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Learning Colors

I have been trying to teach Brock his colors for the past little while, and he doesn't quite remember. I decided he really needed some sit down time, take 15 min. out of my day to help him learn them.

We don't have flip cards so I found construction paper and wrote the color of each paper on them. I spread them out on the floor...

...He loves to color so I told him to find the Orange paper to color on and guess what? He found it and started coloring. I continued on and on. He was only confused on 3 of them. Red, Pink and Yellow. I am so proud of him:)

I then used them as flip cards so he could tell me the colors. This is a picture of him pointing at the card saying the color. It was a lot of fun and he did great! I little more work and he will be a pro.

*I know, I know...Who lets their 2 year old color with a magic marker? Shamefully I do :0

Play-Dough Fun

For Brock's Birthday Grandma gave him some play-dough. He sure does love it! When I watch Bryson on Monday's it's one of their favorite activities.

I like that it helps them use their creativity.

Everything Brock's makes is a hot dog, so he says.

Bryson loves the Spaghetti maker.

Here is what Bryson created. ????

I love these two boys! They are funny.

The Count Is...

Let me just tell you how heavy the bags were to carry out to the car. They were REALLY HEAVY. I told my self I should wait for Randy....but I couldn't wait any longer. So off to the bank Brock & I went. When we got there stupid me didn't realize that I would have to carry the bags inside, luckily I had Brock's stroller in the car. So I piled all of the bags in the stroller that I could hardly push. When I went in I thought they would put the money in the machine....come to find out I had to do it, and we didn't have to separate the coins after all. Oh-well, at least Randy got out all of the coins he is IN LOVE with:) Brock loved helping me put all of his money in the machine to be counted. When the machine got noisy from doing it's thing, Brock would say "I hear it". So stinkin' cute:) I could not believe how dirty our hands were after all that....It was well worth it. We ended up with $692.89 to deposit in his account. YEAH!

Money, Money, Money....MONEY!

Randy bought this jar at a antique shop about 8 years ago and we have been saving all of our coins sense then. We didn't know at first what we were going to do with the money, but as we started thinking we thought of Brock and how his savings account would love to have this money in it......so we are giving all the money to Brock. Brock was over joyed with excitement when we started to dump all the money on the floor. He couldn't wait to start touching all the coins. We called the bank and they said we needed to separate all the coins so they could put it in their counting machine.....So we did just that...

...It took us a couple of days to separate the coins, but we finally finished...

...Along the way of separation Randy came across some unique coins he had forgotten about. He was really excited to look at all of them...I didn't know he liked coins so much.? :)...

...We finally got them all separated in their very own zip lock bag. We hope they don't bust through the bottom. We went the extra mile to weigh them. The dimes and nickels weigh about 8-9 lbs, quarters weigh 21 lbs, and the pennies weigh a whopping 28 lbs. We then got online to see if we could determine from the weight of the coins how much money we have. It seems we are going to have around 6-$700.00. We are totally stoked for this. It will be awesome to add to Brock's savings account for his future. We will be taking the coins to the bank on Monday to find out how much lute we have...

...So for a fun game...How much money do you think there is?...

...Back in 1999 my mom gave us this...

...A

Collector's Album

Twenty Five Cent Coins

Minted 1999-2008

Honoring the Fifty United States of America

My mom will be proud we finished it! Randy's face doesn't look to exciting in the picture, but he was very excited! How much do you like his Kyle Corver hairstyle? Lol.

Brock's Birthday Party

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We Finally Updated

Sorry it's been awhile for those of you who follow our blog. It has been a fun and crazy month, so here is a look back at what we have been up too...

CHRISTMAS

Christmas was very low key this year. We hung out with both the families and just enjoyed the time together. This year instead of drawing names for each other we thought it would be fun to do Sub for Santa. We did this on both sides of the family and it was amazing to help those less fortunite then us. I hope we do that every year.

To start the Holiday off we wanted to take Brock to the ZOO LIGHTS. I loved it and so did Brock, but Randy didn't like it so much. If you haven't gone before you will have to go and see for yourself.
Christmas morning was a blast! Brock was so excited to see what was in his stocking, he knew right what to do.

This was Brock's gift from Santa. It's a race car track....Loved it! Score.



Of course daddy had to give him some tools of his own.....Loved it! We scored again.

This is how Brock looked all Christmas. New PJ's, cape (with the letter B on the back), and flashlight. I think those were his favorite gifts.

Merry Belated Christmas Everyone!

THE BIG 30

That's right I turned 30 on January 9th. I can not believe I am this old! Thank you to all my friends on Face book for all the Birthday wishes. It turned out to be a great day:) I am excited to see what the next 10 years brings.

MOMMY HEATHER CAME TO VISIT

Mommy Heather and some of her family came to visit Brock for his 2nd Birthday! We had fun seeing and getting to know Heather more. She was able to meet both sides of our families. Our families were very excited to meet and Thank her for placing Brock with us. He is one LOVED little boy.

Brock and Mommy Heather

The Gossett Family

Heather and her sis. loved riding our 4-wheeler...we could hardly get them off of it. We can see where Brock gets all his energy from:)

Thank You Heather for the great time and allowing Randy and I to be Brock's parents! We love him so much! We are very proud parents.

Our New Niece

My brother Josh and his wife Cali received a wonderful Blessing/Gift for Christmas this year. Oakland Mae Hinckley was born on December 1, 2009 at 10:50 am. She weighed 7 lbs 15 oz. 18 in. long. She is a beautiful baby. Click here to see for your self. As some of you may know this is their 2nd child. Their first child baby MAC was stillborn about 1 1/2 years ago. I was lucky enough to be at the hospital for both births. They were both so special in their own ways, 2 amazing blessings that I will never forget. I believe Mac guided Oakland safely to Josh and Cali. I am so grateful to Josh, Cali, Mac and Oakland for the many things they have taught me. You guys are the best! Congratulations you guys!

Meet Jake the Snake

This is Jake the Snake. The first words out of Brock's mouth was "I scared". But as you can see he wasn't scared enough not to hold him. He was funny to watch. He would go touch Jake and then back away quickly and repeat "I scared". It was pretty cute. Brock has NO FEAR.

Family "Night's" Fun

Last Monday we headed to the Flash game to see if Micheal Jordan was going to take on Bryon Russell. Ya, no show for MJ. We weren't surprised. It was fun though. Brock also had a blast until his head got stuck between the seats. He was stuck for a good 30 sec. until we finally freed him. He had a good indent in his forehead. All and all it was fun!

Car rides are fun for the Fam. We sing songs, dance, laugh, count to 10, and sometimes argue. There's never a dull moment.

Brock loves to try on daddy's boots. He doesn't get very far when he tries to walk.

Brock's first bloody nose. This kid is rough and tough.