Thursday, December 26, 2013

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!


Cook Family's 10 Most Memorable Moments of 2013 (In no particular order of greatness)

1: Grandma and Papa Gordon took us to Disneyland in January! I was 28 weeks pregnant and tired, but we had a blast! The girls were in heaven and had so much fun!
2: On March 23rd, we became a family of 5 when Jacob Ty Cook was born. He is now 9 months old, crawling, and pulling himself to a stand. He puts up with a lot from his sisters!
3: We lost Lily in the park this summer. Scariest moment in my life!
4: In August we spent a wonderful week in Bear Lake with Grandma and Grandpa Cook. The girls spent most of the week in a swimsuit either at the pool or the beach!
5: The girls and I are a part of a co-op preschool this year. It's been a lot of fun!
6: Crystal has learned to read about 50 sight words. We have also been working on blending and handwriting. Lily is working on alphabet sounds and counting.
7: Crystal turned 5 and loves playing outside with her friends – even when its freezing! She loves making new friends and can't wait to go to Kindergarten next year!
8: Lily turned 3, but if you ask her she'll tell you she's 5 (or sometimes 4). She's a 'big girl' now and thinks she can do EVERYTHING by herself.
9: Our apartment flooded in September when 50 years worth of accumulated rain decided to unleash itself on Provo. We were out of a home for nearly 2 weeks and were so thankful for Ty's grandparents who let us stay with them!
10: Ty and I will celebrate our 7th wedding anniversary 2 days before Christmas!

Monday, December 16, 2013

Family Pictures!

We needed an updated family picture for Christmas Cards this year! I saw these adorable outfits at Walmart for the girls and J had the perfect hand me down vest to go with them! When I bought them it wasn't really cold outside yet, but by the time we got around to getting pictures done (last week), it was FREEZING! My poor kids were SO COLD during pictures this year! I'm glad they still had it in them to smile for the camera!

















Chuck E Cheese and CHRISTMAS FUN!

RANDOM PICTURES OF THE WEEK

We had a hard time getting out of Sam's Club parking lot without hitting any ducks. They seem to have made the parking lot their home this winter.

They plowed our parking lot at the apartment (Christmas Miracle!) and the girls have been enjoying the 'slides' they created in the process!



Decorating cookies at Preschool!


These are the clean clothes I needed to fold earlier this week. There were 3 more loads on the way. Blah. 

J and Ty's cousin (2 months older than J). They were giving each other kisses but I didn't get a picture of it.



CHUCK E CHEESE
Storytime: When I was in labor with J, my dad opted to stay home and watch the girls. Lunchtime rolled around, and he packed them into his truck to find McDonald's. We had given him directions, but he made a wrong turn somewhere and ended up on the freeway. He got off at Orem Center Street and guess what he found? Chuck E Cheese! Ever since then Crystal has begged us to take her to the Chuck E Cheese Papa found. We always just tell her Papa found it on accident and we didn't know where it was. lol.
Well we headed to Target (just across from Chuck E Cheese) where I had an eye appointment last weekend. We very very very rarely go to Target. We've had too many bad experiences with their customer service, but its where the eye insurance wants us to go, AND I have to admit we've found a couple of deals there that were too good to pass up this Christmas season! Anyway, my point is we never go down Center Street in Orem so Crystal has never been able to 'find' Chuck E Cheese again. But this girl is very observant. The SECOND we drove passed Chuck E Cheese, she yelled, "THERE IT IS! THERE IS CHUCK E CHEESE! LETS GO DAD! LETS GO!" We pretended we couldn't see it. Even in the Target parking lot when she was pointing at the mouse sign across the street. lol. She said, "It's okay I'll show you where it is. I know now." lol. It was pretty funny.

Fast Forward to this weekend. I had to go pick up my contacts at Target, so we decided to surprise the girls with Chuck E Cheese. They had a lot of fun! And now Crystal wants to have her birthday party there next year! I'm afraid I'm going to have to hear about it for the next 9 months! lol!


J LAUGHED hysterically every time someone hit the air hockey puck. It was so funny! 







CHRISTMAS LIGHTS
Every year before we leave town for Christmas we take a little drive around town to see the Christmas lights! This is a house in Orem that is always decked out every year! SO MANY LIGHTS! Its amazing! We ended the night at Ty's work. The building is lit up to music this year so we parked and let the kids get in the front seat so they could see the show. It only plays 3 songs over and over, and poor Ty gets to listen to it in his cubicle at work for 6 hours straight. Its going to be a long week for him, but the kids sure loved it! 






After seeing the lights we opened our 'a book a day till Christmas' present. (We did 2 because we are behind). It was Animal's Christmas and Polar Express! We read them in the fort Daddy helped the girls make!

Then the girls spent the night in their fort!

Their ceiling! Daddy made it pretty high!

The primary sang at the Ward Christmas Dinner during the program on Saturday. Crystal is in the middle. They did a great job! :D



Sunday, December 8, 2013

Getting Ready for Christmas

RANDOM PICTURES OF THE WEEK
Look at the adorable face? Even at 10:30 at night when he should be alseep, he's cute! 

Ready for a short walk. Yep. Its that cold outside.

It's a bear! No! Its a monkey! No! Its Jacob!

He's our drummer boy!

Crystal is getting all 4 of her 6 year molars at once! She says they don't hurt at all. Thank goodness!

CHRISTMAS AND SNOW

We got our Christmas decorations up this week! My house smells wonderfully of a freshly cut Christmas tree! And to top it all off, it snowed... a lot ... this week too! It looks and smells a lot like Christmas now! 





Crystal made her own tree in the toy room with an extra tree branch and the nativity ornaments.

J was a lot of help... really. Just making sure the lights are good and tangled.

Wrapping the presents they made in preschool.



Playing in the snow! It was very very cold!





Jingle made an appearance a few days ago. His first day back he brought breakfast and a note!

He's been pretty mild so far and hasn't done anything too silly. The girls love looking for him every morning!

We are ready for Christmas in this house! Can't wait for another trip to Idaho Falls!