we have had lots of fun this summer! and im sure we will have some more. so far we have gone to alabama to visit my family, had my sisters baby shower, colored lots of pictures, gone to the fountains, played with friends/cousins, gone to a lake, played in rivers, gone to the park, dug in dirt and sand, had ice cream and popcicles, painted, celebrated ryan's 5th fathers day, had t-ball practices and games, had our 6th anniversary, took tucker to urgent care for a "near-drowning" experience, watched movies, gone to jump mania, threw my friends baby shower, read lots and LOTS of books, had a lemonade stand, and much more! we are trying to keep busy and have fun together while we are at it!
now, for some random thoughts/updates:
tucker- he is growing like crazy! thank goodness its summer and he can wear shorts because i need to go shopping for him! i feel like you can get away with shorts being a little bit short better than pants being short. he has complained about growing pains, and sure enough, he is taller! this sweet boy has given us a run for our money this summer. within a week span, he had a near-drowning experience in a pond, and he messed up his foot and couldn't walk for about a week. one saturday, i needed a break, so ryan took the boys to his parents while i did a workout video and mackenzie napped. tucker was swimming in ryans parents pond with ryan's mom. he was on a snow sled when she gave him a little push (like he wanted), and he slipped off. according to ryan, he saw tucker go under, so he jumped in immediately, but tucker was under the water till ryan could get to him. ryan said after he got tucker up and out of the water, he coughed for a little while, and then cried, but then he was ok. when they got home, tucker came in and told me, "mom, i got water in my body today." short story long, throughout the rest of the day, he started coughing more and more, and when it was time to go to bed he said he didn't feel good and that he could feel something in his throat everytime he breathed. he started getting hysterical, so then of course, i did too. i looked online about secondary drowning, and it confirmed my worry. so, against ryans wishes, i took tucker to the emergency room at 10:40 saturday night, and we got home sunday morning at 5:50 with the "near-drowning experience" diagnosis. it was an exhausting and expensive night, but i was more concerned with my baby. i would rather pay the money and KNOW that he was ok, then something happen and have some major regrets. a week later, we were at an aunt and uncles house where tucker and cole were running around with some cousins. of course they were race cars "racing" so they were trying to crash into each other. sure enough, they crashed and got mangled up and tucker just lost it. somehow his foot got twisted up. he was crying like crazy. later that night he still wouldn't walk on it and wouldn't let anyone hardly touch it. it was a sunday night, so i called the after hours nurse and told us we could wait until the morning to bring him in since there was no bruising or deformity. ryan took him in and xrays proved nothing was broken, but it could be a soft tissue injury. thus, he scooted on his bum, on random things, had cole push him on his tricycle, and complained day after day he needed a wheelchair. at one point, i almost gave in. ; ) but he is healthy and happy and running around again.
cole- cole, cole, cole. what can i say right now. there are lots and lots of wonderful things about this man-child. he too is growing like a weed! his feet and hands are getting so big! a lot "thicker" than tuckers phlanges? if that is the correct word. cole is definately trying to find out ALLLLLL of the boundaries. he is SUCH a sweet kid. really, he is! this big guy does the sweetest little things, like get all of the blankets in the house for mackenzie, or beat tucker down chase tucker down for a hug. but sometimes, he's just not sure when to stop. and it drives. me. nuts. he is just very emotional, and i guess thats a good thing! he can be so incredibly happy and hyper, but then if he is sad or mad, at this point, you and the rest of the neighborhood will know it. the littlest and most random things set cole off. and he is VERY very loud. his tantrum cry gives me quite a bit of anxiety! the best thing i can do for the both of us now is time outs. they seem to really work lately. they stopped working for a while, but now i think he is understanding that form of discipline. and im trying to explain things in a more detailed manner while i send him or take him to time out. cause sometimes i would just say, "no, you don't hit mackenzie cole!" but now, ive been trying to stay calm and say things like,"cole, you dont like it when you get an owie. when you hit mackenzie, that