I'm a slacker!

I know, I know ... Christmas Day I have a new post up, I'm usually posting a couple times a week, even. I don't know what my problem is here in Poky ... maybe it's that we just discovered Heroes and haven't stopped watching it in four days ... I bought Jordan season one for Christmas and the second it was over, we were online looking up where we could watch season two and three. We're just starting season three now and Jordan is wanting this post to be a quick one. By the way, does anyone know when season four starts? Things are going to be hectic soon, keeping up with Lost season five and Heroes season four! :o) We are not totally obsessed with TV shows ... just those two ... and the office. Anyway. It could also have something to do with the fact that we had no place to live ... until yesterday! We finally decided on a place and even put down the deposit for it. Thanks, Moose, for going at looking at it for us! You're awesome. It's in American Fork and we're told it's a nice little place, especially for the price. Good grief, Provo is expensive. Of course, we've been living in Ogden for two years ... and then with parents for four months! :o) Anyway. Since I haven't posted anything since a few days after Christmas, I have a ton of pictures. They are from the drive from New York to Minneapolis to visit Jared and Catherine and their adorable baby girl, Emmeline. Then from Minneapolis to my parents' home in Pocatello. Love you all! We'll talk to you soon, when we finally move into our own place! :o)


Alexis thought it was so funny that I propped the stuffed Backyardigans dolls under the head rest ... I didn't get a very long break the rest of the way to Poky! :o)


Dancing to the guitar music! She LOVES this new toy more than any of the others! :o)


Sitting back, relaxing, letting her feet up, eating crackers in the back seat! What a cutie pie! :o)


The day after we got to Minneapolis, Jared and Catherine took us all to the Children's Museum! Thanks, guys! It was LOADS of fun the whole weekend we were there! And Emmeline and Lexi really enjoyed each other! They were friends from the very beginning! :o)


Lexi "ringing up" Emma with the spoon in one hand and the sippy in the other ... she's real talented, what can I say?! :o)


Alexis and Emmeline loved playing in the water ... although, it was tough to get pictures of the two of them together! :o)


While Lexi was stacking up all the balls she could find, she was staring down all the kids that came close to her! It's like she's paranoid and doesn't want anyone getting too close to "her" balls! :o) Funny girl!


Alexis was starting to get pushy with this boy! He just kept wanting to un-do everything Lexi was "working" on! :o) It's ok - he was tough and just pushed back! :o)


Emmeline and Lexi loved the bubbles ... almost as much as Jordan! Spencer - it's just like the "Bubble-Man"! :o)


Alexis does NOT like these hand-dryer things! She was just a little scared of it! :o)


So we take Lexi, yet again, to another Children's museum ... and what does she wanna play with?! THE STAIRS! GRR!!! :o)


The Daddies and the Babies! They were so cute, playing with their daughters! :o)


I loved all the pictures of the boys with their girls!


Emmeline was so good at pushing this huge ball - even though it was about five times her size! :o)


Lexi LOVES balls! She was, though, a little intimidated by the big balls!!! :o)


Lexi watching Backyardigans while I do her hair - really relaxing at Jared and Catherine's ... she had her foot up and everything! :o)


Alexis LOVES pasta! She absolutely LOVED the spaghetti! Yea! Something my picky little eater with eat right up! Of course, the next day I tried to give her left-overs and she wanted NOTHING to do with them! Ahh!!!


What a CHEESER!!! I LOVE my cheesy baby girl!!!


Dancing cousins! I think they really enjoyed each other! It was so fun!


Still dancing! We decided to do webcam with Grandma and Grandpa and Spencer Cook, but they stopped dancing by the time we could get it set up! Of course, the second Lexi saw Grandma, she started touching her throat and looking straight up! And the second she saw Spencer, she started Cawing! :o)


Emmeline loves kitties! This is her looking at the lions and tigers and "saying" "kitty" ... she growls really quietly - it's SO cute!


This Lioness was so weird with Lexi! I think it was the green coat that Emmeline let her borrow. That Lioness just REALLY wanted to either play with or eat Alexis! We'll put a video on youtube of the lioness "Playing" with Alexis!


