A Bazillion New Things

Here is a short and sweet overview of what has been keeping us busy this past little bit:

Cody drives the patrol car for the Veterans Day parade, the kids ride with him and throw out old halloween candy to the crowd. The only thing visible from Maycie are her patriotic hairbows in the barred windows of the backseat. I sit like a loser by myself and watch the parade trying to take video and pics at the same time.

P.S. No one parties like Page for Veterans day, school was cancelled, there were parades and canivals, it was awesome.

Riley has been in a running program for about 12 weeks and on Saturday completed a 5k in Flagstaff. Cody was her running buddy and they finished in about 35 minutes. Out of 184 girls they came in with the first 15-20 girls. Riley was so proud she wore her medal to church the next day and then to school on Monday.

While in Flagstaff we went to "Bearizona" (pretty sweet name). Here are the little darlings posing, this was about the only time that one of them wasnt throwing a fit.

Look at the look on Nolan's face, once that bottom lip sticks out you have about 5 seconds until all hell breaks loose.

Check out this obese bear, it was so unbelievably fat. I'm surprised it could even walk. We drove the loop around it about 5 times.....we were fascinated.

We take a ride on the Polar Express Nolan cries THE WHOLE TIME, sorry people in train car I. Maycie has her whole speech to Santa planned out, then panics when the big moment arrives and stands silent. I do my best to tell Santa what she wants. Then when we leave the room Maycie gets mad at me for not mentioning everything on her list. Apparently she will take one of everything at Toys R Us.

We also shopped til we dropped , the best part was when the air outside Old Navy smelled like dog food causing Maycie to gag uncontrollably, causing me to laugh uncontrollably.

After all that I am Tired.

Hot Air Balloon Regatta

This weekend was the Hot Air Balloon Regatta in Page. It was spectacular. 53 Balloons took off just below our house on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. On Sunday the wind took the balloons right over our house.
This Balloon crash landed on the next street over, we were almost late for church because we were running back and forth from front yard to back yard waiting for it to crash. It did not disappoint.

The girls watching the balloons on sunday morning.

Our drivew around town on Saturday. We unepectantly ended up at Denny's for breakfast in pajamas, with crazy hair and Maycie had no shoes. But isn't that what Denny's is for?

Saturday Morning.

On Saturday night they blocked off the street and put up the ballons in the street and lit up the fires to make the ballons glow in the dark. It was an awesome weekend.

Hopefully the video will work, if not I will fix it or post pics of the event.

Beach Bums

Dear Lone Rock Beach,

Thank you for a summer full of annoying splashing by a certain annoying someone (even though that person has been warned not to mess up my hair.) Swimming in you water has made our Coulter's muscles grow to infinite porportions.

You have given us sandy bum cheeks.

we cant wait to see you next summer,

Love, Us

P.S. we may drop in for an occasional winter bon fire.

3 weeks

The baby is now three weeks old. He's cute, we're tired, and a good poopy diaper has never been so exciting. This kid has some crazy hair, notice no hair in the front, then a full head of LONG hair in the back.
Then a little poof of hair at the top of his head. I was going to cut it, but couldn't bring myself to do it. So instead we shape it into a little Jack-Jack inspired do.

All four kids are still alive and acounted for, wish us luck.

Baby Nolan

Our sweet Baby Nolan finally came on Thursday September 23rd. He was 7lbs 12 oz and 19 inches long, our second smallest baby. Hair color and eye color are yet to be determined, since they keep changing everyday. He is very small and very cute. His head is always covered in vanilla chap stick from Maycie kissing him all the time. More pictures to come when I have the time.

The Day Maycie Grew Up

Maycie had a big day last week. Her first day of preschool AND first day of dance on the same day. Were a little worried because Maycie absolutely refuses to go to nursery. After Cody and I substituted in nursery last week we dont blame her. She is much older than all the other kids and the only one who is potty trained. I wouldnt want to sit in a hot room with a bunch of poopy crying kids either. She is way too cool for that. Dance went well, you could tell by the look on her face that she was finally among people who understood her and her three year old dancing desires.

And finally the moment she has been waiting for: 1st day of preschool. I signed her up when we first moved to Page, then when we moved we moved into her teachers ward, then we found out the Cody and her teacher Jill grew up in the same small small town. Its a small world. Now says Maycie refuses to wear anything but a dress, good thing we were smart and bought all dresses for school clothes. Every day she is Fancy pants for school.

Good luck Maycie.

Coulter Turns seven

Coulter went ahead and decided to turn seven. Dang kids, can't keep them young.
To celebrate the event I did a seven question interview with the little fella:

1. Is it better to be six or seven? "Seven because that is my favorite number."

2. What is the best part about being seven? "Being older than every number smaller than seven."

3. What do you want to be when you grow up? "A Police officer" (Cody will be proud)

4. What is your favorite thing about yourself? "Everything"

5. What is your favorite food? "Tacos and corn chowder soup from MiMi's"

6. What is your favorite thing to do? "Play sports, especially basketball and soccer"

7. Who is your favorite Mom? "You". (I thought so)

There you have it folks, a brief glimpse into the mind of our beloved Coulter.

Happy Birthday Buddy!!!!!