My Little Man

I am having a hard time now finishing any meals! We sit down to eat dinner or lunch and Coleton Freaks because he wants our food so much! I felt so bad so i started to research what foods i really could feed him, i found that i could not give him anything more then rice cereal or milk. knowing that i decided to get creative! I decided to take some milk and make a popsicle with a pacifier and an ice cube tray!
I give him one while we eat and i dont hear a word from him!!
He did not use to be so messy when he ate but i think now he thinks its kind of funny!
Even more funny when he blows while he eats or sneezes!One day he really wanted a drink from my cup but i was not going to have back wash from him so i got a little tupperware and tried to teach him how to drink,He loved it but got water everywhere! I will have to get him a sippie cup.This one is my favorite he looks so funny!!

This new toy is suppose to be a toy that you sit up and play like you are driving a car....
but he seems to like using his feet better...
what a clever boy we have!
I know that he doesnt look happy in this picture but he was so happy! We were at the cedar high homecoming football game!
They had fireworks that we thought he was going to hate but to our surprise he was so happy when they started to go off!

His new trick is sing everything upside down!
He loves watching you upside down!
But he sure does look sweet!

I just love being home with him everyday, he is so happy and fun! Its amazing to watch him learn and grow!

Im Quirky

I was tagged to say 6 weird/quirky things about me here i go....

1. I am completely terrified of spiders i have NEVER killed one though! I dont have the guts to do it i have always had a roommate, family member, or my husband kill them!

2. I hate feet! i know alot of people do but its so bad that if Brandons foot accidentally touches me in bed i freak out and have a hard time sleeping in fear he will touch me again and i have to put socks on Coleton too!

3. My blanket that is on my bed can not touch the floor, if it does it is i guess "contaminated" and i have to wash it before i can use it again.

4. When i get embarrassed i stop talking because i feel stupid and then i feel stupid for not talking so i get more embarrassed and it is a constant circle i Hate it!!

5. I dont like change! I love routine! I do the same things everyday, sametime, and when i get off i fall apart and nothing gets done!

6. I hate the feeling of being wet! I love to swim but i hate when my hands, hair, feet, or clothes are wet!

Brandon At His Best!

Most of you already know that we are here in Cedar City because Brandon is teaching seminary at his old high school! It is so funny how you make plans for the future and they seem to always go a different direction then you plan! If you asked Brandon and me a year ago were we would be we would tell you that we would be still in Rexburg, both going to school, maybe i would be pregnant, and we would be planning on finding a job in Business financing but we are in Cedar city with a five month old, living in a nice house, teaching seminary! We would never have thought. Well Brandon loves teaching more than i can even explain. He goes early in the mornings to class and teaches 14-18 year olds and can not get enough. For all those who know him well it fits his personality! He has been evaluated about 6 times and they really love his teaching style. Next month we will be having a man from salt lake city come and watch which is a little nerve racking! Here are some pictures of Brandons class room, office, and props he uses for class...enjoy! Classroom wall! This took days (more like weeks) they are all wood and painted.
Were he actually teaches from!
Other side of his classroom!
Classroom from his view!
From the front again!

Him wearing his camel mask (entering the kingdom lesson) and Large serta sheep!
Head on a platter(John the Baptist)
Here is a crown of thorns, the count from seseme street, twelve oil lamps from Isreal.
A sailor and a lighthouse (theme is lighthouse for this year) and sparkling cider bottle.
And a view of his office from the door you can see some of the other props such as a real sword on the top with a ox yoke, a large pile of rocks, a rocket glider plane and much more. Brandon is loving it so much we are just dieing to know what the Lord has in store for us in April when they do the full time hiring we sure hope that things work out so that he can keep teaching!!

Eight things Tag!

8 Things Tag
8 Things I'm passionate about
1. My husband, Brandon!
2. My little man, Coleton Brady
3. My family, i couldnt make it with out them
4. Cooking.
5. Any kind of ice cream
6. Napping!!
7. Blogging
8. The fair (i know thats weird but i love it!)

