Introducing my Newest Nephew...

Cole Trent...
I have found one other thing that is hard being so far away from our families... Having to wait to meet new babies, and not being able to hold them whenever I want!!
But, I'm so thankful I only had to wait 2 weeks to meet Cole, any longer and he wouldn't have been a newborn anymore!! haha! I seriously love this kid!! It's so amazing how even when they aren't yours, they're your nephew, how fast and easy it is to fall in love with them!! I love Trevor like he is mine, but in a different way (if that makes sense) and Cole is the same way!! I love those boys!! Especially when we're in a movie and get out and see that Christtina called me twice and left a voice mail each time... She never does that, so honestly I thought something bad had happened!! But I listen to my voice mail and hear... "Hi Kernan... Kachow...Bye" Oh how I love Trevor!! And that message will probably never get erased out of my inbox!! :D
So anyway, while I was in AZ last week, I got to take newborn pictures of Cole. I love how they turned out! Newborn pictures are some of the hardest but I love how they always turn out!! Helps too, when you subject is the newest little love of your life! ;)









I think it's safe to say also that his big brother is in **love** with him!! He was so interested in what we were doing!!






Phil's Mom made this blanket... It's so neat!


Sweet Boy!





We were in deep conversation here!! I love his little look on his face! We were seriously having a great discussion!


Trevor loves trains!! So we wanted a picture of Cole with one of his favorites! He decided to come play with it... I think this is one of my favorites!!


Then this one was a great idea!! Phil loves to play his Playstaion... So I told Chris to get me one of his remotes and we'd take some pictures of him with it... He looks so small!


I love how he's looking at his Mom in this one! He totally knows her voice!! Oh, and I made the blanket he's in!! ;)


Love this one too... We're going to take his picture with this ball each year to see how he grows!


And another favorite!! Ok, I have to many favorites!! hehe!


Thanks Chris for letting me take his pictures!! I'm working on your family ones!! Love you guys and miss you tons!! Trevor, tell Mommy you want to come to Utah!! ;)

Sorry for the lack of blog posts... We still don't have the internet at our new house... I'm currently sitting in the parking lot of the library right now!! I either come over here or go to my Grandparents house to check the internet! Hopefully just a few more days!! :)

We have a 2nd Grader in our House!!

Maci is offically done with first grade! I can't believe she's already in 2nd grade... Wasn't she just starting preschool?!
Last Friday (May 15th) she had her 1st grade concert, it was also her last day... We've officially moved into our new house and haven't had the internet! The kids are I are actually in Arizona right now! :) Hopefully the internet will be working by the time I get home.. We'll see!
Anyway, pictures from Maci's concert...

She was so excited to sing to us! This is her and her friend Andalin (with the glasses).


Mrs. Dunaway played the piano for the concert... She seriously is such a wonderful teacher! I'm so glad Maci had the opportunity to have her for a teacher!


Maci and Ethan... This picture cracks me up! Do they look related or what?!


Kernan was playing "yeehaw, cowboy" on my leg... Good workout! :)


Playing the xylophones...





Kernan kept waving to Maci throughout the entire performace! He'd say "Hi, Sissy!"


They sang "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" wearing their baseball caps...


And then changed to shower caps and sang "Take Me Out of the Bathtub"! It was adorable!!

The words to that song are so cute!! Here they are:
Take me out of the bathtub, take me out of the suds. I've been here soaking since have past 2, I feel sudsy and wrinkling too. And I washed all over my body, my head, my toes, inbetween. I used 1, 2, 3 bars of soap, take me out, I'm CLEAN!



Mrs. Dunaway and Maci... On Maci's last day!


Mrs. Dunaway and Maci on Maci's first day at South! Maci is growing up and I'm not liking it!!


Grandma and her youngest grandkids and great-grandkids!


Alright... I have lots to blog about!! We've been to the Taylor Swift concert... SO FUN! Lots of cute pictures and video from that... I've met my nephew Cole!! And took his newborn pictures!! So many cute ones! Yesterday we went to the temple with my brother! Today is my other nephew, Trevor's 2nd birthday so were going to have a party, I'm sure there will be pictures!! And tomorrow I'm taking Christtina and her boys pictures! As well as my brother's mission pictures! So again, hopefully my internet is up and going FAST!! :)
Have a Happy Sunday!

Monster Trucks, Mothers Day and Moving...

That is a whole lotta M's! :P

So we've been a bit busy at our house! This past weekend was fun! I'll just jump right into it!

