Size difference

What 4 and a half months can do...

Our 4th Anniversary!

Yesterday, Scott and I celebrated four years together. We spent the day doing simple things we love. We relaxed all morning and then went to lunch at Bajio and walked around and shopped at the Riverwoods. We spent the evening playing, bathing and feeding the baby and once he went to bed we spent time just the two of us enjoying the love that we share. We have been through and experienced so much together since November 8th, 2003 and we have grown in ways we never could have imagined.
We laid in bed the other night reminiscing about our wedding day and our honeymoon in Cancun. Since then our life has been very busy with different jobs, different apartments, different cars, buying our first home, three miscarriages, one dog, two fish and one frog, death of the fish and frog, fun vacations to Florida, Northern and Southern California, Colorado, Las Vegas and all over Utah, an exciting pregnancy, an amazing experience delivering our first baby, becoming parents and loving the joy it brings, Scott starting his career and building his new business and now we are looking forward to the future, whatever it may bring!


Happy Anniversary, Sweetheart! Thank you for everything you do for me each and every day! I am so incredibly lucky to have you as my husband, eternal companion, best friend, lover, partner in crime and father of my baby. You are the person I laugh with, cry with, have endless hopes and dreams with! Thank you for asking me to marry you and for actually going through with it! :)

In the words of Cohen...

I had my four month check up last week where I found out I weigh 17 pounds and 9 ounces and am 27 1/2 inches long! My nurse there loved how chubby I am and showed me to all the other nurses when I was in my diaper. It was kind of embarrassing, but I gave them a grin anyway. My mom keeps trying to introduce cereal to me and I think it is pretty disgusting! She has tried mixing it with water, apple juice and her milk and I just spit it out as quickly as she spoons it in! She calls me a breast snob because I am not interested in anything else!

The "Fearless" BEE KILLER

Izzy decided to try and kill a bee that was in our house, but instead it stung her on the lip and for some reason she then threw up on the stairs, one of the only areas with carpet in our house instead of wood. Her lip then became swollen and she moped around the house acting traumatized, I think her dignity was gone. She was back to normal a few hours later looking for more insects to dominate!

Grandparents!

My dad came by to play with Cohen a week or two ago (Yeah! We love to play with Grandpa!) and brought by a welcome gift for Cohen from his Great Grandma and Grandpa Haile who live in Colorado!

It included a cute animal outfit, two books and a beautiful handmade crocheted blanket my grandma made. We really loved it and appreciate their thoughtfulness!

This is the note that was attached, I thought it was cute...

Halloween Costumes!

Cohen was a TIGER for Halloween night.
(Thanks Ashlyn for letting us borrow it!)

He didn't know what to think of us dressing him up and trying to draw whiskers on his face, but this picture below of him throwing a tantrum should show how long he actually put up with it...



The weekend before Halloween we went to a party at Scott's sister Michelle's house! This is me as Rainbow Brite with Scott's cousin and one of my good friends Ashley! Cohen slept most of the time so he didn't dress up for this one, but Scott was Dr. Evil again without his Mini Me.

Lost in thought...

I got on to the computer to post Halloween pictures and before I came to my blog I stopped by all of my friends and family blogs to see if there were any new posts...
Right now I am consumed in sadness for my sweet friend Kayci and her family. They lost their baby boy to still-birth last Thursday on the 25th. She was induced and had him later that night. He weighed 6 and a half pounds and was 21.5 inches long. They wrote about how beautiful he was and how they look forward to seeing him again... Here is a comment they posted...
"We're excited to see what his personality and spirit will be like in the next life though. The resurrection will be so much sweeter now..."
They had a service for him on Monday afternoon.
Please pray for strength and comfort for Kayci, her husband Jeff and their little girl Grace. It breaks my heart to think of the loss they just suffered and I am aware of the extreme pain multiple miscarriage can bring, let alone still-birth.
Immediately after reading their blog I went in and placed my hand on my sleeping babies chest to check on our little miracle. I am shaken up and the tears keep coming because sometimes our losses seem so distant from where we are now that they seem like they never happened. But when people we care about experience it, it brings back the realization that nothing is guaranteed, especially tomorrow... It reminds me that I was once in a deep dark place full of grief from what we had lost. No one should have to experience the loss of a baby during pregnancy or after...
Hug your loved ones extra close and kiss them a few more times today...