Early Christmas!!

This year Brooks family decided to have our Christmas party a little early!! Because all of us WY kids are just staying up here for the 25th, and we wanted to celebrate with Blake before he left on his mission! Actually it was super nice to have the party early. Cause now when things get crazy with bad weather and all the other many parties, we will be sitting at out house in our jammies!!! Ya, I am so excited for the holidays this year!!

For Christmas this year Grandpa and Grandma gave Camden a tent. Talk about a hit!! I think i might just take back all her other presents!!! She loves it. She always wants her "beautiful tent" up! She eats lunch in it and watches her shows in, just about everything!! It is so fun, thanks Grandma!!!
Every year for our Christmas party we read the story of Christs birth from the scriptures and all the kids dress up as the charaters. This year the kids actually dressed up (usually they take off the stuff before we even get a pic.) Camden was the angel. She loved her little outfit!

Mr. Cawa's is the youngest grandchild (not for long, congrats Ashlee) so he got to be baby Jesus! He was a little big for a newborn (but not by much, thats the sad thing)

He liked to sit up instead of laying down but he actually stayed in his little craddle.

We decided that since we didn't have enough kids for all the parts that Blake could dress up for one more year. He was a good sport! He played Joseph, Kenzie was Mary, Camden was the angel, and then Cawa's was baby Jesus. It was fun!!

Good Question??????

Question?? Where does the time go?? I swear sometimes time goes by soooo slow. Like when your kids are sick, or there is a really boring speaker at church, ya!! Well i want to know why time goes by so fast the rest of the time. It is already December and Christmas time again, really????. Wow, it was a fast year and now our kids are getting so big. I guess i just want them to stay little forever and it is not going well so far!!

This is Camden doing her sexy pose!! Trying to hold her face serious but she can't help but smile!! Oh ya, and that is Brooks sexy leg!!!(he is going to kill me)
Here are my good little helpers!! Laundry is always a group activity at our house. I always get so much help!! I guess it is good practice cause 1 more year and Camden is going to be doing her own laundry!!! I think 3 is plenty old enough!!!

Camden found her new hiding place for hide and seek!! Shh!!!!

Mr. Cawa's loves the raman noodles. He had started the stage where he all the sudden can't stand baby food and he will only eat big kid food, oh and he has to feed himself. It is really cute but i am a little worried about his new found independence. I think Camden was a little older than 10 months when she started that.

I still think it pretty cute though!!!

Shout out for Blake!!!!

Brook little brother Blake left today for two years on a mission to Budapest Hungary!! We will miss him tons!! But we know he will be an awsome missionary. The last few months Blake has been coming up here to WY to work with the boys and has been staying at our house. We have all ( including cawa's) grown quite attached to Blake. It was always such a good help with the kids and I know Brook loved having him around to talk riding with!! We will miss him but two years will fly right by. Good Luck, we love you!!!

Happy Turkey Day!!!

Our turkey this year was really cute!! We just didn't have the heart to cook him!! jk Mr Cawas was helping us make dinner and we found a perfect seat for him.
Camden and her cousin Harley had fun making balloon turkeys while we waited for dinner to cook. They had lots of fun!!!

Camden was a big help in the kitchen this year. She helped Grandma make just about everything. It was fun to go down to Utah and spend time with the fam. We were glad Jay came up from AZ and Jens could have his kids. It was really fun to see everyone.

The end is in sight!!!

I think 9 months old is a hard age. At least it is hard for Mr Cawas. The last couple weeks have been tough for our little man! Well it turned cold here, and fast. So naturally we all get colds, for little Cawas he gets his colds in his chest. He lost his voice, so bad i could not even hear him crying in the other room. It was so sad. Then he is at that awakward crawling stage so he is not very corrdinated, so he had 4 overlapping bruises on his forehead. (it's hard to see)

Well if you look really close you can see the little guy. Ya thats a long way!!! Well the worst mom of the year award goes to...... oh ya me!!!!!! Do you see the gate off to the right. Yep, thats where the gate was when Mr Cawa's went from where i am, down to where he is!!!! Oh ya, worst mom EVER!!! I felt so bad for my boy. He was fine though, just a little scared and he did have a carpet burn on top of his bruised forehead. Ya like i said, not the best couple of weeks for cawas!

Then after all that, Cawa's got a virus called Rosieola. It's a really bad fever for like 4 days then he breaks out in spots. It was not a very good week and we had to go down to Utah for grandpa greats funeral, so cawa's at least got to cuddle with his grandpa. But he was pretty unhappy for about 3 weeks total. No smiling, no laughing. no playing!! No fun for anyone envolved! 2 trips to the dr's, lots of medicine, and lots of sleepless nights, the end had to be near. Then yesterday we got our little boy back. He was playing, and laughing(you could actually hear his voice) i was so happy that he felt better. Nothing worse than sick kids!!!

Smell my Feet!!!

Guess who?????
Oh ya baby!!! Its Bret Michaels!!! Okay it really is Brook! For those of you who don't know who Bret Michaels is he is the lead singer of the band Poisen and also the star of Rock Of Love!!! We had this halloween party at a friends house and we went as Bret Michaels and i was just a groupie (ya i didn't look near as good as Brook, thats why no pic!!) We had tons of fun, I totally forget how fun it is to get dressed up and go out!!

RAWRR!!!!

Mr Cawa's was a little lion for Halloween and he actually loved his costume. He crawled all around with his tail dragging behind him it was so cute!!!

Camden chose her own costume. I tried to get her to be sponge bob, a princess, a fairy, anything but she said she wanted to be a spooky witch!!!(Like mother, like daughter i guess) She looked very cute, i mean spooky! She had so much fun trick or treating. She says trick or treat, smell my feet!! It's funny but don't smell her feet cause really, they STINK!!!!

My two little goblins!!!!!

Halloween Fun!!!

We had such a fun halloween this year! Camden is at the perfect age to totally get into it and i think that halloween is by far her favorite holiday. Cawa's is not so sure!!
We made this "Spooky" cake (as Camden calls it) for the ward halloween party and it turned out really cute!!

This was the kids contribution to making the cake!! Hurry and eat as much batter as we can get before mom can do the dishes, then it was on to frosting. Like they don't get enough candy anyway lets load up on the sugar please!!!!

Brook and Blake carved the pumpkins and even if they don't admit it they did have fun!!

I figured the kids were to little for the carving so we bought a Haunted House for them to make. As you can tell by their faces it think it was a hit!! Thanks grandma for the spooky jammies!