WARNING: Mushy post below

Wow, I can't believe it has already been 4 years. They say that time flies when you get married but I never thought it would go this fast. Our anniversary was on Thursday, but went out on a date on Friday night. It is hard to believe we started dating 9 years ago. I am so lucky to have someone that IS my best friend and has been for such a long time. Jason is an amazing husband and he does so much for our family. I don't think I ever have to ask him to do anything because if he sees that something needs to be done he just does it. I think he is more neat and organised then me! It has been so much fun to grow up with him and I think that is why we have such a good relationship. We knew the In's and outs of each other long before we got married. It was so much fun to reminisce and look through some high school pictures to put on here. We have so many fun memories and some hard ones, but that is what has made both of us strong. I am also so thankful that Jason is a worthy member of our church and was able to take me to the temple. I don't think a day goes by that I don't think about the promises we made to each other and that we will now get to spend eternity together. There is such a comfort in that promise and I know that we will always be together. I love you Jason and thank you for all you do for me and our family. I love the memories we have together and am so excited to make new one in the days to come!


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The night Jase left on his mission. The hardest night of my life so far!!!










The "hang out" spot in high school


My Christmas gift one year

Goofy High School picture. UGH!


Jason's Graduation


Wedding picture




Vegas trip


Family pictures last year



Today- Not the best picture, it was really windy outside

Balloons...

So my friend Jessica sent me a package and in it were these balloons. Her stipulation was that I take pictures of Kolsen blowing them up. He gets so excited to blow them up and when he was little he would do a "blow up stance" which he grew out of, but it was still so much fun. So here are the pictures for ya Jess! Callie loved them too. The pictures came out really blurry because we need a new camera.




This is how excited he gets! He got some height on that one.

Gotta do as daddy does


I almost got it



Yeah!!!! I did it

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Trick or Treat!!!

I hope everyone had as much fun as we did on Halloween night. Kolsen and Lexi were so much fun this year. It was really sad not to have chase, Mallory, and Clark though! We missed you guys! But we had a good time and got lots of candy. Actually Kolsen has been so excited about the candy that when Jason and I were getting ready this morning we let him watch a movie on the couch. We came out to find Kolsen behind the couch with one sucker in each hand, three sticks on the ground,two more with open wrappers and sticky slim all over. It was pretty funny! Kids think they are so sneaky! We also found a really cool house that was a lot of fun to go to last night. It is called the Halloween House. It was in the next neighbor hood over and I think they had every Halloween decoration that you could and then some. It was amazing. We got some pictures, but it doesn't do it Justice. So we did some trick or treating in our neighborhood and then went over there to look at the house. The people were even handing out free hot dogs and juice and had people walking around with saw's trying to scare you. It was a lot of fun! Then we came back to our house and everyone hung out for a while and we let the kids enjoy their treats.



Here is the gang, but no one wanted to cooperate. Did we expect any different?

Kim and I did some of Kolsen's tattoos


My pumpkin Fairy




Her headband wasn't tight enough, but she didn't care

Dash and Tinkerbell
This picture went crazy but it adds a cool effect


The Halloween house, but it doesn't do it justice!

So many updates!!!

Warning: Lots of posts below, Read at your own risk.

So the first of many updates is that my cousin came home from her Mission a few weeks ago. Jessica served in Washington and loved every minuet of it. She is such an amazing person and I look up to her so much! She is a really good example to all those around her and is one of the strongest women I know. I love her and I know she has done and will do many wonderful things in her life.

Here we are at her homecoming. This was before I did my hair and the rest of the posts are after. Tell me what you think.

Tub Time

So we found how to make Callie laugh. "THE BATH" She absolutely loves taking bath's with Kolsen. When he starts to splash her she giggles and splashes back. They are so cute together and I am so glad we can get rid of the stupid baby tub now. I hate that thing. Of course, we took a video of it, but she didn't giggle like she normally does. Go figure!

Joy School Party

Today we had our Joy School Halloween Party. We let the kids come dressed up and do a parade for the first few minutes of school and then they got some cookies. It was so cute. The only sad thing was that I didn't have my camera on the right setting and I had someone else take the pictures for me so I could do the video. So only a few of them turned out. O well, you can still make out who they are. Kolsen loves Joy School and all the friends he has gotten to know. I am so glad that we started him in it this year. The top picture is his friend Parker.

Trunk or Treat

We decided to go to Alan and Debbie's Trunk or Treat on Saturday after Chelsey's shower at the last minute, so we took Kolsen and Callie without their costumes. Kolsen had so much playing all of the games and winning prises. He got to paint some pumpkins, dig for pennies, throw bean bags and go fishing. The second time he threw the bean bags he actually made two out of the three he threw. We were pretty excited. He loved it! Thanks for inviting us Alan and Debbie!

