My Edward

It's no secret that Cole was in desperate need of a haircut, I mean just look at the recent pics. Justin stumbled across something when having a little fun styling our little man...he had enough hair to do the "Edward Do". If you have seen Twilight, then you could not have missed the hair on Edward! Justin has sent Cole to find me on several occasions with the instructions to say "Hey Mom, I'm Edward!" Well, the Edward hair is no more...but the hilarious memory of it will live on eternally...

Photo Opp!

My Mom came to visit and was instructed by the rest of the fam not to come home with out pictures. So we had a little photo session after church, and they were too cute to just leave in the photo file!

He is so cute to her! I absolutely LOVE watching them together.

it's all GREEK to me

So, for Valentines day a few years ago I created Bora Bora in our living room for Justin. We had so much fun, that I decided to create another dream destination of ours in the living room this year! Thanks to Cole's Mama Mia OBSESSION we have seen plenty of Greece lately and have always wanted to visit, so that was my pick. Thanks go to Becca for providing me with good 'ole elementary school butcher paper for the mural. Then I headed to the dollar store...

These blue plates were perfect! and the napkin rings are dollar store flowers and ribbon.

For dinner we had Greek food...no I did not make it. and dessert was rice pudding and bachlava. (however you spell that!)

I filled old mason jars with tea lights all around the room for a little obionce... and thanks to Wendy we had an awesome CD full of authentic greek music to complete the scene.

Then I dressed the kids and I in the most authentic looking Greek clothing I could find in our closets...we made it work!

I even tried to make my hair festive. I have never attempted a french braid, but this picture kind of shows the braids I did around both sides of my head.

Then I hung a shirt in the entry way for Justin to find and put on when he got home, along with his sandals.

He walked straight into Greece when he got home! Good thing Justin just goes along with his wife's craziness!

It ended up being so fun! Justin is such a trooper he even posed for a blog worthy photo. I love being married to someone who appreciates nerdiness!

Paper...mmm mmm good!

Hmm... Cole reads it...but I think he's a little mixed up, it tastes way better than it looks!

Christmas in March? Just go with it...

This classic picture of Cole would have been enough...but oh no, it got so much better...

Lesson learned: empty boxes don't support HUGE two year olds.

He was just fine twenty seconds after this, but it was too funny to pass up, luckily Justin had the camera ready and caught all the action!

Ali LOVES this doll. The second she saw it she was obsessed and got incredibly excited. I think this picture goes perfectly with the saying "I love you so much, I could just eat you up!"...look at that face!

This is what we gave Justin for Christmas! Merrick White is AMAZING! She came and photographed the kids and then gave me options on poses. After I made my selection, she sketched this INCREDIBLE portrait. This will not be it's permanent home, but for now Justin placed it under the lights in the bookcase in all its glory. If anyone wants this done for them, let me know and I will get you in touch with her! I am sooooo glad I decided to have this done, when you see in up close it is just incredible.

I know Christmas was forever ago, but our computer died and we didn't have the internet for a while...hence the five million posts today!

Long Distance Relationships

Cole's long distance love, Lucy, came for a visit on her way to visit family for Christmas and then again on the way back! It was so fun to see these two together again, as you can see they picked up right where they left off.

there's no place like home

This weekend my sweet husband drove us all the way down to San Diego for my Uncle Mike's wedding! We decided to break up the trip by staying in Vegas overnight, for both our children's sanity as well as our own! Cole and Ali were such troopers the whole trip, it was so nice to have them entertain each other! We decided to priceline a hotel and see what we could get...and we ended up getting a great deal on Planet Hollywood. When we arrived there we were upgraded to an even larger suite. This ended up happening on the way home too, due to both the kindness of the staff and Justin's connection to a hostess via his brother Jeff (So in a round about way, thanks for the upgrade Jeff!). This was so exciting to us because we always hear about people being upgraded and it NEVER happens to us!

Here is Cole taking care of Ali for us!

Looking at these pictures I am sure you can guess what Cole's favorite part of the room was!

Cole LOVES bubbles and never get's to take a bubble bath since we only have a shower.

This bathroom was huge!

This was the seating area...

and this was Cole ordering room service (haha)

and this was our view!

This is Ali and Justin glued to the screen watching Jeff's game at Central. We got there just in time to catch the whole game! Jeff is pretty amazing...so we were all excited to watch him play!


Ali slept so peacefully right where we layed her...

and then there was Cole...can you find where he finally fell asleep? Don't worry, we made sure he had an air supply!


I have to admit their moments together make me smile...

How cute are they?


And now for the wedding...

Mike and Claire
That scruffy groomsman is my brother David...or should I say Brother Brigham?

It was a beautiful ceremony...with a few comical moments...like when Cole darted out to chase a seagull right when the bridesmaids were heading out. Gotta love a 2 year old at the beach!

It was so good to see my uncle so happy. Welcome to the family Claire, we are so happy to have you!

All in all it was a great trip and we were sorry to head back to Utah. It was so fun to be with family. Justin was such a sport to drive all that way for me. There really is no place like home.