The grandkids jungle gym. Poor, poor Austin.
Yes I am a forever converted cougars fan. I would get stoned if I voiced otherwise.
Cole's first time daring to sit on Santa!! Yay! Thanks Santa for surprising us!
My family and our dorky hats
If we have to look like dorks you do too bud.
Watch out! He's still learning how to drive this thing.
Neil telling the Christmas story to Cole Christmas morning before opening presents.
See there's my church! :)
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?
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.
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 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. 
The little guy even had spurs on the back of his boots. Aren't they cute?
And here's a back side view of him. I love how he's holding his hat in this picture. Just like a real cowboy.
And cute little Korver was a giraffe. He didn't seem to mind his costume at all. And I can't believe I didn't take a picture of the 2 of them together!! What kind of mother am I? Luckily the grandmas did.
Cole was a little hesitant at first with the trick-or-treating. It didn't help that the first house we went to had a dead guy on the porch blowing out fog. Cole HATED ANYTHING SCARY and didn't think scary was fun or funny at all. But by the end of night he warmed up a bit to everything and had a blast trick- or- treating
And here's a picture of them all done. The one in the middle was done by shaving it so in order to see it we had to put a light underneath it, that's why it's so bright. Neil did the pirate and then I made him do the cute Frankenstein.
And is this not the most haunted picture? Can you see the outline of the ghost in the middle and all the little devils coming out of the pumpkins?? SCARY!!!!I'm not quite sure what Neil was messing with when he took this picture.Whooooooooooo!!!!
And in case any of you were ever wondering. This is what happens when you cross pumpkins with crook necked squash. Apparently, they were planted a little too close to each other.
But as weird looking as they were, they were actually pretty cool. We got lots of compliments on them and people actually were willing to take them when we gave some away.
Hmmm... can you tell where Cole gets his fake cheesy smile from? Sorry Cole.
Cole and I got the fun job as being the trash compacters for the day.
Although, I think he enjoyed it more than I did.
So our garden is done for the year. So sad. And let the lesson be learned. Don't plant your squashes too close together! Or actually if you want to see some kind of cool new breed then do!
Cole ABSOLUTELY loves being a big brother and absolutely LOVES Korver. He tells me all the time that Korver is his best friend. It's super cute! 
At first Korver would sleep through ANYTHING! Baths and even getting poked in the foot by a needle and then having his blood squished out of his little foot. The nurses couldn't believe he slept through the whole thing, and I was SO grateful! Poor little guy!
Cole wants to hold Korver every chance he gets. But then he gets frustrated because he can't see Korver's face when he holds him. Cole also got sick when Korver was about 4 weeks old so he wasn't allowed around the baby at all. It was the hardest, worst week of his life! Luckily, Korver didn't get sick and they're able to play again. Korver also loves Cole and it's cute to see him smile at Cole when he gets right in his face. Oh and just a little tidbit for all you nursing mother's out there. If you get mastatis put cabbage on it. It does wonders! I couldn't believe it. I didn't even have to go to the doctors and it was gone within a day! Wahoo!!!!
The Girls
Katy, Emily, and Jenny
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.