Morris Family!

Snow Day

2011-12-16T18:08:00.000-08:00

So the first snowfall this year the kids were so excited to get their snow gear on and get out and play. And Landon was on our doorstep right after breakfast with all his stuff on too. Carson pretty much stayed out until the snow melted, but Peyton obviously did not know what he was getting into. He didn't even want to stand in the snow. The whole time we were outside he cried unless I was holding him. He wanted nothing to do with the snow! (which was so surprising to me, because normally he begs all day to just go outside!)

Carson, Peyton, and Landon:

I brought Peyton inside and found a nice little spot where he could watch all the other kids play in the snow and he was as happy as could be! He was so entertained watching the boys have a snowball fight with Craig- as long as he was completely safe from it himself!

Kitchen Helper

2011-12-16T17:55:00.001-08:00

St George

2011-12-16T15:40:00.000-08:00

Its so hard to remember to take pictures when I don't have the kids around. So this is our only picture from our recent getaway to St. George when we left the kids with my parents. That was the first time I have ever left the kids for longer than one night!! Of course I missed them, but it was soooo nice! We went down to watch our friend Chandler play in a basketball tournament down there. Here we are with his wife, Erica. (Packed house huh? ...both teams were from out of state so not too many fans at this one!) Its always so fun to spend time with them. And we were able to hang out with Stef and Nick (Craig's sis and bro-in-law) down there too! We've got to get away a little more often!

sound asleep.

2011-12-16T15:36:00.000-08:00

Carson was upset about something so he was pouting on our footrest. I turned to Craig and said, "wouldn't it be funny if he fell asleep there?" and Craig said, "no way will that happen." Proved him wrong.

Grandpa's Lawn Mower

2011-12-16T15:33:00.000-08:00

A while back I took the boys over to my grandparents' for some rides on Grandpa's lawn mower. Carson had been begging for a ride. So even though Grandpa didn't need to mow his lawn he took Carson all over the back yard! He is so cute with the boys. Carson and Peyton just love going over to their house. We also got to pick lots of lots of apples of their tree!

Peyton was not so sure about the whole thing.

And of course we can't go over to their house without the boys taking a few turns on Grandma's sweet ride as well :)

Halloween!

2011-12-16T15:25:00.000-08:00

Finally time to record about Halloween I suppose. Carson was talking about being a pirate for a long time and luckily my Grandma was able to find this adorable costume for him! When Carson first got it he wore it all the time! So of course Peyton wanted to dress up with him. So I put a cute little pirate costume together for Peyton and he seemed to love it. But come Halloween he WOULD NOT let me put it on him! And Carson WOULD NOT let me put his face makeup on him. (Isn't that the way it always goes!?) So needless to say, they didn't match, but luckily I had Carson's old dog costume that worked for Peyton...kind of. He was happy at least!

The boys had a blast trick-or-treating. I totally thought that Peyton would just tag along with us and not really understand the concept of what was going on. Boy was I wrong. He got that people were giving him candy and he was going nuts for it! The first house we went to he was going crazy and wanted to go back. He kept yelling "more, more, more!" If we passed a house (like if the lights were off) again, he would go crazy and stomp his feet on their driveway and yell. (good thing I'm not raising a spoiled child huh?) The only thing that would deter Peyton from the candy was when a dog would pass us and he would stop following his brother and start following the dog! It was so cute to watch. Here he is trying to keep up with big brother:

We once again had soup and hot chocolate in our circle for everyone. Its such a fun tradition! And I'm so glad the weather was better than last year so it didn't have to be in our garage!

Before we started all the festivities we went to both sets of grandparents to be their surprise first trick-or-treaters.

It was a fun Halloween

Shower!

2011-11-22T21:24:00.001-08:00

Started the water to my shower one day, left the room for a minute, came back to find Peyton having a great time!!!

Little stinker.

Preschool

2011-11-22T21:00:00.001-08:00

Carson started preschool this year, and he has absolutely loved it! He loves his teacher, Miss Wendy. He gets so excited to show Craig and me what he has learned. He loves to be able to put all of his little papers and projects up on the fridge. And he absolutely does not like to get rid of anything (kinda like his dad I'd say.) So we keep a special "preschool folder" of everything once it comes off the fridge. I'm so proud of my big boy. Still so weird to me that he is old enough for preschool! He will always be my little baby! (Though he laughs at me when I tell him that!)

This summer he went through a major snowboot phase. He wanted to wear them EVERYday! They always looked awesome with his shorts. :) ...so of course he was insistent that he wear them to preschool.

Craig took him to school because I had to go teach dance, but somehow between our house and preschool Daddy was able to get him into some flip flops. Here he is ready for his first day!

Kiri!!!

2011-11-22T20:47:00.001-08:00

One of my dearest friends, Kiri, came home for the summer! She lives in Italy...I can not wait until I can go visit her there... which hopefully will be sooner rather than later! But anyways, it was so good to be able to get together with her during the summer and do some fun things. It doesn't matter how many times I get to see her-- its never enough! I love you Kiri! So here's some of our fun:

Kir and P at Herriman splash pad:

This was a very BIG moment for Pitter. We had a really hard time getting him to eat normal solid food. It took lots of "play therapy" and skipping many meals (though it looks like he has never skipped any type of eating opportunity in his life:) ) And this was the very first time he ate a sandwich! I'm sure I looked like an idiot- getting super excited and taking about a million pictures of him, yes, just eating a sandwich. But it was a big milestone for us.

Kiri, Rindi, and I have many pictures of us infront of the temple (usually Provo) when we used to go to baptisms for the dead many years ago. And it was so awesome to finally all be together and go do a session! I love going to the temple- especially with two of my favorite girls!

Dino Museum

2011-11-21T15:11:00.001-08:00

Carson loves the dinosaur museum. One day in August my mom, sis-in-law, and I took Carson and Emmitt there (during P's nap). Carson LOVES dinosaurs! This picture of him hugging the dinosaur bone was not staged! (well except for my mom :) ) ...I turned around and just found him embracing the dinosaur!

cute cousins:

So he's not scared of dinosaurs...but apparently he is a little frightened of sharks. He wouldn't get near this thing unless I went with him. ha ha.

Carnival

2011-11-21T15:03:00.001-08:00

Yeah I know its a bit pathetic that I am finally getting around to all my summer posts...but whatever. Our stake put on a super cute carnival for the kids. Complete with....whatever this is called:

bean bag toss:

and cute rides:

Daphne and Derby

2011-11-21T14:55:00.001-08:00

Very sadly, my parents' dog Lola was hit by a car this summer and died. But they have now added to new adorable puppies to the family! Daphne and Derby. These pictures are from a while ago (I'm doing my best to get caught up on blogging before the holidays) and they've gotten quite a bit bigger. The boys absolutely love the puppies! When Peyton sees that we are pulling up to Nana and Papa's house he immediately starts saying, "dog dog dog."

simple pleasures

2011-11-21T14:47:00.001-08:00

I love all the creative ways my boys find to entertain themselves! I especially love when they are playing nice with each other!

Yellowstone

2011-10-26T14:05:00.001-07:00

This summer we headed up to Yellowstone for a Black family reunion (my dad's mom's side) which we do like... never. So it was neat to spend some time with family that we didn't really know- and of course to see the awesome sites of Yellowstone! The kids loved seeing the animals- though Carson was a bit disappointed we didn't see a bear. Above is a picture of Peyton on the long drive givin' some cute fish lip kisses! (my personaly favorite!) ...and the rest are pictures from the park-- apparently all from the same day- I must have forgotten about using my camera on the other days. Anyways- it was a great vacation.

Old Faithful:Brother and me:Daddy and P:This is when we spotted an animal :) Very exciting. I think it was an elk.This might be my most favorite picture of Craig and me to date. I don't know why- but I love it.

Thanksgiving Point

2011-10-26T14:05:00.000-07:00

A while back I took the boys to Thanksgiving Point with my good friend Jen and her two boys (Carson and Cruz) and we spent the day at the children's gardens. It was so fun to just let the boys run around and use lots of energy! They even found a frog- which of course they were super excited about! and the day ended with boys stripping down to their underwear to essentially go swimming. That wasn't in the plans...but we went with it.

Carson quotes!

2011-08-30T20:43:00.000-07:00

Haven't done this in a while... but here's a couple good ones as of late:

While listening to Ludacris' "how low can you go?" Craig and I stopped talking to hear Carson singing along in the backseat (weird high voice and all) but singing, "I love that cookie dough!" ...yeah I like those lyrics better!

And today (also in the car- we have the best conversations in the car!) Carson asks: Are there going to be carrots in kindergarten?
me: HUH?
Carson: well, its a GARDEN and there's always carrots in gardens.

