Happy 5th Birthday Autumn!

Monday, Feb 6th was Autumn's 5th birthday! She is such a joy to us! I can't believe how fast she is growing up (or all of my girls for that matter). I just think she is a beautiful girl, but I'm biased! She had a friend party the saturday before. It was a blast having all these cute fairy girls come over and celebrate with her! I think she had a fantastic day.


Tinkerbell cupcakes


Friends playing Tinkerbell bingo



Watch out! These girls have quite the arms!







Big 5 year old Autumn on her birthday!


Family party



Love you so much little sweet pea, Autumn Coy!

Autumn's first hair cut

Oh wow! So she had been begging me like crazy to get it cut, and as much as I didn't want to have to brush through all those tangly curls anymore, I didn't want to not have those tangly curls anymore. Well, friday we went over to great clips after her dance class and they got her right in. I was going to have a panic attack watching her up there getting it chopped off. I told the lady where to cut it, even though poor Autumn wanted me to get it cut much shorter, I just couldn't. Before we went to the store Autumn asked me if she had to hold still like a statue, and I told her yes, but she wondered if she was still allowed to breathe! Ha ha! I told her yes to please still keep breathing! She cracks me up.

So here we are outside great clips before:




waiting nervously:


before:


after:


this is out in the parking lot after:




So I wasn't really happy with how many layers the lady put in Autumn's hair, so the next day I decided to chop a little more off. You can't tell too much of a difference, but I just wanted it to be more straight across in the back. SO, I guess the lesson is, don't take your daughter to great clips and spend money when you are just going to do it yourself the next day. Oh well, she had fun and she's happier now cause it's shorter.



The end!

Temple update

So here are a few pictures of what's been going on lately with the temple. Not a whole lot. Just a fence. But it's the coolest temple fence that has ever been put up just a few blocks from MY house! :) P.S. Yes, I realize I am not a professional photographer, so, sorry but this will have to do!

These were taken on Dec 23, 2011. I knew we were going to get our view blocked out soon so I hurried and snapped a few shots before the put the stuff up in between the chain link fence. Which by the way, looks like a Christmas tree garland. It's crazy, you can't really tell from the pictures below, but I've seen it, so take my word! You can tell they are setting up camp though, and bringing in some machinery. It's all very fun to watch.






These pictures were taken Jan. 6 2012, exactly two weeks later. See, the view is all gone. Bye, bye. I know they won't be able to hide it forever though! Plus I understand they are just trying to keep people out and debris from flying in from all over. After all, it is the temple site! So exciting! I'll post more pictures as the the work progresses!

Happy Christmas 2011

And before we begin....a little side note, happy 33rd birthday to me! Here I am opening my birthday gifts before we move onto bigger and better things. Thanks to everyone for the cards, texts, phone calls, gifts. It was a great day! Thanks to a wonderful hubby who took care of all the kids all day while I was at work and for making me one of my favorite home cooked meals! He always does a great job of making me feel loved and special. Thanks to Mom for always wrapping my presents in birthday paper even though I know it's a pain. Thanks to Jim and Norma for coming down to our house to celebrate with me! I have the best family!


Here are the girls opening their p.j.'s on Christmas eve! They always love getting new p.j.'s from the sandman!


Everything is ready to go! Me and James got to bed at a reasonable hour and we weren't too tired in the morning. They tried waking up at 3 am again, but we said no way and put them back to bed. They slept until 8.



Christmas morning was great! We let them open 1 present and see what Santa left in their stockings, then we got ready for church. Church was at 10, then we came home and changed our clothes and started the festivities. It was so nice. The girls were so cute about everything. They were full of hugs and kisses and thank you's all morning! What a great day! It was nice to have church on Christmas! We felt so happy to go and listen to the choir and and listen to our stake president talk about a boy who saved up all his money and bought a coat for a little boy in his class who needed one. It was such a great experience to take our girls and have them listen and behave at church! I was tearing up just thinking about the love of our Savior and how grateful I am for this season to celebrate his birth! It's sometimes hard to almost share a birthday with this special day, because I want to be selfish and have a day to myself, but in a way, it makes me feel closer to Him, as well. Anyway, it really was a beautiful day and we hope you all had a wonderful Christmas too!

Logan had a piano recital a few weeks ago. She played Frosty the Snowman, and Silent Night. She is doing excellent in piano and we hope she continues, although it's tough to compete with Autumn. We went to Autumns dance recital last night, and now she wants to do dance too. I told her we'd see. I love listening to her play the piano and her teacher says she is very talented and motivated. If she sticks with it for another year or so, we will get her a real piano!


Autumn at her dance recital! She danced wonderfully. It was pretty much her bed time though, when they started the recital, she seemed pretty tired to me and James. One day I hope I can figure out how to load a video on here. Every time I try it never works. We have great video of the piano and dance recitals this time. We made sure we had charged batteries in the camera. For now, enjoy these cute photos!


They joy a little pixie stick can bring!


After the recital



Santa was there to introduce each dance class as they came out, and Autumn was pretty nervous around him so we are glad he didn't try to talk to her or hug her or anything. The best part about Santa was, him greeting the audience as Brothers and Sisters at the beginning of the show. He quickly corrected himself, and said ladies and gentleman and boys and girls, but at that point he already had us all chuckling. Ha ha! Only in Utah!