HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY FROM THE COOK FAMILY!
Sunday, February 14, 2010
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
My favorite Aunt is a STAR!!
My Auntie Roxanne is a cancer survivor. Recently she was asked to participate in a fundraiser for the Huntsman cancer institute. The popular interchangeable Miche bag unveiled their bag HOPE in hopes to raise at least one million dollars to give back for cancer research in the year 2010. (HERE is a link to the news coverage. ) These bags are reasonably priced and pretty cool I might add :) plus if it will help cancer research I'm all over it. If you are interested my cousin Jane sells these bags just shoot her an email. jscowan28@msn.com
Monday, February 8, 2010
On the move!
Miss Annie Bear has been on the move for a few weeks now. She is now eight months and is getting quicker every day. She is still doing the army crawl but I'm sure it won't be long before she is doing the real thing we have been on all fours rocking away for a while now. Some other things about Miss Annie are she has figured out how to clap, she ADORES Ty, and is terrified of our dog in the backyard it's kind of funny.
New things I'm trying out
I have been meaning to post this along time ago but I am just now getting around to it. I have been following a site So you think your crafty. There are so many talented women and each week they create a craft around that weeks theme. Although I could never be a participant I love to get great ideas from these amazing women. The last winner is amazingly talented and I now love to check her blog (HERE) out multiple times a week and has inspired me to be more thrifty and see things in a different light. I found this shirt in the first picture at JCPenny for a whopping $2.97 it was a womens shirt extra small and thought I could refashion it to a dress for my Goosey I was mostly pleased with the results and for my first refashion I think it turned out pretty well. One other thing I have made is a skirt made out of a vintage bedsheet kindof fun. Someday I will try to make this too. So many things to try... so little time!
Before/ After
Before/ After
The other thing that has been taken over in my mind is doing a little baking. My visiting teacher (who was just taken from me to edify a new sister in the ward) is an amazing talented lady who also has inspired me. I have always loved to bake but after seeing the amazing work that Trudy does I wanted to try different things too. Chris got me this cookbook. I love it and look at it often. We decided that we need to have more get-together because it is a bad idea to bake all the yummy stuff in that book and eat it just the two of us. So mostly we just look at all the pretty pictures but these are a few of the things I have made. Not Trudy worthy but they tasted good!
Monday, December 28, 2009
My Christmas Favorites
THE NATIVITY
There are two reasons this is my favorite....first and most important having a nativity displayed in our home reminds us what Christmas is really about and, gives us many opportunities to teach our little ones. I love the spirit that Christmas gives off helping us to be more like our Savior.
The second reason I love my nativity is because since we have been married Chris' parents has given us one piece of the nativity each year, this year is the first year to have the complete nativity up and I love it!!!!
DECORATIONS
I love Decorating for Christmas! There have been many times Chris has mentioned that Christmas has thrown up in our house and each year it gets worse.
This year the Mantle is by far my favorite !
This year the Mantle is by far my favorite !
OUR CHRISTMAS TREE ORNAMENTS
Most of the ornaments on the tree are special in one way or another. There are many from Chris' Grandparents that he was given each year starting from his first Christmas. Now that tradition is slowly filling up our tree with our kiddos yearly ornaments. Other ornament on our tree are silver bells that were on my family tree when I was growing up and other home made ornaments from our first Christmas together six years ago in Iowa. They all have a memory that is special to us in some way or another. This year the temple ornament in the picture above has special meaning to me. My Grandma Cowan gave that ornament to us for our first Christmas being married because it was the temple we were married and sealed in. With her passing this summer it will forever remind me of her and how lucky we are to be an eternal family.
SPENDING TIME AS A FAMILY
(spending Christmas Eve with members of our ward family caroling at a care center)
What a great time to spend together as a family. Although we missed our families back in Utah We have been able to make some of our own traditions as our little family and have been taken in by some of our ward family who invited us to spend Christmas Eve with them this year.
CHRISTMAS MORNING!!!
What a great time to spend together as a family. Although we missed our families back in Utah We have been able to make some of our own traditions as our little family and have been taken in by some of our ward family who invited us to spend Christmas Eve with them this year.
CHRISTMAS MORNING!!!
