La Cog Family pics '09

Well these are pretty self explanatory. Here we are ending the year with two beautiful girls, lotsa laughs and wonderful memories. Just keep in mind that we are a crazy family with some problems all smiling at the same time, well except for me I always smile perfectly(hehehe). Just a a little warning though I have about 50lbs of excess baby weight, Michael blinks a lot, Averi is a poser with a short attention span and Sienna drools but other then that we looked pretty cute. Enjoy!







Photos by Nate Evans @ uziorange.blogspot.com

Toe pick

For anyone who doesn't know I grew up in Colorado. It is a cold state and so one would think that i would have gone ice skating before, but that is not the case. Year after year winter would come and go and i would still forget to ice skate. Until this year, Michael finally took Averi and me ice skating. The night we went was freezing of course, so we all bundled up in our warm winter clothes and laced up our boots and gave it a go. Averi loves doing anything active so right off the bat she was loving it. The only problem is she is in this "I can do it my self" faze so she insisted on going around the rink all by herself while holding on to the railing. It was slow going but she was definitely doing it. And then there was me, I automatically thought i was going to do really embarrassing things like flail about and fall flat on my rump. But to my surprise in I didn't fall and only flailed a little. Michael had been before so as he so humbly put it he was "a born ice skater". We all had a couple of turns around the rink and eventually were frozen so we decided to trade in our skates and grab hot cups of cocoa that warmed us right up. As we were leaving Averi said that she would never do that again because "Now my feet aren't working right. They keep trying to slide but they won't anymore. They are so confused!" I have to say that after all these years of waiting to go ice skating it might not have been all i was dreaming of but it was pretty fun and it made for a wonderful memory.

The Day of Giving Thanks

When I think of Thanks giving I cannot help but think of all of the wonderful food of the past years and this year was no exception. One of my cousins told me that he gauges the Thanks giving dinner on how good the gravy is and him and I both agreed it was some good gravy. This year we gathered at my uncle Rockie's house in Centerville. I was so happy that my parents came up to celebrate with us and my brother came down from Logan. It was his first big holiday since he got back from the mission and I think that we all missed his smiling face more then we realized.
I am thankful for so many thing this year including health, friends, cute baby smiles, New Moon coming out(hehehe) but most importantly I am thankful for family!

They all mean so much to me whether I was with them or not. It is so important to me that my children know their family well. When they grow up I'm sure they will know just how much they are loved and by so many.Thank you for all of the memories. Sure hope everyone's gravy was delish!