The Cox's: 2008

Thursday, December 18, 2008

First Snow Day

Dylan rocketing down our steep as driveway

Roky, not loving the snow so much

Aidan loving the snow a ton

More Tree night

So the boys have been really into taking pictures lately. Connor took this one.

Dylan took this one.

The finished product

I think this was Dylans work. Gotta have some fun while puttin' up the tree.

After much trial and tribulation we finally got a tree and got the flippin' thing in the house. After much more trial and tribulation we got the flippin' thing to stand up straight, and then after a little more stand up straight for longer than five minutes without tipping over. So here we are getting the light and ornaments on.

Friday, December 12, 2008

Tagged by Marci

4th folder 4th picture. Last year our driveway was covered in snow and ice alot. The boys discovered it was wicked awesome to sled down it since it's so steep. In this one My mom gave them a push and Dylan and Aidan are racing the truck.

Monday, December 8, 2008

My boys

I love this picture. My three boys. How lucky can I get. Dylan and Connor love to be snuggled in bed with us (good and bad:( )

Temple Lights

Temple Lights, this is so awesome how beautiful this is.

Aidan, Dylan and Connor messin' around on temple square.

Hair Cuts

I gave the boys hair cuts. Definitely the shortest hair cuts they've ever had. Dylan's is almost too short to curl so I don't really like that, but Connor

's definitely fits his little punk personality. :)

Monday, December 1, 2008

Thanksgiving

Air hockey with cousins

Messin' around on Christines Miss Sanpete float for the light parade

I'm lovin' Ashley's face in this one

All the grandkids... Max is in there somewhere

Thanksgiving

Somehow I escaped the actual act of Thanksgiving dinner with no pictures... It was great. Good food of course and a ton of Cox's gathered at the Manti Senior Citizens Center. I did get a few of the week with the fam though. We spent three days in Manti with most of Kenny's family. The kids had a blast. Good times. We realized Kenny hadn't been there since before the summer. (oops)

Thanksgiving Weekend

Kenny and Connor, bowling

Kenny and Dylan bowling

Watching the Manti light parade

Dylan LOVED the Manti light parade. He was seriously jumping all over excited about every float.

Thanksgiving Weekend

In Grandmas hot tub

Dylan with Aunt Christine

Connor and his favorite person, cousin Brookelle

Sunday, November 23, 2008

Conclusion

Now that I think I've loaded all the pictures I want of the trip I have to say, Europe was amazing. The history was overwhelming and so awesome. We watched the Gladiator shortly after returning from Rome and it was so cool to see it all and recognize things and places. Touring these places was so much more of an education than we had anticipated. The people were great, the food was amazing, the places were all very picturesque and we will definitely go again...and again. However I have never been so proud to be an American. I never realized how much the rest of the world relies on America, for everything. Not only political influence, which was quite a bit, we were very surprised. Europeans follow American politics closer that most Americans. Everywhere we went people were commenting about the election. The candidates were in the news almost as much as they were here. Crazy. We felt very ill equipped to discuss any European politics. But its not just politics. It's everything, movies, books, clothes and especially music. We heard more American tunes than anything else. I'm convinced that's how they all learn english, they listen to American pop at the grocery store. We loved all the places we went, it was an experience of a lifetime to be sure. But when we came through customs in New York and heard all the loud Americans being all bossy and saying welcome home, I wanted to sing the national anthem. I was so psyched to be able to read all the signs and talk to all the people. I went to the grocery store yesterday and I could read the ingredients of everything. Not to be taken for granted, knowing what's in your frosted mini wheats. Anyway point is Europe is a really fantastic adventure, great place to visit. The U.S. a really great place to be born and live.