The Last 3 Months

Jaxon is now three months old! The last three months have been a roller coaster, but a really fun one! You know the kind that have really crazy and scary parts and you want to cry, but after it all you loved it and want to do it again? Its been that kind of roller coaster. When we brought Jaxon home from the hospital I had a few melt downs because I felt an overwhelming responsibility for this little, now 5lb, human being. I have nannied for a good amount of years and so I felt really comfortable in taking care of a baby, but this time I couldn't give him back to his parents! When Jaxon cried one night ALL night long, I thought I was going to die of sleep deprivation and stress, but things got increasingly better. He finally learned how to eat and he was a lot happier, and now he's a lot chubbier too! He's almost 15 lbs. He's come a long way! Jaxon started smiling at anyone that would look at him at 5 weeks old! It definitely wasn't gas, he's just a smiley guy. He also started giving speeches and telling long stories that would last about 10 minutes at about 6-7 weeks. He was such a chatter box! Not as much now, but I have got him to laugh a few times! The day before he turned three months, he rolled over a few times and has done a couple times since, so that's exciting news. And he is absolutely obsessed with his little monkey, Melvin. We went to California without Terryl a few weeks back and when Jaxon and Daddy were reunited, Terryl gave Melvin to Jaxon as a present! He snuggles with Melvin all the time and loves to sleep with him. On February 2nd, Jaxon was blessed! Terryl gave a beautiful baby blessing and thanks to Terryl's Aunt Cindy, Mom and Brittany we have it written down! It was such a special day with friends and family. Baby Jaxon has been the best thing that has ever happened to Terryl and I and I don't know what life would be like without his special spirit in our home. On February 17, Terryl and I got to go to the Imagine Dragons concert! It was sooo much fun. We haven't had a night out like that in awhile and we had such a good time. On the other hand, we left Jaxon with my parents and....it was a disaster! I had given him a bottle before that night so I thought he would take one but we discovered he doesnt like bottles anymore....but I have the best parents! They took care of him and tried everything to keep him happy and eventually he ate a little bit and went to sleep for the rest of the time they had him. Such a fun night and concert, and i'm thankful for my parents! During the last 8-9 months Terryl has been focusing really hard on building up his videography business. Day in and day out he has been working so hard and it's starting to pay off! He loves what he does and he's doing a great job at making his business a success. He's been working on building a studio since about August and its almost completed! They hope to have an open house in the next few weeks. It's been hard at times not having him home much, but I know he's working hard for our family. Yesterday he had the morning off and we were able to go to Lehi Days! Lehi Days is a really fun rodeo that we go to every year and it's put on by my parents stake. My niece and nephew did some sheep riding and goat dressing! Pretty funny stuff to watch. We took Nixon, Terryl's brother's little boy, and he loved it! He said the best part was playing in the rain. Right as we were leaving it started to rain and we had a long walk to the car. Terryl said, "why don't you wait up against the church wall, underneath the roof and I'll go get the car." So Nixon, Jaxon and I stayed there until it started to down pore.....We were standing in dirt and it turned into deep muddy water in a matter of seconds. We decided we had to move but there was no where to go! We ended up running out in the rain and found a tree to stand under until Terryl got us about a minute or two later. We were all soaked by time we got in the car. Jaxon slept through the whole thing! Nixon had the perfect rain boots on and Terryl told Nixon, "Well good thing you have your rain boots on!" Nixon said, "not my rain boots, my black ones." Little kids say the darndest things. So, I finally decided I need to get back into shape. It's been a long time since I have been fit and....I need to do something about it! So I started Jillian Michaels 30 Day Shred DVD and its pretty difficult! Terryl did it with me and said it wasn't a very good work out, but on day 2 he was huffing and puffing! I think he's just too macho to say its a good one :) All of my siblings decided to sign up for the Foam Glow 5k in May! I did the Pat Tillman race a few years ago and it was a lot of fun so I'm really excited for this one. We are all training for that using the Couch to 5k program. I love it! We'll see how good I look in a few months :) haha.  Today we were able to attend the Gilbert Temple Dedication and it was absolutely amazing. I kept on thinking how exciting it is that Thomas S. Monson was only a few miles from where I was! Funny thought I know, but you usually only see him at conference and in church magazines so it's special to be a part of something with him, that is so close to home! I am so excited for the new Gilbert Temple and the opportunity I have to go inside. I know the gospel is true and I will never believe that it isn't. I have had so many different things happen in my life that have testified of the principles of the Gospel and I would never be able to deny that the Atonement of Jesus Christ is real. I'm so thankful for that! It's such a blessing to have Jesus Christ to rely on when you don't have anyone else. Anyway....what can I say? I love my life!

Terryl likes to put Jaxon's pants on his head.

Melvin and Baby Jax

Tummy Time!

