New Family Pics

The complete Cottam Family Picture!  This was a long time coming, its so hard to get everyone together.

Notice my sweet little nieces (on the left).  Josie is posing like a pro, and little kaylee is chewing on a stick!  Hey, whatever works!  

We had to work hard for this one too.  Parker never sits still for pictures, and rarely smiles for them either!

Here are some new family pics that the lovely Jocelin took of us! (www.photograpybyjocelin.com.... check out her website, its beautiful!) She always does such an amazing job, even when there are about 7 different families to photograph! 

 It was my Grandparents 60th wedding anniversary and we were all there except for Grandma and Grandpa.  That morning my Grandpa became very sick and had to spend the day in the emergency room.  We were so sad that they had to miss it, but Grandma insisted on still getting our pictures done, and thankfully Grandpa is ok and doing better.  It was a fun day and a wonderful occasion to celebrate!

Graduates '09

So here are my little Graduates for '09.  Parker graduated from Little Scholars Preschool and Cole from kindergarten.  The year has gone by so fast!  Time just keeps going faster and faster!

This is how Parker was for the entire ceremony.  Completely uninterested and I'd say a little put out to be there.  Absolutely no singing or dancing for him.  He didn't utter one single word throughout the whole program, no matter how much I coaxed, smiled or threatened!

At least we got a shot of him in his cap!

Cole with his little diploma.

Cole, Jackson and Tyrone.  His little buddies throughout the year.

Cole and his teachers, Mrs. Peatross and Mrs. Garcia.  They are wonderful teachers!  Iam so grateful that Cole was in their class.  He really blossomed under their care.  So, Thank You!

My sweet little man:)

Hogle Zoo

The zoo!  The zoo!  Finally the day arrived to go to the zoo with Cole's kindergarten class.  I was only reminded of it every day for about 6 weeks.  Seriously there were a thousand kindergarten kids there that day.  Come to think of it there were high school kids there too! (but they act just like six year olds, so they fit right in! :) 

As we approached this wolf, Cole said "Look its the werewolf!"   Cole took this pic all by himself!  Pretty good for a 6 year old!

Turtle boy!  I think he liked the playground better than the animals!

  I just noticed in the background of this picture (below) some little girl is losing her pants.  Sorry about that.  Its a good thing we can't see her face!  :)

 Oh, to be six years old again!  He looks like he's having too much fun!

 Getting eaten by the lion with Park and his cute little friend Tyrone

   Getting eaten, again, by this fierce looking alligator!

 About to go for a train ride.  I couldn't get Park to look up, so here's a nice shot of his head!  I think I need some Crest White strips too!

 Cole with all his little kindergarten buddies.  Notice how he's like 6 inches taller than the rest!  I don't know where he came from-switched at birth, I think:)

Easter Morning

                                   We had to get the funny picture out of the way first!

                                   Showin' some love!

                                    Three good lookin' little men!

The Endangered Horny Toad

I never did get a picture on here of the horny toad.  I thought I might as well add it to the menagerie of our other animal pics on here!  (wait, I don't think I have the cat on here...)  Anyway Cole still gives me grief for making me let him go.  (He was endangered! ... by Cole)  So here they are for posterity's sake!

Marrott Boys

  A good looking bunch of boys!  Of course I am biased:)  I just had to post this picture.  Just for fun.  I got them to stop wrestling for about 5 seconds to take this!

Motorcycle Mania!

Park is glad to have his 4 wheeler out again!

                                   Mitch needed a little help from dad before he could ride

                                   They were beyond excited!
                                   Slowing down long enough to pose with mom

So we surprised the kids a couple of weeks ago with these motorcycles.  I don't know who was more excited the boys or their Dad!  He could hardly wait to give them the bikes.   We bought them in January so it was a long wait.  We should have waited longer to give them the bikes because of all the rainy weather its been too muddy to ride.  So of course theres been non stop whining about not being able to ride the bikes!  They knew they were getting a surprise but nothing like this!  It was so fun to see their faces!  Cole took off on his bike like a little pro.  It was amazing!  Like he was a born motorcycle rider.  Mitch was a little more hesitant and cautious (like his mom:)  I'll admit I even took them for a little spin.  They were perfect for me too!  Not too fast and not too slow.  Parker was happy to have his 4 wheeler out of storage.  He didn't even notice the motorcycles.  It was  a great day to be a "boy mom"!