Happy First Birthday Nehemiah!!!!

WOW, thats about all the words i have to describe today. Its so crazy to think exactly a year ago i gave birth to the most precious gift i will ever have. My beautiful boy is now 1! I cant hardly believe it. Chris's parents and brother Jeremiah came to celebrate the big day, and needless to say it was eventful. We threw a big bbq and invited all the Uso's (chris's friends) and some of my girlfriends and their husbands who have kids Nehemiah's age. There was plently of tereyaki chicken, steak, rice, potatoe salad, chips, soda, stirfry, and of course cake to go around. Its been a great day and im so blessed. Happy Birthday Nehemiah!!!

St. George, HERE WE COME!!!

Okay everybody who is dedicated and set to achieve one of the most amazing goals and do it in the name of Michelle, October 3, 2009 is our offical date!!!! The St. George marathon has a "lottery" style registration process. Bad new for the 2008 marathon they had over 10,500 applicants with only 7,000 spots...the good news they moved that 7,000 up to 7,200 for the 2009 run. I've been trying to figure out how we could all get a guarenteed spot, and theres a couple options (however niether is guarenteed) the first being, i could try to make "We Love Michelle" a charity and if it was accepted as such, we could all have a guarenteed spot. the second option is, and i dont know how everyone feels about it, in the registration they give you the option for "group registation" that means that up to 5 of us can register as a group and we will count as one, so one chance to get picked either all 5 get picked or none of us get picked... This is all a little too stessful for me because i REALLY want everyone who wants to run this for Michelle to have that chance. So let me know what you think about the two options i've found so far... oh and registration starts on April 1 at 12:01AM!!!!

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.