Basketball

I found a few more pictures of the boys playing basketball from 2010.

This is Cayden's team.

Gavyn loves to watch his big brothers play sports.

This is Bryce's team.

Family Fun

Our family loves to go skiing and snowboarding. We try to go as much as we can during the winter months. After one skiing lesson the little boys were going straight down the face of the mountain. On this trip we took Cayden's friend, Ben, with us also. He had never been snowboarding before, but Cayden was excited to teach him and Ben caught on really quickly. They had so much fun. On the way down the older boys kept themselves busy while the Bryce and Gavyn slept.

I LOVE this picture! So cute!

Here is Curtis not thinking it is so great for me to be taking his picture.

And..I had to show the fact that I was indeed there!

Bryce trying to wake up...unsuccessfully.

Gavyn having a little more luck.

And now Bryce is happy and ready to go to the slopes.

Uncle Tyler decided to give Cayden a few tips on his snowboard.

I had a hard time getting pictures of Cayden because he kept zooming past me. Finally I made him stop and smile for the camera.

Here is Ben making his way down the mountain.

Bryce had a great time. He went up and down the mountain more times than I could count. We had a really hard time getting him to stop for some dinner.

This little boy is always all smiles.

Here Bryce is with Grandpa Smith in the lodge.

Gavyn and Grandpa Smith hung out most of the time together. Gavyn folllowed him up and down the mountain.

When riding with Gavyn to the top of the mountain one certainly does hear a lot of stories. He is the funniest kid...I do not think he EVER stops talking...but I would not want it any other way.

I had to take a picture of this because it made me laugh. When sitting with Gavyn this is what his feet look like. Most people's feet hand down, but Gavyn's feet barely reached the end of the seat so his skis stick straight up in front of our bodies. I found it quite entertaining.

And then we headed home...

Bryce fell alseep first.

Gavyn and Cayden soon followed.

And finally, Ben fell asleep.

It was such a good trip. Fun was had by all!

January 2010

I am going to once again try to catch up on my pictures. I cannot believe that I have not posted pictures since December of 2009. That is really bad!!! I have folders set up for every month of the year and I guess I will start with where I left off and see if I can get caught up again.

Here is my Gavyn. He is definately my silly boy...always up to something.



This was Cayden's first pine wood derby. The pictures are not great, but that is okay.

These are the scouts who came to race their cars. We were missing 7 boys at this derby.

We lived in a huge ward. I am still in the same ward now, but since I have lived in this ward it has been divided up twice to create two new wards in our area.

This is Cayden at a basketball game. He is #8.

Again, not great pictures.



Bryce played basketball as well .

I love to watch my boys play sports.

And, here is Gavyn's magic show he put on for me.

My dad taught him this one day during the weekly Gavyn and Grandpa days they have.

What once was lost has now been FOUND

YAY. Cayden's Ipod has been found and returned. This sweet family found it last week and has been doing their own research trying to find its owner. They were able to figure out that it belonged to a Cayden and assumed he was 10 to 12 years old because of the pant size. They asked around at church and were able to find the name's of two different Cayden's. I got a phone call and this is how it went...

Caller: Are you the lady of the household?
Me: Yes.
Caller: Do you have a son whose name starts with a C?
Me: Yes.
Caller: How do you spell his name?
Me: C-A-Y-D-E-N (I think we are the only ones who spell it this way)
Caller: Has he recently lost something?
Me: YOU JUST MADE MY DAY! He lost a pair of black warm up pants...
Caller: Nike?
Me: Yes, Nike, and they have an Ipod touch in the pocket.

Then I hear him tell his family in the background...It's him, they knew about the Ipod touch.

We drove over to his house and I have the happiest little boy on the block. The amazing thing is the pants had been run over and have tire marks on them, but the Ipod wasn't hit. I am so grateful for people like this in this world. What a good Sunday it has been!

Happy Birthday Mayson

My sweet baby boy would have turned 3 today. I am waiting for 11:25 pm to come around. Every year Curtis and I go and spend time at his grave from 11:25 pm to 12:00 am because that was when he was alive. We let a balloon go at midnight and then we head home. I love doing this and spending this time with my husband in memory of our beautiful baby Mayson. I so look forward to when I will be able to see him again. I love you Mayson!

2008 - Mayson, Mama, and Daddy's Hands

LOST and hoping to find...

