The Coonradts

Isabella

2012-01-05T20:37:00.000-08:00

On Dec 16th, my mom, Londyn and I got to go to St. George to be there for the birth of my brother and sister-in-law's sweet baby girl! Such a neat experience. Thanks for letting us be there Caleb and Nikki!

Nutcracker

2012-01-05T20:30:00.000-08:00

Cody's gift to Londyn this year was tickets to see Ballet West's The Nutcracker the day after Christmas. He even made the thing above to hold the tickets. So cute! It was so fun to see it too! I had only seen the Nutcracker once when I was in middle school and it was one of very times I got to sit in the audience to watch an entire Ballet. Loved it. And of course the only pictures of us there got deleted accidently. Oh well!

Christmas

2012-01-05T20:25:00.000-08:00

This year was my year to work Christmas. I had to work the 1pm-7pm shift (not too bad), so we went to Cody's parent's house in Park City to spend the whole weekend with them. It was a nice break. Got to go on a little date to see the new Sherlock Holmes movie, did some kid-free skiing, did some skiing with both kids, and ate A LOT of good food!

This year Santa made special tage for Londyn and Jackson (well I thought them up, Cody created them, and I painted the letters with glue and added glue. Another one of my labors of love!).

It was fun because the kids had to find their letter tag to figure out which presents were theirs.

Jackson got loaded up on lots of boy thing! Blocks, tools, more tools, a mini trampoline, books and some DVDs. (Oh and skates. he told everyone he was getting skates for Christmas. No idea where he came up with it, but he got 'em- thanks Gramy!)

And Londyn got lots of fun girlie things! Tutus, dolls, barbie movies, books, markers, crayons, cup cake Lego set.....

Another great Christmas!

Here are a few of the "real" ones!

2011-12-12T15:48:00.000-08:00

Family Pictures

2011-12-07T20:39:00.000-08:00

On Saturday we went downtown to take some much needed family Photos.
This is just a funny one she snapped of us. I'll post the real ones soon!

Nikki's Shower

2011-12-07T20:35:00.000-08:00

The Day after Thanksgiving we were able to have a shower for Nikki!

I should have gotten a picture of her with all her gifts, she got some cute thing! Here she is with the crib bedding.

Onesie Cookies.

The spread. It was definitely a weekend full of good food! Thanks to everyone who came! Nikki's mom was able to make it. My mom couldn't but we did SKYPE with her for a few minutes while we played a couple games.

Congrats to Caleb and Nikki. Can't wait to meet that sweet little girl! You 2 are going to be great parents!

Too cute

2011-12-07T20:30:00.000-08:00

I took this right after her performance when we were waiting for Cody to go get the car.

Christmas Gift Show

2011-12-07T20:28:00.000-08:00

In November, the studio Londyn dances with was invited to dance at the Christmas Gift Show at the South Town Expo Center.

She had a cute little costume and a cool hair-do. Yep, I did her hair! Not sure if I could ever do it that good again!

Here is her whole class!

Good job Girlie!

Pumpkin Carving

2011-12-07T20:23:00.000-08:00

This year we FINALLY carved a pumkin with the kids!

Meet "Smiley".

Halloween

2011-11-27T19:42:00.000-08:00

For Halloween this year Jackson was a Green Bay Packer and Londyn was Rainbow Dash-My Little Pony. At the beginning of October we went to the annual Halloween party at Cody's sister's mother-in-law's house. It's always a good time!

The kids had fun playing with their cousins Charlie and Carson.

This was at Londyn's class party.

And here they are trick-or-treating with some of their friends. It was so nice to have such a mild Halloween finally. Jackson didn't even wear a coat. Then we all hung out and had chili and scones afterward. Great Halloween!

Minneapolis trip

2011-11-27T19:33:00.000-08:00

In October we tagged along with Cody to Minneapolis/St.Paul with Cody. It was a lot of fun. The kids loved our hotel and mini van. We tried to find fun things to do with the kids. We found this really cute park to play at.

We spent an entire day at th Children's Museum in Downtown St. Paul. It was awesome!!!

We also drove an hour south to visit Cody's grandma Helen in Albert Lea.

On our last day we went to the Mall of America and went on a few of the rides with the kids. We also at at this yummy restaurant called CRAVE and then Cody let me go shop at H & M for my birthday and he took the kids to the Lego store.

One last picnic

2011-10-26T21:26:00.000-07:00

I know that winter is going to be upon us before we know it so couple days ago when it was still so nice outside the kids and I tested out my new picnic basket and had lunch in the backyard!

It was even complete with a ladybug! Good-bye nice warm weather. We will miss you...

Labor Day

2011-09-18T15:23:00.000-07:00

This year for Labor Day we went to St. George, again! We kinda like it there! My parents flew in from Louisiana and we stayed at the same hotel so the kids really liked that! On Friday we drove up to Cedar Breaks. It was beautiful! But FREEZING!!! We were not prepared for the chill on top of the mountain. Thank goodness the kids had their blankets!

Then it was back to St. Geore for some Cafe Rio and some Nielsen's frozen custard!

That night we went to see 17 Miracles. So good!

Then on Saturday we went to Caleb's football game. Londyn loved the Red Bull, Jackson on the other had was SCARED TO DEATH!!!

