February park days posted in June - Great!

This blogging makes me feel stressed. It is just like scrapbooking. It's not that hard but it just feels a little overwhelming to get started on. Some day I am going to get caught up!
These pictures were from a fun day in February. It rains a lot here in the winter but we also have some beautiful day that give us a hope and little boost of joy. On this day Spencer, Cole, Lora and I decided to go to Lake Sacajawea which is right by C.J.'s hospital. We called him and lucked out as he was able to meet us for a few minutes for lunch. It was great to enjoy the sunshine, my hubby's great company and being outside. Life is good!

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!

Lora and Cole Keep Spencer's Life Exciting!

This is a triple trouble combo. This toilet paper spread throughout the whole house happend while I was working on my blog the first time. It is no wonder I don't do it more often!
Funny Cole!


Lovely Lora knows she gets good reactions when she plays with her big brothers game boy!
Today while I was showering I came out to see she had a tube of hemroid creme and was smearing it on the walls of our newly painted and carpeted front room. It's a good thing we love her!

Out of Order But Fun Beginnings With Spencer

What is the best medicine for really tired parents of a new born and five other busy kids?

Just have Aunt GiGi come and help for a week! My kids still say she is super lady! I am a little behind on my laundry and Sam recommended that I call Gina and ask her to come and visit again to get me back up to speed! She was amazing! My kids and hubby had hot breakfast every morning and lunches nicely packed. They didn't even have to race for the school bus. David had a little bit of a rough time - he left our house with a black eye and two or three goose eggs. I also did a whopper and took several wrong turns when getting Gin and David to the airport and made them miss their flight. Oh well, keeps life exciting! How grateful we were for them coming.



Grandma and Grandpa Stevens Fabulous Visit!

Grandma gave Spencer a bath but unfortunetly he hates being cold so he screams!!!

Grandma and Spencer like this rocking and snuggling much better!

Grandpa was a hit. He came and took a Cole, Josh and C.J. to the coast crabbing. They didn't catch anything but they had fun.

How great it is to have Grandma and Grandpa visit. We were spoiled! I got to sleep in, and got help with laundry, meals ,soccer games, and baby relief. The worst part is when they leave.



Pictures With Grandma and Grandpa Cahoon were taken with their camera and will have to added later. We had a great visit from them too!

My sweet hubby kept tradition and bought me flowers. Since we weren't really prepared for Spencer to come three weeks early, C.J. had to do a lot of last minute jobs for me. I didn't get flowers from him at the hospital so I thought they might be waiting at home. We got home and no flowers - bummer! The little kids were at a friends and the big boys at school so C.J. and I decided to take a nap. C.J. told me he was putting "do not disturb" signs on the doors. In reality he was giving directions to our friend the florist to come on in and leave the flowers on the table. What a great surprise to wake up to! Way to to pull through hubby. These were my favorite roses ever. They lasted two weeks beautifully!

This looks like a very complete family to me!

This is the first picture of all of us together.

The boys were showing their Halloween costumes to Grandma and Grandpa.