Cole is 9 months!

So I did a make shift photo shoot in my house and borrowed my awesome friends Kristin's older camera and shot a bunch of pics.....these are only a few that I took. This little guy is 9 months! Can't believe it! I actually should have made this post two weeks ago, but this is what you get now!

A few little facts about Cole....

* At his 9 month appointment he weighed in at 15 lbs 13 ounces (-3%), height 28 3/4 (50%), head 17 1/2 (50%)

* The doc prescribed meds, blood tests, sweat test, urine test, plus pediasure etc.

* We tried the meds out for a day or two and decided to stop....don't like to put my kids on not needed meds...we did a blood test.....they wanted another blood test......I refused. Canceled the sweat test....and now he is just eating more and we are trying to help him gain weight!

* He is always happy and the EASIEST baby ever!

* He now has 5 teeth!

* He rolls everywhere and just last night tried a little crawling! I am sure he will be full blown crawling before the New Year! (I am a little nervous about that!)

* He loves the kids, loves everybody, and I could not ask for a better baby! We love him so much!!!

Merry Christmas wishes!

Hope your Christmas is happy and full of laughter!

Our thankful November!

I am thankful for........

My cute little boy dressed up like an Indian!

I am thankful for Arizona winters, sunshine, trampolines, and siblings!


I am thankful for.....

My husband's hands to cover Cole's ears to help protect them from the loud gunshot noises at a cowboy shootout!!!

I am also thankful for cowboys to lasso my children!

I am thankful for gold that my kids can search for.....(no clue what to do with it?)

I am thankful for Cole and his "grandpa" smile!


I am thankful for....

Cousin's birthday parties....(the top pic is of Ellie the birthday girl with Brec at Jumpstreet).



I am thankful for....

....more cousins to play with on thanksgiving,

.....soft chairs, happy husband, happy baby,

smiley faces.....

....my beautiful daughter,

....and my brother and sister.

I am thankful for....

.....dance parties and dress-up's.

I am thankful for The Bass Pro Shop that we go to every year to see Santa and do fun crafts!

I am thankful for.....

.....crazy mall window displays.

......the fun Microsoft store with the free t-shirts, cookies, and fun toys..

I am grateful for....

holding hands.......

......grandma babysitting so my hubby and I could play.

I am grateful for.....

Arizona and the beautiful scenery around us....

......carrying Cole the whole way up and down and hopefully losing more calories than everyone else.

.....the shade to rest in with my lovely family.

......cute girls.

......my sweet baby.

....most of all, my family!


I have a lot to be thankful for!!!!

What you can get for $18.00

We hit a few garage sales on Saturday, (Ava and I) that is why you see a few little stragglers that should not belong in the pile that Ava insisted on us getting....ie Christmas bear, easter junk....but we did manage to find a bunch of other great stuff, an exersaucer for Cole, bench for the porch, clothing, letters for kids rooms, Christmas decor, bath stuff for Cole, etc.....all for $18.00. Mind you, my husband thought this was all junk, but I am quite happy I got all this stuff for so cheap and if eventually I don't like it I can sell it for the same price I got it for at my own garage sale! Now if only I can find an entry way table.........

Fall recap so far.......

We went on a little train ride (light rail) to see the Sun's practice! The kids were sooo excited to ride on a train! (almost better than disneyland.....okay, not really.)




We went to the pumpkin patch to find our pumpkins and go on a hay ride.....

In the maze.....Ava went through this thing a kazillion times....

Happy Cole, happy dad....

Ouch! Happy Cole pulling out hair, sad dad.....

This fall has been WAY too hot here. Notice in every pick we are still in short sleeves....I keep trying to wear jeans thinking it might be okay in 90 degree weather hoping the evening will cool, which it does now, but not cool enough for jackets. I love jacket weather. So, hopefully just a few more days of heat and then next week will be in the 70's. Finally I will be able to enjoy Arizona again!

Our Halloween!

My cute three kiddos....Cole the bat....Ava a Kimono princess.....and Brec batman!

Since Halloween fell on a Sunday we had our little ward fall party and trunk or treat on Saturday night!

Here we are out and about trick or treating.....

I should say we tried to trick or treat this year. We were only able to get a few people to answer doors for us little trick or treaters since everyone here was either at a ward party and not home or just not answering doors for trick or treaters on Saturday. Ava met up with friends and hopped into their old school limo all decked out with Halloween gear and cruised the streets trying to find houses....the coolest halloween limo I have ever seen....

Cole was a little angel all night and still had a smile on his face when we got done!

All the loot....

Sunday night we got a TON of trick or treaters and our neighbors across the street even had a little haunted house going on with spooky music so our kids were totally into it. We did hand out candy and so Ava wanted to throw something on and found Dad's mullet, tattoos, and she already has her own set of bubba teeth.

Brec and his skeleton jammies.