Sunday, December 12, 2010

Halloween...alittle late. LOL!!!

Here are some pics of our Halloween this year. We are also creating albums on Facebook to be able to post more. So, add us as friends and you can check 'em out. (Jennifer Cole and/or Ricky Cole)

Trunk or Treat. He is in love with Buzz and Toy Story!!




Ben on the bungee cords ride. Not sure what its called, but he flew super high in the air over and over again because the worker would bounce him. He kept asking to go higher and was never afraid. He would have gone all night too!! even though it was freezing cold and we forgot to have him wear socks!! It was truly amazing. I wanted to do it too!!



The pumpkin patch gives the kids a coloring page to color and bring back and you get a free ride. Here's his pumpkin. He said it was his scary pumpkin!! He liked the gray pumpkins they had at the pumpkin patch because we told him they were scary pumpkins. LOL!!

Picking out a pumpkin. :)

The carving pumpkins night!!




Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Benjamin 3 yrs old!!! Family Pictures...

Here are some pictures of Ben at 3 yrs old and our yearly traditional family photos.

Our Family October 2010...



Ben wanted to be the photographer and so this was the result. Pretty good!!


Awwww! Daddy and son





Love his facial expressions!!

Natural cutie!!

Outside our apartment playing with his new scooter he got for his birthday!!






Tuesday, November 30, 2010

The Tooth Fairy is making an early visit...

Well, its happening... I am sad because it means my baby is growing up. I know its premature and we'll have 3 or 4 yrs before they all start coming out and I think the prematurity (if that's even a word) of the situation is why it hurts. I want to see my child as still my baby!!!

So, here's what happened. About 1 1/2 yrs ago Ben hurt his front teeth and went through this whole healing process where they turned brown and then they went white again. Well, right after we moved to Vegas last year he got an infection on his gums right by one of the teeth he hurt. We went to a not so good dentist and she was not helpful but he took antibiotics and it went away. Then when we moved into our house the infection came back and so he finally went to a new dentist and sure enough, the whole tooth is infected and needs to come out!!! I'm very sad, because it is one of his front 2 teeth. I think we're going to be okay and I've been discussing it with Ben and he and Ricky seem to be taking it fine, like no big deal.

So, one more set of Family pics and videos of him with a full set of teeth and then on Dec. 14th the Toothfairy will be making a visit to our house to collect Ben's first tooth. A big moment that is coming a few years early. It's weird to me that it is so difficult for me and not for Ricky and I think its just because I view losing teeth as growing up and because it's happening before its supposed too and I wasn't prepared emotionally. :) I'm getting there...


Monday, November 29, 2010

Never take the normal things in life for granted...

We moved into our new home about 1 month ago and we have never been happier here in Vegas. It is so nice to have our own place, no shared walls and feel free to be our LOUD selves. LOL!!! Ben is having so much fun exploring and mostly climbing, jumping and running. Pics to come...

Today with Ben...
Ben: I love Jesus!
me: You do? I love Jesus too
Ben: i want to tell Jesus I'm sick. He has doctors, Jesus has doctors.

Attending church as a family seemed like such a far off miracle that I have since realized I took it for granted that my family growing up went to church together as a family and that when I got married it would be the same. We'd go to church as a family. Little did I know the path in store for us and we realized that Ricky would have to work on Sundays for now. After a long year of prayers and faithful endurance, Ricky got the opportunity to switch to evening shifts at work and attend church with us this last Sunday. Ben was so good during sacrament meeting! He mainly obsessed over his squirrel book and flipping through his mini scriptures. And then there was the occasional instant bear hug to Daddy and huge smile from Ben. It was so cute! It's been almost a year since we got to attend church as a family and I feel very blessed to be a family at church again! He still has to work in the evenings, but we'll take what we can get for now!

Friday, August 27, 2010

Sarah...Empowered

Sarah was on the front page of the Utah Daily Herald!! So Awesome!! Had to share her empowering swing at the Smash Car event to help support the Boys and Girls Club and the kids that she works with. Wish I could have been there to join you in bashing that car. I would have loved to do that to my 1987 Ford Escort!!

My Favorite Picture below!

What a fun job you get to have!! Thanks for sharing!

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

TAKE...YOUR...SEAT...BELT...OFF

Yesterday Ricky, Ben and I were riding in the car to the store. Out of no where Ben, in the best robot voice EVER, says "TAKE...YOUR...SEAT...BELT...OFF" over and over again. Super creepy and super funny!!!

Letting it all go...

I have been inspired by one of my good friends, Spencer, who has lost 100 lbs in the last year!! Go Spencer!! So proud of you. I've decided its time for me to let it all go too. I have 40-50 lbs to lose starting yesterday! It's time to LET IT ALL GOOOoooo...

Tuesday, June 29, 2010

MaryKay Sale for July thru August!!!

