Startin Our summer off Right!

Man oh man! It's only April, and we have already had a blast! The warm weather has been great, so we had to get outside and do what we do best! First, Last weekend we branded calves and had a great time! I forgot my camera, but luckily Chery ( my Aunt in Law) asked if  I would take pictures! So Snapping away I went. She emailed me a few....

Colby looks good huh! Jealous?? I bet ya'r!

He was all ready to go!! Even with his mighty belt buckle!

We had such a small area at Brad and Cherys farm branding their calves before we headed over to ours, so we let Coy play with his tractors and stuff on the back. Then he started handing us ear tags and saying "Daint do" (thank you).

He spotted Uncle Justins glasses and kept putting them up to his eyes saying... "I eee you!"

Some of the gang helping out!

After a long nap, He decided it was time to ride his horse, Roany. He kept saying "Roey, here" as he clicked his tongue. So papa went and put him on his horse. He rode for nearly 45 minutes, until we were done branding.

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Swimming!

Every month Cassie, Brittany, and I plan a girls day and we take the boys swimming, or to go do something fun, and we have a girls day while we are at it! This time we took the boys to the pool and they had a blast!! First we went to get something to eat at the Brick Oven, awesome pizza I'll tell ya!

The waiters were awesome and gave both Coy and Noah balloons to take home! They were so excited, they took them to walmart with us!

After walmart we took off to the pool!

Coy and Noah splashing together!

My goofball!

We tried to get them to take a picture.....^ see how well it went?

Theres something about wheels that Coy loves, He always has to turn them. But he could barely reach!

Brittany and Coy

He had such a good time at the pool, We can't wait for next time!!

Our summer is off to an awesome start with awesome friends and family! We are so excited that Coy is growing up, and he's turning into such a boy! He's becoming his daddys helper, and his mommys little man!

Our Trip to....

Colby and I noticed a cow that had been trying to have her calf a couple days ago. Today we went to check on her and she was still in the same spot. With no calf. So, we called Clayton Barton and Jace Kings office to see if we could bring the cow down to see what was going on. Well, they told us we wouldn't be able to see them until 6pm or so. So, Colby rounded up a couple cows including her and drove them to the corrals, where He loaded her  into the trailer to haul her down. Well.. When we got there it was 5pm. We had to wait an hour for them to get there..  but we made the most of it!

We started out by giving Coy a ride on these awesome tire horses that were hooked to the horse walker. Around and around he went and everytime we would stop him he'd say MORE!

After we finally got him off the ride we moved to the animals!

This pig was awesome! Coy kept calling him Cow, but this "cow" just about ate his fingers off!

This llama was crazy! It kept spitting at us and making funny noises...

Awww.. the love of my life :)

These bunnies were so cute, they even had like 7 little babies!

funny Goat!

my little man :)

Coy got tired of all the animals until.....

This chicken appeared and Coy chased it everywhere yelling "Bawk Bawk!"

Finally... back to the playground

He tried so hard to climb up the ramp.. and everytime he would slide down he yelled and he would get a little more determination in his face and finally... dad came to the rescue!

We tried to have rubber duck races, but Coy kept taking the ducks.. and everytime they would hit the end of  the pipe... Coy would yell OH NO CRASH!!

Well, in the days end, we all had a great time! We chased Coy all around the farm! Im pretty sure we wore him out! The best part was.. We had the WHOLE farm to ourselves!!

The end!

 Oh, and as for the cow... turns out she had already had her calf  but just a little to early and prolapsed. So, turns out it was just the afterbirth she couldnt deliver causing her to get sick. But... It was all worth the trip, our little one had the time of his life!!

Motherhood

You know, realizing that you have become a mom can come to you at any moment, When those stretch marks wont go away because of weight gained by pregnancy, or when you hold your new born for the first time. Well mine hit me a little later than realizing either of these.

Last Tuesday I was in the kitchen when I could hear Coy in his room jabbering. So I walked a little closer to his room and I listened to him say. "1 2 3 ma love me." and then he looked up and smiled at me and said. "love you"  and then he fallowed with the "dont, no. kiyla!"  So I gave him a cheesy smirk and said, " I love you bug." and walked back to the kitchen to finish dishes. Colby came inside and said," honey we need to fix my truck. I need such and such amount of money".. uh.. Really??? Didnt we just spend x amount of money on it last month how can we afford it again? Then, I get a call about a past due bill, as Coy comes running in saying... eat eat, as hes pounding on the fridge door. It was like a circus in my house all at once! Soon realizing that this is life, I just smiled, and told the person on the phone I would put the check in the mail, told Colby to buy what he needed and got coy a hot dog out of the fridge. Later that day, I was alone because Colby took Coy to go feed cows and I just felt like I needed to give my Heavenly Father a thanks. So I went in my room, knelt next to the bed and said a little prayer of thanks. Thanks for my family even though we get crazy at times. Thanks for the love that we share, and the home we have, and everything else in between. jobs..etc etc. 

