16 Days............

Of Lovin' on This Boy in the morning.

Of Super Why at 9:00.

Of hearing my Boy yelling back
"Yesh Momma"
when I call his name

Of not worrying about Next Semester

Of Pretending I will have enough Energy
to make it through Next Semester.

Of Lights and Colored Paper and Santa Claus.

Of thinking about how much Baby Jesus
must have been loved by HIS Momma.

I Love Vacations!

Oh and Merry Christmas

The Lights on "The Square"

Nick and I have never been to the Christmas lights at Temple Sqaure together. So to finish off our wonderful weekend we took Coop Up. He Loved IT!!
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He did not stop moving. I have never said
"Excuse me, I am so sorry" So many times before in my life. As I frantically chased him through the surging crowds.
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Here is our pathetic attempt at our Family"Self Portrait". Like I said he did not want to hold still!!!

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The lights were beautiful. Coop woke up the next morning and wanted to go see the lights at "Jesus House"

Thanksgiving Part 2: Holiday Fun

We had all sorts of activities for the kids to do at my Parents house.
My Mom had them paint ornaments.

















And I made them Yummy Cookies and Homeade Frosting.
(sidenote) My sister could not figure out why her 3 year old napped(never happens). And my other sisters 4 and 5 year old napped. Then I remembered I accidently added to much almond extract to frosting. Does anyone know the alcohol content on that stuff.










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This is the face you get when you tell your 2 year old, he cannot just sit and eat all the sprinkles!!!!

Thanksgiving 2009 Part 1

We got to spend Thursday and Friday with my entire Family.
It was so much fun!! Here are some of our Family Pictures.

Here are all the grandkids.
The other boy in the picture my nephew, Jayden, is more than a year younger than Coop and they weigh the same!!

Here are all my Sibs with our Folks!

Thanks for letting us hang out Guys!!!

Why Nick Looks So Cool.......

At the Beginning of October Nick got Lasik.
That's right no more glasses.
Well I told him that if he got to have Lasik. Then Coop and I got to go to the zoo!!

So here they are.
A little late folks.
Pictures of us at the zoo!!
My Cute Little Family.

My Big Grown Up Boy!!!
Another cool part of our day was that Nicks Parents drove out to go to the Zoo with us!! It was so much fun spending time with them.
Plus they gave Coop their Carousel tickets.
He loved it!!

Nick In his Ultra Cool Eyewear.
He has really enjoyed wearing sunglasses!!

I'm not Tired!! I want to play!!!

What a Funny Kid!!!!

Birthday Festivities

First: Chili Mac- The most marvelous gift of heaven.
Make regular mac and cheese and
add a can of chili!!
C'est Delicieuse!!!

Nick however does not believe in he wonderful tradition that is Chili Mac and took me out to Olive Garden!!
Oh so Yummy.
I Get to eat the leftovers today for Lunch!!

I Got Presents!!!

I Got a Fatboy Icecream Sandwich Cake!!
(Cant really see the reasoning behind making a whole cake for the 2 1/2 of us!) Pathetic I know!!

And then Coop had to help me eat it!!
(Sugar and I are not getting on so well lately.)

It was a pretty good day!!

Thanks to everyone who called, I sure felt popular!

One More Year and I will be 29 Forever!!

So I took my picture down off the big Birthday Calendar they have in the faculty room.
Not for the reason you would think, but because it was a Really Ugly Picture.

I really don't have much to say, except that I feel older................
Or maybe I am just tired:)

Hope your day was wonderful,
and you are all invited for
A Lovely Chili-Mac dinner tonight!!
This is always my B-day dinner

p.s. Happy Birthday Erin Click on her name to find out why she is so cool!!

Time-Out

Three times the charm.
When he gets out of bed for the 3rd time he has to sit in time-out.
It is so cute and sad and pathetic.
All at the same time.

Airplane (For Papa)

Coop got the coolest late birthday present.
It is an airplane that comes apart.
It has screws and a little drill.
He is really good at taking it apart,
but Daddy usually has to help him put it together.

My Papa (My Moms Dad) used to build airplanes.
So we are pretty pleased that Coop likes it too!!

P.S. Do you notice anything different about Nick???

Reading With Daddy

Someday I hope this little boy will recognize
how lucky he is,
to have a Daddy that loves him
so much!!

Re-landscaping (dont tell the HOA)

This is our new Baby Tree.

It was so fun to put in.

Coop Loved diggin in the Dirt

Don't Tell the HOA!! (I'm Serious!)

How to make Nick Angry

Warning read the Previous post first.
Now i extrapolated this conversation out of what I was told later, but you can get the gist. I am actually making the Cop nicer than he was!

Now Nick was sitting at Home enjoying a quiet evening while Coop and I were at our play date, when a knock come on the the door.

It was our new neighbor John, asking to borrow a ladder, but behind he comes dum.dum.dum THE COP.

Cop "Who was driving that car?"
Nick "No one"
Cop to John "are you the roommate?"
John "I was just borrowing a ladder"
Cop" Why were you walking around outside?"
John "I live next door and I was coming over to borrow a ladder"
Cop "Who was driving the car"
Nick "No one the keys are in my pocket"
Cop "Your car was just seen driving down the parkway. who was driving it"
Nick " Lets go ask the neighbors if it was gone. they have been outside all evening."
Cop "can't do that, they might be lying"
Cop" The engine feels warm"

So Nick raises the hood and they place their bare hands on the engine

Cop" yup feels warm"
Nick "But we can touch it without our skin melting off, so it was not racing down the parkway 15 minutes ago"
Cop "But it is warm. Is there a woman that drives this car?"
Nick "My wife"
Cop "Where is she?"
Nick " At The park"
Cop "so she drove the car! the report that was filed said it was a female."
Nick" I have both sets of keys and the car has been here all night, just ask the neighbors"
Cop "It doesn't matter what they say. They are probably lying"

About this time they called me.

