This is when my sister Nikki and her kids came to Utah from New Jersey to visit. My wonderful Grandma "J" took all of us to the dinosaur Park and the kids had a blast! Also there are pictures of us at my Mom's house for dinner and water fun in the backyard. The kids just love Grandma Margo!

These are the doves Tom and Mark shot this year. Good job boys!

Wisdom teeth. These are pics of me the day after I got my wisdom teeth out on Sept. 11. Yup I got pretty swollen. Oh and thanks Mom for all your help!

Anniversary

August 26th was our three year anniversary. I know its crazy right?! Tom worked all day and had work the next day so I assumed that we would just wait to celebrate. Well Tom is a sweet heart and when he got home that night he took me out to dinner at Maddox! Thanks to Grandma "J" for babysitting on such short notice. It was fun to just have a nice relaxed dinner without any kids. I also just want to say that it has been a crazy but wonderful three years. I don’t think I realized it at first, but I am a very lucky woman to have found such an amazing husband. Yeah he goes hunting and fishing a lot (and I mean A LOT!) but he deserves the break after all he does for us. He has always provided a wonderful and safe home for us, he listens to my crazy emotional fits and he is an amazing father to my now two beautiful children (two of the best things he has given me). He is constantly looking for ways to make our lives a little bit better. He works all day and then comes home to help me with the kids. Another thing I love about him is how determined and passionate he is. If he wants something, he finds a way to get or achieve it. I will never worry that he will not be willing to do whatever it takes to provide for the ones he loves. Our relationship takes work and is in no way perfect, but I would not want to work so hard with anyone other than Tom.

Cody!!!

This is our new baby boy. We named him Cody Thomas McFarland. He arrived at 7:20am on July 20. We were scheduled to enduce that night but he just couldn't wait. I woke up monday morning at 2 am with contractions and he came just five hours later. He was 8 lb. 2 oz. and 21 in. long.

This is my ugly hair. It looks horrible right? Yes it does. It also takes way to long to do and makes me super hot all the time so I decided to finally get it cut.

My wonderful aunt Nancy came to the rescue and gave me an awesome haircut! I look so cute! I have never had my hair this short and I was very scared but I love it! Thanks Nancy I love ya!



These pics are after sleeping. Isn't that so great that she did such a good job that I can sleep on my hair and it still looks this good!

The kids playing with marshmallow blow guns


My crazy mother in law made up another triathlon and crazy us, we participated. I call her crazy but we love her and she does an awesome job planning these things. They are honestly so much fun even though it kicks our butts. This race was actually planned as a four generation triathlon (cool huh?). Now let me just say that I was seven months pregnant and I did it! I walked 3 miles, biked 8 miles and hiked 3 miles. Tom and most others ran the first three miles while Janeal and I walked because we are the pregos. Then Tom and I rode a tandem bike and actually came in second place! After the adults were done, they had a little triathlon for all the kids. It was so cute and totally fun to watch all the kids. Alyssa ran like 1/4 mile non stop! Then she got tired and fell asleep on a four wheeler ha ha. After the kids were done we were fed a yummy lunch and just had a great time hanging out as a family. Sadly I didn’t remember to get my camera out until after lunch so I only got a few pics.

These are just pictures of fun times playing with friends. Once was with my friend Kim and her cute little girl Bailey. We played in the hose and collected worms. Then there was once with Steph and her kids. They came down for her doctor appt. and stayed to play. Then there are pictures of Alyssa holding my friend Lauren's sweet baby girl Aleksa. We love to have visitors now that we can actually play outside!

I guess I never blogged about moving into my Grandma Grange’s rental house back in January. We sold our townhome in December, moved in to my sister Cami’s basement as a temp until we could find somewhere to go (thank you so much!), then Grandma’s house became available and we took it. We love it because we are in a great ward, we have a yard to play in and we have wonderful neighbors to play with. So now… we had ducks in our front yard! We irrigate our lawn instead of having sprinklers. One of the first times we irrigated these ducks decided it was their personal pond. They hung out all morning. Alyssa loved it but she scared them away pretty fast because she wanted to play in the water just as bad as they did.

Mothers Day

My Mothers Day this year started a little early. My wonderful mother in law takes all of her daughters and daughters in law to Women’s Conference at BYU every year as part of our mother’s day gift. This year we went from April 29th to May 1st. It is so much fun because we get to go shopping and have an uplifting girl’s weekend without kids. Thanks Laura! We go in a pretty large group with friends and family and I get so busy that I forget to take pictures so here is all I have.

Here is where mother’s week (as I like to call it this year) got really good. I didn’t tell you that my car broke down for the fiftieth time right before I left and Tom was trying to fix it. The day before I left he decided it was maybe time to start looking for a new car (something I didn’t expect). So I happily went with him to look at one he found on KSL that day. I fell in love! It was a nice car for the price range we were looking in, and I was maybe a little over excited to get a car, so I told him to buy it. He waited and waited and then the guy sold it to someone else. I was so so sad but, I left on my vacation and had a good time. When I got back, Tom, Alyssa and this car I had fallen in love with, was in Laura’s garage! On it was a note that said “Happy Mothers Day, Happy Birth Day and Merry Christmas Kaycee Love Tom and Alyssa”! I can’t tell you how happy I was! The deal is that he lied to me and actually got the car the night I left! I love my man he is the best ever!

So I got a car a week early but that’s not all. I also got to drag Tom shopping with me to spend the rest of the money my mother in law gave me. He hates shopping with me so that was the sweetest thing ever. Then on Saturday, the day before mother’s day, Tom took Alyssa and me on a hike with him. I am seven months pregnant and to most women that may sound not so fun, and it was hard, but for me it was one of the best days ever. I can’t explain how fun it was to just be with Tom and Alyssa. On actual mother’s day I spent time with my Mom and sisters and also with the Baldwin side of Tom’s family and both were so much fun but I forgot my camera so no fun pictures, sorry.