Getting BIG!

7 months later!

Why do they have to get big so fast!??

365- Week 6

02/05/11

Chris with his mom and grandma at the funeral luncheon.

02/06/11

Chris got his new TV for downstairs so that meant Superbowl Party at our house. Here is the girls hanging out while the guys were watching the game.

02/07/11
These boys play so good together in the afternoons while Nick and Chloe are at school. I love watching them together.

02/08/11
Aubrey in her swing.

02/09/11
Nick helping Chris did yet again. After we had an injury Chris pulled the trampoline out if the ground and had to make the hole bigger to put in a retaining wall.

02/10/11Bath time and ready for bed.

02/11/11
Red, white, and pink day at school. Most mornings Chloe has a rough go, but Friday she was so happy I couldn't help but capture some of her smiles!

Grandpa Bud

Grandpa Bud passed away a week ago yesterday. Chris and I were able to go up to St. George and be with him in his last couple hours of life. Chris was so close to his grandpa that it was extremely hard on him. Poor Nick took it hard too.
This last weekend was his funeral.

This is his brother Hughie and his wife Geraldine. They came from Alabama to be here for the funeral. Hughie gave the eulogy at the funeral and did a wonderful job. He talked about Bud being a worker, a talker and a giver. I know that Chris is a worker just like his grandpa, and that his grandpa was very proud of him for being such a hard worker. Chris really enjoyed listening to him because he reminds him so much of his grandpa. Chris told his great-uncle that he was going to have to start calling him on a regular basis so he could hear "grandpa" talk.

All of the great grand kids were supposed to sing "I am a Child of God" but Nick and Chloe were crying so hard that they couldn't sing. My heart just broke watching them try to be strong and just couldn't.

Chris was able to be one of the pallbearers with his uncles Dave and Tom, his cousins JD and Dave, and his brother -in -law Robert.

He served in the Air Force for 4 years, so he was able to have a Veterans Memorial graveside ceremony. I know that Granny was very grateful to receive that flag.

We lost another great man. He too will be missed.

365- Week 5

This last week was probably the fastest, but at the same time the longest week of my life!
So much for trying to keep the pictures even. I didn't even take a single picture on a couple of the days. Hopefully this week will be better!

01/29/11

In St. George at our friends, the Holt's house. They so kindly watched Aubrey while Chris and I were at the hospital with his grandpa. When we came to pick her up she was out cold, swaddled like a tiny baby. It was so sweet!

01/30/11

Cooper and Grandpa

Sunday night dinner at my mom and dad's house.
Roast, it was delicious!

No picture for 01/31/11

02/01/11Makaylin. Mavrik brought down the Indiana Jones hat and decided that his little sister wanted to wear it. She left it on for a long time.

No picture for 02/02/11

02/03/11Nick had his first den meeting for Cub Scouts. Moving, Christmas, and a crazy January kind of set back Nick starting scouts, but he finally got to go. He was so excited and nervous. He wanted me to take him in. I liked that he wanted me to. He had a great time and I am actually really excited for all the things that scouting has to offer.

02/04/11

Aubrey already loves the phone!!

Twins

When you look at your ultra sound pictures and say that your baby looks like so and so, you usually aren't right. I mean who can look at a black and white, blurry profile pic and know who your kids looks like.

I can!!

But I didn't know how right I really was!

Everytime I see an old family friend or family that we haven't seen for a while they always say Cooper looks just like your younger brother when he was little.

It is true! Cooper looks just like Josh, freckles and all!

Grandpa Mike

My grandpa passed away a couple of weeks ago.

He was a good man and he lived a good life.

My grandpa was a Marine.

I am thankful that my grandma is such an awesome lady. Even though it was so hard for her she was always worrying about others and how it was hard on them. She made sure that we all had an opportunity to say good bye to grandpa and allowed us to be with him while he passed away.
This last week was the funeral. There was a viewing and vigil on Thursday night and then we attended Mass and a Veterans Memorial burial on Friday.

It was not a fun event but it was neat one. I loved seeing my grandma's love shown for Grandpa. I thought that the Marines did a great job at the burial.
It was neat to see them carry the casket in.

They also did a 21 gun salute. They each fired 3 times and each shot represented 7.

The shells from the shots were picked up and given to my grandma inside of the folded flag.

Jeremy, Josh and Jordan were able to be pallbearers.

They gave out little American flags to wave by the graveside.

Grandpa was the proudest Marine there ever was!

Side note: At the vigil Gary, my grandpa's son was talking about him giving his eulogy, he said that he was known as "Captain Safety". We grandkids always called him that when we were little, but didn't know his son did too. That was pretty funny in and of itself. Then he said that there must have been some pretty serious safety concerns in heaven and that it is why he was taken from this earth.

365- Week 4

I know that the majority of all the pictures I take are of Aubrey! She is just so cute all the time and she doesn't talk back and she still lets me take her picture. So, she is nice!! Anyways, I am going to try and do equal time on my weekly posts from now on=) Starting next week...

01/22/11

Little Cousins! Chris' family came over for a bbq and since Landon is out of the hospital now we thought we would get all the cousins on the couch for a group shot.

01/23/11

Yes, Aubrey sleeps in my closet. She does have a real bed in her room, but it is just so far away from me. She was sick all weekend. She looked so sad.

01/24/11

This is how Alex and Cooper spend most of their afternoons. Relaxing and watching a movie. They watch Transformers most days, they are kind of obsessed with it right now and have been since about October or November. Alex usually leaves his clothes on, on the other hand Cooper usually takes his off the second we walk in the door from school.

01/25/11
Aubrey and Makaylin hanging out at Grandma's house. It was quite a chore to get these two to just look at the camera at the same time, let alone smile!

01/26/11

You might think that this is the only picture I had to choose from for this day. That may be true, but I did want to remember this time. Aubrey is nowhere close to crawling, but we are heading that way. When I stuck her in her bath tub that morning she was trying to climb out. It was pretty funny and sad at the same time because I so don't want her to get big.

01/27/11

I didn't actually take any pictures myself on this day, so this one that Chris will have to work. This is at my Grandpa's funeral. I was just telling Jeremy that we need to take more pictures together, so this was actually his idea. I have such awesome brothers and sisters!!

01/28/11

Chloe was so excited when I stuck Aubrey in the bath with her. Now every time I have gone to give Aubrey a bath Chloe wants to join her. Sweet sisters!!