Grandma and Grandpa Kolone

Chris's parent were able to make the VERY long trip up here to watch Northern Colorado (Tony's team- chris's older brother) play Montana State (chris's team) a couple weeks ago. It was alot of fun and Nehemiah really loved seeing his grandparents and uncles(and so did I!) Unfortunatly it was a really quick trip, but we'll get to see everyone at christmas time.

 

 

 

 

Halloween

I procrastinated, of course, making Nehemiah's Halloween costume, but i stayed up all night and finished it just in time to go to work. It started as a monkey costume but the more i worked with the material the more it looked like a gorilla, so i made him a gorilla instead....Isn't he ADORABLE?!!!!

 

 

 

FIRST SnOW!

Nehemiah is loving daycare, we do activities all the times with the "infants". This paticular day we did fingerpainting with pudding and whipped cream. the other kids were hesitant to touch the pudding, however Nehemiah was VERY excited to eat it!

 

Believe it or not, we had our first snowfall of the winter this last weekend... I heard the storm was coming this past thursday and i knew Nehemiah didnt have anything appropritate for the weather so i went out to buy him some snow gear. He looks SO CUTE!

 

One Year

Ive been thinking about the mark of this day for a long time now. I find myself more speechless than anything else. Just remembering thoes last moments with her, with my mom and my dad and siblings. I hate being in montana now, i miss home, its not home here. I feel that anger all over again, that never ending sadness that i want to control but cant. I miss my sister. oh i miss my sister.

SOrry!

Sorry everyone for not posting in a really long time. I've been really busy doing a million things. OKay so lets catch everyone up...Nehemiah got his two bottom teeth it took a good 4 to 5 days of a high fever before they broke the skin and now he's feeling alot better. Brock's team played University of Montana on the same weekend that chris had a bi, so we went and watched his game. we moved into a little house on campus its really old, these houses, aka thebomb shelters, (theres like 50 of them) that was built during world war 2, they are all crammed together, but they are significantly less expensive than what we were paying at our old apartment. we got a cat, funny story, i Saw an add on craiges list for some free kittens, i got really excited, call to claim mine and went to get it, long story short, i got lost took me two hours to get there and when i finally got there the woman said "sorry theres no kittens left" i was pretty upset cause i got so lost trying to find this farm house way out in the country not to mention a half a tank of gas gone. the woman then said, do you want the mom cat? so, i got the mom cat. Lastly, i got a job working at a daycare in the infant room, nehemiah get to come and stay with mommy at work! im really excited about it!

 

 

 

 

you have to hear

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This little girl is amazing, i never understood this song. It now has a whole new meaning to me

The Drawer

Nehemiah has discovered "the drawer". Its the only draw reachable for him. He loves it. and he thinks he's so big when he's standing up with it. He started pulling out one of the pans and the second it hit our concrete floor and made a huge noise he instantly got scared and started crying....poor baby. He's growing so fast. I can't believe he's already standing on his own....crazy!!!

First Game of the Season

We call this face "mean muggin". Notice Nehemiah's eyebrows are exactly like his dads. Chris finally had his first game of the season. They played Adams State, a division 2 school from Colorado. At halftime they "temporarily postponed" the game due to severe lightning and wind and made an mandatory evacuation of the stands.... after about an hour they re started the game but no one was allowed in the stands, it was standing room only, which is basically non existent at this stadium. It was the weirdest thing. but finally they gave in and let the crow re-flooded the stands. They ended the game 59 to 3. Congrats to Chris he was awarded Defensive MVP.

Tagged by Doodle-Loodle

Sorry doodle, better late then never right?

