Christmas Activites!

The week before Christmas, my mom, two sisters, brother, my niece and I all went to the movies together. We saw Twilight (yes, it was my third time, so?) and had so much fun! I was surprised that my brother even liked it and my mom who hadn't read the book, really loved it!

We started out Christmas Eve just like any other year... with playing nude in the bathroom sink! Oh, wait, we never have done this before and I don't plan on making this a tradition. But Cohen does LOVE it!We went over to my mom's to spend the day cooking in preparation for Christmas Eve dinner!

We had a delicious meal with most of my family and made plenty to eat it all again on Christmas!

Here are the boys on my side of the family, all in their jammies!

Cameron (5), Cohen (18 months), Kaden (4)Christmas Morning!

We slept at my mom's house on Christmas Eve and had so much fun opening all our presents with my mom and brother the next morning! We took a break in the middle of unwrapping gifts and made breakfast! German pancakes and bacon, soooo YUMMY!
Cohen was so lucky to get so many fun toys, books, movies and clothes! Here he is playing with his learning kitchen/living room!
His favorite toy was his Backyardigans chair!We got the dogs some treats and Lilly a bed, since she didn't have one yet, but she still climbed into Izzy's bed!
We spent the rest of Christmas Day with Scott's family playing guitar hero and hanging out! We had so much fun with his parents and sister while they were here! We were sad to see them go back to California!

Here is a video of Cohen playing with Dustin Christmas morning.
Drummer Boy!

What a Year 2008 has been!

I was just sitting here thinking about how long this year has seemed! I didn't get a Christmas Card out so I thought I would write a recap of our year on here!

January started out great with Scott's hard work paying off by becoming a general contractor and starting his own company Landmark General Contracting! I had gone back to work for my mom helping her run her company after Cohen was born and was really excited to be a full time stay at home mom from this point on! I was sad to leave a job I enjoyed, but so excited to be able to give my full attention to the baby I had wanted so badly and waited so long for! Cohen was already six months old and growing fast!

February looked pretty uneventful as far as my blog posts went, but I am sure we had some exciting events that took place and I just can't remember... I am sure Scott was busy working and I was still getting up a couple times a night with Cohen and my days were filled with keeping Cohen fed, changed and happy! Which at times, well most of the time, is exhausting!

In March, we had fun having a bonfire up the canyon and roasting marshmallows with Cohen and celebrating his first Easter!

In April, Oprah's show on puppy mills inspired me to adopted a dog from an animal shelter. After research and only a couple days of searching we found our little Lilly and added her to our family! Cohen and Izzy were "thrilled". She has turned out to be a great dog and we are so happy to have her! Cohen also turned ten months old and FINALLY started sleeping ALL THE WAY through the night (10 hours), then became sick and abruptly ended that! He was also busy doing the "Cohen Shuffle" at this point. Scott also turned 27 at the beginning of the month!

In May, Cohen got moving and cruising with crawling and walking while holding on to his toy! I took Cohen swimming for the first time and Scott was looking into a new venture with property preservation. Cohen was waking up extremely early every morning, but was sleeping straight through the night. It was a great month and I was really enjoying being a mommy! I also celebrated my first Mother's Day!

In June, we celebrated Cohen's 1st Birthday where we had a big bug themed party at the park! He also had his first hair cut and was weaned this month. We took a trip to the Ranch in Capital Reef for Memorial Day weekend too! At the end of June I was so excited to find out I was pregnant again! We also welcomed Scott's sister's fourth baby girl into the family at the end of the month!

July brought celebration with the 4th of July and my first 5k and sadness with our 4th miscarriage. We were so excited to be pregnant with the thought of having a new baby the first of March, but things ended around the 7th week. Cohen also started walking and talking this month!

In August, we took Cohen on our first family camping trip and had so much fun! I also finished the Twilight series and loved it!

In September, I took Cohen boating on Deer Creek, we got our new (new to us) Pilot, we landscaped our front yard and we took Cohen on his first trip to the Zoo!

In October, spent some time up Nebo canyon and took another trip to the Ranch enjoying Conference weekend! I found out I was pregnant and spent most of October staying down a lot and crossing my fingers and toes. I turned 25 and Scott and I went away for the a night to Park City without Cohen for the first time. We celebrated Halloween with my family, Cohen dressed up as a little blue monster!

November was hard... we lost our baby, fifth miscarriage, even after seeing the heartbeat and that everything was fine on ultrasound just two weeks before. I met with my OBGYN, no answers. Looked into a natural hormone replacement clinic and have been doing blood tests that have shown some interesting and hopeful results. Started supplements. Went and saw the Trans-Siberian Orchestra and loved it! We went on a road trip to California for Thanksgiving and had so much fun with Scott's family! We went to the beach a couple times, to Disneyland and of course had Thanksgiving dinner at Grandma Green's!

