Halloween

We have been super busy. We moved into our new house just in time for Halloween! We were so excited to have a neighborhood to go trick-or-treating in and the boys loved it! Jamers only made it to about 10 houses when he got a sucker, his favorite, and was done. Corbin on the other hand was quite a trooper and made it all around the neighborhood. His treat of choice was Kit Kat's and Reese's. It was so fun to watch Corbin get excited and run from house to house and Jamers trying to keep up. Those two are starting to become good little buds. Yay!

Every year Colby's Mom takes the grandkids to get their pictures taken in their Halloween costumes. Here are the adorable pictures taken by FotoFly.

Graduation, Hawaii, and a Birthday

We had a very busy month of May. First Colby Graduated!!! Hooray!!!

Then we went to Hawaii with Colby's family. It was so much fun! The time change was a little hard on the boys, but we all still had a great time. While we were there we went snorkeling, visited the Polynesian Culture Center, hiked Diamond Head, Colby went golfing, I got a spa day, and we did a lot of relaxing on the beach!

Our most memorable moment I think would be hiking Diamond Head with a stroller. Now if you have hiked Diamond Head before you know that that is just crazy and stupid. You are completely right. We were trying to catch up to Colby's family and didn't read the signs or anything. The trail starts out paved so we figured it would be like that for the whole way up, but then the trail gets rocky and then it gets rockier and then there is lots of stairs and more stairs. People kept looking at us like we were crazy and kept warning us of what was up a head, but instead of stopping and turning around we kept going. Colby and I didn't want to carry Jamers (aka fatty face) up the hill, so we just kept him in the stroller. Until finally when we were about 25 ft away from the stairs we parked and continued onward. From there we met Colby's family coming down the hill and they laughed and laughed at us. Thankfully they carried Jamers and the stroller back down while Colby, Corbin and I kept on going. I was proud of Corbin that he made it all the way. The whole thing was very comical.

Corbin keeps asking "when are we going to Hawaii again?" I'm wondering the same thing...







Then last but not least, Jameson turned 1! The time goes by fast, but I swear it goes by faster with the second child. We had a Cars themed birthday party for him. Corbin of course was a great big brother and helped open presents and blow out the candles. Jamers loved his birthday cake. At first he was a little unsure, but once we gave him a fork he went to town!

Coming to the End

For almost the last 7 years Colby has been in school, 4 of which have been in Pharmacy School at the University of Utah. I can't even begin to tell you how proud of him I am, he has worked so hard. Let me put things in perspective...The last year he has been working 64+ hours a week, about 40 hrs were spent at rotations, and then the remaining amount at his regular job. It was totally normal to have 16+ hr work days. The longest stretch he went without having a day off went for 54 days. It has been hard on all of us having him gone so much. Thank goodness for good neighbors and family who have supported us through it all. We really couldn't have gotten through without you guys!

I am happy to announce that Colby finally finished rotations a couple of weeks ago! He has found a job here in Utah and starts on Monday! (Which we are way excited about since this whole time we thought we would for sure be moving out of state.) Unfortunately, we still have the 64+ hour work weeks for a couple more months until our new insurance kicks in. At least there is a light at the end of the tunnel!!! So now we are just waiting for graduation on May 6 and then he takes the NAPLEX and Pharmacy Law test to become an official Pharmacist. Yay! I'm so excited for Colby to be done with school! It is nice that this chapter of our lives is coming to a close and we are looking forward to moving on with our next phase of life!

Jameson

Jameson is getting so big. In fact he is bigger than Corbin was at 1. I love all his little rolls. His nicknames run from Little Buddha to Hunk-a-Chunk to Fatty Face, which are all terms of endearment at our house. I can't believe that he is already 7 months old. It goes by so fast. He has 1 tooth with a second coming in and is crawling all around the house. He loves to laugh at Corbin and he eats everything he can get his hands on. In fact, it will be a miracle if he makes it to his first birthday, he likes to put marbles in his mouth, but has now moved on to something much better...golf balls. Yes, I found him with a whole golf ball in his mouth! I freaked out and had to push his cheeks to pop the golf ball out. Scared me to death and he thought it was the greatest thing ever. Needless to say, he is no longer allowed to play with golf balls. Jameson does not like dogs. They freak him out. If there is a dog in a room he watches it like a hawk and if it comes near him he cries. It's very traumatic to him. I love watching him grow and discover new things. It's fun to see his own little personality developing. He is all smiles and one happy baby. We love having him in our family.

Merry Christmas

We had a great Christmas this year. Corbin is old enough that he started to understand Christmas this year, which made it really fun. This was also the first year that Corbin didn't cry when he saw Santa, instead he was really excited to see him and tell him what he wanted for Christmas. Jameson didn't cry either and thought Santa's beard was great.

We had to do Christmas a day early this year since Colby worked Christmas morning. I thought it wouldn't be as much fun, but it worked out great. Corbin was so cute in the morning he woke up and looked at his presents and got a huge smile on his face. He got a new bike which was all set up and he walked straight to it and said, "Who's bike is this?" You could tell that he was thinking "please say it's for me!" He was pretty excited! Jameson started crawling for Christmas, and so now we have to baby proof the house again. He is crawling so well that he got stuck underneath the Christmas tree. Poor kid has figured backing up yet.

Overrall this has been a great Christmas and year. We are ready and excited for the new year because Colby will be graduating in May! Yay!!!!! One of my New Year's Resolution is to be better at bloging so hopefully there will be more posts next year. Love you all and hope you have Happy New Year!

Golf Champion

Colby got together with some guys at work for a Golf Tournament and this is the trophy he won. I know what you are thinking...Yes, those are drug bottles. Pharmacists are pretty nerdy! :)

The Second Child

There are a couple of things I'm realizing now that I have a 2nd child...
1. I don't take as many pictures, which I feel way bad about.
2. I am not as paranoid and overprotective as I was with the 1st child.
3. I can't figure out why I ever thought 1 was hard.
It definately has been an adjustment having 2 kids, but I love those 2 little boys! One of our favorite things to do is go on walks, but I was worried I wouldn't be able to do this because we needed a double stroller, well my Mother-in-law came to my rescue and gave us a double jogger as a baby present! It has been awesome! Corbin and Jameson both love it and I love it too!