Little moments

Sitting on a wooden rocking chair that I made, sanded, and painted white when I was 14 years old. The sun is beating down on my face as I sit here and rock back and forth watching Brewer with the biggest smile on his face because he is making sure I don't miss any move he makes as he drives his big power wheel spider-man four wheeler that the most amazing Santa left for him on Christmas morning around.  "Mom did you see me? Did you know I could drive that fast? I'm such a good driver," is what he is yelling at me in most adorable voice that a four year old could make.

little things

 Okay this post is just random pictures.  Brewer's first day of joy school.  He loves it and I love that every 5 weeks I'm able to be his teacher. 

 Cooper's first day of 3rd grade!  He is the big kid at school and loving it.  He is one smart cookie.  So proud of him.

 Isn't he handsome!  On Wednesday he will be turning the big 9!  Crazy to me.  It feels like yesterday Josh and I were taking him home from the hospital all bundled up in a small blanket.   He has been one of my greatest blessings.  I love this kid so much.  I hope that I can always be the mom he is proud of because I know that he will always be the son that i will forever be proud of no matter what he does.  Love my Coop Dog!

 This was taken right after his soccer game, which he scored 2 goals.  He is a pretty awesome soccer player, but next year he wants to play football. 

 Halloween 2013, Harry Potter and Spider-man! 

 Scary!

Warm day so we headed to the pond to build sand castles.  Sure was fun getting our hands in the dirt and making something.  I love hanging out with my boys. 

 Well, that's kind of whats been going on at the DeWitt home.  

So proud of my boys!

So proud of my boys!  Today they rocked it on their primary talks in the the primary program.  It's moments like these that make me love being a mom. 

This was Brewers first time being a sunbeam and having a part in the program and he did awesome.  I was pretty nervous if he would say his part or freeze but he didn't he said it so well.  His part was, "God is my Heavenly Father, He knows and loves me." 

Cooper was beyond amazing.  He had a 1 minute talk on how the the Holy Ghost has helped him Choose the Right.  He gave a poem that he memorized and finished with a beautiful testimony about the Holy Ghost.  

 

I was so proud of my boys.  Yes, I cried almost the whole time but I'm really one lucky mom to have such wonderful boys.  I love them!

Spider-man

Look who turned 4.  Brewer is growing up and even though I have mix emotions about him growing up i do love the boy he is growing into.  I'm pretty sure he had a great birthday.  We started the morning off with opening presents then birthday breakfast.  The boy only wanted cereal.  Then he was off to joy school, and they had a little party for him there.  After school Brewer and I had a lunch date at McDonald's, and after lunch we decided to get Cooper out of school and head to the park with cousins and friends with cupcakes and drinks. To finish with a bang we had pizza for dinner and cake and ice cream with grandparents.  He sure was spoiled rotten!  I love my not so little spider-man!

Spider-man was spotted helping little kids at the park. 

 



together forever

This is on Cooper's baptism day!  He had 9 grandparents there that love and support him.  Grandma Brewer is the sweet lady sitting on the chair next to Cooper. She passed away on Saturday morning.  She was 96 and full of life.  I  know she is happy being with her sweetheart and her two daughters.  One of her daughter passed away 2 weeks ago because of cancer.  Aunt Debbie, who was only 60 at the time, is very dear to my husbands heart.  She had josh live with her and her family after he graduated from high school.  Aunt Debbie helped him prepare for his mission.  So, this month has been a emotional one.  Saying goodbye to these two lovely ladies isn't easy but I'm so grateful and feel so much comfort in knowing that families will be together forever.  I better stop there. I don't think I can write much more without crying. 

Big lake

Big lake with my boys!  I love going up there with my boys.  Big lake is so beautiful and peaceful. 

We had the best time trying to fish, eating a picnic, and hanging out with family. 

I love making memories like these with my boys.   

 

showing off my boys

I'm so grateful for these two handsome boys!

They're pretty perfect. 

 

Look at how cute my baby Brewer is.  He is turning 4 in a month.  

Look at my pretty boy Cooper.  He just started 3rd grade. 

I love my boys! 

 



fun weekend

 

Pioneer weekend!  All my brothers and sisters were in town.  So we spent the whole weekend at my parents house.  It was a lot of fun and a lot a craziness going on. 



Brewer and Kase, best little buds!

Grandma and Grandpa with all their grand kids.

Domini made chocolate stuff for a snack.

Malli's chocolate face.

Cute Kaisley!

 My big brother Monty's family.

All the cousins. 

 

 

Well that's what pioneer weekend looked like.



Big smiles!

My Cute little family on pioneer day.

This is going to be a busy week.  Trying to get organized before school starts. 

