Family Photos

As far as updates for the past few weeks, there aren't any. We are busy busy busy, and it doesn't seem like we are home much. The kids are sick of being taken from one grandparent to the other, and to daycare. They are ready to be home!! Soon my work schedule will be very scheduled and I will be working set days each week. I am THRILLED! I am ready to start being in a schedule and knowing exactly what I am going to work. It will be nice because I think the kids will only have to be in daycare a couple hours a day 4 days a week. WAHOO!! I know that there are lots of people who aren't a fan of moms going back to work instead of being at home with their kids, but for our family, me going back to work has been a blessing. We see the the many positive outcomes that have happened because of it and there isn't a day that goes by that we don't let our Heavenly Father know how grateful we are.

so a couple months ago we had our good friends, Aaron and Noelle Merzlock, come and take some family pictures. McKinlee was, well let's just say, not too thrilled with the whole process. So, as you are taking a look at all of the pictures, just realize that it was way worse than it looks! We actually got some cute/funny pictures of us and the kids and I wanted to share them.

We finally got our first big snow of the season a couple days ago. We might have a white Christmas now! I am super excited!! ok, that's it..nothing more to report. Here are the cute pics of my family!

Week of Milestones!

So we have had a very exciting week! McKinlee has started using the big toilet at daycare. She actually goes and tells them when she has to use the bathroom! Of course, I can't get her to go for me here at the house, but at least she is doing it somewhere!! I am SUPER excited for the days when she will be diaper free, and I think it will be just around the corner! YIPPY!!

Logan got his first 2 teeth within 48 hours of each other! Last Monday he got the first one and on Wednesday the 2nd one popped through. There wasn't really any fussing..typical Logan! He is just the happiest, sweetest baby in the world! I mean, McKinlee was an exceptional baby, but Logan is even better!! How did we get so lucky?!

Not that this is a milestone, or anything, but I did celebrate yet another birthday. My sweet sweet husband gave me the BEST present ever! He said he was going fishing, and he really was, he had the car packed, the friends ready and everything, but at the last minute he didn't go. He didn't even tell me he wasn't going, and instead he came home and cleaned the house and the garage! That was the best surprise in the world! We then had cake, and he even taught McKinlee the words to Happy Birthday, and they sang and we had candles and the whole shabang! What a great day! A couple of my Primary kids even brought me some yummy yummy cookies! What more could I ask for!? THANK YOU!

Well, once again here are the pictures of the past week!

Logan's first 2 teeth...i had to hold his tongue back or else you couldn't see them!
I LOVE my babies!
Happy birthday!
McKinlee helping put the candles on the cake...I think she actually thought it was a cake just for her. I went ahead and let her believe that :)

Halloween Fun!

So, I have been slacking (once again). There are some new developments in the Colson household....I have gone back to work. We decided a few weeks ago to have me apply for a job with the Sheriff's office as a dispatcher, and what'd ya know? I got it! So last week was my first official week back to work and I loved every second of it. There is a ton of stuff to learn, but i do enjoy what I am doing and the people I work with . It has been nice getting out and talking to people, but I do feel terrible about leaving my little kids at daycare. Jared has been AWESOME about getting them fed, dressed and out the door every morning. He has made it so much easier to go back to work. Now the time I am spending with my babies is quality, even though I miss them terribly during the day. McKinlee is actually in a pre-school and loving it! She is making new friends and learning a ton. Logan is in the same facility but just in an infant section. He doesn't care one bit, big surprise! He just goes with the flow. It is fun to go pick them up and have them get all excited to see me. I am just happy things are adjusting. I keep telling myself how blessed we are and how prayers are answered, just sometimes not in the way we were expecting them to be. Jared has been able to spend a lot of time with the kids by himself being a daddy and I think that is the greatest thing that could have happened! So enough with that let's get on to Halloween festivities 2008!!!

This year McKinlee totally knew what was going on. She knew she was going to dress up and get candy and let me tell you, she got a butt load! I had the day off (Yippy!) and so Jared took it off as well and we headed off to Idaho Falls to buy candy, run errands and meet Jared's mom for lunch. We dressed the kids up in their costumes (McKinlee was a kitty and Logan was a turtle) and went into Sam's Club where we were going to meet Jared's mom. I am totally not a mom who usually dresses the kids up to go shopping, but we wanted Barb to be able to see them in their costumes. I was happy to see many other crazy moms who had their kids dressed up, too. So McKinlee was able to get candy all throughout Sam's because everyone thought she was cute. By the time we actually got home she was already chuck full of candy and really didn't need anymore, but Trunk or Treat here we come! McKinlee really did enjoy going from car to car collecting her 'loot'. She doesn't understand the concept of waiting in line, so she would just weasle her way to the front of the pack and grab what candy she wanted. Hopefully next year we are a bit more polite. However, she did say 'thank you' to every person... Logan was just as content as can be and eventually fell asleep in the car. After trunk or treat we decided to brave the elementay school carnival. As Jared said 'it was a great form of birth control'. There were kids all over hopped up on sugar! We tried to be good parents, though, and let McKinlee do some stuff like the cake walk, haunted house, duck pond, and fishing pond. Jared even bought her a cotton candy. She had it all eaten in about 3 minutes (no exagerration), then started helping herself out to her friend Luke's. She was COVERED in blue sugar from head to toe. By the time we had done the fishing pond we were all ready to go home. Jared took McKinlee to a couple houses to go Trick or Treating, then we headed home, bathed the kids, and put them to bed. Halloween was EXHAUSTING!!! But, we had a blast!

