Happy Birthday Caeli!

Today is Caeli's 4th birthday! She has been so excited for so long. She is spoiled rotten as usual. I think my favorite gift was the cute little apron that mom got for her. Penny made it. I have been making these silly little makeshift aprons for her when she helps me cook, so I am almost as excited for it as she is. She hasn't taken it off all day. She looks really grown up in it.

She couldn't wait, so we let her open presents first thing this morning. She was just as excited about the cards as the presents. She keeps going in and looking at all of her cards. She got a cupcake maker that she absolutely loves and a broom and mop set, clothes, a cute dress, make up and more to come because we are not actually celebrating until tomorrow when cam is off of work. Then she can open our present. Thanks everyone for sending the cute stuff up here. You made her day, and spoiled her rotten.

This is Caeli's cake. I am a horrible cake maker. I swore I would always buy the cakes after the bunny incident. It was actually ok. Caeli likes it and so that is all that matters. She asked for a pink butterfly a few weeks ago so she got it. I hate birthday cake making.

Sibling Love

Caeli and Cohen play so well together. Caeli keeps me sane by keeping track of him and is the best help. This top picture is when I was packing up in Koosh and I found them hiding with a pack of chocolate covered raisins. I am glad they like them because I certainly won't eat them. They thought that they were in trouble. I thought it was cute and I was perfectly happy that they were not in my way unpacking things as fast as I could pack them.

When I was cooking dinner the other night they sat down and played Pat-a-cake. They set there for a long time.

Caeli was making her brother be the prince and dance with her. She sings "I love you" over and over while spinning in circles. Cohen tries to get away but eventually just gives in. you can see he is wanting me to rescue him.

The day that our things made it up here to us the kids laid in the bed and watched incredibles while I unpacked. This is the first time Cohen sat still long enough to watch something. I think it was nap time and so he was tired enough to hold still for a minute.

I am so blessed with wonderful kids. They are really my joy in life.

By request....

Hi! I am finally connected to the world again. It is a nice feeling I must admit. As requested, here are just a few pics of the new casa. It is working just right for us. My only complaint is that we don't have hardly any storage. The kids rooms are pretty small too. Cohen's especially! It's been raining a lot since we got here but it hasn't really snowed yet. We miss home but for now this is a great home away from home.

Hi from Logan!

Hello from Logan ya'll! Things are going well and we are getting settled in. We are still waiting for them to come and hook up our internet. It may be a few days still. I have a few pictures and things that I will post as soon as I can. Just thought that I would post that we made it here and all is well. We have a cute little apartment/townhouse. I was worried moving up without ever seeing it but Cam did well. The kids are having a little adjustment, but we will get it. More to come soon.....

Steps

Cohen is FINALLY trying to walk. He will take a few steps. It is so hard to get any pictures of it though. He is mostly still just happy to crawl around. When we try toget him to try and walk for us he gets rubber legs and won't. When hs is just by himself though he will try a little.

I just about caught a picture of him walking, then he took a header. He's such a fun little guy. We are just about 2 weeks away from the year mark of his due date. A year goes by so fast.

Bridal Shower

Saturday was Jazmin's bridal shower. I love bridal showers a little too much. I take great pride in embarassing the bride to be as much as possible. I think I managed to pull it off. It was fun. The bad part was I didn't get any pictures at the shower. I had my camera and everything, I just forgot. But afterwards us Koosharem girls went and got some dinner at Sage Brush Grill. One of my favorite restaurants. My favorite in the area for sure. My favorite thing that we ordered was actually the prime rib sandwich. I was a big fan. It wasn't what I expected.

I am still laughing at myself about the shower......

Did I mention I love bridal showers?

The Halloween Party

Tonight was the Annual Koosharem PTO Halloween Carnival. It has always been one of my favorite traditions here in good ol' Koosh. As always we had a really great time. They start the night out with a little dinner and then costume judging. Cohen and I won most creative in our group. Thanks Jaimee! :) I ended up wearing the Man in the Yellow Hat because Cam didn't make it to the party in time for costumes. It was HUGE on me. but I got a ton of compliments. From the moment we got to the party to the time we left Caeli would not leave Kacey's side. She told me princesses need to be together.

Cohen loves Grandma Great. I don't know why but she is the ONLY one that he will do this to. He just cuddles up to her everytime she picks him up. Not fair. My mom is the most irritated by it.

Our cute costumes. Caeli absolutely insisted on being Snow White this year. Nothing I could say would entice her otherwise. I found the cutest banana costume that I wanted her to be and stay with the theme, but NO WAY. She refused to wear a coat all night. She told me princesses just have capes.

We came away from the party this year big winners. We won a little girl basket with a barbie, a tutu, a shirt, makeup and all sorts of things. We also won a little boy basket. It had a stuffed puppy, some cars, a Diego ruscue pack (I think that's what it is called) as well as a bunch of other silly little boy things. THEN, Cam and I scored the Date night basket, it included movie tickets, Pizza dinner and a night of free babysitting! We were very lucky. There were a lot of really cool prizes this year. It's an awesome tradidion and I love that you can still take just a few dollars and come away with some great bake sale items from all of the great candy makers in the valley. It was a great time. I hope we can always make it to the party. A lot of us who grew up going to the party come home so I got to see some friends I don't get to see very often. It's just one of my favorite times, in case you can't tell.