Everyone Loves Elmo!

About two years ago, we were at DI and found a tickle-me-Elmo that still looked and worked great! With Coleton at the time very interested in Elmo we got it. He loved Elmo and often did things like this ....(pictures from December 2009)With Elmos mouth wide open, Coleton couldnt help but fill it with things. We thought that it was pretty cute but never expected it from another child two years later.... Hayden is also very obsessed with Elmo and as i was cleaning up the kitchen the other morning i watched as Elmos month was once again being filled with a variety of things. After a few minutes he vanished and as i went looking for him this is where i found him...

After many things had been loaded into Elmos month, by both children now, Hayden realized it was time to brush Elmos Teeth? ok maybe gums! He placed him in the sink, got his tooth brush with of course tooth paste, and went to work telling elmo every few seconds "ahhh" so elmo would keep his month open. Then of course after Elmo it was Haydens turn! :0) The two boys are so very different in so many ways but there are days like these were they dont seem so different after all!

Snow Canyon Half- Marathon!!

The day that Brandon has been training for finally came!! He started with the desire to run a half-marathon and did so great preparing. Him and his friend Nate Jensen trained for months running down Zions Canyon and taking runs at nights when the weather cooled off to get ready and then this past weekend they ran there first big race. The big day came and though we live in a pretty warm area the day of the race was freezing, literally! He had trained in 100 all the way down to 50 degree weather but boy we were not expecting to to be in the 30s! The morning of the race was raining and really windy and off the boys went to run 13.2 miles! They bundled up at 8am and started their run! Nate and Brandon ran together for the first few miles then Nate got a burst of energy and ran a head while Brandon stayed on pace. The boys and i headed over a few hours later to meet up with him at the finish line. It was so cold and the boys hated being out in the wind though by then it had stopped raining!
There were about 3 thousand runners so it was really hard to find Brandon since he was not in his normal running gear (he had gotten his running jacket the night before so i could bearly remember what he was wearing which doesnt help when you have two cold, crying children when you are trying to take pictures of him running past!) But i noticed him right it time! He made it to the end, honestly it looked like it was a miserable run but he was so proud of himself for finishing under his estimated time. He was really wanting to make it under 2 hours and make it in 1 hour 58 minutes!!!! He got a pretty fancy metal for running the race and they had a lot of cool snacks for them afterwards!We are just so proud of Brandon for sticking with running. There have been quite a few injuries that he has had to deal with blisters, foot strains, knee problem, back problems, and quite a bit more but he has kept running through all of them to keep himself healthy for the boys and me. He has lost quite a bit of weight (though i have been gaining it with the pregnancy) and he is looking and feeling great! Keep up the good work, Honey!!

Happy Halloween!!

Since last year, our little family all dressed up as the incredibles, there was high expectations of what we would be this year. Brandon has alot of his students in our ward or in our neighborhood that were wondering what we would be this year so this year we decided to be....M&M's!! We had two little M&ms and we were the packages!! Almost everyone asked if i made the costumes and though i would love to take credit for them, i did not. Brandons mom made these costumes when Brandon was the little green M&M so she was sweet enough to let us borrow them! Everyone seem to think they were pretty cute so i think we were a hit! This year we went to the community center halloween party which was held on saturday night which the boys loved and then on Monday night we went to our wards trunk-or-treat. Coleton and Hayden had a great time and we got a good little stash of candy.After hitting all of the cars, we passed a few pieces out and then headed home to pass out candy for those trick or treaters coming through the neighborhood.The boys seem to enjoy passing out the candy more then trick-or-treating themselves. Coleton loved running to the door throwing the door open and yelling "HAPPY HALLOWEEN" as he then searched through the bowl of candy deciding which candy would be best for each indivdual child. Some of the kids were waiting a couple of minutes to recieve a snickers but everytime i would tell him to hurry because the kids were waiting he would say in a destressed voice "Im trying to hurry mom!" He just wanted to make sure that everyone got just what they wanted ;)Hayden just tried his hardest to get a piece of candy into someones bag which only happened probably twice all night. As each child left our house, Coleton yelled once again, "Bye, Happy Halloween!" By the end of the night, we were all exausted and ready for bed but the boys had a lot of fun and this year halloween was a success!
Happy Halloween Everyone!

Baby #3 Ultrasound!!

We had our 18 week ultrasound and this is what we found....We are excited to announce that we are expecting a little girl!! I know if you look at the fine print this isnt really from our ultrasound (my pictures are not downloading) but you get the point! I have thought all along that it was a girl but it still is hard for me to process the thought of having dolls, bows, barbies, and pink in the house. Coleton is super excited to have a little girl and talk about her coming all of the time so we cant wait! We have alot of things to get organized but we have plenty of time to get there!

Our Little Boy Family!

For the past 3.5 years we have been an all boy family!! Our house is filled with cars, trains, blues, greens, and eveything boy! I have absolutely loved having two little boys, its alittle crazy but they are so close i would not want it any different! Coleton wants Hayden to follow him wherever he goes and Hayden loves following Coletons every foot step!

