Buddy!

I had this small reminder come across my Instagram feed the other day. 

It was the day we learned that Buddy probably has cancer.... It was a very crushing day, devastating doesn't even begin to touch how we felt. I know most people do not consider their family pet a member of their family like we do. Buddy goes with us on most vacations, he is included in our family like a grand child, and if you don't like our dog we probably don't like you;)

He has had a tumor growing for the last 2.5 months on his eye lid that just kept getting bigger and bigger. I took him into get his hair done(and its at the vet clinic) and the vet was called in to check it out. The clinic had taken a close up picture of Buddy last appointment(2 months ago) and the tumor was not there. Because the growth had grown so rapidly they called us in and said he should have surgery to remove it as soon as possible. That is also why they think its cancer,  in the last 4 days its almost doubled! We are really hoping and praying that its just a random growth and once removed it will be taken care of. 

Buddy goes in for surgery tomorrow morning.

I love this little guy more than words...I hope this storm is a short easy storm and nothing that is to long!

Christmas and Baby Boy!

We will start with Christmas! What a day! this year Khloe fully understood what was going on! Santa was going to bring her LOTS of presents...:-) And that he did...This year with a new baby coming we needed bunk beds to stuff Dax and Khloe in a room! So we called Santa and asked him for a set...He brought them along with lots of toys. The kids were super spoiled by all grandparents! Khloes favorite toy was Daxton race car track...Daxtons favorite toy is also the race car track! The one toy I was worried about giving!

 We had our first Christmas in our new house and our first Christmas AT our house. My parents, Chris and his friend came over after we had opened stockings! It was fun making memories at our own house.

 On Christmas we got ALOT of snow...that snow has lasted until today! A couple days ago I got dressed to shovel the driveway(by the way shoveling a 3 car driveway SUCKS!! Steve has permission to buy a snow blower before next year!!) This is how Khloe got dressed.  Shoes on the wrong feet, mismatched socks, a skirt, Daxtons Jacket(no joke they share clothes!) and mittens that I had no idea we had!

 She has also had to sit through many hair appointments last month...She is always wanting to "paint" my hair...I guess it is pay back for making her sit nicely while I work!

 Thats our little boy:-) isn't he cute?! I remember with Daxton the ultra sound tech was shocked by his size but this time, they actually looked at dates to see if we needed to push up the due date! This baby measured 4 weeks ahead of schedule with the length of his legs, arms and feet! This little boy is MUCH longer than Daxton was. It scares me to death...Daxton is already is 4t shirts...he will be 18 months on the 17th! We have a couple names picked out but Steve likes one and I like the other...the top contender is Logan Hansen Cobbley. I guess we have a couple more months to figure things out:-)

 Sharing Ice cream... I love when they are not fighting...

 Ill be the first to say, Ive totally slacked on Sacrament meetings...if there is the smallest excuse to get out of it..we will leave, or just not go. I hate going by myself with two kids who just DO NOT GET SITTING QUIET! But one of my resolutions was to start going. Naturally when Sunday rolled around I mustered up the courage to go. It ended really bad...Like really really bad. Daxton flipped over the back of the bench hitting two other kids on his way down..they screamed...he screamed all during the quiet and reverent sacrament...Once we had recovered from that I felt like, I got this, I can do this...But then Daxton peed. all. over. It wet both sides of his pants, puddles in his shoes, puddles of the floor and the bench...No idea how he peed so much...Needless to say..we went home! 15 minutes is all we lasted...next week we will try again:-) Oh and by the way I had many emails asking if Dax was ok after his fall and the man who cussed(rather loudly....) apologized! I wish nursery was all 3 hours!

 Still running! 24 weeks and still going! Im not running high miles or even fast miles but a mile is a mile! I also have to stay close to my house or run on the treadmill because I end up having to pee every 10 mins...the other day was beautiful, and I felt pretty awesome running on snow packed roads!

 ok one last thing... I had a potato catch on fire!!! No joke...like my oven was a full on flame! luckily Steve was at work and didn't have to witness my screaming! felt like a big girl putting it out all by myself!

catch up

With number 3 on the way, we had to buy new car seats that would fit 3 across in the back of my suv. We went with the slimmest seats! they are by Diono, they are made with all metal, just one seat weighs 40lbs! They transition from birth to a backless booster seat...I love them... I plan on getting another one when number 3 outgrows the infant seat! plus I LOVE how matching car seats look in the back of my car!

we are already really missing summer...its still warm enough to play outside but not with water under the tramp!

 Like always Buddy puts up with way to much! He is starting to get grumpy the older he gets and the more kids that are around!

One Sunday we ditched church and went to Estes Park for the day! It was our "mini Vacation" . It was fun to get away for a bit, our full family days are VERY limited! 

We walked the shops and played by the river. It might not have been a huge getaway but for our little family it was perfect! 

So I stabbed myself....I still can not clap, grip anything hard, and steering the car with my left hand doesn't happen! Im just glad I got all the feeling back in my fingers with in a day!