     By the time the boys got back from doing chores it was about 6:30 so I decided I should probably get dinner going. As I was making dinner I was listening to Colby read  a Colors Book to Coy and Coy was repeating just about all the color words, ( though im sure he has no clue what they are) then he looks at me and says "love you".. It melted my heart. "I love you bug" and he squirmed out of dads arms, came running to me and said... " Here I come!" so I pretended to scream and ran to the living room and fell to the floor where Coy tackled me and said "got you!"... and I just said.. "yes you did!"

I never really realized what I have had all along... but becoming a mother has been the best gift I could have ever gotten. Noone understands love until a part of you is there in front of you, with muddy fingers, or a jelly face, or even a just a happy little smile. This little boy has been the highlight of my life, through tears of sorrow, happiness and frustration. Every time he looks at me and says.. love you  and smiles that little grin he has.. It just makes me fall to my knees and thank my Heavenly Father for the most wonderful gift!

Our Thanksgiving!

Our Thanksgiving was soo much fun! The Sunday before Thankgiving we celebrated it with Colbys moms family. All her brothers came, It was awesome! Though, Thanksgiving isn't my favorite holiday, I enjoyed visiting with all her family! I just think they are great and awesome people to be around! Fawns mom and dad passed away in July and so they weren't there. But you could definitely feel the comfort of them being there still. So, we said a prayer and everyone began eating! Turkey, stuffing, fruit salads, cranberry sauce, corn.. you name it.. it was probably on the counter! After the dinner we all sat around and talked about the little ones until everyone left to go home. It was a great sunday!

Thanksgiving day

The day before Thanksgiving we traveled to price to see my dad and his wife Randi. Where we spent the night and celebrated Thanksgiving the next day. But the night before we were all sitting in the living room and all the kids were playing on the ground when I looked at my nephews shirt. On the front it said "shhh.... I have a secret." and on the back it said.." Im going to be a big brother".. I laughed and laughed because only my sister saw that I had noticed it. Then she went over to Eric and took him over to my dad. He read the shirt and didnt get it at first.. and then he caught on. It was awesome!! 2 new babies next year in my family are expected. Cody and Chandra due in Feb and Kayla and Kody due in July... The next morning we woke up and ate these awesome "sticky buns" that my step mom makes. They were simply amazing! After that we all started preparing for Thanksgiving dinner. We made all sorts of food again.! My grandma Nielson and my uncle John and his son showed up to celebrate with us. It was great to see them. I think we need to see them more often! After dinner we decided to play some games. Cover your Assets was the only one we played. and by golly  I thought I had the second game in the bank! Then low and behold Colby jumps out and beats us all!! After the games we decided to go to Wal Mart at 10 to do the whole "black friday" thing.. you talk about crazy! People in Price are interesting. I had a guy stare me down thinking was going to jump under the yellow plastic to steel his printer. Yea right.. The best thing about going that night was running into our good friends Brittany and Richard. It was funny to see them there, it was definitely crazy. Then.. 10 hit and everyone was going crazy grabbing things. Luckily everything I wanted wasnt even being touched.. so I grabbed the stuff we wanted and we checked out, got home and went to bed all before 10:30!
Friday morning we all decided we wanted to go to Provo and go shopping! It was sooo fun! We left about 8:30 because most of us could of cared less. I just wanted to buy jeans for me and clothes for Coy. and I got what I wanted. But... all the stores we went to looked like they had just been robbed! After lunch we went to Cabelas and shopped there a bit, then to Toys r Us we headed. We were there for like... 2 hours. It was insane. The shelves were basically bare! But we got Coy a book with the talking buttons on the side. He was soo happy. Unfortuneltly Eric, got sick so they didn't go to Cabelas or Toys R Us. Instead, they took a trip to the hospital. The poor little man had croup. After all the craziness Colby and I decided to head home from Provo. So after a 4 hour drive.. We were home! It was soo much fun. I cant wait for black friday next year. better start saving!

How we spent our Fall days!

