Kamden 2 months

Time flies! It fills like just yesterday that I delivered Kamden. He has brought our family such joy! Kasen and Avery love to hold, kiss, and play with their baby brother. Kamden had a couple of fussy weeks, but as you can see from the pictures he is now a very happy baby. I had to go back to work which has been one of the most challenging things I have had to do. Knowing that Kamden was getting great care at the sitters, I still cried every morning for about a week. The first morning I didn't cry Avery said, "Mama good job for not crying today. Don't worry we will take good care of Kamden." Kamden has adjusted very well and we sure do love our little guy!

Thanks to my babysitter who loves and adores my children.

Museum

We were headed up to see my friend Carrie and her family when I got the call. Her daughter had few days earlier had come down with the stomach flu. She called again Friday night and said she still had a fever. I told the kids that we would not be able to go and the tears started streaming down their little faces. We felt so bad that we told them we would take them to the museum and then they were o.k. Early Saturday morning we left for Vegas and headed to the Natural History Museum. The museum was very old and run down but my kids absolutely loved it. They had a shark tank, dinosaurs that roared and a WHOLE lot of stuffed animals. After the museum we went to my mom and dads house where the kids continued to play. Nick and I got to sneak away to the movie Marley and Me. It was a great movie but very sad. Though the kids were still a little disappointed they did not get to see their friend Kadence, it was a fun day spent with our family.

Kamden- 6 Weeks

Kamden Moore

6- weeks We sure wish he would sleep this soundly at night! :)

Mammoth Creek

At about 8:00p.m. Friday night we decided we would go up to Mammoth Creek, Utah early Saturday morning. Nick's mom and dad called us at about 9:00 a.m. to tell us the highway we needed to take was shut down due to snow. We had to take this very long detour through Panguitch. The rodes were icy and very slick. Luckily we took Julie and Carl's Jeep Commander.

We tried and tried to get a hold of Nick's parents and could not get through. We even started watching the side of the rode in case the got into an accident. We reached Mammoth Creek at about 4:00p.m. Tried to drive to the cabin and there was two much snow. About 3feet to much. Again we couldn't get a hold of Nick's mom or dad and we did not know what to do.

We went to the only parking area in which we got our vehicle stuck. We waited and waited. Nick finally found someone who would snow mobile him to the cabin. On the we we found his parents stuck in the snow. They had been stuck for 6 hours. They had to hire a guy to dig a path to their cabin. They told us it would be done in about 45 minutes. It wasn't.

We had to sit in the car with two hungry kids for 31/2 hours. I think Nick only had to get out of the car once to let out a scream or two. We had left at 8:45 a.m. and finally got to the cabin at 8:00p.m. that night. I told Nick that is what we get for being spontaneous.

After we finally got settled into the cabin we did enjoy snow-mobiling, making snowmen and sitting by the warm fire. Avery still hates wearing all of those snow close. On are way home we stopped to see my grandma in Beaver Utah. She loves visiting the kids and giving them rides on her walker.

Christmas Day at Pahrump Grandma and Grandpas

By 7:00 a.m. we were on our way to Pahrump grandma and grandpas house for there third Christmas. They were very spoiled there as well. Kasen again reminded us on our short drive to grandmas that we are actually celebrating baby Jesus birthday.

Kasen got this really cool remote control dinosaur named Spike. He roars, walks, bites, snores and many other different things. The adults had just as much fun playing with him as Kasen. Avery got her very first doll house. She loves it.

We are very lucky to have the family we do. We love them all very much.

Kasen, Alex, and Jackson (cousins) having dinosaur fights. Merry Christmas!!

Christmas Day

The kids awoke bright and early (5:30 a.m.) Christmas morning. They were ecstatic that Santa came to our house. Kasen reassured us that he had been good all year. Kasen loves music and wanted a drum set. Well Santa gave in and brought him one. BIG MISTAKE!It is so loud, but his face was priceless when he opened it. He also got the WII in which he loves playing Mario Kart. Kasen loved all of his gifts and couldn't wait to open and play with each one.


Avery's favorite gift was her motorized Volts Wagon Bug. SCARY DRIVER she is. I am not sure how much more our walls can take. She got a Dora Magna Doodle in which she loves drawing on and baby puppy who wines and cries. By 7:00 a.m. We were off to Pahrump Grandma and grandpas.

Christmas Eve in Las Vegas

It is tradition that we go to my parents house on Christmas Eve in Las Vegas and spend Christamas day with Nicks family. My kids are one of the lucky few that get three Christmas by the time we are finished. We always have a nice dinner. This year was the best yet. It was so cute to listen to Kasen tell my parents that Christmas is not just about presents, but it is actually Jesus birthday. He was really excited and gave our Christmas dinner prayer. Also a couple of weeks ago he gave a talk in church about the birth of Jesus and why we celebrate Christmas. He had asked if he could give that same talk at our Christmas dinner. It just set the tone to such a beautiful and fun night together as a family.

Now, I would be lying if I said Kasen did not care about presents. He loves them! I think he loves opening them. Some of the packages he ripped open so fast he didn't even look inside. He was just on to the next one.

He got a remote control car, doctor set, umbrella, clothes, Power Rangers, Transformers and the list goes on. He just got plain SPOILED! Avery on the other hand kind of sat back and watched for a minute. It didn't take her long to figure out that unwrapping was a blast. My mom does a cute thing to label the gifts. Instead of writing their names on tags, she prints pictures of them that she has taken through out the year. Little Avery had no trouble finding all of her gifts.

Avery got a Pack n Play set, new baby, remote control car, umbrella, clothes, etch a sketch and her list goes on as well. Her auntie sent a cute Princess tiara and wand. It was so funny. Later Avery kept saying Abbra Cadabra (spelling error I'm sure) make brother disappear. Our evening came to and end and my kids were so grateful to spend time with their Las Vegas grandma and grandpa. Thanks again for all of the wonderful gifts.