I have lots of pictures to down load and go through to share.

So stay tune for cousin camp and lots of family pictures.

 

 

I'm back

I'm back!  I know I haven't been on my blog in a long time.  I even thought about shutting it down and then today I got on it and started reading old post and laughed and cried. Its crazy how fast Cooper has grown up and I love that i have so many pictures of him and all the funny things he would say.  I thought i needed to keep on doing this for my boys. I'm back and will try to post more often. 

This summer is going by so fast.  I have enjoyed every minute of it and I think I'm wearing my boys out, but it sure has been fun.  My sister Misti and her family are home for the summer from school in Chicago and my brother Porter and his family is home for the summer from PT school in Texas.  He is actually doing a rotation at summit hospital.  I have loved having family home.  My sister is kicking my butt and making me run and play softball and volleyball with her.  I love it, but can hardly walk at the end of the day.  I'm getting way to old but what can i say i love to play.  Josh is still busy with work and school.  One day he will be finish with school, we hope. 

Cooper is done with baseball for the summer and he did awesome this year.  He had two home runs in 1 game.  The boy can hit the ball.  I signed him up for his first swimming lessons.  Cooper could kind of swim from what Josh and I would teach him but this year I thought he might like learning from someone who really knows what the swimming moves are called and how to actually do them.  He did great and is a little fish all over the place.  Lately Cooper tries hard to cover up the truth from me.  It might be the age, but its been a long road this summer of teaching him its better to be honest with me from the beginning.  I love my Cooper he is really a great kid.

Brewer is as stubborn as they come.  He knows just what to do to be the boss around our house.  He is a little thinker.  He can sit for a long time looking at something and you can see his little mind thinking and then all out of the blue he will say something with not so many words.  He cracks me up.  I also signed him up for swimming lessons this summer and the silly kid was scared of the swimming pool  So i had to go in with him for the first couple of times.  He kept calling it a pond and asking why there isn't any fish in this pond.  Ha ha!  By the end he was kicking and trying to swim but maybe next year he will actually do some real swimming. 

Here is some summer pictures. Roosevelt and Lyman lake and of course lots of swimming at the pond.  Some days i feel like all i do is wake up. Go running. Come home clean as fast as i can. Make the boys breakfast.  Pack a lunch.  Put on our swim suits and go to the pond for the day.  It sure has been fun and I'm really not looking forward to school starting.  

Update

Brewer loves driving on dirt roads.  He loves riding his bike.  Loves to watch diary of a wimpy kid.  Loves to play with his big brother.  Loves finding all the the phone chargers and hiding them.  I find tons of special things from Brewer under his bed.  I think his goal is see how much stuff he can put under his bed.  He loves to sing.  Lately he has been speaking with big words and it makes me laugh so hard.  He is a smart little cookie but he would rather learn while playing instead of sitting down and doing school.  I love this little boy. 

Cooper loves school and his teacher.  He is way to smart for me but it makes me so proud of him.  He loves playing with friends and isn't shy at all.  I've been playing lots of basketball with him and he is doing pretty good.  He is pretty excited that baseball is starting.  He is growing up and acts so old.  The other day he asked me if he should donate his dinosaurs and it made me sad because i do miss my little boy that ran around my house screaming at the top of his lungs pretending to be a t-rex.  I told him todonate them to Brewer but then later that night Cooper was sitting on the floor with Brewer and playing dinosaurs.  It made me smile.  I love my Coop Dog!

Josh and I have been so busy.  Josh is always working or doing school work.  He does try hard to find time for family but its not as often as we would like but we do love it when Dad is home.  I'm still going to school and helping out at the Jr high.  Its been fun getting to know the students and I love it when I actually know what I'm doing and can help them.  I'm still running and love cooking healthy meals and snacks.  I love finding new healthy recipe to try and lately I'm crazy about smoothies.  I have lost 82 pounds and hoping for 50 more.  Its been harder lately.  I think my body needs a change so I've been trying different things and workouts to see if that will help, but really,I'm really happy with what I have done even if I'm not a size 4.  I feel so good, and I love it.

I wanted to start this post with the bottom picture but something was going on with my computer.  So I guess I will start with my Sunbeam.  Yes, Brewer is a Sunbeam and he loves it!  Crazy because he hated nursery.

Cooper is a Valiant 8 and Josh and I are his teachers.  I love it and I love the class even though I have a wild bunch of boys.