We finished off the weekend by celebrating Caleb's 25th birthday. Happy Birthday!!! You're going to be a daddy in 3 months!!!

1st day of school

2011-09-16T14:48:00.000-07:00

Londyn started Kindergarten this year! Had to get a "1st day of school" picture!

And of course little brother had to be in one!

She was so excited to start school again and see old friends and meet new ones! Her teacher's name is Mrs. Story. She seems great and I know Londyn is going to learn so much this year.

This wsa her 1st project. An "all about me" scrapbook page.

Londyn started Kindergarten!!

2011-09-16T14:34:00.000-07:00

Instead of the boring school pics, my friend Sandy took Londyn's kindergarten pictures. So much cuter!!

Jackson's Party

2011-09-16T14:32:00.000-07:00

We had J's party a week after his birthday. It was also the debut of our newly finished backyard. He had a construction themed party. I didn't have time to make a big cake, so I just made a little one for him and then we had dirt cake, cupcakes, lemon bars, candy, and chips and dip!

He had a great time with all his buddies!

And was soooo excited to blow out his candles!

2 yr and 5 yr pics

2011-09-16T14:26:00.000-07:00

Birthday Meals

2011-09-16T14:24:00.000-07:00

To celebrate both kid's birthdays we went to Kneader's for Breakfast one morning with Cody's parents, and...

Spaghettti factory another night! Jackson loves the mizithera!

Londyn turns 5!

2011-09-16T14:21:00.000-07:00

On August 6th, Londyn turned 5! This year we celebrated her birthday on her actual birthday! She had a girls only party per her request! She had a Pajama party. All her little friends came over for pizza and cake. Then they had popcorn and watched a movie! Happy birthday to our sweet Londyn girl! You are so smart and creative. We love watching to watching and wonering what you'll do next! Hope you have a great year!!

Jackson turns 2!

2011-09-16T14:14:00.000-07:00

On August 4th, Jackson turned 2! We started the day off with the traditional birthday pancake and then let him open his presnts from us and my parents!

You are such a fun little boy Jackson! You are full of personality and make us laugh everyday! You are getting close to being potty trained, but still loooove your binki- you may be potty trained before you give it up! You are a good sleeper (finally!!) and love to sing songs before bed every night. You love to build with blocks and play with tools (like daddy!). Other than that you pretty much like to destroy things! You are all boy!! Happy birthday lil J!

July- St. George

2011-09-16T14:08:00.000-07:00

In July we decided to take a liast minute trip to St. George. We had wanted to go all summer, but hadn't gone yet. My sister-in-law works at the Crystal Inn so we finally decided to go and stay there! It was a blast. Totally laid back. There wasn't anything we "needed" to be at so we swam all morning and napped in the afternoon and watched Caleb (my lil bro) play softball late at night, and of course ate a lot of good food!

They Jump!

2011-09-16T14:03:00.000-07:00

While one our trip to St. George both kids decided to be brave and try jumping off the side of the pool. Once they did it once there was no stopping them!

Pioneer Day

2011-09-16T13:59:00.000-07:00

Pioneer Day fell on a Sunday this year. Before church I snapped some cute pics of the kids.

July-Louisiana

2011-09-16T13:56:00.000-07:00

In mid-July the kids and I went down to my parent's in Louisiana for a few days. I knew it was dumb to go in July, but I thought we could atleast swim everyday to beat the heat! Well, it rained everyday! So we got to go once for about 30 min. before it started to rain. Boo!!

But the kids had some good cousin time with my Brother Sheldon's kids!

Ryanne and Londyn loved trying on my old ballet and tap costumes!

And here is Jackson holding the newest addition- baby Gavin (born in June)!

4th of July afternoon

2011-09-16T13:50:00.000-07:00

Cody riding my grandpa's sweet bike with Londyn in the basket down to the church for all of festivities. Menan, ID (where my grandma lives) is the tiniest town! They put on a good show for the 4th though!

Caleb, Nikki and Jackson trying to figure out what to eat. They had at least a dozen food stands.

Londyn waiting for the parade to start. She caught a ton of tootsie rolls, taffy and even chocolate milk!

We also got to spend some time with our good friends the Taylors. The used to live in Louisiana when I was in Middle school and I babysat their oldest son Mitchell when he was a baby (he's not in the picture b/c he was in Cleveland). They live in Rexburg now because Brig works for BYU-I.

4th of July Morning

2011-09-16T13:43:00.000-07:00

We were in Idaho at my Grandma's house for the 4th of July weekend and had such a fun time. The morning for the 4th we got up early and went to the park to watch my grandma sing the national anthem.

That was followed by the annual pancake breakfast. YUM!

The kids found the teeter totter and did not want to get off of it. It was a cool old school one.

And her is J chugging down his 2nd chocolate milk while sitting on my grandpa's sweet bike!

July- Family Reunion

2011-09-16T13:37:00.000-07:00

On July 2nd, we had a family Reunion ( my mom's dad's side of the family) in good 'ole Pocatello, Idaho at Ross Park. It was a nice hot sunny day and so fun to see all the fam! Here is Jackson with Grandma Liz (aka- grandmamamama)

The kids loved the fish pond that Aunt Teri and Brynlee did!

Playing bingo.

And one tuckered out little boy!

