Introducing...

CAYSON DAVID COX

7 lbs 3 oz 19" long

December 13, 2008

He is our best Christmas present ever!!!

Cayson has been such a good baby. He is definitely lazy. He seems to sleep all day and for 3-4 hours each night. He is so cute and already has a personality as you can tell in top picture. Everything went better than can be expected and we are so happy to have him here.

Puppies

This is our Male. We call him Runt just because he started out as the smallest, but he has bypassed some of the others by now. He has a great personality. He is both very playful and lazy at times too!

This is our female Precious. She lives up to her name as she is sweet and laidback.

This is our most outgoing female. We call her Whitehead. She is personality plus!!!

Puppy Love

We had a litter of puppies and this is what has been keeping us busy lately. We have to feed them every 3 hours. They are getting really cute though and definately super stinky.

If anyone wants an English Bulldog give us a call!!

Dracula

The girls got these scary Dracula Teeth. They had to wear them all over the house saying Grrr!

Halloween Fun

Cami wanted to be a "freaky" witch. She was very spooky indeed. She loved trick or treating and ate so much candy she said she is done eating it for a long time.

Cara was just excited to be included in the whole dressing up game. Her favorite part was her broom. She didn't really get into the candy thing very much and ended up sitting with me in the truck handing out candy and saying "HI" to all of the passers by.

Woo-Don't they look SPOOKY!

A Hunting We Will Go

Cami was ready to hit the hilltops early saturday morning with Daddy. It only took a little tiny shake before she jumped out of bed and rushed to get her hunter orange on. She loved everything about it!




The big kill!!! Cami's response when asked about hunting is, Gutting a deer is not gross it is cool! Uncle Van showed her a "beeping heart" and the deer was already dead. Wow I wonder if all of this education is really considered a good thing.

Tomatoes and more Tomatoes

Mary Dee came home last weekend with 4 huge boxes of tomatoes. So we went to work. We made 6 batches of salsa and made the rest into stewed tomatoes and juice. I didn't count, but I have 3 full cupboards

Cami was such a trooper the whole day. She help grandma while I was at work, and then kept going after I got home. She sat and peeled tomatoes and filled bottles for 4 hours straight until she reminded me she needed to eat. After a short 20 min break, she was back to work peeling with her very own knife. She was so exhausted that night that she practically fell into bed. We did have to retire her shirt. The tomato juice just wouldn't come out.

Cara also had to be a big helper. She would gather the tomatoes from the box and bring them over to us. She of course took a bite of them most of the time before handing them over.

Mary Dee and Aubrey worked really hard. So hard that they wouldn't even look up for a picture.

CHIPS ANYONE!!!

Target Practice

Dave's neice Brittany has been going to school at Dixie. She comes up alot and hangs at our house. She is trying to get her Hunter's Safety. So, Dave took all us girls out for target practice.

Britt had some trouble hitting the target until we remembered she was blind in her right eye. Dave taught her how to shoot left handed and she actually started to hit a few!

Cami is always excited to shoot her gun. On the way back home, she excitedly exclaimed, "Britt, you can come to our house every night and we will shoot guns. It will be fun fun fun!"

Aubrey is an ole' pro. She really is a good shot. You should see this girl on a rabbit hunt!

Cara is just happy to be here. She thought the gigantic sand pile was the greatest thing ever!

Chirp E Chirp

Cami and Grandma found this baby bird in our yard. It had obviously fell out of a tree and needed some love!

I think we loved it a little too much. She was sadly disappointed the next morning when she tried to convince us that Chirp E Chirp was just sleeping and not really dead. We once again got a lesson on afterlife. She was quick to point out that because the bird died in our house, it was part of our family now and we could live with it forever.

Majority Rules!

So the poll results are in and the majority definiately ruled. We are having a boy. We are very excited, but I will have to say that I am a little nervous. I'm not sure that I know how to do the boy thing. It is weird to think about how different it might be. We are trying to think of some names. I am not sure if we will follow the same "Ca" sequence we have been using, or if we will break out of our shell. Does anyone have any name suggestions that start with Ca? It's fun to hear the options.

Cami wins First Place

Cami entered a coloring contest for the Town and Country Bank. She colored a Mini Cooper car and won first place. She won a $50 savings account. She was very excited. The top picture is the front page of the bank news letter. That is Cami posing with the Bank President. He said her smile was electric and he wanted to use her for their commercials. I thought I had explained everything so well to her about what she had won, but I guess I was mistaken when we went to the bank to claim her prize. She whispered in my ear. Mom, when are they going to give me my account? Turns out she had no idea what an "Account" really was. Now she just get really excited every month when she gets her own letter in the mail.

Camera Fun Again!

COUSINS BY CHANCE...FRIENDS BY CHOICE!

Tate • Maisie • Cami

Cara

Maisie the Beautiful

Size Matters!!!

This is the campground at Main Canyon. Some of the kids favorite activities were throwing rocks in the creek and playing hide and go seek. Maisie and Cami had to make some camo for the hide and go seek game.

We went fishing at Strawberry Reservoir. Cara pretty much cried to whole time. She hates lifejackets. Here is a rare shot of when she finally gave in.

Maisie and Cami had a lot of fun together. All of the Potter kids were fun to take camping with us!

Cami was so excited to catch this 23" trout. Look close she could hardly hold it up. She had to stick her whole hand inside!

Memories Tag

Memory Tag
1. As a comment on my blog, leave one memory that you and I had together. It doesn't matter if you knew me a little or a lot, anything you remember!
2. Next, re-post these instructions on your blog and see how many people leave a memory about you. It's actually pretty funny to see the responses. If you leave a memory about me, I'll assume you're playing the game and I'll come to your blog and leave one about you.
This tag can be for anyone in our family.

The BIG Flood!

This is why we live in St. George in July.

This used to be our driveway!

Dave was trying to save the driveway, but it was a lost cause.


This was our cutest big awesome tree out front. Cami is standing in our front yard.

Turns out we are Boat People

I never thought it would be true or ever happen, but we bought a boat. It is a Party Barge pontoon boat and big enought to hold true to it's name. We took it out on Saturday with Scott's family.
This is one of the few rare moments that Cara smiled the whole day. She was mostly miserable because of her lifejacket.
She also was caught kissing Anne. Cute Kissing Cousins anyway!




Cami thought this whole boating thing was the greatest ever. She tubed with Uncle Scott and swam and jumped off rocks and mostly just had a blast

Yes that is Scott wakeboarding behind the pontoon boat!

PS thanks for the picture Kjirsten. I stole them off of your blog!

SMF Reunion

This past week was the annual SMF family reunion. We go with my mom and dad and all of my brothers and sisters. We went camping to Southfork where we always went camping every year as kids. We tubed down the river, tried to catch squirrels, made clay animals and mostly played in the dirt.

It was fun had by all.