8 Words or Phrases I say Often
1. I love you!
2. Baby boy
3. Look what Coleton learned to do
4. O boy!
5. Is daddy being silly
6. Be safe driving
7. Are you hungry??
8. The internets not working

8 Things I want to do Before I Die
1. Go back to Ohio and show Brandon around
2. Ride a horse
3. Have a little girl
4. Buy a house
5. Go to disneyland
6. Go on a cruise
7. Go to general conference at the conference center
8. Travel out of the U.S.

8 Things I Currently Want or Need
1. Another Car
2. Go to the dentist and get all of the work done
3. New clothes and shoes
4. New couches
5. To be pregnant
6. More time with my husband
7. A new computer
8. A nap!!!

Five Months Old!

Coleton is now 5 months old! We just cant believe how fast he is growing and what a little personality he is developing! The other day we found these glasses and thought it would be funny to see how Coleton looked in them... and we were shocked to find that Coleton thought they were so funny you can see him grinning under the nose and we thought it was pretty cute too!He has now learned how to sit up which is so nice in relief society, i just sit him on the floor and he can play with his toys by himself. He loves playing with his dad, but....
Sometimes dad just cant play, hes a busy working man!But when dad gets new props for his classes, Coleton is the first to try then out! Coleton is getting bigger when we got his shots done a few days ago he weighed in at a little over 15lbs but still not as big as the Serta Sheep! He is so eager to eat food that when we eat dinner he will just stare at us with the sadest little face! I will try to feed him cereal but some how he knows that its not the same as what we are eating, poor little guy!Here is him watching Brandon eat lunch he was so jealous! This is his new bath tub chair, some how we got really luck! With us tight on finances i decided to go check the cedar city DI for a chair for the bath tub because when i would put him in his baby bath he would do little cruches to sit up the whole time i had him in there. Our DI had practically no baby items i was shocked to see exactly what i needed for way cheap! I still cant believe that i found exactly what i was looking for, and he loves it!
Here is a shocked face when all of a sudden he found himself no longer sitting up, tipping over is quite the ordeal! With Brandons sister, Candice on bed rest Grandma Comstock has spend a lot of time in California helping her family out. Grandpa has been left home all by himself so we've loved having him over for dinner every couple days so he gets a good meal. Coleton has had a chance to see him more often, its been really fun for all of us!
Brandon thinks it is so cute when Coleton holds his hands like this, he does it all the time! This is something that just makes me laugh. When we found out that we were having a little boy Brandon told me that he didnt want any clothes that would mistake him as a little girl no orange, yellow, purples, and anything frilly. I did my best to get more manly cloths but what i forgot was toys! For easter Brandon got me a duck and Coleton found it and absolutely Loves it but what i think is so funny is that it has a cute little pink bow tied around its neck, Brandon seems ok with it but who would have thought Coleton would love it so much!

Just chilling on the couch watching A Baby Story with mom!
Grandma Comstock was dieing to get pictures taken of Coleton so a few days before he turned five months we went in to Kiddie Kandids for some photos. We ended up waiting for over and hour and though he was so exausted we got some good shots, you can find them at http://www.kiddiekandids.com/ go to the right corner of the screen and click on my studio your online prtrait store and with the sitting code of 27732b8 with the sitting number 22068310 you can see the pictures. I didnt know that you only can choose six pictures so those are the six but there were a lot of cute ones we had to delete!

Our staycation!

