22 years ago on April 15th i was born into this great world.... lol I love birthdays! Everyone is always nice to you and you get free stuff! My morning started out really nice i got up out of bed got ready and got Lexi up and dressed and got to my moms house earlier then i should have. I for some reason got their over half an hour before i had to leave. I don't know why i got up and ready so early and/or why i thought i had to but i did! lol I get there and my mom was making me German pancakes (MY FAVORITE) but little did i know that was just a distraction! I finish breakfast and go out and to my surprise my car has been written all over! It says "your hott", "honk its my birthday" (i got 3 honks and a big wave!) "I'm 22 today"!! I loved it! So i call into KMLE to request a song and Tim and Willy sang happy birthday to me! I have it recorded and will see if my dad can help me post in on here. It was so cool they actually played it on the radio! Then i get to work and i find a donut on my desk from one of my friends at work so i got a second breakfast. The day went by pretty smooth. Lots of compliments and well wishes and then after me and a few of my work friends went out to miracle mile i get another surprise. One of the guys had bought me this brownie cake thing that was dipped in chocolate frosting from Karsh's bakery. YUM!!! Then i got off work a little early had dinner with my family and had MORE chocolate! It was defiantly not a day for diets! lol So tomorrow me and Spencer are celebrating by going out with a few couples for an evening at Dave and Busters! I'm so excited. ALSO as a birthday present from the Jackson family i am treating myself to a massage at lavenders day spa tomorrow morning! I'm SO excited for that too! :-)
OK so the biggest hurdle for Spencer is over... HE PASSED HIS PHYSICAL TEST!!! We were really worried about it because of how bad his shin splints got but he called me yesterday around 8:15 to tell me he passed. We are all so proud of him and i am SO glad its almost over! He comes home tonight and this is the last weekend he will have to go back to Tucson. I'm so excited to have a husband again! :) he graduates next Friday and I'm sure we are both ready for this to be all over! these 9 weeks have gone by slow and fast at the same time! I'm so proud of Spencer for all that he has accomplished and i love him with all my heart. 1 more week and he gets to have a career he truly enjoys!
Now for the partying.... For those of you that want to come we are having a party for Spencer's graduation from the academy. It will be at my moms house at 6:30, SATURDAY the 25th. We will be having dinner and snacks so please let me know if you coming so we know how many people to cook for. Lori and Anthony are coming down so they will be there too if you want to stop by and say hi. We are so excited to celebrate Spencer and would love to see any of you who would like to come! Any questions call me 623-680-4507. Thanks guys!
Apr 17, 2009
Birthday, Graduation and Lots of Partying!!
Posted by Heather Jackson at Friday, April 17, 2009 1 comments
Mar 13, 2009
6 weeks and counting...
Posted by Heather Jackson at Friday, March 13, 2009 3 comments
Feb 17, 2009
C.O.T.A.

Posted by Heather Jackson at Tuesday, February 17, 2009 4 comments
Jan 10, 2009
snow, snow, SNOW!!!
Ok so our trip to Utah was so much fun! We left the 23rd and came back on the 29th so we had quite a bit of time with his family which was nice! The ride up was pretty good all things considered! We were able to borrow a DVD player for the car from my aunt which I think the car ride would have been much worse without it! Tootsie did so well too! She just cuddled with Lexi’s car seat the whole way (when she wasn’t staring at me from the front seat creeping me out!) It took us about 13 hours or so to get there but we would have been there sooner if we would have known that the entrance to the freeway that takes us to Utah from Vegas wasn’t closed (with no detour signs to tell us how to get on because the only entrance was closed). Besides that and the snowy traffic and the nasty road grime that covered our window that we couldn’t get off because the windshield wipers weren’t working very well! I’d say the car ride up there was pretty good!
Once we were like 20 minutes from the house his mom started to call and Spencer wanted to surprise them and so we didn’t answer. So we finally get to the house and the garage door was open so we just walking in expecting everyone to be there and we would just walk in and say hi. So we get into the house and were like “is anyone home?” and Lori is on the phone so we go around the corner and she was surprised to see us and told Carrie (who was with Tessa on her way to Wal-Mart and on the phone with mom) that we were here. So they rushed home and we went and found Trevor and dad and gave hugs all around. We had dinner and just kind of relaxed the rest of the night.
