New Pictures!

My wonderful friend Randa just took some fun new pictures of my kids. Man they are so cute! she has a few of them done and on her photography blog. Check them out. I'll post more on here when she has them all done. Enjoy the sneak peek. click here

Caeli and Cohen making Cara laugh.

We tried to send this as an email, but it was too big so I decided to post it on here instead. We have some funny kids!!

Cohen cooks.

I just came out of the bathroom to find Cohen with a chair pushed up to the stove with a cube of butter in a pan. He informed me that he was "making dinner". He is a smart kid, I do usually start dinner with a cube of butter in a pan. :)

Luckily he didn't actually have the stove on. I love that he used the fry daddy scoop. (I don't actually do that) LOL I guess he's hungry.....

Just for you dad....

I have nothing even remotely enlightening to say I am just posting a few more pictures just for my dad, who keeps requesting them. Love you Dad! :)Caeli went to the gymnastics meet and got the autographs of the whole gymnastics team. (the girl on the right is in my Psychology class)

Cara can FINALLY sit up. She's getting a little better every day.
I didn't realize how blury this picture is but Cara also really loves crackers. She wants to eat grown up food so bad. She watches us longingly. She just needs to grow some teeth.

January

We have spent most of January inside fighting one kind of sickness or another. But we did get out one Saturday with a bunch of our friends for a big snowmobiling/tubing trip. It was such a blast. Caeli has the cutest friends. Maggie, Maddi and Caeli piled on a sled and went down. Caeli had a ton of fun and hardly stopped all day.

Maggie, Maddi and Caeli.
(Thanks Krista for sending me these pictures. Our camera is on the fritz... )

In the back of the truck headed down to the bottom of the sledding hill.
Cara had eye infections. When I took her into the doctor to get drops for it she also had double ear infections and is now sporting a really nasty cough. Cohen has a perma-cough. Stinkin' Cache Valley inversion..... Caeli spent several days without a voice, which I must admit was kinda nice. And now I have a sore throat and cough. Great fun. Somehow Cameron always escapes sickness. He says it's the anthrax the army made him have... :)
Cohen likes to be naked lately. I can't keep his clothes on. He also got his first stitches this week. His was running to get into the tub Sunday morning and tripped and fell putting his top teeth through his bottom lip. All the way through. It was nasty. They put a couple of stitches in it and told me to keep an eye on his loose top teeth... Great times raising a little boy. It's good he's so cute!

Christmas Break

We spent 3 great weeks at home this year for our Christmas break. It was such a nice vacation. Here are just a few of the highlights from the holiday.

Cohen ate White Out..... Note: white out is hard to get off.....

We went and saw Grandma Rose in Henrieville. It was fun to see her. We don't get to see her very often. (I can't believe I forgot to get pictures of her and the kids)

The kids seeing Santa. Cara slept through it, so we had no screaming.

On Christmas morning when we went down to Richfield the valley was full of fog and it was a really cool sight. Cohen kept saying, "where'd Richfield go?"

Cohen chilling with Grandpa Chidester at the yummy Christmas breakfast at Jon and Jolynn's house.

December's activities.

Blog posts are few and far between and you would think that after I have been blogging for a few years I would figure out the best way to change the order of my pictures when I upload them... nope, so this is what you get :) But we have had a really great kick off to our Holiday Season!

Cara got her first taste of baby food the other day and pretty much hated it. So after watching her spit it out Caeli asked if she could try some. She did, and the weird girl ate it! It wasn't even something yummy like bananas or apple sauce. It was peas!!! So gross.....

Cara wasn't sure what to think about real live food....

The last week of November we got with some of Caeli's friends and their moms (which happen to be some of my fun friends as well) and we took the girls to the Nutcracker. I had fun. But the girls really loved it. At least Caeli did. She has been trying to make all of her ballerina dress-ups stick straight out like the "pink ballerina" (which I thought was red, but don't try to tell her that) I hope to make this a fun mother daughter tradition at my house. It was great.

We took the kids down to Temple Square one Monday night to see the lights. It was during the super cold spell we had and we FROZE! But it was beautiful and a great way to kick off the holiday season and get into the spirit of the real reason for Christmas.

We have the most fun friends! We got with some of our Logan friends and took a trip to ride on the Polar Express. It was really cute. The kids had such a blast! Cam really had fun too. He loves trains just as much as any little boy could.
The kids got all cozy in their PJ's and took a ride to the North Pole. After the elves brought hot chocolate and cookies by, we got a visit from the big man himself. He brought the kids bells and took orders for Christmas.
Our cute family on the Polar Express. Cara was really not impressed.....

From the train we were about half-way home (to real home) and so we came down to get a head start on the Christmas break. It's been really fun to be home. Cohen loves my Grandpa T and he scored a pony ride when we got to Grandma's house. If you know my grandpa you know that he really loves Cohen if he got a pony ride. Cohen really loves him too.

I have no pictures of it, but Tim and Mandy got tickets to The Forgotten Carols. It was really cool. I am so glad they asked us to go with them! Thanks to Millie for keeping the kids so we could enjoy a full night of one of our favorite restaurants (Sagebrush Grill) and the Forgotten Carols. That's one other thing I wouldn't mind adding to our tradition list.

I have been really thoughtful and reflecting a lot today after going to the funeral of my awesome Uncle Mont. His family is just amazing to me. Aunt Marleen is an incredible woman. It has been a reminder to me of how fragile life is and how quickly it can be taken away. I love this time of year because we can all take a little extra time to reflect on our Saviors birth and what a huge part that event plays in our lives. What an amazing blessing the atonement is and what a blessing eternal families are! I don't know what I would do without my family. I have the best kids and a really great husband.

Merry Christmas everyone! Hope you all have a wonderful one. With all of the parties and fun things going on around us at Christmastime, lets not forget the reason we are doing all of this celebrating!