Is this how it goes??

My goodness... ever since I've become a mom... LIFE has gotten busier and busier!!! Just the last few days I've been running around getting things done. (I've accomplished them all!! Amazingly!) Yesterday has been a crazy day for me... Ella had her dance at 11:30, dropped Dave's clipboard off at his shop, hurried back in time for the Playgroup thing at my ward with me being in charged (we made paper airplanes and the kids had a blast throwing it around to see it fly), after the playgroup I dropped Ella off to my moms house so Ella can go with her and grandpa to visit my grandma (Ella's great grandma), then I took Coleman to his one year well check... he now weighs 15 lbs 4 oz and is 27 1/4 inches long which puts him <5% for BOTH weight and height. He screamed BLOODY murder while getting his 3 shots and a poke on his toe for iron check. Everything went well... healthy little boy. After his appointment, we went to run some other errands to get things we need and head back up to my moms house by then it was almost 7 o'clock and had something to eat... I WAS STARVING!!! Finally, I loaded the kids up and head home to put them in bed and ran myself a nice hot bath with a new magazine to read... ahhh perfect!

COLEMAN'S ONE!!!!

Today is COLEMAN'S First birthday!!! I can't believe its been a year ago since I gave birth to him!! We had a little party for him, both of our families came over for dinner and had cake and ice cream. It was fun watching Coleman dive into his cake... boy it was a mess but well worth it!

Valentine Cookies

Theres Ella decorating her valentine cookies... Today we had a playgroup get together to decorate their own cookies. They all had a blast!
Kids and their moms decorating cookies... All these people are from our ward... we get together weekly to do activities with the kids. We love it!
Here's Ella's cookies after she was done... We brought them home for Dave/daddy to eat for Valentine treat.

Hello? Hello?

Coleman has figured out what a phone is for... if you say "Hello? Hello?" he'll pick up the phone and put it on his ear to listen... what a smartie. This picture was taken off from my phone... thats why its a bad coloring.

William Powell Barker

Today has been a sad day... My grandpa passed away this afternoon. He was 87 years old. It was hard to see him gone but at the same time I am glad that he is out of his misery and is able to be reunited with his family again. We love you and we will meet again Grandpa. His obituary is in this website: www.lindquistmortuary.com

Busy Boy!!

Coleman is now CRAWLING and CLIMBING!!! He finally figured out how to crawl using all fours... he has been army crawling for a long time and just out of the blue he figured it out! He also did figured out how to climb!! It all started when he was able to climb something low to his reach and now he figured out to reach up high to pull himself up. So now he is exploring all the new things that he hasnt seen up high... there are quite a few times that he has fallen and bonk his head and ended up having breath holding spells. It made me feel really bad when he goes through those. He wants to explore EVERYTHING!!!

Icicles

We have HUGE icicles!!! Its all hanging down all around my house. This one is in the north side of my house... everytime you break them, they all grow back out so fast till it touches the ground. The last 2 is in my backyard (south side) of my house it is so THICK and its already molded around the dog run and to the ground... You cant see anything through the window.. its all icicles. I think its time for SPRING to get here!!!

Coleman's Teeth

This picture is when Coleman was barely nine months old and got his first two bottom teeth (yes both came up right around the same time)
Now this picture is as of today... 10 days of turning one years old... he now has 6 teeth total... 3 on the top and 3 on the bottom. I swear he gets a new tooth everyday!! (Sorry... he just ate some bananas and hes all messy from it.) I think its funny that he has teeth now because Ella didnt get her very first tooth when she was 13 months old. So beware... he likes to bite.

Hula Dance

This is Ella practicing her Hula dance... She has been taking dance class every Wednesday for half hour and she is LOVING it! Her first recital is coming in May. The first photo, she is doing the dance called "Little Brown Gal" and the last two photos, is doing the hula bum shake. Like I said... its FUN to watch her!!

Heart shaped Cake... Mmmm!

Ella and I made Heart shaped cake for dad/Dave... it turned out great!! Its white cake with red spots and covered it with pink frosting with red crystal sprinkles.

I gave some pieces of cake that I cut out to Coleman so that he could have a taste test. He LOVES it and he threatened us "Don't take it away!"

There is our cake and is sitting beautifully in the glass cake holder waiting for us to eat it for tonights FHE dessert. YUM!

Two old men

Drew's and Adair's 50th birthday party

Today we threw a party for Drew's and Adair's 50th birthday.... Drew is David's dad and Adair is one of Drew's and Ginny's long time friend. Their birthdays was in December... there was several unexpected events and we all decided to throw it on Groundhogs day which was today... Back in the day when they both were roommates in college at BYU they made up a tradition to celebrate groundhogs day with all kinds of activities (I don't know the details) so we went ahead and celebrated their 50th birthday at my house with families and close friends. We all had a good time and the kids had so much fun playing with other kids... as soon they left, both Ella and Coleman conked out. In this picture, they have a card briefcase with sayings along with candies joking about them getting old and them getting ready to blow out their candles... sorry we couldn't do 50 candles each side they might suffer smoke inhalation and die. Better not to risk that. ;o)