Caeli's Birthday Tea Party

Caeli has so many cute friends here. She had them over for a party for her birthday, and it was so much fun. We had a tea party with way more treats than 10 5-year-old girls can eat. We also had a pinata and balloons. I had fun too.
I was running on a very little amount of sleep through the party. The reason? This lovely barbie birthday cake. I swore after the falling apart bunny cake I did for Caeli's 2nd birthday that I would buy every cake after that. I wanted to make an attempt at a cake using fondant though. It was much easier than I thought it would be, but I still stressed about it and ended up spending a lot of time working on it. Caeli had a lot of fun and loved it so that is all that matters.

Caeli Turns 5!

5 years ago my sweet little girl was born! I was one happy momma! I can't believe it has been 5 years! When people say time flies, they aren't kidding. It has FLOWN! She was 6 lbs 5 oz and 21 inches long. I remember from the second she was born she was just looking around at everything, taking it all in. What a happy day!

Caeli's 1st birthday

It was a special day for several reasons, Cameron was home on leave from Iraq and My baby was turning 1. She would NOT dig into her cake like we wanted her to. That was just way to messy for a little princess!

Caeli's 2nd birthday. (Sitting next to her is the famous bunny cake:p )

*I have no still pictures of her 3rd birthday only (not digital) video*

Caeli's 4th birthday when we had just moved up to Logan. She was so excited we woke up to her piling all of her presents on our bed.

My crazy little 5 year old girl! This is her princess face. And she is quite the princess!

It was just Caeli and I for so long when she was little, we are more than just mother and daughter. She saved me while Cameron was gone. She is my best friend. It sounds silly, but it is so true. She didn't come to our family as soon as I thought she should, but she came at just the right time.

Caeli, you are such a special girl. I don't know what I would do without you! Such a huge help and the BEST big sister. You can always make me smile. I love you so much! Happy Birthday!

USU basketball game

Tonight was Cameron's day off so I looked to see what sporting event was going on and we hauled the family to the USU vs UofU Women's Basketball Game. I had so much fun. I am becoming an Aggie for sure. But I do love sporting events a little too much for a girl :)
Cohen would watch wherever Big Blue was. I promise he is really excited here. He had a huge smile on his face both before and after the picture. He tries really hard not to show too much emotion... silly kid.
Guess what Caeli loved the most?!?!?! Yep, the cheerleaders. She was really distraught at first to see that there were boy cheerleaders, but after she saw what they were doing (throwing the girls) she was in awe.

I was excited to see that Halie Sawyer, (from Panguitch) was starting for the Utes tonight. Even though I cheered super loud for the Aggies, I had to cheer for Halie . It's always fun to see a familiar face on the court, she's so cute and did a great job. I am happy to report that we won 67-58! Did I mention that I had a great time? And that I love Basketball? And I can't get the fight song out of my head tonight? Good time.

Cohen

I didn't get anything posted about Cohen's 2nd birthday, so I thought I would post on the 2nd anniversary of his due date. Our little miracle boy was born 10 weeks early and was only 2 lbs 14 oz. Despite all of that he did remarkably well. It was a crazy time and there is no way we could have done it without a lot of prayer and tons of help from our family and friends.

The poor little guy was so bruised! He was in the NICU in Provo at UVRMC for 6 weeks. He was a strong kid and still is. I can't believe it has been 2 years! I don't know what I would do without his bear hugs and "whatcha doin' mom"

(His cake was super ugly but it sure tasted good.) Cohen is such a special kid. Knowing he is our only son makes it really hard not to spoil him rotten. He's so loving to Cara and most of the time to Caeli too :) We are so blessed in our home. He makes me laugh every day and comes up with the funniest things. Some of my favorite sayings of his right now include "look at me guys" "what ya doin'" "go to grandma's house" "ride Grandpa's fourwheeler" and "shoot bear, grandpa's big gun" There is no question he is a boy and we are constantly cleaning up whatever he could find and spill. I have become friends with the poison control people because he eats anything and everything, and I am not kidding....

We love you Cohen, happy 2nd!

Family Pictures!

I LOVE family pictures. Pictures of any kind really. This beautiful Cache Valley fall day made them even better. I am having a hard time deciding which pictures to do big and hang in the house. Any opinions would be greatly appreciated and taken into consideration. :) However I may just take our wonderful photographer's advice and do several of them. Thanks to CJ for doing the pictures.

He took many more, you'll have to check facebook for them. So fun!

long weekend

I would like to start out this post by showing that my fish could eat Teri's fish...... ok now....

I hit blogging burnout for a little while but I have returned and wanted to post a few of our pictures from our long weekend home. We started out having family pictures with the Chidester fam... hopefully I can post some of those before too long. Then we went home to Koosharem so Cameron could help the boys work on mom and dad's countertops. But we did take a few breaks to enjoy some nice fall days. Dad took the kids fishing and we all tagged along.
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!

So Cal......

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....