Our vacation to Arizona

So for spring vacation My mom, Deejay, Karli, Paige and I packed up the car and decided to road trip to Yuma, Arizona to see our grandparents! I was so sad that Coleman couldn't come and he was pretty upset too. It was hard to leave him but we will have more vacations in the future with him. Anyways we had told my grandma that we weren't leaving until 5 am on Saturday April 2nd because we wanted to get an early start since we were driving all the way through in one trip. Well we tricked her an actually left the night before and drove through the night to suprise her. 2 of us stayed awake while the other 2 slept and then we would switch!! It worked pretty good but let me tell you it was a VERY long night! About a 15 hour drive to be exact. We arrived at grandma and grandpa's house at about 630 am and boy was grandma suprised!! We had told grandpa that we were coming early so he would be expecting it!! It was great to see the look on my grandma's face and it was so nice to see them!! We miss them so much when they leave for the winter! The weather was absolutely beautiful while we were there!! 80 degrees most of the week!! Here are a few pics!!Enjoy

Deejay on the ride down.

Paige loving her toy from the kids meal from wendy's.

Paige sleeping in the car. She did so awesome!! She slept almost the whole way there!!

Deejay again watching Conference.

Grandma said she was just "resting her eyes" but she was totally sleeping!! :)

Karli being crazy as usual and messing with my camera!!

My mom is going to be ticked about this picture but it makes me laugh! Love you!

St. Patricks day pictures

The 3 of us matched on St. Patty's day and we took some pictures... So I have to post them... : )

Can I just say this picture of me and coleman is ridiculous!!!

I had to post it, we never have pictures of the two of us anymore

because we are always taking pictures of Paige!!!

(She is much more fun to take pictures of and very cute too!)

Peach rings

This post is long overdue!! I just keep forgetting to put it on here. One night Coleman was sitting in the recliner eating some peach rings. He kept hiding them from Paige because we didn't want her to have any. Well she got up on the couch and crawled over there and found them, somehow neither of us noticed until we found her like this...

She had one in each hand and was sucking all of the sugar off of them!!

And then she decided to share with dad.... mm gross haha

How can anyone resist this cute little girl!!!

Our birthday girl!

Look who turned 1!!

 

I can’t believe our little girl is ONE!! It is so crazy!! She is the greatest blessing to our family and we love her so much!! We had a birthday party to celebrate her turning 1! It was a great turn out. We had Jimmy Johns sandwiches for lunch, opened her presents and then finished the party off with cupcakes!! Delicious! Paige had a lot of fun and was such a cute little birthday girl. Our theme was cupcakes and her shirt had a cute cupcake on it that said “I’m the birthday girl” She got a lot of really cute clothes and a bunch of fun toys too!! I think she liked the cupcake part the best though. She loves to smash her own food and boy did she have a good time with her very own cupcake!! She is such a sweetie! Here are some pictures from her birthday party! Thanks to everyone that came and for the gifts and the good company. It was a great day!

Paige has gotten pretty good at opening presents!

Our delicious cupcakes.

More presents

Maecie wanted to play too!! Best friends! Aren't the cute together?

Her very own cupcake.

Dig in!!

And that irresistible smile.

Paige's 1 year birthday pix.

Tyra Andrews Photography took Paige's photos and they turned out so cute!

I love them!! She was so smiley and such an awesome girl as always.

I can't belive she is almost one year old!!

She is such a sweetheart and I couldn't ask for a better child!

I love you Paige!

Surgery

 Most of you probably know that for the past 2 years I have had horrible problems with my sinuses. I tried to be tough and just deal with it but it got to the point where I could never breathe through my nose and I had to get surgery to fix it or face permanent damage. So on the 2nd Coleman took me to the Idaho Falls surgical center at 6 am!! What  a trooper!! We took Paige to Grandma Ann's the night before so that we didn't have to take her with us that early. She loves hanging with Grandma and Grandpa.  So I had surgery at 715ish and we left around  11 am we finally left. It took me awhile to wake up from the anesthesia. I wasn't in too much pain but I was feeling a lot of pressure. Coleman was such a sweetie and took of a few days from work to take care of Paige and work from home. Luckily we had a lot of help with Paige from family and that helped a lot! I was feeling alright until Saturday after the surgery Paige hit me in the nose, HARD. It hurt so bad that I immediately had tears rolling down my face!!After that I was in a ton of pain!! Thankfully i had some good meds!! The doctor said that she didn't mess anything help, thank goodness. But he said that everything is healing well and I got back on Tuesday for another check up. I haven't had near the pain i thought i would from the surgery and I felt even better after I went to the doctors office.

It was super emotional for me after my post op check up and  I had the packing taken out.. I got in the truck with Coleman and I took a deep breath in and I just started crying!!! It was the greatest feeling in the whole world!!! I could breathe!!!! I hadn't felt that good in such a long time and even though I was still in a little pain I was so happy!! The surgery has already had a huge impact on my life and I am so glad we made the decision to get it!! Thank you Cole!! I love you!!

Happy Anniversary Cole!

On February 28 Cole and I had our 2 year anniversary. Over the weekend we left Paige with Grandma Kristie and Grandpa Paul and Cole and I went and had 90 min massages that were really amazing! After our massages we went to Applebees for dinner and it was delicious! We had such a fun weekend together and it was nice to spend some time alone. Even though I missed Paige like crazy! When we went to pick her up Paige was looking out the window and had the biggest smile on her face when she saw us walking up to the house! It was so good to see her!!

These have been the best two years of my life and I can't wait to spend many more with my wonderful husband!! I am so lucky to have  him in my life and I am so grateful for all that he does to give Paige and I such a wonderful life!! I love you Coleman!