Beach Baby!

LOVE him.

Our stuff is here!!

The movers took a smidge longer than we anticipated getting here but today our stuff finally arrived. We are so excited to finally be in our house! Stay tuned for pictures of the place once we are settled!

We have never been so happy to see our stuff!

First night in the new house.

boxes boxes everywhere

Todd and my dad messing with the kitchen.

We were so lucky to get to stay with my parents while we waited for our things. We are so happy to be close to them again.

A bumpy ride to California

Since driving cross country with a 3 month old and a cat didn't sound like a fun thing to do we decided that Matty and myself would fly back to California early and Todd would finish up the move and meet us out there. Easy right?

The plan was simple, fly home the day after Christmas, spend time with the family and wait patiently to move into the new house. We even upgraded my seat to first class to make sure that Matty and I had plenty of room to spread out on the 6 hour flight home, it was going to be perfect. What we didn't consider is that the Coyers + New England + flying do not mesh well... please refer to Christmas 2008. True to form, we woke up on the 26th to a blizzard. Thankfully United just cancelled our flight and put us on the next available flight on the 28th...this time however at 6am...in Boston. Although not an ideal time to fly with a munchkin we were still in first class (yay!) so we figured it would be fine.

Flash forward to 2am and crying (Matty's) on the way the airport. Once there and through security there were more tears (Shan's) when we learned we had been bumped from first class due to overbooking. The frazzlement continued when we reached our new *window* seat in coach and our neighbors fell right to sleep locking us in. I was miserable but hoped for the best and was lucky...for the first 3 hours. Then all hell broke loose. Matty had a fit, then a blowout. Then I had to wake up my neighbors to take care of said blowout. Then there was no changing table in the bathroom. Then Matty needed an entire outfit change. Then my cell phone went missing (later found many rows back), more tears (Matty's), it was a nightmare.

In the end we landed safely in California and the sweet gentlemen next to me, who I'm sure had the worst flight of his life, kindly told me Matty was cute. After more adventures at LAX we finally found my parents, had a few more tears (Shan's again) and both crashed as soon as we saw my parents couch.

Rough.

Frazzled little Coyers finally in California

Last snowstorm for the Coyers!

This morning two new parents woke up to find that it was snowing. Giddy with excitement they dressed their sweet son in his snow suit and hurried outside. They anticipated nothing but smiles, joy and amazement from their little cutie as he took in his first snow experience with the flakes falling all around him. They were sure that he would love it...

They were wrong.

If Matty could talk we are pretty sure this is what he was saying....

Well this is interesting...I'm pretty sure I was happier inside. Are there ears on my snow suit?

There are ears on my snowsuit! Why do you people insist on dressing me like this?!? Enough. Its cold take me back in.


Why are you doing this to me?!?!?!

Merry Christmas!!

Now that we have Matty, Christmas has taken on a whole new meaning. Not only has Matty thrown us back on Santas route but we get to start forming new traditions as a family. We were so excited to have him with us this year and though he had no idea what was going on we woke up on Christmas morning to lots of smiles and happiness. He is such a sweetie!

Happy baby getting ready to open his stocking.

lots of pressies!

socks!

Merry Christmas!

We can't wait to spend next Christmas in California with our families!

Best buds

My boys are so cute! love them!

3 months old!

Our little guy is learning new things everyday. He smiles at everyone all the time and just started to giggle. It melts our hearts to see him laugh, we had no idea we were so funny! He's grabbing at things, eating well and loves just hanging out with us. We love him so much!