Pics Since Thanksgiving (Christmas, Easter, etc.)

Holiday Photo Shoot with Nikol Torkonoo

Many, Many Pictures

You better have a few minutes to look through these pics. There are about 40 something pics of the cute baby and the rest of us!
You all can only imagine how busy I have been! WOW.. with two kids, I am barely alive! To sum up the last couple months:
- Ava was born! She is so sweet and has already grown so much! For about the first 6 weeks, Ava hardly cried.. but believe me, she learned how! She gets a little fussy here and there BUT there are smiles and kisses everywhere! What a cutie we have been extremely blessed with! I remember being nervous about having a girl, but now I am just thankful. I am thankful for her great health, her beauty, and her smile. If you hadn't noticed, Ava has a birthmark on her left eye. This birthmark is to distinguish her from other cute babies. When she is mad, the mark gets even more red.. interesting. Ava is starting to giggle... WATCH the video!!
- Alex started preschool! I can't believe how much he has already grown! His teacher is absolutely great! He's been doing well this his numbers, letters, and shapes! He plays well with the other kids, but barely started enjoy sitting in his spot at circle time. He used to just walk around while his class sang and read books. Now he sings louder than all the other kids! :) He has been fully potty trained for quite a while and has not regressed (I've heard some children do when they get a sibling.. yikes!) He sure knows how to carry a conversation and can say the silliest things. He will also be starting soccer in the next week or so which is super exciting!
-Andy has been kickin butt at finishing school! He will be done with some of his certificates sooner than he thought. Officially, he will be done at the end of spring.. but, 90% done by the end of December!
-As for me, I have been trying my hardest to get this kids on a decent schedule! I try making sure they get enough alone and play time with Mom and with each other! This is a hard job, but very rewarding! I am nervous about looking around for a job because my Ava is still so small, but will be checking out what Utah County has to offer.

This Halloween season has been very fun! We went to about 5 parties and are totally done with the spooky holiday! We have the hugest bucket of candy (Boohoo for me because I have been excercising and need to stay away from that junk!)
Well now that St. Hollow's Eve is over.... THANKSGIVING, HERE WE COME! 3 weeks from today we are (in Alex's words) "Flying in a big airplane, I am probably going to sit by the window to see the white clouds.. to IRGINIA" :)

Finally

Everyone has asked me to update this! Sorry everyone!

I am officially done with school and I am a Master Esthetician! All the hard work paid off! I am also officially a stay-at-home mom.. that's nice too!

Ava's due in a few weeks! Very exciting and uncomfortable for the time being! :) Can't jabber too much but thought I would leave some pics! Here's a couple from Alex's 3rd birthday:

Here's Alex my little guy that asked me to pull the cam out and take a pic of him! He's too cute!

We went to Lagoon last week.. the boys had so much fun on all of the rides! Although I wasn't able to ride too many rides, it was nice to see how much fun they had!

April showers will be May flowers

April was a great month for the Frazier's! It was filled with lots of adventures! The beginning of the month started off with Andy and I celebrating our 3rd year anniversary! Wow such a long time! I just have to say despite the cirumstances toward the beginning of our marraige, we have been able to stick it out! We are very happy and content with our lives and love each other more and more everyday! Andy, thank you for all of your kindness, patience, and LOVE that you have to give to both Alex and I. You hold us together like super glue!

It's hard to be the romantic type, but I tried. I thought Andy would like a fruit bouquet. Turns out that we had too much fruit and we even had to stop by Chuck and Jenny's to drop some off on our way home from TGIFridays! Andy, Alex, and I enjoyed chomping the rest of it down though!

This month also gave me a new schedule! It seems like with my new schedule at school (going nine hours a day and no work) has actually been one of the greatest things that has happened recently. I don't feel so much worn out and we've been able to fit more family time in the mix. This next pic is of Charlie (Andy's dad) wrestling Alex. Man did it go on forever! They had so much fun!

Along with the new schedule, it seems like Andy has had more time in his newly fixed airplane. Alex hates to see his daddy leave sometimes but he says "when Alex grow up, fly in daddys baby airplane?" It's pretty cute to see him understand a little more of everything everyday.

There is one day out of the week that I am able to spend all day with Alex. That is the same day that Andy gets off work a little early. I am scheduled to go to school full time, until I graduate, into July... We thought it would be a great idea to go to the zoo when its not too hot! (it was about 75 degrees, not too shabby!)
Last summer we saw a line to see this white croc- The line was estimated to be over 1 1/2 hours! When we went, we walked in and out.. and even went twice. There's glass behind Alex, but even as scared as he looks right here he wanted to be by that window forever!

This wooden elephant is right next to the elephant exhibit, but this was the closest to compare of how big an elephant is compared to Alex!

A lot of the animals were either eating or sleeping when we went to the zoo! Out of all the room this leopard had, he wanted to rest by the small window that people could look for to find him! Alex tapped on the glass and was like "Wake up dude!"The tiger at the zoo was also asleep, and also further away than we could take a good look at him. Alex was pretty bummed, but was better after he found out he could ride on the fake one!

The zoo was super fun! Alex really enjoyed all of the animals! When we got done looking at the animals, we played at the zoos' park, which was really cool also! Alex saw a boy sit on this spider after he did- the boy said "you better move this spider wants to eat you for dinner!" Then Alex went around telling the other kids "the spider will eat you for dinner!" Silly Alex!

We had a really fun month! That also means one month closer to the due date of baby girl! We do have a few names in mind and probably need to draw a name from a hat! There is one in particular that I absolutely love! When it's 100% for sure.. I will post it up so we can actually call her something! I am getting a little bigger! Most people say that I am barely showing! I am 23 weeks into pregnancy and have gained only 3 pounds... WOOHOO!

