1st Father's Day

Happy Father's day to all of you amazing Dad's out there! I know Adam and I are lucky to have two of the best Dad's around, to my Dad and his thank you so much for being such amazing father's.
I 'am also so lucky to be able to have Adam for the Father of our baby! He is such an incredible guy and already such an amazing Dad. He has given me the greatest gift of my life, this adorable little peanut :) Even though it's a little unofficial- Happy Father's Day Dad!!!! Love wife + baby

Bump-date :)

 The bump is definitely growing!!! Bucker likes to check for kicks in the evenings when we are winding down. Baby has been super active, Ice water seems to really get it squirming and when I lay on my left hand side it kicks around like crazy! We can watch my stomach ripple and poke out now which is a lot of fun :)

Our dogs just love this bump! It might be more of a comfy thing to snuggle than anything else right now but hopefully this is a good sign that our dogs will have a smooth transition with our new little family member.

Room update- I keep forgetting to add these! Adam got to dive into his favorite chore: Insulation and sheet rock! Here's the only starting point picture I remembered to take. 

Gearing up for some texture! Colton and Rachel where down for a visit and just happened to stop by when we were loading up the texture gun. Colton was an awesome help and helped Adam get the room done as well as texture the living room, while Rachel and I soaked up some sun and got caught up with Wedding chatting. Thank you again Colton for helping Adam out!!! 

We've got a little paint and a little trim on the window walls!



Oh the stripes... We encountered quite a few mishap's with these! My friend Kara has a neighbor who recently painted some in her kid-o's room's and shared her secrets with me about getting a nice clean edge. So we painted the whole wall white, taped, and then painted the top of the tape white so that anything that would seep past the tape line would match the color it was supposed to be underneath. Genius! It would have gone absolutely perfectly if we hadn't run out of white paint and headed to Home Depot for a color match to finish everything up! Let's just say these two white where not a match! So we were back to the drawing board on our mis-matched stripes. We did finally get them done, it just meant we had a few extra hours together to talk about baby names :) 

 You can see a little bit of the white paint on top of the tape trick here.

 One wall down!

 Second wall finished! Phew! You can tell by the door the beginning style was a little dated :) We are hammering out some trim and Adam cut a hole in the wall for a wall heater, along with a few other details (new door included) and we should be about ready to start filling this room up! It's a good thing because we just got our crib today!

This is a video from our Ultrasound today! This is our little baby yawning!

This was about the best 4D Ultrasound picture that we could coax out of the stubborn little peanut! This baby was constantly putting it's hands and arms up to it's face and sucking on them! It was crazy, most of the ultrasound was spent that way. We finally got this little peek of the future Cooley's face for a few seconds. With hands out of the way, our little one buried it's face into the side of me letting us only have a glimpse of his/her face. That's our latest Bump-update! With a little less than 12 weeks to go and being a Third Trimester prego, we are starting to get really really excited!! We'll be keeping you posted!

Adam has the kind of job that let's him come home with some pretty amazing pictures or video's every now and then. I thought at the end of each post I would share his most recent awesome thing from work. Here is Adam bucking a big old growth. 



Good bye Nate and Natalie :(

 Nate and Natalie are continuing their life adventures with a move to Las Vegas! Our excitement is only matched by our sadness to see them go :( These 2 are one of a kind and we love them very much. It's so cool how my little sis and I are so close, she is truly my very best friend. So bring on the skyping, and phone call's and quick plane rides! In fact our baby's first vaca is going to be to Las Vegas! This kid-o is going to start out life with some spicy travels to see Aunt Nat and Uncle Nate! Safe trip you two and always know that somewhere in the world you are being so missed and loved all the time!

 Sister's + bump at N2 going away party

 Our little nephew Tate getting some squeezes in

 I'm so going to miss stuff like this

 Why have 1 dessert when you can have 3?! Haha! If you know my Mom you know no one, not even Adam goes hungry at one of her events! Krystal and I added to the fun with a little peanut butter cookie bake off and I have to say she took the crown big time! Those cookies not only rocked but were sugar free!!!

 Nothing say's quality Mother daughter time like hitting the grill!!

 I LOVE this picture of my Dad and Tatum! They where so so cute! They kind of matched a little bit and both played until they needed a nap :)

 Bump watch! My baby sure hasn't been shy in the growing department!! Ang is 8 weeks ahead of me and I have her beat! This little Mama looks fab especially since she's creeping right up on her July due date :) Can't wait for these bumps to meet!

 The two hard working ladies that made Nate and Nat's going away party so awesome!

 They totally hate me for the goofy pic's I talked them into doing!

 One GREAT Aunt!!!!

I just can't say how much you two will be missed! If it's too hot over there and you start to crave some rain and tree's.... "every light in the house is on". Enjoy it all and we'll see ya' soon!!!!


Birthday BBQ and 1st Mothers Day!

 32 never looked so good! Adam was still rocking his helmet from his little "Birthday present to himself" :)We celebrated Adam's Birthday and Mothers Day with a little backyard BBQ. We had some really nice sunny weather, so much so that we had to move to the shade of the apple tree's! We really enjoyed visiting with Adams fam, especially watching Kaylie and Tessa play! Thank you so much for enjoying the sunshine with us!

 Now back to Adams little "Birthday present to himself" Apparently the 3 wheeler club has room for a little something with 2 wheel's. He had a blast even just riding this thing around the yard. I wonder who will have more toys, Adam or the baby....

 1st (unofficial) Mothers Day!!! Even though my little one is still safely tucked on the inside, I feel so blessed to be a Mom to this crazy little acrobat. It's already the best feeling in the world! I can't wait to see, hold and meet our amazing little person and I would already do literally anything for this baby. So excited for all the Mothers Day's to come!