This is Khloe's Preschool class at the pumpkin patch! Khloe has the best teacher in the world! She is sensitive and awere of Khloe's personality. Khloe even asks if her teacher can come to her birthday, church, to dinner....anything we do... Im already dreading that she is going to retire before Daxton is old enough to go!

The kids are STARTING to get along...its been a long time coming! Dax loves Khloe but Khloe normally wants nothing to do with him!

This is Nathan. His family lives around the corner from us, they are in our ward, and in Khloe's Preschool class! We love when we get to have him over!

Grandma put a swing in her front yard and when we go there it is used....ALOT!  This winter we are planning on putting swings in the basement for the kids! 

And can you believe how TALL and LONG Daxton is? He is now in 3t clothing...He is passing up his 2 year old friends in height ...we sure love him!

All in all we are pretty boring right now...Steve is working from 5am-8pm and if I have energy to do anything its only to go grocery shopping! We are really excited to be going to Idaho in November! Oh and I got released from nursery...FINALLY! Im In charge of Visiting teaching... and Steve got his first calling in 4 YEARS! He is one of three ward missionaries. It's a perfect calling that works with his job. 2 times max a month he will go out! We are Loving this ward, Loving Colorado, and Love that all my really great friends from Cheyenne are only 25 minutes away! Life is good!

July is hands down our funnest month in the year! We get to celebrate Khloes and Buddy's birthday on the 11th and Daxtons Birthday on the 17th! And we always have lots of company come during the month!

Khloe turned 3 this year! We had planned a big birthday party for her but right before I put invites out Steve called saying he couldn't make it home from work that day to make the party. Since dads MUST be at the party we decided to have a smaller family party instead! It turned out great. The night before she spent the night at Grandma Hansens house!Her birthday morning I picked her up with Doc McStuffins balloons and a Doc McStuffins play tent. I also put together and outfit that looked like DocMcStuffins. She got to be her for the day! For lunch we went to Cool Beans and let her play while my mom and I ate. For dinner everyone came to our house and we had a small BBQ and opened presents! 

Daxton turned 1. My baby is 1...how the heck did this happen? I still feel like I just had him. I remember the day I had him so vividly... From Steve leaving to get a sandwich 30 minutes before i was taken back to after he was born snuggling in recovery... I miss the new born stage! 

he is in 2T clothing, close to walking and eats EVERYTHING!  He will out eat me on a daily biases! 

His favorite food is meatballs with green beans. 

Steve recently switched to Sundays Mondays off. On Sunday afternoon after church we put a blanket out in the backyard and eat otterpops and play in the sand box! Its such a fun tradition. We really enjoy Steve being able to be home on Sundays!

This year for birthdays I didn't want to have a bunch of "little" toys that just get thrown out. So when people asked what to get Khloe and Daxton I said we would like to have people chip in towards a bigger tramp for outside. The kids love it!

For the Forth of July my best friend and her family came down for a parade and just to chat. We really miss having Walter and Alice around the corner to play with!

In our new neighborhood there is a fantastic park that we walk to 3-4 times a week. Daxton has recently started to play and do the slides. Its really fun to watch!

I am 5 pounds away from my weight when I got married! And only 10 pounds away from high school! Why is it that we always compare our self to our high school self? Anyways, I'm pretty excited to be so close. Also I ran DOUBLE DIGITS! The kids and I ran 10 Miles on an overcast day. I really wanted to hit 13.1 miles so I could cross off my half marathon for the summer and start lifting and getting stronger BUT the kids had an entirely different plan! at mile 9.5 they were SCREAMING very loud...I have one more month to get it! 

whats been going on....

Like always we have been so busy...I guess we should just get used to it. 

The house has taken every free minute we have. Steve's parents came to town to help us for a week. Steve and his dad put in our sprinkler system, framed and put the electric in the salon!

Since Steve was overwhelmed by everything to have to get done I decided to take on the back yard as a fathers day gift!  

I called around got quotes for rock, sand, sod all the things you need for a nice back yard!

As of right now we have put compost, rock sod and a garden in! I was short on measurements so we still need another section of rock to be delivered and the sand pit is on back order! 

Ill post pictures when its done! so far it looks awesome!

 Steve's cousin moved to Cheyenne a few weeks ago and they come over for dinner one night when his parents were over! I hope we can get together again!

We took a couples weeks and had Khloe take swimming lessons! She did great. The lessons were every day for two weeks. She didn't trust the teacher the first 5 days but after that she finally jumped in and started swimming. Every morning she wakes up and says "can we go to swimming lessons?" 

I'm not ready to commit to two more weeks....

Fort Collins just opened a new city transit. The buses are pretty cool, and Khloe points them out whenever one drives by. I finally broke down and told her we could ride them. So my awesome parents came with us on the bus and then to lunch! Khloe LOVED it!

