Catching up & Graduation

Alright this is my attempt to begin to catch up on my blog! We had a lesson in church on doing family history and different ways that we can "count" as doing our family history. The lady teaching the lesson said that she kept a blog as a journal than has them printed out every 6 months or so...so since I've never been good at keeping a journal I decided I wanted to do the same! Plus I think it will be really cool to look back at! Anways, rewind back almost 6 months and see what we have been up to and how dramatically our lives have changed over the last little bit!!!

TJ and I graduated from Brigham Young University - Idaho on July 23, 2009! TJ recieved his bachelors in Business Management with clusters in Chemistry and Biology. I recieved my Bachelors in Accounting with clusters in Business and Home and Family Sciences. After a long journey and many days and nights of feeling like this day would never come it finally did! It was bitter sweet! We were so happy to say goodbye to freezing Rexburg winters and ice covered roads but sad to leave many friends! Overall both of us loved our experience at this school and felt blessed to have had the opportunity to be there!

Here is our graduation ice-cream cake (ansley's idea) ! The McGary's also decorated a pavillion at our church so we had a little graduation party! Thanks Lyneers and Kurt!!!

Here we are before graduation begins! It was like 95 degrees outside and I was super prego. In fact I had Cohen exactly 1 month after graduation!!! We lined up in the clark then marched into the Hart. Bishop Edgley spoke at our graduation! It was great but a little long to be in a hot gym!!!

Jay and Mirae were so nice to make the long trip out to celebrate with us! Later that weekend we spent a couple of days with them in Jackson and Yellowstone National Park!

Here I am trying to ice my ankles to take away some of the swelling so that I can actully fit in some shoes. Flip flops are not allowed on campus and I really didn't want to get kicked out on my own graduation! I'm sure I probably could have pulled a fat lip and some tears and gotten away with it but I figured I'd made it that far I might as well stick with it one more day!!!

Here are my elephantitus feet! Disgusting I know! Mirae kept telling me that I would want pictures to remember! I don't know if I agree! I am however very proud to say that my ankles bones are back and fully visable and now they are one of my favorite features!!!

We obviously look board and ready to get out of there!

Jared and Erica also came up from Provo for our graduation. We were so grateful that they made the drive up to be with us on our special day!

And of course my fam! We are kind of dwindling in numbers as far as graduation pics go! Every time one of us graduates less and less of my family shows up in the pictures! Lucky for them though that they didn't have to sit through another graduation!!! Merilee hopefully someone shows up for yours!!!

Kurt and Lynlee also came to support us! Thanks again and thank you for the decorations!!! They were amazing!

Here we are with our diplomas (not really they are empty)! I recieved mine the day I got induced to have Cohen and TJ got his in the mail about 2 weeks later! We are so proud of ourselves for making it! Thank you to everyone that helped and supported us along the way! TJ has applied to 12 dental schools and I'm teaching Cohen how to make financial statements! Just kidding...I'm loving being a mom and feel at ease that I have a good education to fall back on if our family is ever in need of me going back to work. For now though I'm just planning on staying at home and working on the whole mom thing!

Cohen: 5 Weeks

He is such a happy little boy and is smiling more and more everyday! We can't help but smile everytime we see him smile!

We went to the doctor this week for Cohen's one month check up and he is a very healthy happy baby! This is what Dr. Mayer had to say about Cohen:

9/28/09
Height: 22 1/2" 90th Percentile
Weight: 10lbs 1 oz 75th Percentile
Head: 39 cm 50-75th Percentile

She also said he was developing very well and seemed to be very strong. When she put him on his tummy to see how he was doing at holding his head up he seemed to kind of show off and enjoyed her praise at how strong he was! We are loving every moment with our little boy and can't believe how big he is getting already!

Happy Birthday Grandma!!!

I know that I have been HORRIBLE about updating my blog....but now that I'm getting a hang of the whole mom thing...I PROMISE I'm going to do better...it may take me a couple of weeks to get all caught up on everything that has been happening!!! Today is a very special day though so we wanted to do a special post dedicated to a very special lady in our lives!

REASONS WHY WE LOVE GRANDMA!!!

