Tony and Audra

Ugh….

2012-02-10T21:48:00.001-08:00

I have come to realize that I need to change some things about myself. For a while now, I’ve sorta had that feeling that goes along the lines of “WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME?!” I feel like I have become the worst version of myself. I have pent up tension inside me all the time just waiting for a reason to break free and yell at someone. And most of the time it ends up being my family. Have you ever gotten to that point where you are yelling at your kids and you are wondering why you are yelling at your kids, because in reality they are acting like a typical 2 year old and 1 year old, but you can’t stop yelling because that tension has let loose. Or you yell at your husband for not putting his socks into the hamper and you can’t help but bring up every nit picky thing that bugs you about him. I have become mean mom and monster wife, and I hate it. I’ve been trying to figure out for a while now why I have been this way. After much self reflection, I have decided that I am a selfish jerk who needs to realize its not always about me. I need to start reading my scripture more, have more meaningful prayers, go to the Temple more, and I need to realize that everyone else has feelings too! I need to pay attention to the needs of my children instead of focusing on the fact that they just interrupted something I was doing. My husband needs me to be the best supportive wife that he deserves instead of someone that he feels like he has to tip toe around. I know that it is a lot of work to work on, and I can’t do it all at once or else I’m setting myself up for failure. So after much prayer and long conversations with my Heavenly Father and pondering on the things that I need to change. I have come to the conclusion that the first place I need to start is… I need to come closer to my Father in Heaven, I need to feel His presence more in my life in all aspects. I have a lot of study and prayer and temple attendance ahead of me, along with continuing self evaluation, so I don’t fall back into my old familiar patterns, and if I do this, I KNOW that everything else will fall into place. I know that as I do this my attitude will start to change and I will become the person that I want to be, and that my family needs me to be. I know that my Heavenly Father will help me to be more conscious of the other things and help me to make better decisions as I strive to do what I need to do. I know that my Heavenly Father loves me and wants me to be happy, I am grateful for all that he gives to me everyday, it is time for me to start showing it. I know that I have a lot ahead of me, and that it wont be immediate results (though it would be nice!) but I am trying, and that’s what matters most.

Christmas Trip.

2011-12-30T11:14:00.001-08:00

We got to go to California for the week before Christmas. We weren't planning on going anywhere for Christmas because we didn’t have the funds to do so. My brother Chad called us up one day and told us that his kids (from is 1st marriage) get to come to stay with him for the week before Christmas, and that if we could get to Salt Lake he would drive us to California and back. SWEET CHEESE!! Tony and I talked it over and said YES!!! We spent a couple of days with Tony’s family unfortunatly I didn’t take very many pictures when we were there and the ones that I had I posted in the previous post. My brother Ty and my sister Cis took all of the ones I posted today.

The oldest sibling of us all Ty.

All of the Grand Babies love Grandpa!

Dad ,Chad, and Baby Ayla.

My wonderful Sister in-law Karla.

Snuggling with Grandpa.

My Jayne and my Sister Cissie. No that is not her real name

but that’s a long explanation…

My other wonderful Sister in-law Theresa.

Erinn, Tony, and Me.

Cis and her Wonderful Husband Jason and Liam.

Miss Erinn

Cis, Savannah,and Jillian. They got aprons for Chirstmas.

Tyffton

Triston

The Ginger Bread Cul de sac.

The fun!

It was such a fun trip! We had family pictures taken with a photographer because the first time in years the whole family was together! I will post those pictures in another post. We did a big Birthday party for Ty and Jayne because their birthday are 2 days apart. Jayne was actually due on Ty’s birthday but she came 2 days early. The day that we did our “Christmas” with the Bowman’s we did family photos then opened presents, we sent the kids out side to play, got ready for the feast, ate, cleaned up, vegged out, and then Ginger bread houses. it was so much fun.

With Tony’s family We all got together at his sister Colleen’s house and did Christmas there. We had a pizza party and lots of yummy desert, Opened presents. The kids had fun playing with each other and playing with their presents. All of us mom’s left the kids with the dad’s and we went to walmart to pick of a few things we needed. It was fun to visit with everyone. We enjoyed our trip dispite the loooooooong car ride. We are so glad that we got to come.

Thank you Chad and Theresa for driving us. We very much appreciate it. We love you miss you all.

Jayne’s 1st Birthday.

2011-12-27T10:22:00.001-08:00

Jayne is 1 !!!!! I know every mom says this, but…. Time sure does fly! She had 2 birthday parties one with Tony’s family and one with mine. Jayne enjoyed her first cake, but would hardly touch her second cake. We tried to shove her hands into it, but she freaked out! She crawled over to me, and as soon as I picked her up….. the older kids attacked like a pack of wolves on the cake! I didn’t even have time to say anything… it was Gone! Good thing I thought it was funny! It was pretty entertaining at how fast that cake disappeared. Jayne had fun splashing in the sink while her cake became nonexistent. I know the cake isn’t that pretty but my mom and I had and our to decorate 2 cakes one for Jayne and one for my brother Ty. so that’s as good as it gets!

I love how my sister caught the splash!

The Lovely aftermath of the cake….

Jayne had fun opening her presents, annnd she actually helped!!!

Family Photos

2011-11-09T21:02:00.001-08:00

We have been blessed with photography kindness once again. The first time was when Erinn was 5 months old we were given a free photo shoot, all because this lady thought that Erinn was such an adorable baby. She went home and told her husband that he just had to give us a free photo shoot. I was so happy and felt so blessed, the Lord knew that I wanted to get Erinn baby photos but didn’t have the money and BOOM I was placed at the right place at the right time. This time our photography blessing came through a friend. Tony knew Erica when they were teenagers and she friended us on Facebook a while back. I knew she was a photographer and would look through her photographs here and there and always thought they were very nice. One day I get a message from Erica on Facebook telling me that she thinks our little girls are soooooo cute and that she would love to do family photo’s for us and free of charge of course!!. YES PLEASE!! I was so excited I immediately responded with YES! I had been telling Tony that I had been wanting to get family pictures done because “we have been married for 4 years and haven’t done it”. So when Erica messaged me, it was like the Lord was giving me a tender mercy again. Erica and her husband Nick were so much fun to work with when getting our pictures taken. They came prepared with candy for bribing Erinn into smiling pretty for the camera (Erinn has decided that taking picture is uncool). They all turned out very nice. So here are a few of my favorite.

