Pictures of the summer!!

May- Gage turns 6 months old and we moved to lehi

June- Gage is 7 months and Zach goes to the grand canyon. Zach took Gage to his first father and sons. My dad gets shot.

July- Gage is 8 months. My dad comes home. My dad turns 55 and his cops sing him happy birthday. Our first trip to seven peaks, Gage loved it.

August- Gage is 9 months. Zach and I went on big motorcycle ride for the fallen officers.




I just thought I just post pictures of our summer. Pictures are always fun to look at so I hope you all enjoy!

A Weekend in Park City

Over the weekend Zach and I stayed up in Park City for Saturday night. Zach had a sales meeting to go to Friday night and all day Saturday. Zach's mom and dad watched Gage for us, so I drove up and met him in Park City Saturday afternoon, to spend the remainder of the weekend with him. It was so nice for just us two to go out. Zach had his bike up there so went on a ride down the main street, it was so beautiful. On some of the mountains the leaves are just starting to turn colors. I can't believe that fall is right around the corner. The air was prefect during the day but freezing at night. We went to dinner on the bike and froze our butts off on the way back to the hotel, but it was fun to get out on the motorcycle. Zach and I were so excited to sleep in and just be lazy, easier said than done. At 8 o'clock in the morning the fire alarm went off, it scared me so bad. I had to wake Zach up because he was crashed out. We got up and I started to pack my stuff. Zach told me not to, so we left our room to go out side when an employee told us that it was a false alarm. We headed back to our room and climbed back into bed, just as we were both falling back to sleep it went off again, but for only a few seconds. It made me so mad, because I wanted to sleep in. We were able to finally get back to sleep, and stayed asleep for a few more hours!! It was nice! When we went to check out, Zach had asked the clerk about the alarm and she said someone was cooking, and then she told us that a few minutes earlier, a small baby deer, who still had spots on it, walked into the hotel and was running the halls. They had three Park City policemen trying to get the baby deer out. After that, we went back to main street and walked through the farmers market for awhile. It was a lot of fun.

Another 3 months have passed!!!

WOW it has been a very crazy and strange summer. And i thought I would have been a better blogger then Zach with weekly updates and fun things to post but no I suck! Well I will give you my excuse for not updating it, to start we moved at the end of May to our own home in Lehi it's so cute and really close to my parents new house. I love it, it's so nice to have a house of our own so I can paint and decorate and do what ever i want with it!! We're so excited. And then on June 23 my dad was doing a routine traffic stop when he pulled a female driver over and was shot in the line of duty. It has been 2 months now and he has done well for being shot in the head!! He is a very strong person and a very determined one too, he has been threw a lot and he continues to progress each day with his communication, that is the hardest thing he deals with each day. Where he was shot is the communication part of the brain so he knows what he wants to say but it doesn't come out right or at all. So he goes to speech therapy every weekday. My Mom has handled this event very well. I can only hope i have half the strength she has. It will be a long road to recovery for my dad but I know he can do it.

Next thing that has happened was Zach's Grandpa Blackburn had a stroke on July 23 while he was in California and had surgery, and he had to stay down there for a few weeks then he was driven back here, and he was in a care facility in salt lake, he just got home on the 27 of this month. He is doing very well.

And that's not the end of it My Grandma was in the hospital just after my dad was hurt and and then she was released and now my grandma has suffered a stroke but she is not doing to well, her stroke was a really bad one she can't move her left side, we're not sure whats going to happen with her. Well that is about it for our wonderful summer which has been filled with lots of trips to the hospital and lot of up and down emotional roller coaster.

Now that i have that out on to Gage he is 9 months now and is into everything he weights almost 20lbs and is almost 30in tall he is such a cute and fun little boy. I don't know what I would have done with out him in my life, he is our little angel! He babbles a lot and says mama and dad, he says hi and bye. He had his first tooth pop up this month, he crawls everywhere and very quickly, he does try to stand by himself but I don't like that I don't want him to walk =( but he will walk along the furniture, and let go and stand for just a few seconds and then fall on his butt. He is so funny I just love the little nerd!! He brings so much joy to our lives. Zach and I are so proud to have him be ours! Well I guess that's it I really hope I can update better. I will try my hardest!

The top pictures were taken at the first of June. Then there are some of Gage in July, the really close up one of Gage's face was with his first black eye. And one of my Dad when he got home!

This video is of Gage looking at my dad's sticker on the back of our exterra. He loves his Grandpa, the cute little smile and laugh is hilarious. The Lehi police had these stickers made for my dad. We still have the sticker on our car.

Gage is 6months old!