Then around lunch time on Christmas Eve everyone came over for their prime rib dinner! Jeret has gotten so big since I last saw him and Rylen was so tiny and SO adorable it was so fun to finally see her in person. I didn’t get to first see Jeret till he was close to a year old! Lunch was AMAZING and autumn made that ribbon jello stuff and I honestly could have probably ate the whole pan in one sitting (ya right I would puke but it was SO good) and then we went into the front room by the gorgeous Christmas tree and did your presentations. For our family presentation was lexi singing jingle bells and everyone loved it. She can only get to the one horse open sleigh part and that's all she knows but it was so cute no one cared that she didn’t know the whole thing. Chris played a Christmas song on his ukulele and it sounded so cool! I liked it! Autumn and Destin read this story that was so adorable! The story was about this little girl and her daddy. Her daddy came in to find that she was wasting the nice gold wrapping paper and was wrapping a box and he scolded her and told her not to use the wrapping paper on that box. She told him it was a present for him. He opened it and the box was empty, so it got upset with her again that she wrapped an empty box and that was wasting but she them went on to tell her daddy that she has blew a bunch of kisses into the box so that way whenever he wanted a kiss from her he would just have to open the box and get one. Then the story went on to say she died a short time later and he kept the box of her kisses next to his bed for many years and was very special to him. So then autumn let Jeret pass around these gold wrapped boxes and inside them were Hershey kisses and she gave us all a copy of the story! I thought it was very creative and a good story. The rest of the evening we spent just hanging out. Spencer, Trevor, Carrie, and Tessa played video games for a little while. Then when it was time for Lexi to go to bed we picked out some cookies for Santa’s plate and put milk in his Santa’s cup and Lexi thought it was for her and tried to drink the milk so we tried to explain how Santa would come and drink the milk and eat the cookies and I think she kind of understood but not really. So then we put out the broccoli (we didn’t have carrots or celery) for the reindeer and put it on the porch. Then we put her to bed and played games for another couple hours then went to bed ourselves.
When we were woken up at like 5 or so in the morning by his siblings I went in to try and wake lexi up and I said “lexi wake up its Christmas!” and her response was “merry Christmas mommy” in her very sleepy voice. So I then proceeded to ask her if she wants to open present and she gave me an animated (as animated as she could have been at 5 o’clock in the morning) “YA” so we got up and she barely woke up enough to open a few presents. And so we saved a couple and let her fall asleep while we opened out presents from the family. Once we put her back to bed we got out the vanilla ice cream and cheerios. Now I had heard of their family tradition about ice cream and cheerios and didn’t quite know what to think about it. It sounded so weird and I was kind of scared to try it. But I actually liked it! It just made the milk a little thicker and creamier! Then around lunch time Autumn, Destin, Chris, and Michelle came over. We had the traditional Christmas ham for lunch (which was a generous gift from Spencer’s boss at his work Christmas party) which really good. We hung out with his family and decided which gifts needed to be exchanged or returned and got to just sit and talk for a few hours! After that we took lexi and went to go play out in the snow! She liked it but she didn’t like to lie down to make snow angels or touch the snow! She did like walking in it and climbing up this little hill covered in snow in the Jacksons front yard. We built our own little snow man even though he didn’t have a face or anything besides weeds for arms lexi liked him! He was still up the day we left! And then Jeret came out after a couple of minutes and they played out in the snow together and had a blast. She also thought she was a penguin! In the snow clothes she had on she waddled like a penguin and it was SO FLIPPINN HILARIOUS!!! I was crying I was laughing so hard!!
Then someone told Jeret to start throwing snowballs at people and I have to say that kid has pretty darn good aim! Whoever he was trying to hit he did with a little bit of force behind it too! And the dogs… OH MY GOSH!!! Tootsie loved the snow so much she made her feet bleed every time she went out in it. The first time we took her out it was because she couldn’t tell what was concrete and where the ground was, so she would take off and she ground her nails down to the point of bleeding. The second time is they had these thorny weeds under the snow that were tearing the tops of her feet up if she played too long. Spencer finally took her into this field across the street from their house and let her and teddy romp for like 30 minutes, they played so good together!! We all loved the snow!
Friday and Saturday we just hung out around the house and did a little shopping and just enjoyed being near his family and being in the snow! On Saturday we went to wingers for lunch and then after dinner we went to see temple light and then down to Provo to see Michelle and Chris. Lexi thought the salt lake temple was a castle and that a statue of Joseph smith was Jesus. It was so cute. That had all kind of nativities from different countries and lights EVERYWHERE!!! It was absolutely beautiful! I’d never seen the temple lights up there before and it was such a cool experience to go see it! Then we went to Michelle and Chris’s and hung out for a few minutes then we went to go see these lights some guy put to music super high on this hill with the huge billion dollar houses and it was so cool!