We have lost something and we need help finding it. Cayden placed his warm-up pants on the bumper of the Tahoe yesterday afternoon and forgot they were there. Shortly after that we went to town and now the pants are gone. The kicker is....his Ipod Touch was in the pocket of those pants. We have five witnesses who saw it on Merkley Lane just North of the intersection with Tanner Lane, but they are no longer there. The Touch is password protected so whoever picked it up will not be able to see who it belongs to. If any on you hear anything or remember seeing anything please give me a call. I have quite a distraught little boy. Thanks!

2010 - Cayden receiving an Ipod Touch for his 10th birthday.

Baseball and my boys!

So, what have the Cornell's been up to this past couple of months?

(I have a picture of my calendar that is supposed to upload here, but it won't work. So, I will show it later.)

Baseball, baseball, and MORE baseball! Good thing I love the sport. I have had so much fun watching Bryce and Cayden play these past couple of months. Bryce hit his first home run yesterday ~ he had a great game! And Cayden has been the starting pitcher all season pitching the first 3 innings of all but 3 games. The kids that age are only allowed to pitch 6 innings a week so when he had 3 games in a week he pitched the first 2 innings of each game. In his first 12 innings pitched he had only one kid he walked. We are so proud of these boys!

Three things of note:
1. Cayden was picked to be on the traveling ALL-STAR team this year. There were only two 9-year-old picked and he was one of them!
2. Today marks a special day for Bryce ~ He lost his first tooth! YAY for Bryce! He was hoping this would happen before he finished first grade and he made it with only two days of school left!
3. Gavyn has been the sweetest little boy. He has gladly gone to every game, every practice, and cheered on his brothers until he was blue in the face. He did however let his brothers know that he starts T-BALL next month and he expects them to be sitting down and cheering him on as well. I think he has earned it!

This post is all over the place, but I am trying to think of anything of importance that has happened since I last wrote. School is out on Friday. I am glad that school is almost over so that I will have the kids home to hang out with. I am one of those parents who LOVE when their kids are out of school.

I am no longer a Realtor. I have decided to go back to school full-time to get my teaching degree. I start in June and I am SO excited. I absolutely love school. I am going to be taking online courses through Grand Canyon University so the program will only take me 2 years max because of the prevoius schooling I have done.

Curtis got another free & clear check up from his oncologist last week. We dread those appointments, yet look forward to them at the same time. His next one is in November. I have to say that it is really nice knowing that they are keeping a close eye on him to make sure the cancer doesn't come back. It gives good peace of mind.

Cloud Analogy

As anyone living in Idaho knows, this past couple of weeks have been miserable with constant intermittent rain, snow, blasting wind (with advisory's), and bitter cold. We have had baseball games four nights a week and have had to sit through the lovely weather almost every night. As we were headed to one of Cayden's games last week Bryce looked up and noticed another dark cloud headed our way and asked what it meant when some clouds were darker than others and why the dark clouds rain on us. I gave him a small explanation of how colds can only hold so much precipitation making them darker until they can no longer hold it and then it starts to rain.

Bryce was still asking questions and Cayden jumped in to answer for me. He told Bryce that the clouds are like our bladders. Clouds hold the rain just like our bladders hold our pee. It can only hold so much pee before we have got to go to the bathroom and let it out just like the clouds eventually have to let the rain out.

After Cayden explained this Bryce thinks for a minute and replies, " oh, okay. I get it now." I turned around to Cayden and said, "Cayden, great analogy!"

I love my kids!

Christmas pictures from 2009

At Christmas time last year Cayden's class got to do some karaoke. Gavyn and I went to go listen. Cayden and his friend Dexter were singing a song together and let Gavyn sing it with them. It made Gavyn's day to be included!

Then Cayden and Gavyn sang their own song.

YAY ~ I am finally posting my santa pictures!

We took the kids out to dinner one night. They are all getting old enought now that dinner's out are quite pleasant. The kids are well behaved and just so much fun to take places.

Here they are in their Christmas Eve jammies. We get the kids a new pair of pajamas every year and let them open them on Christmas Eve.

I love how much these boys love each other!

Cayden opening his snowboard Christmas morning.

Bryce opening his snowboard.

Gavyn got skis for his big Christmas gift.

Our whole family got Steeler's jersey's in our stockings. Here the kids are opening their gift from Santa. They got RockBank for the Wii. I have to say this has turned out to be one of the funnest gifts. We have family nights about every other week where we go down and just play together. All the boys take turns doing the drums, playing the guitar, and singing.