Thankful heart...

I hope you all have a Happy Thanksgiving!

Santa needs your help!

Alright, I need your help. Cooper has been asking for a "Smelly, Smelly Lab," I am assuming it is like a scientist thing where you can make things. He saw it on a commercial on TV and I can't figure out where to get it. I have googled it and all. So if you have heard of it or see it on a commercial PLEASE let me know. Thank ya much!

One word...

UNDEFEATED!!

The anticipation is over...

All the anticipation is over, it has come and gone. Did you like it? I did! I thought they did a great job and I thoroughly enjoyed myself:) Ready to go see it again... any takers?

Tag!

1. Where is your cell phone? Maybe in my bathroom...you know giving me some entertainment while I take care of some business:)
2. Where is your significant other? Giving Peiton a bath.
Your Hair Color? Blond and brown.
4. Your Mother? Unselfish
5. Your Father? Amazing
6. Your Dream Last Night? I don't remember
7. Your Dream/Goal? Have all my kids succeed in life and get Bode to talk.
8. Your Favorite Thing? Having downtime with family, dates with Collin, and running on a beautiful morning.
9. The Room your in? Office
10. Your Hobby? Your looking at it.
11. Your Fear? I don't like to think about fear, it scares me too much.
12. Where do you want to be in six years? A family of 8...yeah right!
13. Where were you last night? Home
14. What your not? Hungry...I definitely haven't been hungry the last 2 weeks, I can't quit eating.
15. One of your wish-list items..? The Utes' to win.
16. Where you grew up? Sandy
17. The last thing you ate? Golden Grahams. What are you wearing?
Sweat pants and a t-shirt, nothing else fits.
19. Your TV? Dinosaur
20.Your pet? No pets!
21. Your mood? Just in the middle
22. Missing Someone? Summer
23. Your Car..? Fabulous
24. Something your not wearing? Socks
25. Favorite Store? Target
26. Your Summer? Fun and missing it already
27. Love Someone? Yep
28. Favorite Color? Yellow
29. Laughed? Today
30. Cried? Yesterday

Thanks for the tag Kenz...anyone that wants to participate I tag you!

Sweet "60"!

Happy "sweet" 60 Mom!

I love you and admire you so much! Thanks for everything! You are one "sweet" looking 60 year old!

Any similarities??

(Besides the fact that I have a way more cheesy grin) Isn't she a betty?

Bode's Celebration!

I am finally getting around to posting about Bode's birthday. Bode had a great day and we had a great time watching him open every present. If it was toys, cards, or clothes, he loved it. He got so excited to open everything. We had one party at Grandma and Grandpa Richards with the whole clan. He had a blast opening all of his many presents from everyone.

My kids don't really eat cake...I am not sure where they came from, I LOVE store bought birthday cake. So I decided to make a birthday cookie.

Bode and uncle Mat blowing out the candles.


Getting excited to open his presents.

He was so funny, after he was done opening each present, he would go and take it to someone. Cam ended up with all the money...lucky dog!

On his actual birthday he spent the whole day watching movies and just playing. He was in heaven. That night my mom came over and we went out to eat at his favorite place, The Training table, I guess it is his favorite place, he loves playing with the phones.

My mom got him a Woody doll which was a big winner, he wouldn't put the thing down. He still loves it and carries it around.

Bode and Grandma Bubba

Bode we hope you had a great day! We love you bunches!

Bode it's your day!

Wow! I can't believe my little guy is turning 4. As I sat down and started reminiscing through all the photos of Bode it brought back so many memories, memories that seem like they were just yesterday. As I looked at Bode's birth pictures, the tears couldn't help but come to my eye, there was just so many feelings that flashed through my heart. Feelings of happiness, sadness, pain and most of all feelings of thankfulness. I love this little guy so much and I know you have all heard it before, but I am so thankful for the joy he brings to our family and to me. He challenges me everyday and makes me laugh everyday, I wouldn't change it for anything.

This is Bode at the hospital after he was born. He is in his "million dollar" bed...(that is what we called it because it cost so much per day to keep him in it). It was really hard because he couldn't have any visitors, parents and grandparents were the only ones that could go and see him. Once in a while we would get a nurse that would let us open the viewing windows for our family and friends so they could take a little peak at how special and cute this little guy was.
After staying at the hospital for a couple of days, he finally made it home. He required oxygen because his oxygen level wasn't where it needed to be and he also had to have antibiotics dosed IV because he he pneumonia. I hated all those tubes on him and we hated giving the antibiotics to him, it seemed really scary. But Collin did a great job and I stood back and watched.

