Pictures from Mattisyn's One Year Photo Shoot.

Warning: I posted quite a few photos.

My Baby girls is so Beautiful. She could be a model. Our Photographer got a bunch of great shots.

1st Birthday

Happy First Birthday to Our Little Mattie!!!!!!

I can't believe how fast this year has gone by. Both girls have grown alot. We couldnt imagine our lives without them.

We had a fun lady bug party for Mattisyn. I wasnt able to get her to smash her cake. She just lightly touched. (What a Girl)

Birthday Girl with her Papa Alan.

Family that came to Party with us.

Aunt Kaylee and Ucle AJ

Cousin Mindy and her little boy Carter (we are so excited to have them come visit and will be sad when they go back to Germany)

Lindsey and Aunt Jana

Granny Annie and Grandma Joni

Cousin Cid and Abby

(somehow Braden, Kace and Kolton escaped all pictures)

Grandma Wendee and Grandma Dahl

Grandpa and Grandma Erickson

Grandma Dahl with the Birthday Girl



We missed having Grandma and Grandpa Norman - they had a graduation to attend

Uncle Matt and Aunt Amber - vacation without kids (Yay for them)

Grandpa and G-G Day - Grandpa was to weak to be traveling.

We had a great time. Thanks to everyone for coming and supporting our baby girl on her big day!!!!

Merry Christmas

I loved this Christmas Season!! McKinley was more aware of what Christmas involves. She asked over and over for us to sing Santa Claus is coming to Town. Everytime we would go to the mall she would always point out Santa and would say his name until we took her up there. Each time she would shy away and wouldnt sit on his lap. (Maybe Next Year). Mattie had fun chasing presents around on the floor and trying to rip them open.

We started out the holiday by celebrating Christmas a week early with Matt's dad and step-mom (his dad had to go back to work in ND). Next we celebrated Christmas with the Day and Dahl families. Christmas Eve we celebrated Christmas with Matt's Mom and Step-dad. Christmas morning we opened our Christmas presents and then had my family over for breakfast and finish celebrating the day.Christmas morning McKinley beat us out of our rooms and was on top of the slide by the time we got to the living room.

Matching PJs the girls got to open Christmas Eve. (A tradition that Matt and I decide to continue that my parents started when I was a baby)

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year Everyone!!!!!

McKinley's 2nd Birthday and more...

McKinley's birthday was almost 6 weeks ago, so Im late (yet again) in posting. I can't believe how fast my baby girl is growing up. McKinley had an Elmo Party and invited a couple of her little friends and lots of family. Its was so fun to watch her open all her presents and watch her reactions. She is one very loved and spoiled little girl.

That weekend we also had the famous Norman Halloween Barn Party!!!!Halloween Time!!! McKinley LOVES Sesame Street, so she went as Abby Cadabby! She has even had to wear it a couple times since Halloween. Mattisyn was a little lamb. So cute and cozy.

Mattisyn is growing fast too. About three weeks ago, she started saying DaDa and loves to say it constantly. She has said MaMa twice and just laughs or Goos at me when I try to get her to say it. She is also crawling (army crawl) and is quick to make it from one end of the room to the other. Both girls love playing with each other and their cousins. Im so glad my brother and his family live close enough. McKinley tells me "Friends Play" whenever we are heading to their house or church.

Update w/ New Family Pics

So I pretty much suck at keeping my blog up to date!! We have lived in our house for over a year now. Yay!!!
McKinley is going to be two at the end of next week so I have pretty much gone crazy with shopping for her. Her word and sentence vocabulary has pretty quadrupled!! Mattisyn is going to be 6 months this week. (Wow time flys. It seems like yesterday I was in the Labor Room having her.) She has started rolling a lot and seems like she will start crawling at anytime now. I have adjusted being a stay at home mom of two very cute girls.

Matt is doing great. He is still working his full time and part-time jobs.

Introducing Mattisyn JoAnn Cole

Okay, so Im a little behind. Mattisyn just turn three weeks old yesterday. We went into the doctor on April 20th for a routine check-up. I had been having false contractions for the last couple of weeks and when they checked my blood pressure it was very high. I had also swelled up the last couple of days. Doc came back after checking my blood pressure for the fouth time in 45min period - Toxiemia (PreClamsia) AGAIN. So.. To Labor and Delivery we went. Mattisyn was born on my Aunt Jen's birthday!!

Mattisyn had a hard time breathing on her own. The doctors told us that if they couldnt take her of the oxygen within 6 hours she would be admitted to NICU. This was the long 6 hours for us. Matt and one of the Drs gave her a priesthood blessing and then we had to leave her in transition. I couldnt sleep the rest of the night. Waiting for the phone call to hear what was going on. After 6 1/2 hours passed I made Matt call to see what was going on. The nurse told him they were in the middle of running some more test and they would let us know. After another hour passed, we called again. Good new this time. The nurse informed us that they were bring her to us and that she was now off the oxygen.

McKinley is thrilled with her new little "sissy". She runs up to her every chance she gets and says "Hi Sissy, Hi Sissy". McKinley has enjoyed holding Mattisyn (with help of course) and loves to push her in the baby swing!! (Not momma's favorite thing)

Updates and Dr. Appointments

It's been a while since I posted. (Sorry no pics with this post)

Since I posted last - I have become a Full-time Stay at Home Mommy. I'm loving every minute of it. McKinley is so much fun and very smart! She is growing up fast. We found out that she has a irregular heart beat that the doctors will continue to monitor. We are hoping that it will go away with time and hoping that she wont have to have medication or surgrey to correct it.

I went to my baby doctor today and we were able to set a delivery date for Baby Mindi to join our family. Since I had McKinley c-section, we'll go the same route with this little one as well. As long as everything stays good and if she doesn't decide to come early, we'll be able to have her on May 2nd.