Always thinkin that boy!!

THE RANCH!

2011-08-29T15:31:00.000-07:00

Of course a good portion of our summer is always spent at the ranch. While we were up there Carson was bit by some sort of spider or something and it swelled up and seriously deformed his whole face! And it stayed that way for a few days. My dad said he looked like some character off of StarTrek, and its true he did- he did not look like the same child! These pictures trully don't do it justice. It was pretty freaky! (these pics are from cousin Brylie's baby blessing)
Now here's some pictures from the ranch. Picnic:

It was super wet up there at the beginning of the summer- so of course the kids took full advantage of the mud! I could not turn my back on this kid, but once he took one step in and sunk past his knees, I was like- eh what the heck.

Peyton leading Grandpa Joe on a bug hunt:

Papa teaching Carson how to fish: Have you ever noticed how often Peyton is making this little Zoolander face?

Splash Pad

2011-08-29T15:20:00.000-07:00

I'm finally getting somewhat caught up with posting our summer pictures! But here's some from the splash pad in Highland. We spend the afternoon there with a bunch of friends from the neighborhood. Have I ever mentioned how much we LOVE where we live? We have the greatest friends, and Carson and Peyton have the best buddies!! Some of the kiddos- they probably played on this bike rack more than they played in the water. Typical.

Some of the babes hanging out in the shade:

The Mommas:

Aquarium!

2011-08-29T14:55:00.000-07:00

This summer Craig's grandparents were able to come visit from Colorado for a couple days- and we hardly ever get to see them. Infact, this was their first time meeting Peyton and only the second time meeting Carson for Grams (the last time he was 6 months old!) So needless to say we had a lot of catching up to do and we had tons of fun together-- BBQ, aquarium, park, and lots of bubbles! Here's some pics from the weekend
Grams and all the boys:

Love this picture! It worked out perfectly! Youngest to oldest: Peyton, Clay, Bret, and Carson

Young at heart :)

Gramps and Grams surprised all the boys with souvenirs:

Lovin the bubbles!

We were so glad we were able to spend some time with Gramps and Grams and the boys were able to get to know them a little better! Love you!

4th of July

2011-08-22T16:01:00.000-07:00

As I've probably mentioned before, I LOVE the 4th of July! Especially when we spend it up at the ranch doing the small town festivities! We started the day off at the parade. Here's most the gang (Craig spent the morning golfing. lame.) This picture cracks me up- Carson is trying to show me some sort of bug and Jared is showing off his incisions from having his appendix removed. (I probably need to do a whole separate post on J and ALL of his health issues!!)
When he wasn't gathering candy, Carson just stood there and waved to EVERYONE in the parade. It was so cute! And it drove me nuts when people wouldn't throw their candy to him though- how could they resist that sweet face? He didn't mind though, so I guess it doesn't matter :)Pitter Patter was startin to get a little worn out by the end.Then it was off to the junior rodeo! So fun!!! (There's no pictures of this because my camera died and I only got a bunch of videos) but Carson participated in the coin race and chicken chase... I use the term "participate" loosely. He pretty much ran for 2 seconds at the beginning of each one then cried because other kids were faster than he was. Oh boy. But then he did the Mutton Bustin!! He rocked it! It was hilarious. He had been talking about doing the mutton bustin for days before- so I signed him up, thinking for sure he would chicken out. And yes, when it started he was refusing to do it. Then he started watching the other kids go, and he was all, "I can hold on longer than that!" and he was determined to do it after that. So ultimately it was his competitiveness (is that a word?) that left him in tears during the first 2 events and that got him to even attempt the third! But now he is a very proud official cowboy!
Craig made it for the rodeo fun:Then in the evening we went to the awesome Oakley rodeo! I trully love rodeos! Carson was totally wiped out after his sheep ridin!Jared and Brandon:Emmitt and Peyton:McCage/Thurgood fam:more Romneys:I'm obsessed with this picture of Peyton!!! I wonder what was happening in the rodeo that my sister and I were obviously missing!?Great Day!!

This is the Place!

2011-08-18T11:20:00.000-07:00

When Carli and the kiddos were in town we spent a day at This is the Place monument/park. A good way to spend a day- lots of cute stuff to do. Petting zoo:

pony rides:

Train ride:

cute boy:

Pannin' for gold:

Stamping leather:

Learnin about old money:

It is nearly impossible to get a normal picture our of Carson these days. This is probably his favorite face.

Taking in the sights:

Also, does anyone know why the pictures are posting on my blog with horrible quality, but they look mostly ok when you click on them? (or maybe its just this computer??)

Seven Peaks

2011-08-18T10:25:00.000-07:00

wow, my computer has not let me blog forever! I have no idea why- but I can do it on my parents computer. Anyone know why??

So anyways- I have the ENTIRE summer to catch up on starting with P's birthday (my previous post) ....so check back and scroll down if you care to see what we've been up to!

For my birthday we splurged on the "pass of all passes" for the fam and have been enjoying many days at Seven Peaks! The boys love it there! Carson just wants to go on slide after slide, with occasional visits to the wave pool and lazy river. We take Peyton on all the slides with us, but for the most part he is pretty indifferent about going on them. He sure loves the kiddy pool though! He loves sitting down all the way under the water then standing back up again....over and over again. I think it gives the other parents there heart attacks that I just let my little baby hang out under the water- but he always pops back up laughin' and smiling! Neither of my boys have ever been afraid of the water, and Carson has become such a GOOD swimmer this summer! Here's some pics from a couple of our Seven Peaks visits

Peyton is one!!!!

2011-07-11T19:51:00.000-07:00

I am so so behind on blogging...but there has been some pretty important events that I definitely need to record, so I am going to try and catch up over these next few days, so check back frequently if you care to see what we have been up to for the past couple months!

First of all-- perhaps the most important event-- my sweet little Pitter Patter turned one on May 17! He is so grown up! To celebrate we took the boys to Monkey Island and hung out there basically all day. Both the boys love it there! Peyton had been walking a little bit (just a few steps) starting around 11 months; but while at Monkey Island he REALLY started walking! I think he was trying to keep up with all the big kids there, so he just kept going. It was so fun that to see him walk right on his birthday!

This next picture cracks me up, cuz I snapped it at just the right moment. Craig is trying to reach for Carson to prevent a catastrophic collision with the unsuspecting birthday boy...but he wasn't fast enough. There were a few tears seconds after this was taken.then it was cupcake time! very happy child!

and heres some pic with the super cute cupcakes from aunt hannah. Happy birthday Pitter! we are so lucky to have you in our family! You make us smile and laugh every single day! I LOVE YOU!

Easter 2011

2011-05-10T21:48:00.000-07:00

Easter started this year with a fun Easter egg hunt at our neighbor's house. Carson was so funny. When it was time to start he ran out there so fast and was grabbin' those eggs so fast. Then after about 10 eggs, he just stopped, looked at me and smiled. I was like, "Carson look there's still tons of eggs. Don't you want to go get them?" He looked down at his basket and replied, "nah, I got enough." and that was that. ha ha. He was pretty happy with the ones he found!Carson with some of his buddies after the hunt:The Easter Bunny came to our house- and the boys had fun finding their baskets. Peyton was opening those eggs and shoveling in the candy as fast as he possibly could.Carson showing his bubbles:We tried to get some family pictures in the Easter outfits...but as usual...getting out the door for church was fast and frantic...so we snapped some quick ones on the way out.And Car Car gave his first ever PRIMARY TALK on Easter Sunday! I was such a proud mommy! He did wonderfully. I'll try to post a video of it later. It was just adorable.

March-April

2011-04-20T20:59:00.000-07:00

Once again I haven't updated in a while. So I will attempt a quick catch up...with a bunch of pictures of course. Well....March started with ANOTHER trip to the hospital for me and ANOTHER couple ear infections for P. All conveniently while Craig was working in China again for a couple weeks. But we are all good now! So with Craig going out of town a couple times these past couple months, the boys and I spent quite a bit of time at my parents. Here's a couple pictures of some havoc Peyton was able to create while we were there.
We were also able to attend Hannah's wonderful Minerette showcase. She danced beautifully! Also pictured-- my brother Jared. He came home from his mission, hopefully temporarily. You might know that he was suffering from terrible headaches in Brazil, they moved him to a different mission thinking that would help, but it didn't. So he is now home until they can get this under control. They figured out what is probably causing it now (the epstein barr virus), it is just a matter of finding the right treatment, and so far he's tried a lot. Its pretty crazy- but he's been a trooper. He's kept a good attitude and knows that it is in the Lord's hands. Please keep him in your prayers.

