Happy 24th Birthday!

This year my birthday fell on a Sunday so though it was relaxing, we still had to be up early, get dressed, and ready to go for nine o clock church! After church, we got our favorite Sunday afternoon nap, then had Brandons parents over for dinner. Our camera battery died after three pictures so we didnt get very many but it was really a great day. Brandon and the boys got me a Snickers birthday cake which was amazing and the WAVE program. I am now one year older and the day was wonderful!!

The Christmas Nativity

With Christmas coming, we figured it was time to get some decorations up. We recieved a little peoples nativity the first year we were married, so it is one of the first items i get out. As i pulled each piece out, i tried to expain who each person was to help teach Coleton the Story of Christ birth. As I got each out, i began to realize that Coleton wasnt paying much attention. Understanding that he is only 2 years old, i figured waiting another year to really explain it would be best.

A few days later, we got a phone call from an older lady in our ward who had an extra nativity she was not wanting and asked if we would be interested in it to which i replyed YES!! She brought it over and quickly we put it up. Since this one was alot more fragile then our little peoples nativity, i made sure to tell Coleton many times that he was not to touch any of the peices because they were so special. As Coleton watched, i took each peice out of the box placing the person or animal where it was suppose to be Coleton excitingly ran to his little people and brought me over the corresponding person. His little nativity was one that both the boys were free to play with but after explaining how special each of the items of our new nativity he began to realize that his nativity also needed to go up high for them to be safe. As i stood there thinking that it would look a little silly to have this beautiful nativity with the plastic people mixed in, i wondered if i should tell him to place his somewhere else but as that thought came to my mind i then realized what was happening. He had finally understood, at that moment, how important baby Jesus was in a small way and I was in fear of hurting that thought. So with each person, he was so proud to place them in their spot and though it may look a little rediculous it was a moment that I realized how important those little teaching moments are and how important it is to taking them.

Welcome Santas Little Elf!!

Well, today we got a little visitor. As Brandon was headed out to go get some dinner for the family, we heard the doorbell ring and Santa dropped something off to us!!

Coleton was so excited that Santa dropped off a present to him he could hardly hold still for a picture with Heber the elf. I tried telling Coleton why Heber was at our house but i dont think he understood that Heber would be reporting back to Santa about how good or bad he was but Coleton didnt seem to care, Santa had just been at our house!!!

Thanksgiving Break

This year for Thanksgiving, we headed up to Kaysville to spend it with the Cheney side of the family! We headed up the weekend before to go see the Hurricane vs Juan Diago State game. On Sunday Brandon had to head back to teach for a few more days while i stayed there with the boys! Coleton loved the chance to stay and cook with Grandma Cheney and boy was he excited to see all the treats she had for him. We went shopping while we were there made gingerbread house cut outs and of course started making food for the Thanksgiving Dinner.We were lucky enough to have my parents, Bradley, Caralee, Cristeen (and family), Curtis (and family) and then Brandon came back!We had some activites during the weekend like building gingerbread trains and houses, playing out in the snowand after the kids went to bed the adults stayed up and chatted, ate, played games it was such a great time. We all headed home on Saturday afternoon because huge storm were going to be coming for everyone that was heading home and thankfully we left early because when the storms his many roads were closed and alot of accidents happened but thanksfully we all got home safe and we all really enjoyed our Thanksgiving weekend with family! Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Hope the holiday was as great!

Early Thanksgiving!

This year we were lucky enough to be able to spend time with Brandons family for an early thanksgiving. Brandons Aunt Deanne and his Uncle Perry with both of there families were able to come and spend a few days in Cedar with us. We had a great time as the three kids played together (though there was a little age difference) Coleton was loving life! Of course, we ate, played some games, singing some chirstmas music, and enjoyed a evening by the campfire. It had been a while since we had all gotten together and it sure was great we are hoping to be able to get together more often with people living closer!!

