Called To Serve

Cameron Rascon Sorensen has been to called to serve in the San Pablo Philippines Mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints!!!  He will be reporting to the MTC in Provo on May 22nd 2013!  Cameron has waited a long time to get this call and he is sooo excited to get going!
We are all very sad that he will be leaving but we know it's where he is supposed to go.
My mom and dad wanted to surprise Cam with all of his siblings being there for when he opened his call... it came to Cedar City Utah.  He had no idea anyone but my mom and dad were going to come.  So they rented a 15 passenger van and Kyle, Luke, and I got to go!!  Gavin, Brayden, Tim, Kylan, Tonya, and Logan, and my mom and dad were also shoved in there!

Bill met us there with Aubrey and Kylie Sloan. It was a quick 3 day trip, including travel time, but it was soooo worth the many hours in the van to see the look on Camerons face when he opened his door and found us all there!!
Cam called and called and called my mom all Day Friday to find out when they were going to be there, and rebuked her for not leaving early enough.. Little did he know that we all had to wait for everybody to get off of work!  He understood as soon as he opened that door why he had to wait until 2:00 am to open his call.  It was so special for us all to be there.  I just love this kid!!


Cameron the morning after he opened his call!

We all stayed at a missionary's house that served in Fallon when my dad was the ward mission leader, our family got very close to elder Zortman!  Their house is awesome, we stayed in the baasement and there was plenty of room for all of us!

Hanging out

The next morning we all went to Zion's National Park, I LOVE that place!


Starting our hikes... this kid i
Weeping Rock 'hike'
(took like 5 minutes)



My dad can never just smile.. good think he'll never see this picture :) These two lovely ladies came with us!  Aubrey and Kylie


The group


Nature is amazing!!!

More pics at the bottom of the Weeping rock trail


Sweet boys


Gav and Bray

Mom and her boys

Pulling moms hair.. ouch

Hiking on a easy trail that leads into the Narrows

                                                                 Uncle Bill pulling his weight.  

end of the trail

My slightly crazy husband jumped in the River that was running along the trail.. He did it for 10$.  He was slightly cold after this.  

Driving back into Cedar.. I guess going to sleep at 3:30 and waking up early takes a toll.  

After our hike we went to Costa Vida... MMMMMMM much love there.  Then we all headed back to the Zortmans to play games, which I sadly slept through.  Then the next morning we all had to leave.  :(

  

Luke wanted to drive

It was so nice to be able to spend that time with Cameron, and I am sooooo happy that we got to share that amazing moment with him.  

WE LOVE YOU CAMERON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Our big boy!

How LuKe Has Gtown

C HE’S BEEN SITTING UP ON HIS OWN FOR A  COUPLE MONTHS NOW!

C HE HAS STARTED EATING TONS OF OAT MEAL CERAL, AND LOVES IT!!

CLUKE LIKES PEAS, PEARS, SWEET POTATO, AND BLUEBERRY RICE PUFFS 

CLUKE WILL CRAWL, BUT ONLY BACKWARDS... HE GETS VERY FRUSTRATED THE FURTHER HE GETS FROM HIS TOYS.. SILLY KID. AND HE REALLY CRAWLS

CHE LOVES DRINKING WATER FROM HIS SIPPY, AND SPILLING IT ALL DOWN HIS SHIRT FOR FUN.

CHE HAS GOTTEN REALLY SICK FOR THE FIRST TIME, THAT WAS NOT FUN.. 

CLUKE LIKES TO SWING, BUT ONLY FOR A LITTLE BIT.

CMY FAVORITE: HE SLEEPS THROUGH THE NIGHT!!

CHIS SCHEDULE as of now.. GOES TO SLEEP AROUND 6:30 AND WILL SLEEP TIL ABOUT 7:00.  IF HE WAKES UP IT’S AROUND 4:30 AND HE’LL GO BACK TO SLEEP TIL 8:00.  IT’S A BEAUTIFUL THING 

CLUKE IS 28 INCHES LONG AND IS IN THE 80^TH PERCENTILE, 22 LBS IN THE 93^RD PERCENTILE, AND HIS HEAD IS 43 CM IN THE 15^TH PERCENTILE.

WE HAVE A GROWING HAPPY AND HEALTHY BABY AND WE FEEL SO BLESSED HE IS OURS!! 

