Lotto Love

Justin had to go to Idy-Ho for shoeing appointment.

He called me on his way home and I specifically remember saying, 

"Whatever you do, don't stop at La Tienda."

(Sprinkled lightly with sarcasm.)

He doesn't like to be told what to do so

thirty minutes later, he showed up with Zeppes Gelata and these friends:

It took us about 20 seconds to play the most intense sinner's game I've ever played.

We just felt so cheap but we totally knew we were gonna win.

So, on the very last card, we won!

We won!

We Won!!

WE WON!!!

We won ONE G-Dubya!

We cheered and maybe even gave each other a high-five.

It's all a blur now.

It was pretty rad.

Guess we better pay our tithing on that bad boy.

Hmmm...

What to do-

what to do-

what to do with the remaining .90?

Four Skadoodle Noodle

Koy Boy turned 4 last weekend.

He was pretty excited.

Birthdays pretty much rock. 

I love watching this little boy's excitement.

We made him a birthday countdown chain

a few weeks before and we told him he could 

take a link off every night before bed.

Well, he knew that the sooner the links were gone,

the sooner it would be his birthday...

What a boy.

Not many kids are as lucky as Koy though.

He got 2 bikes for his birthday!

Wahoo!

The first one we bought back in June... I was a little excited, ok?

We knew it was a bigger bike but we didn't realize how big it

was until Koy got on it the first time. Oops!

So back to KSL for some last minute shopping and

we found him another one. 

He loves it. Whew!

He loves his Aggies! He was so excited to go to a football game.

Anything to do with cows, horses, tractors, pickups and trailers just tickles him pink.

He'll tie anything to the back of his bike.

He's got such a funny personality.

He calls me babe now. 

People probably wonder what the heck is going on when my 

little boy calls me that BUT

the reason is that I gave him a bowl of Lucky Charms

one day and told him that he had to eat all the brown 

pieces or he couldn't ever have them again.

His response was, "I'll eat whatever I want woman!"

Yeeeeaaaahhhhh......

He got that one from his dad.

We had a talk about names to call me and babe stuck.

When he plays, he usually refers to Titan as "son" and 

if he gets in trouble, his "boys" made him do it.

Every time.

He's likes to take things apart and usually I can't get them back

together, so we now have a rule that if he breaks it and 

can't fix it, it goes in the garbage. 

He had a Jake and the Neverland Pirate party.

(Thank the heavens they didn't have Thomas plates at the store!)

I was told the cake was disappointing but

he didn't care and it didn't end up looking

like a train wreck... literally. Last year was BAAAAD.

This picture just makes me laugh.

We were just getting ready to go to church

and Titan was standing against the wall

and Koy looked at him and he fell down and

had a tantrum. Ba ha!

We love you Koy Boy!

We won't be giving you Mt. Dew on our next

road trip. You get a little silly!

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!)