(From Left to right: Mark, Landon, Deanne, Joleen, tom, Grandma Wiser, Grampa Wiser, Perry, Mikayla, Dawn, and then us up front) It was a great early Thanksgiving and we are so blessed to have such a great family!!

My little cowboy!

For Halloween this year, i was hoping to have Coleton be Woody from Toy Story but some how it seems like the costume did not come together like i had planned. He didnt seem to understand why there was a horses head on a stick that you kind of sit on with a hat that never stayed on and jeans that were just to tight so of course we switched to the Incredibles but Hayden sure didnt let the items go to waste. The horse is one of his favorite toys and he loves....
The Cowboy hat!! Who would have thought!?! It doesnt fit so great but he will be crying and i will put that cowboy hat on him and a huge grin comes from him! Hopefully this is a good trend, i love hats but Coleton and Brandon both wont wear them so maybe this is my lucky break! Ride on Cowboy!!

Happy Halloween!

Halloween this year was so fun for our little family! This year Coleton finally understood how to trick-or-treat and he loved it and was so excited!! We had a trunk -o-treat on Saturday night that we were able to go to and had so much fun going around and seeing our ward friends! After the trunk-o- treat, we went home and Coleton passed out candy to the group that came to our house! It was fun to have so many of Brandons students stop by because they were out with there siblings.
We all dressed as the Incredibles!! Coleton was Dash, Hayden was jack-jack, I was elasticgirl, and Brandon was Mr. Incredible! Coleton absolutely loved his costume! He wore it all day, slept in it that night and has practically been wearing it since! We made the costumes this year. We searched at DI for shirts, got some at walmart, ironed on the emblem, found red pajama pants for both and i sewed up the underwear and leg covers from an old pair of pants! Each costume cost us under four dollars so we were feeling pretty good about things! We had bought masks but they just didnt look right so we used face paint and boy did it make a mess and was quite the clean up! Here are just some pictures from the night!

We had a lot of fun and cant wait for Halloween next year when Hayden will be running around with Coleton!

Sick Boys and Camping!!

This week has been a long one! Coleton suddenly got sick while we were spending the day at Brandons parents with a fever of 102.5 so for quite a few days he was laying around the house not feeling well! After about two days of him not eating of drinking he woke up from a nap screaming in pain and shaking! Not knowing what to do since i had no car at home i called Brandon in a panic telling him something was wrong and that he needed to come home! We took him to the urgent care to find that he had a really bad ear ache and strep throat! They gave him a shot of anibiotic and sent us home with pain medication! Coleton was in a rough state at that point. i was unable to get him to eat or drink for four days and would have to hold him down while he kicked and screamed to give him medicine! It was horrible! He would fall asleep all over the place and was so out of it i cant even explain!

After about five days he finally started to move again so we did what anyone else would do we went camping!!I know that sounds funny but Brandon had a four day weekend so we had to get out of our house and we thought that Coleton could use some fresh air!

It was really good to get him out he started walking around the campsite, ate some of the snacks we brought and was really happy to be "campin"We went to a camp site that was about 20 miles from our house but we were on a dirt road for almost 40 minutes because we were in our stratus which is really not an off road vehical. The weather was perfect about 70's and the colors were changing all over the place (our camera really does not do them justice!We went on a little hike and picked up firewood and went back to camp!We went simple and brough hot dogs and buns and then smores for dessert (with all different kinds of candy bars to try them with) and water so there wasnt much for us to bring or clean up. We put the boys to bed and stayed up and chatted at the camp fire. It was a great night the boys slept pretty well since Coleton was sick but we had fun on our first Comstock Family Vacation it was great and we cant wait to do it again next year!

Family Pictures!

There is a lady in out old ward that is a new photographer that was willing to take our family pictures! She took over 300 pictures of us in five different locations but the boys were both not really in the mood to take pictures but here are some of the ones that turned out!There are a few more that i will try to post later but they turned out pretty good thanks Jenelle at PhotoJenique in Cedar City!