gives her an owie and makes her sad. so please don't do that." most times he will still throw a HUGE tantrum and scream in his room and try to get out, but i put him back in. after a few minutes, he comes back out saying, "i sawy momma." and i didn't even tell him to say sorry! he is finally starting to snuggle more! ever since he was a baby, he hasn't wanted to be held to fall asleep. even trying to sleep in the same bed he would kick and hit and get grumpy if he found someone close to him. but within the last 2 weeks i have taken 2 naps with him where we just snuggled! it makes me so happy to finally get to do that with him! he loves coloring, and is very organized when he does. he is very methodical when it comes to it. the way the lines go and the order, he studies it out before he does it. he loves books too! randomly he decided his favorite color is green (like his mama! : ) cole would still eat hamburgers, fries, icecream and candy all the day long if i would let him. he doesn't really like green foods, except cucumber, celery, and cooked broccoli. he finally ate a serving of corn the other day! he used to freak out even if he saw corn in a casserole or on his plate anywhere! he loves tucker and mackenzie. he does indeed chase tucker down now to get hugs. and he tries to help mackenzie to walk, but she is not quite there, so after he holds her hands and gets her to stand up, he starts walking WAY too fast for her and he pretty much starts dragging her. its cute in a strange way! he can't say his c's and l's very well. so his name is "tollie" (we call him colie a lot), mackenzie's name is, "matenzie" , his cousin lilly is "liwy," and so on, and so forth. when he says he wants to play outside, he says "pay" outside. he sees patterns easily, like in the car today he pointed out all the white cars we drove by. he likes to help with chores (if tucker isn't doing something fun already), especially the dishes and helping me cook. cole likes to play with cars and blocks, and really do anything that tucker does. he is really and truly tucker's shadow. he does and says EVERYTHING tucker does. he wants to be just like him, which is a good thing (most times : ). however, unlike tucker, he really enjoys nursery at church. he even participates during singing time! its so fun to watch how our kids are all so different! cole loves mickey mouse and curious george.
Mackenzie- this little sweetheart is 11 months old now! what in the world? it never ceases to amaze me that with every kid, we can't imagine life without them! how did we even function without this gal?? she is SO fun. she is so fun for me to dress up and do her hair. the boys LOVE playing with her. she just sits there and lets the boys attack her with love/toys. tucker is so proud that he can carry her around. cole attempts to pick her up, but it doesn't always work out, so ive asked him not to anymore. : ) at least for a little while. she is still breastfeeding, but she is mainly drinking formula and eating solids. she loves blueberries, peaches, avocado, bananas, and green beens. she won't eat anything smushy, like oatmeal, applesauce, or yogurt. she will just spray it all over the place as soon as u put it in her mouth. she will only eat finger foods! she now has 4 teeth up top, and 3.4 on the bottom. shes workin on that last one still. she is crawling like crazy, constantly getting into things. we definately have to keep an eye on her. she is very curious and is constantly putting things in her mouth. she says mamamama and dadadada annnddd thats about it. well, and she growls. she gets a lot of attention in places where its quiet, like church, because its so loud! cole and tucker can make her laugh so hard, and it just makes my heart melt! i love little baby laughs! plus, its just super sweet to see the boys try to make her happy. she still won't take a binkie. she still doesn't sleep through the night, although she did last night! she can stand up by herself for about 5-8 seconds at a time. her 2nd clogged tear duct is finally open! so no more goopy eye for her! : ) i really want to take her to get her ears pierced before she turns 1, but im still so nervous she might get an infection or something. she loves reading books and dancing. she loves when someone helps her walk by holding her hands. she still loves taking baths/ playing in water. she loves being held. i love when she gets scared, she clings to me. she loves being outside, but i dont really like taking her outside to play much because she either eats grass/rocks/bugs/dirt, or she gets overheated WAY fast. she will be a happy camper when she learns how to walk. she drinks from sippy cups and bottles, but i still try to hold the bottle for herand treat her like a wittle baby because shes growing up too fast!
