Friday, November 20, 2009

Whats he up to??

It has been a while since i have just posted some cute things that Coleton is up to so here are just a few that i can think of!!I know it might not look like it but he is a sorter! He has a way of organizing his toys and setting them up that is just so cute! He likes to line up all of his cars, separate things by color and organize by kind of animals.He loves pancakes and eats them in stacks of fives. Here he was trying to make his own pancakes out of syrup and boy did it make a mess!He loves to cook!






He has learned to push chairs around to help him see and help me at making meals which is not so great sometimes!
He loves the water! Baths or showers he cant seem to get enough but once you get him out you better have a big towel and his Jazz Blanket to keep him warm!!He likes to take my lip gloss and chap stick and break into them!This is something we like to not tell daddy:(


He loves trains or as he calls them choos! We got a christmas village that has a train in it and he runs to see it when he wakes up in the morning and will stare at it most of the morning! That is what are little boy is up to right now!

Monday, November 2, 2009

Halloween!!

This year i was so excited for Halloween because we finally were in a neighborhood where we could go trickor-treating to people we knew and coleton had the word "please" down. He was going to be an M&M like Brandon was at his age for the trunk-or-treat and then we would pass out candy to everyone that stopped by our house. We had two scarecrows in the front of the house that i loved with some halloween stickers on the front windows and decided to carve some pumpkins
Brandon is not such a big fan of carving pumpkins ...and having coleton using a knife is not such a good idea but markers are his favorite..but i love carving pumpkins though i never finished mine : (Here is Coletons finished pumpkin!Here is Brandons finished pumpkin... looks pretty good!Mine not so done but i did get some help with it! On the night before Halloween Coleton came down with a bad case of the flu so we were not able to go trick-or treating or to pass out candy so i was so disappointed that we were not able to go out of the house for the holiday but there is always next year!!

Saturday, October 17, 2009

Brandon hard at work!

While I was at my sisters watching the five children, Brandon was up to something fishy at the house. Every time i called he seemed to be a tad distracted and would tell me that he was making somethings special for coleton and i! Unsure of what he could be doing when we came home this is what we had found....Upstairs in the nursery he put up some greenery, made the pictures on the wall (from scratch may i add!)Hung the monkey back on the wall, found the rocker glider on craigs list for a sweet deal...and hung the clock and shelf. I love it! It was just what i wanted it to look like! Though i love the nursery, Brandon is most proud of Coletons room....He wanted to make it have a car theme so once again he found a great deal on craigs list and got the car bed..Found a car mat at Target and went online to find some real street signs.. He also redid some of our old furniture to make some really cute bool shelves along with getting some old license plates to hang up!
Everything looks adorable and Coleton absolutely loves it. He put alot of time and effort into designing everything and the pictures just dont do it justice! Thanks honey!!

Friday, October 16, 2009

Carleen Comstock Halle!!

I had a chance this past week to try out having five kids! My sister Cristeen, was hitting her ten year anniversary and her husband planned an amazing cruise so i agreed to watch their four children while they would be gone! She has Spencer, 7, Jenna, 6, Breanna, 3, and Benjamin, 18 months, so with Coleton, 18 months, it was quite the adventure!They left on a thursday and return a wednesday and with no way to get a hold of them or talk to them through out the week we had some interesting moments.Along with the normal daily activities of breakfast, getting ready for school, homework, dinner, naps, bedtime(with practically twin 18 months olds)and keeping things cleaned up, we had alot of fun. We went to chuckie cheese one of the days, Mcdonalds one day, they had their primary program(which was adorable), had Spencer home sick one day, played some games, played the wii, watched cartoons, and played outside (when the weather was nice). Though i absolutely love my neices and nephews there were moments during the week when i wondered to myself "what have i gotten my self into" but in the end everything turned out great. Cristeen and Brian came home to four safe kids, not really so healthy (just barely missed them all getting sick when i left), they were glad to have both parents back.The week went great and i decided that having five wouldnt be bad if they were as good as these ones are!!

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Fun in Hurricane!!

It has been really fun adjusting to our new life in hurricane!
#1 We love the weather!!
It always seems warm we have great summers, great winters (consisting of no snow) and great weather in between!
#2 We love our backyard!
With the great weather, having a back yard with grass is great to go out and play or just sit out and chat at nights, we love it!
#3 We love the activities




We have had a chance to be part of a lot of activities because Brandon works at he school. The seminary teachers do the chains at the home high school football games. The picture of Coleton was right before we went to the high school home coming parade which he really enjoyed

#4 We kind of enjoy little projects?This one i am trying to convince my self that we enjoy them...We have been spending most Saturdays working on projects and though Brandon likes being a handyman, i think Coleton likes the projects more!

#5 We love visiting Brandon when we can!

Coleton really likes heading to the seminary and seeing Brandon. Coleton really loves drawing on the dry erase board.

Some draw backs are...

We don't enjoy the wind..

Brandon put up my fall scare crow and the newt morning it was gone! The wind blew him away but no need to worry we found him!!

Another thing I don't enjoy are the bugs like this one....





it is huge! really bad picture of it but we found it outside of our garage!! I think it was a young tarantula but Brandon just thinks it was the biggest spider he had ever seen!!

Sunday, October 4, 2009

General Conference!!

I just love general conference!! This session, we stayed home and watched it on TV! We had a lovely array of snacks and ate as we listened! There were a lot of great talks and i learned alot about things i needed to be better at! Coleton loved hearing the choir sing and he would dance to them every chance he got! It was a great two days and we cant wait for the next session in six months!!

Thursday, October 1, 2009

Update on home repairs!

With things changing so much, here is where we are at, at the moment! We have been trying to do saturday projects when we can and are getting closer to finishing but we have a ways to go!


Please excuse my little comments:)

Sunday, September 27, 2009

Coleton Updates!!

With the move and everything we havent updated on how Coleton is doing....As you can tell his hair was pretty long which we cut over labor day weekend and now is really short but still cute. He also found a tickle me elmo doll at DI and takes it everywhere!! He has a hard time making him laugh unless he jumps on him but he still loves it. When he goes down for a nap he will give him his sippy cup and his extra pacifier and they will nap together. Coleton has done great with the move and is a realy good helper with the tiles being so gross from all of the construction he was helping us scrub them and was doing a pretty good job,

but then he was starting to get water everywhere and made quite the mess but he is fun to have around anyways!!

Last of all since we dont have any locks on the cabinets he found a marker sunday right before church and got himself pretty good. At church evveryone thought that he had a black eye or had gotten a pretty bad gash but really he just had a marker line that i could not seem to get off!!

Sunday, September 20, 2009

Everything is in!!

This is an exciting day!! A few days ago Rusty finished painting our basement so we were able to finish the door frames down stairs where we knocked out the wall and get the carpent layed in the basement!!We also got our counter tops installed!!! Which look amazing, but it also means that we got...A running sink which means that we also have a dishwasher that works (which means no more doing dishes in a bucket)!!!!Our kitchen and basement are finally done which means i can cook again and have a play area for Coleton!!! We are getting so close to finishing, i cant wait to see everything done!!

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Boy or Girl??

Today was the day of the ultra sound!!! I am 18 weeks and 2 days! (sorry not that cute of picture)We dropped Coleton off two doors down and headed to find out what we were having. They gave us huge print outs and i loved seeing the baby on the screen.
Now what we all have been wondering.. it is a.... BOY!!!
The ultra sound tech said that everything looks great the baby has everything that he needs all organs are there and working like they are suppose to. The baby has not been very active but i am sure that will change. As for now i cant plan on having two little boys running around the house and cant wait for this little guy to get here!!