What a cutie

Cohen is five months old today! Oh my gosh I love him so much! If I knew five months and one day ago what was in store for me, I wouldn't have believed it! Last week he started sitting up! Oh my gosh it's the cutest thing! He looks like such a big boy! He actually has a cold right now. I feel so bad. :( Cause there's nothing really i can do about it. His doctor wanted to see him today, cause his cough has gotten pretty bad. Everything looked like a cold... nothing too severe, which is good. He weighs 16 lbs, 3 oz!

So on saturday, we had family pictures taken. FINALLY!!!!!!!!!!! We haven't had a family picture taken of all of us, since Luke got home from his mission, 6 years ago!!! Tracey's friend, Lisa took them, and I guess these are just sneak-peak pics. I just got them e-mailed to me yesterday. I love these! So here are just a few from the millions that she took! (THANKS LISA!!)

Cute little cousins! Gwen, Cohen, & Jefferson

Trust me, It was hard for me to sit by and watch this! But isn't this sooo cute! Look at her tongue! She is TRULY concentrating.

My cute little boy! 5 months old!!! ahhhhhhh

So that's where all my tupperware went!!

Just a warning.... this post might make you sick, or make you not ever want to come to my house! :) Either way... read with caution... (believe me, I threw up in my mouth a few times)

I am HORRIBLE when it comes to deep cleaning. Ask Jeff. When we're both cleaning, he will find me somewhere cleaning something unneccesary when I should be cleaning something neccesary... let me explain... Tommorrow Luke, Jenny, Gwen and Jefferson are coming over to hang out. Well our place is a mess! But having a sick little boy, and a husband that works late, leaves me with not a lot of time. So I choose to clean the places where people will be. Long story short... I went grocery shopping tonight, and while I was putting things in the fridge, I realized I didn't have a lot of room to put my milk and such. So I noticed some tupperware containers that didn't really need to be there. I then start stacking containers on top of eachother on the counter, and they just kept coming!!! Oh my gosh you guys... the stuff that was in them... seriously nasty!! While I was cleaning them out, I was thinking of when I had made the stuff... and some came from before I had COHEN!! Or there were a couple from when people brought us food when I had him. Oh nasty. But now if you look in my fridge, it's empty, and bright! There was enough tupperware to fill a whole dishwasher!!!! So anyhooo... my house might not be clean tomorrow, but at least I'll have a clean fridge for them to look at! :)

thankful for the snow storm

So I can't believe I'm saying this, but we are in the middle of a huge snow storm! And there is NO sign of it stopping!! I honestly can't believe it! I've never seen Portland like this. Today on the news, they said that the airport is measuring 14 1/2 inches, and we probably have a couple more inches than that here!! This is just crazy!!!! Every time I look out the window, I feel like I'm looking at a picture... it just seems so unreal! For the past two days we have been safely stuck at my parents house. I had to work yesterday morning, so Jeff, Cohen and I stayed at my parents house, cause I work just down the road. And I had jeff take me in my parents blazer with chains on. Now we really are stuck here... But man oh man am I thankful for this blizzard! You're probably wondering why the heck would I be grateful that I"m stuck somewhere, without my things, and not able to go anywhere.... well let me explain.

Because of this storm... there have been a lot of stores that are closed. And hardly anyone can travel, unless they have 4 wheel drive AND have chains on. So this has pretty much forced families to stay home and spend time with their families. I have been having soooo much fun with my family. And I feel that this is the meaning of Christmas. Spending time with our families, showing love for one another and eating yummy food! :) Luke and Jenny and their cute kids are in town. They luckily came in before all this happened. And usually when they come, I hardly get to spend any time with Luke, cause he's off with the boys. But because everyone has been stuck here, we've been able to truly spend time with each other! I just feel that the "material" part of Christmas has been put on hold, and we can truly celebrate the true meaning of christmas with our families.

I feel really bad for those stuck at the airport. It really makes me sad... and I hope they will be able to travel to their families soon! I am so thankful I'm in a warm, house filled with food, and a warm bed to sleep in.

I'm thankful for my parents, who have generously taken us in during all this. My dad has done everything imaginable to keep us safe... whether it's taken us to and from work, shoveled the driveway, or shoveled our cars out of the snow! And my mom has done everything to keep us fed with yummy food and have warm beds! Thank you!

So here are some pictures from these past couple of days....
This was last night. After we took this picture we measured it with a ruler, and it was just under a foot.... this morning when we measured, we lost the ruler! It was too deep!

Cute little Gwen playing with her cousin Cohen!

These ice chunks came off Allie's car!

Uncle Nick with Jefferson

Cohen in his saucer. He LOVES this thing!!

Twilight

okay... so for months now I have gone from blog to blog reading about people obsessing over this book... waiting in lines until midnight for the book to go on sale... And then the movie came out and WOW! I had NO idea what the hype was all about!!!! (I kinda still don't!) This past saturday I was invited to go see it with some girls in my ward. Jeff's reaction was, "Twilight?????? Really?????" Haha.... And I said, "yes, I know... but I haven't gotten out of the house in a LONG time, and I really want to get to know those girls!" So I went. And I had a blast with them. Poor girls though... After the movie, they got an ear full of questions! I seriously still don't understand the hype... but I guess I need to be a reader to fully understand. Unless it's in People magazine, or Good Housekeeping... I might not ever fully understand! :)

What the Einstein?!!

So I just started putting on Baby Einstein videos for Cohen.... and holy cow... he loves it!! Here is what I found while I stepped away for a minute! Yes even Baxter is intrigued! I started folding laundry after I took this pic, and even I caught myself mesmerized!! ha ha.... I have a video of Baxter jumping on top of the tv and swatting at the different things moving! I love this picture!