ryan- he is still working hard for his dad where they manufacture food processing equipment. he has had to work some long hours lately, so we have missed him. he just got a calling at church to be 1st counselor in the young men's. we just can't seem to keep that lad out of there! almost every ward we have ever lived in, he has been called to serve with the young men (3 times). : ) he is like his dad and has a way with the young people. our boys still want to be just like ryan, and i love it. even though it has been in the high 90's, even 100's lately, tucker wants to wear jeans because that is what ryan wears to work. we celebrated our 6th anniversary june 30th. my favorite mother in law (my only mother in law ; ) babysat our kids so we could go out. our date started off by going out to dinner at a nice italian restaurant called avanzare. it was so yummy! then we got blizzards from dairy queen and snuck them in my purse into the movie theater where we saw the new Madea movie. i love her(him). my husband loves her(him). we whipped out our DQ's and laughed, and laughed some more. perfect way to end our datenight. i looked up what the anniversary gift was for 6 years and it was something out of iron/wood and/or something sweet like candy. so i got ryan a bunch of candy since i know he won't take that back! he bought our wedding pictures on cd from our wedding photographer (ryans uncle brent). it was a perfect anniversary! i love that man more than ever. i feel so very blessed to be married to him for eternity! ryan still loves being outside. he loves going to the river and saning (sp?) with the boys-as in his sons and/or his brothers/dad/cousins. it is definately a boy thing. ; ) he has recently started running off and on again. what 's frustrating awesome is, that i exercise most days of the week, and have ever since we have known each other. ryan on the other hand, has worked out approx. 10 times since we have been married... and he can still run faster than me! : ) but its ok, i have accepted and come to terms that i married superman. ; )
me-ive just being doing the same ol', same ol'! im so blessed to get to be a stay-at-home mom. i really do love it. its really REALLY hard some days, like so hard sometimes i want to jump out a window, but honestly, i feel so humbled that i get to be a mother to these precious kids. i love teaching them, especially about the gospel of Jesus Christ. Most days I just try to keep up with housework and the kids. it seems that at this point, i can't get the WHOLE house clean at one given time. parts of it are clean one day, and other days other parts are. im trying to sew a little more, but im not good at coming up with things on my own. i just need to go out and get some patterns! im still about a pound away from my prepregnancy weight. and im really fine with it at this point. im trying to exercise at least 3 times a week, but that is my BASIC goal. of course try to and usually do work out more than that, but i figure i won't be so hard on myself if i get at least 3 in. ive been running early morning with some girls from my ward here. if anyone knows me, im not a morning person. im a night owl, BIG-TIME! but i have come to LOVE getting up and running with these girls in the quiet morning when its not a bajillion degrees out. tuesdays and thursdays i go to a bootcamp class at our gym, and i am obsessed with it! its so great. im hoping to run a race in 2 fridays, a night 5k. my postpartum anxiety got pretty bad at one point, but thankfully ryan is so loving and helped me get through it. something that ive been trying to do with ryan more often is a "couples" family home evening on sunday nights. we have our FHE with the kids on monday nights, but i have felt like we needed to put some more time into deepening OUR relationship. i bought a "family home evening for newlyweds" book from the BYU bookstore a few years ago. we used it before we had kids and then tucked it away. i got the brilliant idea to get it back out and have our own FHE with just the two of us sunday night after the kids go to bed. and i think it is awesome!!! i love it! i got called as the relief society activity coordinator, and im really enjoying it so far! the first activity was "Family home evening throughout the seasons of life." we had a good turn out and i think the women enjoyed it! ill post pictures later. i helped with my sassy little sister annie's baby shower over memorial day weekend, and then i just threw my good friend carolee's baby shower this past weekend. maybe i can get some pictures up of that too! fact #1, i really don't like grocery shopping any more and try to avoid it as often as possible. fact #2, our house has a bajillion ants and spiders and i can't seem to get them away! #3, its too hot here, even to go to the pool, so we have stayed inside a lot lately. and since im a home-body, ive been just fine with that. #4, our dryer just broke, so that stinks! but overall, life is good!!!!