Thank you so much Erica and Nick you did an amazing job. We very much appreciate your kindness. You can Check out their website Here.

Ps. I did not by choice cut Erinn’s bangs like that. I left out my sewing scissors and she got ahold of them and cut her own bangs so I had to even them our.

Halloween And the Making of Things 1-4.

2011-11-05T19:22:00.000-07:00

I asked my husband Tony what we should make the girls for Halloween this year, and he said “Thing 1 and Thing 2!” I though Fun! So then I asked him if I made coordinating costumes for us with the girls would he wear it? I had to assure him that it would be just the shirt, that I wouldn’t make him wear a tutu. He said that was “fine”. So thus started my costume making.

I made the patches out of felt and black shirt paint. I traced a plate onto the felt first…. no I’m not that talented to draw a perfect circle! After they dried I cut them out and hand sewed them on the shirts.

Then I made the tutu’s out of tulle. I have to say that tulle is my least favorite fabric to cut! Sorry I didn’t take pictures of the process. But here is the finished product I had 4 yards of each color, and that was barely enough. I ended up with just enough tulle at the end to make the pompoms for their hair.

After Erinn would get candy she would squeal with joy and run to the next car! She learned quickly that she had to fight her way to the front. I didn’t even bother telling her not to elbow the other kids to the front because they were doing the same thing. She was just so darn cute!

Halloween was kind of a crazy day. I sadly had a funeral that I attended of a dear friend, a lady that Erinn called Grandma. Then after the funeral I had to race home and get the girls into their costumes to go to a pre-school for a Halloween party. Then after the Halloween party, I had to run up to the college to pick Tony up, then run home. We had maybe a 20 minute break then Tony and put our part of the costumes on and go to the our church building to do the trunk or treat. After the trunk or treat We took Erinn to the Lynn family’s house and then to my cousin’s Cody and Lucy’s house to trick or treat. We ended up staying at their house and watching Captain America with them. it was such a fun Halloween.

OOPS!!!

2011-11-02T13:22:00.000-07:00

So today I went to add a friend to my blog list that I follow, and I managed to delete ALL of my list. So I had to figure out how to put that list back where it belongs on my blog, and then try to remember everyone on my blog list. So if you happen to read my blog and notice that you are not there anymore, let me know and I will add you. Sorry its really hard to remember everyone.

Being Crafty!

2011-10-22T10:56:00.001-07:00

Thank you Beth for telling me about Windows live writer.

So I found this super shirt at Gymboree, I was going to post a picture of it but I was having issues trying to post it so I gave up. The shirt was this super cute white shirt with a embroidered heart on it and it had buttons sewed into the middle of it. I really wanted to buy this shirt, but I couldn’t justify $12. so I just let it go. Well my friend Emma and I went to Target shortly after, and they had a bunch of super cute shirt for $6 and I got a bunch and then they had this cute plain shirt for $4 and I thought that I could recreate the shirt from Gymboree! so I got the shirt. Then I went to the local craft store and rummaged through their button bin and got a bunch of buttons for $ .99.

My friend Emma printed out a heart shape for me. I cut it out and traced the shape onto the shirt. I busted out my embroidery hoop and went to town on this shirt.

I remember part way through that I should take some documenting pictures because I knew I wanted to share with you.

Some of the cute buttons.

My finished product! And for $5 instead of $12!! Can’t beat that!

I tried to get a picture of it on Erinn, but she has decided that picture’s taking isn’t cool anymore and wont let me take any of her right now. so sorry it’s not being modeled.

I shure hoped this worked

2011-10-22T10:29:00.001-07:00

so I downloaded a new program so it will make blogging easier I sure that his works! thanks Beth!

annoyed!

2011-10-22T09:51:00.000-07:00

ok so i have been trying to up load some pictures so i can do some posts but blogger wont upload them.(insertbiggiantGRRRRRRRhere) i really don't know what to to. oh and how do people upload more than 5 pictures a post? and sorry to the grammer police, i'm to annoyed to care right now.

Archikó Mório

2011-08-19T23:17:00.000-07:00

This is an argument paper that I (Tony) wrote for an english class. It is pretty sciency but I would appretiate critiques. Beware, it's about 15 pages long! Let me know also if the link is not working. You will need Adobe to view it.

https://download.acrocomcontent.com/adc/open/final%20draft.pdf?objectID=2XKoNSBjpEKH7sCLouIB-A&assetID=EBjF4JmEEXuQRWcAVBcdgQ&workflow=GetAsset&sid=&cvn=17&dimension=0&ticket=F365B50538F1B8965BC8A2A86C70FAEB71AD245595F268BFCB0480F153CB8D408CAB3847553BA992AAB0E3921CADA6BC6EABCD83BCB33D0CFBA13A48BE2AEAF1A849C7404239DD45E64760EDECF9EE960652D57083360E1553B4122CD7060D2A32494BC0A4013B77121AE20BB6DC2363057E8112537B529D407EE17E027CDD05A92328E8604B9584BB4B9FDBC61237D9A183788E90941B9A8E92B81AF9DDA1D9C401BC9402A5D41ACA07DD4CD785998E

If you can't get it to open, here is a solution:

-right click the link

-select "send to OneNote"

-when OneNote opens right click the link. This is how I got it to work for me

Look what Daddy taught me!

2011-08-13T12:57:00.000-07:00

Tony is already teaching her how to hang a spoon on her nose.

MotorCYCLE!!!!

2011-08-13T12:41:00.000-07:00

Ok so ever since we had this motorcycle come blareing past our car, Erinn has been in love with "motorCYCLES". She see's one and immediatly yells "motorCYCLES" its pretty funny.

Some of the time she will say "Motorcyclecycle" which is pretty darn cute!
While we were in california we stayed at my brother Ty's house for a week and he happend to have a kid size motorcycle in his garage. (on loan from a friend) So naturally I had to get a few pictures of Erinn on the bike. Needless to say she was excited!.

Boredom..........