In December, Scott went to Dallas, Texas to look into a Security System Company (keeping his options open with this crazy economy). We had fun enjoying the Christmas season by looking at Christmas lights and spending lots of time with our family and friends! Cohen turned 18 months and is a sweet, sensitive little boy that loves to scream and push the limits! We spend Christmas Eve at my mom's and slept over! Christmas this year with Cohen was so magical and he got spoiled! We spent lots of time with Scott's family as well while they were here visiting and staying with his sister Michelle! We loved playing Guitar Hero and going to movies with them! December was a wonderful month and a great way to end the year!

We look forward to what 2009 holds! We have many hopes and possibilities for this coming year! Whatever happens we just hope that we are lucky enough to spend lots of time with our loved ones creating memories like we did this past year. I am sure we will have trials and many blessings ahead and I look forward to our life!

Merry Christmas Eve!

It is midnight now, so it is officially Christmas Eve! I just wanted to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and I hope everyone enjoys spending time with their loved ones! I am excited to spend Christmas at my mom's this year, plus my in-laws are in town so we get to see all of them too! Holidays remind us all of what life truly is all about! Family, food and fun (right?)!
I feel so blessed... even though we have had some hard trials this year, I feel we are stronger and more grateful now than before. I also feel thankful to be a member of the LDS church. As I sat in sacrament on Sunday and listened to the Christmas program, I felt overwhelmed with love and happiness to be there. I felt the true meaning of Christmas as I thought about our Savior and all that he has made possible for us. It is so easy to get "wrapped" (ha ha) up in the logistics of the holiday and too easy to forget to remind ourselves and others about why we actually are celebrating Christ's Birthday!
I am so thankful for my family and for my husband and baby and especially for that baby Jesus that was born so long ago...
Merry Christmas Everyone!

Elf Yourself!

Send your own ElfYourself eCards

It keeps comin' down out there!

We have really been enjoying the snow! Well, Cohen, the dogs and I have because we get to sit inside our warm home and watch the beautiful snows flakes as the fall. Scott feels somewhat different since he has to go out in the freezing cold more than we do! But the other day we still had a lot of fun taking Cohen out in the snow to play in it for the first time! We even started building a snowman, but didn't get too far. I couldn't believe it when Scott told me he hadn't ever built a snowman, (with all the thing he has built!) so I taught him and Cohen how to roll and pack and roll the snow into a big ball. Scott did great for a California boy! He He! We have a third of it out there waiting to be finished! Since it is completely blizzard-white outside I don't think we will have a problem finding more snow when we find the time!

Snow Angel!

Merry Christmas from our girls!

(Today I over heard the dogs when they were telling each other about how sick and tired they are about not being featured on the family blog... so this is for them! :))

Lilly recently had her first birhtday! We adopted her from the pound just over 7 months ago and we have just fallen in love with her (although it took a few months)! We are so happy we chose to rescue her rather than buy from a pet store (puppy mill). She has had so much spazzy energy and is such a sweet little girl. She has never had an accident in the house (however, she does have a nervous peeing problem) and is always excited for attention. She is still in the puppy phase though and takes off with random utensils or toys or any other object she finds suitable.
Izzy is a true big sister and gets very annoyed with Lilly. Although we know she really does enjoy her company and they have so much fun playing together. Izzy is almost 3 and loves to sit on her throne on top of the couch looking out the window.
We love our dogs, even though sometimes I wonder why I have given myself the extra work and even after cleaning up muddy footprints throughout the house, half eaten trash spread across the backyard, having to scoop the poop in the yard and all the extra expense of grooming and dog food, etc we are happy to have our fur babies!

Cohen likes to...

...close and lock doors.

Last week Cohen thought it would be fun to close and lock our bedroom door, the only door in the house with a lock (in which we don't have a key for)! Scott grabbed his drill and made a hole to push the lock pins out so we could get to Cohen. It was really loud and took a little bit so Cohen was pretty upset, but I am just thankful I wasn't home alone, I wouldn't have known what to do! I am so happy Scott is so handy! (Good job love!)

Cohen also likes to put on shoes!
Anyone's will do, but he can get his own on too (well for the most part)!
Sweet dance move, huh?

And Cohen loves to play in Lilly's kennel (Izzy's is a little small). He pulls her blanket out and then crams himself in there and closes the door almost every morning.
Whatever keeps him busy! :)