pressing his face against the shower door

Cole's 1st birthday with the Reidhead Family

I used to HATE shower doors...now I love them
Nana and Cole

Making Cole's birthday cupcakes

Trying to figure out Uncle Ryan and the hair on his chin

Couldn't quite figure out what was on his head"Ah HA a flickering light. I'm gonna touch it."

"This whole thing is mine? Are you sure Nana?"

All in one bite

Show no mercy kid!

opening presents

His new Lightning McQueen car. Wasn't sure about it at first but now he LOVES it. Taught him how to walk real quick.

Figured out the dog kennel

Up Next:

Cole's birthday in Thatcher with the Claridge clan...as soon as Shannon emails me the pictures because we forgot the camera

He has a new trick

he is a little champ.

A little update

loves his wagon

"FREEZE MR."

soothing himself after falling off the bed

love those eyes, lashes, lips...everything

On our way to church

crawls around with the bucket on his head...he puts it there himself. He loves to hear his echo.

wishing so badly he could play with the mop and broom

Watchin dada play Modern Warfare...finding comfort in his bear

Road trip to Texas

giving sweet loves

I've Been Needing This...Motherhood: An Eternal Partnership with God

Thanks Jeffrey R. Holland for this.

Lately....

A couple weeks ago I threw my back out when I was trying to keep Cole out of the kitchen while I was mopping. A bottle of vicodin, some muscle relaxers and a week later I was fine. Then today happened. It all started when Cody came home from work so clearly everything is his fault (it just has to be).

Cody "lightly" tossed my cell phone to me and hit me right in the elbow. It hurt so bad. I pretended he broke it. ...he didn't fall for it.

We decided to go swimming. The pool and the spa only have a wall separating them that you can climb over and switch pools. (That doesn't make much sense.) I decided to get in the hot tub so I sat on the wall which was very slippery and I was going to stradle the wall and go in one leg at a time but I totally slipped and went in backwards with my legs straight up in the air. Hilarious. I came up laughing so hard!!!

Cody decided he wanted to be funny and dodge spooning me so he would roll over from side to side while we were on the bed. Well I crawled over him so I could be the inside spoon and he rolled again. Somehow I pushed off of him or lost my balance or something bizarre because I flew off the bed, hit my head on the side table, hit my leg on my craft table and landed straight on my tail bone. I am in pain. I wanted to laugh but just saying "ou ou ou" over and over was all that came out. Now I can't even sit up straight. Not looking forward to tomorrow if I'm already this sore.

Feel free to laugh. I have. I have gone so long without getting hurt and then all of a sudden its boom boom boom.