Cancun 2015

A few months ago, I suggested to Joe that we should do a little family get away before the baby comes.  My thoughts were more like Park City or maybe St. George for the weekend but Joe got the idea of the beach in his head and started planning a much bigger "get away" than I had in mind.  Haha I'm not complaining though!  We found direct flights to Cancun and decided it'd be the perfect vacation with the boys. We barely booked it in time so that I could still fly at 31 weeks pregnant.  My doctor strongly advised against going anywhere after I was 32 weeks. We had Hayes so excited for weeks and he kept calling it our "family party trip,"  which I think was a pretty accurate name for it :) We spent much of our time at the resort, playing at the beach and swimming in the pool.  The boys were in heaven and completely worn out every day from all the fun in the sun.  It makes everything worth it when the kids are happy.  I'm so glad we got to go make some fun memories as a family.

Beach Fun

The first afternoon we got there, we headed straight to the beach.
It was a little overcast out but still so warm and wonderful!

There was hardly anyone at the resort for the first 2 days.
Kinda nice!

All set for some digging and sand castle making.

Hayes just ran in and out with the waves all day.
He loved it! It was pretty cute.

Nothing like a nap on the beach!

Cohen and I chilled in the shade and played with our sand toys a lot.

Hayes chasing birds.

Cohen was pretty iffy about the whole ocean thing, but he loved the sand!

The beach is a good place for some father-son bonding time.

Exploring

Turtle Farm

Joe and Hayes did a lot of exploring while Cohen and I would take afternoon naps :)

Off to find some lunch.

Golfing with Dad

Hayes has a blast every time Joe takes him golfing.

Workin' on that swing!

Interactive Aquarium

Cohen was all for touching everything at the interactive aquarium!
Hayes on the other hand was a little more timid about it...

We had so much fun together and were not ready to come home! Hayes kept telling us, "Ahh.. This is the perfect life!" Usually while laying by the pool and drinking smoothies.  Haha.  Good thing reality/ day-to-day life with these cuties isn't so bad either.  Below is a little video of our fun in Cancun!

Cancun 2015 from Haven Andelin on Vimeo.

A Merry Little Christmas

I feel like Christmas kind of crept up on me this year! I'm usually all about doing every single Christmasy thing I can think of leading up to the holiday.  We've had an extremely busy last few weeks with celebrating Cohen's birthday, selling our home, moving into a new home, and making sure to still make the boys' Christmas magical- it's just been a bit of chaos.  I do love the sentimental feelings that come along with Christmas, as we get to slow down a little bit and spend time together with family.  It's cleansing to reflect on Christ's life and refocus on what is most important, especially with all of the stress and crazy that has been going on around here. We are getting settled in the new home now and feeling extremely blessed and grateful for this crazy, wonderful life we have. I hope everyone had a merry Christmas filled with love! I know we did!

We didn't even have time to get up our tree this year :(
We joined in with my Mom & Dad to decorate theirs and get in the holiday spirit earlier this month.

A visit to see the reindeer with cousins.

Family night train ride and visiting Santa!

Christmas Sunday with these handsomes.

Christmas Eve wouldn't be the same without making candy and dipping chocolates!!

The candy plates ready to be delivered.

Cute little carolers.

Christmas jammie time!

Santa found us!

Cohen didn't know what was going on... he liked the wrapping paper and bows most.

We woke up to a white Christmas and Hayes could not wait to play in it!
My dad drove the kids around a big field behind the four-wheeler.
They were in heaven.

Snowball fight!

A little bump pic to document baby boy #3 growing!
26 weeks

Happy Holidays from the Andelin family!

COHEN'S WINTER ONEDERLAND!!

Can't believe my baby is turning 1! We celebrated a little early this weekend because my parents will be out of town on his actual birthday. I had lots of fun planning Cohen's Winter "ONEderland" over the past few weeks (Okay I've been thinking about it for a few months). Thank goodness for my mom who is always willing to help me with my projects and my littles so that I can get things done! Cohen obviously didn't know what was going on, but I wanted him to feel especially loved and special! Here is a picture overload of Cohen's birthday party fun.

My mom made these "indoor snowballs" for the party. Aren't they perfect?!

Mom, Dad, and the birthday boy!

Cohen went to town on his cake! We had to take it away because he literally would have eaten the entire thing.
It was the best.

LOVE.

Thanks family for coming and supporting our little Coey baby!

Cohen - 11 months

Cohen has grown up so much this month! He is learning and getting so fun. He is in the destroy everything stage...  He loves to pull everything out of any cupboard he can find,  unroll toilet paper, play in the toilet, chuck stuff on the ground (food off the table), destroy Hayes's train tracks, knock books off of shelves, etc. Just a mess making machine haha. We've got to keep a close eye on this guy.  He also LOVES electric sockets and unplugging things... real safe right? I will say he keeps himself entertained much better than Hayes does haha. No need to exercise anymore, because changing his diaper or getting him dressed is a full on wrestling match/work out haha. He is seriously so strong.

He is an independent little man.  He literally will not let you spoon feed him. He wants the spoon and bowl/plate and wants to do it himself... which he cannot even close to do. Meal times get crazy... We try to give him finger foods as much as possible! Slowly working whole milk into his diet.  I will be so glad to be done with bottles! (At least for a few months until I have another baby...)

Still a good little sleeper! Loves his brother!

Some new "tricks" Cohen can do this month:

- Climbs up the stairs in lightening speed and is getting better about going down backwards
- Can sign "MORE" and "ALL DONE"
- CLAPS (and is super proud of himself for it)
- Points where ever he would like you to take him
- Says momma and dada and "ch" for cheese
- Puckers his lips for kisses
- Walks scaling walls and furniture
- Gives loves and says "Awww"
- Waves
- Points to the light and says the "t" sound
- Thumps on the wall that is shared between our room and his room in the morning to tell us he is awake haha
- Makes little car noises while he drives his cars
- "Shoots" you with toy guns and makes a little shooting noise.  He thinks it's super funny when you pretend to be shot.

This stage can be a lot of work but I think it's so fun! We love our cute little Coey Baby!

TRICK-OR-TREAT!

Halloween was quite the success this year with our brave Captain America and cute, little Pumpkin to spend it with.  It was more like a week of Halloween than a night!

Monday night was spent carving pumpkins with my family for FHE.

Cohen loved playing with those pumpkin "guts."

The finished products! We did the castle on the right.

Tuesday was our costume party with the young women.  I whipped out my old footie pajama's that I haven't had the heart to get rid of for like 6 years now... Such a fun group and night!

Thursday was Hayes's preschool Halloween party. Let me just say that costumes were quite the hassle this year.  Hayes changed his mind like 50 times about what he wanted to be and to cut the story short, in the end refused to wear the Knight costume he had picked out and just wore his Captain America one that he already had.... whatever, right?

I love how he immediately transforms when he puts on a costume..

Friday (Halloween Night) was filled with trick-or-treating, yummy dinner and a party at Gram's house.  

Pre- trick-or-treating photo shoot.... It was quite the feat getting these two to look at me at the same time.

Cohen and his little chubby body were just made for this costume!

Webb cousins!

TRICK-OR-TREAT!!

I had fun with the dessert table for our party!
This picture is missing them so I had to add the picture below to document the cutest/yummiest sugar cookies made by my sis-n-law, Brooke!

Cohen loved playing with Great Grandma Webb.

Happy Halloween!