Fall is here

Fall finally made it to us. Caeli started kindergarten. She was so happy and excited that I was happy and excited too. I didn't even cry. Cohen cried all day though. It's easy to let her go because the entire time she is home all I hear is: "can I go to school now?", "the clock says 7, 3, 0, does that mean it's time for school now?" (She goes to school at 11:45) and my favorite, "it's not the weekend is it mom!" I have been really impressed with her teacher and the entire school.

Her first day of school she had to wear this outfit even though I think she had come cuter things. She loves the scarf and had to have "twinkle toes" shoes.

And there she is walking in to her first day with her new "best friend in the world" I hear everyday all about her friends and when I can finally pry it out of her she tells me what she actually learned in class.

I had to post this picture. Yes, I let her go to school like that. She has her own little sense of style and what can letting her go to school with knee high flowered socks hurt? :)

Other things happening in our house this fall, Cameron is back at school too. He is in the thick of his Engineering program and working for Unversity Housing.... so I'll next see him during semester break in December. Cohen just turned 3 this last weekend, I'll post all about that and our camping trip next. Cara is talking more all the time. My new favorite thing is when she says please. LOVE it! My life is madness. I went to volunteer to help with the halloween carnival at Caeli's school and ended up a full fledged member of the PTA. I also messed up my knee a few weeks ago while I was at home (Koosharem home) and as soon as I have authorization from the insurance I will be having surgery on it. Because of my knee we are going to be able to move into a downstairs apartment here at WSV so as soon as that is ready we are going to be moving to the next building over. Poor Cam, I am not going to be a whole lot of help with that.... But it will be so nice not to have to do stairs in the winter on crutches! I am also watching my friend's super cute little boy a few days a week, playing a lot of chauffeur, running to physical therapy and somewhere in there submitting recipes to a few cooking competitions. Super busy, great life. And I wouldn't have it any other way.

New Family Pics

We have been enjoying a very busy and fun filled summer. We have been out of town a lot spending lots of time with family and friends. The kids are growing like crazy, and we are just enjoying them. Caeli starts Kindergarten next week!!!! Cara is finally walking all around and starting to say a few words. Cohen is turning into quite the little man. He keeps me laughing constantly. Nothing too new or exciting, but that's just the way we like it.

My friend Randa is getting ready to move to Virginia, so before she left I got in her very busy schedule for some more pictures. She does such a great job I just can't tell you how much I love her work.

I have more posted on facebook..... so check those out too :)

Memorial Day Weekend

We spent Memorial weekend in Koosharem. We had a baby shower for Teri on Saturday (5 more weeks, the countdown is on!!!) for some reason I don't have any pictures from the shower. Then we had a little cook out up the canyon. We all had fun and ate some traditional mountain fare. The kids "fished" meaning they practiced casting. We didn't go down to the lake.

Isn't he looking so grown up!!!!

Caeli had to have her helmet to catch fish for some strange reason.

Around the campfire. We always have a lot of fun just getting together and laughing. It was a good time for sure.

Cara is Grandpa Great's little buddy. I love these pictures!

Summer is here now..... RIGHT?????? :)

Family Vacation

Thursday we were sitting here and Cameron got a call that he got the job that he REALLY wanted to build cabinets for the summer. They told him that the job might require some weekends and it got me thinking about family vacation this summer. (my parents always took us on a family vacation every summer, it's a tradition we hope to continue with our kids as well) So at about 2 PM we started looking at hotels on the internet, by 3pm we were on the road. It was a quick decision, but I sure am glad we went. I lived in Jackson for a while before we got married and we lived in Driggs Idaho when we first got married, so I know this trip was more for me than anyone else. But I loved it!!!

We drove to West Yellowstone the first night and when I first saw the Tetons from Rexburg area, I nearly cried and then got all excited like a kid on Christmas eve. It's good I snapped this picture though, because it was the only view we got. A storm rolled in and we got snowed on, so I didn't get to see the view from the east that I was hoping for. But it's ok.... at least that is what I am telling myself. :)


Our first night in the hotel the kids weren't too sure about sleeping in the bed together and it took them a while to calm down enough to sleep. But this is how we found them sleeping after a little bit.... In Cohen's defense, the hotel pillows were really horrible.

The kids (and by that I mean Caeli) mostly liked the waterfalls. She did like the geysers a lot as well, but because the weather was so horrible we didn't think about getting very many pictures, mostly we were trying to get back to the car as quickly as possible.
It was a quick trip, but I just loved being back in that area. Other highlights of the trip include bearworld near Rexburg and that fact that our first hotel had a water slide. Cam finally got to see a moose near moose junction near Jackson, so we all got what we wanted. Aside from my lack of a good shot of the Tetons and skipping my favorite restaurant because it's not exactly kid-friendly. I am so happy Cam took us there. I am a happy girl :)

last few weeks

Our last few weeks have been total and complete madness. Both good and bad. We had a great time in St. George for Steven and Jazmin's sealing as well as Tim and Mandy's endowments. It was a really awesome day. Afterward we had a super fun BBQ/pool party at my Aunt Martha's house. It was really fun down there. In the middle of the night while we were down there we got a horrible phone call that my 16 year old cousin, Michael, had been killed in a car accident. It has been a horrible week dealing with all of that. However, his funeral was one of the best I have ever attended. He was such an OUTSTANDING kid. His family is so amazing to me and I really look up to them. The spirit was so strong in their home. What would we ever do without knowing families can be together forever!!!!!

Cara is really good at throwing fits if she doesn't get her way. I believe I took the paper she was eating away from her right here. It was very traumatic apparently.

Hanging out at Tim's and Mandy's house in Cedar City.

Here are some pictures of the headbands I made for the wedding. I never do domesticated stuff like this, so they took me a very long time. but for those of you looking at them on here, the color is way off on these pictures, and they are hard to see, but hopefully you get the idea. and I promise (singing promise even) that I won't be offended if you don't want to wear them :)

Gymnastics

Saturday was Caeli's first ever gymnastics meet. It was so fun!! It reminded me a little bit of watching bantam wrestling when my brothers were little. Caeli had a blast. They got to use the college girl's equipment and even got to run out of the tunnel. Grandma Marlene came up to watch and she loved to have her there to show off for.

Caeli on bars.

Caeli's favorite thing to do is the beam. She has pretty good balance and does really well.

Caei's floor routine....

She carries her metal around everywhere and even asked if she could sleep with it.

She said her favorite part was when they gave her the metal. It's fun to see how much she has learned in such a small amount of time. I am so glad she has the opportunity to do so many fun things.

Easter Weekend

We had a really fun and relaxing Easter weekend. I loved that it was conference and so we had a chance to really concentrate on the reason we have Easter. We spent all day Saturday playing Easter Bunny and enjoyed all of the festivities going on around town. We started off the day going to the big hunt up at old main hill where Cohen won one of the big prizes. It was cute he was really excited.

Caeli really likes us to read to her. So we found superfudge at the library. She loves to spend some time with just her and her dad.
Cara is now a crawling fool. But she spends most of her time on her head like this. (don't you just love her cute little chubby legs?)
Cara on easter.

And last but not least........ I am laying in bed and hear, "look mom, I'm a cowboy"

yes, yes he is. :)