Sand Hollow

This weekend we went to St. George. Thanks to Kim and Brett for watching Lexie so we could go down kid free! It was really nice to eat out and not have to fight Lexie and worry about her mess. We had a really fun weekend. Leslie, Brent, Monette and JD's parents went down with us. On Saturday morning we went golfing at Sand Hollow. Wow! It is so amazing. Our tee time was at 7:44 in the morning, we golfed the back nine. We didn't see any other golfers until the 18th hole. We could hit as many balls as we wanted, we took as much time as we wanted. It seriously was so much fun.

I swear I hit every sand trap possible!

JD on the 10th hole

Me not in a sand trap

Beautiful Course

JD putting

I wasn't the only one in sand traps!

Playing right on the edge of cliffs

JD and Morris (his dad)

We found a LOT of balls.

On Saturday night we went to Les Miserable at Tuachan. It was great. I love the setting against the giant red rock cliffs.

Sunday JD and I came home through Fairview to pick up Lexie. She had a fun time playing with Payton. My mom cooked a birthday dinner for Tori and me. I picked fajitas which she had never cooked before, and they were great.

Yes, Tori's cake does have more candles than mine!

Lexie

JD took the pictures and I photoshopped them.

(I am just learning so hopefully I will get better)

She bruised her cheek just in time for pictures.

GO COUGARS!

JD and I went to the BYU game last Saturday.

Even though it was a blowout, we still had fun.

My plan vs. God's plan

This last week as been really hard for our family. I have learned again (and I say again because I just seem to forget) that God has a plan and knows what is best for us. I am the type of person that has to plan everything. I know what I want and when things don't go as I have planned, well I get humbled. I realize I am not in control of everything, there is a bigger plan. Someone who can see the big picture is in control and I need to be ok with that. I really can't complain about God's plan for me so far. I have a wonderful husband and a beautiful daughter. So I am trying to be patient.

I have been thinking about this the last couple of days, because on Wednesday JD and I learned that our baby didn't have a heart beat. I was 13 weeks along and the baby had stop growing at 9 weeks. Needless to say it was a really hard couple of days. I had a D & C on Thursday and am now feeling better.

Thanks to JD for taking off work and staying with me. For being able to give me a blessing and just letting me cry. Thank you to my mom for coming up and doing everything I had planned to do in those couple of days. I don't mean just cleaning and taking care of Lexie. She bottled all of my peaches (34 quarts) and did all my freezer corn for me. She is an amazing mom, I only pray that I can be even half the mom she is. Thanks to all of our family and friends for your thoughts and prayers.

These boots are made for walkin'

Taking a brake from trying to walk in her boots

I bought pink cowboy boots for Lexie almost a year ago because they were so cute. They are still a little big but I got them out today to see if she would wear them. She LOVES them! At first she just wanted to carry them around, but once JD told her boots are what you wear to ride horses she put them on. She won't take them off now. The funny thing is they have a little heel on them so she can't quite walk normal in them. She doesn't bend her knees and she has a hard time getting up on her feet. As the day has gone on she has gotten better, but it still makes me laugh to watch her walk. She is really excited to show grandpa her boots so she can ride the horse.

I couldn't get her to pose for a picture this is as good as it gets

I don't know why this is upside down but here are her cute pink boots

LotoJa

Last Saturday JD raced in the LotoJa. For those of you who don't know what the LotoJa is, it is a bike race from Logan to Jackson Hole. The whole race is 200 miles. JD raced with a five person relay team so he only did one leg of the race. He started in Logan and rode to Preston. He rode about 36 miles in 1 hr and 20 minutes. He did great and got his team off to a really good start. I went along to cheer him on, it was really fun to see 1000's of people riding. I had no idea how big this race was. Good job JD!

JD before the race (yes it is dark because it was really early in the morning)

JD handing of the timing device

JD just finishing

Update

I have been a blog slacker lately, but not by choice my computer was on the fritz. Anyway here is a quick update on what we have been up to.

