Project Intervention

In April my grandma passed away.

It's always sad to lose a grandparent but

it was kind of a happy feeling knowing that she

got to be with my grandpa again.

She missed him, lots.

After she passed, they were diving out all of the things 

she had in her house. 

I lucked out and got her sewing machine

and sewing table.

It sat in our house for a few months and I asked

Justin when he was going to help me refinish it.

He then had a "project intervention" with me.

Some hoopla about me taking forever to finish projects or something.

I have NO idea where he was coming from.

Sheesh. 

It's not like there are ever any unfinished projects in our house.

Anyway, it motivated me to get the sewing table done.

I went to town on that bad boy and in about a week it was finished.

That's good considering it usually takes me a month or longer to do anything.

I didn't know what color to paint it, so I just picked a 

paint swatch that matched my finger nail polish.

It turned out great I think.

Now I just need to practice sewing on fabric and not through

my fingertip like I did last weekend.

It doesn't feel great. I wouldn't recomend it.

Summertime in a Nutshell

The summer flew by at our house!

Here are a few things we did this summer. 

It started off with branding.

Of course, it scared the crap out of Koy.

Koy married his best buddy on Memorial Day.

Those two crack me up.

Twue Wuve.

We hit up the dino museum at Thanksgiving Point.

We got to go with cousins and the kids loved it.

You can only look at so many fossils before

you feel like you're going to turn into one though.

It's a big museum.

The zoo called our names and we coaxed 

Roger and Sarah into tagging along.

They were so much fun to have there with us

and I think it was a lot more fun for the kids too.

The new bear exhibit is awesome and

we only lost Koy once!

The South Family Reunion was a big success.

It's alway so much fun and the food is 5-star. 

Mmmmmmm....

We sent balloons to baby Afton, baby Weston and Uncle Clay.

We love you!

We got to go to the dino park in Ogden with Kayden and Morgan.

What cute kids they are!

Heidi, Jake and Cozi came by for a visit after the reunion.

I could just eat up little Cozi. Freak she's cute!

Justin took Koy on their first father and son's outing.

It was a success. They are such cute buddies.

Our friend Lara went through chemo this spring and 

our boys love her. We would go visit during her treatments

and Koy would always rock on the ottoman in her room.

She surprised us with a handmade rocking horse a few months ago.

It was better than Christmas!

They boys love it and it's pretty fun for big people too.

We went fishing and Koy learned how to make

a peanut butter and Nutella sandwich.

He's just wont eat it.

Justin and I went to the driving range with our friends

one night. They are good... actually Stef

kicked our trash. The boys were alright

and me, uh... I need a lot of practice!

We've just played and played and played.

We spent most of our days outside in the water,

riding bikes and playing at parks.

 Roger and Sarah gave the kids a huge bag of fireworks. 

More than we've ever bought ourselves.

You can't go wrong with boys and explosives.

We added two new babies to the family this summer.

Baby Cooper and baby Deslie. She's so sweet!

Almost makes me baby hungry... almost... ok, not really.

They sure are fun to snuggle!

And that's most of our summer, finally!

Swiss Charmers...

Much against their father's will, 

these little boys got to dress up 

to show off some of their Swiss heritage

for Grandma. 

Both of my kids thought

dressing up was 

AWESOME.

Titan spun in circles trying

to find where the bells were 

on his outfit

and Koy kept asking if he 

looked handsome.

So, with their excitement bottled up

I thought it would be easy to catch a couple

of good pictures and call it good.

Wrongo. 

This is the biggest smile I could

get out of Koy for 20 minutes...

So I focused on Titan trying to

get the ants off of his feet...

Then I tried to get

a picture of them together.

Titan DIDN'T want to be touched

so they had a little fight...

(Pause here for me to

 refrain from screaming in

frustration... but only because

I knew the people inside the 

tabernacle could hear me.)

Then Koy decided to smile.

Cheese head...

(Pause again to control my laughter

so he will keep smiling.)

Then I tried to put the boys together

again for a picture

and I got this...

 (Titan is actually trying to get away, oh well!)

And after an hour of trying not to lose my cool,

we ended up with a few gems.

(I love these boys!)

When I Shower...

Creeped you out with that title, huh?!

When I'm getting ready in the morning

sometimes Koy get's hungry

and helps himself to a snack.

Usually it's crackers,

a block of cheese

or sometimes fruit snacks

but there have been a couple of times

I've caught him in the act.

For example one day he made

a "ques of dilla" all by himself.

Another time he helped himself to ice cream

and left the container out... melting on the counter.

Come on kid!

Aggie Blue Mint is like gold at our house!

Cooper

Meet the newest member of the my Bagle Boy's family.

He's cute.

Real cute.

And, he has fabulous hair

which you can't see until the hat is off.

The hat was just too adorable to resist.

This little guy was barely a week old 

and the hat looked like it could have fit

on an apple.

Christi let me do a little practice shoot on him.

By no means am I photographer,

but it is dang fun playing

around with my camera

and snapping cute pics of 

little monkeys.

And yes, some of the pics are not completely in focus

but I was shooting on manual mode.

And that made my hands sweat.

And my face sweat.

And my armpits.

It got real nasty but you couldn't tell

because we had just gotten back from camping.

Whew!

So here's the little munchkin.

(Hopefully you don't mind me posting Christi!)

One for Titan

Here's a post from Titan's birthday.

He turned one in March... cough, cough.

I'm a slacker though.

Sometimes I have these plans of doing a great post of things

and then it gets put on the back burner... and then forgotten about.

We do love Titan.

A lot. 

He's a mess.

This mom is just a slacker. 

So here's one for you T-man!

Here's the munchkin sometime before his birthday. 

He has almost a full mouth of teeth now.

Just missing those dang canines.

He begged and pleaded with me to make him a 

triple chocolate bundt cake for his birthday.

So, I gave in and made it for him.

Basically, it was the most exciting thing at his birthday.

He snarfed up his little piece and vowed to never cry again.

(That didn't last long.)

These were his favorite toys.

Koy bit one and broke it the second we got in the car to

go over to Emmary's birthday party.

Emmary was sweet enough to share her birthday with her cousin...

and some guy named St. Patrick.

Boy, I can hardly believe it's been over a year since Titan would

scream his head off ALL DAY.

It made my ears feel like they were going to bleed.

The doctor said his reflux would get better or get worse by his 2 week birthday.

It definitely got worse. Yikes!

He sure is cute when he isn't crying and when he puts random crap from the ground in his mouth.

He got to snuggle with Aunt Mindy a few months ago. 

I think he likes her.

Thank heaven for little boys.

Koy is a great big brother.

For a while Titan could have taken home the gold

in a corn dog eating competition.

Ready, set... Go!

We love having this little boy in our family!

It's gunna be a long one...

When you walk in the door at 6:30 in the a.m. and 

find your 3-year-old fully clothed and putting on his boots,

you know it's going to be a long day.

He had even gotten himself out a waffle and put it in the toaster.

He's not really grumpy... yet. He just thinks it's funny to not smile at the camera.

(He gets that from his dad.)

And of course, the sidekick is awake too...

This mamma already needs a nap...