Though we missed the Heaton family we still had a blast! We were able to celebrate Grandma and Grandpas 60th anniversary.
Mom did a great job planning a little party with ornaments representing all the different moments in their life. 
We also had a great time going to church in a barn since the church was under construction.
We had horses in the next stall and cats chasing mice
during sacrament meeting!! it was great!
Coleton had four other cousins that he was dieing to see since all of my married siblings were pregnant at the same time. (Benjamin 5 months, Alexis 5 1/2 months, Coleton 4 1/2 months, Ashley 3 months, and Masen 3 months)
All five of them were born within 2 1/2 months of each other. Though the house was a little crazy at times it was a blast! Brandon was unabe to come with us because school had started the week before so Coleton and i flew down on Sunday night. (top left: Benjamin, Coleton, Masen bottom left: Alexis, Ashley)
We had different activites through out the day that Grandma Cheney organized and then a few activites from the other families. Some of the little activites that we had to do through out the day was things like kickball at the park, grandkid olypics, Cupcake decorating, making donuts, wii competitions, and crafts that grandma planned. (Left Kari and Alexis, Cristeen and Benjamin, Coleton and me, Marie and Ashley, Caetie and Masen)
Then Grandma and Grandpa planned the big activities like Family Home Evening, the annual pinewood derby, hawaiian luau, and the biggest thing was the new pool and deck that was built in the back that constantly had people swimming in it.
They spent weeks (of long hours) getting it up and running and putting in grass and a amazing deck. Other then the great activities that were planned for everyday there was the food. The family is famous of having eaten way to much to eat and this reunion was no different. Not only did we have our three meals a day, when the kids went to bed we had the adult activites (which was getting mostly swimming with out all of the children) 
and also had food planned at nights. Weeks before everyone sent in a recipe of desserts and dips and at night we sat around and ate cakes, brownies, cheese cakes, ice cream cakes, multiple bags of chips,and 12 different varieties of dips. 
Not only did we have that but we got to treat ourselves to the normal summer treats that are avaliable only at my parents house like the industrial cotton candy machine, pop corn machine, and ice cream machine (which makes two gallons in every batch and i am pretty sure i ate most of it!!) By the end of the week everyone was twenty pounds heavier but loved every minute of it!
I could not forget to have a picture of Brandons pinewood derby! Though this year he was unable to make it he sent his car with my to race his is the cork screw silver one also known as "The dremel made me do it" He worked long and hard on this car and though it got third to last in the race we are still proud of what he did!! Good Job, Hunny!!
I was planning on not starting him on rice cereal until i got back from my family reunion next week but he always seems like he wants more so on Tuesday the 12th decided that we should give it a try! 
His first few spoonfuls!
Well he loved it! 
He wanted so bad to help load it in but he would push the little spoon to far into his mouth!
He loved it so much that when i paused for him to swallow he started to fuss, but best of all was when we ran out of made rice cereal, he was a little upset i didnt have more!Here is a video i took of Coleton about three weeks ago. I was trying to convince him that he should roll over for me so that i really could prove that he can roll but he didnt but he did try to explain to me why he didnt want to... here it is! (I know that it is sideways but i didnt know you could not flip it but you can still hear him!!)
He is getting really good at holding up his head! i had alot of fun today spiking his hair after i gave him a bath. Normally it falls with in a few minutes but this time it stayed up all day?
Today i just had to laugh, when i went to put him down for a nap, i wrapped him up like always so that his hands would not wake him and normally he does not mind (i think he enjoys it). Well this time he threw a small tantrum because he did not want to take a nap. While he was screaming in his crib i said "Coleton, i will make you a deal, i will unwrap you but you have to take a nap still because its nap time" knowing that it was not going to make a difference to him i unwrapped him. Well instantly he stopped crying, closed his eyes, turned his head, and put his little arm over his face. Shocked I walked out of the room thinking to myself that he would start crying again but i could not believe it i never heard from him until i went to get him up! If only this would work out everyday!
He is really good at attemping to sit but he fell over and i am pretty sure he thought i pushed him (but i promise you i didnt), he was a little frustrated!
This was after his bath, that hand is always in there i wish i could get him off that habit!
This is so typical! I will be doing something and not watching him and all of a sudden i will hear him gagging and when i turn around this is what i see, you would think we would learn!
Wow, i know i look gross but he was laughing so hard, he just started to really giggle!
He LOVES to stand sitting is just not an option. Brandon let him hold on to a bin that we had unpacked and he thought that was pretty cool!
So i rolled him over on to his stomack to take a picture of the back of his onsie and he started rocking like crazy, i could not get him to hold still! If only he would roll over for people, no one believe that he has rolled over!
