Christopher B Hales

For those of you who follow my blog and haven't heard, my sweetie passed away on saturday febuary 6th. I miss him already, and my heart aches. Life is so short and so precious, love to you all

Winter Fun!!!

Okay...so I love love love Christmas time...but I'm not so good at documenting it. My mom, sister and I went to see SYTYCD, and loved it! And we all went with the kids to This is The Place and saw the lights, Father Christmas, and a Nativity. We spent Christmas Adam(best day of the year) with Ash and family. Christmas Eve up in Heber, and Christmas day...well, Christmas day we spent trying to get Colin to throw up in toilet or a bowl, rather than all over the floor. We got one picture of opening presents on christmas...so this is it. OH and of course I got my new puppy Nilla, if y ou look really close in a couple pictures you may be able to see her!

Naked Colin

Well...we have had a lot of nakedness around our house lately, with Colin potty training and all. So Thursday night we had our pumpkin carving night, and Colin was already pantless...but we didn't want his shirt to get all gross, so we stripped him down and this is what ensued...The bottom one is priceless...oh, I laugh just thinking about it. But anywho...potty training is going great! He is pretty much potty trained at home(outside of home is a different story)but we are so proud of him. We had his 2 year appointment and he is just a giant, 36 inches tall 99% and 35 pounds 90% We do have to get him into an eye dr, we are a little concerned about a lazy eye, but other than that he is great. I love this kid, everyday he makes me laugh!

Fall!!!

Ok, so yes...it has been a long time since I last posted anything.  We have had a very fun beginning of fall.  We've been to the fair, the zoo, discovery gateway.  And had many more fun adventures.  Colin is still obsessed with cars, I cut about 13 inches of my hair off, and chris had a case of the swine flu!  But most importantly, we celebrated Colin's 2nd birthday on October 5th! I can't believe it's been 2 years!  Next week we start potty training...wish us luck!

Meteor Shower

While Chris and I were dating, he took me up East Canyon one night during a  meteor shower.  I have to say, it was probably one of the most amazing things I have ever seen.  So when Chris told me there would be another one on 8/12 I knew we had to go.  We just went up Bountiful Canyon and parked on the side of the road, the view wasn't too great but it was so fun to be up with Colin and have him with us.  The pics of us aren't that great, but itwas so dark I had no idea what I was taking a picture of.  

Ragged Mountain

We just got back from a fun filled family vacation in South west Colorado.  It's a church owned camp called Ragged Mountain and it is absolutely amazing.  The drive down was rough, our Land Rovers A/C decided not to work...and driving through Moab in 102 is pretty rough.  But we made it!  Thursday was my bday and my mom made me a special tiara out of pasta!!!  We canoed on this beautiful lake and Colin almost jumped ship a couple times.  I got to see my favorite cousin Joanna and her cute kiddies.  Chris and I did not sleep well tho,  because Colin didn't.  This picture is of Colin just before we left to come home, he passed out while we were packing up and I think this may be the best he slept the whole time!

Stitches and Fireworks...

Well, we will start with the day before the big festivities.  Early Friday morning, about 3am, Chris heard Colin fussing and brought him into bed with us.  With the lights all out he must have been disoriented, because he rolled off the side of the bed and slammed his face into the dresser.  I picked him up and tried to soothe him, Chris came running in the room and turned the lights on.  The first thing he said was "oh my gosh".  I looked at Colin and blood was gushing from his eye, I ran to get toilet paper, to try to stop the bleeding and after I wiped it once I knew he needed stitches.  So, we ran him to primary's, and spent until 9 am there.  He got 5 stitches, and although it was very traumatic for him, and us, Colin was a trouper through it all.  I knew the day would come when he would get stitches, I kept knocking on wood that it wouldn't happen too soon.  But I have to be greatful that it wasn't worse.  

On the 4th we had a blast.  We had our annual bbq at my parents and had yummy hambugers and did fireworks.  The boys loved them, Colin was a little nervous about it still, but really liked the bright colors.  We then watched the sugarhouse fireworks from the street. Colin really liked those because he couldn't hear the loud noises.  It was a succesfull day!