My parents and aunt came up Saturday morning and watched the kids while Jared and I went to Jackson so I could do a Scentsy party. They then met us for a late lunch and mom and juju took me shopping for my birthday while Jared and my dad took the kids back home! It was GREAT! As much as I adore my children, shopping is much more enjoyable when they are not around!

Alright, that is our last couple weeks in a nutshell, now here are the cute pictures of Halloween!

lots of catching up to do!

Ok, so lately I have totally sucked at updating the blog. I finally feel like I have a minute, so here are the latest going ons in the Colson household. It seems like we have been super busy! I have started selling Scentsy and with that comes numerous trips to Pocatello. Thank you to all who have supported me! It has been something fun to do. The kids and I have been lucky to visit lots of people, but we have been sad to leave dad at home. He has been busy finishing up his Fireman 2 class and tests and starting EMT. He passed Fireman 2, WAHOO! We will see how his EMT classes go. He really isn't into the blood and guts type of stuff, so it isn't quite as fun as the Fireman classes were. We made a trip to Twin Falls to visit my brother Russ and his family, as well as seeing my brother Bill and his family. It is good to see everyone, and even better to let McKinlee play with the "boys". She loves hanging out with them. She actually even let my brother Bill be around her...totally not typical. She usually freaks out and yells when he comes near her....(hopefully it is just her being 2 and she will grow out of it..) On one of our other trips to Pocatello we saw my sister Gretchen and her husband and baby. It was fun to see them and we are excited to have them eventually move closer! Colin makes Logan look like a brute! It is amazing what 2 months will do when they are babies. That same weekend we went to an ISU game. McKinlee was finally able to wear the ISU cheerleading outfit that Adam and Jenna gave her many years ago. She looked adorable and had so much fun at the game! She actually watched the game. She is the only 2 year old little girl I know that asks to watch football with daddy. So cute.! Logan was also a great trooper and was just enjoying watching people.



Logan turned 6 months...WOW! He weighed 17 lbs 13 oz..60th percentile, his length was 27.75 inches...90th percentile, and his head was 19 inches..40th percentile. Good average baby. He is continuing to eat like a bottomless pit, but is super super happy! It is nice because he and McKinlee are on about the same schedule, so we have both kids in bed and asleep by 8:00 each night, and as much as I adore my kids, the quiet is great! They are sleeping until about 7:30 in the morning and we are not complaining at all! My mom keeps letting me know how lucky we are but I inform her it is just my great parenting (hahaha..totally just kidding!)



The snow started this weekend...it has been butt cold for most of the week and I guess I just need to get used to it! It sucks, though, because we had our good friends Aaron and Noelle come up this weekend to take family pictures and the weather was horrible! Hopefully we got a few good ones.



Well, that should catch everyone up on the past month! Here are a couple fun pictures.


Logan and Colin just playing at Grandma's house
Go Bengals! (even though they really suck this year and lost....)

Sleepy towards the end of the game.



Cheese!!! We were just playing with the camera tonight and caught some cute pictures of the kids.


Mom and McKinlee
McKinlee and daddy watching football
Mom and sweet baby Logan
Dad and his buddy.
So a little explanation...Logan was sitting playing on the floor and one of McKinlee's cupcakes from her little kitchen was right by him. I saw that his forehead would be a good place to put the cupcake not thinking it would stay there very long, well I was wrong. He played and played and the cupcake just sat there. He didn't even try to take it off!
Another picture that needs explanation (first of all, ignore the mess, this was a few weeks ago and the house was a disaster!). I was leaning over Logan making him laugh and McKinlee, who yes, is not wearing any pants, crawls up on my back and leans over to see Logan. Jared grabbed the camera and took a lovely shot of me and my kids..(typical pantless day at the Colson home...)

Stanley, Football Season, 5 Months

So over Labor Day weekend we took a drive up to Stanley to see Jared's parents' new home. Finally after many years of waiting for this home, it is finally almost done. It is beautiful! It will be nice to have a place to stay when we go up there to visit. We left both kids with Jared's parents on Saturday and we headed off to Boise to watch ISU vs. BSU....well, let's just say ISU didn't win. I can't believe that football season is already here! This is Jared's and my favorite time of the year, both for very different reasons...his is football, and mine are the holidays. Anyhow, we had a great time in Boise and it was nice to visit with friends we don't see too often. We made our way back to Stanley on Sunday and stayed over until Monday. We had fun taking the kids to the fish hatchery and to Redfish Lake. McKinlee absolutely LOVED feeding the fish at the hatchery. We had SNOW on Monday morning...I wasn't too thrilled about this, in fact, I was quite upset. I had only packed flip flops!!! My toes were frozen and we ended up leaving a little earlier than we had planned, but we still had a great time.

McKinlee feeding the fish

The only ISU fans in a sea of BSU fans

SNOW!

Logan turned 5 months yesterday. He is eating us out of house and home!!! Since he has started cereal he has also started in on vegetables. He loves them!! A normal dinner consists of a thing of peas, thing of squash, and a bowl of cereal. At this rate he will be bigger than McKinlee next week! He is rolling over all by himself! I guess this means I can't just leave him laying on the couch or on the bed all by himself. I was also hoping that I would only have 1 thumbsucker to have to deal with, well I was wrong. Logan has started preferring his thumb to the binky....oh well! I suppose that won't be the only thing he learns from his big sister! Here are some cute pictures of my kids...and as you can tell, he is already almost as big as McKinlee.