He's Here!

He's finally here! Korver was born Saturday night around 10:00 after 10 hours of labor weighing 7lbs. 5oz. Everything went smooth and so far we're both doing great!!

Incase any of you are wondering why he wasn't born on the 18th as planned is because my doctors office forgot to call the hospital and by the time they did the 18th was full. Grrrr.... but it all worked out in the end.

Bye Bye Emily

OK so I'm a little late in doing this, and Emily probably won't even get to see this post, but Emily, one of my best friends is moving to Georgia (today actually) and we all got together a week or so ago to say goodbye. It was such a bitter sweet thing. I had so much fun seeing everyone but I still can't believe she's leaving me!!!! Especially since she just had a little girl! But here's some pictures that I'm sure some of you have been waiting to see from that night.The Girls
Crystal, Me, Katy, Emily, Nette, Jenny, and Anna

All of us. (well all of us that were there.)

Cole became best friends with Jenny's little boy Carson. He WOULD not let go of his hand.

Katy, Emily, and Jenny

We're going to miss you Emily and Kris. Good luck with everything. Thanks Katy for getting it all together and thanks to everyone that came. It was so fun to see you guys!

Cole's Parade

For the 24th of July our ward did a primary parade where the kids decorated their bikes with red, white, and blue, or they could dress up as pioneers and paraded through the neighborhood. Neil had so much fun with this. He went all out on Cole's car.It paid off too. Everyone commented on how cute it was.

Cole ABSOLUTELY loved it too! He wouldn't let us take this stuff off his car for weeks!

The bishop was so awesome too. After breakfast he took all the little kids for a horse ride. Cole was thrilled!! He had the HUGEST smile on his face. (not in this picture though) And I still can't decide who had more fun this day. Neil or Cole. :) Regardless we all had a lot of fun with it all.

Cole, Cole, and more Cole

I wanted to share some of Cole's funny moments lately. I swear I tell Neil a funny story about him everyday, but these are some of my favorites.

- We have a radio hooked under our cabinet in the kitchen and the other day Cole dragged a stool clear across the kitchen, climbs up, turns the radio on, looks over at me and starts dancing on the stool and says. "Come on Mom, let's dance!"

- Cole loves to wake me up in the morning. And the other morning Cole climbed right up on top of me and put his face right next to mine. So when I opened my eyes I was startled and Cole asked "what happened?" and I said "there's a baby in my face!" and Cole said "No, there's not a baby in your face, it's in your belly."

- A few nights ago we were all sitting in the living room and Cole farted. He quickly turned around and then back to us and with a startled face asked "What's that?"

- Mom: "Can I get a whoo whoo?"
Cole: "Whoo whoo."
Mom: "Can I get a whoo whoo?"
Cole: "No you can't get a whoo whoo."

- Cole loves books and we find him quoting them often now. One of his favorite books to quote is Bearstain Bears. So the other day I did something bad (I can't even remember what it was now) but Cole turns to me and acting like Papa Bear and quoting the book word for word says "Go to your room and no t.v. for a week, for a month, for a year!!!" and then points up to my bedroom.

- I must admit I'm human and every once in a while I loose my temper. And the other day I was at my wits end and was trying to get something done on the computer. Cole came in bugging me to get him ANOTHER drink of milk (for at least the 5th time that day) and would not let up about it so I finally I got up and said "Fine!" and stormed off to the kitchen to get him some milk. Cole, calmly comes into the kitchen and looks at me so sweetly as I give him his milk and while motioning downward with his hands says "calm down Mom.....just calm down."

And I know this is a really long blog, but I don't get around to blogging much anymore so I kinda have to fit it all in at once. At least this second part isn't so wordy.

We went to Discovery Gateway with my sister and her kids a few weeks ago. Cole LOVED it! By the end of the day we were so zonked!

Cole LOVING the kitchen.

In the dog house..... how fitting????

They all thought the helicopter was pretty cool, but Cole was too funny. He was SO afraid that the helicopter was going take off. He wouldn't let me get more than 10 ft. away from him.

Cole and his cousin Rex.

What a cute fireman!

And we ended the day off with the fountains, which were a blast.

Projects

This post probably won't really interest any of you, so just know this post is basically for us. Our garden this year has done SO well and has been so much fun. Even Cole has had a lot of fun with it.

Here's a before picture

Another before picture

And after. Although, the corn still isn't very high in these pictures.

And another after picture. So far we've gotten potatoes, strawberries, onions, carrots, peas, tomatoes, lettuce, spinach, and zucchini. We're still waiting on our corn, beans, cucumbers, spaghetti squash, and pumpkins. We've loved it so much we're going to add to it next year.

And now that I'm in my third trimester I think I must be going through a nesting period. I'm organizing closets, drawers, and I finally painted ALL the doors in my house! Wahoo!!

Sorry I don't really have a "before" picture of this. Just know the trim and doors used to be the same color as the walls. We've been meaning to paint the doors since we moved in, but we were so sick of painting from our last house that we wanted to do it with a paint sprayer this time, but I got fed up waiting, so I just started painting them one day while Neil was at work. I love how much it opens up the house!

And here is the flower bed that we planted over Memorial Day.

And here it is after all the flowers have bloomed.

Next project... the babies room. I'm making a crib skirt and valence for the window to match the bedding.

FISHING!!

This past weekend Neil's family came down fishing with us at East Lake. We caught lots of fish and it was so much fun to fish with everyone. We missed you Grandma, Clint, Rachel, and boys!

