Wednesday, February 03, 2010

Just for Fun

The other day I was watching Carter eat his crackers and realized that I have hundreds of pictures of Cooper eating in his first year, but only 1 other eating picture of Carter. So it goes with the second child but I decided that day I wanted to document. Then I just kept taking pictures, which I tend to do. :-)

Carter loves kisses, both giving and getting.

Sorry for the no make-up, had an eye infection and couldn't wear any but I thought Coop looked cute.


He's almost there! He can walk around anything but just hasn't mastered balancing that big belly of his on his own. Soon though!
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Bookworms

I love that I have this picture for both boys. I love to read so I'm glad they are already enjoying it at such a young age :-)

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Monday, February 01, 2010

Welcome!

I didn't want to post any pictures until I got everything decorated but let's be honest, it may be years before I get every little thing I want for the house so I decided to reveal anyway. So here is your virtual tour of our new house.
Come on in
To your left is our front room
(the only fully decorated one)
To the right is the office
(sorry no picture, who hasn't seen an office anyway?)
Walk on back into the living room, dining room, and kitchen. This was one of the main things I wanted in our house, an open floorplan!
(This view is from the far end of our living room, you walked in from the left near Caleb)
Behind you is the homemade mantle (made by my dad and Caleb)
Look up and you see the upstairs bedrooms.
Here's a closer look at the kitchen.
(I love this part :-)
My 1 decorated kitchen wall.
(Thanks to my good friend Betty who arranged it all! She's amazing!)
I had to show the mudroom because those shelves/cubbies in there are homemade by my hubby and Dad. AMAZING if I do say so myself!
Upstairs is Carter's room.
Next to Carter's room is Coop's room. If you notice to the right there is the coolest little toy room for all of Coop's toys.
Close up of that fun little room.
The Jack & Jill bathroom that connects the boys' rooms.
Master Bedroom
(once again, nothing up on the walls yet, I'm still deciding!)
Our room is across the way from Carter and Coop's. So nice not to have to climb stairs in the middle of the night to go put a binkie in :-)
Our bathroom with about 15x more counter space than our previous place...happy sigh!
Closet/guest bedroom ;-)
(I think I need some more clothes to fill up those shelves)
Head back down stairs and that's it.
The basement is unfinished so I didn't bother taking any pictures of it.

Its been so fun getting all settled and we love our new place.
Thanks to all those who helped out with packing, moving, babysitting and so forth!

Sunday, January 24, 2010

What have we been up to?

Well, we have been doing alot of packing,

some playing around,

more packing,

Caleb's 28th birthday,
(Happy Birthday Babe!)

even more packing,

entertaining these two handfuls...while packing,
oh, and moving all that packed stuff into our new house.
Have I ever mentioned that I hate packing?

More pictures to come (I want to get it somewhat decorated before I reveal it :-) but here's a little sneak peak into our entryway.

Friday, January 01, 2010

Happy Bowling Day Everybody!

Another family tradition of bowling on New Years.

A Happy New Year to you all!

Christmas in Wenatchee

Gingerbread House
Coop loves to do any craft. Add in candy & frosting and you have his ultimate favorite thing ever! He loved this and was continuously trying to add more on there. He just didn't want it to be over.

Tennis & Hot Tubbing
One of things we looked forward to most was playing tennis against my parents. Although we played over 20 games, we only won 1...do not underestimate 2 sixty-year-olds! We had a good time anyway. (If anybody cares, we did not lose to them in doubles ping pong ;-) To top off tennis, we'd all hop in the hot tub and relax in the cold, non-snowing air. #1 on our next year Christmas Wish List, hot tub!

You can thank me later for not putting the hot-tubbing pictures in ;-)

The Snow Sculpture
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No snow=No Snow Sculpture
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Believe me, I am just as sad as you are!
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Maybe next year.
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Christmas Eve
A family tradition of sledding on Christmas Eve. We really had to search high and wide to find any snow. Coop won the speed race when heading down the hill alone. Unfortunately it did not end well. He would go on to get back on a sled. After 3 failed attempts at heading down the hill with a fully intact train, we gave it up to go home to the traditional chilli and grandkid nativity.



Christmas Day
The older Coop gets, the more fun Christmas becomes. We were so excited to give him his very own train set this year and he was equally excited to play with it. Carter enjoyed the oranges (peels and all) and his empty sippy cups. My favorite gift from Caleb was my very own Adventure Book (idea taken from the movie UP) complete with pictures of us and a Stuff we are going to do page (can you even believe how thoughtful he is). I made the boys some matching BYU hats...ummm, its the thought that counts right? Ha!
Grandparents
And lastly, I can't tell you how much I love watching my boys play with their Grandparents. The way they interact just puts a smile on my face. Oh how I wish we lived closer so they could develop that relationship even more. But I guess for now, Christmases will just have to do.

Friday, December 25, 2009