Ears Pierced!

She did it! Rylee has wanted her ears pierced (or ears pierred as she used to say) for a long time. We have never put an age limit on getting ears pierced, our girls just have to be able to ask for it and handle the pain. It was the second part that held Rylee back. We were honest and told her that, yes, it does hurt, like a shot, but only for a minute. She was very brave and didn't cry. I was presently surprised. What a girl! I think she is most excited to show her class on Tuesday. Her teacher told me Friday how she wrote about it in her class journal and promised to show everyone after the weekend. Go Rylee!

Our Princesses

Okay, Clark only allowed me to post this picture on the Cotterell blog and not our own. It was hilarious! Kamryn wanted a dress-up. Cannon was right there asking for one too. Since we don't have any boy dress-ups, I offered the Winter Belle in masculine red. He was so excited. After I put it on him, he twirled and twirled. I'm not sure if you can see the Princess slippers, but they were purple and fabulous (to be honest, I think he just loved the loud sound they make on our hard wood floors). I'm excited to blackmail him with this later in life! Ha Ha!

brotherly love

i snapped these pictures the other day to give a copy of one to our neighbors bob and wilma. we've gone over there a couple of times just to visit. they seem to love it and so do we! whenever we go over benny walks right in and says, "hi, wilma." then he walks back to their family room to say, "hi, bob." then he asks wilma for the toys.
while we were there on monday bob got his camera out to snap a few pictures of benny holding andy. they were really cute. he said it would be forever before he got his film developed, so after the boys got up from their naps that afternoon i took some pictures of my own. they were so glad to get a copy. wilma told me it was going right up on their fridge. we are so glad to have such great neighbors!

Family update!

I thought I would just put a quick family update on here for everyone and I will start with Bennett. He is such a sweet little boy. He is happy all the time and loves to just be apart of things. He smiles all day and LOVES to growl. He keeps everyone happy and smiling right along with him. We feel so grateful to have such a pleasant little man in our family. He just got his first tooth at three months which was awful because you really can't give him much medicine yet to help him through. He is sleeping really pretty good at night and is still pretty little. All the pictures of the kids here they are wearing shirts Dallin got them in NYC. Bennett's is a all star yankee's shirt. It is super cute.
Porter is working hard as ever and keeps us driving and moving. He has really been speaking a lot more these days and has been working hard at learning some songs and recognizing letters. On Sunday he asked Dallin if he could have some Milk-a-soup. Dallin said "Porter what is milk-a-soup?" So Porter walked Dallin to the fridge and opened it and pointed to the milk and said "milk" then pointed to the hershey's syrup and said "soup" then he shrugged his shoulders and said "milk-a-soup". He still has his crazy determination that is such a blessing and a curse and his latest determination has been to make his own food or get his own food. He has gotten really good at peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. He starts preschool again here in a couple weeks and we are hoping he will have a much better school year this year. We think it will help that he will be at the BYU-Idaho preschool. The best part for me is that because it is in the morning Dallin will take him with him when he leaves for work and then I will just go to pick him up. ONE LESS CAR TRIP!!!!!! We are proud of all Porter's hard work.
Nickelle has been potty trained and loves her new beautiful underwear. She is so small though that I cannot find underwear small enough for her little bottom so they have a hard time staying up. But she loves them none the less. Speaking of small at her 2 year check up we discovered she has only gained 3 pounds since her 1st birthday. Her Dr. was a little concerned and I told him how much she eats and he seemed to feel a little better. They still want to see her in a couple months and make sure she is gaining but I am not worried she is just a little petite thing. That is why in this picture she is wearing pants Mom gave her for her first birthday and yes they still fit. She is way into princess's and we can get her to do pretty much anything by telling her a princess would do it. She has learned a lot of songs and is now speaking full sentences. She amazes me how fast she is growing up. We love our little Nickelle!

Dallin is about to make the big move into the new bookstore. It will be both stressful and wonderful! He will only have 9 days to get everything in it's place before rush so I am sure he will be working a lot of really long hours they next couple weeks. Dal went to NYC a couple weeks ago and had a great time. He saw everything there was to see including every top name brand store in all of NYC which was a major part of the trip. He also went to a yankee's game, central park, saw the statue of liberty and about a million other awesome things. I was a little jealous I admit it, but I am glad he had the chance to go. 

I keep teasing Dallin that I have earned a lot of vacation days this summer with all of his many trips and sometime I need to cash some in and take a well needed break but I will probably wait until after rush for him. I am doing well and just trying to keep up with everyone and stay on top of everything. We are starting to really get ready for our primary program we are going to do it the beg of October this year so I am making sure songs are memorized and ready to go. I am really getting excited because Tony and Sarah are scheduled to be induced the 4th of September. She cannot go full term and they are hoping to be able to let her go ten days before so he may come sooner but that is the plan for now. We are so excited that after 7 long years their son will finally be here in there arms. Also Janalyn is pregnant with only one baby and due march 11th. She had quite a few scares her first trimester and spent a lot of time on bed rest but seems to be doing much better. She is starting to show and is only 11 weeks but we love seeing her with a little tiny tummy. Anyways I thought I would include all that info because you all have been so wonderful to think of them and I figured you would be interested to know. 

We miss you all and hope things are well with your families.

The Idaho Cotterell's

moving up in the world

andy has been crawling for a while now and he's starting to pull himself up on things. just thought i'd share some pictures.

climbing up onto the window in our entrance.

and this one of benny just for good measure. he saw spencer's tie and asked to have it on after church.