The day after Craig got home from China we headed up to Craig's cousins' house in Bear Lake for a day so I could help our cousin Amber get ready for prom! It was a blast. She looked gorgeous. And WOW their prom experience is so different than mine ever was! Everyone's parents come and watch and they perform a whole big choreagraphed "floor show" (and they even did it twice- facing both directions in the gym.) Small towns are quite different but a lot of fun. Below is a picture of our cousin Dakota taking care of the girls' flowers during the floor show :)

Amber and me:

from Bear Lake we headed straight up to Rexburg, Idaho for my cousin, Chelsie's baby shower and my other cousin, Logan's mission farewell talk. No pictures of that...but here's cute Carson!

and cute Peyton!

My parents' neighbors got some chickens...and the boys were loving them! (Don't mind Car Car's outfit. He was wearin his "paintin clothes" because we were doin some projects outside while it was warm)

Here's the boys playing with eatch other at shower time. They are such good buds. They love making each other laugh through the glass. But speaking of the shower....this one is out of comission right now because it started leaking all into our bedroom, through the wall, soaking the carpet, and going down into the basement!! Ah. We are having it completely torn out and re-done! ...it never ends.

Carson was pretty pooped out and totally crashed after his friend Simeon's power ranger birthday party!

....Peyton too.

Here's another good sleeping picture of Pitter-Patter. It's hard to tell but he is completely up on his knees! And obviously his face totally smashed. But now that we got these dang ear infections under control he is such a GOOD sleeper! So easy to get down for naps and at night--- its totally AWESOME!

And our most recent festivity-- my parental's 25th wedding anniversary! We had everyone over to our house for a lovely dinner. We played a newly-wed type game with the two of them, and asked them bunches of questions to see how well they REALLY knew eath other. And they did amazingly well... but they had us rollin' with some of their answers.

So there ya have it- a quick rundown. Things have been pretty hectic... but such is life!!! And we are doing great. I'll try to do a better job of keeping up to date on this blog! Peyton is almost one (INSANE) and I feel like I've recorded way less about him than I did with Carson. So I'll attempt to do a better job. Happy Easter.

The Faith of a Child

2011-03-06T17:35:00.000-08:00

If you have time to read this story I'm sure it will just melt your heart! --it did mine.

While the weather has been semi-warm we have been trying to take advantage as much as possible by taking the kids to different parks this week. One of the days I took the boys to a park in the neighborhood next to ours with my friend, Jodi, and her boys, Ethan and Landon. At this particular park they have little things the kids can sit on and dig. Ethan brought a little toy car and the boys were taking turns burying it in the dirt for the others to find. Jodi and I were having our own conversation over at the picnic tables while the boys were playing this game- so I didn't really know what they were doing until Carson filled me in when we were in the car later. He also informed me that after he hid it, Ethan was never able to find it and they had to leave it in the dirt. That's when Carson really surprised me by saying, "But Heavenly Father can help us do anything right mom?" Of course I told him he could. Then Carson proceeded to tell me that we should say a prayer so that Heavenly Father would help Ethan find his car. He also told me that he bets Heavenly Father is a REALLY good digger! So we said a little prayer right there in the car and Carson felt much better about the situation! Later that night Carson was filling Craig in about what happened and he told him, "I knew that Heavenly Father could help Ethan find his car just like he helped that little boy find his dime in the story that Mommy told me." (found here). Oh- I was just beaming with pride! Its so amazing that he is actually soaking in some of the information that we try to teach him during the usually hectic sessions of family home evening or scripture study! Who knew!!? If only we could all have the simple and pure faith of a child!

...Below are some pictures of our recent park outtings: At the park in our neighborhood:In the background of these pictures you can tell what I mean when I say, "digging things."Monkey island might not techniqually be a park-- but we did go there this week for Carson's friend, Luke's birthday.And here's some from Sugarhouse park-- we went there this weekend with our friends Adam and Erin and their little boy- also Luke.

rub-a-dub-dub

2011-03-06T17:18:00.000-08:00

These cute little bath-time pictures pretty much speak for themselves :)

"games on the tv"

2011-03-06T17:09:00.000-08:00

The other day Craig taught Carson all about Play Station or X Box or whatever it is they play?? My knowledge on the subject goes about as far as Carson's-- "games on the tv." but whatever it is Carson loves doing it with Daddy! This was taken a week or so ago....but its pretty much the exact same scene that I'm looking at right now.

Welcome Home Elder Morris!

2011-02-22T20:34:00.000-08:00

Our family was able to go to the airport on Feb 9th to welcome Brad home from his 2 year mission faithfully served in Colombia! Its so fun having Brad back home! ....here's part of the welcoming committee- Craig and Kyle were super excited to be apart of the sign-holding line up! Grandma-great and Peyton
Our family with Brad!

Brad's first big squeeze from Car Car! (sorry its facing the wrong way)

Brad and a couple other Elders that came home with him.

February...

2011-02-15T17:04:00.000-08:00

Well... I said I was hoping that February would bring healthier days for our family, but apparently I jinxed myself. I found myself in the Dr.'s office again on Feb 2. Peyton's ear infections came back in both ears and then just a few days ago Craig broke his nose playing basketball!! Sheesh. Everytime we walk back into the doctor's or the hospital I feel like saying, "just put it on my tab!"

But- on a happier note here's some cute pictures of the boys. The other night at dinner, Carson put his head down and started pouting (I think because he didn't get to say the prayer or something.) and then completely fell asleep that way. He is sound asleep in this picture!

Peyton is walking all along the furniture now! Just a few min ago infact Carson left a little plate of chocolate chip cookies on this table and I found Peyton in the family room as happy as could be-- he had pulled the plate down and completely devoured his first ever cookie! Let's see if he'll ever eat mushed peas again :) His 7th tooth just popped through today also. He's growing up so fast! He also does this crazy trick- so hard to explain in words- he starts on his bum gets his momentum going, then kinda jumps up to his feet and lunges onto his stomach. It is so funny to watch.

Sweet brothers

A couple weeks ago the primary had a little talent show. Carson told me that he wanted to tell a joke at it. I told him ok but thought for sure he wouldn't do it. As silly and funny as he is, he hates having so much attention on him and gets super shy. But when they called him up, he walked right up there and did his thing right in the microphone with no hesitation! He was so proud of himself. He told all the family about his joke and said that everyone loved it! ha. As we were leaving the church- he also told me, "darn it I forgot to show them my muscles in the talent show." His joke went like this:

Knock knock, (who's there), Boo, (boo who?), Don't cry it's ok!

So proud of my boys! Love them so much.

On a side note real quick: My brother Jared is suffering real bad with severe headaches. They sent him to a completely different mission- also in Brazil- thinking that the different climate would help, but still not doin too good. Prayers on his behalf would sure be appreciated! Thanks!

Sicklies.

2011-01-30T22:23:00.000-08:00

Seriously we've gone from one thing to the next around here-- We have not all been healthy at the same time since sometime in November I'd say. So of course that was also the last time I've had a full night's sleep! Needless to say, blogging has been on the backburner. But I finally got Carson's bday and Christmas on here, so anything else I've missed since then...oh well.

So I guess our sick stretch started with me having to go to the hospital soon after Thanksgiving (I think.) with the most terrible abdominal pain (worst pain I've ever felt). Long story short: I went through test after test, saw a specialist, had an endoscopy a few days before Christmas, etc. Nothing. The pain was super intense at first, but got better each day, and is now gone. The doctor had a couple other tests lined up, but I figured- forget it- I feel fine now so I'm just gonna pray that whatever it was does not come back :) We've all had permanent colds, and sometime earlier this month a lovely little stomach bug decided to go through our family at the same time that Craig had to leave out of town, so I was left at home cleaning up after the pukin' kiddos. Peyton then got 2 ear infections and a sinus infection, closely followed by something else that is causing the boys to throw up and have fevers and has had Craig and I sick in bed. We're still battling the last of it as Carson once again woke up with a fever today and P had a good up-chuck, but it seems to be getting better. At least I'm praying that February will bring some good health for us :) Sorry if this post has been a bit graphic for ya. I also apologize if I've had to cancel plans/playdates on ya anytime in the past couple months. We've pretty much just stayed locked in our house.

Oh and the pic is of my little "cotton-headed-ninny-muggins" after putting medicine in his hears and shoving cotton in to keep it there. What a trooper.