On Sunday was Rylen’s blessing. She was one of FOUR babies blessed that day! The church building was beautiful and probably very old. She was in this little crocheted dress Destin mom made for her and it was beautiful! Then we had the lunch at Destin’s parents house and they have a bigger dog that thought he was tough and protecting the house. So we get close to him and he was all black and lexi looks at me and says “mommy it’s the big bad wolf!” I cracked up! He really did look like a wolf though and it was funny that she had put that together! After that we went back to autumn house to celebrate Trevor’s birthday. We had a really yummy dinner and a delicious desert! Lexi liked their fishes and the birdie was very interesting to her. She has never really seen one that close and she got to touch it for a second and then Destin thought it would be funny to put it on her head and she wasn’t too sure about it but she was all smiles and thought it was silly. Then we went home packed and went to bed.
The ride home was just as good as the ride there except the fact we left at about 5 am and got home after 8 pm! The only reason it took that long is we didn’t step on the gas the ENTIRE WAY over the Hoover dam. It took us over 2 hours when it should have taken less than 10!! Oh and we got pulled over just outside of Provo. We borrowed grandma’s car and she had a temp plate on it and her windows are super tinted so we got pulled over for that and “impeding traffic” which was a big bag of bologna. Spencer was doing over the speed limit and once he saw there was a car behind him he didn’t have time to move over before the cop pulled him over because there was a car next to him. But he was all smug and kind of rude about it. He ended up not giving us a ticket but I just think he was bored and jumped at the chance to pull someone over! Tootsie didn’t like that there was a strange man with a flashlight talking to us through my window! She kept growling and woofing at him! She never bark barked but she wasn’t happy! Oh and when we stopped at this gas station a couple hours out of Provo we got out and realized it was 5 DEGREES!!!! It was so flipping COLD!! Oh and lexi has hands for feet! By the time we got home she had realized once her movie was over if she pushed a certain button with her toes it was start again! It was really funny!
Then we got home and everything went back to normal! I'm so glad we went up there! It was way fun and I'm so glad we went! Hopefully it won’t be so long in between this visit and the next though I loved playing in the snow and being able to get to know his family a little better!
( i will post the videos i was talking about in a little while. our camrea is messed up and hard to deal with so i will post them as soon as i can!)
Posted by Heather Jackson at Saturday, January 10, 2009 0 comments
Dec 31, 2008
UTAH
Here are some pictures of our trip to utah!!! I dont have time to post stories but i will soon so be patient. Enjoy these pictures and sorry they arent in order.
destins birdy on lexi's head holding baby rylen
catching snowflakes
beautiful nativity at the salt lake temple (its in the water!!!)
walking in the snow
BRRRRR it was cold at the salt lake temple! doesnt she look all cute bundled up? us outside of the salt lake temple!
our snowman
Posted by Heather Jackson at Wednesday, December 31, 2008 1 comments
Dec 20, 2008
I Appreciate Everything You Do!
Mom and Dad- I love you so much. I know i have been the problem child over the years and i wish i could go back and make your life's easier by not being such a pain. I appreciate the fact that even tho i was pretty bad most of the time you stuck by me and helped me through it. I appreciate you doing everything you can to help us out! I appreciate every day that Lexi gets to spend with you. She loves you very much and i couldn't ask for a better person to help me mold my child into the beautiful intelligent little girl she is. I feel like most of the reason she is so smart and polite is because of you guys! You are a wonderful grandparents to her and amazing parents to me! I know i don't say it enough but i do love you more than anything in the world and i can thank you enough for helping me with Lexi and everything else you do for my family! I love you with all of my heart and wish i could truly express how i feel but i promise i will try harder to do so!
Natalie, Jason, Kim, Cameron and Rachel- I know i haven't been the best sister in the world but i love you guys very much. I appreciate your love and willingness to ignore my silly quirks. I love that i can be myself around you and have fun with you guys no matter if its the midnight showing of twilight or hanging out at moms house or spending the night at moms house the day before Kim got married! i love how close we are and i wouldn't change it for anything! I don't say it enough but i love you and am very grateful you guys are my sisters!! and as for you Davis boys... your just trouble! hahah jk. i love you guys and i have always felt like you were family even before you married my sisters. i love that i can joke and mess around with you guys and you play back. i love your sense of humor and that you can always make me laugh. i love you guys very much and appreciate all you do to help my family!
Lori and Anthony- I know we haven't been family very long but i do love you a lot. You have been great in laws and I'm very lucky to have you as my family. I am very to have in laws that i get along with as well as i do with your family. I am very grateful that i can call you when ever i want just to talk! I love your family very much. I love your son with everything i am and i am so grateful that you raised a very good man and i wish you could be down in AZ with us all the time to see what a wonderful father he is to Lexi. I could not have asked for a better husband!