tucker- he is growing like crazy! thank goodness its summer and he can wear shorts because i need to go shopping for him! i feel like you can get away with shorts being a little bit short better than pants being short. he has complained about growing pains, and sure enough, he is taller! this sweet boy has given us a run for our money this summer. within a week span, he had a near-drowning experience in a pond, and he messed up his foot and couldn't walk for about a week. one saturday, i needed a break, so ryan took the boys to his parents while i did a workout video and mackenzie napped. tucker was swimming in ryans parents pond with ryan's mom. he was on a snow sled when she gave him a little push (like he wanted), and he slipped off. according to ryan, he saw tucker go under, so he jumped in immediately, but tucker was under the water till ryan could get to him. ryan said after he got tucker up and out of the water, he coughed for a little while, and then cried, but then he was ok. when they got home, tucker came in and told me, "mom, i got water in my body today." short story long, throughout the rest of the day, he started coughing more and more, and when it was time to go to bed he said he didn't feel good and that he could feel something in his throat everytime he breathed. he started getting hysterical, so then of course, i did too. i looked online about secondary drowning, and it confirmed my worry. so,
i canNOT believe that in one month exactly, this little man of mine will be in school! i will be suuuuch a mess. i love that baby so much! i am just going to miss having his big personality around me all day long. he is so loving and kind. ahh im already crying. anyway, that is why we are trying to live up the rest of this summer! trying to enjoy this last summer before all of our lives are changed forever! tucker is loving his t-ball and wants to play all day every day. he is really good at batting and throwing, but i just need to work a little bit with his fielding and catching. he loves running the bases and sliding (just like his mama! ) he still loves to read and color. he is always drawing "machines" for me and ryan (again, trying to be like his dad : ). he is very eager to get better at reading. at this point, he doesn't really know how, just recognizes a few words and knows the sounds letters make. i try to teach him, but i just don't know what im doing. he will have SO much fun at school. he has definately gotten into a wrestling/fighting stage. he LOVES to wrestle with other kids. sometimes other moms don't like it. most times its at home with cole and im about ready to jump out my own window. they have fun getting rowdy with each other, but then one hurts the other, so they hurt them back, rinse and repeat. its a viscious cycle! but boys will be boys! tucker just cut his own hair for the first time the other day. he found scissors i left out and chopped a nice chunk out of the front and side. thank GOODNESS i could buzz it! and i actually didn't get too mad because i remember always wanting to cut my hair when i was little! tucker is still obsessed with the ocean. he tells me weekly when he grows up he is going to have his house by the ocean so he can be a fisherman. : ) tucker still loves healthy food like crazy. he still loves junk food too, but just has a lower tolerance for it compared to cole. lol. tucker loves playing with cole and mackenzie, and is always SO incredibly helpful with the younger kids. he is really good at cleaning up his room now, like making his own bed and folding clothes up and getting them put away. its so neat to see him learn how to do things and doing them pretty well!
cole- cole, cole, cole. what can i say right now. there are lots and lots of wonderful things about this man-child. he too is growing like a weed! his feet and hands are getting so big! a lot "thicker" than tuckers phlanges? if that is the correct word. cole is definately trying to find out ALLLLLL of the boundaries. he is SUCH a sweet kid. really, he is! this big guy does the sweetest little things, like get all of the blankets in the house for mackenzie, or 
Mackenzie- this little sweetheart is 11 months old now! what in the world? it never ceases to amaze me that with every kid, we can't imagine life without them! how did we even function without this gal?? she is SO fun. she is so fun for me to dress up and do her hair. the boys LOVE playing with her. she just sits there and lets the boys attack her with love/toys. tucker is so proud that he can carry her around. cole attempts to pick her up, but it doesn't always work out, so ive asked him not to anymore. : ) at least for a little while. she is still breastfeeding, but she is mainly drinking formula and eating solids. she loves blueberries, peaches, avocado, bananas, and green beens. she won't eat anything smushy, like oatmeal, applesauce, or yogurt. she will just spray it all over the place as soon as u put it in her mouth. she will only eat finger foods! she now has 4 teeth up top, and 3.4 on the bottom. shes workin on that last one still. she is crawling like crazy, constantly getting into things. we definately have to keep an eye on her. she is very curious and is constantly putting things in her mouth. she says mamamama and dadadada annnddd thats about it. well, and she growls. she gets a lot of attention in places where its quiet, like church, because its so loud! cole and tucker can make her laugh so hard, and it just makes my heart melt! i love little baby laughs! plus, its just super sweet to see the boys try to make her happy. she still won't take a binkie. she still doesn't sleep through the night, although she did last night! she can stand up by herself for about 5-8 seconds at a time. her 2nd clogged tear duct is finally open! so no more goopy eye for her! : ) i really want to take her to get her ears pierced before she turns 1, but im still so nervous she might get an infection or something. she loves reading books and dancing. she loves when someone helps her walk by holding her hands. she still loves taking baths/ playing in water. she loves being held. i love when she gets scared, she clings to me. she loves being outside, but i dont really like taking her outside to play much because she either eats grass/rocks/bugs/dirt, or she gets overheated WAY fast. she will be a happy camper when she learns how to walk. she drinks from sippy cups and bottles, but i still try to hold the bottle for herand treat her like a wittle baby because shes growing up too fast!
so this is most of what we've been up to! sorry ive been MIA for a while. just haven't felt like blogging. i got in a slump : /
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