Coco

Our little Courtney is constantly making us laugh. If you think of the stereotypical girl, she is it. She loves to get dressed up, wear make up (lip gloss), do her hair, she loves purses, high heel shoes, she loves to shop, sing, dance and she truly believes she's a princess. If she could have her way, she would wear a "princess dress" every day and night. She insists on wearing only pink and purple and she will only eat off of her pink plate and drink out of her purple cup. Oh, and you can't forget her talking, she loves to talk, even when she has nothing to say (this drives Jake crazy and Scott just keeps telling him to get used to it. Lol!). All of this may sound like she's a high maintenance little girl but she is the complete opposite, which is why we just laugh at her being so girly. Courtney is so sweet to everyone, she is super smart, she has the cutest and funnest personality and everyone who meets her falls in love with her.

Below are some cute pictures I've taken over the past few weeks. You can see for yourself what a ham she is.

This is Courts Tinker Bell costume that her cousins gave her. She loves wearing it every chance she gets.

Dressed up and ready to visit the neighbors. Courtney loves our next door neighbors especially their ten year old girl, Mckenna. Everyday Court insists on visiting McKenna and thankfully, McKenna loves Courtney and enjoys playing with her.

The other day my Mom was talking to Courtney telling her how pretty she looked and she replied so innocently "I'm always pretty". Oh dear. Lol!!!

Court insisted on wearing this outfit to Walmart. She even did her own hair. You should of seen the looks we got. Lol!

This is Courtney's little friend, Rainy. The first day she came over to play Court said over and over "Rainy, I love you".

I love this picture because you can see Rainy thinking "who is this girl?" Too funny!!!!

Our neighbors gave this helmet to Courtney which she wore 3 days straight. We at least made her take it off when we left the house, could you imagine the looks we would of got if we hadn't. Lol!!!

Here is Court wearing her 'play' shoes that she forgets are 'play' shoes. She insists on wearing these shoes every where she goes, even to church. I've learned to choose my battles with Courtney and in this situation I had to ask myself. "Will this really matter if she wears these unmatching plastic shoes to church"? NO. "Will it hurt her"? NO. "Will anyone care"? NO. "Well, then I guess we now have new church shoes".

I had to take this picture to document how long Court's hair is getting. It's just so crazy that Scott and I ended up with a blue eyed, blond hair little girl. Never would of thought in a million years but we love it!

One of Scott's and my favorite thing about Courtney is watching her enter a room, when she enters a room it's like she demands this special attention or she knows she has the attention and she goes for it. It's like she's thinking to herself "I'm so awesome". I don't know, it's really hard to explain but we love it, we love the confidence she has in life and in herself.

This is one of my favorite pictures. I'm in the process of changing Courts baby room into a "little girls room". I'm going to blow this up and hang it in there. It goes with my whole flower theme and color scheme. Sooo excited!!!

Bear Lake: Part 2

Here are the rest of my Bear Lake pictures. Thanks Laura!!!!!

.....These last two pictures are my favorite!! .....

And that is the end of my Bear Lake pictures. Well, until next summer!!!! Lol!

Bear Lake: Part 1

We decided to take one last trip to Bear Lake before school started. It was especially fun because my sister, Laura and her daughter Lydia came with us. We all had a blast but Courtney said it the best. At least once or twice a day she said "Mom... I'm Happy"!!! Doesn't get much better than that.

I feel that I need to apologize about the billions of pictures I have posted. For some reason when I go to Bear Lake I get picture crazy and then to have Lydia there I went extra crazy. Lol!!!

Enjoy!!

Logan & Jake

My sister Laura & I

Heather's boyfriend, Justin, brought his boat up. We had a ton of fun. Thanks Justin!

I love Courts eyes in this picture

Heather and Jake

Check out my super skinny Dad!!!!

Jake being lifted back into the boat after being thrown off the tube.

Laura did this!!!

Court and Lydia

We sure love this little girl

Daddy's little girl

Logan & Lydia

These silly little girls loved giving each other kisses

I bought these matching skirts for our little princesses. Don't they look darling!!

Pure Joy

I was taking these precious shots of Court with her Grand Dad and I didn't realize that Heather & Justin were making funny faces in the back ground. Thanks guys for ruining my pictures. Lol!!!

We love to spend Sunday evenings on the beach, we don't usually let the kids get in the water but when Lydia and Courtney sat in the water we all thought it was super cute and didn't make them get out. They sat like this for close to 20 minutes.

Singing songs with Laura's Ipod

Pool time!!!

Justin making Jake fly

Best Friends!!

More fun on the boat

I love these pictures. Look closely at Court's face... too funny!!!

If you're wondering why I labeled my post "Bear Lake part 1". The reason is; these are just the pictures that I took. I'm still waiting for the CD of all of the pictures that Laura took. I love her camera as her pictures look so much better than mine. So, as soon as I get her CD (hint, hint Laura) I'll post some of her pictures. Ha! Ha! Sorry for the torture!!!

First Day Of School

Check out our new First Grader!!

Courtney insisted on being in one of the pictures. She was all dressed up and ready to take Jake to the bus stop. Love the purse.

Kind of crazy to admit, but I've written this post 3 times now and each time I've erased it. The reason I've been having a hard time posting this, is because I've been having a hard time with Jake starting first grade. Each post I wrote was so depressing and the reason was; I was so sad. I've never delt with change well and to have this big change in our lives has especially been difficult for me. The hardest part for me has been dealing with Jake being gone all day (almost 8 hours, including the bus ride). This has triggered many emotions in me; such as his teacher seeing him more than I do, his friends having a bigger influence in his life, not being able to take care of him or protect him as much and on and on and on. You get the picture (crazy Mom, lol). But, it's now been a week and a half and thankfully I'm doing so much better. I guess like most change, you just need time to get used to it.

But, enough about me...

I can't say enough good things about our Jacob, he of course was super nervous about school, especially lunch time but he too has accepted this new change in his life and so far has excelled at it. We're so proud of him. The first few days were a little rough but he now wakes up excited to go to school. He now loves lunch, he's met new friends, he's still friends with his old ones and he loves his teacher. He was excited to inform us that he now gets to do real Math (he loves Math) and he's excited because next week he will start getting homework. Lol!!! Love my child to death!

So, I'm happy to say that we're all doing great, including our little Coco. It too has been an adjustment for her without her big brother but I'm keeping her busy with play dates, the Tree House Museum, shopping (she loves to shop) and next week she starts dance. I must say her life is pretty darn good.

Congrats to our new first grader. We love you!!!

I love this quote...
“The key to change... is to let go of fear.”