Sale for July thru August is 35% off previous product packaging and 25% off everything else!! I'm so excited to try the coconut lime body set, the new satin hands peach set and the toning lotion. I love all their new eye colors too. I love the MaryKay products! Free shipping and gift with purchase with orders over $40 too!

Check out online www.marykay.com/jennifer.cole

Thursday, May 20, 2010

Our Family...

Here are some recent pictures taken at the park. We've found some great parks here and Ben is having a lot of fun. We've been taking him swimming now that the pool is heated and he is such a strong swimmer! My goal is to see Ben swimming by the end of the summer. Right now he is just experimenting with putting his head under water, blowing bubbles, and doggie paddling while I support him. Its funny because he gets so excited while swimming that his mouth is wide open and he's just kicking and moving his arms as fast as he can. Its so funny and it reminds me of my childhood dog, Tiger, and his excitement to swim in our pool. LOL! He has so much energy and wants me to help him swim all over the pool and I don't know where he gets all his energy!

Ben has been asking "what's that?" all the time now and he repeats everything you say. We went to Walmart yesterday and the whole time we were going back and forth asking "what's that?" and answering each other. It was a lot of fun to see how happy it made him to play this game.

Ben loves to sing and will say "dance" and then start singing cuz he wants us to dance while he sings. It is so cute and you can't understand most of what he sings but he is super proud of himself. The other day he sang for a couple of us at a family party and after each song we would clap and cheer and he kept singing over and over so that we would cheer for him.






Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Mary Kay YAY!!

Hi Friends and Family! I am selling MaryKay. I love the MaryKay products and have a ton of inventory to sell. You can visit my website www.marykay.com/jennifer.cole to view the products. There are a lot of affordable gift ideas for the holidays that are coming up. Also, a great time to invest in taking great care of your skin. I have seen such a difference from using them and it feels good to know you're using quality products that REALLY work.

Thank you to all that have supported me thus far in my business adventures!

Thursday, February 25, 2010

The Good life.... and then some!

Ben and I are sitting together while I write this. I'm trying to get into a routine here in Vegas, but so far all I've managed is to "sort of" keep the house clean and keep Ben happy. But we've had some fun times too. I will post pics soon. This is the start of my goal to write here regularly like all of you, which I love reading the updates and fun times you are all having.

Highlights of the last little while:

~Today I got "shampoo-ed". After Ben's bath I put lotion on him and he called it shampoo. After we were done he wanted to put "shampoo" on me. He used his pretend shampoo that came out of his dresser drawer and rubbed it on my face and feet. He LOVES his feet rubbed with lotion. It was super sweet cuz his hands are so little and soft. I love him!

~Last night, in the middle of the night, Ben woke up crying. It was the first time this has happened where he told us he was scared. It was so cute and sad at the same time. He was able to tell us that he was scared cuz a dog bit him. Not sure where he got that from though. We had to take his dog stuffed animal and doggie car off his bed and put it in the living room. But the only thing that really made him feel better was a quick family prayer and his favorite primary and non-primary songs. He loves pretty much any primary song, but his favorites for us to sing to him on a regular basis are the "popcorn" song and Barney's "I love you" song. Not sure how those became the 2 songs to always sing and oh when we sing the "I love you" song we have to rub and scratch his head.

~He has started exploring the scared emotion though in the last couple of weeks. Saying while laughing "baby scared" if he gets surprised by something and with being in the dark. Its interesting to see cuz he used to never care about the dark which was always so strange to see a child not afraid of the dark because they don't have a reason to be or something. Not sure what causes the changes.

~He loves to ask mommy and daddy to fix things for him, but he says "fick-ixt". So cute!

~He also likes to pretend to cough and exaggerate his cough into a coughing fit and have us pat his back to help. He will say he is choking, but he says "baby focking". He is so dramatic and loves to act that I hope we can get him into some children's play once he's alittle bigger.

~We went near Mt. Charleston to visit the snow since its been in the 60's here and we miss Utah sometimes! We found a cool place near the ski resort and were just going to walk around. But we ended up finding a broken plastic sled that was enough of a sled to sit on and slide down the mountain. I know... super ghetto, right? :) But it was soooo much fun! Ben was all dressed up in his snow stuff (from last year!) and he and I sledded down a slope we found. Ben loved it cuz it was like a slide and he loves slides. Then he had brought his little toy airplane and decided to put his airplane on the sled and send it down the mountain. So funny! He also has enjoyed making ice cream cones out of play dough and he kept grabbing at the snow to make little balls that he called his ice cream. He loved eating the snow. This trip to the snow was so different and it was fun to see Ben having fun and I love his imagination.

~Benjamin loves trucks, airplanes and boats. He is such a boy! He is obsessing over some airplane that we were given second-hand from someone that we bought a desk from on craigslist back in the day. He takes it everywhere and sleeps and bathes with it. Too funny!

Well, I think this was a good start. Time for naps. I usually don't feel like napping but I got Ben's cold today and only a couple hours of sleep last night cuz I just couldn't get to sleep. I actually wasn't even tired yet when Ben woke up.