Pincess Festival

2011-09-16T13:30:00.000-07:00

So Londyn's cute cousin Mikayla had tickets to the Daddy/Daughter ball for the Princess Festival and ended up not being able to go, so she let Londyn go in her place, and borrow the dress she was going to weaqr.

She had a BLAST! Thanks again Mikayla (and Ashley!).

Dancing again

2011-09-16T13:26:00.000-07:00

After taking a year off, Londyn started dance again this summer at Danceology and loves it! She did ballet, jazz and tumbling for 6 weeks and now is in it again for year! She has already improved so much!

Practicing at home, which she does ALL the time! So cute! It's so fun to have a little girl who loves to dance. Brings back memories!

June- Company Party

2011-09-16T13:22:00.000-07:00

For the last few years Cody's Company's summer party has been at Lagoon and we have loved it every year and really look forward to it. This year they changed things up a bit and we went to Park City instead.

It turned out to be a lot of fun. We started off with a Catered lunch and then headed outside to play! Thekids both loved the Alpine slide, and so did I! I hadn't been on one since I was...hmmm, I don't remember how old I was! Long time ago, in Jackson Hole.

And they both loved the trampolines. I was a little surprised Jackson did it. Ever since then he has had a hop in his step. No joke. When he runs put a little jump in it, more like a gallop!

Action shot on the Alpine slide.

Thank goodness for a strong daddy. He had to carry the sleds pretty far from the chairlift to the slide. We also had a blast on the roller coaster (that my uncle Fred helped weld!) and the other little kiddy carnival type rides. Thanks again Infuse for a great summer party!

Father's Day

2011-09-16T13:13:00.000-07:00

This year for Father's Day we made Cody a photo book! It turned out so cute!

Here is is with the kiddos after church looking through it before we headed up to Park City for dinner.

No idea why Londyn has his sunglasses on!?

June- Cooking Class

2011-09-16T13:10:00.000-07:00

In June (and July) Londyn went to Cooking Class! She got this cute hat and apron and learned how to make things like soft pretzels, popcorn balls, mini carmel apples, pizza and dessert pizza! ( I am a bad mom and forgot to take pictures of her food-oops!)

June- Jackson and the Pizza

2011-09-16T13:07:00.000-07:00

One day when Cody was out of town for work in June I took the kids to the Highland splashpad and wore them out! On the way home we picked up a little Cesaer's Pizza and ate it outside when we got home. Here are some of the many faces of Jackson while eating his pizza.

June- Landscaping

2011-09-16T13:03:00.000-07:00

My nice neighbor invited Londyn to come play with her little girl, so I thought I'd take some time to do a much needed blog update!
In June, we finally got our front yard landscaping done. We bought 2 new aspen trees, 3 day lilies, and a truck load (literaly) of small and large rocks (that were all mixed together so I had to sort them so I could get the design I wanted. Not as easy as I thought it would be!)

But it looks so much better! We had bark last year (that the HOA put down on top of my newly planted flowers and killed) and we did not like it at all. Plus it's so windy up here that most of it blew into our neighbors' yards anyway!

Wow, I need to take and updated picture, all the plants have grown so much since June!

And there's Jackson watching the guy edge across the street.

Sping Pics

2011-06-17T20:27:00.000-07:00

Thank you to my friend Tracy for taking these pics of my kiddos!

Preschool Grad

2011-06-06T14:11:00.000-07:00

On May 27th Londyn graduated from preschool. Poor thing, the night before she dropped a piece of wood on her toe and her big toe nail fell off. ouch!

They had a really cute program where they showed off all they had learned that year. Londyn's part was: " We also learned our colors, some didn't know read from blue. Now we know each one of them so we'll sing them for you!"

Getting her diploma from Ms. Sherri, her teacher.

Group shot.

Sailing

2011-06-06T13:57:00.000-07:00

On our stop in Cozumel we went on a sailing excursion (the only excursion we did) with 4 other families. It was so much fun. Cody grew up sailing, but it was my 1st time. We sailed out to sea for a couple of hours then dropped anchor at a reef and went snorkling. So cool. We saw a lot of cool fish and the color of the water was incredible. After that they sailed us to a beach for some more fun in the water. While we were playing the crew was cooking us fajitas on the boat.

Yummy fajitas, w/ homade guacamole and pasta salad.

Then then got out the parachute thing and let us play around before sailing back to shore. Her's Cody catching some air.

Wasn't the water so pretty?!

A few pics from pur cruise

2011-06-06T13:49:00.000-07:00

The 1st week of April Cody and I were able to go on a cruise. 7 days in the western Caribbean- so fun!

This is a pic of the back of the boat. It's the "Aqua Theater" The 1st night we saw a cirque de solieau type water show. We couldn't beleive all of the stunts and dives they were doing on a moving cruise ship and into such a tiny pool of water.

This is us at our 1st stop- Labadee, Haiti. It was Royal Caribbean's private beach. We had a fun relaxing day at the beach there. The water was beautiful.

One of Cody's favorite things on the ship was getting to play soccer and basketball. He got in on several games and had a lot of fun. And only got hurt once!

And one of my favorite things was the unlimited softserve!

