Happy Birthday, Baby Colton!

We just wanted to give a little shout-out to our great friends, Josh and Amanda, and welcome adorable baby Colton David into the world! Congratulations on your beautiful little boy! We wish we could be there to meet him, but we send our love none the less!

Chugga Chugga Two-Two!

While in Spokane, we celebrated Cole's 2nd Birthday with our family since we don't know too many people in Hawaii yet. It was fun getting together at 5 Mile Heights Pizza with our family to celebrate this milestone. Of course, it was a train theme. The funniest part of the evening was when it was time to blow out the candles, I said to Cole "you want to eat your cake?" and he just went face first into the cake and took a huge bite out of it! It was a pretty delicious cake and a very fun little party.

Back to Christmas

Now that things are a little more calm around here and Cole's birthday is over, I have some back-tracking to do. Our Christmas was busy, as usual, but wonderful. We had a lot of fun on Christmas Eve and Christmas morning up at Grandpa and Grandma's with the McMillan's (who had an adorable puppy with them) and Auntie JoJo, Uncle Adam, and Archer and then Christmas night, we had fun up at Nana and Papa's with everyone up there!

Of course, Cole's favorite part was the presents. He was a lot overwhelmed on Christmas morning, but for days after he just kept wanting "More Presents!" "More Presents!" Between Christmas in Spokane, Christmas in Hawaii, and his birthday, we've created a monster!

The kids open Christmas Jammies

Playing with the puppy

So cuddly!

Lots of Puppy Love

Santa was here!

Somehow he knew which present to go for first

Christmas Morning Chaos

Brian, Amy, Zavien, & Zanna

Brianna, Jill, Joe & Chelsea

The Jabara's

Lindsay (and baby girl) & Ben

Joelle & Adam

"More Presents!"

Yummy!

Pretty Girls in the Kitchen
Cole's 1st "Frosty"

Sporting the adorable hat our friends, Josh and Lianne sent him

Happy 2nd Birthday, Cole!!!

Sweet baby only 5 days old

Our baby is finally 1!

Our big boy is 2!

I can't believe today we celebrated Cole's 2nd Birthday. It feels like he just turned 1! It's amazing how much he's grown and learned over the past year. And also how far we've come the past year as well. He sleeps like a champ now, finally, and he's eating so much better too. A few months ago I couldn't get the kid to eat any meat and now that's all he'll eat. It's just so funny how quickly things change. Also, as of this week, Cole has been completely weaned! He nursed for one year and 357 days. I can't believe we nursed that long! I'm very grateful that I'm getting a little break before the next baby though. I'm going to do a complete update after his 2 year check up, but I thought I'd just add one of my favorite things that Cole does now. He says so much and can be so sweet, but I think my favorite is when he says "bless you" when someone sneezes (or coughs). It just melts my heart every time he does it. Especially though when he's involved in something and you don't think he's paying attention, but then you sneeze and he stops whatever it is he's working on and says "Bless you!" and little does he know that we are very blessed because we have a perfect 2 year old in our lives!