We hope that everyone had a wonderful Christmas. Ours was great. We got to spend time together as a family and with our extended family. What more can you ask for? We did have a great Christmas though with Colsten. It was his first Christmas and though he didn't really know what was going on, it was still so fun. He got some fun little toys. One of which Tally and I are excited about. For all of you who don't know Tally, he is a HUGE baseball fan. His favorite team... well... that would be the Yankees. Yes I know there are not many fans out there, but he loves them. So Colsten received a soft Yankees baseball bat and a soft squishy baseball. So the wooden bat was taken away which is great because he would hit the walls, windows, floors or anything else that would make noise.
Saturday was fun. We had a big celebration party for my sister Natalie because she finished up her chemo and is almost done with radiation. That is great! Her hair is starting to grow back. It is great. She looks so good.

Monday we spent the day at Primary Children's Hospital. Colsten had a scheduled orchiopexy. (you can click on the link for more info) Any way he was born with one testicle. So they had to go in and make two incisions on his little man parts. One towards the abdomen and one down in the little sac where it was supposed to be. They thought it was just tangled up in some tissue, well once they got in there they found out that the canal that it drops down into didn't even form, so they had to make a canal. He also had a little hernia in there that they fixed for him. I think hernia's are hereditary. Tally has had 3 and grandpa Thomas has had a few. Poor little guy. He is a little black and blue. They gave him a prescription for Lortab and sent us on our way once he was awake and drinking clear fluids. We got home and he slept pretty much the rest of the day. Then yesterday he woke up and was talking to himself. He was so happy. I got him out of bed and he was running around the house like nothing was wrong with him. I haven't really given him a lot of medicine because he doesn't act like it hurts. So if you saw him you would never guess that he had surgery on Monday. He is just his happy self which we are grateful for. Sorry the pictures are a little blurry. They were taken with my phone.

Anyway we hope that everyone has safe, fun evening tonight celebrating the New Year. We have so much to be grateful for.

Ward Christmas Party

Last week was our ward Christmas party. It was a lot of fun. Towards the end Santa came. It was Colsten's first time ever meeting Santa so I was a little worried because you see a lot of little children that get scared and cry. Well we stuck Colsten on his lab and I don't think he really knew what was going on. He was so oblivious. He just sat there and stared around. It didn't even faze him.

Anyway we are so excited for Christmas this week. It will be fun to spend it with family and mostly to reflect on the birth of our Savior, because with out that birth Christmas wouldn't exist. I am so grateful for my Savior and that we do have this time to honor him. I pray that everyone will stop and take more than a few minutes thinking about the presents and the treats and everything that is so temporary and think more about Jesus Christ. Without him nothing would be possible.

I hope that everyone has a very Merry Christmas!!

Colsten is walking

I know that most people don't post their children walking, but hey he is our first and we still get excited over the little things. :)

He is still a little wobbly. He puts his arms up and it reminds me of those monkey's that walk with their arms in the air. It cracks me up.

I don't know if I am ready for him to walk yet, but he is a busy body and wants to do what everyone else does. He won't sit still for 5 seconds. He is a lot of fun though.

A little late...

Halloween was last week and I am now just posting the pictures. Oh well. We had a good halloween. I took the day off and took Colsten to visit my work and then we were able to go see Grandma and Grandpa Jolley, aunt Natalie, uncle Ty, aunt Kristen, uncle Adam, and cousin Brooklyn. Colsten was Yoda from Star Wars and Brooklyn was a cute bunny. Then we went to see Grandma and Grandpa Thomas and then aunt Erma and uncle Trevor and cousin Tatum came over. Tatum was a cute lamb.

Colsten and his cousin Brooklyn



Colsten and his cousin Tatum

When we got home our street was blocked off by our house. (We live in a cul-de-sac) Our neighbors are great and are always doing fun things. In the middle of the cul-de-sac they had a fire pit on the right side a blow up grave yard (a ghost playing the organ) and had music going then on the left was a blow up haunted house. At the beginning of it all, one of our neighbors made a pumpkin out of their trampoline. They are great. We are blessed to live in such a great neighborhood. They are so fun.

Monday was Columbus Day so that meant that Tally had the day off. He was going to spend the morning cleaning the house and taking care of Colsten. He is great at cleaning the house. He is a huge help. He is especially great at cleaning the toilets. How wonderful is that! I have not had to clean one toilet since we have been married. I guess it pays to marry someone who is a clean freak. :) Anyway he was cleaning the toilet and of course Colsten has to be in the middle of it. He tried to get to the toilet, but fortunately Tally blocked him every time. When he was done he took Colsten to the family room while he did some other stuff. Tally said that it got quiet. So when he went to find him, this is what he found...

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