Autumn, Destin, Michelle, Chris, Carrie, Trevor and Tessa- I am lucky to have you guys as my sister-in-laws and brother-in-laws!!! I know i haven't know you long and haven't gotten to spend much time with you but i do love you guys and appreciate you willingness to accept me as your family. I always feel very welcome and loved when we come to visit and i love that i can feel comfortable around you guys. I miss you guys very much and am so excited to come up and be able to spend time with you and the babies! I love you all very much and i want you to always remember that!
Posted by Heather Jackson at Saturday, December 20, 2008 0 comments
Dec 10, 2008
MERRY CHRISTMAS... this one makes you think!
*When all though our land*
*Not a Christian was praying*
*Nor taking a stand.*
*See the PC Police had taken away,*
*The reason for Christmas - no one could say.*
*The children were told by their schools not to sing,*
*About Shepherds and Wise Men and Angels and things.*
*It might hurt people's feelings, the teachers would say*
* December 25th is just a ' Holiday '.*
*Yet the shoppers were ready with cash, checks and credit*
*Pushing folks down to the floor just to get it!*
*CDs from Madonna, an X BOX, an I-pod*
*Something was changing, something quite odd! *
*Retailers promoted Ramadan and Kwanzaa*
*In hopes to sell books by Franken & Fonda.*
*As Targets were hanging their trees upside down*
* At Lowe's the word Christmas - was nowhere to be found.*
*At K-Mart and Staples and Penny's and Sears*
*You won't hear the word Christmas; it won't touch your ears.*
*Inclusive, sensitive, Di-ver-si-ty*
*Are words that were used to intimidate me.*
*Now Daschle, Now Darden, Now Sharpton, Wolf Blitzen*
*On Boxer, on Rather, on Kerry, on Clinton!*
*At the top of the Senate, there arose such a clatter*
*To eliminate Jesus, in all public matter.*
*And we spoke not a word, as they took away our faith*
* Forbidden to speak of salvation and grace*
*The true Gift of Christmas was exchanged and discarded*
*The reason for the season, stopped before it started.*
*So as you celebrate 'Winter Break' under your 'Dream Tree'*
*Sipping your Starbucks, listen to me.*
*Choose your words carefully, choose what you say*
*Shout MERRY CHRISTMAS, not Happy Holiday!*
Posted by Heather Jackson at Wednesday, December 10, 2008 1 comments
Dec 5, 2008
Best Buddies
Ok so i went over to my friend Jenna's to do each others hair. (ILOVE MINE BTW) I brought Lexi along because their little girly is about the same age as her. When we got there it took Ashtyn a few minutes to warm up to her but after she did they were like best friends the whole night. Lexi loved having a little friend that she could play with. They went and got out the dress shoes and played together in Ashtyns room with all her cool toys. And then there are these pictures which are so stinkin cute i love them!!!
This one is when they were eating their suckers (which Ashtyn so kindly shared) and watching "Po" (kung fu panda)
This is them having goldfish crackers and carrying they're babies around... ADORABLE!!!
And this was after they jumped on the bed for a little while they cuddled up together and thought they were so funny!
they had so much fun that lxi crashed assoon as we got home! its nice having an excuse to go over to a friends house!!! "I have to go see jenna cuz lexi wants to go play with ashtyn." ;-) i love it.
Posted by Heather Jackson at Friday, December 05, 2008 0 comments
MOTHERS
Posted by Heather Jackson at Friday, December 05, 2008 0 comments
Nov 26, 2008
Cute video from a long and stressful day!
OK so yesterday was one of the worst days EVER. i don't want to get too into it but i was stressed out from work, having a bad hair/body image day, I'm PMSing and i got pulled over on the way home from work (10 minutes from my moms house) and got a ticket and now we have to fork out an arm and a leg to get it dealt with. so my AMAZING parents took Lexi for the night so i had one less thing to worry about. so i guess she was in a silly mood because she did this (what shes doing in the video) for like over an hour with my dad. my mom said Lexi was just giggling really hard the whole time. anyways it cheered me up this morning and thought y'all would enjoy it!
Posted by Heather Jackson at Wednesday, November 26, 2008 1 comments
Nov 24, 2008
The Straw Hat!
Ok just as a little background for this story... lexi loves hats. You can ask jake (her 22 year old bf ;-> ) or spencer. she'll take them and put them on her then on you... everything about them she loves.