I tried to make it look like his shirt is big enough to cover him but really it is like a belly shirt, i should stop making him wear it but that has not happened yet!
Here is the happy little man in his favorite toy, the bouncer. Grandma Cheney let him use this while we moved and he loves it!
Brandon has been really busy with getting his seminary room ready since school starts this weeks so when he is home i make sure they spend time together!
I just love how this one turned out, i dont know how i got it?? 
dest this year to give him a fun filled birthday since we actually could have people over and have a little party so Coleton and I did all we could while Brandon was at work. He left for meetings at 5am so once Coleton got up for the day we got started! We decorated a little onesie That said "Happy Birthday" on the front and "I love u" on the back then we sent Brandon a picture through a text for him. Then when Coleton was napping i got streamers and decorated the kitchen and made little homemade signs like the Cheney family would do for everyones birthday, i actually had alot 
of fun doing it. A few days before Brandons birthday i asked him what kind of cake he wanted and he s
aid that he wanted me to decorate a cake for him with the cake decorating kit he got me for Christmas (which i had not really used much yet) and so i was so excited to do that and got going on making a amazing cake! It took so much time but i had so much fun doing it!
Then once he got home from work about 4pm we took Coleton over to Brandons parents house and we went out to dinner at Chilies. Since we dont eat out very often it is a big treat for us! Then we went home for a little birthd
ay party. Brandons parents and grandparents were able to come join us in the celebration and we had alot of fun! He got some things for teaching seminary (colored chalk and a decible reader) and the most adorable card form his grandparents. Happy Birthday, Brandon!
In our old apartment we didnt have room to have a changing table so i had a changing mat on the floor that i used and there was a book shelf with school books that Coleton would look at all the time and when he started to use hi hands he would play with them and thought they were so interesting now that we have moved they are now gone and i think he misses them (ok so maybe i miss watching him play with them!)
So i think that i am the only one that thinks this is so funny, what you can not see is that his shirt and bib say "Action Hero" on them and when i was getting his bath ready i cam back to him like this and i just think he looks like his own little action hero with his cape!!
The bath use to be really a difficult time because he really hated it! Now he doesnt really enjoy it but he is ok with it but here Brandon was just taking some snap shot of it and i really liked some of them!
I really love when he gets this little smile and normally he will make a high pitch sqeel with it!
Maybe this is normal but i know that alot of babies suck their fingers but he doesnt do that he chews on his fingers which i think is funny!
He was shooting for his mouth and missed! But got to admit kind of funny!
One of me and Brandons thing is that we dont want our kids sleeping in bed with us so coleton was really happy that he finally got to lay in mom and dads bed!
He hates when his hands are wrapped up (which i do before every nap and bed time) but if i dont this is what happens his hands get free and he starts hitting himself in the face and starts crying, this time he luckly fell back asleep after he got free!
I just love babies in hats and you probably can tell that the hat is way to big but it went good with the outfit! i just love this little guy!
here! I had started packing up our apartment about a month before we started to move and we just barely made it by Friday night. With Coleton, i had to pack while he was napping, so when he got up from his naps he gradually started to see his house disappearing. Everything was going ok until the day before we moved and i had to take down the large picture of Christ, which we recieved from Del Parson who lives by Brandons parents, that was located in our dining room. Coleton stared at the picture all day, everyday and it let him know that he was home. Well after taking it down he woke up from his nap and realized it was gone. With fear in his eyes he turned to me and started to cry, he could no longer tell he was home. It was so sad! For the next four to five days he had a really hard time ajusting since after packing up the house we kept switching houses so things were never the same.
we went to our college graduation. We were so excited to finally reach
that point we barely made it to the ceremony because we were packing but once we got there both of us proudly walked across that stage. We were lucky to have family there, my parents, Brandons parents, and my brother Brent, his wife, Kari, and my neice, Alexis. Right after taking pictures with the family we hopped in the car and drove away. We didnt leave until about ten from Rexburg so we didnt reach my parents house until about two a.m. Saturday morning. While we were there we had a chance to finally relax. My parents just put in a pool so while my mom watched Coleton we took a long swim in the ninty degree water while my dad made us homemade soft serve ice cream from their machine, it was heaven. After we had our half day vacation we decided to head to our new home in Cedar City!
unlike the last time we traveled to Cedar Coleton was not wanting to be in the car. He had been through so much the week before he wanted to be held and played with so the car ride took a 
little bit longer and it was hard to hear him crying in the back seat :( We finally made it to Cedar about ten p.m. and unloaded our u-haul. The house is beautiful! Brandons parents have put so much effort into making it so nice and we are so happy to be moved in finally. We hurried as fast as we could to get everything unpacked in the three bedroom two bath home and by Monday night we had gotten most of it finished (These pictures are of a few rooms in our new house).
