Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Cosmo and Hailey

So a lot has happened in the weeks following Thanksgiving, so much so, that I'm not sure where to start. We got puppies, we graduated college, decorated for Christmas, and suffered the loss of my Grandpa Tetley after he passed away. SInce I don't have the pictures from graduation yet, this post will focus on the happiness/ craziness of having a 17 month old and two 8 week old puppies. Oh so much fun!
To start the story off- Tyler and I are CRAZY! We never seem to do anything normally. We had planned and prepared to get parker ONE puppy for Christmas and yet here I find myself chasing two around the house. Basically we ran across these puppies in the usual "American Kennel Club" selling location outside Walmart on a very cold and blistery Saturday afternoon. They were the only two left and they were shivering uncontrollably. We immediately fell in love but we were trying to wait until it got closer to Christmas before actually buying, so we drove away. About a minute down the road, we started feeling really sorry for those poor shivering puppies so we turned around an bought both to rescue them! We got a 2-for-1 kind of deal and they are papered, pure-bred yellow labs, one boy who became Cosmo (after BYU's mascot) and one girl, Hailey (after Hailey, Idaho).

They love to chase Parker around the house.

And Parker loves to sit in their kennel- I promise I did not put him in there :)

Parker thinks we bought him a couple of really warm and soft pillows.

The rest of these pictures are from one of my favorite moments! Parker insisted we go outside in the snow one morning. His jacket was in the dryer after being washed, so I dressed him in one of Jake's hand-me down, and way too big for Parker might I add, BYU sweat shirt. It made a nice little snuggie along with mittens and snow boots. Then I spent a half hour playing with Parker and the puppies in the snow. It was so funny! And I couldn't get any of them to come inside despite the chilly weather and snow that was still falling. It was a blast.






Sunday, December 13, 2009

Family Pictures

My friend Suzie took some awesome pictures for us last week and I just wanted to thank her one more time! Check out her blog to see more of her great work! Suzettekoskellaphotography.blogspot.com








Wednesday, December 2, 2009

A Lot To Be Thankful For

One thing is for sure... we have a lot to be thankful for this Thanksgiving! We have been blessed with so much. I personally am so grateful for my family- my wonderful husband and my adorable little boy as well as my mom and dad and brother and sister, grandparents, aunts, uncles... Love you guys all so much! I am also thankful for all of Tyler's family and their love! Most importantly I am thankful for the true gospel of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Without the Savior, the atonement and eternal families, I would be lost in this world! And from that knowledge comes so many more blessing and if I were to list them all you would all stop reading right about now because it would go on forever!
To celebrate Thanksgiving this year we went to my grandparent's in Idaho Falls and enjoyed lots of great food! And of course we had our annual Turkey Bowl- our family football game. My dad, Jake, Tyler and I played against Kristen, my uncle and my cousins Kaden and Skylar.... and the Pooligans (Pooleys+Milligans) WON!! Nice work team! Tyler and I have also initiated the tradition of taking Kristen, Jake and my cousins to a movie- This year we wanted to see Christmas Carol but is was sold out :( so we saw Planet 51 and honestly it wasn't too impressive but we still had fun!
Here are some pictures:
Parker helping mommy make pre-Thanksgiving treats before we left for IF.

"Here Dad, have some of my turkey!"

Thankful for my husband!

Having too much fun with Aunt Kristen

My sister and cousin Skylar

My little cousins Carly and Kami- they are so fun!

The Rice Women- Mom, Aunt Andrea and Grandma!

Yum Yum at the kid's table

Carly loves Parker and pretty much followed him around the whole time we were there. I think he enjoyed the attention!

Hope you all have a wonderful holiday season!
Love Tyler, Natalie and Parker
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