Santa

We had a Cardon Christmas Party last weekend. My parents had a Santa Claus come to pass out presents. All the kids loved it. Well Kamron didn't love sitting on Santa's lap so much but he liked staring at him.

All the kids staring enraptured by Santa

Making Candy Canes

Our kids are at such a fun age right now. Matt is a great brother and friend and still likes to play with his little brothers (which I know won't always be the case), Chase mentions his birthday and Christmas multiple times a day and is so excited about them, and Kamron is walking all over wanting to be involved in whatever his brothers are doing. So this year, we decided to get a little more organized for Christmas and to do a lot of fun things with the kids. Tim used to make candy canes at a friend's house when he was younger, so he wanted to try it out with the kids. We got Strawberry, butterscotch, and watermelon flavoring.

The boys with all of their finished candy canes

Kamron eating a watermlon candy cane

Rolling the candy into canes look at those faces of concentration!


getting ready to make the candy into canes, I know the pictures aren't in order, sorry

It was a lot of fun and the kids had a blast, even if the candy didn't turn out the prettiest.

Kamron Turns 1

Such a happy little boy!

Kamron turned one year old today. I feel kind of bad cause I really didn't do much for his birthday, but I did make him some cupcakes and gave him an ice cream cone. He seemed to enjoy himself.

This was right after I took the candle away from him cause he was eating it.

Kamron is such a sweet little boy! He is growing up way too fast. He took his first steps the other day and can get anywhere he wants crawling all over. He has 7 teeth and loves to bite with them. He loves pulling my hair, which drives me crazy, but I can't seem to get him to stop. He is the sweetest little boy and I'm so glad to have him in our family!

Deer Hunt

We spent the last week camping in the mountains by Yost for the annual deer hunt. It was interesting trying to keep two little boys occupied when all they really wanted to do was roll around in the dirt and mud. But it was a good week. Tim and Travis (my brother in law) each got a deer. Travis on Thursday and Tim on Friday. Travis also shot a coyote. Matt was kind of sick with a cough so he didn't get to hunt nearly as much as he would have liked, but we did go out on a few drives including a field trip over to City of Rocks, which was pretty cool.

Kamron

I left the pantry door open for a few minutes this morning while I ran downstairs on a conference call with my husband and tech support. When I came back upstairs, this is what I found. He is pretty good at getting into things. I have found him in a very similar situation 2 other times involving a roll of toilet paper! What a stinker!

Jazper is so good with Kamron, he lets him crawl all over him

Here are some pics of Kamron's toe. I have no idea what happened. The Dr. thinks it is an infection from his toenail, but the blister is on the end of his toe, not around the toenail so that doesn't make much sense to me. It doesn't seem to bother him, so for now he is on antibiotics. Hopefully it gets better soon. (the big white thing on the tip of his toe is a really big blister).

Isn't he just adorable!

Big Boy Haircut

Tim and I finally cut Kamron's hair on Sunday. I have gotten several comments lately saying that I really need to cut his hair. I have been putting it off for awhile because, I don't know if Tim will ever agree to have another baby so I am trying to prolong the baby days as long as possible. But I finally broke down and cut it. It took both me and Tim to cut it and hold him down and even then he was pretty wiggly so it's a pretty bad haircut, but he does look pretty cute. He definately looks a lot older and a lot more like Chase than we realized.

Camping Trips

We went camping in Cottonwood Canyon last weekend with the Bell family (Tim's sister and cousins). We were celebrating Matt, Brody and Brielle's birthdays. We had a lot of fun with 4 wheelers, horses, Emerson Drive concert at the Emery County Fair, and lots of cousins!

Chase, Kamron, and I also went to a friend's family cabin overnight. We had a sewing party and Chase had fun playing with the other kids.

The fort that the kids made

All the cousins after the scavenger hunt for the birthday prize

Pictures of the Day

This is what I found when I came back downstairs from putting the baby to bed.

Chase decided to get dressed all by himself this morning while I was brushing my teeth. He did pretty good considering he has never put a shirt on by himself and he even had it on the right way. Only problem was he got both legs into one hole. He was pretty upset!

Kamron's Getting So Big!

I can't believe how big Kamron is getting! He is 9 1/2 months old. He is crawling all over the place now! He hates eating baby food. He wants to be a big boy and eat with the rest of us. He has 4 teeth and is about to cut 2 more. He is still my happy little boy and quick to smile. When I sing him lullabys to get him to sleep, he sings along with me! Very cute. I just wish he would stay little forever!

Oh yeah, and he LOVES ice cream cones!

Ben and Maria's Wedding

My little brother Ben got married a few weeks ago to a beautiful Maria. They were married in the Timpanogos Temple. It was perfect. Maria speaks pretty good english (she is from Mexico) but her mother doesn't speak any english. Luckily Maria and her brother were able to translate a lot plus, 2 of my brothers, my brother-in-law, and I are all fluent in spanish. So that made it a little easier.Ben and Maria at the temple
All of my siblings made it for the wedding (all 9 of us!) This is the dashing couple, all of my siblings and our spouses (My oldest brother and sister's spouses weren't able to make it and my youngest brother isn't married)

My sisters and I were the bridesmaids. Maria with her mom and my mom.

All of my brothers and brothers-in-law were groomsmen. Maria, Ben and my dad. Maria's dad wasn't able to come from Mexico for the wedding.

Chase at the reception. He was a mess!

Tim and Matt at the reception

Congratulations Guys!

Family Reunion Part II

I wanted to add a few more pictures from the Reunion

Meal time
Tim's parents and all of their children
(For those of you who don't know, Tim was adopted by his grandparents, so these are his siblings or his aunts and uncles, whichever way you want to look at it)

Cute boys!!!

Matt had been playing in the dirt all day and was filthy

Tim's parents (grandparents). They are in their 90's so they were quite the troopers to come up to the mountains and hang out!