 My hubby always surprises the heck out of me with unexpected little sweet touches. He wrote me the most amazing Mothers Day card  (I think prego or not it would have still made me cry)and got me a plant to make the day special! I'm one really luck girl.

 So starts the madness of buying and decorating! I think this will be the final color scheme for a baby girls room

.... and this for a little boy! We've started with the Grey, Orange and white for now. Just finished painting the room, in fact I'm typing with the paint covered hands that ungracefully painted the ceiling! I now have a fashionable forehead paint dot! Eat your heart out! Pictures to come, but not of the forehead dot :) 

Well with that I just wanted to say Happy Mothers Day to all of the Mama's out there! I now have a glimpse of what a special and amazing job you have, and I couldn't be happier to get to join the club! I know a lot of work is ahead and that all of you have a ton of experience with the kind of work that I can only imagine right now. I just want to say that I know so many increadable Mom's (especially my own!) and I can only hope to do half the job that you all have done. It's more than I can ever hope to acomplish. Thank you all for being the best rolemodels a Mom to be could ever hope for! 



Happy Birthday Hubby!

 Happy Birthday to the most wonderful guy I know! I'm so so lucky to have such an amazing man in my life. Can't wait for the next 32+ years  with you!

This is my sad attempt at Grandma Shirley's awesome pie. It's definitely ugly but here's to hoping it tastes good!

Oh Baby!!!

 Oh baby! We have a healthy Miss or Mister on the way and we are so excited! This is our sweet little person at 21 2/7 weeks showing off some pretty kissable lips :) We have decided not to find out what's brewing in there until the big arrival, so this little one has gotten some nick names... Adam has called it "Gremlin" for the wild way it kicks and squirms in my belly ( We even have an Ultrasound video of it looking like it was trying to head butt it's way out of my belly!) I've called it bug, little bun and sprout especially in the early days and we keep catching ourselves calling baby "He" or "Him" not that we have a clue what it is just that it slips out sometimes ( I think there is a little wishful thinking on Adam's part there ;)  Mostly it's "the person" here lately since it's definitely letting it's personality be known. It's a wild kicker, and pretty punctual with 6am kicks that I think are saying "wake-up it's time for Coca Puffs!" Ya' it's the baby that dig's the Coca Puffs.... 

It's a little bit of a show off, during the Ultrasound it was showing off every chamber of it's heart for the Ultrasound Tech, he said it's rare that you get such good pictures and measurements of all of the baby structures but that the baby was showing them off on Que! Oh and it's a pretty friendly baby, even threw a good kick for the Ultrasound Tech knocking his probe and having him saying "Whoa I felt that!" My favorite thing about this kid-o so far is that health wise our little sprout has checked out every step of the way always measuring on time (to the day!) passing all lab tests with flying colors, and having a strong healthy heartbeat from 6 weeks on :) Which has been anywhere from the 160's very early on and has settled now into about the 140's. We are so happy and excited to have our healthy little baby on the way! This fall is going to be absolutely amazing!!

 This was a little exploration trip for the baby on it's great grandparents property at about 20 weeks.

 My friend Angela and I get to be prego together! We are about 8 weeks apart, and she is expecting a sweet baby girl :) No matter what we have cooking I know these two buns are going to be great friends.

 I thought we would start documenting my growth with my 12 weeks "Thanksgiving stuffed" look

 But Adam, well he had me beat! Haha

 These are some of the fun ways we shared our good news with close friends! We had these little cakes brought out at the end of a meal with a group of Adam's close high school friends. It was so fun to see their faces! Tristan swears he totally knew but I'm pretty sure Vince was eating cake before he entirely knew what the heck was going on! I'm so lucky Adam has such amazing friends with good taste because their wives have become great friends to me too and I loved sharing with them!

 Having worked in the Birth center for 8 years (yikes!) has made it so I have a little pseudo family at the hospital, so I loved tucking these into our menu's for a girls work dinner night!

 Proud Papa! Adam has been such an amazing Dad already! He's been busting his butt on a baby room remodel and still has time to cook dinner (after switching to 12 hour shifts I don't get home until after 8 which has him in charge on work days:( He's been so wonderful, this hasn't been the easiest of roads but he's been there every step of the way.

 My first little reminder that I get to be a Mommy! Libby was so kind and gave us a little congrats gift including this little Dr.Suess book, 'Are you my Mother?' which I put on our dresser. I see it every day and it makes me smile :)

 December 28th we got our amazing news!!!!!!

 ....and then we left for Sun River for New years :/ How in the world was I going to keep our good news under wraps for a New Years mini vaca with Justin and Katie and Tristan and Alicia?!! Somehow it all worked out but wow was it close a few times!

 Future best bud's! Bucker has been really attached to my belly almost from day 1. I'm convinced animals totally know when their family has this kind of change. I hope the transition goes smoothly when there is a new baby of the family!

 It's so crazy to watch this little bug grow!!

 Here are some nursery colors and idea's we are looking at. All we know for sure is that we are going to do Orange and grey in the nursery for now and once the sprout makes it's arrival we can add some hot pink accents if it's a girl ( We like Colton and Rachel's taste! Haha) or some Navy blue if it's a boy. This Mobile from Etsy kind of helped me to decide that my Sis was right and we could do gender neutral and color instead of just doing beige and accenting later. We plan to paint some Grey and white horizontal strips on the wall hopefully in the next few weekends!

 I love this for boy crib colors!

 Here is the beginnings of the baby's room!

 I loved this tiny picture from our Ultrasound at 14 weeks :) Cutest little bun, but I'm pretty partial!

And there are some little baby feet! Baby is crossed at the ankles just relaxing! Adam checked for the Reynolds Mortons toe, the jury is still out on that one!

Here is what our little baby's ticker sounds like!