He grew up so fast, but he stayed so little and I loved that! He was just a baby for so long.


Yumm, yumm, yumm!

We have always had to work with him on keeping his tongue in. For those that know Bode, know that his tongue is sticking out most of the time. He actually is doing so much better. You can tell him "Bode, tongue in" and he will push it in.

I few things I love about Bode:

He has the best smile, a smile that will just melt your heart:)

He does all the actions to any Backyardigans or any movie that he has watched over and over again. It is more of a workout than a relax time when he watches movies. It is hilarious.

He won't talk back to me, or should I say he can't:)

He loves to help clean, usually I have to clean up after he helps but I love that he tries.

He challenges me.

He puts such a strong spirit in our home.

He is adventurous.

I love that he loves me and loves to spend one on one time with me.

Bode, I hope your day is full of fun (watching movies and just doing what he wants).

I love you so much and can't wait for all the many more exciting years that I get to enjoy with you.

Joining the ranks:(

The time has finally come
I am going to be a bum.
I think I must go private
It’s time for me to hide it.
From the crazies all around,
when my blog is the one they found.
Just leave your email address
And then you can view my blog..o’yes!

I have really dreaded doing this, but my families safety is pretty important and I would just like to know who is looking at my blog. You can email my address @ bode1110@msn.com

Leaves Galore...

My in-laws have this AMAZING backyard, and big trees and lots of them come with having an amazing backyard. Every year during this time, they spend hours and hours raking up all the leaves that have fallen from the trees. The kids always look forward to going and spending time playing in all the leaves that have been raked up and playing in all the leaves that still need to be raked up. We actually did this last week when the weather was PERFECT, to bad it is no longer that way:(

The grand kids jumping into the leaves with Grandma Holly. She is always so good to get down and play with them, they love to spend time with her.

Peiton thought it was pretty neat too, this being her first year in them.

Just a few fun shots. Bode thought it was fun to rake them up, he is always such a hard worker, I have taught him well:)

Well now that the leaves are probably frozen, I am glad we got it in and now that dang snow can cover them up. Yuck!

Halloween

We had a great Halloween this year and I can't believe it is over. This last week was pretty eventful with all the Halloween festivities, the Richard's home love Halloween festivities. On Halloween eve, we finally were able to carve our pumpkins. Bode thought is was awesome, he was actually given a knife to play with and was able to stab things with it. He was in heaven. Cooper did an awesome job at carving his own too.

The finished jack-o-lanterns

On Halloween we started the day off by going to Coop's school Halloween parade. It was quite the adventure. We sat there for an hour until the actual parade started. By the time we saw Cooper, Peiton was ready to get out of there (so was I), but it was really fun to see all the cute and crazy costumes. We saw some pretty creative costumes.

After Coop got home from school we headed out to see my Grandma Van. Her retirement center was doing a Halloween parade and trick-or-treating for all the grand kids. Yes, more trick-or-treating, which means more candy, which means more candy for mommy, and that means more calories being eaten minute by minute (my stomach and booty are loving me this year).
It was so good to see Grandma and I think she loved having all the grand kids coming to see her. It was great to see all the elderly so excited to see the kids too.

Cooper, Grandma & Bode

Grandma and all the grand kids (well 1/2 of the grand kids)

A few random photos of our adventure at the resting home.

Notice the one on the far right corner, Bode thought it was so neat that he would go to all these people and they would just give him candy. He always would have his bag ready and got so excited when they put something in it:)

When we got home, the night was just beginning. It was off to more Halloween festivities!

This is the bum of Bode's costume (skunk) When I saw the costume I had to get it, I call him "little stinker" all the time.

Imagine a couple who is pretty much perfect. They are great neighbors, great friends, they are nice to EVERYONE, they have a GREAT sense of humor, fun to be with, they have darling little girls, and they feed the whole street YUMMY Navajo tacos on Halloween night...well no one else but ...

The Olson's~

These are our amazing neighbors the Olson's who we love dearly!

Thanks for the yummy dinner!

After dinner, Collin took Coop and Bode trick-or-treating. Bode made it to one house and he was done he clapped and headed home. Coop and Collin were out for almost 2 hours getting candy galore and visiting with fun neighbors. I stayed home and checked out all the cute costumes and by 9:45 rolled around, I was crashed and ready for bed, sorry Collin:( I am no fun, couldn't even watch a scary movie because they scare me so bad!

I hope everyone had a great Halloween and now we are on to Thanksgiving:)