Seems like we have been running everywhere lately. Coys first birthday was on August 28th 2011! What a blast. He was so spoiled with clothes and toys. We had cousins, aunts, uncles, grandparents, and alot of friends came for his big day! The house was filled with laughter and happiness! We did a big BBQ and just hung out! He was scared to get into his cake after everyone screamed when he went to touch the candles, so he thought he was in trouble.. then I finally put his hand in it and he tore into it! It was alot of fun! Can't wait for next years!

 

After his first birthday our focus was on going to Boulder for the deer and elk hunt. While we were up there we celebrated Colbys 25th Birthday with Melt in your mouth cake and presents. He got binoculars and some coats and stuff. Id say it was a pretty good birthday to spend with family and close friends. He also got a deer on his birthday! Pretty good 4 point and I got a 3 by 4. As for the elk, no such luck. Them buggers are hard to find up there! But 2 weeks camping was awesome together! After the hunts we headed home and started planning our family pictures and Halloween! I was starting to get mad that the leaves were falling off the trees before I got the chance to take pictures in them. But luckily my mom took us to a place where we were able to take some pictures. They turned out pretty good I'd say!

Our Halloween was alot of fun for Coys first time! He was a Pilgram ghost. haha.. well technically he was just a ghost but the homemade outfit.. made him look like a Pilgram. It was pretty funny.  We took him out trick or treating and he loved it. He even said "boo!"

Stay this little....

Coy gets into EVERYTHING!!! Drawers, closets, toys, it doesnt matter what it is..and if there is a pile of something.. consider the pile destroyed... what can I say.. boys will be boys. He has such a little personality on him.. He can say  " Na," all the time.. and when we tell him no no no.. he does it while repeating.. Na Na Na.. We have tought him how to put money in the froggy bank, or the piggy bank .. (he has one from my mom and colbys dad).

He still struggles for the most part.. but seems to be getting the hang of it. He loves shakin it, and listening to the money inside.

Lately he  is learning his abc's and tries to sing along with his Alphabet Pal ( its a worm thing).. its hilarious...He can play patty cake and even roll his arms.. hes a very fast learner.. He's starting to blow kisses, even if hes talking during the kisses, at least you know hes giving them. He has tried to fold his arms during church.. but.. it only last for like 1.5 seconds... then someone distracts him and he laughs or screams, or just starts clapping...

He has been getting into all my drawers and cupboards in the kitchen from hotpads to bowls, to pots and pans.. He looks up and just laughs when he gets them out.. and then leaves them.. only sometimes will he try to put them away..

Lately he has had this fettish with taking off his clothes.. Im trying to teach him to stay in them.. but he pulls his socks off first.. then his shorts or pants, unless he is wearing a belt.. then he cries because he cant get them off. Then off with the shirt... I dont know where he learned this, but it was funny at first, and now its hard because he likes to do it while at the store!

 

He loves helping with the mail.. The other day I came home with the mail, and he decided to help me sort it..He scattered it, and ripped up the newspaper adds and everything else he could get ahold of.

He is growing up so fast, I cant wait to see the little man he becomes.

Almost 10 months!

Coy is currently 9 Months as of May 28th 2011, so hell sooon be 10 months this month! I can't believe how big he is getting!! He is such a boy already and boy does he know how to flirt!

Coy is currently....

Crawling around the house like a mad man
Squeeling like a little girl and grunting like a man
He can say "Pa Pa, Ma Ma, Da Da"
Hes learning how to follow all of your facial actions such as
snorting, eye brows, sticking out his tongue,and blowing with his lips together making farting noises,
He can clap his hands, but he mostly does it when people watch him and he wants a praise, or when he sees someone doing it, or even someone on tv doing it.

He can pull himself up on to anything and everything and walk along it...

Hes learned that the toilet can flush and its hilarious when it does.. and that the water is cool to touch... ew I know

Hes learned that when he wants something he will follow you around the house until you either give it to him or he has the chance to steel it.

He eats just about anything and everything that he wont choke on, his new favorites are:

pudding, otter pops, pop tarts, mac n cheese, spaghetti, and well.. just about everything else

He absolutely loves taking baths and always want them! He crawls to the tub and says "Ma Ma" which means I want a bath mom.

He loves riding the horses, playing on the grass and of course swimming! (if only we could get our pool up!)

Coy,

You have been the best thing has ever happened to your dad and I and we are sooo excited to watch your grow and help you learn as much as we can! We love you so much and your so special to us!