Cole Visits Miss Alice

Cole and Miss Alice - our down the street neighbor.

She loves this little guy and it's nice to have a "grandma" in the neighborhood.

Khayman's Spring Break Visit

Khayman came to visit for Spring Break. It was fun to see he and Cole interact. During the week we put away the video games and tried to focus on being together. Stan and Khayman went mountain biking, we toured UCLA and USC, went to Santa Monica, and hung out. Good times!

 

Gangsta Cole

Cole decided to take Khayman's Raiders Hat and rock the look.  Don't mess wit him.

Cole

My Future All Star Athlete

 

My Hulk - His St. Patricks Day look!

Cole's latest hobby - whistling - and yes there is sound!

2 cookies in 1 lil mouth

Cole was enjoying his arrowroot cookie so much he decided two at a time was best.

Doin Dishes

Hard at work

Doin dishes

Mommy's little helper!

Fun Picts

A Boy and His Dad Working Together

We just got new patio furniture. I assembled the chairs. Cole and Stan took care of the table- their first father son project

Cole Standing and Cruising!

Cole has recently begun pulling himself up to standing on anything he can find! He has pretty amazing balance and is loving the new found freedom. Not too shabby for 8 months old. It's definitely time to put up the baby gates!

Random Picts from Feb/Mar

Getting ready for church in his monogrammed sweater

 Handsome like daddy!

San Diego Temple from the freeway

 My new hairdo!

My baby loves him some chicken bone!

Papa Gene and JaKobe

Cole and Papa Gene in their favorite shared activity

My cutie pie!

My mommy - old picts

13th Anniversary

For our 13th Wedding Anniversary we went to dinner at the Beach Restaurant at Ladera Ranch. I told Stan I'd get a babysitter, but he insisted that he'd just get home early enough for Smoodge to come with us - after all he'd never had a wedding anniversary with us before - haha. The man loves being with his boy! It turned out to be a nice dinner. Smoodge ate almost all my garlic mashed potatoes and halibut - my boy can eat! Stan surprised me with a Mac Book Pro! Love that man!!

Amazing Race Tryouts

Cole and I flew to Oregon for the Amazing Race open casting call in February.  It was a spontaneous decision to go after Mandy told us they were coming to Portland.  Stan was going to visit his mom in Idaho and then had a trip to Oregon for business so the timing seemed perfect.  We flew in on Thursday and headed to Portland Friday night.  We booked a room at the hotel next to the audition thinking we could watch for when the line started.  To our surprise the line was already forming at 8pm! Gena hopped into line while Cole and I checked in. Of course it was record lows that night in Portland - like 18 degrees! Brr!!!
Gena was able to get #77 in line.  Teri came down from Seattle to watch Cole and Jason joined us from Corvallis.  Our original idea was for the three of us to try to audition together, but we figured we better just do the pairs. We spent hours trying to figure out who would audition with me - Jason or Gena.  The night was fun sharing the hotel with the siblings and running through possible scenarios.  We decided to try to grab an additional spot in line so Jason headed out to line up.  He and I ended up switching off time outside through the night - soooo cold.  Around 7am they handed out more numbers and we were 235.  We ended up deciding that J and I would audition first, then Gena and I. As it turned out, they cut off the auditions at 205 so Gena and I didn't get to go. The audition itself was 2 minutes in a crowded room in front of cameras.  Jason and I hammed it up and tried to throw out ideas on why we would be fun to watch - black mormons, competitive, not stereotypical, and fun!  We don't know if we'll get contacted, but overall it was a fun experience and exciting just trying out!