2011-08-04T20:52:00.000-07:00

Ok so I got a little bored on all of the road trips on our trip in California.....

LOAD THE BABY!
READY!!

AIM!!!

FIRE!!!!!!!

Erinn and Jayne

2011-04-30T09:21:00.000-07:00

Some days Erinn and Jayne look so much alike to me and some days not at all. So I had to find some pictures of the two around the same age. I know the don't look exactly alike but they look alot alike to me.

Erinn

Jayne

"Down in Fraggle Rock"

2011-04-30T09:14:00.001-07:00

So I don't know how many of you remember Fraggle Rock. But the other day when I did Erinn's hair she totally reminded me of a Fraggle.

Love,Blessings, and Grateful.

2011-04-04T12:52:00.000-07:00

I must say that I love my life. I have been blessed in so many ways. Let me start with my wonderful husband Tony. Tony is my glue that holds me together. Yes I may get ffrustrated with him at times but I am glad that he is my husband, he is slow to anger, understanding, loving smart hard working, and patient I could keep going but I'm pretty sure you get the idea. He is so sweet he always makesure that he takes time away from his homework to spend time with his family, especially when he knows that Erinn is about to drive me batty, he will stop what he is doing and play with her so that i can get a small break. he is always so good about helping around the house, remembering to do family home evening and putting Erinn to be for me. Erinn..... she is such a sweet girl. Though i may get flustered at times with her i definatly have to remember that she is only 2 and i need to be more understanding and think like a two year old

to understand why she does the things she does. But she is such a sweet heart it took her a couple of weeks to get use to Jayne being apart of the family but i can happily say that she no longer try's to step on Jaynes head! instead she insists on giver her kisses right on the mouth! so poor jayne has had to deal with a stuffy nose for the past 2 months which is now finally got(woohoo). Erinn loves to watch Cinderella, Robinhood and Baby Einsteins and her moneys show that Grama Lynn got her for Christmas. She loves to talk on skype with her Grandparents and cousins and likes to put makeup on with mom! her vocabulary is starting to expand though she still chooses when she want to use them intead of when we try to encourage her. she loves to play in the snow and be outside. she loves to read books and loves to have me read them to her when i'm trying to take a break and read my books! she loves to help me put away dishes and help me change over the laundry from the washing machine to the dryer. Her two favorite songs right now are "Ppopcorn Popping" and "Head Shoulders Knees and Toes" she knows all of the hand motions. she loves going to nursery at church. she know how to fold her arms when its time to say prayer, and say AMEN! Its is such a joy to watch her grow and and learn, she teaches me so much about myself (that i can be more patient!)i sure do love that little girl!!!

Jayne.... she is my blob! sh is so chubby its adorable. she is a little over 3 months and she is probably about 15-16lbs. she is such a happy baby she loves to smile and talk up a storm. i have been ask if she is wearing a wig more than once i'm sad that her hair doesn't stick up likeErinns did...... but i am also glad that people don't ask if thats my dog when i'm carrying her around in my mobywrap!for now she is definatly a mamas girl, i think it bugs poor Tony but i think it will change as she gets older just s it did with Erinn. she is such a good natured baby and such a blessing in our lives, i love her so much. I am Grateful for all that i have.

This last weekend was General Conference for our Church (where the Leaders of our church speak to us) it was such a pleasure to listen to the speakers and hear the chiors sing. It is always so nice to be spiritually up lifted and fed. I am grateful for the gospel in my life. i know that Jesus Christ came to this earth and died for us. I know that He lives through the power of the resurrection, i know that He loves me and is mindful of my needs i know that we have a Prophet on the earth today and that he is here to guide us and direct us through our Father in Heaven. I love my life and everything in it. I am so Grateful.

both of my babies are waking up now so i don't have time to go through my post to fix all of my misspelligns and lower case I's and begining of sentences .. so bare with me. I hope you all are having a wonderful day. so until the next post(when ever that will be). Smile!

Jayne Morgan Cox

2010-12-26T20:45:00.000-08:00

I love babies, they are so sweet.
Erinn is such a sweet big sister. She just loves holding Janye.

Her Christmas bows.

I am now going to turn you all in to sheep!

So on December 18, 2010. Our little Jane Morgan Cox was born at 1:58 pm, she weighs 9 lb 4oz and is 19 1/2 inches. My water broke at 2:40 am, I called my doctor and he said that I could wait till 7:00 am to go to the hospital (sweet!). So I tried to sleep, but even though I was really having contractions yet I just couldn't sleep. so I got up and started getting things ready to go, making phone calls and all that stuff. Around 4:00 am my contractions started and they weren't that strong and I'm thinking that this is going to be like Erinn and have to be on pitocin the whole time. So we get Erinn to our friends house and head up to the hospital. We get there at 7:00am and I'm dilated to a six! I'm thinking wow this is going so much better than Erinn! They didn't have to give me pitocin which was nice, but it still took me a while to dilate. Mean while.......... My parents are on the train to Salt Lake City to catch their shuttle up to Rexburg. They get to SLC at 3:oo am and their shuttle leaves at 7:30 am. So I'm thinking what a bummer that they weren't going to make it on time, because my due date was still 2 days away so plans weren't going as planned! So their shuttle ends up being 2 hours late and I'm thinking that they defiantly aren't going to make it. To make a Long story short..... They get to the hospital pulling their luggage into the delivery room and like 5 minutes later Jayne is born!!! at 1:58 pm. So my was basically as long as Erinn's but physically so much easier. With Erinn I pushed for 2 hours... with Jayne I pushed for maybe 10 minutes! So that was nice!

My Recovery with Janye has been rougher on my Body than with Erinn. With Erinn my recovery was annoying because I had stitches to heal from because I had to have an episiotomy because Erinn was so big (10lb 110z). With Jayne I lost a lot of blood because my placenta detached immediately, so as a result I passed out 2 different times while I was at the hospital. So I made the nurses nervous, so every time I had to get up and go to the bathroom I had to call a nurse and be babysat while I did so. I have been weaker and still don't feel 100%.