Ok so she was over at my moms yesterday while i was at work and she found my dads straw hat that has the little neck strap to keep it on that he uses to do yard work and was wearing it around the backyard. She was running around saying "i'm a cowboy i'm a cowboy!" she was having so much fun playing with it and then (i dont remember how) but it fell off. the strap was still around her neck so the hat just fell on her back so she looked up at my mom and said " I'M A TURTLE!!!" i was absolutely cracking up when my mom told me that. she has such a vivid imagination it just bring a smile to my face every day! well that story made my day and just thought id share it with you guys!
Posted by Heather Jackson at Monday, November 24, 2008 0 comments
Nov 4, 2008
Halloween
ok here are some pictures from halloween and in one of the pictures lexi's face looks kind of dirty but i swear its just silver glitter. hehehe ENJOY!!!
Posted by Heather Jackson at Tuesday, November 04, 2008 1 comments
Lexi's Birthday
Posted by Heather Jackson at Tuesday, November 04, 2008 0 comments
Oct 24, 2008
Our crazy little life!!!
OK so its been over a month since I've blogged and i apologize. it's just been kind of crazy. OK so I'll start from the last time i blogged. well we are still trying to potty train and shes getting better and better each day. even more crazy than her potty training is the fact that she'll be 2 TOMORROW!!!! I'm so excited. these past 2 years seem to have just flown by! Spencer is doing good, hes trying to get on the corrections department so keep your fingers crossed for us. as for me?!? where do i start. i am not at super cuts anymore. i am sad to not be working in a salon anymore but i am very happy at my new job. i still plan on doing hair on the side and whenever possible so i can keep up on my skills. [so if you need your hair done and you would like me to do it at your house or mine call me ;-) ] as far as my new job i work for Gorenter.com as a scanner/file clerk/whatever else needs to get done girl ;-) . it is kind of different working with mostly family, plus the fact that the most staff I've ever worked with was 6 other girls. so 1. having guys working with me and 2. having that many peoples names to remember is something I've had to adjust to. i really enjoy where i work and everyone there. OH OH OH and I'm A PROUD AUNTIE OF LITTLE RYLEN CLEA CHRISTIANSEN!!! autumn had her baby yesterday around noon she weighs 6lbs 5oz and was 18 in. long. she's so stinking cute i cant wait to see her at Christmas time! well i think that's everything. if i don't blog before then everyone have a happy Halloween!!!
Posted by Heather Jackson at Friday, October 24, 2008 1 comments
Sep 2, 2008
A Very Proud Mommy
It's kind of funny but i have never been so excited about someone going potty on the toilet in my life!!! Yesterday me and Spencer both had the day off but while he was at the gym Lexi decided to go hide in the vanity area and try to poop in peace. When i found her a minute later she says "Mommy I'm Pooping" so i got her on the potty as fast as i could and closed the door a little bit so she could have her privacy and SHE WENT POOP ON THE BIG GIRL POTTY!!! I was so proud... like i said before, its silly for being proud of poop but I'm proud of her. After that every time i took her to go potty she went! She has also gone both times i took her today!!! I think her problem before was that i would sit next to her and try to kind of cheer her on but i think she doesn't like to be watched while shes on the potty. It seems to be working so lets hope she stays on the right track. I'm so proud and so happy that soon we won't have to deal with diapers anymore!!! HOORAY!!!
Posted by Heather Jackson at Tuesday, September 02, 2008 6 comments
Aug 25, 2008
New E-mail
Hey all just letting you know my e-mail address changed. its hjstyles@yahoo.com mail me or something!!! ;-)
Posted by Heather Jackson at Monday, August 25, 2008 1 comments
Aug 14, 2008
POTTY TRAINING
Posted by Heather Jackson at Thursday, August 14, 2008 2 comments
Aug 4, 2008
HOORAY!!!!
SUPERCUTS IS FINALLY OPEN!!!!! the store phone number is 623 572 7040 and my cell phone number is 623 680 4507 so come see me or call me if you want to!!! its so pretty and new!!!! i'll try to post some pictures when i get some. YIPEE!!!!!
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Posted by Heather Jackson at Monday, August 04, 2008 0 comments
Jul 19, 2008
MOMMY AND ME
Here are some really cute pictures of me and lexi that rachel took. Spencer had a night out with the guys so i had rachel take some "mommy and me" pictures of us. They turned out awesome... ENJOY!!

























Posted by Heather Jackson at Saturday, July 19, 2008 4 comments
Jul 15, 2008
Lexi... Part Model, Part Musical Genius
Posted by Heather Jackson at Tuesday, July 15, 2008 3 comments




