Funny Stuff

While Cody was in Las Vegas he went on the New York, New York roller coaster. He brought back this picture. When I tried to teach Corbett how to do this with his hands he said, "no, it's like this!" and made the face in this picture.

my new hobby

I love taking pictures. Three of my siblings asked me to photograph their families, okay, twist my arm! Here's some of the results. Eric's family... Rhonda's family...and Sandra's family...

Christmas Party

We wasted no time getting to a Christmas party after Thanksgiving. Cody's grandma is on a mission in Salt Lake doing Family History work. She lives in an apartment that overlooks Temple Square & she reserved a room in her building for a family Christmas party. We had good food and entertainment, walked down to see the lights on Temple Square for the first day they were on, and got to see the Scottish version of Santa complete with bagpipes! Cody's family has a lot of Scottish ancestry. Above...Cody's cute grandma with Santa. Below...I saw grandma (Cody's mom) kissing Santa Claus...(don't worry, it's legit!)

Our family with Santa!

Thanksgiving

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving. We ate at the "greenhouse". My grandpa, Joe, owns a green house. We worked there while growing up. I was paid 50 cents to transplant a flat to start. My mom had to check each one. I think I was 8 years old when I started. We literally eat Thanksgiving dinner in the greenhouse. There's really not room in the house, my grandma has 12 children (double that with spouses), 50 grandchildren (almost double with spouses), and probably up around 100 great grandchildren. Recently my grandpa has experienced some health issues and has had some close calls. We're grateful to have the chance to spend Thanksgiving with him there in the greenhouse. After the dinner and lots of visiting and catching up with family we went to my parents house where we shot off air rockets. The kids had a ton of fun. Of course we spent plenty of time pouring over the ads, deciding if we wanted to wake up at the wee hours of the morning to shop, and we had plenty of pie and leftovers to stuff ourselves. I'm grateful for my family, they are always there for me and my little family. My grandma & grandpa and all 12 kids at Thanksgiving this year!
This photo gives me nastalgia! Although we didn't have "advanced" equipment like this while I was growing up, we spend countless hours playing in the greenhouse, mostly on Sunday evenings!Corbett launching his rocket, his was a good one!If you want to launch your rocket you better get in line!The nice thing about air rockets is the kids can make their own and after the launcher is built it costs nothing for each launch. We used to launch engine rockets, cost is about $1 a launch. Air rockets go plenty far and the kids can launch their own fairly safely and be able to find them afterward!My dad is a sucker for Sarah, and the other kids. He lets them get away with anything! Where was this side of him when I was growing up!?!

Preschool

Corbett has been in preschool for about 3 months now. I've been impressed with the amount he has learned. He can now say all the letters along with their sounds, and recognize each one. He loves preschool, and I do too (well not so much on Wednesdays, that's the day I get to do preschool and everyone else gets an hour and a half of freedom!) But I really do enjoy watching the boys grow! It's nice to have a schedule and nice for Corbett to learn structure. Corbett goes to preschool with 2 of his cousins who are within a couple months of his age (they will all be 4 yrs early next year). Each mom takes a day to teach. We bought a workbook at Sam's Club for each of the boys for preschool age and the boys do work pages out of that, learn a letter each week, & whatever else you want to teach them. We have them do the pledge and weather every day. Today was Sandra's day to teach and was the first time Corbett wrote his name remotely legible so being the proud parent of a first child I have to post it!

Grateful For...

This is the day I am most grateful for so far in my life! A lot of people are posting what they're grateful for on facebook but I thought I would just do a blog about it. You might say I should pick my wedding day as my favorite day...being Cody's wife is great but THIS is what I waited way too long for, to be a MOM! A lady taught our relief society yesterday who never got married. She stated that she would have given her life to be a mom. I feel the same way. I'm so GRATEFUL that I've been given that chance! We're so grateful that we also have 2 little babies on the way as well! To us it's a MIRACLE! I know that will become one of my TWO favorite days, when I get to hold them also. Our lives are so blessed because we have Corbett! We love him so much! I have too many friends who also face infertility, some resolved and some not. We hope they will all get the families they want! They are such amazing, inspiring women!! I love this video, but I warn you, I cry EVERY time!

Life Without Cody

I've been informed that my blog is getting boring because I haven't updated lately. So, here's a post, boring or not, better than nothing? Cody's parents came to see us last Friday. They took Corbett to see Wild Thing at the theater and I got a break! It was a fun visit!...we had dinner at Olive Garden and just enjoyed their company. Rhonda brought Ryan (& Sarah) over to visit for a day this week, we had a CRAZY time with kids running everywhere! Cody has gone for a 10-day work trip to Las Vegas. He's at a show called IAAPA. It's the "big" show for his industry. We contemplated driving down to see him but haven't done that...yet. We miss him A LOT! We've had family and friends take care of us though so it hasn't been too bad. The Grovers (our neighbors) made us a turkey dinner on Wednesday! YUMMY! Sandra fed us a nice Sunday dinner and afterward we all headed over to Rhonda's for a while. For the first few days Cody was gone I was too busy to notice, I'm the Enrichment leader and we had our Super Saturday, only it was on Friday so we called it Fabulous Friday. It was a success as far as I know and I'm SO happy it's over! Saturday Corbett & I got movies and goodies! So 5 more days without Cody, we'll have to see what kind of fun we can drum up!

Sweet Relief!

Today I went in for a doctor appointment. I'm 11 weeks along. I had no real reason to worry, only the past miscarriages with our previous twins. I was SO relieved and HAPPY when we had an ultrasound and it showed both babies moving, kicking, and punching, with heartbeats of 162 and 174!

Halloween 2009

I'm joining the masses and making our Halloween post. This was the first year Corbett grasped the concept at all. He had a lot of fun at our trunk or treat and collected plenty of candy to make him sick for quite a while! Cody made Corbett a Jack Sparrow tattoo!

The night before Halloween we had a fun Halloween party with my whole family. The guys didn't stay for the games, they went to the USU game instead. Even my parents made the trek. (in the winter my parents have season tickets to the USU games so we get to see them a lot more often!) We had a soup dinner and plenty of games for the kids. Here's Corbett and his cousins eating donuts on a string!
I made these cupcakes for the party, (got the idea from my friend Allie's blog). Corbett helped me make them. I showed him a picture of what they were going to look like and after that he kept referring to our party as the "yucky party"!