Other than my big adventure I am feeling fairly good. Jayne is a good natured baby just like Erinn. She's not colicky...thank goodness, and is a great eater. Erinn is such a sweet big sister. She loves to give Jayne hugs and kisses and is always wanting to hold her. She gets really excited when she get to hold Jayne to the point where she is just trying to pull her out of my arms. It has been nice having my parents here to help out and fun to have them here for Christmas. I will miss them when they have to go home. I sure hope everyone has had a wonderful Christmas. I know that I did, and I have the most sweet gift of all this year with our new little addition to our family.

This and That...

2010-12-06T20:51:00.000-08:00

I think I'm 35 or 36 weeks not sure, but I think my belly looks weird. But you can tell now where my ginormouse babies like to hide... in my ribs!

This is our family photo we took after we decorated the Christmas tree.

So life for us has been pretty much normal. Tony got to come home to us a little sooner have planned because his job season ended sooner that we thought it would, so that was a delightful treat to get him back. Life has been pretty mellow. Just Doctors appointments and Christmas shopping and everyday things. I am now 38 weeks into my pregnancy and ready to be done, between my screwed up sacrum, my pubis symphesis popping every time I turn over, peeing every hour when I'm sleeping, and my numb stomach because that's where my babies think its so much fun to hang out at.....I'm ready....and I think Tony is too! I could have been induced a week early but I decided to be nice to my mom and wait till my due date to do so, so that way she can be there. I'm not a fan of being induced but because I have big babies it come highly recommended for me. And even though my water broke on its own with Erinn I was basically induced because my contractions weren't starting on their own.*sigh* So lucky me I get to be put on pitosin and hallucinate on statol because I refuse to get an epidural. I don't care how good the anesthesiologist is that's my spine and they are not touching it with a needle. I know everyone has their opinions on that, and that's mine.... and its not gonna change. Anywho!

Decorating for Christmas this year was so fun with Erinn! Granted we did put up the tree and the lights on the tree while she was napping. But we saved the ornaments for her to help us hang them. She was so excited to help it was adorable. She would go and grab the ornaments and bring them to us and we would put them on, because she couldn't get the hang of hooking them on by herself. Now I think that Tweee(tree) is her favorite word! She loves to point at the tree and say Tweee, its super cute.

Life in Rexburg is just fine, cold of course but just fine. We miss our families, but we are enjoying our new adventure so far and getting to know the town and our new ward. Our ward is so nice and everyone is so friendly.

We sure hope that everyone is have a good holiday season so far. We sure love you and miss you.

Our adventures this month.

2010-10-31T14:35:00.000-07:00

So this months for has been adventurous for us..... to say the least. First it start out with our BIG move to Idaho (yes we now live in Rexburg Idaho). we got the Truck and everything loaded no problem the day before we were taking off. 5:00 am the following morning as we were putting Erinn into her car seat she throws up. I'm thinking that it is just the excitement of being up so early, but nope! boy was I wrong. She ended up throwing up for about 40% of the trip to Idaho. This does not make for a very pleasant trip for the pregnant Mama in the front seat driving, in a car that smells like barf for almost the whole way there. Other than that the trip to Idaho was just fine. The cars functioned correctly and we got there safely some time after midnight.

So we get there, set up Erinns port-a-crib, lay her down. Then we set up our air matress I asked Tony if he had brought any blankets from his parents house, to which he responded "no, why?" (all of our blanket are somewhere in the moving truck) Needless to say it was a very cold night and we found out why we could figure out how to turn our heater up....We share a heater with our downstairs neighbor.... and they have the heater controls.(thats fine just wish I would have known that from the begining) But Tonys Dad let us use his sleaping bag for the other half of the night. I felt bad. I asked him how he slept for the rest of the night he said "fine" I asked if he was cold he said "not really", I'm pretty sure he was and was just being super nice.

Our Elders Quorum President from our new ward (who we haddn't met or talked to before) shows up on our door step at like 9:00 in the morning and asks if we want help now or later in the day. I left that up to Tony to decide and he said "now". So our EQ President calls up his family and the truck is unpacked into the house in like 1-2 hours, It was so nice to have help.

So over the next couple of days we unpack most of the boxes and get things situated. Our landlords live in Boise and they called and said that the were going to be in town on that saturday to fix a few things that needed to be done, and so that they could meet us. Great! I was hoping Tony would get to meet them before he had to go back down to California. Our landlords are very nice, and we really like them lots.

Sunday morning We said our good-byes and I bawled like a baby ( you know its really hard to watch a daddy say good bye to there kids). I went back to bed because Tony and his Dad left at like 5 in the morning. 2 hours later I get a phone call from Tony telling me that his front drivers side tired had failed and that the tread came off and in the process busted off the fender. So I had to figure our where they were... and find the closest tow truck company to where they were so they could get a new tire, because Tony and forgot to make sure the spare tire had air in it. So a tow truck ride later and 2 new tires on the car (because one of the other tires needed to be replaced too) they are back on the road and make it back to Tony's parents house with out any other complications. (The picture below is from the trip back when the tread came off the tire.)

Ok so Tony got home on Sunday. Monday as he was drining home from work something happen with the shifter on his car. I gues there is this little part that connects the shifter stick to the transmission that holds them together so that you can shift easily. Well..... it broke. So we had to fix that. after searching high and low they found it on ebay, and it was 20 bucks. Sweet! Not too bad. so now we were faced with do we want to make a claim with the insurance about the fender to get it fixed and have a mark against him and have our insurance go up or fix it our self? Well we had decided on fixing it our self because we could get a fender for $40 and the just have to get it painted. Thank goodness we haddn't baught the fender yet, because I get a phone call from Tony.
Tony: Uh hey... we aren't going to have to buy the fender now... Me: Really? Why? Tony: Well... because I just got rear ended and shoved into the person in front of me. Me: *gasp* (freaking out silently in my head) Uh.. ok... are you ok?!?!?!? Tony: Yes I'm fine but the car is dead. Me: (thinking... the heck with the car!) Are you sure your ok?!?! Tony: Yes Audra I'm fine..... um I need to go I'm using someone else's cell phone will you call my Mom and tell her what happend and that I might need a ride.

Ok so Tony hates carrying a cell phone and I tried to make him carry one for these kind of reasons, but it was pointless because half the time it would sit on the counter forgotten at home.
So I call his Mom and tell her all about it and answer all of her questions the best I can and let her know that he would be calling when he needed a ride.

