Orange ya excited?

I'm still not quite sure what to think about the orange color that we just painted the kitchen. We had our cabinet N'Hanced in June and then they blended into the wall and counter tops. I love the antiqued look but the walls needed to be painted something to make the cabinets stand out. Now we feel like we're living inside of a pumpkin or my dad's 70's trailer. It's a toss up. It's better today than yesterday and some more decorations would really help I think. (Thanks again for the cute shelf Melissa!) It is really warm but it might get another face lift on Saturday. :) (I promised I would give it at least a week...)

The big 1-0!

Yesterday was Koy's 10 month birthday. It's so weird but he's seemed to turn into just a little boy instead of a baby in the last month. He's getting so big and is just busy as can be. He's gone from baby food to more big people food and some of his favorites are:

• Mashed potatoes
• Mac and Cheese
• Basically any kind of noodle but sometimes they feel wierd in his mouth and gets grossed out.
• Cheese
• Turkey
• Chicken
• Cafe Rio
• Brazillian rice and beans
• Bugs... really. I try to keep an eye on him but sometimes by the time I've noticed there is something in his mouth there is like only a leg and a piece of the body left. Gag.
• Anything that starts with a "c" and ends with a "racker." He's also finally learned that he can't put the WHOLE cracker in his mouth at once or he'll choke. Yay!

Also, he's still army crawling and trying to pull himself up to the coffee table. He'll stand there if you help him up and he just thinks it's the greatest. He loves animals and he doesn't get scared watching his dad shoe horses even though it's loud at times. He sure loves his dad though! Whenever Justin gets home he just squeels and reaches for him. It's so cute! He's learned how to open the bottom drawer in the kitchen and loves to pull all of the towels out and suck on the knob on the front of the drawer. His hook-on chair FINALLY came yesterday after being on back order since May. So far he loves it and he loves dropping food on the floor even more. I vowed that I would never let my kid play in a diaper all day. Honestly, it's just a whole lot easier to clean him up after he's dirty than to keep changing his clothes.

Koy LOVES peek-a-boo so much! Also, if you pretend like you are going to chase him, he just turns around and comes toward you squeeling unless you're upstairs. He knows where the stairs are and tries to make a getaway any chance he gets. He's pretty fast too! I just don't get it. How does he know that the stairs are bad? He's never even fallen down them. Oh well! We still love him anyway!

Peek-a-boo with his shirt... goof ball

I think he just looks all grown up in this picture. :(

He loves to look out the window now.

Family Time

Last week, Justin's cousin Sheena got married in Salt Lake so most of his family came up to visit. We had so much fun with everyone and were so happy to see them! We went to the lake on Thursday and it turned out to be a pretty nice day. We rented some wave runners and they were out on the water almost every second. Koy had a great time w/Grandma and Grandpa in the water which he completely loved this time and only a few of us got slightly burned except for Justin. Poor guy. His little buzzed head got fried! Then we went and stayed the night in Layton and went to Sheena's wedding on Friday and then headed up to Evanston to stay with Grandma and Grandpa South. It was a really fun weekend and we were so glad to get to spend so much time with everyone! We wish Jason, Jen and the kids could have been here too. We missed you guys! Here are a few pics and I don't know why they are loading so fuzzy. Wierd...

Getting loves from Grandpa

Playing with Grandma and Grandpa
Chillin' w/Aunt Hil while Andy put on quite a show playing the guitar and singing. Andy is a hoot and we were excited to be able to finally hear the lyrics to his EFY song. It's so funny!


Grandma and Koy

This is a pic of Koy and Avery. Koy was born in October, Bridg was born in November and Avery was born in December. It will be so fun for those three to be so close in age, but right now Koy and Avery don't seem too interested in eachother.

I just had to throw this one in here...
Koy has started to crawl... not. He's actually just army crawling but he's getting SO fast!!! He also can go from laying on the ground to sitting up on his own and for some reason it just looks so funny to see him just sitting in random places. He just seems so old!

Yesterday I was working on my class and I looked down and could see the back of Koys little legs so I went around the front of the coffee table and he was just having a ball going back and forth under it.

Hay Baby

We went to Randolph last week for a few days so Justin could help hay. It was fun to be over there and Justin enjoys haying so it's a win-win situation. On Saturday I took everyone lunch and Koy and I jumped in the swather with Justin for a bit. I was just interested to see how Koy would be and if he would get scared but he did suprisingly well. He only got nervous for a few minutes when we first started off but then he got used to it and he had a good time. He liked to watch the wheels and push buttons he shouldn't. What a kid.

Not sure what to think...

After he decided it was fun...

Also, I helped Christi color her hair. Poor girl actually trusted me to help her! I wasn't nervous at first because Christi wasn't nervous and she was really good about explaining what to do. All I can say is that coloring hair is harder than it looks! You need like 10 hands! She had me weave blonde and a little bit of red into it. The blonde wasn't so bad but I about passed out after I put the 2nd section of red in. I folded the foil and I was kind of goofing off and trying to be funny when I squished the foil too hard and a big red splotch pooped all over her pretty blonde hair. AH! I felt so bad and about hit the floor crying right there. That was scary but we dabbed it up and all was well. It's a good thing you're so mellow Christi! And no, I will not be going to beauty school now but from what I know now, I understand why people drop out. It would be too stressful!

Peed my pants... but just a little.