Chelsey's Shower

So I threw my best friend Chelsey a baby shower last week and it was so much fun. She got some really good stuff and I think she got everything in the nursery set you could get. I am so excited for her and Leiland and can't wait to see that beautiful baby girl. Here are some fun pictures. She is still as beautiful as ever.

I got my Daddy's Moves!!!

Kim and Cameron came over the other night to show us a card that we got for my Grandma. It was her birthday a couple days ago and it was a huge card that sings. It was so funny because if you know Kolsen, you know that he is like his dad and never dances, but when Kim opened the card he started shaking away. It was too cute so we got out the camera. Sorry it has been movie overload the last few posts.


Also we took our little Callie to the doctor the other day for her a 6 month check and she is as healthy as can be. She weighs 15 lbs and I forgot how tall she was, but I do remember that the doctor said that she is in the 40% for weight and 62% for height. Pretty average which is good. With her chubby cheeks and big rolls, I thought she would be bigger. She is doing so good and gets more fun every day.

I scream... You scream... We all scream... for ICE CREAM!!!

So we went out with Jeremiah and Heidi on Saturday night and we told Kolsen that we were getting ICE CREAM and this was his reaction. I caught just the end of it so you don't get the full effect, but it is still cute! We call it his "Excited face."

"Jessica here is your video. We are still working on one for Callie!"

HOW CAN I BE...

I copied this from Jesika because I loved it so much and have never heard it!
Enjoy!!

I can't believe I am talking about POOP!

So we have started really working on potty training lately. Kolsen is doing so good and has done so much better than I ever thought! He hasn't had very many Pee accidents and loves his "BIG BOY UNDERWEAR." He did however have a very bad Poop accident on Monday. It got all over him and was disgusting. We made a big deal out of it and showed him that it was gross to be poopy and told him that it has to go in the potty from now on. As we were cleaning it up he just kept saying "YUCKY MOM" and we would say "Yeah that is yucky and we don't go poop in out pants". Anyway, the next day he didn't go all day and I was getting worried that he was holding it and sure enough when we put a pull-up on him that night for bed, he pooped in it and said "Yucky MOM". So I thought that it was going to be a while before he got that down. So I forgot about it until he came to me the next day and said "Mom POOP!" So we went in to the bathroom, and he did it on the potty! We were so proud and got so excited that he did it and made it a big deal so he would want to do it again. Then yesterday I was in my room getting ready and he came in with nothing on from the waist down, and said "MOM POOP". So I figured he had to go and told him to run to the potty and go in the potty. When I got in there, I saw that he had unrolled the toilet paper all over the floor so I started to get mad and then he pointed to the potty and said "I POOP MOM". So it made me stop and when I looked in the toilet and there it was. I was so shocked and couldn't believe that my
2 1/2 year old went to the bathroom, took everything off, pooped, and wiped all by himself and then came and told me. So I couldn't get mad at him for the mess because I wanted him to know that he did such a good job. I love Kolsen and I am so excited that I am done with diapers. I have tried letting him sleep in underwear for naps too and he hasn't had any accidents yet. So we are down to a pull-up for bedtime and that is all. I know this a silly post, but any mom who has tried to potty train a kid can relate to how exciting this is. Thanks for listening!!!

Callie

I thought I would share this cute video I took today. Callie is getting so big and she is really starting to interact with everyone. Her latest thing is spitting. I was doing that to her the other day and she started to laugh and now she is doing it back to us. She is also rolling over a lot. She hates her tummy so whenever we put her on it she flips over. It is fun and I thought I would share! We love our sweet little girl!!!

What a Day

Well, we had an exciting day on Saturday. Cameron and Kim are moving into our Casita this weekend so they came to bring some stuff over. When they came, they brought Kolsen a toy that they found at a house. It was a brand new blow up bouncy toy. It looked like so much fun and Kolsen got so excited. Then when we went to put the toy in the back yard Kim and Cameron were bent over looking at the grass when I came around the corner. I asked them what they saw and they pointed out the little BAT that was laying there. It was so tiny and cute and couldn't have been dead for very long. I am actually surprised that we haven't found one out there sooner because they love eating the little bugs that fly around the street light that is just over our back fence. Then, when Jason got home he had found a really nice Hammock at a house that we put out on our patio. It was a fun day and it is always excited to get free gifts.

Look how tiny he is

Funny picture of Callie. She is getting so CHUBBY!

Kolsen's reaction to the JUMPER