Christmas 2010

2011-01-25T22:48:00.000-08:00

I know I'm obviously a bit late on this also...I'm trying to catch up so here's just a few pictures from our fun Christmas festivities. They are out of order, but I'm not gonna fix that. Christmas eve was spent at our house this year which was so fun! My side of the fam came over for the traditional nativity and treats, opening Christmas jammies, etc. Then Christmas morning-- also at our own house. Christmas is SOOO much fun with kids! Carson was so excited to see that Santa came and thought it was quite funny that he didn't finish the entire cookie that we left out for him. cute boys in matching jammies:
One of Carson's big presents from Santa was this very cute tricycle. He loves it! We've let him keep it in the house until it warms up outside (lucky little guy- I'm positive my parents never let me ride bikes in the house :) )and he rides it from room to room everyday.
Peyton got a few things from Santa also, but most of his presents came from his big brother. Carson went through all of his old toys and passed down quite a few :) but of course Peyton was perfectly content with the awesome boxes and piles of paper!

My cute little sheperd --he took his part VERY seriously.

Then after our own little Christmas morning we headed to Craig's parents for a yummy breakfast with the whole family and talked to Elder Brad Morris on Skype. Here's all the little cousins.

In the middle of Brad's call we had to leave and dash over to my parents for Elder Jared Romney's call! Then hung out there for the rest of Christmas day and had a delicious feast, etc.

Jared in Brazil, and me in Utah-- posing for a picture together!

So there's a quick recap. Overall Christmas was great (duh.) It is always so great to spend the day with family and celebrate the birth of the Savior. And so awesome to be able to see and talk to 2 missionaries! This year Christmas time was particularly great. We didn't have much money for presents so most of our focus was on other things including teaching Carson (who is now old enough to understand on some level) all about Jesus and when he was born. It was such a good feeling hearing him talk about "baby Jesus" and why we have a star on top of our tree, etc. I also feel so incredibly blessed to have such wonderful family and friends. We were seriously so spoiled. I just wish there was more snow outside on Christmas day.

Carson is 3

2011-01-19T15:57:00.001-08:00

(and has been for about a month now!) But I still can not believe that I have a 3 year old! (I think I'm going to sound like a broken record and say that on every birthday of his.) He is just so grown up and wonderful! I can't get enough of my Car Car! To celebrate his birthday, we started with a family party at my parents' house where my sis-in-law Hannah made him an awesome "shark cake" (per his request) and he was spoiled by Nana! 3 years old!
Everything on the cake was edible--it was so cute. Of course Carson dove right in! Why not? Its his birthday right?
He got the movie, How to Train a Dragon (aka "Toothless"). and everything to go with it! Toothless characters and stuff to dress up as a "dragon fighter," etc.
December 18 (his actual birthday) started out with a friend party with a house full of some of his best friends! They were such a crack up. They colored on butcher paper covering the table and decorated sugar cookies.

Then that night we finished off the festivities with going to Chuck-E-Cheese with Craig's parents. Always a hit!

We love you so much Carson! Happy Birthday!

Carson factoids: (according to him, right now!)

favorite color: BLUE!! (He is trully obsessed with the color blue)

Favorite food: "cheese-adas" (same as last year)

Favorite thing to do: play games

Favorite movie: Peter Pan

Favorite place to go: Nana's house

Favorite treat: fruit snacks

Favorite animal: "zebra and giraffe, because a giraffe has a long neck and a zebra has stripes" :)

Favorite toy: "Buzz Lightyear to the rescue"

Favorite person: Dad (Craig asked him this one)

Favorite song: Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star

Favorite thing to do outside: play soccer ball

Favorite thing to do with Dad: play with his phone

Favorite thing to do with Mom: play dinosaurs

Carson had no idea why we were asking him all these random questions, but he was loving it and wanted to keep telling us more of his "favorites", even to things we did not ask, including his favorite letter (S) and his favorite number (1).

***Carson is also super smart! (allow me a bragging-mommy moment) He can count to 12 (or 16 on a good day). Recognizes all the numbers. He knows all the letters in his name, and recognizes a bunch more. He loves making things into letters (example: taking a bite out of a small donut and saying its a "c") We have lately started working on simple addition and he can add numbers such as 2+2, 5+5, etc.

***He is also a great big brother! He has been known to wake Peyton up in the morning (so appreciated) so he can play with him :). And a good portion of the day is spent with those 2 just wrestling and rolling around on the floor.

***Some recent Carson quotes:

me: time to take a bath

Carson: I'm a junk yard dog and junk yard dogs don't take baths.

me: a junk yard dog?

Carson: "yeah, and you are a frog, and Peyton is a rubber ducky, and Dad is a lion.

***(at my parents' house) Hannah: I'm going to school.

Carson: Why are you going to school?

Hannah: to learn.

Carson: Are you going to learn how to pat your head and rub your tummy?

(Oh which reminds me, Carson is constantly talking about things he learned "at the blue high school" I have no idea where he got that from, but almost everyday he'll tell me about something he said or did "at the blue high school." ?)

***Carson: I don't feel good.

Me: Just come brush your teeth.

Carson: Boys that don't feel good, don't brush their teeth.

***The other day in the car Craig and I stopped our conversation to listen to Carson in the back seat singing, "hide your kids, hide your wife....and hide your husband....we're gonna find you...." and he now sings it all the time. But he is convinced that it says, "we're gonna tell that...bum, bum, bum boy."

***So to sum up-- Carson amazes and entertains us everyday! We are very proud of our big 3 year old boy!

4th times a charm?

2010-12-13T23:48:00.000-08:00

Holy Hannah Montana I've tried to do this post 4 times now! Literally the first time it was so stinkin' long I even mentioned in the post that it was my longest one ever. Definitely not doing that again. But it kept getting erased or other computer issues...So here's a quick catch up in pictures. Definitely more to come...but this goes back to Halloween! I know I mentioned in the last post that I had something to share...well it seems pretty anti-climatic now, but yes we cut Carson's hair all off! He looked like a totally different boy at first but now I'm totally used to it.

Ok- Halloween: Carson was a dinosaur and spent the night roaring at everyone! He even told me that he could take Spider man (when he passed spider man while trick or treating) we lost the head to the costume so I figured I would just spray his hair green and paint his cheeks...well he INSISTED on having blue cheeks not green! So he kinda looks like a dinosaur/clown. oh well. Peyton was a cute chubby little duck! Halloween was fun- we had soup, treats, and hot chocolate in our garage for friends and trick-or-treaters.
Alright now we'll be jumping from Halloween to Christmas :) We set up our tree right before we left for our Thanksgiving trip and Carson was SO anxious to put the star on top! Craig and I set up just the actual tree the night before and as soon as Carson woke up he was running into our room asking us if he could put the star on!

and Peyton's cute little grin. Or yelling face? I don't really know. but he is getting so close to crawling now!! I think it will be anyday.

We headed up to Rexburg for Thanksgiving this year which was so fun! Craig has never experienced a Rexburg Thanksgiving until this year! And it was extra special this year because my Gran and Grandpa Joe demoted the 2nd generation (my parents) to the kids table and the married grandchildren were bumped up to the adult table with the china and all so that we could finally have our turn :) ...yes generation #2 had to use paper plates with pictures of turkeys on them! Awesome.

Here's the whole gang. (minus Jared and my cousin Brady who are on missions)

And here is our little family!

Well....that will do for tonight. It is now past 1 o clock. What am I doing? I wonder if I am even making sense. (I just tried to use the word coherent but couldn't quite figure out the proper use...my brain is shutting down!!) anyways....more to come shortly (hopefully....don't hold me to that.) Including some funny Carson stories. Night!

Life update.

2010-10-21T20:56:00.000-07:00

ok--lots has been going on, and blogging has been the last thing on my mind. So I wanted to play catch up real quick.... For Craig's birthday we celebrated at the Brad Paisley concert!! Which was incredible! (thanks Mom and Dad for the tickets!)Carson is now completely potty trained (well has been for a while now.) ...but we have moments like this when he puts his own "big boy underwear" on:
I got to help my little sister get ready for homecoming! (her first date!) It was so fun. I can't believe she is so grown up. Here's her and her best friend Chelsea. So pretty.

We headed up to Rexburg this past weekend for my cousin Taylor's wedding, and it was lovely! I love going up there. Here's the beautiful couple:

Peyton hanging out outside the temple- such a happy guy all the time:

Here's all the guys in the family...mostly. Craig was not able to come up with us because he was working in China for the last couple weeks (but he's back home now...hurray.) ...so here's the funny story that goes along with this picture: Carson wanted to hold his shirt up in the picture (for some reason). But of course we wouldn't let him. So instead he just poutted (spelling??) and would not look up for the life of me!!!

He is so good at doing this. Really. Sometimes he just PRETENDS to be sad like this. And he will literally sit like this for about 20 minutes and WILL NOT talk and WILL NOT look at you and WILL NOT crack a smile- no matter what you do. Then when he decides he's done he will just bust up laughing like he just played the best trick in the whole world. Sometimes I think I should get this kid into acting.

