Finally blogging again.. here's what we've been up to...

So every summer from May till the end of June, Ty and I live and breathe WORKSHOP. MCC summer music theater workshops. The hardest but best thing we do each year. Great money and so much work! But really, we love it.

This year, for workshop 3, "the littles" I had Cole come and do it. He's actually a year too young, but I figured he'd love it and do well, and hello, he's my child, and I'm kinda the boss, so he's in!

He gave me HECK about going "on the big stage, its gonna be too loud... " etc etc...( I kept saying to him, "Cole, do you know who you are? This stuff is in your BLOOD my friend!!") But once we finally got going he was LOVIN' every second of it.

Here are some pics of him after the show with Ty's fam that came and watched. I do have some video of him in his songs, but haven't figured out how to upload them to my blog yet... coming soon hopefully.

Here's Cole with his Proud Papa.


This is Cole with Uncle Nic and Grandma Joyce in the background.



I didn't get a chance to get a picture with Cole Man till I got home from the other show. Here's the proud mama and the rock star....

Of course Bo wanted a picture too!

The time flew and Bo turned two...

Sweet Bo Boy, where did the time go? How did you get to be 2 already! Bo turned two years old April 17th. He has been such a joy! Here he is eating his catapiller, or worm cake that Grandma Dar made him...



Here he is getting ready to open presents...

Here he is not too excited about presents... but mom is!


Bowen Troy, we are so glad you came to live with us 2 years ago. You're big blue eyes, and sweet smile just warm hearts everywhere you go. Its so fun to watch you learn and grow each day and we are so lucky to be part of your family! Love, Mommy, Daddy and Cole Man.

Easter Pageant

This year, Cole got to see his Dad in the Easter Pageant. It was so great to watch Cole watch the pageant. He was so proud and retained so much of the program. In fact now, every night before bed, he turns out the lights in his room, gets the flashlight for a spot light, puts a pretend beard on Ty, and we do the whole Easter Pageant there in his room. He plays the part of the angel, John the Baptist, the dead boy ( in the pageant its really the "dead girl" but oh well ), the crippled boy, etc etc. Its so sweet to hear him sing "I Know He Lives" at the end each night. Here is a picture of us after the first night Cole got to see it.

It was time...

So if you know our Cole at all, you know that he has been LOVING guitars since he was about 2 years old. The Christmas after my dad died, my mom got a Wii and he has been hooked ever since. He'll play anything and call it a guitar. He has broom guitars, sword guitars, shovel guitars etc etc. He can REALLY rock out too. Its pretty cool. So, we finally broke down and got him a wii. Grandma Dar got him the Wii and we got him the guitar hero part. What fun!

Here is Cole at age two with his "blow up guitar"...





Here he is performing "Slow Ride" at the Clifford family Thanksgiving Talent Show in 2008.


At the Arizona Museum for Youth last year...


Playing Guitar Hero at Peter Piper Pizza. Usually there are about 5 people behind him watching him in amazement. Especially when we tell them that we didn't even have the game at home. In fact, just today, at Cole's school, an older child said to Cole, " I've seen you at Peter Piper, playing Guitar hero. You are awesome!" So yah, our kid is famous. HA!


And here he is, now 5 years old, with his Wii. Finally! It did feel "time" tho. I've definately been holding off for a while now. So its so fun for him to have finally gotten one! Rock on Cole!

THE PARTY.

Cole's 5th Birthday party was simple yet so very fun! He was so darling opening all his presents and playing with all his friends. What fun this 5th year of his life is going to be!

I think I spent a whole 10 bucks on this party.. lots of cool stuff from my favorite store, The Dollar Tree... but look how cute!


Since this was his "doggy birthday" getting a dog and all, it was so perfect that my mom had these old vintage doggie cake toppers she had found at my grandma's house!


Cole was so cute and so grown up opening his presents. He'd say, "oh my gosh, my favorite!" for each gift.


Happy Mom.


Yummy.



What a great birthday party! Yea!

FIVE

Cole Man turns 5 years old today. Wow. Its hard to put my thoughts and feelings about this boy into words. Every mom says it I know, but really where did the time go? My dad used to say "the days and the weeks drag, and the years fly". It has been a very conscious decision of mine to really try to enjoy the moments with my little ones cause they really do grow up too fast.


This boy is incredible. He was spirted right from the start. A very independent guy, but also one who loves people and to be social. He's totally happy sitting at the computer playing on his favorite websites for a long time, but then wants to go fight battle droids with light "savers" with Ty or I after a while. Loves his friends, his stuffed dog Max/Butterball ( he was Max forever, then about 2 weeks ago, he changed his name to Butterball.) He loves his little brother so much, and is best buds with his Daddy. My favorite time of day is when he snuggles up to me while I sing him to sleep. (Although lately, he hasn't wanted a song to fall asleep to, "just lay by me mom". ) Nothing better than that.

Started loving guitars at 2 years old, and hasn't stopped. Seeing him "play" the guitar, ( or gun-guitar, row-guitar, bat-guitar, fly swatter-guitar, or even just air guitar ), is a REAL treat. When he gets to play guitar hero, at Jake and Colleens, or at Peter Piper, its pretty amazing. Those who have seen it are pretty impressed. He also loves Star Wars, reading 3 letter and silent "e" words, school, riding his bike, playing baseball, ( he can hit a pitched ball FAR! Starts T ball soon, and I am afraid he's going to be bummed that the ball doesn't get pitched to him! ), the beach, swimming, The list goes on!

Cole has been wanting another "real" dog. Our good friends the Shumways were wanting to find a new home for this puppy, Cuba. ( or Butterball, Sam, Buddah, B-dawg, Mud Bud, Max, Speedy, Cole has yet to decide what we are calling this doggy...He changes every 5 minutes...) So here he is. The doggy loves Cole, and Cole couldn't be happier.


We had his birthday party yesterday, and I'll do post about it soon....
Happy 5th Birthday Cole! WE LOVE YOU!

YODIPITY!

So I am really going to start trying to blog more. I think I stress about having events be what I blog about. But I think I'm going to lessen the blog stress in my head, and just blog about whatever for heavens sake... So last week I went to the newly opened "Yodipity" here in our neighborhood. It was high time we had a yogurt shop close to us. I am somewhat of a "yogurt snob", being pretty picky about my yogurt places. But even with the things I don't like about it, I do give it a big thumbs up!

Likes:
-lots of flavors to choose from including fat free, sugar free, low fat, fruity flavors and chocolatey flavors too...
-the shop itself is bright and friendly. Its just fun to walk into.
-Last week they were running a grand opening special, so if you bought a gift card,they'd double it in value! I bought a $50 card, that is worth $100! Half off! Love it. And it should last me a while.
-They also have this texting system that if you sign up, by texting, they send you all kinds of specials and discounts.
Dislikes:
-I REALLY don't like "do it yourself yogurt". It never looks pretty when I do it, (and thats important to me!)
-I always end up giving myslef more than I planned on having... (at other yogurt shops, they make it and I know the exact points I'll spend on my treat before I walk in there...)
-Their cups are ginormis, so my little 6-8 ounces of yogurt looks like a spoonful of yogurt in this huge cup.

But all in all, YEA FOR YODIPITY! EVERYONE GO TRY IT! Its at Riverview in Mesa.