Other highlights were the yummy food that was available ALL day long, our favorite dining room waiter Dwayne, the entertainment on the ship-the show Hairspray, the 3-D movie theater, the Ice Skating show, the Love and Marriage game show, the flow-rider (surfing on the ship), laying out, the breakfast buffet,.... We also stopped in Jamaica but didn't do much there. And our last stop in Cozumel was a blast. We went on a Sailboat excursion for about 8 hours and had so much fun. It was a much needed trip! We missed our kids a ton, but knew they were in good hands with gramy! Thanks mom. And thank you to Cody's company for sending us on such a great vacation!

Who needs a fork?

2011-05-14T19:27:00.000-07:00

When you have fingers!

Love him to pieces, but he is such a mess maker!

She's got moves

2011-05-14T19:24:00.000-07:00

Practicing her moves the other night!

Goofy Girl!

2011-05-10T13:55:00.000-07:00

Egg Hunt

2011-05-07T11:11:00.000-07:00

We did a little Easter Egg hunt on our dangerous, unfenced lot with all the little kids.

Easter Dinner

2011-05-07T11:08:00.000-07:00

Betty Crocker, I mean Cody, shredding the YUMMY ham!

Jackson slurping up Aunt Taya's delicious "frappe" I think she called it. (pineapple sherbet, frozen mixed berries and sparkling cider)

Some of the group. We had my parents, Cody's parents, my brother Brandon, my brother Caleb and his wife Nikki, and my Aunt Taya and her hubby Fred and their 4 kids. It was a party!

The desserts. Cupcakes by me and sugar Cookies from Kneader's- thanks Carla!

Easter Baskets

2011-05-07T11:02:00.000-07:00

No carrots, so the Easter Bunny got asparagus and powerade!

Sooo excited for ANOTHER Barbie movie!

Easter Kids!

2011-05-04T18:41:00.000-07:00

This is the only picture of the 2 of them, both looking at the camera, on Easter.

Londyn could pose all day!

Jackson could not be bothered to sit still!

He NEEDED to go play in the dirt!

Cabelas

2011-03-16T12:46:00.000-07:00

Last night Cody had to work late. So we brought him some dinner. Then on the way home Londyn saw Cabelas and was "dying to go." So I said, why not. Cody wasn't going to be home and we've only been there 3 times in the year and a half we've lived here.

1st stop- look at the fish.

Next- world's biggest camping chair!!

Then, they tested out this camo golf cart thing.

Finally we went upstairs to test out all of the tents and camping chairs. And we got Icee's from the cafe.
Who knew Cabelas could be so fun?

Farm Country

2011-03-16T12:39:00.000-07:00

Last week when we had such nice spring-like weather, the kids and I went to Farm Country at Thanksgiving Point.

We went on a "hay ride" pulled by 2 horses. Both kids loved it, but Jackson refused to sit down. So he kept falling!

Jackson loves playing in the "jail."

While we walk around Londyn collects dead leaves, pieces of hay or whatever else she can find so she can feed it to the horses and ponies.

Isn't this peacock pretty? It was all white. Hopefully we will have more nice days to go the Farm!

Latest House Project

2011-02-21T20:08:00.000-08:00

So 1 thing we didn't like about our house was that there wasn't a living room that opened up to the kitchen. We have a front formal living room but you can't see our kitchen from it, then we have a bedroon right off the kitchen that we've always had as an informal living room or family room. So just before Christmas Cody decided to start a new project- tearing out part of the wall from the family room to open it up to our kitchen.

This past Saturday we finally got one of the hard parts over with. We had to put a beam in the wall, up near the ceiling because the wall is a load bearing wall. A good friend of ours from our old neighborhood came over to help us.

And now it looks like this. We think we want to put french doors on so we still have the option of closing to room off if we want.

Fri. Feb. 11th

2011-02-12T13:24:00.000-08:00

Yesterday Londyn had a Valentine's Party at school. This is her all ready to go!

Of course Jackson had to get in on the action!

He's not too happy I made him get off the arm of the couch and sit next to his sister.

Later that night he went pee pee on the potty for the 1st time! I was pretty impressed given that he's only 18 months and 1 week old.
This picture is a reinactment of the actual event! He was in the bathroom. He pointed to his diaper and said, "wet." "Elmo." We have a potty seat that has Elmo on it. So I asked him if he wanted to go potty and he raninto the bathroom and found Londyn's old potty. So I sat him on it and sat next to him on the floor for about a minute. Then he started to get wiggly and wanted to stand up, so I thought, "oh well, we gave it a good try." But when he got up I looked in the potty and there was PEE! Yay! Crazy what we get excited about, but I was so afraid he'd be hard to potty train. I'm not sure I'm ready to really potty train him, but atleast we're off to a good start!

Kitchen

2011-02-10T12:53:00.000-08:00

So last summer Cody and I painted our kitchen cabinets, added molding and added hardware. I never got around to posting a picture of here so here it is!

For fun

2011-01-12T20:52:00.000-08:00

On Monday Londyn got herself dressed and wanted me to take a picture of her.

Love my girlie! She is so much fun!

King Cake

2011-01-12T20:48:00.000-08:00

While we were in Louisiana I really wanted a King Cake. I didn't know if they would have them yet, but they did! Mmmm!
I wish I could have brought one home with me!

The kids liked it too!

Family pics

2011-01-12T18:21:00.000-08:00

The night before we flew back we decided to take a last minute family picture. We had everyone except my brother's wife Michelle, she lives in Houston and had to work. = ( Not too bad for a very impromptu photo shoot!

