Buried Boy

Today at the beach daniel and landon buried paxton in the sand. i thought he was going to hate it and cry but he LOVED it! he kept saying "more, more" and so they would bury him deeper and deeper. It was so much fun and the weather was perfect! Paxton doesnt like being at the beach during the middle of the day because he says its "too hot" and he's right! so today we went at like 4:30 and it was great!!

scenery

I took these pictures on saturday when we went to the beach, i love it here, i still can't get over how green it is here and how blue and clear the water is. It's been raining all morning today, and when it rains it POURS! I love hearing it come down on the roof of our little hotel!

Laundry Day, Boys day off, and My little cheeser

Paxton cracks me up everyday, he does the silliest things! Today he kept saying "CHEESE" really loud and then would give me the goofiest little smile. I seriously love him so much!

Paxton in his little bed cheese'n it.

Friday was laundry day this week. Last week we did it on a saturday and i felt like we spent the guys whole day off doing laundry, so this week us girls attempted to do all the laundry by ourselves which is not an easy task considering we have to load it all up and drive it to the laundry mat. I did mine, Daniel's, Paxton's, and Landon's so that he didnt have to do his saturday, so i had five loads. Kaitlyn also had five loads because she did my dad's and Mallory and Olivia had two or three. I felt like we took up every washer and dryer in the whole place.

Us girls, we were SOOO hot while doing laundry. There is no A.C in the laundry mat, plus with 40 dryers going all at the same time you can only imagine what it felt like. We were all so sweaty. We decided to take the laundry back to the hotel to fold it, we didn't want to be there for one second longer.

Paxton sitting on the washer

There are two types of washers here, one is $1.50 which has hot water, and the other is $1.00 which doesn't have hot water. All of the dryers are $1.00 so we are able to do laundry for $5.00. I kind of like only doing laundry once a week, its nice doing all of the loads at once.

Today on the guy's day off we all hoped in the car and drove until we found a beach that we liked. The guys snorkled of course and us girls hung out at the beach. The sand at the beach was amazing!! It was so soft and had absolutely no rocks. It looked like it had gold and diamond pieces in it.

Pa and Paxton

Chris and his sand turtle

Paxton and Olivia

Sea shells Daniel found while snorkeling

Crazy Landon

Daniel getting some coconuts

Crazy Boy

Paxton is not even two yet and he knows how to work our ipad better than i do!! I ask HIM how to do things on it and he shows me without even thinking twice! i love how smart he is, but sometimes he is to smart for his own good:)

He loves watching movies on his own personal little t.v. He would seriously watch movies all day if i would let him. I limit him on how much he is allowed to watch because it cant be healthy staring at a screen all day. Every night before bed me and daniel watch a movie in our bed and paxton watches a movie in his little bed on his little t.v. I think him settling down and laying in bed and just relaxing before he actually goes to sleep helps him sleep at night because he has been doing so good! Usually either daniel or I have to lay with him until he goes to sleep or else he has a panic attack, he doesnt like to be alone, but ever since we have been doing this new routine we havent had to do that and it has been SOOOO nice!!

Bike Rides

I am so glad that we all decided to bring our bikes out here! its so much fun being able to take our bikes to the beach, its a lot faster than walking. its a great work out too! Paxton loves riding in his seat and he gets so excited when i tell him we are going to go for a ride.

Today at the beach Paxton told me there was an alligator in the tree. (he calls lizards alligators). when i looked for it i couldn't see it anywhere, i asked him "where'd it go?" and he told me that it "flied away". hmmmm...i think he was just telling me a good story? he cracks me up with the things that he comes up with. Then he told me that pa will catch him an alligator after work. i love that little man!!

Beach Bum

Today we rode our bikes to the beach and hung out for a little while. Paxton kept telling me it was "too hot" and that he wanted to go home so we didn't stay for long today. He is so weird sometimes, he'd rather sit in our little hotel room and watch his mickey mouse movies than be playing outside at the beach!! he is crazy! I love it here!

American Samoa

First of all i know that i am the worst blogger ever, its been an entire year since my last post, but my goal is to do better! i want to have a new post done everyday so my family back home can see what we are up to.
Last week my little family moved to American Samoa for a job that the company is doing. I was so nervous to move all the way out here in the Pacific Ocean, but so far so good!! I absolutely love it here, its going to be hard for me to go back home! Even the flights went good, i always stress about flying with Paxton but this trip i was extra worried about. On Friday we left St. George and stayed the night in Vegas, we woke up early and caught our 6 hour flight to Oahu, Hawaii. We stayed on the island for two nights to give Paxton a break from traveling and to have some fun! it was crazy to be back on Oahu, I felt like i had never left. Then on monday afternoon we took another 6 hour flight to samoa. after landing and going through customs and immigrations we FINALLY made it!

This island is beautiful and it is so fun having friends to hang out with! we go for bike rides, hang out at the beach, and just have a good time together. its so awesome that we all get along so good and we are such good friends. I seriously have the best life!! Everyone we have met so far seems to be so nice and giving, and they all LOVE Paxton. The people here aren't used to seeing a little white boy with blonde hair! They all think he is just the cutest thing ever(which he is).

Paxton is a true "samoan" already! he goes everywhere in just a swimming suit! No shirt or shoes required and he loves it! He has a blast playing in the "Big Sand Box" and swimming in the "Big Pool". I love just watching him as he plays and i can just see him soaking everything up around him. He is so lucky to have traveled and lived in so many unique places in his short little life. I'm grateful that me and him are able to travel with Daniel when he works, it would be so hard to be away and miss out on all these crazy adventures!

The other day while exploring we stopped at a beach and the boys did some snorkeling. They found hundreds of these blue star fish and Paxton loved holding them. It was fun to see the boys all hanging out together and having boy time while the girls layed at the beach. I seriously am so happy that we are ALL such good friends! it makes it not seem like work but more like just a big vacation! The only thing that would make it better is if my mom and sister were here, i miss them so much!!

Daniel and the star fish he caught! I love that Daniel finds little treasures in the Ocean for Paxton, he is always finding sea shells and other things for him! He is the best dad i could ever ask for my children.

This looks like a picture from a postcard but its at a beach right where we are staying! we are SO lucky!!