home sweet home!

Hooray! We finally have a house. We are expected to close July 16th! It is such a cute little house- I think it will be great once we put our own touch on it. It isn't quite so fab as the first house we made an offer on, but I think it will be a much better house for us- you know, smaller, CHEAPER. Ha ha! We are thrilled.

I couldn't resist...

I had to add this one. I'll admit, I am a sucker for newborn yawns!
I saw Tyson again today. Cody isn't sure he wants anything to do with him, but I think he is starting to warm up to him a little bit. He is very interested in his "li rash" and his owie belly button- he always wants to take a peek at it. He is such an alert newborn! And so strong too. He holds up his head so well! It's weird- he is so small compared to Max now, but he still seems big to me. I think all babies will after spending so much time in the NICU with 3 and 4 pound babies where Max was the huge one at 5 pounds!

HIS name is Tyson

Today I got to meet my new nephew Tyson Dee Mitchell, who is most certainly not a girl. What a cutie! He seemed so little compared to Max. He felt like a feather! The crazy thing is that Tyson is three pounds heavier than Max was when he was born. In different pictures I think he reminds me of different people. His baby pictures are a lot like Cody's, but every now and then I see a resemblance to Missy's little girl Saige. Here are a few fun pictures from today. Sorry this is such a long post, but we have lots of out of town relatives that don't get to meet the little guy for a while! Enjoy!

Baby Sadie is... a boy?!

I could just die. Today my sister in law Leslie went in to the hospital to be induced and fully expected to deliver a beautiful baby girl. After a NATURAL delivery (yikes!), much to everyone's surprise, out popped an 8 pound 10 ounce beautiful baby BOY! Apparently, her husband Steve yelled' "she's got balls!" I still don't think it has fully registered in Leslie's mind that she has two boys yet. When I talked to her this afternoon, she said it hadn't sunk in yet. I'm not going to lie, if it were me, I would be ticked! I can't imagine having everything all ready- a pink bed, a bunch of pink clothes and cute dresses, the works- and then having to return it all! I would die. It would be pretty stressful! At least she already has one boy so she has stuff for him. =) We will love him all the same though! I can't wait to meet him (we are still in SLC) tomorrow and get the whole scoop. Congrats Les on your brand new baby girl. I mean boy! Here are some pictures of the lovely pink Paris themed baby shower I threw for her last month! HAHA!

"Ooh la la! Leslie is having a girl!" (the first line) the "baby sioree" was held at "Le Chateau Kettle" after the marathon. You can't really tell, but it's brown and white paper and the words are printed on pink velum. and all tied together with the scalloped brown paper and ribbon. I'm not going to lie. when I tied the last one, it was a very proud moment.
Since we were having a Paris party, we had baby Paris Fashion week and decorated onesies.

The onesies I made: "Cute as a 'button'" and pink ruffle butt. They were so cute- I can't believe we have no baby to wear them!
The favors- I made chocolate dipped pretzels with pink white chocoate drizzled over the top.
Me and Leslie wearing pink of course. I still can't believe it. What luck!

Fun in the Country

Thursday night we went to dinner out at Leslie's house. They live ten minutes outside Rexburg and have two acres. It is so much fun and Cody loves all the space. He had a leeetle accident and ended up playing naked! It was so cute I had to snap a few pictures.

Cody and I always jump on the tramp together because lets be honest, I know how to have the most fun on trampolines. I guess all the gymnastics was worth something after all! We do "rocket ship" together a lot. We say "three, two, one BLASTOFF!" and I fling Cody in the air while he laughs and screams. It cracks me up! We also have this new game where he pretends to be my pillow and I pretend to fall asleep on his tummy. Then he wiggles and I am shocked to find out that he is Cody and not in fact my pillow. He thinks it's hysterical!

Les is being induced on Monday! I am so excited to meet baby Sadie. Here are some pictures of Les and Cody and his baby sister to be.

Tough Kids Drive Trucks

Cody LOVES his dad and loves to copy him. He especially likes to drve his truck! He steers and even crawls down to the gas pedal to push it. So cute!

