The Cook Family

Taylor turns "1"

2011-12-02T12:26:00.001-08:00

Here are a few pictures from Taylor's birthday party. We had a few friends over for cake and ice cream. It was a lot of fun. Taylor got some fun gifts. She wasn't too sure about the cake but she eventually warmed up to the idea. We love you little Taylor Jo and can't believe you are one already.

Super Saturday "Zions Place Mall"

2011-10-16T12:32:00.001-07:00

Yesterday we had Super Saturday for our Enrichment Activity. It was a great success. It turned out so cute so I thought I would share some of the pictures with you. I need to give credit to the Taylor Ranch Ward Relief Society in Albuquerque where we got the idea. I had great help, April Stromberg and Kim Sanders that helped make this happen.

We used these bags above as the announcement in Relief Society.

The is what the foyer looked like when it was set up.

Everyone received a "Mall Map" that showed them where the classes were being held.

The invitation was a credit card idea with the theme being "Master in Charge"

We had two crafts that we did. The first one was a Thankful Jar. Everyone got to make one. This can be used at Thanksgiving where everyone rights on a piece of paper what they are thankful for and then they put it in the jar. The papers can be read at Thanksgiving dinner.

The second craft was binder clip photo holders for Halloween.

This is the sign that was hanging when people arrived. "Zions Place Mall"

Everyone received a shopping bag. On the back side was the schedule for the day.

The front side was decorated with the mall logo.

We had a Food Court that served cinnamon rolls from Cinnabon, bagels and the fixings from Einstein Bagel and then smoothies from Bahama Bucks. The tables were decorated with shopping bags.

We had five different classes.

Hallmark - This was a class that was taught on service. We had a service auction that turned out to be a lot of fun.

Childrens Place - This class talked about the foundation for effective communication.

Barnes and Noble - This class taught the importance of scripture study.

Then we had lunch followed by crafts.

We finished with two final classes.

Zales Diamonds - This class spoke on our inner beauty.

Things Remembered - This was taught by Bishop Winfrey and he talked about our stake vision for the family.

It was a great morning. Everyone got to go to all the classes and everyone left with two crafts.

Taylor's 6 Month Pictures

2011-06-22T11:56:00.000-07:00

"Taylor"

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While we were in Utah we had a friend, Alisha Morgan,
take pictures of Taylor. Here are just a few of my favorites.

Easter

2011-04-25T16:33:00.001-07:00

"Easter"

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Halloween

2010-11-01T15:47:00.000-07:00

This was our first year in Texas for Halloween. Since Halloween fell on a Sunday this year we celebrated the Wednesday before by doing Trunk or Treat at Church. Austyn had a blast! She was Minnie Mouse this year and was a pretty cute one at that. I had David dress up as an Ostrich. I think it may have been the hit of the party!!

Davids Experience

2010-04-11T14:32:00.000-07:00

It seems that the only time I blog is when we have a trip to the hospital. I probably should start changing that so you can all see some upbeat pictures as well. Yesterday afternoon David was involved in a motorcycle accident. It happened in Odessa, Texas. He broke his right leg pretty bad. The femur is broken and the tabula and fibula are pretty shattered. He has had one surgery so far that was more of an exploratory surgery. They made an incision and have a wound vac attached to try and get rid of some of the gravel and fluid that is in there. Tomorrow they will go in and place some plates and rods in his leg to try and repair it. He did tare a lot of skin off of his calf so that made need a skin graph to help repair. Please keep him in your prayers. He has a long recovery ahead of him. I have posted a few pictures of him and one of the wound (as good as I could get at least).

Austyns Trip to the ER

2009-05-24T11:48:00.000-07:00

Thursday afternoon Austyn came running out of her room with a toy in her hand and fell right into the entertainment center cutting her eyelid open. I picked her up to find her face covered in blood. I loaded her and Dallin into the truck and took her to the urgent care doctor where Ashley works. He looked at it and said that because of the kind of cut and where it was at that I needed to take her to the ER at Primary Childrens Hospital. For those of you who know me I HATE hospitals so I was a reck. I was more upset than Austyn was. We got up there and waited for 2 1/2 hours in the waiting room. When we finally got back to a room the doctor came in and looked at it and said that she needed to get three stitches. The best way to stitch her up was to have her sedated. So they gave her an IV and did the procedure. Luckily Austyn has a dad who can handle watching that stuff so he stayed in the room with her. Dave said when she was laying on the table sedated she kept saying "HI" which is her favorite word. Here are a few pictures from the morning after. Dont mind the grose nose. She also has a Sinus infection and ear infection!

