Happy Birthday Skyler!

Today is Skyler's 19th Birthday! I can hardly believe he is that old! Sometimes I wish I could go back to the day he was born. He was such a sweet baby! He was like a little man, such a mature spirit! I want him to know how proud we are of him and how much we love him! He is doing awesome working at the shop and is such a big help! Keep up the good work Sky! We Love you!!

Happy Birthday to my two Guys!

I just wanted to wish my Sweet Husband a Happy birthday!!! I Love him so much and can't even imagine my life without him! He is such a hard worker and an Awesome Dad! We have been married almost 20 years in April and I would do it all over again in a heartbeat and am looking forward to many more! I love you Larry! I tried to make him his favorite Strawberry cake that his mom makes to good, but as usual it turned out to be a goopy mess! It still tastes good, it just looks bad! Maybe next time!
Also, a Happy Birthday Shout out to my T.C. on the 17th!!! It is his Sweet 16! I can hardly believe he is that old! He is such an Awesome Son! We are so proud of him and what a great young man he is! He is not even going to be here to celebrate with us! Him and Trevor are on a scout camp out up at Brian Head and get to go snow shoeing! Sounds fun to me! (not really!) I Love you Tay!

Merry Christmas from the Cox's!

Just wanted to make sure everyone knows how grateful we are at this Christmas Time! We have so many things to be thankful for, family, friends, a house, food, clothes....the way things are with the economy these days, so many people don't even have these things that we seem to always take for granted. We were so luck to get to go up to Idaho for Thanksgiving this year and spend it with some of Larry's family! I don't think we have spent Thanksgiving there for probably 10 years! Larry's sister Linda and her daughter Ronna and her husband Rob came and spent it with us also. Thank you for coming! It was quite the looooong road trip for the boys though! Now I remember why we don't do it very often! They are getting so big that we don't all fit very well in a Denali! With 6 people and 2 dogs I felt like if someone opened the door we would "pop" right out! We made it though and had a great time! We also stopped on the way home in Ogden and celebrated Whitlee's 1st birthday with her! December 2nd! She is such a cutie! She is definitely a little princess among all our boys! We love you Whitlee Jo! We will be spending Christmas here in St. George and hopefully Larry's parents will come and spend it with us! We hope that everyone has a Great Holiday Season!

1980 Something?

Taylor found some of Larry's PE clothes that he wore in highschool and was wearing them around the house! It was such a crack up that I had to take a picture of him! Then I did a scrapbook page titled "FLASHBACK"! I think he looks pretty cute, and he definitely looks a lot like Larry did when he was that age!

Summer 2008

It has been a GREAT summer!! We have been able to go camping and spend time with our family and watch the boys play some baseball and just hang out! Now that school has started, life is sort of back to normal. Both Tay and Trev have football practice and a game a week. Taylor sprained his wrist bad and couldn't play in his first or second game. So he is REALLY ready to play! Sky is home from Ogden and is going to Dixie State College and working for his Dad at the car lot. He seems to really like school and is doing good so far! We will keep our fingers crossed! A few weeks ago, Cade had to have 4 baby teeth pulled! He did so good! As you can see, they were pretty nasty looking! The Tooth Fairy gave him 5 bucks for them! I think I need to put some of my teeth under the pillow for some spending money! He is really liking 1st grade and is doing well with his school work. He is a good reader and math comes very easy to him. I hope he can keep it up! We went camping over Labor Day up to Pine Lake again. We had a blast! Hailee, Jerome and Whitlee Jo and Grandma and Grandpa Brown came with us too! We got to stay for 4 days! The weather was so nice, although it did rain a couple of days. It was great because it settled the dust! We had Yummy food, probably gained 10 lbs. Then it was back to reality! We didn't want to come home!

I guess I have been too busy to post this summer! Now that school is about to start I thought I better update before all the boys are off to college! We've had a great summer! It started off with baseball all-stars as usual. So for one week we were driving up and back every day to Cedar City for the state tournament. Trev's team did good, they beat Enterprise and then Dixie, then lost to Cedar National and Cedar American. So needless to say, we didn't win and go back to San Bernadino again. I actually felt nice to be able to go camping! We went to Pine Lake over the 24th of July and Cade learned to ride his motorcycle! He has waited so long! He was crazy on it, no fear at all! They even rode in the mud after it rained and had so much fun! Cade had quite a few crashes, don't get me wrong, I said he was CRAZY not that GOOD! I took some pictures of all of his crash owies! It was heaven to be up in the mountains again! It was so beautiful and smelled so good! Grandma and Grandpa Brown came up on Sat. and we went for a long ride up over the mountain, we all had a great time! Right after we got up there and parked our trailer, Taylor looked at the tires and asked if they were supposed to be touching each other. That was bad. We had a weld on the trailer break. So we had my mom and dad bring up a portable welder and Larry and Taylor welded it back to gether to get us home. I am amazed every day at the knowledge that my sweet husband has and that he is teaching to our boys. Who would think that they could just weld it back together? And I have no idea where Taylor learned how to weld!? Anyway, we made it home on a wing and a prayer. I was already planning the next camping trip on Labor Day weekend. Hopefully, Hailee, Jerome, Whitlee and of course Skyler will be able to come this time. We missed them! Skyler has been working in Ogden with his uncle Jerome for the summer. He plans on attending Dixie State College this fall. Taylor will be in the 10th grade and has been doing football all summer along with baseball and drivers ed. Trevor will be in the 8th grade and has been mowing lawns for the neighbors and playing baseball this summer. Cade will be in the first grade in is excited to eat lunch at school! It will be very different for me to have everyone in school all day long. They all start this coming Tuesday. Right now, we are all just enjoying the Olympics and the Little League World Series on TV this week. Go USA!

We Made It!

I can't believe that we made it through "Grad Week"! It was a very busy week with the boys getting out of school and all of the parties and of course Skyler's graduation! We are so proud of him! He looked very handsome in his cap and gown! Grandma and Grandpa Cox came from Idaho, Uncle Will came and Grandma and Grandpa Brown were there too! Thank you to all who came to support Skyler and all of the cards and gifts! It was a fun day that did not end untio 6am the next day! We had Grad Night from 8pm until 6am ! It turned out awesome and I think that the kids had fun. The theme was Indiana Jones and we were in charge of the money machine which of course never stopped all night long! There was a great group of kids that were there, I think it was around 250! I think that we must be getting old because the music was definitely way too loud and it took a few days to catch up on our sleep! So summer vacation is finally here! Trevor only has 2 more games and Taylor is just starting summer baseball. We are hoping that Skyler is going up to live in Ogden and work for Jerome for a few months and earn some money for college. It is kind of weird being off of our usual schedule but I'm sure we will get used to it!