Hi everyone, Well Gage is now a 6 month old and he went to the doctors on Friday May 2nd and had his shots =( it was the saddest one yet, we got into the room and it was like he new what was going to happen. but he did really good. The Dr. said he was just getting over an ear infection, we didn't even know he had one. And he getting so big I thought he was over 17 lbs but he is not he really weights 16lbs and 6 oz, and he 27.3 in long and his head is 44.4 cm around. He is average in everything a little over on his head, but that's ok Zach has a big head so I guess he just gets it from daddy =) I had to take Gage to the Dr yesterday because he wasn't eating at day care ( I hate day care) and the Dr said he has another sore throat, which is viral, this is his third or fourth one, poor little man. He does so well when he is sick it's hard to tell when he is. Right now the cat wont leave me alone he thinks he is starving for attention, he doesn't get as much as he did before Gage but we still make time for him, wow he is really obnoxious. Anyways the little Blackburn family is doing great and we are loving the nice weather, we go outside and put Gage on a blanket to play and sometimes we put him on the grass. He hates the grass it's so funny his face gets a cute discussed look and he wines a bit, we got it on video, we're so mean. Well this Friday we are getting family pictures done and I'm dressing Zach as a prep no black skull shirts. I hope they turn out. I'll let you know!

Well Gage will be six months tomorrow and he is getting so big!!! He is so freakin cute! A lot has happened since the last page in Jan. We are bad bloggers but I (Jackie) am going to try and do this since I only work two days a week and Zach works all week long. So please be patient with me I'm learning =) Well Gage is now eating baby food and has been for a week or so, and he took to it like a champ he was ready to eat real food, he weights about 17+ lbs and is scooting forward and backward a little,and wiggles so much, he rolls both ways and is rolling all over the floor. The minute I turn away he is off his blankets and getting away from me. He is the best baby ever and we are so lucky to have him. Gage still looks a lot like a little Zach, it is so cute to see them together. Zach is a really great daddy. Zach and I are doing great,and work for both of us is so busy. When I work during the week, Gage goes to daycare one of the days and I hate him going. They do a really good job, I just think he is to young to go. The second day that I work he goes to his grandma and grandpa Blackburn's for the 12 hours. He loves to go there and they love to have him up there. His grandpa has started a new thing with him. When you put him on your knee he starts to wiggle and squirm around and that means he wants to ride the horse. Grandpa did that one day and Gage loved it, so now when you hold him on your knee you better have a hold of him. Zach and I are just amazed at how fast he has grown and all the things he can do. It is so much fun to watch him realize that there are big, bright objects to see, and touch. He just takes everything in and he is learning so much every day. He gets to go the Dr. on Friday and get shots =( We get to see how much he weights and what percentage he is in. So I will update again this weekend, I hope this hasn't bored you and hopefully I'll get better.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

Well, Christmas came in a hurry and left even faster. We had a great Christmas this year. I thought to myself how its so funny that a brand new baby completely filled all of my greedy wants before the Christmas season was even here. When Jackie and I would ask each other what we wanted for Christmas, we would both give it hard thought, and all we could come up with was, that we didn't want anything. We already had too much to be thankful for having such a cute,healthy and fun baby boy. I had managed to save enough vacation days to take from Dec. 21st to January 2nd off. It was so much fun being home with Jackie and Gage every day. He is such a morning person (he sure didn't get that from me.) We wake up and feed him around 6am or so and throughout the whole feeding he sits there and smiles at us and tries so hard to laugh. It usually ends with him falling back to sleep with a mouth that is half-full of milk. When we pull the bottle out of his mouth he gives us a huge sleepy grin with his eyes closed and the milk that was pooled in his cheek slowly runs down his chin. He just keeps getting cuter and cuter. We also had a great time dressing him up in Christmas clothes, and he was such a good sport about it.
Christmas eve we all went up to Grandpa and Grandma Blackburn's house and hung out. Christmas morning we woke up when Gage was good and ready, then we went downstairs to check out the loot. We opened our presents from each other then we helped Gage "open" his presents. After we got all done and cleaned up we went to Aunt Missy's house up in West Point and had a very good lunch. Then we headed to both of the grandparents houses. All-in-all....Gage got spoiled rotten!!! Who would have THUNK?!?!?

In the days following Christmas we stayed up way late and slept in. It was so much fun. Jackie and I played with Gage all day, every day. When he would sleep Jackie could be caught making bread in her new mixer and I would fly my small remote control helicopter or "Ghetto Bird" around the house so I could work on my piloting skill with the occationally buzzing the cat. Both Landon and Jason quickly saw how much fun these little helicopters were and with in two days of Christmas we all had them and found ourselves flying them around our house till the wee hours of the morning. (thank goodness for vaulted ceilings.) I was a little more anxious to take the tree down this year, because I knew that it would eliminate a huge flight hazard that been the cause of many wrecks over the few days after Christmas. Over all, it was a wonderful Christmas and everyone was SO generous to us and Gage. We want to tell you THANKS !!

Christmas Pictures