 

Early Valentines LOVE

10 things i L about Kyle i

1.    His work ethic.. he works so hard for us j

2.     The way he loves Luke.. he is the best dad P

3.    His love for the outdoors.. going to the beach S , hiking, biking, taking walks.. everything d

4.      His story telling, and sound effects to accompany them Q

5.   His desire to serve the LordU

6.    That he opens my door any chance he gets S

7.    His testimony Q

8.   His willingness to always say I’m sorry… even when I should first b

9.    Before we go to bed he always asks to see my beautiful faceB

10.  He ALWAYS tells me he loves me PQUV

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Everything about him

Christmas/ New Years festivities

Christmas

This year for Christmas we were in Auburn and had a wonderful couple of fun filled days!  All of Kyle's sisters and families were able to come into town so that was awesome, but crazy!  We were there a couple of days before everyone came in.  

The Sunday before Christmas we went the Congregational church where our sweet little niece Rowan, and Kyle's little sister Mackenna were angles in their nativity play!  They were soo cute!  After that Kyle and I went to church to feel the wonderful Christmas Spirit!

Here Rowan is with her dad.. we didn't get a good picture of Mackenna!

Christmas Eve was a fun filled packed day!  First we had a birthday party for our little nephew Bridger!  He's such a cutie! Well that morning Kyle went and played football with his 'boyfriend' Josh! 

The Boyfriends 

 

The party, but you can't really see Bridge!

There's the birthday boy with his new sword!!

Luke in a santa hat!

Kovin and Lukers!

After the party we went on a hike, just up the road from Megan's house, where the party was.

Then after the hike we all went over to Grandma and Grandpa Sipherd's for Dinner and opening presents!  There were soooo many people, but it was fun!

The Craziness

Luke's present from Aunt Lori

All the babies with their hats on!

Hesston, Luke, Mason, Ember, and Kolvin

That night we went to a  midnight candle light service back at the Congregational where a family friend danced in the program.  One busy day!

Christmas Day X

All of the babies were up pretty early so we had some present opening before everyone got to Sara's that morning.  I got my poptarts from Santa and Luke opened a few toys santa brought.

mmmm love this!

Kyle and I opened our presents to each other too!

Not yet Luke!

One of his presents!  He loves this thing!

Luke would not stop sucking on Masons head... 

Grandma and Luke Christmas Day

Way too cute!

Hesston and Luke

And I couldn't resist!

What a Christmas!!  Good times!

New Years Eve 

For New Years Eve we headed to Fallon to spend it with my family!  Billy, and Cameron were still home so it was fun!  We had a ton of food, and friends came over to help us eat!  We all played games, and watched football, and ate and ate!  

The group playing the name game

Me and Bill playing on the miniature pool/air hockey table

HAPPY 2013!!!!  Luke almost made it to the new year, but not quite!  He didn't even wake up from all the noise! 

New YearsDay

The next day we all went sledding way up in the mountains!  It was cold, but holy cow it was soooo much fun!  The hill we found had this intense drop off at the end of it, and we all went flying over it.  Sooooo much fun!!  I have video but can't figure out how to get it on here...

On our way

We rode with Tim, Ky, and Mya!

Logan and Tonya.. Brrrrrr coldie!

Kyle at the top

Me and my boy

Mya, Tim, and Kylan

Kyle, and Bill crashing

Daddy and his boy

The most adorable picture of Braden ever!

Luke's first time on a sled... he wasn't impressed. 

Aaaaaand one more!!

What a great day!!

Our BIG Christmas weekend!

We had a crazy weekend of Christmas festivities!  All of this was within 4 days, and we loved it!!

a  Christmas tree hunting

We decided to get a real tree this year even though we had no space for one.  So we got ourselves a four footer!!  Kyle is showing it off at the bottom of the page :) 

I absolutely love this picture of Kyle helping Luke put a candy cane on the tree.
Luke was letting it go right when Kyle put his hand over the tree, I think he understood the concept. 

Q Lights parade in Auburn Q

Over the weekend we went to Auburn to go and see the lights parade!  I’ve never been so I was excited to see it.  TONS of people go to this, and next year I want the Sorensen side to come and see it!   

These are some crazy floats that were at burning man this last summer.. two of the coolest ones there! After the parade the family all went to Megan and Quincy's to have some yummy hot chocolate. 

They live close to downtown so we walked to the parade.  It was a good night!  

 X  Sorensen Christmas party  X

For the first time in a long time we had a party with my uncle Brian and Aunt Marty's family.   It was a crazy night especially when SANTA came!!  All of the kiddos went crazy, it was soooo cute!

Santa had each kid sit on his lap.. a total of 13.. and his elves gave them all a present.  The look on their faces when he walked in was priceless, I wish I had a picture.  

Logan was the cutest of them all, he was in such awe of santa!

Ok maybe Luke was the cutest of them all.  He was a big fan of Santa!!

Mya and Ashley helping Luke open his present.

The whole group, except Ila who was sleeping for this one.

It was a whirlwind of a weekend but we loved every minute of it!!