David is 30!!!

2009-05-19T11:43:00.000-07:00

We had a great time celebrating Davids birthday. I had a surprise party for him at Tepanyaki with both of our families. Afterwards they all came over to the house for some cake and presents. Thanks to everyone that helped make his birthday great!

Sunday Drive

2009-03-09T15:49:00.001-07:00

Yesterday afternoon we took a drive up the canyon. We stopped at the Red Pine trail head and took a few pictures and enjoyed the snow.

Weekend Fun

2009-03-09T15:34:00.000-07:00

This weekend we went to Oliver Garden and to the Dinosaur Museum
with Scott, Angie and the girls.

It was nice to get out of the house and have a good time.

Austyn was exhausted by the time we left!!!

Thanks Scott and Angie for a good time.

When Uncle Brendan Watches Me!!!

2009-02-01T19:16:00.000-08:00

My mom had Uncle Brendan watch me for a little bit while she had somewhere to go. I was asleep when she left and I woke up while she was gone. Brendan decided that my hair was in my face so he decided to give me a hair style that would help that problem. This is what he came up with, what do you think?????

Austyn 1st Birthday

2009-01-05T16:42:00.000-08:00

We celebrated Austyn's First Birthday on December 20. Since her birthday is on Christmas Eve I decided to make it a Beach Party to add some fun. She had a great time eating her cake. She wasn't quite sure what was going on. She got a lot of great gifts and most importantly she had a lot of the people that she loves there to celebrate with her. We missed those who could not make it. Here are a few pictures of the day. It is so hard to believe she is one, time goes way to fast.

California, Here We Come!!!

2008-11-17T19:13:00.001-08:00

Halloween

2008-11-17T17:53:00.000-08:00

We went Trick or Treating to Austyn's Great Grandma Hanks

Dallin was a Darling Duck

David riding an ostrich

Austyn eating her first sucker, she loved it.

Halloween party at my cousin Jasons house

Both the kids before Trick or Treating

2008-10-26T11:01:00.001-07:00

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St.George Weekend

2008-10-07T09:13:00.000-07:00

This last weekend David, Austyn, and I took a trip to St. George to meet Gina and Jon who were driving up from California. It was the St. George Marathon so we decided this would be a good weekend to meet and cheer on the runners. David's dad, brother-in-law and other friends ran in it. We had a great time and miss everyone all ready.

This is a group shot of us all

Me and Gina friend

Getting ready for our walk to Snow Canyon

Snow Canyon

David and Jon, need I say more

At the marathon

Kent almost at the finish line, great race!!!

Grandma Cook and Austyn

Thanks friends for a great trip, we miss you and cant wait to see you in December.

Park Time

2008-09-29T12:49:00.000-07:00

This is a picture of Austyn's first swing time at the park. She was in there for about ten seconds and her face went white and gave me a look like she was going to throw up all the food she just ate. I think we will wait awhile to try the swing thing again!

Dallin and Austyn relaxing at the park.

Jackson Hole Part 2

2008-08-28T09:49:00.000-07:00

A view of Bear Lake

Inside the cabin

At Jackson

Jackson Hole

2008-08-28T09:38:00.001-07:00

David and I went a way last weekend with George and Heather for the first time without Austyn. It was very hard to leave her but we had a good time. We drove up through Logan and saw Hillary and Adam, then through Bear Lake. We stayed at a place called Driggs, Idaho. We had a cabin that we stayed in. Then on Saturday we woke up and drove into Jackson. We walked around, drove through the Teatons and headed home. Here are a few pictures of the journey.

A look at the bike before we left all loaded up.

We stopped in Logan for lunch where Adam served us at the Coppermill.

David talking on the phone.

Here is a picture of the cabin we stayed in.