Again - we take her, now, to a ZOO and she wants to play on the stairs! :o)


We kept telling Lex to look at all the "Paublos" (the Backyardigans Penguin) and she just kept running away. Eventually, I bent down and realized that Lexi couldn't see all of them because of the water and the reflection on the windows! :o) Oops! She loved them once we picked her up! :o)


Emmeline LOVED her uncle Jordan! She was SO cuddly with him!


We went to the Mall of America and they had this big Nick Amusement park - this ride was too big-kiddy for Lexi! Too bad! But she LOVED looking at all five statues of the Backyardigans characters! :o)


Emmeline and Alexis playing with the legos at the big Lego Store!


Lexi loved the legos. She's getting really good at putting things together ... but when she's doesn't line them up just right and they wont click together, she gets upset! What a girl!!! :o)


Daddy and Lexi-lou, waiting in line to get on the roller coaster!


This picture is for Grandpa/Dad Cook! Jordan claims the reason he didn't fit in the roller-coaster was because his legs were too long! :o) Riiiight!


The first time on the coaster, it was just Lexi and I. Jared and Emma went with us the second time. Lexi loved it both times! She was yelling with joy and kicking the whole time!!! :o)


The four of us - Jared, Emmeline, Lexi and I - waiting for the roller-coaster to start!


Lexi just wanted the roller coaster to start! She was bouncing and kicking her feet! She just LOVED it! :o) I'm SO happy! I want a girl I can take on coasters!!!


Catherine and I got Emma and Lexi matching sweaters and wanted to take pictures for Grandma Cook! The whole weekend, Lexi and Emmeline would NOT hold still next to each other for pictures! These are the best shots! :o) And they were both getting really tired, so they're not that good of pictures! :o(


Alexis was so tired - I felt so bad for her! She hadn't had a nap that day and it was getting closer and closer to bed time! She just wanted an episode of Backyardigans and Beddy-bye! Poor thing! :o)


Jared was being such a good daddy and uncle and started dancing and yelling like a monkey! :o) Emmeline got a kick outta it! :o) Lexi just wanted to suck on her hand and watch Backyardigans! :o)


This picture doesn't show it all that well, but good enough: Jared was still dancing and yelling like a monkey and Lexi was looking up at me and Jordan like, "What the HECK is going on!?"


Emma was getting such a kick outta her daddy, she fell over on Lex! :o) Lex was so tired and fussy, this ended the picture-taking session! :o)


Back on the road again! Lexi was playing with her new baby doll and wanted to give her the binky! So sweet! :o)


Lexi was so cute, napping and holding onto Stitches so tightly! :o) Sweet thing!


Lex loves her monkeys!!! She's reading her monkey book here ... with her crazy hair! :o) She had her hair in pig-tails the night before and her hair is just like mine ... if you have it up, you'll never get the kinks out until you shower! :o)


"Big Foot Road" ... We took this picture for Dallon! "Dude's got a name!" :o) We miss Dallon SO much!!! Can't wait to see him next Christmas!!!


This was the night after we left Minneapolis. We were almost to the hotel and the roads were getting a little scary, so I wanted to distract Lex ... and myself ... and put on Backyardigans. She's getting in this habit of sucking on her hand ... just like her daddy when he was younger, thanks Jor ... Good thing she's so stinkin' cute! :o)


Lexi thought she was being so sneaky, hiding her guitar behind her back! :o)


This was driving through the mountains into Jackson Hole. I was so scared. Jordan acted fine and drove faster than I wanted him to ... which was still SUPER slow ... but I was just so scared! :o) We made it out alive, though, so don't worry! :o)


This picture just does NOT give these mountains justice - they were SO beautiful!


Driving out of the canyon, we saw someone slam on their brakes and put their camera out the window going the other direction, so we turned around and watched the buffalo. :o)


Lexi LOVES shoes, still! She is ALWAYS stealing my shoes (used to be Grandma Cook's shoes) and walking around in them! So cute! She's actually REALLY good at, not only walking in shoes twenty-times too big for her, but in walking in high-heels! She's gonna walk in them like a PRO when she's old enough to actually OWN some! :o)


I agree with Lex on this one ... It's much easier to carry your high-heels up and down the stairs instead of attempting at walking in them on the stairs! :o)


Aunt Katy-bug got a little Moped for Christmas - Lex LOVED riding on it with her and Katy asks us everyday if she can take her out again! :o)