Halloween

Most of the Cook grandchildren Trick or Treating at Grandma's. Aren't they a bunch of cutie pies?

Updates??

Anyone have any news about Jared and Kirsten's baby?

Bodily Reunion

We are just thinking about how much fun we had at the Bodily reunion. Thanks for making this a fun day for all, Robert and Renee. You put a lot of effort into pulling it together! Thanks!

I thought I would put one more picture on showing a little more of the golf course and where it sits on the mountain. It is pretty amazing.

This is what we did for Paul's birthday the first of the month.
We visited Twin Falls, saw Shoshone Falls. This was on our way back from Sun Valley. The Temple at Twin Falls. Can't wait to go to the Open House.

This is a golf course that is on the top of a mountain. All of the cart trails are done in Mutual Materials Pavers made at the Boise Plant. This is the Birthday Boy.
There are all sorts of beautiful flowers on the hills. It was a fun trip!

Piano Recital

I know these are a month old but I was a bit out of date on how to add a blog!! These are a few pictures from our piano recital with Grandma. I left the camera with Redge and some were taken by Eli... hmm.





Megan and Grandma.

Eric was telling Redge stories of this stairway. I am sure he would do a better job of telling.... Eric??




We sure love being able to play at Grandma's Recital. It is fun to see how her students are progressing!!

TUCSON Adventures

Most of you probably already know that Doug and I have packed up and moved to Tucson for the summer. I know... we are crazy. Most people head down south for the winter... not us. We move down south during the blazing hot summer :)

We are down here selling security systems. It is definately hot and dry! The evenings are just the perfect temperature though. Here are a few pictures from our trip down here. We got to drive over the Hoover Dam. It was huge! These pictures don't do it justice. It really was about the only thing to see along the way here. Everything else was just dry, flat, dirt - oh, and lots of cacti. We actually drove through a forest of cacti. We never knew there was such a thing, but it even had a name & signs. I wish we would have taken a picture.

We will be down here in Tucson for a few more weeks, and then we will be heading to New Mexico near the end of June.

We love you all and hope you are doing well! Here is a picture taken just outside our apartment door. More pictures to come...

Dr. Travis Tyler Bodily...He did it!

Okay! Here he is...an official Dentist!

Can you just hear my buttons popping with happiness for this great accomplishment? Ty graduated with honors from Nova University (in Florida) this past week end. He was given a special award for his acedemics, outstanding character and integrity. (See all the gold robes, gold star and special OKU bandelow?)

He's worked hard, has a supportive wife and lots of HELP FROM ABOVE!

How thankful and pleased we are for their happy "milestone" day!

I can write words but no pictures of my graduate...working on it! barb

Testing the Bodily Blog...can I post?

A few more pictures

Thanks Steve and Barb for hosting a
wonderful Birthday party. Thanks
everyone for the good food and all of
the fun. What a great tradition. Would
love to see some of your pictures of the
day!!!

You never know what a day will bring...

While all the guys were at the Priesthood session, my cute mom had all of us girls over and both grandma's for a little girl time! It was so much fun. First off look how cute she set her table... (she always has a beautiful table setting whenever we are over for dinner!) We used to tease her about it, but now, I want my table to look just like hers it's so fun!



We ate this delicious Cornbread Salad, it was light but very filling, and for dessert we had Chocolate Chip Torte you can find both recipes Right Here
After dinner, my mom had bought everything to do pedicures, we all soaked our feet in peppermint & pomagranat oil, and used pumice stones to get the dry skin off our feet, then we painted each other's toe nails, can you believe grandma is going to be 81 this year and she has never once painted her toe nails!? It was SO much fun for us to pamper her a little!! It was so much fun to spend some time with my favorite girls, thanks mom!! (and as I'm uploading these pics, I just realized there's not a single on of my mom! She'll be glad, but I'll get her on here soon enough!)









Last Thursday Brooklyn was pretty exausted after we had gone swimming and by the time we got home, she was ready for bed. She curled up on the rocking chair and before we knew it she was standing up pulling her blanket up on top of her, she took a nasty fall (our rocker is a glider and it swivles, so she just lost her balance) she is a pretty tough little girl and usually she doesn't cry long at all, but she wouldn't move her arm and kept crying, so we thought we'd better take her in. Turns out she did have a hair line fracture, right above her elbow. She's a lefty and it just had to be her left arm.


They splinted it at the ER and then we took her in the next morning to get it casted. She is adjusting well. She is one tough little cookie! She loves to show off her cast and tell people "look at my pink" (that's what she calls it) she looked at Braxton and said "look Braston, it's so cool." Hopefully she'll only have to have it on for about 3 weeks. You never know what a day will bring!





And here's one more of our little Braxton, he's getting SO big already!! He is such a joy to us!

A Brand New Bodily!!

       .

Hey everybody meet  

Braxton J. Davis

My mom and dad are Zach & Holly and my big sister is Brooklyn

Born Friday February 1st  2008

Weight 6lbs 15oz

20 Inches Long

Holly & Zach left Saturday the 2nd and got to go see him and the birth mom. Then on Sunday at Noon they got to bring him back to the Hotel. They have to wait for Utah and Idaho to do their paperwork and then they can bring him home. Should be no later than thursday (fingers crossed)  Renee' went down to Logan and saw him monday. I think he looks kind of like Maddie Cook? (Maybe it's just the hair)

Christmas on/in Imperial Beach, CA 2007

Ben trying his hand at surfing. The fellow in the background is Brother David Lopez, from the Imperial Beach ward, who was kind enough to provide the wet suits and surf board and lessons on surfing.
A crab that the kids all found on a night hike treasure hunt.
Ben said that we couldn't have Christmas without a Christmas tree, so we went and purchased some lights, and strung them on the ficus tree. Rather festive if you ask me.
View from our balcony of the surf.
View from the front balcony, all those lights are Tjuanna.
Andrew learning to be a surfer dude.
Aaron mastering the surfer dude image.
Too many lessons from Jessica??? The anticipation of learning to surf.
Family picture, minus Jessica on Imperial Beach, CA. In front of our condo, our balcony is right behind Bens tushy. You can't see it very well, but it was the bottom condo. We loved our condo, it was very nice, and will use it again if the opportunity arises.
One of the many beautiful sunsets from our condo.