So apparently what had happened was traffic was going along really well on the road that he was on and it came to a stop I guess unexpectedly and thats why the guy behind him ended up crashing into him. The man who hit him was an on Duty Parol Officer. So good news is he is insured through the state. So as far as we know things will work out insurance wise. I feel bad for the guy who hit him, I hope he's not in trouble at work for crashing a work car.

Tony is doing fine he went to the chiropractor to get adjusted and our chiropractor wanted him to wait through the weekend so that his muscels could relax and let the symptoms manifest themselves and he gave Tony some paper work to fill out so Tony could write down what the symptoms were so that the chiropractor could see what kind of stuff he was dealing with since the car accident was that bad. He said that if the accident had been worse he would be taking a different approach. Tony says he feel fine, he says that the only thing he feels like he needs is and adjustment and a really nice/ grueling massage from me when he gets back. So ya this is our month of October for us. Hope your was Better. Enjoy looking at the pictures!

So now we are trying to figure out if we want to Buy another car or... just live with having the one until Tony get finished with school in a few years. We'll see.

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2010-09-17T12:27:00.000-07:00

So life is a little crazy right now. In about two weeks we will be moving to Idaho. Side note: I am really happy that I Love my in-laws and get along with them great or the last two months would have been not so fun. Thank you Mom and Dad Cox. End side note! I am really excited to get things moving and start our next adventure. The one thing that I'm not looking forward too is the first 2 months, because it will be just Erinn and I up there. We have decided that it would benefit us financially if Tony came back down and finished out his work season for work. So he will be joining us (hopefully) the beginning of December... I told him even if the season isn't over by the beginning of December tough nuggets he has to join me because baby #2 is due December 20Th. But I know everything will work out for the better. I am a little nervous about how finances will be over the next few years, so I have to put that one in the faith department and remember that as long as we pay our tithing everything will work out. My other worry is that we wont qualify for medicaid, we have medical here in California so I'm hoping we will qualify for medicaid in Idaho. If not.... I guess I will have to chalk it up to one of life's experiences while having children. Other than that..... I'm way excited to be in a new place, make new friends, and see some people that I grew up with who are going to school at BYU-I also. I and looking forward to my cousin Cody and his wife Lucy being there, as well as a few other cousins. Oh and I am also way excited that my mom will get to come up and be there when I have baby#2 and she will be staying for two weeks YAY!!!!! So all in all life is pretty good, I'm excited....nervous... and feeling blessed all at the same time so I can't complain.

Thank you!!!

2010-08-16T09:27:00.001-07:00

Thank you so much Alicia for fixing my blog!!! You are soooo awesome. Its so adorable!!!.

I don't know what to do....

2010-08-13T12:11:00.000-07:00

So as you can tell the background on my blog isn't there anymore. I logged on one day and it was just gone. So I tried to put a new one on and every time I have tried it wont work. So I don't know what to do about the whole things so if anyone would like to help I will give you my login and password to fix it. I would be greatly appreciative. If not oh well I will just have an ugly blog.

Moving.

2010-06-14T10:53:00.000-07:00

Ok....Yes the rumors are true we will be moving. Tony got accepted to BYU-Idaho, he starts the winter semester. July 31st is our last day for our lease on our apartment, we don't want to pay month to month because its an extra $50 so we will be moving in with Tony's parents in Oakdale until we move up to Idaho. This way we will be able to save the money that we would pay for rent for the move, and its still close enough to Tony's work that the commute wont be bad......as apposed to living with my parents in Sonora Tony would have to leave at like 5 in the morning. Anywho. We plan on moving up there around October November timeish, we would like to get up there and unpacked before I have this baby. We will be sad to leave Turlock and our friends, but we are excited for the new adventure in our lives and finally get school finished.

Confession.

2010-05-18T11:07:00.000-07:00

OK so about a month ago Tony was all excited because he had plans to take me to the chocolate festival. Well we went this weekend. It was a tone of fun all kinds of old cars and craft booths and food and yep chocolate. Well for about a month I battle back and forth with I've never been to the chocolate festival and I don't know when I will get to go again........ so my dilemma was do I take a break from my new years resolution for the day and have fun and have some chocolate and any other tasty treats that I might like to have or do I stick to it and say I did it for 365 days of the year????? Well.... I decided to have fun and indulge :p I have to say that it was the most idiotic indulge I have decided to make (remember no candy, ice cream and cookies). So one of the first things we come upon was free ice cream samples and the Smuckers booth sweet! Remember I am enjoying the day... The sample was like a table spoon of ice cream and a topping of my choice, I chose strawberry......yum! Well because of my morning sickness eating sugar really makes my stomach upset, wish I would have remembered that SMALL detail, because that table spoon of ice cream did it for me I was done with the sweets after the first 10 min of being there. If I would have remembered that I would still have my 365 day record.... now I have a 364 day record LAME! So ya I didn't even get any chocolate at the chocolate festival. So here is my confession. On the up side we got a free picture!

Yep!

2010-05-04T10:15:00.000-07:00

Woohoo!!! Number 2 is on the way for our little family and we are excited. We will see how Erinn handles a new baby when it comes, she is already jealous of my sister holding her own baby so.....we will see! Ok pregnancy bring it on. Morning sickness I know what to expect this time you will be handled better!

I sure would like to take a class!

2010-04-03T17:46:00.000-07:00

So my niece Savannah turned nine today and my sister asked me if I could help decorated the cake, because my sister just had her 4Th child and is in need of some good down time. My sister had decided on a lady bug, she said that I should show it off because it turned out petty darn cute. So here it is.

I have never taken a cake decorating class but I've been wanting too. I think it would be a lot of fun......Don't you?

Erinn's First Birthday.

2010-03-11T18:12:00.000-08:00

Wow! Time sure does fly. On March 3rd was Erinn's First birthday we had a lot of fun with our families being there. I made her cake it was a lot of fun I plan on making all of my kids birthday cakes I think its makes it more special that way . Here are some pictures for you to enjoy.

The Birthday Girl.

I had to blow out the candles for her.

Wait.. what you mean I'm aloud to touch it?

I have stuff on my hands......

Get it off!!!!!

