The Real Story

I have receive a lot of complaints about my previous post. It was my first ever and I was trying to convince Tiffany to make it my last through not telling the whole story. 

We woke up Sunday morning planning on having an induction. We casually went to church and casually came home after sacrament meeting. Tiffany's water broke so we went to the hospital. Three hours later Kylee was born in a delivery room not our Honda. Three hours is still felt like a long time for Tif, but at least it wasn't in our car.

One of the best parts of the day for me was when Cody came. He was so excited to see his sister. We counted all of her extremities. since then, he has even been helping me change her diapers. 

Sorry to all of you who just get this by email and don't read the blog comments. Even if you are mad, I am glad it was just a joke because I don't have to clean up our car from delivery.

Here she is.

Kylee Faith Cramer

After a miraculous in-car-birth on the way to the hospital Kylee Faith has finally joined our family.

Big Brother is Ready

Baby Girl Cramer is almost here and we are so excited. Here are some pictures of Cody the last few weeks getting ready for his new career as a big brother.

Cody fell asleep on the side of his crib, tuckered out from all his playing. How do you fall asleep like that without your knees touching the ground?

Steve's mom found a box full of Steve's old toys. There were tons of legos, some constructs pieces, and micro machine sets. Toys that every big brother needs. Steve and Cody were in heaven and have been playing with them non-stop. The funny part is, Steve has been playing with them more than Cody. Seriously!

We set up a new "big brother" bed for Cody last week and he loves it! I wasn't sure how he would feel about giving up the crib (modified into a toddler bed) to the new baby. We set up the twin bed for him not expecting him to sleep in it right away, but he couldn't wait to sleep in it. He said he wanted to stay home and lay in his bed at 3:00 in the afternoon instead of going to Grandma's house... (what?!)

Cody is such a great kid. Our new baby girl is lucky to have such a cool big brother.

A Day Out with Thomas

Yesterday my parents took Cody for the "Day Out with Thomas" in Heber City. HE HAD SO MUCH FUN. This kid loves Thomas the Train. They got to ride on the train for a few miles and did all the fun activities.

Cody and the Birds

Last night we had our family home evening (because Steve has class Monday nights) and we decided to watch a little bit of a documentary on birds that we found at the library called "Winged Migration." Cody loves animals so we knew he would like it. The film shows all kinds of birds across the planet as they migrate. The filming is really impressive. When we turned the movie off in order to get ready for bed Cody just couldn't settle down. He laid out a blue blanket on the couch (the water) and started jumping from the arm rest into the water flapping his little scrawny wings 50 miles an hour. He did that over and over and over. There was just no chance of getting him to focus on getting ready for bed--he was no longer human! Finally, I got him to brush his teeth by saying, "Let's go brush your beak." For the next 15 minutes he was jumping all over our bed catching fish, sitting on his eggs in his nest, and flapping his wings. Cody put on his pajamas when we said they were his new feathers and all during family scripture reading he was "tweeting". He is such a funny kid. It was hilarious! It was so hard to not just sit there and laugh. After we finally got him settled down in bed and asleep Steve and I laughed so hard.

Catch Up Time

Cody fell asleep right in the middle of playing with his cars.

Cody got an awesome bubble gun for Easter and we had fun plastering him in the shower.

After we read scriptures and it is time to brush teeth Cody likes to be a cowboy and ride the horsey into the bathroom. Cowboy Cody uses whatever he can find for a hat. Usually he uses a bucket, but here is using a little pillowcase.

Cody HATES getting his haircut. Steve decided to let him cut his hair in trade for letting us cut his. It actually worked and Cody thought it was pretty cool.

This is Cody showing off the souvenirs he got from Steve's family who went on a cruise and stopped off in Mexico. Cody got this snake and he is also holding some jumping beans. Who needs a cruise when you've got these?? Answer: Me! :)

Enjoy our random pictures. I love reading about all of you and hearing from you.