Over labor day weekend, Brandon and I decided that we would go down to Kaysville and spend some time with my parents (and sister) since Brandon missed out on the Cheney reunion. We were going to head down friday morning after his class. We were excited to swim, see family, have some ice cream, and maybe go to see the Tabernacle Choir on Sunday morning. Well Thursday night as i was getting Coleton ready for bed i had this feeling like something was going to go wrong on the car ride. I knew in the back of my head that it was because Coleton hated being in the car and he was probably going to cry most of the way but i went and asked Brandon how he felt about the drive? He said he felt fine. Brandon told me that if i felt like we shouldnt go then we wouldnt! I thought back to my family reunion, my parents had given a lesson during Family Home Evening about how in the future things might happen. Spouses may die, children might get sick, things will happen but we have to be spiritually prepared for these time as a family and individually. I knew Brandon wanted so bad to go down and i was so excited for a little vacation, so we decided that we would get ready and if i decided we should not go Friday morning we wouldnt. The next morning i figured that if my mom called me i would tell her we couldnt come (kind of knowing that she was not going to since i had already called her the day before) but to my surprise she called. She said she heard the phone ring but didnt get to it in time and thought that it was me. Hearing that I said to her that we were not going to be coming anymore because i just didnt feel right about it. She understood and when Brandon came home i told him my decision.

Since we were going to be staying home we planned some activities for our long weekend. On Friday night we grabed our camping tent (which we had just bought for our new 72 hour kit which we made for family home evening the Monday before),got some steaks and decided to go camping and have a little BBQ! Camping is just not the same when you have a 4 1/2 month old baby so instead of going to a camping sight we went to Brandons parents backyard! We used their grill and made shiscobobs. Though it was our first time making them, they were amazing! We then went to a Cedar High football game since Brandon teaches some of the players. After the game, we got some ice cream from sonic and headed to our "camp"! We put Coleton inside the house and put the monitor on hims so i could here him and we went to bed! It was a blast we were shocked to find the grass ,that night, was so comfortable (unlike normal camping) and the weather was perfect. i slept so good but Coleton woke about every hour but nun the less it was great!

Saturday morning we got up ate homemade zuccini bread that i had brought and then headed home to shower! When we got home we found that my parents called. They wanted to know if we wanted to buy their truck from them that they were going to try selling, so excited (because we only have one car right now and we live 12 miles from anything) we said that we would buy it from them! They drove down on Sunday morning to drop it off to us and then they were going to stay over night and spend some time with us! We were so excited to have them come down it was going to be the first time they saw our house, Brandons office, and his room. Sunday after church we came home to our parents! but there was no truck?? Well come to find out the transmittion went out about half way to cedar city! Here is the clincher, my dad told us that he heard a little noice as he was driving along, knowing that something sounded wrong he pulled over slowed down to about 20 miles and at that point the car seized up and the truck started to swerve pretty bad! I thought that was pretty scary but then he said this, if you would have come down this weekend we would have had Brandon drive it back. If he would not have slowed down when he heard the little noice (and since Brandon doesnt know a huge amount about cars he would not have) the car would have probably rolled a few times!! I thought back to that feeling i had and was so greatful for it! I was so frustrated that we could not go to my parent but i cant imagine the feelings i would have has as i would have watched the truck, Brandon would have been driving, roll while i thought to myself i had that feeling to stay why didnt i listen! What a lesson this taught me, i know that our Heavenly Father is watching over us and protecting us daily and i know that if we listen and follow the promptings from the Holy Ghost we will be protected and if something does happen i am grateful to know that since Brandon and i were sealed together in the temple that we can be an eternal family which is such a comfort.

But back to the weekend, we had so much fun with them during their stay. We had dinner, showed them around the house, and the seminary building. They had to head back to Sunday night but we are so excited that they came down and can not wait for the next time they can come!

Monday was our last day over our staycation so we decided to go play mini golf, since we are still getting over being poor college students we didnt want to pay to go to a real course but the park close to our house has a mini golf course that is open to anyone, so we went and played! It was great there are about 6 holes so we played each a few times and sadly Brandon won but only by a few! Coleton was napping so he stayed in the car seat for most of it but when he did wake up he was pretty entertained by it all!Since we had a chance to do a little camping of course you need to do a little fishing! In our new house we have a juccuci tub and Brandon has some fishing fish(the ones that have magnets on their mouths) so when Coleton went to bed we filled the tub up, put the fish in, and put the jets on and away those fish swam!

Our :abor day weekend went great! I love being in a relationship were we dont have to spend alot of money to have fun together. It was just fun to spend time with our little family!