I Love My Life.

2010-02-12T16:23:00.000-08:00

I sure love these two. They are so much fun. They make me so happy. I have the best husband, and the sweetest little girl in the whole world. Tony, Erinn, I Love you.

My New Years Resolution.

2010-01-15T22:22:00.000-08:00

My resolution is that I will not be eating candy cookies or ice cream for the next year. I had my resolution decided back in November mainly because I was kind of discusted with myself. When ever I would eat these things I would gorge on them and its just awful I would tell myself that I need to calm down on eating these things but I craved it all the time and when I say all the time I mean ALL THE TIME. I finally got to the point that I was tired of craving these things and that it needed to stop. I figured out that it is a all or nothing thing when it comes to sweet. I would eat like 15 cookies a day if they were around, ice cream I would eat like 2 heaping bowls a day if it was around and if I didn't have it at my house I would eat my sisters ice cream! And candy..... if you know me candy is my love, I just love candy. So I decided that this needs to stop.

My goal with this is to hopefully make it so I don't look at these things and just want to pounce on it, lose weight, and feel better about myself. I had decided in November that on the first of the year is when I would start so that I could prepare myself mentally for this, because for me this is a HUGE thing. And you know what it has worked! When it came to the new year it was like a switch in my head. When I go to the store, I don't look and those things and sit there and wish that I could have it. It doesn't appeal to me. I'm way excited I know that its only been 15 days but you know what I haven't eaten any of the said things and........ I've lost 4 pounds!!!!! The other reason why I am so motivated to do this is because I shared with a friend on day my resolution back in December and this person proceeded to tell me that the reason why most new years resolutions fail is because they were unrealistic..... and then proceeded on telling me a better way to go about it. I know that this person meant well, but it felt like this person was telling me I was going to fail. And I didn't like that. So here I am. I am going to prove to myself that I can do it.

I have to admit I have had only one craving and it was today I wanted a Andes mint which is something I hardly ever eat. I know random! And I have been having dreams that I'm eating candy and then I realize in my dream what I am doing and I'm like NOOOOOOOOOO! And then I wake up and think wow that was weird. I know silly. Anywho. So that's my resolution. And I'm gonna do it darn it!

Grateful

2009-11-30T23:14:00.000-08:00

This Is A Thank You To My Uncle Sam For "Fixing" Erinn's Face. When Erinn Was Born Her Jaw Was Very Mis-Placed. I Pointed It Out To The Doctors In The Hospital When She was Born And They Said That They Didn't See Anything Wrong. So I Took Her To My Chiropractor The Day After She Got Home From The Hospital. And The First Thing He Noticed Was........ Yep You Guessed Was Her Out Of Place Jaw. He Did The Best He Could For Her But Wasn't Trained Very Much In Cranial Adjustment So He Told Me That He Could Refer Erinn To A Chiropractor In The Bay Area Who Specializes In Cranial Adjustments, The Only Draw Back Was It Was $150.00 An Adjustment After Much Prayer And Discussion With My Parents About Possibly Helping Us Out With The Financial Part Of The Situation. My Dad Reminded Me That We Were Going To Be Having A Family Reunion And That His Brother (Uncle Sam) Would Be There. Uncle Sam Is A Very Very Very Gifted Chiropractor. I Thought About That Simple Revelation And Prayed About It And Decided To Wait Till The Family Reunion And See What Uncle Sam Could Do For Erinn. And If He Couldn't Then We Would Go To The Doctor In The Bay Area. Well Needless To Say Uncle Sam With His Wonderful Talent Given To Him From Our Father In Heaven Was Able "Fix" Erinn's Face. He Had To Un-Jam Her Temporal Bone, Zygomatic Bone, Pallet, And Occipital Bone. Even With Uncle Sam's Gentle Hands Sadly It Was a Slightly Painful Process For Erinn. My Dad Actually Had To Go Out Side Because He Had A Hard Time Hearing Her Heart Breaking Crying. But As Soon As The Last Adjustment Was Made Erinn Immediately Stopped Crying, Looked At Me With The Will You Please Pick Me Up Now Look. Of Course I Picked Her Up And Gave Her The Loves She Was So Dearly Needing. Her Adjustment Has Held And Now Her Face Is Finally Even. Fortunately We Were Able To Do This At An Age Were She Wont Remember The Traumatic Experience.

If You Look At The Picture I Have Posted You Will Notice Erinn's Right Side Of Her Face(the left side of her face looking at the picture) Slightly Drooped. It No Longer Does That Anymore. I'm So Happy For Her. Thank You Again Uncle Sam For Adjusting Erinn.

Happy Halloween!

2009-11-01T12:30:00.001-08:00

We Had A Fun Halloween, We Hope You Did Too. We Went To Our Wards Trunk Or Treat, And Had A Blast. We Had A Chili And Corn Bread Dinner. After The Dinner They Lined Up All Of The Kids And Had Them Parade Around The Gymnasium. All Of The Kids Were So Cute. Then We Went Out Side And Had The Trunk Or Treat. I Was Lots Of Fun. Tony Had Fun Trying To See If Kids Would Give Him Their Candy, And When They Started To He Would Tell Them He Was Just Kidding. It Was A Very Fun Night. Here Are Some Pictures Of Our Costumes. Enjoy!

Erinn Was A Firefly, Tony Wore A Pesticide Treatment Out Fit From Work, And I Was A Bag Of Jelly Beans.

Looks Can Be Deceiving!!!

2009-10-12T14:19:00.000-07:00

This Sweet Face Totally Faked Me Out Last Night. Erinn Is In The Crawl Away While I Change Her Diaper Phase. Well I Was Changing Her Diaper And She Started To Crawl Away, But Then She Stopped And Just Sat There Smiling All Sweet Like. I Thought Sweet! She Didn't Go Very Far This Time...........Until I Realized She Was Pooping All Over My Carpet. EWWWWW! Oh Well IT Happens!

OH TO BE A KID AGAIN.

2009-09-22T09:32:00.001-07:00

I Remember Playing In Box's When I Was A Kid, And It Was So Much Fun! I'll Admit I

Probably Played In Them Until I Was 13, And An Occasional Play In The Box's With My Niece's

And Nephew's Here And There. So Why Not Start Erinn Out Young? She Thought It Was Fun For About 10 Minutes.......But Hey That's A Good Start. Kids Don't Need Those Noisy Toy's.