(Ty and Lucy with their Santa gifts )
(Miss Annie loved the wrapping paper)
Who doesn't love Christmas morning? Our Christmas morning started off with Ty entering our room with excitement at 2AM telling us that Santa came! We told him that it was still too early to wake the girls up and he needed to go back to bed I could hear how excited he was and knew there was no chance he was going back to sleep now. We told Ty that he could go sleep by the Christmas tree and wait until it was time to get up. I thought that might work but I could hear him walking around so I decided to go lay on the couch with him. It took until 4am before he fell asleep again. That morning was one of those days where I was so glad I was up to see and feel the excitement of Christmas morning of our little man. And made me just as excited for him and the girls. When he finally woke up again we told him it was okay to wake Lucy up and the fun start. Ty and Lucy both got bikes but they weren't as excited as Santa thought they would be...in fact we got more of a reaction from the oranges in the stocking! If only we would have known Santa could have saved some money and bought a few more oranges. Either way we had a great morning spent together as a family reflecting on the birth of our Savior.
Thursday, November 12, 2009
A week of Firsts
So last week was full of firsts for our family....
1)Ty started Tai Kwon Do. This is the first day he went and loved it. He is such a little guy, you can tell he is the youngest in his class but I think he did pretty well for his first time. He was ready to ditch the uniform as soon as class was over because he couldn't breath (the belt was too tight I guess) but of course I had to have a picture So I made him put it back on.
2) Lucy had her first dance class....Too bad I was a horrible mom and looked at the time wrong. We arrived at the very end. I think I was more devastated than she was! Lucy was sad but I asked her if she wanted to run up and dance a little in front of the mirror. She ran, did a little prance, ran back and was happy. Tonight we will go at the right time and remember to bring the camera. This picture was taken the same day as Ty's first day of TKD. All she wanted to do was go to her dance class so I let her try on her leotard. and of course because brother is having his picture taken She had to have her turn in front of the camera too.
3) Last weekend was BEAUTIFUL!!!!! the temp outside was at least 75 degrees. We played out side and got some much needed energy out and played in the leaves. Now you ask why is this a first? Because, I'm not sure why, but this was the first time Ty and Lucy really have ever played in the fall leaves. Like I said, I don't know why this is a first, maybe because last year I was prego with Annie and at the peak of morning sickness. Who knows what happened the years before. Oh well we had a great time and spent at least two hours playing to make up for it.
4) Annie finally rolled over from back to belly....The only problem is that she has forgotten how to roll back so it has been slightly frustrating for all of us. I am always amazed that a baby can do something once or even more times then decide there is no need and won't do it for months after....I sure do hope she remembers soon!
1)Ty started Tai Kwon Do. This is the first day he went and loved it. He is such a little guy, you can tell he is the youngest in his class but I think he did pretty well for his first time. He was ready to ditch the uniform as soon as class was over because he couldn't breath (the belt was too tight I guess) but of course I had to have a picture So I made him put it back on.
2) Lucy had her first dance class....Too bad I was a horrible mom and looked at the time wrong. We arrived at the very end. I think I was more devastated than she was! Lucy was sad but I asked her if she wanted to run up and dance a little in front of the mirror. She ran, did a little prance, ran back and was happy. Tonight we will go at the right time and remember to bring the camera. This picture was taken the same day as Ty's first day of TKD. All she wanted to do was go to her dance class so I let her try on her leotard. and of course because brother is having his picture taken She had to have her turn in front of the camera too.
3) Last weekend was BEAUTIFUL!!!!! the temp outside was at least 75 degrees. We played out side and got some much needed energy out and played in the leaves. Now you ask why is this a first? Because, I'm not sure why, but this was the first time Ty and Lucy really have ever played in the fall leaves. Like I said, I don't know why this is a first, maybe because last year I was prego with Annie and at the peak of morning sickness. Who knows what happened the years before. Oh well we had a great time and spent at least two hours playing to make up for it.
4) Annie finally rolled over from back to belly....The only problem is that she has forgotten how to roll back so it has been slightly frustrating for all of us. I am always amazed that a baby can do something once or even more times then decide there is no need and won't do it for months after....I sure do hope she remembers soon!
You can't see it too well but I love the little crinkled nose when she smiles.
Time with Daddy
Because Chris is working nights our time with Daddy is precious. This day Daddy woke up a little earlier than he should have, but the kids were so excited to see him he decided to watch a movie with them. Lucy climbed up on his lap and before I knew it they were both out like a light. I love this picture for many reasons but mostly I love that Lucy has her arm around Chris' arm just chillin' with Daddy... too cute!
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