J/k. But this is how our Friday went. Justin got home from shoeing horses about 11:30 and I asked him what his plans were for the day. He said, "I'm planning on going to Salt Lake and you can come if you want and we'll go SHOPPING and get something to eat." He then said that he called my sis-in-law Denise to babysit and the first thing I thought is that he was serious about this shopping thing which totally shocked me. Then he says, "I'm wearing my boots and hat and I think you should wear your boots." Ha, ha. It was supposed to be 100 degrees yesterday. Who wants to wear boots in that kind of weather and shop in them. He said it would just look really nice if we matched and he gave me a little guilt trip about never wearing the boots he gave me, so on came the fat babies. I asked if we were going to a rodeo or if it was George Strait's concert tonight and he said no and that the GS tickets were way too much and it was towards the end of the month anyway. So off we went to Salt Lake.

We dropped Hil's car off at the airport and then dropped Koy off with Denise and got back in the car and I was like, "Really, just tell me what we are doing." He gave in and said we were going to the concert! Little terd. It was on the 17th, just like I thought. J/k. I really had no idea. In the back of my mind I was kind of like, "Oh great, now we have to go and sit on the grass and wait forever and my butt is going to be killing me and it's going to be really loud and there are going to be lots of drunk people and we won't be able to even see him and we'll get home LATE. Fun." It would be cool to hear him live but I'm lame and I've never been into concerts. I always just thought it was way too much money to pay to watch someone on a jumbo-tron and Justin agrees. He said the only concerts he ever heard about with his friends were all metro-sexual bands that would have put him to sleep before they even took the stage. Grown men in girl's pants, nuff said. But it IS George Strait, the King of Country, more #1's than anybody in the history of the world, and he's getting old so we needed to take advantage of the oportunity. Anyway, back to the story...

Then Justin was like, "Guess where our seats are? Row D!" For those who don't know your ABC's, D is the 4th letter in the alphabet, therefore it is the 4th row in our section. But even better than being the 4th row in our section, our section was smack dab in the middle and the section closest to the stage! How exciting! I've never been this excited about seeing someone famous in my life that I almost passed out. We were infront of the VIP people too. We were so close that you could see the wrinkles on his face, and you could see him blink and breathe and if he sneezed, it would have hit us. Literaly. It was SWEET! And our chairs were padded, so as far as our butts hurting, that no longer was an issue.

The opening act was some chick that was pretty good but she sang wierd and it was kind of bugging me. Then Blake Shelton sang and he was having a rough day. Seriously, he looked like crap and it wouldn't suprise me if he was already drunk before he came on stage and then had 3 more beers while he sang. But George was excellent. He sounds SO good live and get he seriously even waved at us! I am not even joking! Eye contact and everything. (This was when it was still light outside so he could see us.) He just sang and sang and sang. He would stop for a couple of seconds between each song but he packed as many songs in as he could. It was really good. We even were shown on the jumbo-tron. Justin said he can now die a happy man. Only down side was there were a lot of people around us just getting really wasted and they were out of control. Also, the guy next to me looked like this: Hair EVERYWHERE, tank top, shorts, sombrero cowboy hat, sweaty and PLASTERED. He like kept saying things to me and I had no idea because I was getting drunk from the smell of him. He shook Justin's hand and wanted to be friends, went in and out about 10 times, each coming back with a full cup of beer and then he kept rubbing his arm up against me and so I almost ended up sitting on Justin by the end. Plus his dang hat was huge and kept hitting me in the head. Besides that, it was a good concert and we had a really fun time just to have some time together. The only way we'll ever be able to go to another concert will be if we're up close and if the group is worth seeing. So that narrows it down to another George Concert, rows A, B, or C. Special thanks to Troy and Denise for babysitting and a big thank you to the ticket people. It was a night we'll always remember.

9 Months and 2 teeth ago...

Koy was just a little guy. He was 9 months yesterday and still only has two teeth. He's our little comedian already... and he can't talk. He's just so funny. His first haircut is going to be any day now because the old man hair is driving me nuts. Koy, here are a few of our favorite things about you:

Huge kisses. You're so sweet.

Snuggles.

The way you laugh at EVERYTHING. You have a real laugh for funny things, a laugh when your nervous and a laugh for when you want something. You're a goof.

You think you need two hands to stuff food into your mouth sometimes and it's a killer to watch you smash them against your face.

You love anything that is edible... and everything that's not.

You are SO close to crawling, but right now you prefer to just nose dive into the carpet.

You love music, especially "Music and the Spoken Word."

The way you dance.

Bathtime is your FAVORITE. Especially because there is usually more water on the person that bathes you than left in the bathtub.

We love you!

Happy pretty much all of the time.

Giving a big ol' smooch to his monkey

Old man hair... arg.

Looking at the ducks by our house.

Lately

We've been up to a lot lately. My sis Laurie and her fam were here for two weeks so it's been busy, busy! First off we went to the Oquirrh Mountain Temple, Ikea, then camping, hung out at grandma's, went to Bear Lake (Koy HATED the cold water), went to the p-rade in Woodruff and back to Logan for the car show. We got to see almost all of my fam except for Ty, Camille, Kayden and the bambino-to-be (in two days!). We get to see them in August though. Yay! So back to Ikea really quickley. To be honest, I was dissapointed w/it. It's just so... so... Sweedish... and that wasn't what we were expecting. We kind of thought it would be like the coolest furniture store ever but it wasn't. They did have some cool accessories and storage ideas and stuff but their couches were just barf worthy and that was the main reason we went. Oh well. Back to the post now... Sorry there are a lot of pictures but it was hard to choose.

Koy playing cards w/Aunt Millie

Paigie Sue (I just want to kiss those cheeks!)

This is just sweet. Koy's first ride on the horse w/Dad.

He loved it!

My 13 yr old neice does point-ballet. Her shoes are hand made in Russia and she has to have new ones every 4 months. I thought that was pretty cool.

Wes and Koy on the 4th.

Eating a snow cone (and a few wood chips) at the cruise in.

Hiya

Crazy low-to-the-ground truck. Animal hanging out the back window was the coolest part.

The end!