~ERINN'S QUILT~

2009-09-14T21:59:00.000-07:00

So Here It Is, I Finally Went To Walmart And Copied My Pictures. I Forgot To Take A Picture Of How It Wall Started And Of Me Sewing It Sorry, But It All Started Out With My Friend Traci Making A Quilt For Her Baby And I Got Motivated, So I Busted Out my Graft Paper And Started Drawing Patch Quilts There Were Four Different Ones And I Chose The One With Her Initial On It, And Decided I'm Going To Do One For Every Child That I Have And It Will Have Their Initial On It So They Can't Steal Each Others. I Know That They Will Probably Still Try To Steal Each Others But Its A Fun Thought Anyway. ( I Hope You Can See The Eyelet Lace Around The Edges Its What Makes It Super Cute.)

I Embroidered Her Name And Birth Date On It For Her. It Was Fun To Embroider Again I Hadn't Done It Since High School.

I Made A Matching Snuggly Out Of The Scraps Its About A Square Foot. So If She Gets Attached To Her Blanket, She Will Have The Understanding That This Is What She Gets To Take Out In Public If She Wants Tho take Her Blanket With Her. And It Fits In The Diaper Bag Nicely.

This Is My Make Shift Quilting Frames I Realized When It Came To Tieing That It Was Going To Be A Little Difficult To Do...... So I Used My Kitchen Table Chairs And My Food Storage. It Worked.

Erinn Sure Had A Lot Of Fun Helping Me Tie It. She Had Fun Crawling Around Under It. I Have A Feeling She's Going To Be Just Like Her Mama And Build Forts Out Of The Couch Cushions And Blankets.

It Was A Lot Of Fun Teaching Myself How To Make A Patch Work Quilt. I'm Excited For The Next One.

Its Been Crazy...But We Have Survived.

2009-08-23T21:47:00.000-07:00

So This Has Been A Super Busy Summer With Two Cousins And A Brother Getting Married. And Having To Travel All Over The Place With A 5 1/2 Month Old Baby Isn't Exactly An Easy Thing To Do. But The Craziness Is Over And Everything Is Back To Normal.

I Have Been Having Fun Learning Some New Things I Am In The Process Of Making A Quilt For Erinn, Which I plan On Posting Pictures Of It When It Is Finished. I Am Learning How To Weave From My Mother...Not A Very Easy Task might I Add. And I Learned How To Do Canning Also. Its Been A Lot Of Fun.

Erinn Is Getting So Big So Quick, She Is 5 1/2 Months Old Almost 6. (on Sept 3 she will be 6 months) She Crawling Around Now Has Been For A Week Now, And She Can Sit Herself Up, Also She Has Pulled Herself Up Into A Standing Positions Twice Now. WOW Huh? I Am Very Surprised, Its Kinda Exciting. She Is Just Progressing along. I Love Our Little Girl She Is Such A Sweet Heart. It Is So Fun To Watch Her Grow And Learn.

Hairy Stuff!

2009-07-23T13:21:00.000-07:00

Tony Is Such A Good Sport.

A Couple Weeks Back Before Tony Cut His Hair I Asked Him If I Could Take A Picture Of Him With A Bow In His Hair Just Like Erinn. And With Out Complaining He Said "Ya". I Love My Husband He Is So Fun!

Ok So I Cut My Hair About A Month Ago... Sorry It Took So Long To Post Pictures But Here They Are. I Was Growing My Hair Out To Donate It. I Wanted To Grow It Out To My Bottom, But With How Hot The Weather Has Been Lately And With The Way Hair Falls Out After Pregnancy I Decided It Was Time. So Here Are The Before And After Pictures. Thank You Krissy For Cutting my Hair.

You Just Gotta Love Free Things And Very Nice People.

2009-07-16T20:17:00.000-07:00

So The Other Day I Met This Really Nice Lady Named Ruth When I Took My Aunt Luch While She Was Working At A Firwoks Stand For Pittman High And She Absolutly Fell In Love With Erinn. She Asked Me If I Had Heard Of Jon Michal Terry One Of The Local Photographers Here In Turlock. I Told Her I Had Not. She Started Telling Me About Him, And How Once A Month He Does A Drawing From Letters People Had Sent To Him And If He Draws Your Name You Get A Free Photo Shoot, And He maks You A Cd Of The Pictures That He Takes And Hes Has A Release On His Website That You Can Print Off So You Can Make Copies Of His Pictures. I Thought He Sounded Way Cool. Ruth Asked She Could Hve My Name And Phone Number And Said That SHe Would Tell Jon Michael Terry About Me. I Said Ok And Gave Her The Info Thinking Nothing Would REally Come Of It, But It Was A Nice Thought To Have A Free Photo Shoot. So The Next Day I Get This Phone Call From Jon Michael Terry Telling Me That His Wife Ruth (His Wife?!?!? I had No Clue) Just Went On And On About Erinn And Wanted To Set Up An Appointment To Take Pictures. SWEET! Needless To Say i Said Yes And Set Up The Appointment. He Was Very Nice. I Would Recommend Him To Anyone. So Here are Some Of The Pictures. I Think There Were 67 Of Them So I'm Just Postin A Few. Oh Ya! He Put Two Of The Pictures On His Website. So Check It Out. www.jmtphoto.com And Go To Family And Children In The Portfolio. Enjoy!

MOHAWK!

2009-06-16T14:37:00.000-07:00

Do You Think The Mohawk Indians Would Be Proud Of Her? I Like To Think So.

Socks!

2009-06-02T23:39:00.001-07:00

Ok So There Are Ups And Downs To Having A Baby With LOTS Of Hair.

Ups: We Get Noticed Every Where We Go. And Plus Its Kinda Fun To Show Her Off!