Animal Farm

2008-08-19T15:24:00.001-07:00

Ashley and I took the kids to the Animal Farm at Thanksgiving Point. They had a great time looking at the animals, taking a horse ride and going in the jail.

Salt Lake Bees Game

2008-07-23T11:02:00.000-07:00

Last night I took Austyn to her first Bees game with her

Uncle Brendan, Uncle Nate, Uncle Brandon,

Aunt Ashley, Cousin Dallin, and Grandma Jo!!!

We had a blast. Here are a few pictures of the night.

Austyn was such a good girl, I think she is a baseball girl at heart.

Splash Pool

2008-07-13T15:59:00.000-07:00

We have a Splash Pool by out house and decided to go. The kids loved it!

Aunt Ashley, Cousin Dallin and Austyn

Look at those blue eyes!

What a fun day.

Austyns First Zoo Trip With Daddy Dave!!!

2008-07-01T10:59:00.000-07:00

I had some friends in from California that were staying with us last week so we decided to take a trip to the zoo. David was able to go with us and we had a great time. Here are some of the pictures that we took of the day.

David and I love this picture of Austyn

Thanks Grandpa Davie for my Jump A Roo

2008-06-21T16:14:00.001-07:00

Creative Memories

2008-05-02T15:13:00.001-07:00

I have just become a Creative Memories consultant and I am so excited about it. If you get a free minute i am listing the link to go and see all the neat products we have to offer. Creative Memories is Traditional scrapbooking, Digital Scrapbooking and custom framing.

Traditional scrapbooking is where you purchase the album and paper and create your own scrapbook. There are so many different album types ranging from pretty easy albums to albums that can take as much time as you would like to spend. They have really cute new Disney albums and paper that would be real fun to scrapbook your vacations.

Digital scapbooking is an online program that allows you to create either single pages or you can make books, calendars etc. If you create the single pages you can send them to Costco and have them printed out for $2.99 for a 12x12 size. What a great way to keep your memories. The Disney pages are also available on the digital program.

Even if you just want a program to store all your digital pictures you have taken in Creative Memories has that to offer. It acts like a digital file cabinet. So cool!

Feel free to pass this information along to family and friends, even those out of state.

Please if you have any questions at all email me at ECook7@gmail.com

The link is www.mycmsite.com/emilycook

Bath Time

2008-04-23T13:56:00.000-07:00

We gave Austyn a bath in the "big person" bath tub.

She was not sure what to think about the whole experience.

Here are a few pictures of the event.

Utah Jazz Contest

2008-03-09T20:09:00.001-07:00

The Utah Jazz had a contest looking for the "Biggest Jazz Fans". My brothers are HUGE Jazz fans so we took all the Jazz items they had and took a picture of Austyn, Dallin, (The shirts they are wearing say "My First Jazz Tee") and Ashley and Grandma Jo. We entered the contest and amazingly enough we WON!!!! The prize was 18 tickets to a suite to the Jazz VS Nuggets game. The game was last night so here are a few pictures.

This is the picture that won the contest.

Dallin and Baby Austyn

Gina and Baby Austyn at the game

Austyn and her daddy at the game

Dallin all Jazzed out

Easter Bunny

2008-03-09T20:01:00.000-07:00

We took Austyn and Dallin to see the Easter Bunny on Wednesday.

This is as close to a smile as we got.

Picture Time

2008-02-20T18:07:00.000-08:00

Ashley and I took Dallin and Austyn and got some pictures done a few weeks ago.

Here are a few of my favorite.

Austyn's Baby Blessing

2008-02-04T19:02:00.001-08:00

We woke up Sunday morning to the worst snow storm I had ever seen before. We had snow that measured in feet instead of inches. At about 9:00 David started shoveling the snow to try to make a path for the people to get into the house that were coming for the blessing. Then at about 11:00 we got a phone call saying that church was cancelled due to the amount of snow we were getting. I started to panic because everyone was going to be at our house at 1:00 for the blessing. Thankfully a member of the bishopbric came over to the house and the blessing was performed there. It ended up being a great experience. David and I are very proud parents. Here are a few pictures.

Right in front of our door

Isn't she cute!

President Hinkley Tribute

2008-02-04T19:00:00.001-08:00

I thought this was pretty neat so I wanted to share it with you.

