Copycat

So, I was looking at my friend, Melissa's blog and was inspired by 2 of her posts. One she posted about her apartment and tagged me. (I'll have to get right on that, but I want to clean up the huge mess I made today before I take any pictures of my apartment). The other was the 4th picture from the 4th folder in her pictures folder. I thought I'd give that one a shot:

This is a picture of Tyler after a crazy skiing accident in high school. Pretty gorey, right? He showed me this picture on our second date (and we still got married Ü )! His skiing accident also played a role in his decision to go to go into medicine. So here we are very happily married and going to med school in CA and it all relates to this picture. Pretty crazy hu?

Thanks for the fun idea, Mel!

Hilarious!

So, I feel like a geek posting without pictures, but today was too funny to pass up sharing the moments!

Number One Funny Moment-
This morning Cole walked over to the door, turned around and emphatically said "up! dirt!" Up means out and dirt meant he wanted to go outside to dig. I love this little guy! Every time I turn around he makes my day! :) His newfound method of expressing himself is keeping things interesting! I like it a lot better than the pointing and yelling.

Number Two Funny Moment-
Playdough. I won't elaborate too much. Just think of it as a three stage process.: playing, mopping and bathing. :)

Number Three Funny Moment-
This afternoon Cole stood by the broom closet and repeated "vac, vac, vac..." about a million times (you can say it a lot of times in 20 minutes). He wanted to get the vacuum out of the closet to hear how loud it is and play with the cord (he can entertain himself with the cord for hours). I explained to him that we couldn't ge the vacuum out until Dad got home. (I didn't want to vacuum right then. I'd just mopped the floor 4 times in 1 hour.) He eventually moved on to something else. When Tyler got home, the first thing Cole did after giving him a big hug was to walk over to the closet and start saying "vac, vac, vac..." I lauged and told Tyler what I had promised. He laughed and said "You're like the elephant that never forgets." Cole's response was a big smile, an elephant sound and lots of laughs. We all almost died laughing! Tyler got the vacuum out and Cole watched him vacuum the whole apartment. Talk about entertainment! Afterwards Cole played with the vacuum in our room for about 45 minutes until we forced him to stop for dinner. :) What a funny little guy!

happy halloween!

Happy Halloween to you! cole and his second favorite pumpkin

surfer cole

eating snoopy's surf board

what a funny time of year! we were going to dress cole up as whinny the pooh. he has a cute little outfit that my cousin gave him when he was born. it just fits! we were pretty excited about that. it took all the stress out of figuring out what to do for a costume. but, as luck would have it, the week of halloween saw temperatures here in the upper 90s. it didn't even dip below 70 even at night! it was way too hot to wear a sweatshirt!! so, for our ward halloween party we resorted to our favorite thing to wear - swimming stuff. cole was a surfer instead of pooh bear. he seemed to think that was just fine. :) on halloween it was 98* so we stuck with the surf stuff!

coleman and his friend mckenna hugging at the halloween party (right before they both fell over)

surfer cole

dad and cole socializing at the halloween party- we met lots of cool people there. it was fun to do it with 2 wards!

this is cole's favorite halloween decoration. grandma neff gave it to me when i was teaching school to set up in my classroom. it's really our only halloween decoration, but it's just as well. cole had to have it turned on every time he ate (4 or 5 times a day) and every time he walked by the kitchen table (the rest of the day). he figured out how to unplug it and he loves carrying it around the house. now that halloween is over i have to hide it. i can't find the box, so he still finds it once in awhile and we have to get it down an let him carry it all around for hours.

beautiful california

California has some of the weirdest and coolest plants I've ever seen. Maybe it's just 'cause they're new to me, but I think they're beautiful!! I'm constantly looking around for beautiful here. I really miss my mountains!

visit from mom and dad

hey look! a space helmet! - i can see you, earthling!

put them in, take them out, put them in, take them out...

wow! i love tools

buzz! buzz!

buzz!

helping dad and grandpa is so fun!

grandma reads good stories!

grandpa's and my favorite movie is "mary poppins"

my parents came to visit in october. it was soooooo fun to have them here. it was a really busy week for tyler, but he worked his schedule out really well so we could all spend some time together. we ate luch at western with tyler a couple of the days and hung out in the evenings. we just relaxed and mom and dad helped with a lot of things around the apartment. we even had time to hit a few antique shops! cole LOVED hainging out with grandpa and grandma. he really loved working on the storage shed door with dad and grandpa - you know - 'ya gotta love the manly stuff! thanks mom and dad! we love you!

october 2008

new words

it seems like cole learns a new word every time we turn around. he loves to talk to us or to himself. here's a list of his words so far (all the ones we understand, anyway) -

bath

snack

grapes

cheese

dad

mom

what

that

up

on

off

book

read it

eyes

sip

Jesus

nose

hat

hot

ice

tent

stuck

hot dog

duck

dog

apple

Burt

hammer

clock

congratulations little buddy! we're so proud of you and all the neat things you're learning!

i love to be silly!

cole loves to just practice walking around while talking to himself. he loves to be silly too, so this was the perfect moment for him. he walked around laughing and saying "hat, hat, hat..."

10.18.08

newport beach in october!

i love this stuff!

yep! it doesn't get much better than this!

saturday we decided to hit the beach one last time before the weather turned cold (turned out we had all sorts of time on our hands - it was 98* on halloween). we went with our friends, the andersons. we had a great time even though the weather wasn't fabulous. we even saw a whale (we think).

october 11, 2008

waterfall/they have water here somewhere!!

coleman and our friend, clara, enjoying the ride

after we went swimming in ice water...

this is like the shower, but so neat 'cause there are rocks to walk on! - and the water is FREEZING!!!

hmmm... i think i'll jump right in

cole and i went on an adventure with our friends, sally and clara. we hiked up to a waterfall and ate lunch and played in the water. cole LOVED the water and the waterfall. he has absoluteley no fear! he played 'till he was as cold as an ice cube then we went home. thanks sally and clara! we love hanging out with you guys!!

october 1, 2008

joshua tree

these are joshua trees. pretty cool. it's amazing they can survive out here!

getting a good look at this weird tree...

hmmm... dad! what IS this?

you see cole, you put your hand in like this and it's called a hand jam

best buddies chillin' in one of their favorite places - on a rock

last weekend tyler and i decided we'd had enough of the normal grind. we ignored the laundry and the messes and other mundane things we should have been doing and headed for joshua tree. it's about a 2 hour drive from san dimas, but we figured it was worth it to get out. we're missing how easy it was to spend a lot of time outdoors in utah. the trip turned out to be really fun! coleman especially had a blast!!! he loves to be outside. he had an especially good time eathing the sand and rocks. tyler got a couple climbs in and i just enjoyed being outside and taking a few pictures. lots of people took pictures of tyler climbing. we were in a pretty high traffic place. unfortunateley, i couldn't quite balance watching cole who was tied in to the back of my harness and belaying tyler and taking pictures. sometime we'll have to bring a friend to be the photographer. :) we have to go back anyway. this park has a 5.0 climb - we've gotta do it just to say we did it. there are so many easy climbs that we could start at 5.0 and then go to 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, etc. i think they have all the way to 5.13 (i'll have to check with tyler) anyway, fun weekend getaway.