*Christmas*

I just wanted to drop a quick note and share with everyone how grateful I feel this Christmas! I absoluletly LOVE having my two amazing boys - my life feels so much more complete now that I have kids. And of course I love my extremely wonderful husband! He is so good to me and is such a fun great Dad - I love him so very very much.

And we were just surprised this morning with Tommy and DeAnn and there incredibly cute boys showing up for a whole week to play! We now have all of Vernons family here for the holidays. I dont know why I personally feel so grateful for this but I am. And as an extra bonus I get to have my parents come and spend Christmas with us.

I love my family and my 4 year old new family. They are amazing and accepting of all my crazy corkyness. And oh my goodness have helped me soooo much in adjusting to having two boys.
I have the best families in the world :)

I hope you all have a spectacular Christmas and can spend it with who you love too!

Kids

Dean loves to accesorize, here he is wearing a hat from his cousin Emily, beads from his cousin Becca, and sunglasses from one of his twin cousins (Justin or Mason), while holding a Simpson pen, a hanger, and a bag of some sort. Lets hope he grows out of this phase eventually.


Welcome to the world of Cole........this is pretty much it (except at night time). Dean's cousin Mathew is in town from Wyoming and they got to see Santa at the ward Christmas party.

All Dean wanted for Christmas was that plastic spoon.

Windows!

They put in our windows yesterday. I can't belive how fast everything is going. Today they started the ruff-in for the electrical and plumbing although there is still a little framing to do. On saturday Vernon is going to start the ruff-in for the A/C, and next week it will be shingled

Upstairs we have the Master bed and bath ( on the left side of this picture) an office (in the front, on the right side of the door) the kitchen, livingroom, 2 kids rooms and another bathroom.
We are leaving the downstairs unfinished for now accept for the garage and food storage, but eventually it will have a large living area that will be a theater room and a play room. It will also have 2 more kids rooms, and a bathroom. Hopefully we can finish the theater room quickly, the rest probly won't get done for years.

We are really excited about the deck! It will wrap around this side of the house.

Another beautiful Arizona sunset. This is looking South from our front door.

This is west out of our bedroom window.

Cole William Batty

Ok, we are a little behind but Tiana has been really busy (and sleep deprived) so I am going to post for her.
On December 7th 2008 Tiana gave birth to Cole William Batty. He was 6lbs 11ozs and was 18 1/2 in long. He wasn't due until the 24th so we were a little surprized (and not very well prepared) but we are so glad to have him already. Tiana was amazing, she woke me up at 4:00 Sunday morning and said she was having contractions. I timed them and decided we better go to the hospital. So at 4:30 we dropped Dean off at my sisters, drove to the hospital and at 5:20 Cole was born.



Who put that Thatcher Eagles hat on him!

The nurses put him in a stocking, it was really cute. And no, the irony that his name is Cole and he came in a stocking was not lost on us.

We got to bring him home around 11:00 the next morning

You can't really tell in this picture, but his eyes are very dark blue

Dean is so good with his baby brother. From the first moment he saw him he couldn't wait for us to get him out of the car seat so he could hold him. I'm not sure how but he knew just how to hold him and didn't want any help or anyone else to have him (he's only 18 mo old)

Dean kept wanting Cole to hold his finger.

Grdma and Grdpa

My mom and Dad came to visit us for a little while. We loved having them over even though it wasnt long enough.

Dean, Grandma, and Kita ( Dean is getting his cheezy smiles down)This is Dean looking through the back of our office chair.

This was a really pretty sunset we had the other day... just thought we would share.

Progress on our house

Pouring the foundation ... looking from grandmas houseSmoothing out...

The forms for our basement walls

Pouring the walls

This is where we are at so far. Almost ready to put flooring on for the main floor. We are SOOO excited!!!

More pictures of our hole in the ground

Dean playing in the basement

The Bear and the Kat (Sarabear and Ali-kat)Apparently Dean lead the tractor around

Our Deano Bambino

Just chillin' with Mom
Dean has been sick and miserable lately. He didn't want to go to bed but finally he fell asleep in his favorite chair.

We didn't get to do anything for Halloween, but Dean still got to be Batman!

Fun with Grandpa

OUR NEW HOUSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Okay so its not much yet - BUT Its still incredibly exciting! They dug our basement today and I think are putting some mat thing down for the basement floor tomorrow. As you can tell I know a lot about building houses... Whooo hooo!!!!

Halloween

Well for our halloween my boys were sick. So we ended up not doing very much. Vernon and I did carve a pumpkin. I was going to do this cool pattern one.. but vernon said it was too hard and it would take too long so he designed his own (my only requirement was that it was scary)


(Oh and Dean did not pee his pants.. he sat in the puddle of water a couple times)

ooo scary... haha

Pumpkin Picking

We met my sister and her family at Apple Annies to pick pumpkins. It was a lot of fun and we got some good pictures! I cant wait to carve it!!!