Jordan came to play!!

Jordan came to play yesterday!! Oh great JOY!! Noah considers Jordan his brother and Jordan considers Noah his brother. They might as well be. Jordan was at the hospital the day Noah was born. Jordan came into my life at 4 months old when I became his nanny. I nannied him for a year and then my sis, Mandi, nannied him until he was 4 years old. He is 5 now and goes to kindergarten so Mandi doesn't nanny anymore, sniff sniff, we miss Jordan. We still stay in touch and have playdates as much as we can. When they occur it's like heaven for the both of them. We have a traditon of going to the pumpkin patch. We have gone the past 4 halloweens. So of course that is where we went yesterday. They had a riot playing in the hay bale maze, and touching all the creepy halloween decor. They both picked out pumpkins to paint and they loved playing pirates on the pirate ship. It is so fun to watch them toghether. Noah can't leave Jordan alone. The whole time he had to hold Jordan's hand and asked him questions every 5 seconds, it was funny. Jordan are you happy?? are you a boy?? do you like pumpkins?? and Jordan kept asking Baby Noah (that is what Jordan calls him) to say big words like thermometer and frankenstein just to see how good he could say it, he did well. I am greatful for our connection with Jordan. When we dropped Jordan off last night Noah said, "I am going to miss you, please stay with me" and he had to kiss him smack on the mouth. Anywhoo its just adorable and FUN!! I am putting up a slideshow of their day yesterday and also the past halloweens. ( I am better at slide shows then posting pix on here.) Enjoy

My boys

Finally I got a day out with my boys. The weather was nice last week and Kirk had a day off yay for me. We went to the castle park. Noah is a little intimidated by it, its really tall and lots of hideouts and spaces, you could lose your kid in there I swear. Noah loved playing frisbee and swinging with his Daddy. Noah and Kirk are so cute together, Noah loves his dad and vice versa. They have a sweet little relationship. I love to watch them together, it makes me cry. I know I am a centimental fool ha ha. We just had so much fun enjoying the weather and eachother. I love family days like this and feel so completed and blessed to have these sweet boys in my life. I am a lucky lady, as Noah would say..he calls me a lady lately, like I don't feel old enough already!!

I'm going to the zoo

We finally made it to the zoo!! It was so much fun. Noah is obsessed with the big ball at the front, he played there for forever. Gramma and Pa and aunt chewy came with. Noah loves his family. Noah loved the snakes and the tigers. The new carousel was awesome, he chose to ride a zebra with grandma, it scared him a little at first and then he thought it was cool. One of the other favorite things at the zoo...chasing the peacocks, I swear one day he will get bitten...and it is a good thing there is glass or a fence enclosing the animals or he would be right in there with the poisonous toad. So for now he is obsessed with snakes. They chase us, and eat with us and want to play with us. He is such a funny kid. The things he says and comes up with crack me up. Off the story of the zoo, the other day, mandi, was trying to pretend she was magic and hiding a coin and Noah asked...mandi are you criss angel!! too funny, we watched a few episodes in front of him...hes a sponge, I didn't think he'd remember that. Anywhoo that's just the begining, this boy is all boy all imagination and I love it and sometimes I say I am selling him to the gypsies.

Dinosaurs

So we went to the u of u museum. I wanted to take Noah to the big thanksgiving point one but didn't have the funds so this had to do for the time being. Noah was scared of the dinosaur head at the beginning, I told him that you feed it money and it talks. So he put the money in the mouth and the dino started talking...scared him nicely. I told him it was not a real dinosaur, so he kind of started to like it, named it Alice.. he is funny about naming things. He liked diggin in the dirt for fossils, what boy doesn't love digging in the dirt?? He also loved the dinosaur bones and stuffed animals...shoulda gone to Cabella's and paid nothing. I sound so cheap I know. Anywhoo we had a fun time there, Noah is a little sponge and loves learning and soaking up information. Now on to the big museum....

Tribute to Sisters!!

A big tribute to my little sister Mandi, she is my person!! We share the same brain I swear, We think the same and we think we are hillarious! I think that Mandi is the funniest and I have so much fun being around her. Did I mention she is so strong? She has been through some tough times and she is STRONG!! I just want her to know that I am glad she is MY sister and I love her and would follow her to the ends of the earth and back. I have 27 years of really great memories and more to come Yay for me, I am lucky!! So here's to my rockstar sister and all of the fun we have!!

Miracle

This is Cohen Goodrich. He is a true miracle. I just have to share this story. This angel is my best friend, Heather's baby. He was born 10 weeks to soon. Let me start at the beginning of the story. At 16 weeks along Heather found out that she had a tear in her amniotic sac and was losing fluid, the fluid that keeps your baby alive. The docters told her there was nothing they could do. The doctors were not very posotive about the outcome. If there was not enough fluid then the baby could die, have no lungs and it was really scary what they said. Heather had a preisthood blessing. At 24 weeks she was admitted to the hospital because she was leaking fluid so badly and she started bleeding heavily, things did not look good. There was a couple times that the baby almost crashed, he was cutting his own cord off. Heather was amazing...she was so strong, and her faith was did not waiver. The Drs. and nurses called her the "walking miracle". At 30 weeks Heather had an emergency C-section and Cohen arrived small and sick. He was 3lbs.6oz. He had priesthood blessings and everyone prayed for him. He was in the NICU for a little over 6 weeks and he got to come home with no monitors or oxygen, just a beautiful baby boy who defied all the odds. Cohen is 4 months and adorable and doing Awesome!! He was meant to be here and whenever I see him I have to smile...I know that he is a miracle gift from god. Heather and her family are so lucky to have this sweet spirit. I love the gospel so much and the priesthood is amazing!! This story is so faith promoting and I love it and I love Heather and her family!!

Summing up Summer

Just some of the fun we had this summer!! I am so excited for fall and to blog about that, just thouught I would catch up a little about summer and the fun we had. Good times!!