Ringing in 2011

Sorry some of the pictures are a little fuzzy! For our New Year's celebration we had our friends the Nelson's over. We bought glow sticks and sparkling cider and played our new Kinect and Karaoke all night! We made it to midnight to watch the ball drop but after that we were all ready for bed. 

Cohen giving Ly her binks

Tyler and TJ were having a contest to see who could get the glow stick rings around my old dance trophy.

Cohen's drink of choice for the night was a tall order of milk served in his favorite sippy.

Tyler and TJ playing Kinect adventure.

Notice Tyler on our custom for the night stadium seating. Thanks Ty for your input on all our couples new years eve photos.

Nothing like ringing in the New Year with some lip action from my amazing husband. Little did we know how wonderful this year would come to be....more to come soon! 2011is going to be great!!!

Christmas Time 2010

Yeah yeah I know it's March and I'm way behind AGAIN! Better late then never though right and one of my new years resolutions as always this year is to do better at blogging. 

We started off the Christmas season with a Christmas fondu/ugly sweater party with some of our friends. The food was fabulous and we had so much fun. We also had an awesome white elephant gift exchange and scored some pretty sweet stuff!

Cohen in his not so ugly sweater. Cohen's cousin Dolton brought it back from Peru for him and I thought it looked holiday-ish.

Me and all the girls. (Leah, Emily, Tiffany, Lindsay, & Laura)

Every year TJ's family go a cabin they own about 90 miles southwest of St. Louis. Because Mirae didn't want to haul all of our presents out we decided to do our Christmas with her the night of the 23rd, since TJ was closing on Christmas Eve. 

Cohen has no idea what's about to happen

First train set. We wanted to start collecting thomas the train sets for Cohen since all of his cousins on my side have them. Nana went slightly overboard though and bought lots and lots of trains. She even bought two of everything so she could have some at her house. 

Would have been okay with just bubble wrap

Me opening our new food saver

TJ's big surprise. I told him his mom was getting us a food saver and that was it. He thought this gift was going to be canisters for the food saver.

Nope it's a new XBOX with Kinect...SURPISE!

Our plan was to stay at our house Christmas Eve then drive out to the cabin the next morning. TJ had to work from 2-10 pm Christmas Eve so Mirae invited us to just stay and hang out and spend the night again. She had already made dinner plans and I knew Cohen would not do well with being up late so after they left for dinner Cohen and I unwrapped our Christmas jammies together, played, read the Christmas story and all of our Christmas books then Cohen went off to bed. I stayed up and watched the Holiday (no It's a Wonderful life, but definitely one of my favorite Christmas movies) till TJ got home.

These are a few pictures I took of Cohen on Christmas Eve by Nana's tree

Dreaming of Christmas Day

Christmas morning we opened stockings and Cohen opened his gifts from Santa and his Papa and Mema Anderson. He go a basketball hoop, a thomas the train set, clothes, a silly monkey and lots and lots of dum-dums. 

Sharing dumdums with Zoos and Brootus...look at them watching that sucker like vultures.

Uncle Spencer and Aunt Nikki had our names this year and they got Cohen this cute baseball hat. He loves the Braves so he was very excited. 

I didn't take any pictures at the Cabin. We had a great time though and everyone spoiled us! We truly felt blessed to be surrounded by so many people that love us. We missed my family too but look forward to spending next Christmas with them. 

Half Marathon/Trip to Idaho

On October 30th I ran in my very first race. The Halloween Half Marathon in Provo, Utah. I had set a goal to run one and honestly never believed I could do it. Registering for the race and paying the $45 fee  + a visit home to see my family was just the motivation that I needed. I didn't run the whole 13.1(I walked about 1 1/2 miles of it) so I'll just have to do another one. I was really happy with my finishing time of 2 hours and 26 minutes though. The run was so much fun and had some amazing scenery. I couldn't have been happier to see my parents and Cohen at the finish line.

After my race we headed up to Idaho because Merilee was putting on her big Halloween event at BYU-Idaho. She did such and good job and we had a lot of fun. Cohen loved running around the big auxiliary gym and playing with his aunt kitty.

After Halloween was over my dad decided that his grandson should look like a little boy so he treated Cohen to a haircut at Great Clips. 

Finished product. Thanks Papa!

Cohen absolutely loves my dad. He loves to follow him around wherever he is going and help him do whatever he is doing. Papa needed some help getting his work done and sure enough Cohen was first to volunteer for the job.