Downs: She Has Started Pulling Her Hair So I Some Times Have To Put Socks On Her Hands. And The Other Down I Have This Moby Wrap That I Absolutely Love And For Those Of You Who Have Seen Me carry Erinn Around In It You Know That It Is Kinda Comical Just Seeing This Puff Of Hair Sticking Out Of the Wrap. Ok So Here Is The Down I Have Been Asked On Two Different Occasions If I Am Carrying A Dog. I Kindly Smile And Say Nope Its My Baby Girl And I Show Them Her Face. But Honstly If I Had A Dog I Would Not Carry It Around With Me Everywhere, And If I Had A Dog It Would Not Be A Small Dog It Would Be A Big One. Oh Well I Guess. Enjoy!

She Looks Like She's Got Sock Puppets!

Pictures From My Trip To Arizona.

2009-05-22T19:07:00.002-07:00

Here Are Some Pictures From My Trip To Arizona. And Some From Nevada Also.

This Is Aunt Char.

My Cousin Cody And His Wife Lucy.

My Grandma And Grandpa Bowman. Grandpa Gave Me Patriarchal Blessing And Also Sealed Tony And I In The Temple.

My Aunt Mary And Uncle Doug, Their Son Kim And His Oldest Daughter Amithest (Amy). And Grandma And Grandpa Bowman.

Grandpa And Grandma Bowman!

Pictures From Erinn's Blessing Day.

2009-05-22T19:07:00.001-07:00

So Here Are The Pictures Of Erinn That I Promised.

She Just Sat There All Perfect Like For The Pictures.

Isn't She Just So Pretty?..... I Think So.

This is Aunt Eliza She Made Erinn's Dress.

Family, Car, and The Flu.

2009-05-22T19:07:00.000-07:00

So this month so far has been pretty busy for us. on may 3rd we had Erinn's baby blessing there were eleven people in total in the circle and that wasn't everyone we wanted in the circle we decided it would be best to to keep it to just immediate family and the bishop and that in its self would have been 9 but the bishop counselors decided to join in we were a little surprised by it but oh well it was a good blessing. Erinn's dress was so beautiful, my Aunt Eliza Bonner made the dress for Erinn it was kind of an adventure. Aunt Eliza lives in another town about 2 hours away and was meeting us at the church that morning with the dress. the missionaries had called us the night before and asked us for a ride to church and i thought (scary i know) if we take the elders to Church it will definitely help us to be on time (we have 8:30 am church). well even though i got up extra early to get ready and have time to pick up the elders we managed to get to church right when the meeting was starting so we had to scramble to get Erinn into her dress. good thing there was another baby blessing before ours so we had enough time to get her in her dress. it was a very pretty blessing. after church we had a potluck at my Aunt Sharon and Uncle Chris's house with all of the people who came for the blessing. it was a lot of fun visiting with everyone.

On may 15th my Dad and I and Erinn hopped in the car and headed out on our road trip to Arizona to go and visit Grandma and Grandpa Bowman, and Uncle Anthony and Aunt Rosalee and their family. we were on the road for 13 hours Erinn did really well until about an hour outside of Phoenix Erinn started throwing up because i had drank some airborne it made her sick she kept throwing up evey time i fed her the next morning her poops was the same color of the airborne. so note to self don't drink airborne while nursing! we were in Arizona from Friday night(15th) till around noon on Wednesday(20th). we were going to leave on the 19th but i got the 24hr flu from Uncle Anthony's family. we were warned that it was going around their family before we went so we knew we had a chance of getting sick. both dad and i got it. oh well we still enjoyed our visit. on the 18th it was dads birthday Uncle Anthony called all of the cousin in the area the day before and invited them all over for a birthday party for dad. poor uncle Anthony came down with the flu the day of the party and knocked flat for the day. and poor aunt Rosalee having Vally fever and being pregnant at the same time was pretty wiped out for the day too. so dad and i got everything ready for the party i made for the first time 2 Texas sheet cakes they turned out pretty good, i was a little nervous but they turned out pretty good. the party had a really good turn out Uncle Don Bowman and all of his kids came and i don't remember his first name but his last name was Bluth. it was a lot of fun listening to the stories of my dad and all of his cousins growing up together in Mexico. it really was a treat. thank you uncle Anthony and aunt Rosalee for letting us come visit. it was a lot of fun visiting with grandma and grandpa as well. i know that dad enjoyed a lot of his time reminiscing. i enjoyed listening to what i was able to hear when i had the chance. its always fun to hear grandpas stories. Wednesday afternoon we drove to Alamo and stayed the nigh at at Aunt Char and Uncle Kikos house, while there we got to see Derek, and Cody and Lucy. on the way we stopped in Las Vegas at Trina and Ben's house(cousin). it was a lot of fun i got to see Trina's new little girl Paige she was born about 3 weeks after Erinn so it was a lot of fun to get to visit. i got to hold Paige when i picked her up it felt like i was holding a feather compared to Erinn. Connie and Adam and Shaylynn came over as well. it was a lot of fun seeing everyone i wish we had more time to stay and visit with everyone. we got home on Thursday afternoon, Erinn slept most of the way home, so that was good. all in all we were on the road for about 24 hours all together. it was a fun trip. thank you uncle Anthony and aunt Rosalee, aunt char and uncle Kiko for letting us stay with you.

i will put up in the next couple days some pictures of the trip and some pics of Erinn in her blessing dress. sorry its so big.

Discovery

2009-04-28T11:55:00.000-07:00

Things that i have discovered about myself as a mom......

1. pink is not such a horrible color after all.

2. i don't clean my house as much as i should.

3. i miss making and sitting down to dinner with Tony.

4. i can handle boogers a whole lot better than i use to.....i still gag though.

5. i like having a sidekick everywhere i go, though its not always easy to lug everything around.

6. having a baby strengthens my testimony even more that there is a God.

7. i enjoy taking pictures again.

8. when i actually get the time to get ready for the day, i actually try to look nice.

9. i visit family more so they can see Erinn

10. i've become more silly just to get smiles out of Erinn.

i'm sure i could put some more on here but 10 is enough. here are some picture of Erinn. enjoy!

Taking The Step

2009-04-25T18:25:00.000-07:00

Ok so i am totally not a very good blogger at all, but after reading one of my friends blogs (thankyou emily) i have decided that i will give it a try, what do i have to lose huh? this way i will be able to share pictures with family and friends, and maybe even become a creative writer. but bare with me as i learn how to put all of this together.