The boys were tagged!

The boys were tagged by Ellie..... "8 Cute things they say............
I'll start with Luke (since he is the one that talks :)

1. "My brother, Kolby"
Luke says this to anyone we meet, or anyone we stop to talk to.

2. " Mama whats that"?
I hear this at least 510 times a day

3. " No relax, walk!"
On Sunday we told Luke that we would all go for a walk after dinner. As soon as we were done eating Dew said he was going to relax for a minute. Luke started running around saying "No, relax" it took us a minute to understand what he was saying, then we burst out laughing when we figured it out.

4. "Riley come to my house"
He says this at least 5 times a day. Riley is his friend from school, he wants him to come over and play

5. "Daddies work"
We drive past Dewey's office everyday and Luke looks out the window until he can see it, so he can point it out.

6. "Oh tootles"
His current favorite show is Mickey mouse's clubhouse. He puts his hands around his mouth and yells this just like on the show.

7. "NO Kolbeeeeeeeee"
This is another one we hear ALL day long. He says Kolby with a very heavy emphasis on the E.

8. "I Love you"
We say this a lot but every night before bed we each point to our eyes then our heart then each other as we say it.

Now for Kolby....

He really only says two things, "Mama" and "Dada". Both bring a smile to our heart.
He also grunts a lot and points to everything. With all the random baby noises he makes I'm sure it won't be long before he is saying more words.

Now anyone who is reading this and has talking kids or kids just starting to talk, consider yourself tagged. Because there is just not much cuter then the things kids say.

Happy Fathers Day!!!!

I took these pictures this past week. I can't tell you how happy they make me. To me they are a perfect example of the amazing Father Dewey is. He is rolling around playing with the boys in the back yard. He had only been home from work a few minutes. Notice he is still wearing his business clothes. Without worrying about changing clothes or relaxing for a minute, he went out to play with the boys. Both Luke and Kolby LOVE wrestling with dad. (I think its a boy thing)

This is me and my dad. He was killed in a plane crash when I was six years old. He was only 31 years old at the time. Fathers Day was never a happy day for me growing up. It was the one day that I could not help but be reminded of what I had lost. It has taken me a lot of years to come to realize the loss is something that is with me always, but its also something that has helped make me the person I am.

I'm so thankful to Dewey for completely changing the way I look at Fathers Day. Its now a happy joyous day celebrating the amazing father he is. I have watched him with Cassidi for years and always known that he is a great dad. But its even more obvious now that we have the boys. I honestly could not wish for a better father for the boys.

Happy Fathers Day sweetie, We LOVE YOU!!

Happy Fathers day to my father in law! He has known me since I was 17 ( no need to count just how many years back that is) I'm so thankful to have him in my life. He is a wonderful Father and Grandfather and an amazing man.

Living in the country

Means no FFF (Favorite friday foto) today. Our Internet has been hit and miss all week. Its up now but I still can't upload pictures.
So instead you get a update......
We are finally starting to feel normal again. I am loving seeing Kolby smile again!! His laughter is music to my ears. I missed it more then I realized these past couple of weeks. He is definitely getting back to his carefree happy self. He and Luke are starting to play really well together. At the moment they are outside transferring the rocks that we use as a border to the back patio and into the house through the sliding glass door. They really do have toys outside to play with but they spend 90% of their time with the rocks. Go figure..........
It feels good to get back into the swing of things, today the boys and I did the ever exciting Grocery shopping. Hey I'm just happy to be able to get out of the house, so no complaints from me.
Hope everyone has a great weekend!!!

Our hearts and prayers....

Go out to our friend Troy and his family. Last weekend he was in a very serious four wheeler accident. He was life flighted to a hospital in Arizona. He is in serious condition but is hopefully on the mend. It will be a long recovery but he is strong and has an amazing spirit we know he will be fine. Dewey drove down Monday to check on him and see with his own eyes that he is OK.
It always amazes me to see the way people pull together when something like this happens.
Troy and Wendy mean the world to us....... Troy is one of the best people I know, I could go on and on but I think he knows how we feel about him.
Troy don't scare us like that again!!! We LOVE you!!!!

These are pics from our last Las Vegas Bon Jovi trip. Aren't Troy and Wendy cute as can be?

Dewey, Troy and Me

Cassidi's Party!

Cassidi's Graduation party was a blast!! Her mom and grandma did a wonderful job with decorations and food. It was so fun to have so many people there to celebrate Cass. It was a wonderful mix of both families. My brother Steve and his girlfriend came down to help us with Luke and Kolby. It was so nice, the boys got to spend time with their uncle (who they adore) and we could focus on Cass.

Billy (Cass's boyfriend) flew in from Seattle for the party. They are such a cute couple, I'm so excited, they both have such bright futures ahead of them.

Luke was loving the cupcakes, all the pictures after this one show just how much, he has blue frosting everywhere.

All five of us! I love this picture of the three generations!!

My crazy twin nephews, they were getting down with their bad selves singing Karaoke

Cassidi!!!

I know that I'm biased but is Cassidi beautiful or what? :) These are her graduation pictures, I just love them!! They show her personality perfectly.
I'm so proud of her!! And honestly a little in shock that she is graduating....... wow time flies. It seems like yesterday that we were going to her preschool graduation.

Her mom and grandma are throwing a huge BBQ for her graduation party tomorrow night. We are all driving up tomorrow for the party. (She lives a few hours North of us) We can't wait, we have not been able to see her since we brought Kolby home. Grandma and Grandpa are driving up too. It should be lots of fun, I'm sure I'll take a zillion pictures.

Bleh........ick........yuck

Kolby and I have been sick for the past week .........ugh!!! I can't even tell you what we have, cold....flu we have had it all. (I didn't even know you could have it all) We are both still coughing, which means neither one of us is sleeping for more then a half hour at a time.

Dewey has been AMAZING!! Juggling Work, running Luke back and forth to preschool, shopping, taking care of the house and us. So far he has not caught whatever we have.

If you ask Luke about being sick he will tell you "Luke, daddy and grandpa are not sick cus we're cowboys". He cracks me up I don't know where he gets this stuff.

Hopefully we are both on our way back to being our healthy selves. (we better be, we can't afford the amount of diapers Kolby if flying through)