Hodge's Gardens

2011-01-12T18:01:00.000-08:00

One day while we were down there my dad Cody, my brother Caleb and his wife Nikki went to these gardens in central Louisiana.

Not many flowers this time of year, but still pretty.

Park

2011-01-12T17:36:00.000-08:00

On our 2nd day in Louisiana we took advantage of the warmer weather and went to the park.

Park cont.

2011-01-12T17:32:00.000-08:00

Jackson loved being outside. It was a nice break from the snow.

I love how his hair got a little curl to it from the humidity.

Christmas Morning

2011-01-12T17:26:00.000-08:00

SaNta CaMe!!

Jackson FAVORITE toy is his toy Dyson. He Loooves vacuums.

He also got some tools that he thinks are preety cool.

Londyn got a new baby doll and a crib and high chair for her. She also loves her new Rapunzel doll and her new books.

After dinner...

2011-01-12T17:19:00.000-08:00

...Jackson decided he didn't need to keep his pajama pants on.

Daddy thought otherwise!

After the gift exchange game Londyn and Charlie played with some of their new toys.

Christmas eve dinner

2011-01-12T17:14:00.000-08:00

On Christmas Eve we had a big dinner at Cody's parent's house with all of the family; aunts, uncles, cousins, grandmas... It's always so yummy. Ribs, potatoes, bread, salad, desserts, etc...

I guess Jackson wasn't excited about dressing up!

I wanted a picture of all of us, but this is all we got.

Christmas Eve in the snow

2011-01-12T17:07:00.000-08:00

We headed up to Cody's parent's house in the morning on Christmas eve. That afternoon Cody and his dad and the kids played in the snow.

Jackson in a snow bank!

Charlie and Londyn having a snowball fight!

Cousin time!!! Carson, Londyn and Charlie

Yep, Cody jumped off the deck into the snow!

Last week

2010-12-20T11:01:00.000-08:00

Londyn has really been into kissing Jackson lately. Like ALL the time! Poor kid was just trying to eat his applesauce and she wanted to keep smooching him! Most of the time he doesn't mind though.

Last Thursday Londyn had Pajama day at school. They turned their classroom into a "train" and pretended to take a ride on the Polar Express, complete with tickets, jingle bells, hot chocolate and cookies!

Then on Friday she had her Christmas program. Each grade sang 2 songs for all of the parents. It took until half way through the 2nd song for the preschoolers to warm up, but they were so cute!

After her program Jackson and I headed to the grocery store and he HAD to have a car shopping cart! And he had to steer both wheels! I am just glad it kept him entertained while I shopped.

The brownie

2010-12-13T20:24:00.000-08:00

(This was at our Christmas party at church last Saturday)

What can I say, my boy likes chocolate like his mommy!

Nativity

2010-12-13T20:15:00.000-08:00

Last Sunday our neighbors put on a Nativity play at their house with some of the neighborhood kids.

Londyn was an Angel. We threw this costume together in about 15 minutes!

Jackson a sheep. Baaaa! I was going to draw on a brown nose but I had to wake the poor kid up from his nap to go so I thought I would spare him!

It turned out really cute! I wish I would have thought to bring our video camera.

Poor Connor was a very unhappy shepard! He wanted his Momma!

1st Play day in the snow

2010-12-12T21:11:00.000-08:00

The weekend after Thanksgiving we got dumped on with snow! The kids were very excited to get bundled up and go out to play.

Jackson loved eating the snow. However he did not like that once he was down he could not get back up again!

There was so much snow! Londyn loved crawling around in it! She tried to make a snow angel but the snow was too soft and powdery that it didn't really work.

Of course Cody was out of town so I had to attempt to shovel the driveway so I could get Londyn to school the next day. It was not easy. Or fun. It took me 2 days just to get my side of the driveway clean enough to drive on it. I'm glad it's warmed up and all melted now though!

Thanksgiving

2010-11-28T17:28:00.000-08:00

Londyn'sPilgrim Feast at school

Thanksgiving Dinner at Cody's cousin's house. It was all sooo Yummy!

Chocolate pudding

2010-11-22T19:54:00.000-08:00

1st time having chocolate pudding...

...I think he liked it!

Brown and Blue

2010-11-16T13:17:00.000-08:00

My BROWN eyed boy

and my BLUE eyed girl!

Love 'em!

Cedar City

2010-11-16T13:14:00.000-08:00

Caleb had his last football game in Cedar City on Nov. 6th.

My mom flew out for it so we all made a quick 24 hr trip down there for it.

We FROZE at the game.

A few of Caleb's friends and their significant others came down for it, too.

And after the game we warmed up and had pizza at The Pizza Factory.

Halloween Day

2010-11-02T19:59:00.000-07:00

1st up that day was the annual Halloween party at Carl and Melanie's. We had a great time and the food and games were so much fun. They throw a great party.

Londyn happy to see her cousin Charlie (he lives in Las Vegas).

Londyn playing the doughnut on a string game. Mmmm. (Thanks for sending us home with extra doughnuts Mel! Especailly since Jackson and Cody couldn't be there since Jacks was sick)

One sad little monkey! Poor little guy was sick for Halloween. He wasn't very excited about dressing up.

