Busy December

I wanted to go back a little and tell you that I took Cayman to the dentist for the first time in November. She did a great job and was very good. They took some x-rays of her teeth and you can see her new teeth beneath her baby teeth. In about 2-3 years they will start coming in. They also cleaned her teeth. She was real good at being very still. What a good experience. Cayman had no cavities and her teeth look great. She got a little goody bag with toothpaste, a toothbrush, floss and some toys in it. How fun. We are doing better at brushing our teeth at night.




Cayman also started Ballet. She is taking classes every Wednesday night at Dancin it up right off of Redwood road by our house. It is a 45 minute class and on the first Wed. of the month we can watch her. The other times I get to drop her off and go do a couple errands. She is loving it so far. I can't wait to see her in January and see what she has learned. The class will go until May. We got to pick out her own outfit and she picked out a princess leotard and tights. We got ballet slippers too. She is so dang cute!


Cory had Shoulder Surgery on his right shoulder the beginning of the month and when the doctor got in to fix him up he noticed that things were worse than the MRI had shown. The original plan was to have him in a sling for 10 days with recovery and therapy for 4-5 weeks. Now, it is a sling for 5 weeks. NO moving of his arm at all. Therapy at the end of 4 weeks where a therapist will move the arm for him and then decide how much motion Cory has and if we can start therapy with Cory moving his own arm.
This is not a fun thing to have done. Cory has missed 2 weeks of work and this has been a really big challenge for me. I have to feed the baby, change the baby, bathe the baby, hold the baby, bathe Cory, cut his food, help him get dressed, and take care of Cayman. Cory can't do anything to help out with the baby at all. He maybe can hold him for a couple minutes. I just want to say that I am feeling sorry for myself but this is taking a toll on me. Cooper is very needy and It is hard for me to hold him all the time. I am so tired, I feel like I have no time to myself and to be a good mom I feel like I need to be able to take a break. It is going to be a long 4 more weeks. Having one arm is not easy. I know Cory is frustrated with not being able to help do anything and to be stuck in a sling is no fun. He usually does so much and is so wonderful with the kids. I miss him helping me so I didn't feel so alone.I am lucky to have Cory be such a wonderful husband and father I can't wait to get him back. We will get through this but I may be crazy in the end! AHHHHH!!!! Cayman got have some fun though. She got to have a sleepover with CJ and Jackie Friday night. Then went with Alli and Paul to visit Santa at Walmart on Saturday and hang out and then that night went to Festival of trees with Cj and Jackie. She sure loves her aunts and Uncles.

We have been able to get some really cute pictures of the kids and us in the house with our tree and out in the snow. It was fun letting Cayman play outside and catch snowflakes on her tongue with her daddy.








Cayman, Cooper and I went to the Princess and the Frog with Cj and Jackie for her birthday and it was a really cute movie. Cayman loved it. The movie was actually really good and It went pretty well taking a baby. He did just fine.

Here are our Beenie Babies: What cute kids we have!!



The other night we wrote letters to Santa Clause.
Cayman said she really wants a princess bike. I hope Santa can get it for her. We then mailed the letter to him in the North Pole and it was fun.
We have visited a couple Santa's this year and I think our favorite is Grandpa Santa! What a cute Santa he is.

We got lots of pics this year with him and It is so neat that the kids will be able to have these pictures of Santa(great-grandpa Vincent) to have as memories forever. Cayman sure loves to sit on Santa's Lap.



Every year we go to this home in Bountiful that has a light show and Santa in the window. Cayman loves to watch forever and see him wave to her in the car and to walk around the room he is in. He eats Cookies and drinks milk and she thinks it is real. The other night a lady was walking into this house when Cayman said "I want to go see Santa too." Me: "I know, she is really lucky huh?" Cayman: I want to be lucky too!" What a sweetie. She loves Santa.
The other night I asked her help in getting me some baby wipes off the ledge in the family room. She grabbed out one and then the box started falling. She caught it before it fell to the ground and put in back up on the ledge. I said," Wow, I can't believe how big you are. You are so grown up to be able to help me." She says, "I know, Can I drive your car now?" Hahahaha! What a joker! That was so funny! She has been saying the darndest things!
Hope everyone enjoys our pictures. I will post more around Christmas!

Thanksgiving, ice skating and lights!

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone. I am a little late getting this posted. How the time flies by me in the blink of an eye. Christmas is coming way too fast!
Cory came home from work one day and had brought me a dozen pink roses and Cayman 6 red carnations. She was so happy she got flowers. What a good daddy!
We went iceskating on Tuesday night at my work and asked Cj and Jackie to come with us. I just sat out and took the pictures with Cooper and Cory took Cayman out on the ice. She loves to iceskate but it is easiest when she has 2 hands to hold. This is why Jackie and Cj pretty much had Cayman the whole night. Cory would take Cayman around just himself and she wanted Jackie too. Cory and Jackie took her a couple times and then Cj and Cory took Cayman a couple times. It worked out great to have 2 extra hands there for Cayman to hold onto. It was pretty fun. We then went home and made Caymans favorite treat...Cookies. She loves to eat cookies.




On Wednesday I made my food to take on Thanksgiving. I made a chocolate pie, an Apple pie and mini Huckleberry Cheescakes. We also made a cheeseball. Cayman loves to help out and so we did this together. She pretty much got to lick the bowls and beaters clean. Yummm!!


Thanksgiving day we went to Candice and Dallas's home to eat. I only got a couple pictures and they are of everyone in the kitchen.

I am so thankful for family and friends who love us. I also am so very thankful for my husband and 2 kids. They are my life. I love every minute good and bad I have with them because that shows that life is not perfect. We are so blessed and thankful for our beautiful home, our cars, our jobs and for our health. We are also so thankful for the gospel. Much to be thankful for so I just put a few. I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving. I know that dessert was my favorite part other than spending it with family.

Friday we went to Gateway and shopped for a little bit. We got the kids some christmas stuff at Old Navy and that is about all the Christmas shopping we have done. Saturday we watched the last Utah game of the season and I went to Twilight with Connie and Grandma Vincent. It was a fun day.
Cooper has a hard time calming down to fall asleep and he loves his face covered. He will just pull the blanket and snuggle right down into it with his nose. He was having a tantrum the other afternoon so I just put him down on the couch with the blanket and less than 1 minute later, he was sound asleep. This is the picture of how he went to sleep. So funny.
We went to Temple Square Tuesday night with Alli and Paul and hired a Carriage to take us on a ride. Cory and I thought Cayman would love to do this and so we set it up. It was quite fun but pretty cold. Cayman made it perfectly clear that she wanted to sit with Paul and Alli. We had a hard time getting her to come sit with us to get a picture.





Cooper had such a red little nose. He did so good. He didn't even cry once. I made hot chocolate and after the ride we found a spot amongst the lights to sit down and warm up. It sure was good.
Little Cooper was just plain cold and tired and after covering up his face but one little eye, he fell fast asleep.
We looked at the lights and then went to eat at Hires. We had some good burgers, fries and rootbeer and Cayman got an icecream cone! What a great way to end the evening.
Cayman starts her ballet class tonite and Cory has his shoulder surgery on Friday. I will post more about that later.