Labor and Delivery

Hellooo! This is my first blog post ever and I'm a little nervous about writing. I want it so I can share what's going on in our family but more importantly just for me to have and look back on! Feel free to follow and hopefully it will be continually interesting! So I thought I would first share about when Jaxon came into the world. Let's go back a little bit. In March of 2013 Terryl and I found out we we're having a baby! It took us about 11 months to get pregnant and there were many times through out those months where I thought I was and then I wasn't. So the week before we found out I told terryl, "if I haven't "started" before Saturday then we will take a pregnancy test." (this was Monday.) By Tuesday I was too anxious and couldn't wait. I was at work and I decided to go to the store with the baby I nannied and buy a test. The cashier at the store was probably thinking," you have a four month old and you're buying a pregnancy test?!" Anyway, I went and took the test and sure enough it was positive. I freaked out and took two more tests. Positive! So I rushed home and told terryl I was pregnant. He freaked out and didn't say anything for 10 minutes and so I started crying and it was a huge mess. I went back to work and he went to work. Terryl had time to process things that day so when we got home that night, everything was better and we celebrated! Talk about an emotional roller coaster. And that was only the beginning! Baby was due November 26. If you want to see the video we made to tell everyone about Jaxon, click on this link! Baby Announcement Video Ok so fast forward 8 months. It was Sunday, November 24, and I was 9 months pregnant and so ready to be done! Terryl had been saying for a while that baby was going to be coming on Monday, November 25. He said he told our baby boy to come then, so he would. Well, 4:30 AM on Monday morning, I started having contractions. They were painful enough to where I couldn't sleep so I started timing them.  They were about 10 minutes apart for about 3-4 hours. I thought, today is the day! Terryl went to work but was anxiously awaiting a phone call from me telling him we needed to go to the hospital. I went over to my sisters house just to wait it out as long as I could. About 12PM contractions were 5 minutes apart and very consistent. I waited until 6pm and Terryl came and picked me up and we went to the hospital.The contractions were pretty intense so I figured it was time to go. We got in to triage and they checked me and I was only dilated to a 4 and my water hadn't broke. I was pretty disappointed. They told us to walk around the hospital for an hour to see if I'd progress at all. An hour went by and I was still at a 4. The nurse gave us two options. She said that we could get set up in a labor and delivery room and they would put me on pitocin to get things moving or we could go home and wait it out. I decided I wanted to go natural, no epidural, and so we went home and waited it out. Things were really intense by then and I thought how could things get worse? The pain is really bad. The only thing that made me feel good was warm showers so I got in and my water ended up breaking in the shower! As soon as that happened the contractions were so much more intense that I told Terryl we had to go. He said, "are you sure?" I was ticked that he'd even ask. We got to the hospital and in to triage. The nurse had said that  I was only dilated to a 5 but  my water had partially broken so they got us into a room. By then, it was 2AM and contractions were about every 3 minutes and beyond excruciating. The nurse asked if I wanted to sit on a birthing ball and at first I hesitated but then I thought, what the heck. It was the best thing ever!! Sounds weird, but when a contraction would come, I would rock back and forth on it, breath in and out as deep as I could and squeeze the life out of Terryls hand and then it was all over for another 3 or 4 minutes! Sometimes I would walk around and squeeze the counter edge as hard as I could to get through that never ending minute of pain.  During one of my contractions I heard a camera snap and when I was done with that one I asked Terryl if he had taken a picture. He just started laughing and I told him I was going to punch him. How rude is that?! The contractions continued for about 7 hours and finally by 930AM on Tuesday, I was dilated to a 10. The baby wasn't coming down at all so they put a peanut ball in between my legs to quicken the process and that is when I about died. My doctor said "this will make it more intense but it will move things a long." I couldn't imagine any pain more intense than what I was feeling right then. I literally thought my life was over because my body couldn't handle anymore.
 I had been awake for 29 hours and every 3 minutes every single muscle in my body would tense up.
 It was the longest and most tiring night of my life. I remember saying multiple prayers throughout 
that time and Terryl told me later that he heard me mumbling! I had no idea I was talking out loud! 
How embarrassing.... Finally I was able to start pushing and only 20 minutes later, at 10:16AM our 
beautiful baby boy was born! I remember saying over and over again, "He's here! He's here!" Terryl cut the umbilical cord and then they placed our brand spankin new baby on my chest. I could not believe it was all over! There was hardly any pain as I held my baby boy. The nurses then took him and they got him cleaned up a little more and weighed and then I was able to hold him for awhile longer. Terryl finally got to hold him about 45 minutes after he was born and then we were transferred to a recovery room. Family was there waiting before he was even born so we had visitors right away! Jaxon Hugh Farnsworth was a whopping 6lbs 3oz and 20 inches long. 
Everything went perfectly, no complications, and we were able to go home the next morning! Jaxon 
is and has always been such an easy baby. He's so sweet and ALWAYS smiling!

sooo much hair!

3 days old

two months old