They have do everything together whether its them both playing with the Buzz lightyear action figure or both wearing the camping hats, they have to be the same. They both love there daddy and want to do everything just like him whether its running down the street or wearing clothes just like daddy.
All the way around, i just love having a family of boys but with my 20 week ultra sound coming up in a few day i have to realize that this might change. I would love to have another boy to add to the fun but but with this pregnancy being so very very different i have a feeling we might be adding some pink to the mixture???

Carving pumpkins!

This week for family home evening we decided to carve pumpkins as a family. I really enjoy this time of year, costumes, decorations, carving pumpkins, but Brandon says he could go without carving pumkins but Coleton insisted that we do so we went to walmart let hiim pick his own pumpkin out of the "pumpkin patch" and headed home for some fun! Hayden loved cleaning out the pumpkin with Brandon and Coleton and I carved the faces out!We made a "happy pumpkin" that was coletons favorite and a "angry pumpkin" which Coleton did not want looking at him ;) They were so excited to have the pumpkins that the boys wouldnt let us put them outside so they have been sitting in our house, but we are hoping that they will eventually make it outside were they belong but we had alot of fun making them!

Lightning Macqueen watch!!

About a week ago, we were trying to waste sometime so we walked around Family dollar. The boys always like to look at the toys and Coleton found this lightning MacQueen watch that he fell in love with! Since we normally dont buy toys unless its a speical occation we told him that he would have to save up the money to buy it! Well we didnt think much of it but he started asking how to make money to buy the watch so we gave him little jobs to raise some money. Cleaning up toys, making his bed, helping me clean up the table and things like that. We were quite generous and gave him a quarter for each task and after about a week... He was able to buy his watch!

He was so excited and has big plans to save up some money so that Hayden can have a watch like him but that would be spiderman! We are so proud of him and are excited to see what else he is willing to save and work for!

Exciting News at the Comstocks!!

During our mini vacation in Salt Lake City we were able to have a day to ourselves which is always fun!! My sister-in-law and brother were sweet enough to watch the boys while we spent the day at lagoon! We had so much fun and after were able to go our to eat at P.F. changs which was a first for me. The food was great and of course we love the fortune cookies!! Mine was.... "This month will be lucky and memorable for you" Though i am not one who normally believes most fortune cookies this one seems to hit me for some reason what stuck our to me was this fortune had a little bee on it so when i got home i put it away for safe keeping.
Brandon and i, since Hayden was born have decided that we wanted to add another baby as soon as we could but for some reason we were unable to get pregnant as quickly as we expected but about a week after our little trip to P.F. Changs our fortune came true.... We are thrilled to be pregnant again and are excited to see what this little one has to bring!!
Though we were so excited to be pregnant once again the excitement quickly wore off as i became rediculously sick from about week 5 til week 14!! I was unable to clean my house, walk up the stairs, stand, and pretty much anything which really was difficult for us bt we were blessd with great friends and family who checked and called us often which was such a blessing. The Dr. finally was able to prescrible zofran for me which helped so much though i wish i would have gotten it from him weeks earlier. Now at about 16 weeks things are much better and i am now able to be excited about the upcoming events. This last dr. appointment that i went to was just to check my blood pressure and the babies heartbeat but when the the dr went to check the heartbeat he was unable to find it, after a few minutes of trying with no success he decided that we should do a quick ultra sound to see what was going on which was a little nerve raking for me but when we got in he found that the reason that we were unable to find the heartrate was because the baby was so active he was unable to get it but said the baby looked fine, which was a relief to hear. That is pretty much the update on how things are going though of course there will be more to come since the ultra sound to find out the sex of the baby will be in about two weeks but for now we are just excited to have a little one joining the family the first week in March of 2011!!

Our messy boy!!

Coleton has always been a very careful little man, Hayden on the other hand not so much. Hayden is our unbalanced little dare devil and i worry often about him getting really hurt. He falls alot while running, likes to jump off beds, and seems to have bumps and bruises all the time but here is another side of Hayden... He loves to get dirty! He loves to play in the mud, if there is a puddle he has to sit in it and if were are at the park he has to play in the rubber chip puddle. For those who are unsure of what that is at the parks here they have the rubber tire chips instead of wood chips. Since there is always a puddle under the swings which both boys love, the water becomes black from the tire chips and stains everything and of course Hayden always gets messy.
We seem to loose alot of outfits when we got to the park but he still looks cute even covered in rubber water;)

Coletons First Day of School! (kind of?)

Our big boy is getting to be so... well i guess...big! Coleton now being 3.5 years old he is very social and love being with other kids his age but we just were not planning on putting him in preschool at this young of an age but when the opportunity came we took it. I have one of my beehives named Kenzie Beardall called and said that she was taking a child development class and was wondering if she could bring Coleton in to her class so she could recieve extra credit. Of course i agreed and on Friday we got him already for his first day of school. He was only going to be there for alittle over an hour but we treated it he was going to his first day of kindergarden! We got his favorite outfit on, got his hair looking nice, packed him a backpack, and of course took first day of school pictures, he was super excited....


We sent him in and he loved it! Kenzie was excited to have him there and he thought that Kenzie was the greatest thing ever and has had a hard time not talking about Kenzie she makes it in to dinner prayers, when he is pretending kenzies name comes up alot, and often looks out the window to see if kenzie is outside so he can go see here (she lives diagonal from our house and is one of our babysitters). We were glad that he got the chance to go and have that experience how for just a few more years til he really can go to school!