Josh is the "king of everything deep fried"
Our thanksgiving was great! We had our friends Kenton and Christin Karrasch over. Josh deep fried the turkey and Christin and I pretty much made everything else....I have a lot more respect for my parents for all the work they do on thanksgiving morning and I think I may just fly home next year and save myself the trouble of cooking! haha! 
There's a fun walking trail that goes around the 
The wind up and the pitch....Josh kept throwing rocks in the swamp trying to make us think there was something in the water. He would throw it and say "it wasn't me".
The ladies
The mafia...
All these pictures are from the Cypress Swamp nature trail. We decided to get out there are try and spot some alligators...we didn't see any. But we did see a little snake! 
Heres the crew at the Mississippi State Fair. The only place in MS that has a camal, snake woman and a woman with the body of a spider (Gracie told us that the snake woman was definately fake, but when asked about the lady with the body of a spider, she couldnt figure out which one of the parents could have possibley been the spider. 
This is Daisy! We saved her from a local shelter before she was able to be eaten by the locals (thats what they do here) 
We had so much fun doing easter egg hunts! First we went to the easter egg hunt at the Hill Air Force Base Museum at 9am. There were soooo many eggs. A guy that works there told me there were over 9,000 eggs! And it wasn't very crowded either. Their easter baskets were completely full! After that we went to the easter egg hunt at the Uintah park. Gracie and Josh got all kinds of cool stuff. And it was pretty fun to see a bunch of familiar faces and friends at the Uintah park!
Last night Josh was at home doing a whole bunch of work on the computer so I decided to take Gracie and Josh to a movie. We went to the cheap theater in Kaysville and saw Bedtime Stories. It was such a cute movie. Gracie loved it, and sat and watched the whole movie. Josh was pretty good throughout the movie, but he did get a little restless towards the end. He had to go to the bathroom twice, not to mention him saying pretty loud that he needed to go poop! It was a fun night for us. 
This is her birthday cake!
It really was a great bath!
Gracie finally turned 6! What a great day it was for her. We had phone calls all day for her wishing her a happy birthday. The best part of the day, she says, was getting to take a bath in my big jetted bath tub.
What a cute couple!
Josh is such a cutie. I told them to hug, but Gracie REALLY didn't want to...can you tell?
Josh is kind of a nerd. That's Josh's mom in the middle. She took us out to lunch afterward to Chuck-a-rama, our kids favorite restaurant.
So as we were leaving and about to get on the bus to go back to the chuch parking lot a little silver car came down the road and started honking. So we all looked... and some lady probably in her fifties comes driving by with her hand out the window flipping us off! The bus driver told us that she has been terrorizing them by flipping eveybody off and slamming on her breaks when she's in front of the buses. What a psycho-lady! She lives in a gated community by the temple and she goes out every 3 or 4 hours to terrorize people. But, they got her license number and they said hopefully they can get her in trouble before she hurts somebody. But..... I DO recommend that everybody go to the temple before the open house ends on March 14th, especially if you have little kids.
Now that Valentine's day is over we can focus on Gracie's birthday. She is finally turning six! A bunch of her friends have already had their birthdays and have been six for a while, so she is really excited. It's a good thing, though, that all of her friends turned six before her.... so they can help her with an easy transition from five to six. They have a lot of advice for her. I picked this background especially for her! (her birthday is February 23rd)
And this is the picture on the front of the card Josh got for me. I love it! On the inside it says 'you know you can't get enough of me!'
These are the pretty flowers. They smell so good!
Joshua Michael Coe II was born on June 19th 2005. He wasn't fussy, learned to smile really fast, and slept very good. I was so mad because on the birth announcement I forgot to put the roman numerals (II). Oh, well. Its not a big deal now.
Because it was so dang hot in the middle of the summer I would let him hang out in his diaper with just a little blanket around him. Also, when I would hold him it was like holding a little ball of warmth. Not to mention, our apartment had a very inefficient swamp cooler.
This picture was taken at the hospital after (not before, ha ha) he was born. He was so beautiful even shortly after birth. He looks kind of chubby, though. He was 8 lbs. 5 oz.! Another big baby!
Gracie was so excited to be a big sister. I made her a special big sister blanket and she was so excited when Josh was born. How sweet! Oh, how the times have changed! Now she tells me she wishes she never had a little brother! I have to inform her that I never had a little brother and I would have loved to have one. Also I tell her that this is what she signed up for when she picked us as parents!
We had so much fun. I loved just hanging out on the beach, but Josh really doesn't have the complexion for that as you might be able to tell from his "white tank top".
We decided to try out scuba diving for the first time also. It was so awesome! We had classroom instruction and some practice in the pool. After that they took us out on the boat to the reef. Thanks to our underwater camera (and our dive instructor who was a bit friendly with me...asking me if josh was just my boyfriend) we got this great picture taken.
We also went on this resort called Xel-ha (pronounced 'shell-ha') where we went snorkeling and floated down the river on tubes.
Its hard to remember the time when we were a family of three. Little Josh was born when Gracie was 2 yrs and 4 months, so it didn't last too long. We had this cute family picture taken in August of 2004 at Josh's sister Raegan's wedding. I don't know if you can tell, but... that's the same bridge our wedding picture was taken. Their reception was at the Garden Park Ward, as well.
I have great memories of when it was just me and Gracie hanging out, painting her fingernails, her getting into my makeup, going to the pool, and just playing around.
Right around this time Josh's business was taking off and he was working a ton. It was so fun to have my own little guaranteed friend by my side.
Also, notice how Gracie didn't have very much hair. It did take a couple of years for her to get it at least to her shoulders. She was our little baldy for a really long time!