We are expecting another baby! We are guessing around April. We will get a due date at the end of the month. We are excited, Lexie really needs some competition at home.

We have been working in our back yard to trying to get the lawn looking good again. Good news, it is greening up, bad news, it takes so much work.

We were able to spend Labor Day weekend in Paris with JD's family. We had a great time. JD was able to ride around the lake while Lexie and I played on the beach. Believe it or not the beach was not Lexie's favorite place. She would rather be with the horses. She was Grandpa Parry's best friend the whole weekend because he would take her out to the horses. Every day she woke up at 6 AM and would say "horse, horse, side" which meant she wanted to go outside to the horses. We went to the arena one night and let her ride, she was in heaven and really ticked when we went home. She also learned this weekend that she loves 4-wheelers. Her favorite was to ride in the horse corral so she could be on a 4-wheeler and see the horses at the same time. She learned to say most of the horses names and loves feeding them.

Lexie riding all by herself

She was excited to be in the water again even though it was chilly

This is what she looked liked every morning, jammies, shoes and horses

To me Lexie has grown up so much in the past couple weeks. I don't know if I am just realizing she won't be my baby anymore (just being prego and hormonal) or if she has really changed. We bought her a little toilet seat which she sits on at least 10 times a day. She does really go in it once a day, so she is growing up. She is talking a lot more too. JD can get her to say anything. She is very observant and copies everything we do. It just kind of makes me sad that my baby is growing up.

9 months 18 months

She still loves the basket of balls

Cox Reunion in Jackson Hole

The Antler Arch in Jackson Hole

She was really excited about the buffalo until I pulled out the camera

This last weekend was the Cox reunion in Jackson Hole. JD and I were in charge of planning everything this year. So if nobody had fun it was our fault. Luckily, I think everyone enjoyed themselves. We started with rafting the Snake River on Friday. When we left the condo it was rainy and you couldn't even see a glimpse of the sun. When we finally made it to the river the sun did come out and we had a great time. After the river the kids played in the pool and the boys played tennis.


We ate dinner at Bar J Chuckwagon. The dinner was fantastic, the show ran a little long for the little kids but it was entertaining.


Saturday the second group ran the river, yes my mom did go and she loved it. We went into Jackson for a couple hours. We waited for almost 40 minutes for ice cream. The town square was crazy busy. We tried to take Lexie on the Alpine Slide but right as we got there they closed it down because a big storm was coming in. Our plan was to go to Jenny Lake but that didn't happen due to the storm. We just went and played Guitar Hero and tennis back at the condo.


Last but certainly not least was the annual Cox Family Fear Factor. The first part was the rafting, if you didn't fall out of the raft you got to move on to the next round. The second round was the eating round. One group had to eat blended butter, sour cream and salsa in orange juice (this was the lucky group). The second group ate blended squid, quail eggs and salsa in orange juice. Just the smell only was enough to make you hurl. The third group ate blended squid, quail eggs and pickles in milk. We were very proud of mom for eating all of hers and Kim for eating hers even though she is prego. Ben, Brett, Brandi, Kim, Dad, Mom, Casey, Abby, Jenny and Paul (Tori's boyfriend) all moved on to the third round. The third round was double dutch. Nobody had played this since elementary school if they even played it there, needless to say it was hard for most. Paul did really good but there was no way we could give the trophy to someone outside the family. JD also did really well but he technically wasn't in the race. Ben won with three jumps (I told you it was hard, especially because it was dark outside). Ben now gets to display the trophy on his mantel, until next year when he will pass it on to the next winner.


We got up early (by early I mean we left at 6:30 AM) on Sunday to make it to my cousin Josh's farewell. I think I slept through most of sacrament but I did wake up for his talk which was really good.


I hope everyone had a fun time, can't wait until next years!

Mom and Kim trying to choke down the squid and quail eggs

This was the lucky group only butter, sour cream and salsa