Austyn Evelyn Cook

2008-01-18T11:27:00.000-08:00

Austyn was born December 24, 2007 at 7:12 pm. She weighed 9 pounds 1 ounce and was 20 inches long.

Austyn being weighed

First family picture

Merry Christmas!

Austyn taking a nap in her swing

Davids favorite picture

First real bath at home

David playing with Austyns hair

Austyn loves her dad!

How much will Austyn weigh???

2007-12-21T13:18:00.001-08:00

Kristen gave us a good idea. Lets see who can come closest to what Austyn will weigh and how long she will be when she is born. It will be fun to see who comes the closest.

My guess is 8 Pounds 4 Ounces 21 1/2 inches long.

David guesses 7 Pounds 3 Ounces 21 inches long.

Still Pregnant

2007-12-19T10:45:00.001-08:00

I had my doctor appointment yesterday. I am dialalted to a 3. If baby Austyn is not here before December 28th I will be induced that day. Here is a picture of the nursery and the most recent one of me that I have. It was about2 weeks ago for Davids Christmas party at work.

Temple Square

2007-12-19T10:18:00.000-08:00

David asked me 3 years ago this weekend to marry him.

Jon and Gina

This past weekend David and I took two different trips to Temple Square to see the Christmas Lights. We went Friday night with Jon and Gina and then on Sunday night with Scott and Angie's family. We had a blast both times. You can tell by some of these pictures we took.

Baby Dallin has arrived!!!

2007-09-27T19:24:00.000-07:00

My sister Ashley had her baby boy on Tuesday Septmber 25, 2007. He weighed 8 pounds 13 ounces and was 20 1/2 inches long. After a labor of 30 hours he finally made it. His name is Dallin Edward McDonald. He is so cute and we love him to death. Makes me excited and VERY nervous for our baby.

A newborns conversation with God

2007-08-14T08:12:00.000-07:00

I saw this and thought this was pretty neat so I decided to share it with you.

A newborns conversation with God:

A baby asked God, "They tell me you are sending me to earth
tomorrow, but how am I going to live there being so small and helpless?"
God said, "Your angel will be waiting for you and will take
care of you."
The child further inquired, "But tell me, here in heaven I
don’t have to do anything but sing and smile to be happy." God said,
"Your angel will sing for you and will also smile for you. And you will feel your angel’s love and be very happy."
Again the child asked, "And how am I going to be able to
understand when people talk to me if I don’t know the language?" God
said, "Your angel will tell you the most beautiful and sweet words you will ever hear, and with much patience and care, your
angel will teach you how to speak." And what am I going to do when I want to talk to you?" God said, "Your angel will place your hands together and will
teach you how to pray."
Who will protect me?" God said, "Your angel will defend you
even if it means risking its life." But I will always be sad because I will not see you anymore."
God said, "Your angel will always talk to you about Me and
will teach you the way to come back to Me, even though I will always be next to you."
At that moment there was much peace in Heaven, but voices
from Earth could be heard and the child hurriedly asked, "God, if I am
to leave now, please tell me my angel’s name."
God said, "You will simply call her, "Mom."

Daybreak Flood

2007-08-03T07:33:00.000-07:00

This is what our street looked like last night after about a 10 minute thunderstorm. We are lucky that our house sits up higher than most. The people with Kennecott said it was coming from the Oquirrh Mountains but we don't really know. Kennecott had a couple tractors further backing trying to build a dam to stop the water from coming. Never seen anything quite like it before.

It's a GIRL!!!

2007-07-23T13:09:00.000-07:00

We found out on Saturday that we are having a baby GIRL! We are so excited, (well I think David was a little disappointed at first). Now we are having fun looking for fun nursery ideas. I am thinking that I am going to do it in Butterfly and Fireflies. Any ideas let me know. David told me to draw out what I want and he will do it. Does he know what he is getting in to???

First Blog

2007-07-19T11:50:00.000-07:00

Well this is a little scary because I am not quite sure what to say. When David and I were in California last weekend Gina had me create a blog so I guess I should start using it. We had a great time with Jon and Gina, Mom and Dad Cook and Amber and Chris. Thanks for being great hosts. We find out on Saturday whether we are having a boy or a girl so we will keep everyone posted.