Daxton is walking all love with his ybike. I can not believe that he will be a year in only a couple weeks:-( I wish I could keep an infant in my house at all times!

His new hair cut! and new shirt from grandma!

Finally Khloe and Daxton are playing with each other! dax loves when khloe hides and he get to find her!

My accomplishment was running 8 freaking miles! I cant decide if I want to sign up for a half marathon or just run it on my own then go get a pedicure.. I have found a race in Colorado on a Monday that sounds fun but honestly it seems crazy to me to PAY someone to run just for a t-shirt...I could run on my own and get the same satisfaction!! so we will see what I decide...maybe if I'm lucky ill do both!

My weight watchers journey!

I have done this post 2 times and both times and deleted both. So please be kind!

 I have always worried about weight. Actually, I obsess with my weight... I had a small eating disorder in high school, luckily I was able to snap out of it at the time. This will be a challenge till I die, I will never NOT worry about my weight. Do I have back fat, a muffin top, relief society arms, does it LOOK like I have had kids...the list can go on and on. I pretty much hate my scale, and I really hate the fact that my weight bothers me like it does...

But with that being said, I feel like I'm starting to love my body. Never in a MILLION years would I have thought that I would like what I see after kids. After Khloe was born I lost 30 pounds putting me at the tip top of the BMI charts and I HATED it. But at the time we didn't have the resources to do much about it. After Daxton was born I was considered obese!  I honestly couldn't even imagine myself that way...although scales do not lie...(unless your battery dies...)  I stared Weight Watchers 2 weeks after he was born and ended up loosing 30 pounds the first couple months and felt great. Then we decided to move...and the diet went out the window. Although I did not gain anything back, I was still pretty big. Once we moved into my parents, my mom and I started again, and I have lost another 30 pounds! That a total of 60 pounds! 60 pounds are you kidding me?! 

My body is doing things it has never done. 

-I'm running 5-6 miles at a time,about 25 miles a week! Pushing a stroller with 2 kids(total weight 85 pounds!!!) 

-I've quit diet coke, unless we go to dinner, and that almost never happens with 2 kids! 

-My wedding ring fits again after 3 years.

- I'm in pants that I wore when I found out I was pregnant with Khloe.

- Ive become a bit of a health nut...Brusel sprouts, beats, 2/3 of our groceries are fruit and veggies.(poor Steve!I'm still trying to convince him he likes these foods;)) 

-sleeping at night

this list could go on for days...

I'm pretty proud of my accomplishments... I have found a half marathon in September...I'm trying to make the date work, if not the next one would be in November...Colorado likes to have them on Sundays...maybe I should look in Utah...

anyways here are some pictures. I didn't take a pic of my starting weight but I did take one when I had lost 30 pounds. so here are my before and afters

The pants in this picture were done up with a rubber band. Now I cant keep them on:-)

(ignore the ipad and the huge pink case...My kids only play nice when Bubble Guppies are being streamed from my phone to the tv...)

I still have work to do(i always will) but I still can't believe I have lost 60 pounds! 

Month of April

We have had such a fun month! here we go!

This squires name is Cool Bean(a fun coffee house that has a play place in the middle, we go there ALOT!) I'm guessing since Khloe loves it so much that's why she named him that...Anyways....Cool Beans comes right up to the back door and plays with us! I just waiting for the day he jumps inside the house....

I have developed a love for running. We found a park that is beyond fun for the kids to play at. When I'm not wanting to run to build endurance or having a fun run day we go there! 

Steve bought me this fabulous jogging stroller:-) its tall enough and soo light! 

I have signed up for a 5k on May 10 and the kids get to come with me! I'm trying to become brave enough to sign up for a half marathon in September...We will see how I feel in a month or two...

My Dax is honestly the cutest little guy ever! He is such a mommies boy!

We had his 9 month check up and He is WAY OFF the charts, and he is so skinny he doesn't even register on BMI charts for his age, he also has a huge head! and he has grown a FOOT since he has been born! The doctor said "its going to be sooo much fun watching this boy grow!"

2 more days till we close on our house!!

We had our final walk through on Wednesday and it killed me not being able to more in!(this pic is not from the walk through. the front door had not been painted and the yard wasn't in!)

This is the kids bathroom!

 And the kitchen! I can not wait to cook in it! 

 This month Steve turned 30! I can't believe it...30 seems so old! 

Steve's day started off by getting a massage for an hour.

I had wanted to go golfing during the day but it was soooo cold and rainy...He got to take a rain check..

and then at night I had reservations at the Melting Pot. I don't think either of us would go again for dinner. But desert was soooooo good! I'm hoping we go for our anniversary next month!!! 

 Steve wouldn't let me get a picture..he must be shy about getting old;)

 If looks could kill....right? 

Khloe is having a hard time getting rid of the paci! 

 i found her looking for her hidden pacis...

 my friends school through a fun Easter party and the kids had a blast!

 one last one of Dax..he can now go up the stairs all by himself!