9 months (plus a couple weeks)

I promise I'll get better at posting these when David takes the photos on the
actual month mark eventually...

Coleman is over nine months now - he's been out longer than he was inside, that's a big deal! I cannot, seriously, cannot believe my baby is SO BIG and growing up SO FAST!!! He is VERY close to walking, pulls himself up onto everything, climbs up and down our few stairs, and even took a step on his own a time or two. He also says "mama" when he's whiny, tired, hungry or wants to snuggle with me and says "dada" when he's happy and wants to play. Maybe he'll see me as a friend to play with someday. :)











This has been my absolute favorite age - he plays with you and laughs so hard. He also has become a GREAT eater and for the first time since he was two months old he no problems eating. He sleeps well, is happy most of the day, plays, gets in to everything and even "unrecycles" as David calls it. Needless to say I am LOVING LIFE!!

All moved in

Sorry to disappoint, but no photos this time around.

We're still unpacking and rearranging and decorating and purchasing home stuff, so I'll do a photo update once we're a little further down the road. However I had to post about the move because I felt so grateful for so many friends and family who came out on a snowy Saturday to help us move. We had so much help, including a completely enclosed trailer that fit most of our stuff, that it only took us 2 hours to move just about everything! David and I packed, labeled and stacked all of our stuff in the living room to make it easier and then we had so many friends and family show up to help move it. Erynn had a babysitting service in Coleman's old room for Coleman and all my friend's kids, and we had cardboard boxes all over to carpet to protect it from all the mud and I'd say the move was a huge success.

I'm also EXTREMELY grateful for a husband who is oh soooooo handy and talented. He has fixed, taken apart, cleaned, installed so many things in the last two weeks from taking the oven and fridge doors off to get them through the front door to hanging blinds, installing dishwashers (yes plural, we had a lemon for the first one so he's done it twice now), and hooking up our washer and dryer. I've definitely learned a lot about different tools and small things you can buy at Home Depot like "pigtails". Haha. In addition to all of our craziness, he helped someone else move on Saturday and when he was mowing the lawn at the house we used to rent, I went outside to talk to him and he was mowing our neighbors lawn too even though we had been cleaning for 4 hours because she is recently divorced and he didn't want her to have to come do it alone. He is so giving and so selfless! David is the best, truly has the best heart, out of anyone I've ever known! Such a sweetheart!

Fulfill a 5 year dream. Check.

I Splash 'N Dash'd a few weeks ago at BYU and I LOVED.EVERY.SINGLE.MINUTE! Ever since David's mission, I found out about BYU's Splash 'N Dash Biathalon and I would dream about doing the running portion, while David did the swim and we would win the team race. Then he came home from his mission and I had a torn ACL and it took two years to recover and then I had another surgery to repair it and then last year I was pregnant with Coleman. So now, five years later here I was out of shape trying to work out with a stroller debating on whether or not we should really do it, but we did and it was worth every minute. I don't know what my time was and I probably didn't do so great, but the fact is...I DID IT! I finally fulfilled a dream of mine and did something I've always wanted to do and it felt great! I did the whole thing - the swim and run and I smiled the whole time. If possible, that will definitely be a regular thing for me, but knowing my luck it may be another five years before I'll be able to do it again. Coleman just loved the free bagels and oranges they handed out to the runners at the end. :)

A Day with the Girls

Why is it that every time girls get together, they just laugh and laugh and laugh? I LOVED my ski day a couple of weeks ago with two of the coolest ladies around - Jessica and Jenny. Don't worry, the weather and snow were horrible and icy, but we seriously laughed the whole day and now we're looking back wondering why we didn't go together more! I think Jenny would agree, we'd snowboard with a skier anytime if it's Jessica, she even made skiing look fun!





I think I need to get some purple pants now for next time
because they totally matched each other....