Strollin around BYU Idaho campus:

Peyton is so good at rolling all over now. I found him under his crib the other day.

And there you have it. ...almost. I have something else to add really soon, but I need to take a picture of Carson first and he is asleep right now. ...get excited.

Weekend at the ranch

2010-10-01T23:56:00.000-07:00

We were able to head up to the ranch a couple weeks ago with some of our good friends. It was a nice little get away. Carson had so much fun with his buddies Simeon and Leo up there. They all played so well! It was so fun to watch. They were so wild and funny! They particularly loved throwing rocks in the river.
Ignore my freaky face, but note how MASSIVE this marshmallow is!! (our favorite discovery this summer I'd say.) Makes for some fantastic smores.

me n' my boys.

Craig and Carson:

So you may know I, for some reason, have terrible luck with wild animals. And this weekend was no different. While on a walk to see the horses out in the meadow- I stepped on a mouse! Yes a mouse! How does that happen? And then it scurried out from under my foot and ran away. Craig said he thought I was being attacked by a bear or something because apparently I screamed fairly loud. ....who wouldn't right??

1st time eatin'

2010-10-01T23:45:00.000-07:00

Peyton has reached the fun milestone of being able to eat rice cereal and baby food. Here's some pictures of his very first experience with rice cereal. As you can tell, he LOVED it. He has loved everything I put near his mouth. (Big shocker right?) Although he occasionally cries inbetween bites when I can't shovel it in fast enough or when I walk away with an empty bowl!

Misc.

2010-10-01T22:51:00.000-07:00

Haven't really been in a bloggin mood lately, so I'm just playin catch up with some misc. pics from lately. ....Here's Peyton laughin his head off at Grandpa Snasel:Peyton is a pro at rolling over now! Particularly from his stomach to his back. Then Carson is very good at walkin over and rolling him back :)

One of our favorite things to do in the summer is head up in the canyon and have fires. Carson loves it, and has now started making his own "bonfires" in his bedroom! Here he is burning his teddy bear and soldier toys while roasting his snow boot. So creative!

...bath time: Carson on Pare (his absolute favorite horse). We absolutely love to spend as much time at the ranch as possible in the summer!
Takin a little nap together :) They are so cute together! Carson is always makin Peyton laugh! (when he's not makin him scream ha ha).

More fun at the ranch w/ Grandpa Joe. Carson could spend the whole day in the sandbox... well he pretty much did.

My sweet little boys.

Phone down. fyi.

2010-09-27T20:44:00.000-07:00

So my phone completely broke. The screen is just completely blank. So I apologize if you have tried to call or text me the past couple days and if you thought I was ignoring you! I'm thinkin its still gonna be a couple days before I get another one. So if you need me, just email me, call Craig... or somethin.... I have a temp. phone so if you need me call 801-822-8054 (I think I can text on that phone too) so yeah. its a lot of fun. ...ha ha Craig is making fun of me- that I specified that my phone is COMPLETELY broke and COMPLETELY blank, and not just partially broken or blank. ....just trying to paint a clear picture :)

Peyton's blessing

2010-09-05T16:48:00.000-07:00

This was a couple weeks ago, but I'm finally getting aroundt to posting about it. It was a great day!! And Craig gave Peyton a beautiful blessing. I'm so grateful that he is a worthy priesthood holder, and that my kids are surrounded by so many priesthood holders, family members, and friends that love them! (the circle was massive!)

We had just over 50 people over at our house after!! I was pretty nervous about it (it was our first big gathering ever at our house), but it was so nice and it wasn't nearly as cramped as I anticipated. I tried to snap some pictures of everyone, but somehow managed to miss both sets of our parents and a good portion of our siblings... and others. Oh well. We know they were there I guess. Thanks everyone for coming! Here's a few of the crowd....

the festivities really pooped him out :)

Carson quotes...

2010-08-23T10:36:00.000-07:00

Here's my favorite quotes of the day from my smart and funny little 2 year old ...and the day's not even half way over!!!

#1- Carson: "I want to take those horsees to my house."
Me: "but they won't have anywhere to live."
Carson: "they can just stay on our dirt."
Me: "but they won't have anything to eat."
Carson: "yeah....they can eat all our weeds!!"

#2- "Mom, I know Heavenly Father loves you." (tell me that's not the sweetest thing ever)

#3- "When I'm 5 and the leaves start to turn orange, I'm gonna go to SCHOOL! ....that's gonna be better than Disneyland!"
.....boy is he in for a big surprise!!! ha.

state fair and gardens

2010-08-19T13:12:00.001-07:00

Here's a few pics of us with the animals at the state fair- which Car Car thought was great
And the next day we visited the International Peace Gardens dowtown with some of Craig's fam.
I happened to turn around at one point and found Carson doing this:

Daddy and Pitter Patter:

Peyton is now 3 months old! And he rolled over for the very first time on his 3 month birthday!!! He's growin up so fast.

Baby Emmitt

2010-08-10T08:20:00.000-07:00

But first here's some cute pictures of Peyton in the cutest hat ever (with cousin Shannon). If possible it makes his cheeks look even chubbier. (And thanks for his outfit Gran and Gpa Joe).
And here's Peyton with his first cousin on the Romney side. Michael and Hannah Leah had their little baby on Aug 6. Emmitt Michael Romney. He's so cute and tiny!

And Hannah Ruth-- you are not allowed to take the pictures anymore!!!

2 months, Pioneer Day, and stories

2010-07-29T19:30:00.000-07:00

Peyton had his 2 months appointment today! I can't believe how big my sweet little boy is getting! So here's the traditional stats: He weighs 16 lbs and 4 oz!!! He is already completely off the curve in weight! I was asking the doc about something and his response was, "don't take this the wrong way, but your baby is........chubby." ....really doc? ha ha. He is about 24 1/4 inches which is 75th percentile. Speaking of big, here's our cute nephew Clay (on the left) and Peyton (on the right)....Clay has some pretty good chubs of his own, yet they are almost the same size. Clay is 6 months and Peyton is 2 months! Kinda funny.

For the 24th we had a bbq at Craig's gma's. We set a bounce house for the kiddos- and it was pretty much impossible to get them to stop for a picture!

And of course some sparklers! Carson had a fun bday party this week for his friend Shayna (a couple houses down). It was so cute, it was a princess party, but she had cute "prince" stuff for the boys- Carson has not let go of his sword since! Finally- Carson is always funny, and this is the best place for me to record those moments-- so here's a few funny things he's said or done the past couple days:

1. At Texas Road House I thought we dropped Peyton's lid to his bottle on the floor- so everyone started looking for it under the tables (us, our friends, the waitresses) and after a few minutes of this Carson (with this little grin on his face) slowly pulls it up from between his legs. ...yes he knew exactly what he was doing. I'm sure he got a real kick watching us look like idiots.

Today I told him we have to take Peyton to the doctor's. And he said, "Oh....are you going to put him back in your tummy?"

Today he was watching Mulan (of course with his sword) and he kept putting it in his pocket or in the back of his shirt or trying to hit the TV when the bad guys were on. Then he finally asked me, "Mom, can I go in the TV and play swords with them?"

While watching unload the dishwasher yesterday- "Mom, you washed my green cup?" me- "yes." Carson- "I am SO proud of you!"

And when Craig got home from work yesterday- "Mom is Dad home? ....I am so happy to see him!"

He is such a cutie! I love my boys!!!!!

just some pictures

2010-07-22T12:34:00.000-07:00

smiles

2010-07-12T22:23:00.000-07:00

I've decided that the 4th of July is my second favorite holiday (after Christmas)- I love our country and I love celebrating it- and for some reason I feel the need to look patriotic all month long!! So we snapped some pictures after church of just one of the red, white, and blue outfits for the boys. (I've even started rubbing off on Craig- notice his red tie!)
Peyton is starting to smile and react to us so much more now- it is so fun. And here is his very first grin caught on camera!!!!

summer

2010-07-06T18:36:00.001-07:00

We have had such a fun summer so far and have been spending lots of time up at the ranch, but most pictures that were taken were on other peoples' cameras- so hopefully I'll get those soon. But here's a quick review in pictures of our last month or so. We've been spending lots of time at the pool... and Carson has absolutely no fear!!

Peyton sleepin w/ his arms up:we've made a couple trips over to Cabella's cuz Cars loves to go there to feed the fish.

Here they are being bears :) ....very scary

at the ranch:

Muscles:

Cowboy:

baby:

Oakley rodeo:

Park City shoppin: (we LOVE our new double stroller!)

and Pitter-Patter is gettin chunky:

there ya have it folks! ...until next time.