Ready to go trick-or-treating! We only went to a few houses becuase it ws freezing and sprinkling. Brrrr. We spent the rest of the night watching the Utes game. Go Utes!

Halloween-preschool

2010-11-02T19:51:00.000-07:00

Friday morning Londyn had a Halloween parade at school. All of the preschoolers and kindergardners paraded around the gym and then sang Halloween songs for all of the parents. It was really cute.

Then it was back to the classroom for the class party. I voluteered to help out, and man was it crazy. A dozen preschoolers + my crazy toddler getting into everything. I was so glad when it was over.

This is the kids eating their whitch's brew.

Then the played a bunch of games. I need to get a picture of the pumpkin toss that Cody built the night before.

Patio

2010-11-02T12:15:00.000-07:00

A coupld fo weeks ago we had a concrete patio poured in our backyard.
At our last house we just had regular 'ole gray concrete and loved it, but we also had a much bigger back yard. Since the yard at our new house is so small we decided to do colored and stamped concrete to make our tiny space as nice as possible. Here are some before an after pictures:

Now we just need some sod so the patio isn't so dirty. And we desperately need a fence. There is a pretty steep drop off the back and side of our yard. I will post more pictures and we get more finshed on this project!

Gardner Village

2010-10-15T13:48:00.000-07:00

At the beginning of October I took the kids to Gardner Village while we were waiting for Cody to fly home from a trip.

It was a really warm sunny day, perfect for walking around!

Jackson saw this little pond and I couldn't keep him out of it!

It was fun to see all of the witches, too. Londyn wanted to sit next to this one, but once she got next to it she wasn't so sure anymore!

And of course Jackson had to play in the dirt. He is such a boy.

Coloring

2010-10-07T13:02:00.000-07:00

In an attempt to keep up with his big sister, Jackson has decided to take on coloring. If he see's the crayons on the table he HAS to climb up there to color.

Farm Country

2010-10-07T12:56:00.000-07:00

While Cody was out of town on his 2nd of 3 trips in September, my mom was able to come out and stay with us! One afternoon while the weather was still nice and warm we went down to Farm Country at Thanksgiving Point.

They have these little wooden houses for the kids to play in. This is Jackson in "Miss Kitty's Dance Hall."

And here is the little stud again sitting on the bench while his big sister rode a pony.

This is Londyn's FAVORITE thing!

Another fun visit to the Farm!

In the kitchen with Jackson

2010-09-16T13:29:00.000-07:00

Yesterday Jackson discovered Ranch Dip.

Obviously he loved it! And it got him to eat 4 cucumber sticks , too!

Afterwards, he got a quick rinse off in the kitchen sink.

1st day of preschool

2010-09-08T12:15:00.000-07:00

Sept. 7th was Londyn's 1st day of preschool. She goes to the new elementary in our neighborhood, which is great because it is so close. She goes Tuesday-Friday from 9:15-12:00. And so far really likes it.

This is her saying, "can we just go?!?!"

Se looks so tiny walking up to the big school.

This is her with her new friend Belle.

Good luck this year Londyn. We love you!

St. George/ Labor Day weekend

2010-09-08T12:11:00.000-07:00

We left on Thursday around noon and headed to St. George! Wahoo! We hadn't been for almost a year. We stayed at the Wingate hotel and it was great. The kids liked standing in the window to look and the pool. Every morning we had breakfast at the hotel. Londyn's favorite were the waffles.

On Friday and Saturday mornings we went swimming. Londyn was a little fish as usual. Jackson liked to walk around the pool while eating an apple. The first step into the pool was great though; it was huge so it was almost like a little wadding area. Jackson liked that part. He didn't care much for his floatie.

On Saturday night my brother Caleb had a football game. This is Jackson at the tailgate party. You can tell by his rosie cheeks that it was really hot. So before the game started we went to Iceberg to cool off with a big shake. Mmmmm.

After church on Sunday (we found the coolest ward right by our hotel!) we went to Caleb and Nikki's apartment to celebrate Caleb's birthday with a Turkey dinner and cake! Then we just hung out. This is the kids on the love sac eating pirate booty with my dad.

Other highlights of the trip were shopping at the outlets, watching the U play at Iggy's, seeing Caleb recover a fumble, pizza from Hungry Howie's, Cody going mountain biking, being able to stay for 4 nights, and hiking at Zion's.

Cedar Breaks and Zion's

2010-09-08T11:57:00.000-07:00

On one of our days in St. George Cody and my dad drove to Cedar Breaks and Zion's. Cody had never been to either of them and loved it. We all (my parents, Cody and I and the kids, and my brother and his wife) went to Zion's on Labor day. We hiked to the top of the Emerald Pools. It was really pretty. The kids did great. Londyn hiked almost the hole thing and I carried Jackson in the baby bjourn for part of the way and then Caleb wore him the rest of the time. He slept for a bout an hr of the hike. Our camera was dead so I don't have any pics from the hike, but maybe I'll post some later when my dad sends me his.

Pickle

2010-09-08T11:45:00.000-07:00

Jackson's 1st pickle

The cupcakes

2010-09-08T11:40:00.000-07:00

I wanted to post pictures of the pink and blue cupcakes from the kids' Pink and Blue Birthday Bash to remember how good they were!

Laondyn's were vanilla with homemade strawberry buttercream.