Now for those of you who have met my husband , Have you EVER seen him truly angry? Well try calling him a liar for an hour and see what happens to my mild mannered Engineer!!!!

I thought he was going to deck the cop and get arrested. He says he was trying to get the cop to Hit HIM!!

At the end of this amazing evening the big jerk cop goes on this soapbox about how if there was a murder and he saw some guy that fit the description. He could not just take the guys, his wife's, his entire extended family who was over for a barbecues' word on it because they might be lying and a crime has been committed and you are "GUILTY UNTIL PROVEN INNOCENT"

I Think The System Might be Broken.

The Evil 50

No I am not talking about getting older I am referring to a run-in with "The Five-Oh" we had about 3 weeks ago.

Let me set the scene.

I had scheduled a play-date with my wonderful friend Amy. Amy lives here with her family, actually really close to us and has 2 little boys. So Coop and I hopped on our bike and we met at 6:30 at the park around the corner from my house.

It was so fun. Amy's oldest was running around with Coop and they were have a jolly old time.

Then comes "The Phone Call".

7:30 PM
Nick" Tawny did you drive the car"
Tawny "No. You know I rode my bake"
Nick"Well our car was just seen drag racing down the parkway"(the big road by our house)
Tawny "What!"
Nick "They said it was a female driver"
Tawny "What"

(In The background I hear>"Let me talk to her")

Cop "Hello Mam"
Tawny "Hello"
Cop "When did you drive the car last"
Tawny "When I picked up my husband from work"
Cop "Where are you now"
Tawny "At a Playdate at the park"
Cop "So what time did you drive to the park"
Tawny " I got here at 6:30, but i rode my bike"
Cop "so you were driving at 6:30"
Tawny "No I rode my bake"
Cop "mam let me explain the situation to you. at approx 7:10 this evening your car was seen racing down the Parkway by a concerned citizen . The citizen gave a description and license plate number and said the driver was a female. I located your address and the engine is still warm on your car"
Tawny "I have been here"
Cop "Mam I am just making you aware and you will be receiving a citation.
Tawny "What, I am right around the corner I will be there in 1 minute"

So I loaded up my angry boy (he kind of has to be weaned slowly off the park) Asked my friend and her husband to accompany me back to the house as witnesses. When we get to the house Amy valiantly sticks up for me, though the cop does not seem to care.

He once again repeats the charges, and I ask if there is any way it is just one of my students playing a joke.
Cop "Oh no mam. That is a felony"

So he calls dispatch and has them call "the complainant" to get a description of, what he is sure will be, me.

At this point the person decided to drop the charges.........................but is it over? Oh no.

He then proceeds to tell me what actually happened. Instead of the spun up version he told before, I guess to get me to confess.

Some guy had called in with the following description "Blue SUV, female driver and a couple of the same numbers as our license plate"
Now do you remember our car? We drive a black Pontiac Vibe!

Now remember the previous conversation. "we were given a license plate number and located your address" Turns out he could not locate the license, but happened to be driving through our subdivision, saw our car in the open garage ( Open cause I was riding my bike) , and put 2 and 486 together to make 4 and Voila, I was guilty.

And by our engine being hot.
He meant it was a little warm to the touch, sitting in our 100 degree garage!

But it was just to much of a Coincidence for him to pass up!

Coming up next " What happened to Nick"

Just Treading Water

Will catch up soon, hopefully.

Hiking The Uintahs

Here is the Self-Family-Portrait.


The First thing Grandpa does on a hike is pick a "Walking Stick. So naturally Coop needed one too! So here he is showing off his Ninja moves with his walking stick.
Thanks Grandpa!!
Here is Me and my Baby Boy!


Here are my Guys playing in the river with "The Stick"

He started to get tired.
Here are my cute in-laws!

The Things Coop Can Do.

Color Really Nicely



Shoot Grandpa!


Line Things up!

Self Portrait Saturday

We have decided to take Family self portraits
at all the places we go from now on.
One day it will be so fun to have all these!!!

Here we are at Legoland

And The Grand Canyon!!

OK! OK! I am done,
No more stupid Alliteration in my post titles

p.s. Totally just realized I am wearing the same shirt!!

Fee Free Weekend Friday

There was another Fee Free Weekend
on August 15, so we decided to go to
The Grand Canyon.

I don't remember ever going here before so it was very cool.

However everything that is "cool"
is right on top of a deathly drop to the canyon floor!
Oh man it is so high!!!
I have the hardest Grip on that railing!!!

This is a statue of a donkey and apparently Coop REALLY Liked it!!!

Here he is at Pipes Spring on the way to the Grand Canyon,
playing in the water that we were told we should
"Not let him drink and wash his hands as soon as possible"
What good is that Spring???

Hangin out at a wagon at the spring.
Coop got really upset when the guy
wouldn't share his food!!

Theme Park Thursday

One of the Greatest things about
LEGOLAND
is it has A Lot of
LEGOS!!!

There is particular place where you can go
and sit in a Lego workshop
and just build to your hearts content!!

Cooper was very intent on his work

Then Mom and Dad got in on the Fun.

I think he liked it so much because it was shady,
he could sit
and he didn't have to wait in line!

Another Great Thing about LEGOLAND
is the cool characters spread
all over the Park made of Legos

Bob The Builder

Thomas The Train

And Of course all the Cool Rides
Legoland is more geared for little kids than many other Theme Parks so Coop was able to go an almost all the rides.
But he was too short for the Roller coasters (Poor Daddy)

The next Best thing about Legoland Day
is The Relaxing Afternoon Nap!!

Sleep Tight!