First Father's Day!

This was Jeff's first Father's Day. I didn't want to forget to let him know how much I appreciate all he does for me and for McCoy. He is a great dad. You know, the type that every kid loves to have because he is loads of fun. That is Jeff. McCoy just adores him and loves to play with him. Jeff teaches McCoy so many fun things. I think McCoy copies Jeff because he wants to be just like his dad. One of my favorite things that Jeff and McCoy do together is chase each other. Jeff will say, "I'm gonna get you," and McCoy will giggle and start to crawl away as fast as possible. He will then turn around to see if Jeff is still coming then quickly turn back to continue crawling, often times he ends up falling because he is too excited. Jeff will then get him and tickle him. I love it! Sometimes when I'm in another room Jeff will get McCoy to follow him down the hall to surprise me. It is fun. I always knew Jeff would be a great dad by the way that he interacts with his nieces and nephews. I know he and McCoy will be best buddies forever and I couldn't ask for more. Today while McCoy was napping I decided to go lay down. Soon after McCoy started crying. Jeff went in to get him back to sleep, the crying indicates that the nap was not long enough. I didn't hear McCoy anymore until just before I woke up. I came out to see the boys playing and asked Jeff how long McCoy slept and how he kept McCoy quiet while I napped. He said that he pulled McCoy out of his crib and put his blanket over him. He then came and sat on the couch to see if he could get McCoy back to sleep. He snuggled him while he was watching tv. About every other minute Jeff would look down and McCoy would just be smiling up at him. Then McCoy fell back to sleep but Jeff was having so much fun snuggling that he just held McCoy for the rest of his nap. I love to hear that! He is a great father! I know he and McCoy will be best buddies forever and I couldn't ask for more.

Oh and don't you love his new glasses. He has needed them for about 8 years now. He should have gotten them sooner because wow, he is SEXY!

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For Mother's Day Jeff bought me a new digital camera. I am so excited about it! I had wanted a smaller one so that it was easier to carry around. I love it! It is a Nikon Coolpix S230 and it is purple. It has gotten lots of use so far. Here are a few of the things I have captured on film. (Sorry, it will be a long post!)

McCoy went swimming for his first time. Okay this isn't his first time swimming because I didn't have my camera yet but this is his second time. He LOVES swimming! I should have guessed it though, he loves his baths.

We have had fun sitting outside on the grass. We just put McCoy on the grass on his tummy to see what he would do. Obviously he doesn't really love grass but since this he has gotten use to it more.

We played with cousins.

Had a baby shower.

Decided to low ride our pants.

Show off the cheesy grin and McCoy's 2 bottom teeth.

Learn how to clap.

Play in our fun swimming pool (Thanks McCoy Family) while the dog played with the hose.

Slept like an angel.

I don't have a picture of this but McCoy also learned how to stand on his own. He is still a little wobbly but he is determined to walk soon. He can stand on his own for a long time and basically stands all day long. I love my little wiggle worm!

Last of all we ended up going down to St. George this last weekend to pick up the last of our items. We ended up finding a better deal through U-Haul if we picked up the truck in Layton and returned it to Layton. The only problem was that the truck just had 2 bucket seats. I was nervous about driving down to St. George alone so we called Jeff's sister, Lisa to see if she and her family would like to go with us. Lisa and her 3 kids, Carly, Chandler and Weston, left at 4:00 on Friday with McCoy and me. Thank goodness for the kids, they really kept McCoy entertained. With one stop in Beaver we ended up making it to the condo at 9:30. Jeff and Mike left at 7:30 and made it down to the condo around 12:30. We were able to surprise our friend Brian and introduce him to McCoy. The kids did lots of swimming and I did some shopping. We had dinner with family at a mexican restaurant and then went to Jeff's Mom's house for a bbq one night. On Saturday night we were able to go to Cruz McCoy's 2nd birthday party. It was so good to see some of our friends from St. George. Cruz loves construction equipment so that was the theme of his party and Brittney made the cutest front loader cake. Of course we stayed up too late every night. All I know is vacations with a baby are not that easy. The sleeping was difficult and the naps did not work too well. It was so fun though. McCoy was in heaven playing all day with his cousins and his fun aunt and uncle.

Happy 5th Anniversary!

Wow we look so young and skinny!

On May 26th we celebrated our 5 year anniversary. What a wonderful 5 years it has been. We have had our good times and our hard times and have loved every second of it. Although 5 years doesn't seem like such a long time when thinking about eternity it is crazy to look back at all that we have done in that time. Our greatest accomplishment being our beautiful boy. I'm so grateful for the opportunity to be married to such a wonderful man. I'm thankful for all that he is willing to do for me and our family. He has overlooked so many of my flaws and dealt with my craziness for 5 years I hope he can handle them for the next 50+ years. To celebrate our anniversary we did 2 of our favorite things. We went to dinner at Red Lobster, yummy seafood, and went to see a movie, Night at the Museum Battle of the Smithsonian. We celebrated the day before so we could have a wonderful afternoon date while my parents watched McCoy for us. The next night on our actual anniversary we just spent a night at home watching a movie together after the baby went down for the night. It was a nice casual evening, just how we like it. Looking forward to next year!

Happy Birthday Jeff!

We celebrated Jeff's 29th birthday on May 6th. Jeff doesn't usually like to go all out for his birthday so we had a nice day at home. He chose to have steak stroganoff (a McGuire family favorite!) for dinner. I then got him an ice cream cake roll from Baskin Robins. Seriously that is the only place I could find one and they are pricey. The sad part is that I ended up getting the wrong kind of ice cream in the cake. Next time I will just make it myself. I had ordered an exciting present for Jeff but because he checks our account constantly I had to wait to order it the night before his birthday. I got him an acoustic/electric guitar. We had quite the experience trying to get the guitar. The address change in Paypal didn't work and so it was shipped to our old house in St. George. At least 2 weeks later we had Jeff's mom, Bonnie, drive by to see if the person living there happened to get it delivered to the house. Lucky us it was just sitting there on the front porch. So this weekend we finally were able to pick up his guitar. I hope he had a great birthday.