joked that they probably just had mechanical whales to make people get there moneys worth!

This is brody and I just getting ready to go back to the ship! We had so much fun and it was good to get away. Coming back to real life on the other hand was not fun. By friday we were def. ready to be home though. We missed are girls terribly and my the time we got off the ship I was done after a tsunami warning and the port be closed and then after we finally got to dock we were bound to never be able to get off the ship because of the imigrants not going to through imigration! We can't wait to go again! next time I think we will take the Kids!

The Girls

These two girls love each other! Elisa loves for kennedy to sit by her and watch her morning cartoons it usually only lasts five minutes before Kenned is moving to much for Elisa's liking! Elisa loves her sunglasses

And so does Kennedy. She will wear them and not even try to take them off!

And this is Kennedy's new bath tub! She will not sit still in the regular tub and is constantly trying to pull her self up so we decided this would be the perfect spot! She loves it and Elisa thinks it is really great because she doesn't have to share her bath!

The girls are both at such fun ages! Elisa has become quite the little helper! She loves to vaccum, Set the table and help me empty the dishwashers.

Kennedy is trying to Crawl she can do a couple little lunges and then she usually falls but the last few days she is really starting to figure it out and now I am in trouble!

Crazy Christmas with the HODGES

( The picture explains everything. Where is Logan?)

This year we spent Christmas with Brody's family and when I say family I mean the whole family! We had a great time and 21 people in one house makes for complete craziness! We had so much fun going sledding at Soldier Hollow and Pirates Island, going to see a movie and getting pedicures. It was great to be able to just sit around and visit since we all live so far apart we don't get to see each other very often. Brody's sister from Kansas City drove out with there four kids and it was so much fun for Elisa. She loved her older friends! She was really sad to see them go! We had a wonderful Christmas. I do have pictures but it was complete mad house that morning it was basically a free for all with that many people!

We have all have had the sickies since we have been back and have been just taking life easy. Brody is back in school and Kennedy is trying very hard to crawl. I don't know who told her she could do that but it was not me. I am totally against her getting big! Elisa is still herself up to no good but we love her and I think she might finally be growing out of the terrible two stage. She is saying funny things all the time and I wonder where she comes up with them. She loves her sister to pieces and that is the first person she wants to see in the morning!

Potty Training and sisterly love

The last couple days we have started the three day potty training Elisa is getting the hang of it! Her biggest problem is that she doesn't want to be told what to do so I am using the three day potty training method and it is a lot less of a fight with her and she stayed dry all night for night one so lets see how day two goes!Mean while Kennedy is just chilling with us and is being happy all the way through it!

The other day I came out into the family room to find this! Elisa was totally lost in a show and feeding Kennedy her bottle. I thought it was pretty cute!

Dancing and Update

So I have been trying to download a video of Elisa's dance performance for three days now and it is not working so we will blog about it without the video. Elisa loves dance but I don't think she likes to perform in front of large crowds she was not a fan. She was either frozen because it was outside or she had stage fright but in all her life she has never held so still. She always gives us a run for are money but we love her. Lately we wonder what is going to come out of her mouth she has started to say the funniest things and I now have to be careful what I say because she repeats things. Recently Brody was singing and elisa was still sleeping and the next thing we hear is elisa " Daddy stop it right now I am sleeping I don't like it."

Kennedy is growing like a weed I don't remember Elisa getting big so fast but I am sure she did I just want my baby to stay a baby. She loves to smile at everything. She is so happy most of the time. I always hate to break peoples heart when she smiles at them and they think that she loves them I don't have to heart to tell them she does that to everyone. She has been sitting up since thanksgiving and rolling since october. She is a good Eater she loves to eat all her veggies so far and rice ceral. She weighed Sixteen pounds when I took her to the doctor the other day and she had the rolls to prove it. The doctor mentioned to me that she is definatly not starving.

3 going on 30!

HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY ELISA! We had a sweet party this is what she looked like when we were done!
She got to Eat Mickey Mouse

She had a sweet Pinata From her nana and Papa

These Awesome boys came to help her celebrate

And she had one sweet cake that her mom worked hard on! And then she poked holes in his eyes!

Elisa was so excited for her birthday this year should could hardly stand it. all she wanted was blue candles to go on her cake and she was pleased as a peanut that her mickey cake was smiling at her. Elisa has energy beyond belief so we shall see what the next year brings.

Funny quote from Elisa this week

Elisa: Mom my leg is broke it is broke that doctor gave me shots and now its broke. Then she started sobbing. Need I remind you this was like two days after getting a flu shot!

Dancing Queen!

Don't they just look totally awesome! This is how Are morning went one! And no my girls are not naked and in Jamies til 11 everyday but today they sure were hahaha! But they loved it.Elisa recently started dance. She loves it but is a little crazy when we get there. I hope she get the hang of it and starts to mind the teacher!

She thinks she is a princess in her outfit!

I feel like I just don't have time to do all the things I used to do with just one kid. My blog has definatly not got updated as much. But we love Kennedy and wouldn't change her. She is my happy baby. She smiles and giggles all the time now and only puts up a fuss when she wants food or someone to talk to. I think her grandma Hodges spoiled her with talking for one weekend and she has demanded ever since. She sleeps good which is so great since my two year old now thinks she needs to wake up and check on the baby to make sure she is still here. Elisa loves Kennedy, somedays to much but she is adjusting much better than I thought she would!

Womens Celebration 5K

For the Second year in a row I have done this 5k Last year was fun I walked it with a bunch of girls and we had a great time. This year after I had Kennedy my friend Holly and I decided that we wanted to Run it so we have been training for it. As it got closer I told myself there was no way I could run it, But I did in about 43 minuted which I still can't believe. Are friend Britten also ran it maybe next year We can beat are times!

Motherhood:-An-Eternal-Partnership

I love Being these girls mom because.....

When I am having a really rotten day all they have to do is smile at me and it makes it all better. I love it because when I am gone for one evening when I walk in the door they give me loves and let me know they need me. I love when I bring elisa home a suprise she looks at me with her big green eyes and says thank you mommy like I have just given her the world. I love that all I have to do is look at Kennedy and she gives me the biggest smile. This video really puts everything in to perspective!

Motherhood:-An-Eternal-Partnership

I love this video. Being a good mom has weighed really heavy on my mind lately and Raising my girls the right way. So this video gives me hope that I might be doing something right.