8 Things I am Passionate About:

1. Family
2. My Baby
3. the eternities
4. becoming a good mother
5. memories
6. the importance of wisdom
7. the beauty of the earth
8. the ocean

8 Books I Have Read and Enjoyed:

(this is imbarrasing)

1. What to Expect when Expecting
2. What to Expect the first year
(contradicts #6 on my last one.... I know)

8 Words/Phrases I Say Often:

1. Nehemiah!!!
2. Baby!!!
3. what do you feel like eating?
4. want boobies?
5. whats the matter baby?
6. tasi, lua, tolu, fa, lima, ono, fita, valu, iva, sefulu (1-10) in Samoan...im working on it...
7. hey little munchkin!
8. im over it

8 Things I Want to Do Before I Die (In no particular order):

1. Raise happy healthy children
2. visit the Great Pyramids
3. finish my education
4. own a house
5. visit the "Rock" with my family (Samoa)
6. Make a differnce in the lifes of children with cancer
7. live long enough with my husband to celebrate our 50th anniversary
8. become really good at something

8 Things I Learned in this Past Year:

1. I am definetly not scared to die
2. Motherhood is the greatest gift
3. I hate not having friends
4. your really spoiled in high school
5. I hate doing laundry
6. Life is short
7. Administering of Angels is real
8. I am SO blessed

People I Want to Tag:
1. Mamma
2. Brittany
3. Farren

Yes, we're still alive

sorry i've been extremely slacking. I've just got a bad combo of busyness mixed with laziness... Nehemiah is continuing to eat his food and he's growing SO FAST! He said mama (while crying) a couple weeks ago, and has said it a few times since but only while he was crying....until...TODAY!!! as i was in his room and he was in the family room, he clearly said "MA!!!" like he wanted me to come get him!!! yay! Nehemiah also murmured the word "dada" while bathing two days ago... he said it again yesterday, but unfortunately chris wasn't around either time the hear... Football season is about to start so chris has been really busy with two a days. We're excited for the season to finally start on the 30th. I bought nehemiah probably the coolest nikes for babies Ever! I'll take a pic of them and post it cause they are so cute!

Happy 6 Months!!!

Crazy to think my little baby is six months old today. We celebrated by giving him a big watermelon...just kidding....it was cold so he liked to suck on it. Happy Six Months Nehemiah!!!

And More...

We all went swimming, but it was the weirdest thing because the pool water was hot. Not warm not kinda warm it was hot. So unforunatly nehemiah couldn't go swimming for very long. None of us did infact, because it didnt feel good because it was hot outside.

Family Pic infront of Yellowstone falls...I know you cant see it...

I forget the name of the mountain but this is at the very top of it, its supposed to be prime area for grizzleys... It was so beautiful i started running and twirling singing "The Hills are Alive" from The Sound of Music...

Nehemiah was having a whole lot of fun having his Daddy carry him around like that. He was also getting a kick out of how hard the wind was blowing, our little man loves being outside...

More...

We were very fortuante to vist my Great Grandma, very possibly for our last time on earth. It was a very neat experiance to be near her. I could feel michelle's presence with us as we visited her. Nehemiah was able to meet for the first time his Great Great Grandma. Its a very rarity that a person meets their Great Great Grandma, he was fortuante enough to be able too. She loved having him near her.

We went to bear world... Befor we did however we decided to smother our cars in oranges so the bears would come to our cars. It was alot of fun!

Nehemiah saying goodbye to Grandma Butler... very sweet

We stoppped in Yellowstone on our way back and decided we needed to see more bears so we ventured around looking and looking. Unfortuanatly we didnt find any but we got to see all the famous sites, this is in front of a big waterfall, it was beautiful...

Catching Up

Sorry about not updating for over a week...thats a record for me, anyways we had to drive down to Malad and take care of a ticket, it just so happend that same weekend my family was all in Rigby Idaho waiting for the Boys at EFY. So luckily we were able to hang out and have some more fun adventures. So I'll just do a little summary of what has happend since i havent posted anything. Befor we left, Nehemiah at his first solid food...HE LOVES IT!!!!

Nehemiah wore his mommy's sunglasses the whole trip down....okay not really but he liked wearing them...

Chris found a new best friend in my Uncle Jim's enormous dog...

Chris rode a horse for the first time...what you dont see in this picutre is about 30 seconds later as the horse was rounding around the pond he began to speed up and bucked chris right off....