Neil, Davis, and Rick with the first catch of the day.

Neil and Davis hoping to score again.

Neil teasing the girls with the fish. They all wanted to reel in, but DEFINITELY were not about to touch the thing.

Hey look.... there's my belly! (Does this count for my belly shot?)

Grandpa and Brinlee!

Grandpa and Davis!

Carlie, Rick, and Austin. I think Rick and Austin had too much fun on this trip. They couldn't stop smiling!

Travis and a little bit of Suzanne.

We went fishing last weekend too with just the 3 of us. Cole was excited about catching the fish.

Before touching the fish

After touching the fish. Gross Dad!

Me catching a fish at the perfect time. In the middle of the rain storm. I was reeling in so we could go take cover and look what I found! Too bad you can't tell how hard it's raining.
Neil and Cole in the cute little tent we made to take cover. At least it kept these two dry. I was a different story.But the rain finally stopped and we ended up having another great day fishing.

Thanks to everyone who came down!! We had a lot of fun!

Well Like It Or Not......

Well like it or not get used to it!! Sadly the name Korver came in LAST place in the polls. So we're hoping people just need to get used to it. Cuz we like it and hopefully eventually you will too.

The whole 4th of July week was SO much fun! Christy came into town so we spent lots of time with her. Cole LOVED HER!! It's so hard to tell if he remembers her from the last time she was here or not.

Fishing at East Lake

BBQ at Carrie's with rides provided by Matt.

And Cole's pride and joy. Brett's truck! He is OBSESSED with cars and completely OBSESSED with my brother's truck. So when he got a chance to ride to the fire works in the back with his cousins he was ecstatic!!

And what's the 4th of July without the Murray parade. Once again the highlights for Cole were all the cool cars.
And as this float passed by I thought it was really cool so I took a picture. And then once it passed I realized it was Murray North Stakes float, which was my stake growing up! They did such an awesome job!

We always thought that it was my dad that needed to grow up. Apparently it's both of my parents. :) Here's my mom riding my 5-year-old nephew's bike.

And to end off the 4th my family got together to play Ultimate and Volleyball. Here's my handsome hubby serving. It was so fun to watch them all play. To anyone who thinks that Neil is just a quiet reserved guy HE'S NOT. Especially while playing volleyball. I should have recorded him. He was hilarious.

And here's a shot of everyone. It was a blast watching everyone play and all the funny things that happened. I can still see Brett getting smacked in the face with the ball by Carrie. Hahaha.... Oh but I should probably mention that the boys did win. Barely.

But just to let everyone know things are going well with the pregnancy. I'm about 29 weeks and everything is good so far. They're going to do another ultrasound in a few weeks to make sure everything is o.k. with the placenta since last time by the time I delivered it wasn't doing anything anymore. And maybe.... just maybe I'll post a picture of my belly. Just for you Kim :)

What's In A Name?

So Neil and I have pretty much decided on a boys name, but we want to see if everyone agrees with our choice. So instead of telling you what the name is we thought we'd see if you HONESTLY agree with our choice. So take our poll to the right. And as a pregnancy update I'm a little over 24 weeks along and everything looks great. Since I'm still going to my doctor in Salt Lake he's going to induce me a week early and we tentatively decided at my last appointment that it will be Sept. 18!!! So I have about 3 months left! CRAZY!! This pregnancy has gone by so fast!

And just so everyone can stop making fun of me we finally got Cole a bigger pool, which he absolutely loves. If only it would stay warm outside!!

And to continue with my randomness post we seriously love our neighbors. Our relationship is so weird because Randy is the age of our parents and his girls are 18 and 12 so really it seems odd that we all get along so well but we do. We love these guys! So much that we made them come hiking with us yesterday. And Cole loved every minute of it. He is the ladies man!

Camping???

For the past couple of years my family has had the tradition of going to my mom's property west of Nephi every year for Memorial Day. And this year we planned on doing just that, but when my sister got down there it was raining and hailing like crazy and the forecast didn't look too great and not wanting a repeat of last year (see below) we decided to dog it.

This was our car getting pulled out of the mud last year.

When I said in one of my last posts something about how we didn't need to go camping anymore because we had everything we needed in our backyard or close by I was really kidding, but seeing that everyone was already down our way we decided to just have a camp out in our backyard. It was great we still got to cook our tin foil dinners on the fire and have smores for dessert. And in the morning everyone just came inside for breakfast. It was a blast !

We ALMOST got Neil to keep his eyes open in this picture. We tried several times. But he still looks cute anyway. And sorry Austin we stole your old sweatshirt. And even Neil being the fun dad he is set up the tent and slept outside with Cole.

I'm sure my neighbors just love us!!!

And Monday was a really nice day and we had a lot of fun in the yard. One of mine and Neil's favorite things to do together is oddly enough yard work. So if we wanted to do yard work we had to keep Cole entertained somehow.

And I was having too much fun watching Cole that I didn't even realize I took all the videos the wrong way. I think we need a bigger pool. :) What do you think?

And our HOA requires us to have 3 trees in our backyard so Neil and I finally got our 3 planted. We (meaning Neil since all I can do is rake) made a flower bed behind our fire pit and yes there are 3 trees there. Can't you see the sticks poking out of the ground? I think this will be really pretty once all my flowers bloom and it fills the mound.

It all turned out to be a really fun weekend.