Newborn pics

2010-06-08T12:22:00.000-07:00

My sweet friend Jodi came over the other day and took some pictures of the boys. Here's a few of my favorites. ....Enjoy.

MTC and the boys

2010-05-28T15:46:00.000-07:00

Peyton is doing so good! He really is such an easy baby- always happy and as cute as can be. Its been so wonderful having him in our home. And he's starting to sleep fairly good in the night also ......Craig's mom got Carson a little doll to take care of while I take care of Peyton...but Carson just thought that Peyton should have it :)
Carson LOVES to help out with the baby. And he is constantly smothering the poor thing with hugs and kisses.

Bringing some toys to share with Peyton....so thoughtful!

Peyton's first bath at home. He loves havin his head under the water

And last but certainly not least- Jared went into the mtc this week! He was supposed to go straight to Brazil but his visa didn't come in time, so it was fun to take him to Provo. We are sure proud of him- he's gonna make an AWESOME missionary

oh, and this how I found my tired boy today.

Meet Peyton!

2010-05-18T09:02:00.000-07:00

Our sweet little baby is finally here. Peyton Matthew Morris was born on May 17 at 7:08 pm. He weighs 8 lbs. 5 oz. and is 20 inches long. He is perfect and doing so good! He basically looks just like Carson its insane! I feel like I gave birth to the same baby twice! It does look like he might have lighter hair though. They look exactly alike, but luckily the delivery was so different!! It went so smoothly I couldn't believe it! (but if you know what Carson's birth was like- you'll know I deserved it this time!) I never knew it could be so easy! The last time the doctor checked me I was dilated to a 5, so we were just hanging out and I told my nurse that I was feeling some pressure and could tell the baby was coming. So she checked me and sure enough I was at a 10 and she said if I sneezed the baby would come out! So as soon as the doctor got in and ready he had me push a couple times just through one contraction and he was out!! I could not believe it! No more than 30 seconds of pushing!! Craig had the basketball game on, and he walked over to the TV to turn it off, and the doctor was like you better get back here or you're gonna miss it!

Here's Carson giving the baby his last loves while still inside. He was soooo excited!
It was awesome being able to hold him right after he came out.

Here's us and some of my family that was there minutes after he was born. I talked to my mom a few minutes before they got there and I told her they should come say hi before I had the baby and maybe they could go to dinner or something. So they were shocked to see a baby in the room when they walked in!!

My awesome nurse Jodi! She's my good friend and next door neighbor- it was so fun!

Carson was so happy and excited to finally meet his brother! It was adorable! He just wanted to hold him the whole time and sing him songs! Oh and he wanted to share his strawberries with Peyton :) He just kept saying the sweetest things like: I like him, he likes me, he has a nose, he has eyes, I wanna touch him, I want him to sing a song, etc. It was awesome -I can't even explain.

Craig's parents

Our very first FAMILY OF FOUR picture!!!! Oh I just love my family! All my cute boys! I'm so blessed!

I'm sure lots more pictures will come soon.

some catch up

2010-04-28T21:23:00.000-07:00

So I've been trying to finish up both the boys' rooms- and my very sweet and talented Grandpa made this shelf for Carson's room (whenever there is anything to be done around the house- he is the one to do it!!) and Carson always loves to help him. He pulls out his tools and copies whatever Gran'pa does- my favorite is when he measures things and calls out numbers! The men hard at work!
Here's some of the finished product. There's still a few things to do....and of course the quilt for his bed...but that one will prob take me a while! His room is blue and olive green with a vintage car theme.

We took a little day trip up to our old stompin grounds (Logan) the other day, and randomly found this camel (and horses and zebras) at a feed store. Carson loved being able to touch them.Finally sportin his Easter outfit. We were in the family room about to take his pic and I told him, "stand in front of that wall." and he said, "no- in front of my green dresser!" He's quite excited about his new stuff in his room. He has his own opinions too- I framed some pictures and put them on his dresser and he always tells me that I need to hang them on the wall instead...so that's where they will be going soon. I guess I need to let him have a little bit of say in his own room :)

We've been enjoying the nice weather (besides the snow today??) and have been spending lots of time at the park!

We've even pulled out the slip n' slide a couple times at our next door neighbors'- it was a blast. Here's Car Car with his buddy Landon again.

takin' a little drink :)

So this video is trully fantastic! Carson didn't really grasp the run and slide concept- him and Landon mostly just walked down the slide and played in the end, but this is what we got when we would tell Carson to slide down. I love it.

kids say the darndest things!

2010-04-14T17:28:00.000-07:00

So you know you're getting big when your 2 year old is watching you get ready and he says- "Mommy....you look like a school bus." Thanks Carson.

I need to do a better job of recording Carson's funny moments so here's one more to make ya laugh: The other morning Carson came into our bed then peed and totally leaked out of his diaper all over our sheets. (yes all 500 thread count of Egyptian cotton :)) and here's the conversation that followed:

Carson: Mommy, I'm all wet.
Mom: Yes I know. That would be pee.
Carson: Mommy, did you pee pee on me?
Mom: Um...no I did not pee on you.
Carson: Daddy pee pee'ed on me?
Mom: No. Daddy did not pee on you.
Carson: Somebody pee pee'ed on me.

Oh wait that reminds me of one more story:

Carson likes to do "tricks" in the bath tub. Like going all the way under the water, blowing bubbles, or holding his breath, etc. The other day him and Daddy were taking a bath together and taking turns showing each other tricks. And before every trick Carson would say, "Watch this." Well I guess he was running out of tricks so when it was his turn again he said, "watch this..." stood up, and started peeing in the water. I was dying when Craig told me this story.

What a boy!

Our Easter Weekend!

2010-04-08T15:39:00.000-07:00

Our Easter/Conference weekend was awesome and jam-packed with activities!! I loved all the conference talks- especially since so many seemed to be about parenting--which is exactly what I need! (but of course that's the way it always works!) We started our Saturday at the South Jordan easter egg hunt- since that one started early enough to allow us to still watch conference. But holy cow it was cold! Go figure. I thought Carson would be going nuts trying to get all the candy. I was wrong. I took his gloves off him so he could grab things easier, but he wouldn't pick anything up until I put his gloves back on because the grass was so cold. He mostly walked around to other kids- trying to make friends. Or he'd just stare at the ground looking completely confused!! Well we figured out why- after we left he said, "Where were all the eggs?" Silly Mom and Dad told him we were going to an Easter EGG hunt, not a Easter CANDY hunt. ha ha, we won't make that mistake next year. Speaking of next year, Craig said he is going to video all the crazy parents at the hunt and make a you tube video or something! Seriously some of the parents are psycho!!! Like shoveling as much candy into their kids baskets as possible--I mean come on people-- are the tootsie rolls worth it??

We headed over to Craig's parents and Carson colored some eggs with Mimi.

Then we hid the eggs he colored and he was finally able to have an EGG hunt. Look how happy he is about that! Saturday night was of course girls' night while the boys were at priesthood (no pics of that...pictures of Carson are so much more fun :) )

Showin me some of his goods that the Easter bunny brought!

Another Easter egg hunt and hangin' out with the cute cousins! (by the way- these are Craig's sister's cute boys, and we just found out my brother and his wife are having a boy, and of course so am I....so lots of little boy cousins-- how fun is that!!?)

Then off to the Romneys. My mom can't miss an opportunity to spoil Carson- so lucky him- got another Easter basket full of goodies!

And this last one is not from Easter weekend. But I could not pass a chance to post this! Yesterday he was really happy about something apparently, and he told me to take his picture!! He cracks me up. But holy cow, doesn't this little face make you feel so happy!? He's good at that!

Just me n' my dad!

2010-03-31T09:11:00.000-07:00

Carson loves hanging out with Daddy! This is the scene I found when I woke up from a nap the other day- they didn't know I was there at first, it was so cute to watch them- but luckily I got there just in time to undress Carson before he stained everything!

And these next couple pictures are of my handsome boys in their sports coats and ties just before we left to church.

Car car loves to match Daddy. We were shopping this weekend and we asked him what shorts he wanted and he said, "the red ones...like Daddy." (they were basketball shorts that look like some of Craig's. It was so sweet.)

Necklace

2010-03-31T08:58:00.001-07:00

The other day we were driving in the car and Carson announced to us that he was wearing a necklace! We looked back to find this: ....his back pack around his neck. He kept it like that the whole time in the car and was very proud of it. I love his little imagination.