Santa found on us on Christmas morning.  I always think Josh and I are more excited for the boys then they are but I guess that's what makes Christmas seem like magic.  Cooper was shocked that he was a good boy and got what he wanted a bow and arrow.  Brewer, was jumping up and down when his eyes found his spider man bike and of course he made sure it had a horn.  We enjoyed Christmas with both our families this year.  We spent Christmas eve with Josh's family and then had Christmas breakfast with mine and then had Christmas dinner with Josh's family.  It was late when we got home so we left our house a mess with Christmas all over it and cuddle up in my bed and watched Coopers new movie Diary of wimpy kid, and all feel asleep. 

I'm excited for the New Year!

Special Day

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Cooper's baptism was amazing to watch.  I don't think there is anything more special then watching my husband take our son by his hand and walk him into a baptism font full of water and use the power of the Priesthood and baptize Cooper.  Yes, I cried the whole time.  I'm so proud of Cooper and the choice he made to take on our Savior's name, and to join the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints, and to receive the Holy Ghost.  Cooper has asked so many question and has loved learning about baptism.  Our family has been so blessed with such a strong spirit in our home this past month.  Even our kids have mention the love that they felt in our home and I know its because of Cooper and his willingness to do what is right, and to follow in our Saviors footsteps.  I remember the day the doctor put Cooper into my arms. I never thought i could love him more then that moment right there, but I love Cooper more and more with each day I have with him.  He is amazing and I'm so proud to be his Mom.  I hope Cooper will always remember and treasure this special day.

Cooper

My Coop Dog turned 8 this month and on Nov. 24th he will be baptized!

I love this kid so much.  I love his big kind heart.  He is my little social guy, he loves to be around people.  He likes to have fun and it doesn't matter what you are doing as long as it's fun.  He has the biggest smile that lights up any room.  I am so blessed to have him as my son and I'm so grateful for the amazing person that he is growing into. 

I love my Cooper Joshua!

Happy Halloween!



me

I have lost 75 pounds!

 

Last week my knee started to hurt and then by Wednesday it was killing me.  I was so worried because my junior year in high school I blew my knee out playing varsity basketball.  I should say I destroyed my knee.  Tore my ACL which is only 60% put back together, my MCL, broke my patella and some other things.  My doctor called it a full house.  He said by the time I turned 30 I would have to have a knee replacement.  So with that being said, having my knee hurt has been so scary.  Come to find out I have runner's knee.  I think I was working to hard.  I have gone running everyday this year except for Sundays.  Lately running has be fun.  Crazy, I never thought I would say that, but I love the way I feel after it.  So I feel like my life is spinning out of control when I know I should take it easy and not run and rest my knee.  It has been hard.  I have worked so hard to get this weight off and I only have 25 more pounds to go.  So with help from my brother Porter who is in PT school.  I have iced my knee like crazy.  I have taken it easy for four days and so today I rapped my knee up, put new arch supports in my shoes, and ran 2 miles on the tread mill.  It felt great both my knee and running.  Right now I'm icing it hoping and praying that my knee will be fine.

Wish me luck! 

 

 



3 and super powers!

My Baby Brewer turned 3 on the 12th of this month.  I wasn't so excited for his birthday because turning 3 means he is growing up to fast for me.  So I have been looking at tons of old pictures with Brewer and I found this cute picture of him.

I love Brewer so much.  It was a lot of work to get this little guy here but I'm so grateful for all the struggles we went through because it has made me cherish him so much more.  He was so cute opening his birthday gifts this year.  He was so excited that his whole body was shaking.  He loved going to the park with his buddy Briston and he wanted pizza and cupcakes.  I asked him a couple of days before his birthday what kind of toys he wanted and he said, "super powers."  I asked what kind?  He said with a serious face, "the kind I put my hand out and I fly or the kind I run really fast or I want a watch."  So we got him a watch and he told Cooper later that day that he got super powers for his birthday. 

 

I love my 3 year old and his super powers!

Happy little family!

Every day I run by this field of flowers and I always think I should take a family pic there.  So today I dressed up my boys and had my mom snap some pics of us. 

 

 

I love my little family!

 

Playing with cousins!

 I got to watch Mallory and Kaisley today for Porter and Domini.

I was kind of worried for Malli because I don't have any girl toys but once I pulled out the pirate hair she was so excited.  These two were so cute together looking for treasure.

 I think Malli had a good time.

 They love sitting in the fort. 

And I got to hold this little baby girl the whole time and I was in heaven.  Kaisley is such a good baby.  She's so calm and so laid back. 

I'm going to be so sad when they go back to Texas in a couple of weeks.



"2nd grade here I come!"

Coop Dog, "2nd grade here I come!"

My baby is a 2nd grader.  How did this happen?  Coop wasn't so sure he wanted school to start again.  He thought in his head that he had 100 days of summer.  I also wasn't ready for school to start.  I have loved having him at home and so has Brewer. 

 I love my Coop Dog and I'm so excited to watch him grow this year.