I'm sure most of you have noticed, I don't normally do the posting on our blog, but considering Crystal's current condition, I figured I'd take a turn. :) Hopefully she won't turn around and delete it before anyone has a chance to read it. lol
Anyway, yesterday was quite a day! We went home for the weekend for Justin's farewell, and since most of the family was going to be there anyway, we decided to bless Cara too. Side note...Crystal went kind of crazy when she was shopping for a blessing dress for Cara the other day, and ended up getting Caeli and Cohen new church clothes too (they did need them, so I guess its ok. Cohen got a pretty sweet suit.). However, for some reason we didn't get any pictures of them. We'll have to do that and post pics of them later... anyway. I always get pretty nervous for things like that, so needless to say I spent the whole morning sweating like a pig. Thankfully everything went well, and I didn't have too many long pauses. lol
Justin did really well with his talk. We are all proud of him and are sure he will make a great missionary!! In a way I'm actually kind of jealous. Missions make for good times! Sometimes you can't help but wish you could go back. :( Speaking of good times, I think almost all the dads in the family (or grandpa in Adam's case) ended up in the nursery for most the rest of church. I don't know about the rest of them, but with Cohen, I spend a lot of time there with him. He doesn't like to be left alone, even if there are other kids he knows in there. There were almost as many adults there as kids. haha.
Dinner at the firehouse was excellent as well. We couldn't talk any of Crystal's family to stay for that part, but there were still a lot of people there. The kids had a blast checking out the fire trucks, especially Cohen. He loved it! He kept walking around pointing at trucks he wanted to get in and look at, even after we had been in them all 2 or 3 times. I wish I would have had the camera with me.
The ride home last night was probably the best ever!! (yes that was sarcastic) About half way the kids started whining about being hungry, so we ended up stopping to find something to eat. Not too long after getting back on the road, while driving through downtown Salt Lake, Cohen started whining all of the sudden and next thing we know, he along with his blanket and car seat, are completely covered in vomit. We had made plans with CJ for us to stop by his house on the way home so he could take pictures of Cara. Luckily for us, (but not for CJ and Steph) we weren't too far away when Cohen started puking. I'm pretty sure he threw up about every 15-20 minutes from then on until we got home. Even with having a large bowl on hand, we still ended up with some messes to clean up of CJ's carpet. (Sorry again about that!!) Its good we had several pairs of clean pjs on hand. The good part about our stop was that CJ took some of the cutest pictures of Cara in her blessing dress. So, with out further ado, here are the ones he's finished up so far.
I don't know about crystal, but this is probably my favorite.
Followed closely by this one.
She's definitely a cute kid, if I do say so myself!!
So we eventully made it home in one piece, even if some didn't feel like it. Thankfully no one else has started feeling sick (knock on wood). Hopefully Cara can manage to avoid it. If Crystal and I can avoid it, that might be possible, however, will all the puke we've cleaned up (some of it off of ourselves) I'm kind of surprised neither of us have caught it yet (knock on wood again). By the way, for those of you fortunate enough never to have had the opportunity to clean a car seat covered in vomit, which I had just such an opportunity when we got home, its not fun so count yourself lucky. :) On that note, I've got homework to do, so I'll be off.
I would like to start out this post by showing that my fish could eat Teri's fish...... ok now....
Super cute, Cohen is grandpa's little buddy and doesn't like it when he is out of his sight. He liked fishing until he caught a fish and then didn't care so much. He went for a fourwheeler ride with Grandpa T and then fell in the pond.
Cameron caught a pretty good fish.
Cara really enjoyed it :)
My fish wasn't quite as big as Cameron's fish but it was bigger than Teri's and that's all that matters. Yes, I am using a rag to hold mine. I don't really do fish. at all.
Caeli doesn't do fish either. She sat down and picked grass.
Aunt Ter is the best and brought pumpkins for the kids and Caeli had a lot of fun making her "really scary" pumpkin. She got to stay up late to do it. Cohen missed out, he was in bed. It was opening day of the deer hunt and none of us had tags, but we did keep tradition alive and mom made her famous cinnamon rolls and we had a big pot of chili. Also, for none of us having deer tags, no one in my family ended up in jail. Successful weekend! 
Hello from California! I will do a complete post once I get home, but we are having a great time enjoying the southern California sun. We are all a little sunburned after our day at the beach and off for another day at Disneyland today....
SO today was the Cache Valley Cheese cooking competition. It was so much fun! There were a few mishaps... my stove had problems so I had to use my neighbor's. But it was a blast. Thankfully it was a lot more laid back then things you see on food network. But it was still well put together. Channel 2 news showed up. The most stressful thing was probably the cameras in my face all the time. They had a still camera and videography. Very cool. The winner will be featured in better homes and gardens magazine, and gets a check for 5000 smackeroos. We find out the results tonight at the Bees baseball game. I really don't think I won... but I do at least get $1000. bonus....
Darin Adams from KSL was one of our judges. He was super nice and we sat around and talked for a while afterward. Really nice guy. 
Also one of our judges.... the Grocery Guru. You probably know who he is if you watch Good Things Utah... also a very nice guy.
Me just cooking away, I thought I had sooo much time I waited a little bit to get started, and at the end I was running. Time just goes by fast when you are having fun. This is my "I am stressed leave me alone" face. It was a really good experience. I am glad that I was chosen to be in it. They said over 200 recipes were entered, and 5 of us were chosen. So haha.... there were more than 5 that entered :P