Lame Blogger

Welcome to the fact that I have been a very lame blogger lately. Sorry. Is anyone still checking this blog? Did you think it was abandoned? I haven't been able to post any pictures for awhile because I have been using the internet at my parents house and Steve always has the laptop at work or school which has all of our pictures on it. Besides that, we have just been busy but with nothing that I feel is blog-worthy. I have just been busy getting ready for the baby: cleaning, washing, rearranging, setting up, and throwing away. And Steve has been studying and working like mad. There is one great thing though that has been a dream come true for us (me more than anyone since Steve doesn't even know how to turn it on). We got our very first washer and dryer!! I never expected to have a set any time in the near future, but it turned out to be a miracle. I don't have an actual picture of our set, but here is one that is pretty close. I know I will appreciate this more and more once our baby girl arrives. Can I just say that I absolutely love doing laundry now? It's true!

Rexburg Trip

Steve and I took a quick day trip to Rexburg last Friday for a wedding at the new Rexburg temple.  We decided to leave early enough to do a session right before the ceremony so that we could see the new temple and I am so glad we did. It was beautiful. The ceremony was really special. Neither the bride or the groom had their parents there, but the room was full of a few family, friends, and missionary companions. After the ceremony we stopped at Craigo's for a pizza bomb. Anyone who went to school in Rexburg will appreciate that. Pizza bombs are the best! Steve was impressed with them. Rexburg has grown quite a bit since I went to school there, but I was surprised at how much was the same. If you ever get the opportunity to visit Rexburg and go to the temple--do it!

We are Japanese if you please...

In case you haven't heard Steve's parents are moving to Japan for a couple of years. Gordon has already been working over there for a few months, but Tammy went over for the first time this month to check things out. She brought all kinds of goodies and Japanese things to try. The coolest store was the 100 Yen store (dollar store). She got the coolest ties there that you would never guess were from a dollar store. Steve loves them and wears them all the time. She also brought home house slippers, dishes, placemats for my new table, a lego car for Cody, lots of candy, and some cute bags. It was fun to check out all the goods. 

The Sunday after she got back we had an interesting Sunday dinner. We were eating burritos but we had to try out the chopsticks too. So we ate our mexican meal with chopsticks. Here is Cody with his chopsticks and animal crackers. Steve's sister, Raquel, taught Cody how to hold the chopsticks and he caught on pretty fast.

Here is a picture of Raquel and Cody modeling the Japanese house slippers.

3 Things to Share About Cody...

1. Cody finished the Book of Mormon for the first time. We have been reading 10 verses a night for 2 years and finally finished.

2. Steve's dad is a pilot and Cody keeps a sharp eye out for any planes in the sky. He can spot them better than anybody. Any time he sees an airplane he yells "Hi Grandpa!!" even when Grandpa is sitting right next to him. The other day he was saying the prayer and started blessing everyone he could think of but when he got to Steve's parents it was hard not to laugh. He said, 
"please bless Grandma Tammy and Grandpa Airplane."

3. Cody gets so excited about taking the Sacrament each week at church. As soon as he realizes that the Sacrament is about to be blessed and passed he makes sure he is sitting on the lap of whoever is next to the aisle. One Sunday a few weeks ago I happened to be sitting on the aisle. When the bread came around I saw him touch a piece and then go for another piece (which I thought he took and ate but couldn't see for sure because he was facing away from me). After I took my piece I whispered to Steve to take the piece that I saw Cody touch first so that no one else would eat it. Steve grabbed it and then had to scoot down the bench to pass it to the next person. The second Steve started passing it down the bench Cody broke down and started crying so hard. It was one of those sad cries that just about breaks your heart. I suddenly realized that he had never picked up a piece of bread. The poor kid. Even though he was crying I couldn't take him out because he wasn't acting up. Luckily, Steve was able to flag down a Deacon to bring a tray over and Cody was able to get his bread.

I thought maybe everyone in the meeting would wonder why we hadn't taken Cody out when he was crying. But for a week or two afterward people would bring it up and say they were just sad for Cody and that they thought it was so cute (even people I didn't think knew what happened because they weren't sitting near us). One lady who was sitting directly behind us during the meeting came up to us afterwards and told us she thought it was so cute that he was that excited to take the Sacrament. She said, "wouldn't it be great if we were all that eager to take the Sacrament?" 

WE LOVE CODY!!