Jackson's were chocolate w/white chocolate chips and homemade vanilla frosting.

A few party pics

2010-09-08T11:35:00.000-07:00

In the basement for the pinata. Jackson is ready for his turn!

Playing "pin the crown on the princess"

Singing "happy birthday" to Londyn

Jacks eating his cake. He would only eat it with a fork!

Birthday pics

2010-08-30T14:33:00.000-07:00

A few of their Birthday pictures (taken at Garner Village)

Londyn Turns Four!

2010-08-30T14:24:00.000-07:00

2 days after Jackson's birthday, Aug. 6th, we celebrated Londyn's 4th borthday!

She also got a special "4" shaped pancake.

She was very excited to open presents.

Lucky girl got to go to the Dr. on her birthday! At least she didn't get 3 shots like her baby bro. I told her she didn;t have to get shots until she was 5, right before kindergarten. Maybe I shouldn't have told her that. She decided she didn't want to go to kindergarten after I told her that!

We wanted to take her out to dinner for her birthday say the night before I said: (me) "Londyn, where is your favorite place to eat?"
Londyn paused to think for a few seconds. (Londyn)" The bar stool." Haha! So cute, I said, no, which restaurant? She picked the Spaghetti Factory. It was delicious as usual!
At 4 years old Londyn:
-is full of energy!
-Loves to dance
-favorite church song "Jesus Once Was a Little Child"
-loves to play in the dirt and the sand
-Only takes naps every once and a while = (
-Decided she likes "gramy's bed" (our guest room bed) better than hers
-loves to play outside
-is scared of thunder
-loves cats
-still loves princesses, but is getting more into Barbies
We love you Londyn girl! Happy Birthday!

Jackson Turns One

2010-08-30T14:01:00.000-07:00

On August 4th our baby boy turned 1! I can't believe it has already been a year since his crazy delivery.

To celebrate his special day he got a pancake shaped like a "1" ( a tradition started with Londyn's 1st birthday)

As you can see he enjoyed it!

This is him taking his new puppy for a walk.

His birthday turned out to be a pretty rainy day. Here is the birthday boy with his daddy with the scary black clouds behind them.
At age one Jackson:
-has 8 teeth
-sleeps all night
-takes one 2-3 hr nap every day
-walks like a champ (started walking mid-July)
-Says, dada, momma, hi, hi dada, all done (all da), and everything else is "uh"!
-walks up our slide upstairs
-loves kitty cats, tries to say meow
-loves to eat chicken, any kind
-mostly done with baby food
-likes whole milk, and chocolate milk ( I didn't have to buy one can of formula for him!)
-generally just a happy kid!

We love you baby Jacks!

Condo/Swimming

2010-08-03T21:17:00.000-07:00

We stayed at a condo for a night to make a mini vacation out of the weekend.

The kids loved the deck!

Londyn loved playing with her barbies and jenga blocks with her dad.

And to top it off we spent a couple hours soaking up the sun at the pool!

Deer Valley music Festival

2010-08-03T21:12:00.000-07:00

On the 23rd of July we headed up to Park City to go to the Deer Valley Music Festival. It was so nice to get out of the heat and have a picnic outside.

The kids did great. Londyn especially loved it because it was all Disney music.

Jackson enjoyed the food!

4th of July

2010-07-07T15:28:00.000-07:00

This 4th of July we just stuck around home. I had a family reunion in Idaho that we had been planning on going to, but Cody hadn't been feeling well and we have kitchen cabinets to finsh painting, and I had to work on the 5th. Sooo...here is what we did do:

On Saturday the 3rd we went to our neighborhood's 4th of July party. Free food, blow up toys, music....

Jackson thought it was fun to dump the chips all over the blanket.

Cody enjoyed sitting in the shade and talking with friends. I took Londyn to go on some of the bouncy things, then I told Cody he had to take Londyn to stand in line to get a glitter tatoo. Little did I know that it would take 1 hour and 45 minutes! We tried everything to talk her out of getting one, but she was dead set on it! She ended up getting a pink and purple dolphin. I need to take a picture of it before it rubs off. It's been on for 4 days already and is still holing strong!

Sunday she wore her red,white and blue dress to church. I got the red dress for $6 then I just sewed a blue and white ruffle around the collar.
Jackson turned 11 mo on the 4th and is still not walking (which is totally fine!). Londyn walked on July 2nd and we thought he would for sure beat her. But no. I don't think the 2 ear infections and diarrhea causing antibiotics and helped his walking effort much. Poor lil dude. But he did take 12 steps on the 5th!
Anyway, HAPPY 4TH OF JULY. Love this country!

Happy Father's Day

2010-06-21T12:38:00.000-07:00

After church on Father's Day I took a bunch of pictures of the kiddos. Here are just a few. Happy Father's Day to Cody!

Londyn's 1st Ballet Recital

2010-06-21T12:35:00.000-07:00

On Saturday June 19th, Londyn was in her 1st Ballet recital.

We tried to get a few pictures of the star before we left.

And here are a couple of her in action on stage! She was a baby doll in the Ballet "Coppelia". I had never seen that ballet before and it was pretty cute.

Good job Londyn!

Yellow cupcakes

2010-06-13T19:58:00.000-07:00

Last week we made yellow cupcakes and I got a few cute pictures of Londyn while she was eating them!

