January Days

In January we tried to get life in the swing of things. This was an example of a typical afternoon. I was impressed that Spencer started rolling from his tummy to his back before he was three months old. That is a record for our slow moving kids. I left the camera down and Lora took about a 100 random pictures. She got a picture of Cole playing game cube and one

of her fingers and numerous other pictures.

January happenings that didn't get pictures or the pictures are on C.J.'s phone. Nathan started wrestling and is tough! Sam has been doing a lot of scout fund raisers for national jamboree next summer - the biggest fund raiser was a yummy all you can eat crab feed. C.J. is working hard at seminary and we had all the seminary kids at our house for make-up Christmas breakfast (since the other one got cancelled because of the snow). Josh is busy with scouts, high cap, piano, and voice lessons too. Grandma and Grandpa Cahoon also came for a weekend and helped us get a lot of projects done. We built Lora's Ikea dresser, fixed our broken recliner, build dvd storage shelves and cut bedroom doors so they would shut now that the new carpet is in and is thicker. We are so grateful for their help!

Cahoon Family Christmas Pictures

We decided we had better take a few quick pictures for Christmas cards and for a calender Aunt Angela was making for Grandma Stevens. After church I told the kids they couldn't disappear and do the superman change, my friend Taryn Harmon came over and took pictures for us. C.J. and I joked that red and black on pacific northwest winter white family is not the best complementary choice to add to our looks but hey, that's what we look like and memories! The family picture is taken in front of our tree house. Lora is not the favored child but I haven't figured out how to change the order of pictures once they are downloaded and I had to go back and look for hers. Here is a picture with Nathan and Santa at our ward Christmas party too.

Spencer's Blessing

Our sweet little Spencer's blessing day was eventful. We decided to wait until December to bless him as he was still little and pretty sick in early November. We got special permission from our bishop to bless him the second Sunday in December so Grandma and Grandpa Cahoon could make it (they had a schedule conflict the first Sunday). The big weekend rolled around and so did the weather. We had a big blizzard hit. Grandma and Pa C. made it okay and my folks were still on the rode and going over mountain passes. I was worried they wouldn't make it - I called and told my dad if they couldn't it would be okay but he told me they would be here unless the roads were closed. Sure enough my mom and dad and cousin Isaac braved the storm and made it safetly. The next day for church we got a call that because a lot of our ward lives up big hills and roads were slick, church was canceled. Aaag! A member of our bishopric Eric Wilson came to our house and we were able to have a wonderful sweet blessing. We missed Gina as our blessing recorder. We sang a songs together, had a little primary lesson, played games, had a nice dinner, and just enjoyed feelings of love and peace in our home. All the Grandmas and Pas had a terrible time traveling home but we will forever remember all of their sacrifices to be here and the wonderful feelings of love they brought and showed to our little boy.

December Snow-in

Hi Everybody!

This is Sam. I am helping my Mom since she has been a little bit behind on her blog. So we will start in December.

Here in Washington it has been more snowy than usual! But it definitely has been both good and bad. First of all the snow has been so frequent and hard that school and church were canceled for two weeks. School was canceled for a week also. But then the roads have been icy and scary and many cars crashed. Our car slid and spun a few times too! Luckily, we still live!

Tami back again - The kids had a great sledding snow forting and caroling in really deep snow. Our only big worry was if everyone was going to make it for Spencer's blessing and if we got to to to Boise for Christmas. All turned out well though!