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Here is a picture of all 3 couples after a LONG day of snorkling/diving. It was sooooooo Scary to me at first. Here I was picturing a lesiure snorkle excursion on the beach, but NOOOOOOOOOO, they take us out on a boat FAR from the beach and make us jump right into HUGE waves. Mind you, I'm not a huge water fan. Love to boat, and ski, but that's about it. I still have to plug my nose (I know hahahhaha). Anyways, we saw some way cool stuff like sea turtes, sting rays, some saw a barracuda (YIKES) and almost everyone got stung by baby gelly fish!!!!! Except me thank goodness. I must be stinky!!!!
Chris and I on the HOUR boat ride to our excursion.

Lance and Alana!

Jake and Chris attempting to wind surf. I wish I would have gotten more pictures of Chris trying to get up! That's one hard sport there!

Alana, Rebeka and Me!

Chris and I on "Dress up Night"

All 3 of us ended up in black. How sweet! And yes my belly is poking out a lot further than the other 2 girls!!! There was a LOT of food on that ship that my baby wanted to eat!

Look at these pimped out boys!!! Where's the tie Jake???

Alana and I soaking up the sun on the first day of the cruise! That's why I still look pasty white!

Happy Birthday Bridger

My sweet Bridger turned 2 on the 12th! Wow time is flying by and I'm going to have another little baby in 6 months! WOW! Anyways, Bridger loves to play around with glasses, he thinks he's pretty cool when he puts them on walks around in circles with his cute little grin on his face. So Aunt Abbie bought him a whole package of them!! Thanks Abbie! Very thoughtful! Here is Mylee, Cord, Avery and Bridger trying them on for us!
Aren't I the coolest?????

Abbie and Mylee

Bridger kind of had this things with Kitchens when ever he went to somebody's house that had one. So I thought I could get him one for his Birthday, Daddy and Grandpa were giving me the look like "you can't give a boy a kitchen for his birthday!" So I did some searching and I found a 50's diner that plays a juke box and has a window you can pass the food through to a booth with 2 chairs that are attached! It's pretty darn fun, and very boyish I might add!

Here's Uncle Dean, Baylee, and Mason!

When we started singing Happy Birthday to Bridger he got this funny grin on his face, like what is every one doing. He enjoyed it though!

cRuISiN...

Well, I was going to post Bridger's 2 year Birthday pictures but I couldn't get the pictures to upload for the life of me. So for now I'm going to send off a farewell for a week while Chris and I enjoy ourselves for a week on the Western Caribian (spelling??). We are pretty excited to get away and just relax. I'm going to attempt snorkling again ( I don't do so well in the ocean!) Anywas, hopefully when I get back I can post Bridger's cute pictures!

BLAST FROM THE PAST

Okay everybody, it's now my turn for the blast from the past photo to try out my new scanner I got for Christmas! This isn't from too long ago, but it's amazing at the difference in everybody. This is everyone with their first borns from Left to Right: Me (Cordell), Amy (Kole), Andrea (Blakely), Andrea (Olivia), Heather (Boston), and Tesha with Masen in her belly! The original photo isn't too clear in the first place so the scanned copy doesn't look too hot either!

CHRISTMAS DAY!!!!!

Ok, here I am sitting on the coach at 6:15am way tooo excited to sleep because Santa has come to our house!!!! I just had to get Cords first initial reaction on video camera, so here I sat for an hour while he slept in longer than usual because he couldn't get to sleep the night before. After we put him to bed about 20 minutes later he came running out saying "I think I just heard Santa on the roof!!!" "I think the reindeer are up there!" It was sooo fun! But I got the footage, and I think I just might post it!


Here is Bridger checking out the train table! It was THE ONLY present he enjoyed. I actually ended up opening all of his other presents! Should have stopped at one huh???Oh, he was enjoying my hair too! My hair is far too important over presents! And don't I look lovely, it kind of looks like I just woke up.... Oh I did! Pretty huh?Here we are at my Parents house! Again!!Brenda and Dean!!All the kids waiting in anticipation for all the presents sitting right behind them. It's like they get Christmas twice in one day!!!Cord and his cousin Ethan got this robotic Dinasour that's way cool! He was trying to show it off for the camera but he couldn't even pick it up!Here's Grandma and Grandpa with Cord and one of his other favorite toys, Incredible Hulk. They did a great job at getting him exactly what he wanted! I think "Santa" sometimes gets their kids what they think they should have rather than exactly what they want! Here's the family on Christmas Day! Don't mind the tissue stuffed up Cords nose, his finger has found a fascination with what he could find up there and it often brings him a bloody nose in return! Stinker!

Christmas Eve

I think I'm a little spoiled but I get to spend Christmas Eve and Christmas Day with my family, and I absolutely treasure it! It's just a special time of the year that I can't give up, no matter the weather conditions or the hour long drive!!!! Here I am with my Giving Mother, Beautiful sister, and the most caring Grandmother! I love that she spends every Christmas Eve with our family. And thank you Mom, for all the planning and hardwork into making it such a wonderful Christmas Eve/Day!

Here's Chris, Dean and Mason enjoying the yummy food! Dean is the bishop and he's a VERY busy man, so we were sooo excited to spend these 2 days with him!

Now, here is Santa Clause himself, my father! You would never guess it by the rough exterior of my dad, but he has the most Christmas spirit of anyone I know. He absolutely LOVES doing the Christmas shopping for the grandkids, my heck he even picks out clothes for us girls that we get every year, the mood has to be set just right with the Christmas lights on, Christmas music playing in the background, and just the right "Christmas food". And here he is handing out our Christmas Eve presents to everyone. Cord got these 2 transformers that was his favorite toy ever!!! He LOVES it!