Hadley

We have been back and forth to Utah for the last two weekends and we have been so happy to see some of our best friends Darren and Jody and their little girl Hadley. We used to live near eachother in Logan and always had so much fun together! Hadley was born up there and was the most beautiful baby. I can hardly believe she is three now! She is a doll. And she loves Max! She helped me give him a bath and while he was getting ready she said "I think he is going to me mine." Like he was her pet or something! It was so funny. We are so glad that we will be living close to Darren and Jody again! We always have so much fun and laugh so much when we're all together.

no deal

Everyone get ready for a little sob story. I am so cranky right now! Last night Danny and I put an offer in on this house in Farmington:

I am so in love with it! It had the best floor plan ever and it had the cutest little bonus room over the garage. I was sure we were going to get it (or at least a decent counter offer) because it was a pretty dang good offer, and then out of nowhere, some other couple made a full price with no realtor (which is great for the owner/agent). The people were so nice and said they really wished it could have been us but they obviously couldn't turn the other guys down. They were moving just four houses down so they would have been our neighbors and they were super cool! Life sucks right now. Back to the drawing board.

baby boy

What can I even say about this? I'm in love. Those eyes kill me!

Jumparoo

This week we got Max a jumperoo. We put him in Taylee's and he couldn't take his eyes off the bird, plus he is reaching to play with things a lot more, so we thought it would be good for him. It is EXACTLY the kind of thing I swore I would never have in my house. A big thing that plays music, loud primary colors with goofy rattley stuff hanging off of it, and takes up like half the room. Plus, who knew these type of things were so stinking expensive! Rediculous. I guess you just deal with it if your baby likes it! And Max does. As you can see in the last picture, Max is sucking on everything. He sucks on his baby bjorn, his arms, his jumparoo. Whatever. He is starting to get pretty good at sucking his thumb too!

Dam Race

Danny ran in the Teton Dam Marathon Relay his weekend and had so much fun! He ran the last leg which was six miles. It was not as hard as he thought it was going to be, but I can't imagine how running six miles could be easy! His sisters Mandy and Tiff also ran, along with his cousins Rylee and Whitney and Tiff's husband Nate. Their team was called the Dam Roadrunners. Now they are thinking of training for a mini triathlon in August. If they do, I am MAYBE thinking of doing it too. It sounds like a lot more fun than just running.

Cousins

I love watching Max with his cousins! They all love holding him and talking to him. It's so cute- even J.J. makes baby talk to him. Cody like to push him in his swing. He used to push a leeeetle (okay a lot) too high, but now he pushes him really soft and says "lih push. lih push." which means little push. Whenever Les and Cody come over, Cody starts looking for Max right away. He can say "baby Max" perfectly! He looks around for him and calls his name untill he finds him and says hi. Max met Ashlee and J.J. for the first time this weekend and Ashlee was so excited to hold him as soon as we got home. She could hardly wait for Max to eat so she could have a turn. Ash and J.J. were both leaning over talking to him and Max totally started smiling at them! I love that Max has cousins around his same age that he will grow up and be close with. It will be so fun to see how they interact as they get older.

Ashley and J.J.

This weekend Ashlee and Jacob (J.J.), Mandy's kids, came to Rexburg for the Teton Dam Race- perfect opportunity to get my pictures done! Now all I have left is Max and Leslie's little girl, who is due in a few weeks. It will be weird to see Max next to a brand new baby- he will seem so big.

We took these pictures at some random person's house in Rexburg. They were so nice! We knocked on the door to ask if we could take pictures on their old tractor. No one was home, so we just helped ourselves. Then later the farmer pulled up on a four wheeler and was so sweet! He came right up and asked if we wanted to see his horses. There was even a two week old baby! He held Ashlee so she could pet them and let them feed the horses treats. He and his sister spend about a half hour with us and the kids and eventually talked Ashlee into riding the horse bareback. She loved it! They were seriously the sweetest people and asked us to promise to come back again and visit. Only in Rexburg would you meet people who would be so kind to a bunch of trespassers!