Things are great! Drop us a line sometimes, we would love to catch up with some of you guys!
xoxo

Its a girl!

Alex is going to have a baby sister! He's really excited!

In the meantine, we caught Alexander the other day singing the Cars song, 'Life is a highway, I'm going to ride it all night long bummbumbum!' He found a paper towel roll and sang his heart out! We thought it was really cute!

Easter

This is the soonest I have been able to post these!

Easter started off with Grandma Julie's gift and was ecstatic about the Bee Movie until he saw the turtle coin bank!


I believe that next day we headed off to Las Vegas to spend the rest of the holiday with the family! We got to see Alex's cousin, Lilia. Isn't she just as super cute as Alex? They got to spend some of the day at the park and had lots of fun together!

We spent a lot of Easter weekend at my Mom's house. Because that was literally the smallest weekend trip ever- I was extremely tired! I barely made it downstairs to watch Andy and Alex search for easter eggs. Andy totally hid some of the eggs and totally helped Alex find all of his eggs! :) And for memborable moments.. this is how happy we were:

Disneyland, Linkin Park, New Hair Cut and even more fun

Title sums it up..

Disneyland was the bomb. Alex got to ride a bunch of rides with us except for just a couple. His favorite was the Dumbo ride because it was really really fast. The best part about Disneyland is that Alex knew almost all of the characters, due to being the movie buff that he is!

Before we left to Disneyland Alex wanted a Donald Duck sticker, but it ended up being a tattoo. Oh my goodness when we met Donald Duck he lifted his shirt! (It's okay Mom, not everyone is a photographer! :)

Even after all those rides he liked the beach most of all! I think since we've been home Alex asks to go to California at least every other day! :)

A few days after we got back from our wonderful trip.. Andy I went to Linkin Park and we had lots of fun! I think Coheed and Cambria was a lot better than LP, but that's okay. We both rocked out-- we rocked out hard!

These are before and after pics of Alex's new haircut- man o man did he need it! Alex gets crazy

these days, but more fun than ever because we can hold a conversation with him!

We are so thankful for him and his sweet heart and also for our lives right now- we are really excited for the future of our family! :)

So I am..

.. just getting over my hump of being sick! Hooray!

Wednesday we just had our first doctor's appointment. It turned out very well because we were just expecting to hear the heartbeat, but we did a whole ultrasound instead!

Alex is pretty excited still. Lately he's been calling the baby a jellyfish and a jelly bean! What a silly dude! The other day he played with a 4 month old at one of Andy's soccer games. That night he was asking me for a baby girl! What a little goof!

As for Andy and I, we have been busy, busy, busy! This semester is nuts! I have been doing a 8-5 thing with school in the morning and topping off my day with work. Andy plays with Alex all morning and joins me at work! Right now, we are just trying to get me done with school before I get too big. We're hoping I can be done in mid-July and I will have my Master Esthetician's license. I am sure enjoying what I am doing.

I didn't realize that when I said I would post pics from Christmas that our camera was out of battery at the time so I have a couple:

So as busy as we are we still try to do fun things together as a family! Alex was mighty excited about making a cake (which was totally my tummy's craving at the time!)

Well, sorry it's been a while! Thanks for all the support from everyone!

Much love! XOXO

Oh man it's exciting!

So during our Christmas break we found out that I was PREGNANT! Finally! I told
Andy the news of Christmas eve and was really emotional and super excited at the same time! Since then I've mentioned to Alex about the baby growing in Mommy's tummy and how we can't wrestle too hard! He looks a little confused but then we will conversate about the baby for a minute. He seriously talks about having a 'baby sister... a baby girrrl!' YIKES! (Andy and I are calling #2, 'him' so hopefully we won't be dissapointed!

We had a lot of fun spending time with all the family in Las Vegas! The coolest thing about this last holiday is that we had about 4 Christmas's! It was great to see Alex be so excited about the presents everytime we mentioned that we'd open presents again. I think now he expects us to have Christmas everyday!

Well as of right now our computer is under come maintenance. We can't figure out what is wrong with it, so when I get the chance I will post some pictures from Christmas!

Wish me luck with the pregnancy because I have been extremely nauseous!

... will try to post the pics soon! :)

A little difficult, but dang worth it!

So anyone that knew about me trying to get this up: I am sorry this has taken a while! I know this will be a great tool to keep an eye on us and see some of the latest pictures, videos (cool, huh?!) and news!


Anyone that hasn't seen enough of us and Alex, here are some of my favorite pics from the beginning of love, Alex's birth, and until the present! Hope you enjoy!





We are so excited to see the family this Friday in Las Vegas! Alex and Mommy have been countin down the days! It's been exciting to see Alex get excited about opening presents! We wish the rest of you that aren't with us this holiday season a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Latest news:

So we hope to be expecting by the end of this year!

Andy has been really busy with flying. By December 26th, he should have his instrument pilot rating. He only has one more year and he will be graduated!

I am currently attending Mandalyn Academy and am absolutely loving it. Check out http://mandalynacademy.com/ to learn a little more about what I do all day! Both of us are currently working at different departments at UVSC still.

Big boy Alex has been so fun! He is growing way fast and is pretty much speaking in full sentances! He loves pointing out letters of the ABC's any where he sees them, and tries to spell words. He knows how to spell his name!

Oh and definately check this link out it is funny! We Elfed ourselves!http://www.elfyourself.com/?id=1511848051

We should be posting about once a month or so, so also check up on us!