Stinky Scouts

2010-03-25T17:03:00.001-07:00

So one of our callings in the ward is 11 year old scout leaders (yes this is my calling too. weird. What do I know about scouts? ....absolutely nothing.) We usually hold it at the church but last night we had the boys come to our house. One of their requirements is a quarter mile run. So we had them do the run through the neighborhood before coming in and continuing with the other stuff ....bad idea!! I had six sweaty boys sittin all over my furniture- quietly cringing inside as I looked at their dirty socks on my cushions and enjoying the lovely aroma growing stronger in our family room! I had just swept and mopped- so we had them take their shoes off (maybe bad idea #2) yet they still managed to track dirt around...?? I don't think these boys are any dirtier or stinkier than the average...I guess it just comes with the territory. (and I don't mean to sound completely negative...they are good boys) But needless to say, we went through like half our bottle of Febreeze after they left (we practically drenched our love sac in it) and I had to quickly redo my floors! I had a couple revelations about myself last night: One- I'm a little more uptight than I may have realized before. Two- this is going to be my life in just a few short years as my boys get older and bring their friends over...stinky, sweaty, and dirty boys all over the place!! What have I gotten myself into?????????

a few more from Cali

2010-03-22T19:01:00.000-07:00

So here's a few more from Disneyland and Sea World for your viewing pleasure- in no particular order.Blowing the bubbles on the Nemo ride:

Love this shot!

So this is classic. The sign said 3 people could fit on this ride. Well...apparently that doesn't include pregnant giants. I couldn't sit down all the way so they made me get off. ha ha. Craig looks completely in pain. dang.

Holy cow he loves this back pack. He takes it with him everywhere he goes now!! And he keeps a little collection of things in here.

The whole fam damily!! Good times!

CALIFORNIA!!!

2010-03-14T15:15:00.000-07:00

We took a little road trip to California with my family last week (before Jared leaves on his mission to Brazil!) And it was so AWESOME!! I was a little nervous as to how it would go with Carson- but it could not have been better! Disneyland is definitely the happiest place on earth- and Carson was the happiest kid there!! He was seriously in heaven the whole time- at one point he was literally running around in circles at Disneyland because he was so excited. It was so fun to watch him enjoying it so much! Even though I couldn't do much (due to my condition....pregnant) I've never had more fun there! He wanted to do absoloutely everything and had no fear! I was surprised at how many rides he actually could go on. After each ride was over he would immediately start saying "I wanna do it again!" He even went on Haunted Mansion with us- though after that one he told us he liked it, but he didn't want to do it again. ha ha. The second day at Disneyland he knew the drill and he just kept telling us, "I wanna go on lots of rides!"

So anyways- here's a TON of pictures to recap our trip...though this is such a small snippet of how many I actually have! Most of them aren't even on my computer!

We drove there- so we let Car Car get out of his carseat a couple times on lonely roads....don't worry this isn't normal for us.Then we had to let him out to burn some energy every now and then... this is Carson and my mom literally just running around the parking lot at the gas station! (We're all in PJs cuz we started this crazy journey at 4 am!)
The first morning there- when Carson woke up- he looked around the hotel room and the very first thing he said was, "This is NOT Disneyland." ha ha. But when we actually did get there this was the first Mickey he saw and he immediately tried to climb over and get to him! Now perhaps you can imagine his excitement when he saw everything else....and the real Mickey!

Here's the crew the braved out Splash Mountain in the not-so-hot weather. I love this picture.

Jared and Craig got soaked and Jared was not drying...so he ended up buying this super cute outfit!! Very nice.

Carson and me on the carousel:

Carson couldn't even contain his excitement while on Craig's shoulders- he was throwin himself around like crazy.

Getting to meet McQueen and Mater!

The boys:

This is one of the rides he hasn't stopped talking about. He tells me about how the watermelon sprayed him and Nana with water pretty much everyday.

He only fell asleep at the parks once- he just couldn't keep his eyes open one second longer...believe me he was trying! Most days he just fell asleep at the restaurant before we ever got our dinner cuz he was always so worn out.

I'm pretty sure this was Carson's favorite ride. The second time he went on it he even put his hands up in the air! I loved watching him come around with the biggest smile on his face!

Sea World! Carson loved Sea World too- especially being able to touch the sting rays.

So basically the trip could not have been better! Carson has not stopped talking about it! Everyday he tells me about the rides he went on or tells me the huge long list of characters that he got to meet! He remembers every little detail too. Almost everything he sees or does he relates to something about Disneyland or Sea World! Perhaps I'll put some more pics on here when I go through all of them.

swimmin, projects, and more

2010-02-19T15:45:00.001-08:00

Just to update what's been goin on at the Morris home: With having our own house, its finally fun to decorate! Before, in apartments, I didn't really care because I knew we would only live there for a few months, had absolutely no room for anything anyway, or knew no matter what my cinderblock walls were going to be ugly :) It would be nice to have unlimited funds to buy whatever I want for my house-- but for now I've been trying to find fun, affordable projects to fix up my house-- and trying to get a bunch of these done so I can then focus on doing the nursery before the baby comes! This week was finishing this sweet table that I found on KSL and touching up the paint on our kitchen table and chairs.

Here's my cute mom helping with the sanding process. It took so many steps to finish the table the way I wanted it...and about halfway through I kinda started kicking myself because I didn't think it would work. ...but luckily I liked it in the end.Here's the finished product:Hope everyone had a fun Valentine's Day. We headed up to Idaho that weekend to hear my cousin speak who just came home from his mission! And I was finally able to eat sandwiches and tons of frozen yogurt at my Uncle's shop (which I have been craving since the day I got pregnant!) If anyone is around the Rexburg area--definitely make a stop at Millhollow!

Here's Carson and another one of his many messes. Thought he had outgrown pulling every single baby wipe out of the package but I guess not. When Carson saw this pic on the computer he said, "whoa, what a mess." ...yeah Carson, what a mess.

Some friends from the ward and I have been takin the kids swimming a lot lately at Lehi Legacy Center- which Car Car loves. its a nice break from being stuck inside. Can't wait til summer when we just have to walk down the street to swim! It's pretty hard to get pictures in this place cuz its so humid and does funky things to the camera...but I've gotten a couple.

5 month baby bump

2010-01-26T13:58:00.000-08:00

We had another ultrasound this past week- and things are going well. Baby is healthy, and we were able to tell with absolute certainty that it is a little boy growing inside of me. It was actually quite funny the way he was sitting inside of me. The doc said in all his 17 years of being a doctor he has never seen a baby sitting like this-- he is breech inside me right now, and he was sitting completey indian style with his hands on his knees. (actually most of the time he had his feet together rather than crossed- like the butterfly stretch- like he was meditating or something) It was pretty funny. I am going in for another ultrasound next month though to do a growth check. The doctor said he is still within a normal range but pretty small compared to Carson, so he wants to make absolute sure that he is growing the way he should. There's a chance my due date might just be a little off by just a few days and that's why he's small. But either way- here I am at five months! More than half way done! Yahoo!!!

Oh my silly silly boy

2010-01-21T21:32:00.000-08:00

I don't know if I just don't get out much-- or if I spend so much time around 2 year olds that my sense of humor has totally changed--but I swear this kid is so dang funny!! He has me rollin' all the time. So this post is all about Carson- and the funny things he's done lately (I need to record these things much more often! I forget so easy!)

So this is my parent's dog Lola. Carson loves teasin her! Here he is tryin to take her toy. He loves to go over to their house to play with her... He will literally run circles through their house yelling "Chase me Lola!" and she does. This boy needs a dog.So the other day I was in the family room and Carson was calling me from his room saying, "Mommy, swimming, mommy swimming!" He emptied out his puzzle box and was pretending to swim!
He's always loved looking at pictures of himself, so as soon as I take a picture of him, he wants to see the back of my camera. The other day I showed him his picture, and he goes, "CUTE!"

Don't know what him and his daddy were doin with these boxes, but I just found these pictures on my camera.

Please ignore my face in these next pictures! (Pregnancy does terrible things to my skin). But anyways I love doing silly pictures with Carson. I tell him to make a silly face...and I just never know what I'm gonna get out of him!

These past few days have been insane trying to get him to bed...He's up til like midnight! So a couple nights ago I was layin in his bed with him trying to get him to fall asleep. He was cuddled in super close to me with his arms around my neck (he is such a cuddle bug!) and I thought he was finally fallin asleep, because his breathing was getting deep and slow. When...out of nowhere...he very slowly stuck his tongue out...waited...then started licking my entire face!! And he was laughing his head off. Of course I started laughing my head off too... didn't help with the falling asleep situation...But its hard to get too mad when I'm about to pee my pants with laughter.