My sweet Bridger, he doesn't get into toys that much right now, and when we opened this music sounding, honking diesel, he actually did a little dance! It was pretty darn cute! He played with that all night too!

Coats Christmas Party

This year for the Coats Christmas party we had the kids go outside and do some sledding and Rhino sledding! They had a blast. Bridger just liked being pulled around in this sled dragging his hands in the snow!
Here is Ryan -Chris's brother and owner of the Rhino. In the picture above you can see the big bucket sleds that the older kids got whipped around in!! Didn't look fun to me!!!

Bridger got this little snuggly pillow as one of his gifts and he sure like that!!! He kept laying on it all night long!

Cord's favorite gift was this Nerf gun! He couldn't put that thing down for days! Thanks Grannie and Grandpa coats!!!

Every year we play the Candy Bar game with Coats family! Granny went out and spent $50 on candy bars and you have to roll the dice for doubles, 7 or 11 or your age and if you do you get to grab a candy bar in the middle or steal someones elses that you remember is hiding in their bag! Pretty Fun! Cord loved it!

CHRISTMAS WISH!

As you can probably tell from my baby count down ticker our Christmas wish has come true! We have a baby on board due on August 3rd! We are hoping for a baby girl because we already have the 2 best boys we could ask for, but we would be happy with a healthy baby no matter boy or girl! Hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas as we did! I will be posting pictures of Christmas soon!

Cole Christmas Party

Here's some pictures of my Dad's side of the family's Christmas party! This is actually Chris tending to Bridger during one of his all so common melt downs he has. We woke him up from his nap early and he just decided he couldn't handle it, so he cried the rest of the night, joy! Cord found My moms white elephant gift "bling, bling" and had fun with it the rest of the night!

And here is me hanging out with ma and pa! I love being around my parents especially around the holidays. I was at my moms house the other day and my mom was talking about how she needed to get new Christmas decorations because it was all old fashioned. And I was like NO! I love it there because it reminds me of all my childhood Christmas memories!

Snow Painting

The other day I bundled my boys up and went down the street to my sister in laws house and we painted the snow. What you do is fill a spray bottle with water and add food coloring to it and they go make master peices! Cord went through 4 bottles of spray, he loved it! Bridger didn't want to participate, he didn't know what to think of the snow!!! If anyone has anyone fun winter activites, let me know!!! Winter is going to be long and cold here in Cache Valley!

Sweartheart Tag

I was tagged to do both of these, so I did them both in one!

*What is your husband's name? Christopher Stan Coats
*How long have you been married? 3 years
*How long did you date? 10 months
*How old is he? 32
*Who is taller? He is MUCH taller
*Who can sing the best? Probably him, I don't stand a chance.
*Who pays the bills? He does
*Who does the laundry? I do
*Who sleeps on the right side of the bed? He does
*Who mows the lawn? I do for the most part. He does the weed eater.
*Who cooks dinner? I do
*Who is the first to admit when they're wrong? Me, he never admits when he's wrong, which isn't That often anyways....
*Who kissed who first? He kissed me.
*Who wears the pants? We both do.
*He's sitting in front of the TV, what is on the screen? A game, Sportscenter, or The Office.
*You're out to eat, what kind of dressing does he get on his salad? Ranch
*What's one food he doesn't like? olives
*What kind of drink does he order? Water or Dr. Pepper
*Where did he go to high school? West Side
*What size shoe does he wear? 11.
*If he was to collect anything, what would it be? Silver & Gold?
*What is his favorite type of sandwich? Club.
*What would he eat every day if he could? I don't know, he's not a food lover like I am!!!
*What is his favorite cereal? Lucky charms or honey nut clusters? (we don't eat cereal very often.
*What is his favorite sports team? Utah State - Denver Broncos
*Who did he vote for? We didn’t (I know, I know)
*Who is his best friend? T, Mergs
*How many places has he lived in? 3
*You bake him a cake for his birthday; what would it be? Chocolate cake, white frosting.
*What could he spend hours doing? Snowmobiling or waterskiing.
*What's something cool about him? He's seriously the best daddy ever!
I tag who ever wants to do it!!

Oh, the life....

This weekend Chris's company planned such an awesome Christmas getaway for everyone and their spouse! It started off with dinner at McGraths fish house in Layton (not a sea-food lover, but it was ok). Then everyone chose a movie to go to and I actually got Chris to go see Twilight with me. He liked it, but didn't LOVE it like all the girls! Then they put everyone up in a hotel in Layton and the next morning after breakfast all the girls got to go to a spa and get a 3 1/2 hour spa treatment! It was awesome! We had a 1 hour full body massage, 1 hour facial, and a 1 hour pedicure, with lunch and dessert included. Who could ask for anything more? I think I'll take this weekly, or at least monthly!! I LOVED IT! While we enjoyed the luxory of spoiled relaxation, the boys went to some speed racer go-cart thing and had a blast! Thank you Divirsified!!!!

ROCKET POWER!

On Thursday Chris and I took the boys out to Corinne where they test the Rockets at the ACI center. It was way neat to see how much power and heat those things let off. I love the look on Bridgers face right here, you can tell he was a little nervous because something was really loud and noisy and he didn't know what it was!
This was after it was over, it had a HUGE smoke cloud that went on forever!

Cord was a little disappointed because he thought the rocket would actually take off, so he whined a little bit after, but he thought it was fuN!