Happy Birthday Mickelle!

Here is our mostly futile attempt at getting JC and Crew to wish Aunt Mickelle a Happy Birthday, but at least we managed to capture their everyday behavior on video. JC picks his nose most of the time in situations such as these and Crew....well Crew likes to repeat what he hears while continuing to play as hard as he can.

Happy Birthday Mickelle!

(This post was created by Brady and Cody)

Crew is the Luckiest boy

The reason for the title has 2 things. 1. He was born on St. Patricks Day 2. He got to have 2 birthday parties this year!!!! Lucky!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This past weekend we were up North for Steph's wedding and had a great time. While we were there we had a party for Crew with Annie's family. It went great. Since Crew is OBSESSED with Lighting McQueen Annie made him a Lighting McQueen birthday cake. The party was great and Crew loved the cake and all of his presents. We also had a party for him in St. George at the park in our neighborhood. Family and friends came and it was a blast. He loved all the presents and is having fun with all of them. We all had fun and I can't believe the Crewster is already 2 years old!!!!!!!!!!

just pictures

Just a Few Pictures from the last week... it was beautiful here in st. George and Crew and I went to the park with my sis and her kids while they were in town. i didn;t manage to get any pictures of her kidos though.









Also i wanted to give a shout out to my littlest Brother Ben and his city basketball team! They took second place. It was agreat game and i am glad i was able to see him play!

In with the cool kids!

It's official, We are now proud owners of our very own Wii! Thanks to our tax return and the nice stimulus package we got for buying a home this year. Cody really wants a nice big flat screen TV to go with it but I think we will wait until we can find an amazing deal, seeing that we have two perfectly, good working TV sets already.It is a bit of a sung fit in our tiny front room, and a flat screen on the wall would keep us from the possibility of throwing a fist through the TV. I guess we will just have to be a little less aggressive. We are loving it already. I am sure we will be up playing it way past bedtime. Well I am off to kick Cody's Trash in bowling night!

Oh and p.s. if anyone has a spare flat screen TV in great working condition, that we take take off your hands, we would be glad to do so!haha

Baby Tag

I thought i had already done this one but i couldn't find it so here it is...

Baby Tag
1.Where were you when you first found out that you were pregnant? our house in Fort Morgan, CO, just a day before Cody's parents came to visit, it almost slipped a couple of times.
2.Who was with you? Cody
3.How did you find out that you were pregnant? Pregnancy test
4.What was your first reaction to finding out you were pregnant? Very excited
5.Who was the first person you told? Our parents
6.Did you plan to get pregnant? i had only been off of birth control for a month we thought it would take a little longer than it did.
7.Did you tell everyone else right away? We didn't tell anyone until 10 weeks even our parents
8.Was everybody happy for you? Yes
9.Did you go out and celebrate? i don't think so
10.Did you want to find out the sex? Yes
11.What was the sex? Boy
12.Did anyone throw you a baby shower? Yes i had 3
13.Did you get any outfits at the baby shower that you just knew you wouldn't put
on your baby? Oh yeah!
14.How much weight did you gain? 25 lbs
15.Did you lose all of the weight that you gained? Yes
16.Did you get any stretch marks? only one little one on my tummy and a few in other places i won't disgust you with.
17.What did you crave the most? BAKED POTATOES!!!!!
18.Did you crave anything crazy? No
19.Who or what got on your nerves? Nothing that I remember
20.Did you have any complications during your pregnancy? yes, a blood clot and bed rest at 12 weeks but only for the weekend.
21.Where and when did you go into labor? home 10 at night
22.Did your water break? no
23.Who drove you to the hospital? Cody
24.Who was in the room when you gave birth? Cody and the entire surgery team
25.Did you go early or late? 10 days early
26.How long were you in labor for? 5-6 hrs
27.Did you have any drugs for the pain? not until the c-section i went to quickly to get any i went from a 2 to a 7 in like 2 hours.
28.Did you go natural or have a C-section? c-section
29.What was your first reaction after giving birth? happy and a little loopy
30.How big was the baby? 6 lbs 9 oz 18 inches long(i am pretty sure he was longer cause 2 days later he had grown 1 3/4 inches)
31.Did your husband cry? Not cry but teared up one of the only times i have ever seen him that way.
32.What did you name the baby? Crew Christian
33.Does her name have any significant meaning? Same middle name as his daddy
34.Did you have any visitors? Yes my mom, dad and sister came out, and our neighbors Sandy and Aaron
35.Did the baby have any complications? the cord was wrapped around his neck so tightly they had to do and emergency c-section
36.How old is your baby today? he will be 2 in about 5 weeks
37.When is the next one coming? whenever God decides to bless us with another one...we are working on it.
38.If you could, would you do it all over again? ABSOLUTELY!
39.Tag five:anyone who would like to do it!

Oh how we love thee Dixie Direct!

So this year we decided to get the Dixie Direct card, a coupon card good at numerous shopping, dinning, entertainment and sporting establishments. We got a good deal from a friend of a friend and paid only 25 dollars, regularly they are 35 dollars. Lets just say we have already gotten our moneys(monies,how would you say that?)worth. Tonight we went out to dinner to a pizza place called 2 Fat Guys pizza. We got a large one topping pizza, 2 bread sticks, and one large drink all for the grand total of ...DRUM ROLL PLEASE...$3.70! Just call me betty save a buck. The coupon was good for one large pizza! Life doesn't get any better than that! Oh the places we will be eating for half the price, we love you Dixie Direct. If you don't have one and live here in southern Utah I highly recommend picking one of these little gems up!

Jesus wants me for a Sunbeam...Teacher that is.

So Cody and I were called as Sunbeam teachers back in December, but they didn't need us until January. But because we were up north with my family for the first Sunday of the year and the next week we had stake conference, today was our first week teaching. We had a few criers, one that wouldn't sit in his seat and hit the other kids, one that actually fell through the back of his chair and luckily a couple that actually sat there with their arms folded through the lesson and answered questions. I was amazed by those two.

Then we looked and the clock after I was finished with the lesson and still had 30 minutes to kill...AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH! With only a small piece of paper that they were to write CTR on I was a little worried about how we would fill all that time but with Crayons and a few blank pieces of paper we survived.

Next Week it is Cody's turn to teach hahaha good luck babe! Just kidding He will be great. I think that once the kids get use to us and we figure out some things to hold their attention we will really enjoy our class, and to be honest by the sounds of it we had the calm and quiet class. It sounded like they were playing a game of tackle football in the other sunbeam class.

We also had church at 9:00 and it was wonderful! Crew was as happy as a clam, having had breakfast and wouldn't be in need of a nap until we got home. We got home and all had lunch and a wonderful nap I love 9:00 church!