Love my blue-eyed girl! (yes, in that last picture she skewered some leaves onto a sewing needle...????!)

10 months

2010-06-13T19:53:00.000-07:00

On June 4th our little duders turned 10 months! It's almost birthday time! So that day we did a little photo shoot. Here are a few of the many faces of Jackson!

He is such a good little boy. But definitely ALL boy! He is a very speedy crawler. And is also quite good at the bear crawl. He climbs on everything, including up the stairs and up the slide we have upstairs. He walks along furniture and even stands up without holding on to anything and balances for a few seconds. But still no interest in walking. He crys every time I try to walk with him while he holds my fingers. He has 8 teeth and still loves most food. He's given up most baby food and usually just eats what we're having. He loves playing with toilet paper. There is usually a trail of it all over the house. He says, "mama", "dada", "hi da", and a lot of other jibber jabber! He now shakes his head no when we ask him questions. A week after he turned 10 mo. he got his 1st eye infection and his 1st ear infection. He's on on eye drops and a liquid antibiotic that is reaking havoc on his tummy. Poor little guy. The dr. wasn't kidding when he said it would give hime diarrhea. And we still have 5 days of medication left. YUCK! He had become a really good sleeper at night, but of course this little illness has messed that all up. Still love him to pieces! Wish he wouldn't grow up so fast though!

Louisiana

2010-06-01T15:22:00.000-07:00

The kids and I were able to go to Louisiana for 8 days for my brother's recpetion down there. It was so nice to spend time outside, finally! Jackson's 1st time in the swimming pool. He Loved it. He was splashing like crazy!

Of course Londyn loved it too!

One night we went to the park. Londyn is one of those rare people who actually has good hair in humidity! It was so fluffy and curly the whole time we were there.

We had to get crawfish while we were there YUMMY! Londyn even ate a few!

Louisiana cont.

2010-06-01T15:16:00.000-07:00

They had fun playing with their cousins too. This is Jackson with Austin, aka "Bubba".

There is a splash park right by my parent's house that we went to. They loved it. Even Jackson did. He crawled all over the place and didn't care if water got on his face.

The kids also loved my mom's piano.

And we went for a walk around the block almost every morning or evening, sometimes both!

Grandmama's House

2010-06-01T15:07:00.000-07:00

When were weren't doing wedding stuff in Idaho we were able to spend some time at my Grandma's house.

Jackson had a blast playing in her kitchen sink! Look at that cute little body!

He also liked playing outside with Max. Max on the other hand, wasn't too sure about him!

Caleb's wedding

2010-06-01T15:02:00.000-07:00

My little brother Caleb got married on May 14th in the Idaho Falls temple.

The next day we had the reception in Grace, ID where his wife is from. Caleb acting like his usual self.

Family photo; Everyone but Jen and Ryanne and Austin (sad!) Oh and Londyn and Jackson and Michelle, they were there somewhere!

Love this picture where they are both on their phones!

Mother's Day

2010-06-01T14:55:00.000-07:00

Had a nice relaxing Mother's day this year. I didn't get many pictures, but this is the kids on the way up to Park City for dinner.

Graduation

2010-06-01T14:52:00.000-07:00

Cody's brother graduated from the "U" on May 7th and afterwards we had lunch at Macaroni Grill.

We ordered calamari and Londyn ate all of the ones that lookes like little baby squids. So gross! But funny!

Dishwasher

2010-06-01T14:50:00.000-07:00

This little guy will climb on just about anything!

The dishwasher is one of his favorites!

Cody turns 27

2010-06-01T14:46:00.000-07:00

Cody's birthday was on May 5th. He woke up to a pancake breakfast with fresh berries and cream. Mmmm.

After Jackson's morning nap we headed over to his office to surprise him with ballons and chocolate white chocolate chip cookies.

The kids were super excited to see their daddy!

We met some friends at Costa Vida for dinner then went back home for more birthday treats and presents!

9 months

2010-05-04T10:32:00.000-07:00

Today Jackson is 9 months old!

We went to see Dr. Zarbock bright and early this morning for his check-up. We got the Jungle Book room this time.

He said he is right on track for everything! He weighed 20 lbs 15 oz, which put him in the 60th %ile for weight. I can't believe that 40% more babies weigh more than him! Those are some big babies! He is in the 92nd %ile for height (wonder where he gets it?!) and 70th %ile for his cute little noggin'. When people make comments about him it's usually about what a cute shaped head he has, how dark his eyes are, or just how happy he is.

No shots at the appointment, Yay! But he did have his hemoglobin checked. He yelled at the nurse pretty good for poking his heel and wasn't too sure about the band-aids.
At 9 months he is CRAWLING all over the place and will pull himself to STAND on just about anything. He loves FOOD and loves to drink water out of a sippy. He SLEEPS up to 9 HOURS at night, but usally wakes up after 6 or 7. Dr. Zarbock siad "no more eating during the night." Did you hear that Jackson?! He naps very well during the day. He is a very smiley kid and makes friends just about everywhere we go. He's not much of a talker, but can say "mama", "dada".

Here is Londyn at 9 months. What a toe-head! At her 9 month appt, she was not even crawling yet, but she was saying a lot more! A difference between girls and boys I guess. I'm very grateful to have one of each; cute, smart happy ones at that! Love you guys!!