Happy Birthday!

Cole turned 3 a few weeks ago. I can't believe it! And yes I tried to make him a train cake and it about turned into a train wreck! I was getting the cake out of the fridge and it fell over so the frosting and engine don't look too great. I almost cried, but luckily Cole didn't know any better and thought it was still cool.

And it was just a train birthday. We went to see Santa and he got to ride a train there and Grandma and Grandpa Emery gave him a toy train for his birthday.

And I don't know how but I always seem to run this kid wild on his birthday because the last 2 years he has CRASHED before we even have sung him happy birthday. Here's this year.

And here's last year. He hasn't changed much over the past year has he?

HAPPY BIRTHDAY COLE! WE LOVE YOU!

Family Pix

We didn't get our family pictures done in time to do a Christmas card so here's my Christmas pictures with an update on us all.

Korver is now a little over 3 months and is SUCH a good baby! He's holding his head up well and is full of smiles and loves to talk one on one. He's quite the chub too as you can see. I'm not sure how much he weighs now but at 2 months he weighed 14 lbs and I put him in a 9 month outfit yesterday and it fit!! I can't wait for him to start sitting up, playing, and crawling.

Cole just turned 3 and LOVES being a big brother. He can't get enough of Korver. He always wants to be holding his hand or touching him. He tells me all the time that Korver is his best friend. Cole is talking extremely well and cracks us up all the time with his cute sayings. Neil and I wonder where he comes up with half of the things he says. He's a really smart kid. He knows all his ABCs upper and lower case, can count to almost 20, and knows most of the sounds of the alphabet. He loves cars, reading, and playing on the computer. And he can't wait to go to school on the school bus in a few years.
Neil is doing great. He turned the big 30 this year! He's doing really well at his job and his boss has been really good to him and rewarded him accordingly. He's worked hard to get to where he is at and continues to work hard. He's constantly trying to improve himself and is constantly working on a project. He is quite the handy man. I can't wait to show pictures of what he's currently working on. He's also on the board of our HOA and teaches primary in our ward.

I'm also doing great. I love being a mom to these 2 boys. I've never been so busy but it is so much fun. My family is my life right now and I couldn't be happier with that. I still do home loans on the side occasionally when I have time and I'm currently the laurel advisor in our ward. Neil and I both have the goal of running a half marathon this year, so wish us luck cuz we're going to need a lot of it!!!!

Merry Christmas!!

Neil, Michelle, Cole, and Korver

Korver's Blessing

Korver was blessed Saturday November 21, 2009. We decided to not do it at our home ward so that all our family wouldn't have to drive down here. We had it at Neil's parents ward house on a Saturday with just family and since Neil's dad is in the bishopric it worked out really well.

Here's the cute little guy. What a stud!


Family picture time. Poor Cole did NOT want to stop playing with all of his cousins just to get a picture taken. And the poor baby did have socks and shoes on at one time.

Two of the handsome guys I get to live with. I don't know if I should admit this or not but I actually made Korver's outfit. I absolutely REFUSE to pay $40 for a blessing outfit that he'll only wear ONE day. So I decided I would make my own. The pocket turned out a little too big but hey I tried. :)

Such a good cute dad.And THANK YOU to both of our families!!! Ron you did such a great job conducting, Pat thanks for getting it all together, thanks Rick for saying the prayer, Carrie for leading, and thank you everyone for coming and bringing such good food!
We missed you Dad, Matt, Alicia, Christy, Jorge, Rachel, Brayden, Conner, and Logan!

Turkey Day!

Well this year we were lucky enough to have Thanksgiving at our house. It was so fun! I haven't had this much fun on Thanksgiving since I was a kid. The highlight of our day was deep frying the turkey. I ran outside to take pictures as Neil was putting the turkey in and must say I was disappointed that nothing very spontaneous happened. You hear of so many horror stories and things catching on fire that I expected SOMETHING to happen, but luckily nothing did.

The kids all had fun with Aunt Carrie making cute Indian hats and turkeys made out of oranges, marsh mellows, and gummy bears. Cole LOVES this hat and has worn it pretty much every day since.


And here is the turkey nice and done and fried! My neighbors even came over to check it out. And wow the turkey was DANG good! It was so moist and tender and tasty! We soaked it in a brine overnight beforehand. I definitely want to be doing this again.

We ended off the night playing the newspaper game where you hit people on the head, unwrapping presents layered in layers of newspaper and my brothers even came up with a few of their own games which the kids loved. We have so much to be thankful for.