Monster Trucks

We went to the Washington Fairgrounds on Saturday night with my cousin Lori and her family, to watch the Monster Truck rally, we had a good time! We did leave early though, Kernan hadn't had a nap and was so whiny... And two of the four Monster Trucks broke down in the second round! So we were a little bummed but it was fun for awhile...

Here are our two boys... They took their Dad's down to the pit to see the trucks up close...


I liked this shot! Good job Handsome! :)


So we took our little point and shoot inside to take pictures instead of my big expensive camera. Well Kernan wanted to take pictures with it! He was getting some interesting shots!


One of the trucks that broke...







I snagged this from my cousins blog... Isn't it SO cute!?
I wonder where he gets his love for taking pictures from?! hehe! ;)



Before the Monster Trucks did their show, they had a couple freestyle motorcyclists. They were ok, they would have been better if they had done the back flip that the announcer guy was telling us about. If he hadn't gotten us all hyped up for that, we would have thought they were awesome! But they didn't do any flips...


Maci took her turn at the camera too...















Mother's Day

I hope you all had a great Mother's Day! I know I did! It was nice and relaxing! My hubby got me tickets to Tuacahn here in St. George to see Annie this summer!! Maci and I are going... We're very excited!
My Mother's Day started early though, Maci had Mother's Day Party at her class where they sang us songs gave us a little note that they wrote us and then served us treats... It was adorable! Every Mom of every kid was there! I thought that was awesome! They were so cute, every Mom that walked in the door they kids would go... "Maci's Mom is here" or whoever's Mom walked in!
Here is the cute girl all ready to sing for me...


Her class... They did such a good job! The last few songs were songs they had learned were about Mom's. Mrs. Dunaway must have told them that if they sang them good their Mom's would cry because when they realized which songs were next they all went, "Oh ya, the tearjerkers!" haha!





They used kazoos in a couple of their songs... They were so good and together! I was very impressed! :)


Maci's paper she wrote about me was cute! It said:
"My Mom is an Angel on Earth because: My mom is the best cook in the world and the best mom in the world she lets me go and ride my bike down the hill after school. She lets me play with Andalin. She lets me choose what I want for dinner when it's my birthday"
They had to color the angel to look like their Mom too. It was cute how much the kids paid attention! Mine, my Aunt Rachel's and a few other Mom's had highlights in their hair! All the toes were painted, mine were light pink with a black french manicure, so me!! I love it!

Thanks for my Mother's Day Handsome!! I'm so blessed to be a Mom to my kids!!

Moving

Yep, that's right we're moving! We are headed south! We're moving down to Hurricane, it's warmer down there! :) We've found this cute house, it has a yard! We are all so excited about the grass, the dogs too! It's a 4 bedroom house, so we have a guest room... So come visit!! :)

Here's a map to show where we're moving... A is Cedar City and B is Hurricane...



Here is a picture of the outside of it... We've been slowly moving down there for a few weeks and will be down there forever this Saturday!! We are so excited, we've already gone to a ward dinner. Everyone is so nice! The people next door have a little girl that's Maci's age! When we were down there on Saturday we didn't see her the entire time! They had lots of fun playing together! Plus I'm like 3 minutes away from my Grandparents! If I can't be close to my Mom, then my Grandma is the next best thing!! :) Plus my cousin Lori and her family are about the same distance away!! Yay! I'm so excited!!


The house was built in the 1920's! It's been all updated, but we're finding some interesting things with an old house! It's fun though!

It has a huge garden area in the backyard... Brian and I are not sure what to do with it! Neither one of us know anything about gardening!! In fact, Saturday Brian was going to take the lawn mower to all the weeds in it... A few of the weeds are in perfect rows... So he thought, you know these are a little to perfect. So he pulled one, it was a carrot!! We have 3 rows of carrots! And then about 5 minutes later, Maci walked in with a head of cabbage!


Here's our carrots. We're gardener's and we didn't even now it!! haha! We're not sure how there are things growing back there, the house has been vacanct for awhile! So if anyone knows anything about gardening... Come teach us! We don't know what were going to do with all of the space! I guess we'll give it a try, if we fail... We'll fill it and put a swing set back there or something! haha!


Here's a picture of the backyard. We have a wooden swing on our front porch as well as this one in the back... And we think that's grapevines going up and over the swing!


So that's what we've been up to!! If I'm not around for awhile just know I'm busy getting settled! Plus we're headed to AZ in a week for the Taylor Swift concert!! And we get to meet Cole!! :D

And a really quick shout out to my Mom and Brother!! Happy Birthday you two!! We love you!!