• She is the BEST at changing poopy diapers
• She is so GENEROUS
• She GREAT at reading crystal balls
• She makes us LAUGH
• She's a great HELPER
• She's an AMAZING cook and cleaner
• She makes the BEST scrapbooks
• She's an amazing EXAMPLE
• She ALWAYS calls to let us know she cares
• She is the BEST at giving ETERNAL hugs
• She gives LOTS of Kisses

We are so glad that she is ours!!! We love you and miss you and hope that you have a great great birthday!!! We miss you and wish we could be there with you!!!

23 WEEKS

Here is my 23 weeks prego picture. I swearI was barely even showing a week ago and this week out popped this belly. As far as other updates go we sold the townhome and we will most likely be moving out the end of this month. We are looking at apartments, but I really don't want to move twice pregnant so I'm trying to talk TJ into just moving in with my parents for the 8 weeks between when we move out of the townhome and when we move to St. Louis. We would just basically take our clothes and necessities then probably send the rest of our stuff out to St. Louis. This would make the move in July pretty easy!!! Our next Dr.'s appointment is next week so we'll kepp you posted on how Baby Cohen is doing!

We also want to thank Mirae in a quick note for allowing us to live in her beautiful townhome. It has been a great home for us for the past 2 years and we've made so many great memories here. We will miss it but we are excited to live close to you...and spend lots of time together. We love you! Thanks again!

It's a Boy!

On Thrusday we went to find out what we were having. Pops and Gem (tj's grandparents) were in town visiting so we had them go with us. I was really paranoid that the baby wouldn't show us his parts so I had heard that if you drink caffeine an hour before it raises their heart rate and gets them moving. Sure enough it worked and our little boy showed his stuff right away. The only bad effect was he kept moving like crazy for about an hour after the appointment. We added a few pictures and a video of him kicking. It's amzing what they can do these days. As far as the name goes we really like Cohen Brody Bunnell but we aren't 100% sure on the middle name. TJ couldn't be more excited that he's getting his little boy. I was convincied it was a girl and so was he because I kept saying it's going to be a girl. I couldn't get him to stop smiling the whole day. We are so excited for our little boy!!!!

Here is what they call a 4D picuture of the back of little Cohen!

Here is a side profile of him with his hand up by his eye.

Here is his perfect little spine and ribs.

Here is the picture that revealed that its a Boy! ( if you can't tell don't feel bad I can't really either, its a good thing we have proffessionals who know what they are doing)

Here is a front picture of him. He's really small, he measures in only the 19th percentile in size so hopefully he will get a little bigger in the next few weeks and catch up. (NOT TO BIG THOUGH. I'M TOTOALLY OKAY WITH A SMALL BABY)

This is the video of Cohen's little leg kicking. He may be a red head with his fiestyness!

BABY BUNNELL

For those of you who do not already know....We are expecting our first baby! We are so excited and can't wait to be parents! I will be 16 weeks along tomorrow, and my current due date is August 29th. We are moving to St. Louis right after graduation the end of July...so hopefully I will be able to find a good doctor out there before we move. Oh...and we find out the sex of the baby on the 9th of April...only four more weeks!

Superbowl & Service

First of all yeah for me for finally updating my blog! Sorry I'm just not that exciting but I will try harder this year, but I'm not promising anything!!!

My parents went to Hawaii the week before our big annual superbowl party. Because they didn't get home until gameday, Spencer, Nikki, TJ, Kelan, and I went grocery shopping with Daddy's $$$. Good thing he grows money trees in the back orchard cause we had every food your heart could desire. It was tons of fun though exept for the belly ache I had the day after from eating so much.

Nikki and I assumed the position right behind the fondue table so that we wouldn't have to get up to get our food.

Nicole loves her food!

TJ is in charge of Special Service Events up on campus. For spirit week he had to go buy 100 fleece blankets and get enough volunteers to teach and help tie blankets for the christmas shop with a cop program. We had tons of students shop up to help. It was awesome and we even finished all 100 blankets in about 3 hours.

Merilee, Emmerson, and TJ working on a blanket. The 3 of us finished about 4 blankets together between helping the volunteers that showed up get started.

All of our volunteer. They were all so awesome, many volunteers stayed the entire 3 hours to help get all of the blankets done. P.S. Because TJ is in charge, Merilee and I got nominated to be on TJ's commitee. It was a lot of fun and made me realize what good people we are surrounded by up here. There aren't many other campus' where college students would get up on a Saturday morning and go help make blankets!!!