As you can tell from the last story, our night times are always pretty interesting! Another night this week we were settlin' in for night time prayers next to Carson's bed. Carson said he wanted to say the prayer (which usually means, he tries to repeat what we say) but he insisted "Carson, self!" So he started..."Heavenly Father..." Then he just talked for a couple min. (Most of his words were NOT english!) Then when he thought he was done praying, he just climbed up in bed and laid down. Craig and I just looked at each other and were like...ok..."amen."

I've been trying to limit Carson's TV watching (especially now that I am done doing homework and stuff) So when he asks to watch a movie I often say..."no, you've already watched that," or "You've watched too much TV." Well....he thinks he outsmarted me. When he asks for a movie now he says, "Watch Wall E two times?" or "Watch Bug's Life two times today?"

One last fun story: Carson got to feel the baby for the first time last week! (He hasn't been patient enough before- to just sit there with his hand on my tummy...not really his idea of fun). But this time he felt the little baby, and he would get so excited!! He'd say "Baby move!" every time. Well he heard me say the baby is "kicking," and Carson knows we are not supposed to kick people (or dogs...poor Lola) so he tells the baby, "No no. Don't kick. Be nice to Carson."

Ok- that reminds me of one last thing: Sometimes he puts his toys on timeout. I'll watch him take a toy, use it to beat up another toy, then he takes the mean toy, sets it on the couch, gives a little lecture, and says "timeout!" The other day he sat a hot wheels car on the couch next to me and told me I couldn't play with it cuz it was on timeout. Trying not to laugh, I asked what the car did. And Carson responded completely serious, "hit fire truck." Oh boy. I'm pretty sure girls don't play this way.

I'm so lucky to be his mom! He keeps life so fun and entertaining! He always helps me to remember what the importnat things in life are. I love him more than words can say!

Our Christmas

2010-01-05T20:51:00.000-08:00

So my computer is being super annoying right now, and it keeps deleting pictures that I put on here. (or maybe its the fact that I am trying to operate a computer at one in the morning, who knows) but here's a little start to some holiday pictures at least.

Christmas was absolutely AWESOME this year! I couldn't help feeling so grateful for all of our family! We felt so spoiled! And it was so cool to finally have our own Christmas morning with our own little family! Up until now, we've stayed the night at one of our parents' since we've lived further away--which is nice too-- but so exciting to start our own traditions and have our own family time! Car-car loved Christmas morning and finally being able to open his presents! We'd been telling him not to touch the presents under the tree for so long, he was a little unsure when we finally told him to dig in...like we were playing a trick on him! Can I just say that 2 year olds are the BEST to shop for! He's totally happy with anything! The first present he opened was all his play food and dishes, and he would have been totally content with just that. In between his presents he would go back to his food and have a little "snack."
Craig's big present to me was a HAND PAINTED picture of our family! He met this incredible artist in China, and this was such a surprise! I can't believe how talented she is! We are having it framed right now- I can't wait to put it up in our house!

Our family on Christmas morning. We all totally have sleepy-face still.The cousins at the Morris house with "Mimi". (2 matching cheese ball grins) Then onto the Romney house for more presents and a Christmas feast!

The next day we finally made it down to the lights in Salt Lake City. So cold- but always worth it.

Hopefully I can get some more pictures on here later....but we'll see. Hope everyone had a great Christmas and Happy New Year!

boy or girl??

2009-12-28T14:42:00.000-08:00

Hope everyone had a good Christmas! ...I'll get around to posting pictures and Christmas stuff later. For now I'll keep this short and sweet.

I had a doctor appt a week or so ago- and the doc randomly decided to do an ultrasound (we have the head to toe one scheduled for next month), and I knew he might be able to tell the sex of the baby, so I kinda started freaking out! And Craig wasn't with me so I told the doctor to tell me to look away when he was getting close the "the area" because I didn't want to find out w/out Craig. Ultrasounds are always so exciting! i got to see the baby's fingers and toes- I love it- it makes it all seem much more "real." So anyways the doc printed out a picture and wrote the sex on the back. He didn't seal it in an envelope or anything! I had to completely empty out a purse pocket with a zipper and zip it in there all by its self so I wouldn't be tempted to look at it! Then as soon as I got home I had to seal it in my own envelope. So hard!

Craig and I talked about waiting until Christmas to look- but we were barely able to last until that evening. It was so different this time. With Carson we both just KNEW it was going to be a boy, it didn't feel like a surprise at all. But this time we both kept going back and forth. ....Right before we looked, Craig bet me $100 that it was going to be a boy...I took that bet.

Here we are about to open it up!Uh...not exactly sure why Craig is makin that face! And......
.......apparently.....
I'll have to wait a while longer to buy bows, flowers, and anything pink.
Until then I will be severely outnumbered and surrounded by balls, trucks, dirt, dinosaurs, stinky feet, and the color blue!

We are both super excited to have another little boy! I'm so glad that Carson will have a little buddy- and I'm sure they will be handful together, but it will be a blast! I can't wait!

And needless to say: Craig got a jacket and a basketball book for Christmas that he would normally not have gotten :)

By the way: His due date is May 20!!

MY BABY IS 2!

2009-12-24T11:51:00.000-08:00

I can't believe my little Car Car is 2 years old! He had his 2 year doctor visit this week and he still is in like the 99th percentile for height and weight! He is a big boy for sure! Some fast facts on Carson: Favorite color- yellow. Favorite food- probably fruit and "cheese-adas" (cheese quesadillas), and spaghetti, but he's not very picky. He loves- school buses, dinosaurs, all Disney characters, and cars.

You may remember how last year he was terrified when we sang Happy Birthday to him... but he couldn't get enough of it this year. (These next few pics are from the Romney family party) My sis-in-law, Hannah, made him this cute Mickey cake, which he loved.
He loves this little remote control plane. He drives it all over the hosue now. He's so spoiled with presents- he always asks for "More presents?" when he's done. But at least he's very gracious...when he opens one he says, "whoah!" every time.

All the cute kiddos wanted to help.

Carson and sweet little "Baby Izzy." Carson loves babies!

Now these next couple are from the Morris family party. I made him a dinosaur cake... that turned out to be a giant disaster. It already looked pretty bad, but then on the way over to their house, the whole thing totally tipped over in the car! I was trying to salvage it, while driving, frosting all over the place...you can imagine the scene I'm sure. I learned my lesson though: stick to Costco cakes! (At least Car liked it)

Then on Carson's actual birthday (Dec. 18th), we headed down to St. George for a few days for a little vacation. We had a blast, the weather was lovely, but we were sure happy to come home to snow for Christmas! Merry Christmas everyone!

By the way-- my next post I will announce if we are having a boy or girl (we found out last week!!) So excited!

Date Nights

2009-12-17T09:53:00.000-08:00

Craig and I don't get out a ton with just the two of us...so its always fun when we do. Last Friday we stayed up in Midway and went to Craig's work party (which was fun besides the fact that it was a dinner party scheduled for 6:00 and they didn't actually feed us until after 8!! I was dying!! And I didn't even have any snacks packed in my bag like normal!) Please ignore the fact that our "Christmas colors" totally clash.
And the other day we went to the Jazz/Spurs game(great game) and sat on like the 19th row! And we got a yummy sponsor buffet dinner before! It was sweet! Best part was- it was all free! Yes, we have matching D Will jerseys (Craig got them in China or Vietnam or something). We rock.

Graduation!

2009-12-16T20:22:00.000-08:00

On Dec. 12th I officially walked at Utah State University with my Bachelor's degree in Interdisciplinary Studies in Health Sciences.... what a mouthful huh? When I started school I never would have thought that this is how it would go. My plan was to finish the nursing program at BYU and apply to become a nurse anesthetist. Well....3 schools, about 6 moves, 1 husband, and 1 1/2 kids later....I'm finally graduating! I guess Heavenly Father had some different plans for me...and I'm not complaining!!!! Life is great. But I can't even explain how amazing it feels to finally be done! It is such a relief! I still feel a bit naked going places without my back pack- I took it with me everywhere incase I had a free minute or two. But I'm getting use to it-- and loving it! No more homework--until I get to help Carson with his! Wow!! Although I still would like to go back to finish nursing that will not be until all my kids are in school--I'm so grateful to not have to think about that now!Here's the whole gang that made the journey up to Logan for me :) ...by the way, I love Logan.
This is one of Craig's best friends, Bradley, and me.

This is Craig's mission president- a trustee at the school. We love him and his family! They took care of us a lot while we were up there.

YIPEE!!!!!!!!!!

Pooh, Tigger, Piglet!

2009-12-02T19:25:00.000-08:00

This morning Carson was watching the Tigger Movie....so he felt the need to get Pooh, Tigger, and Piglet, so they could all watch too. He doesn't ever separate these three...its so funny, like he understands they are friends.

So....its been a while since I've recorded some of the funny stuff Carson does lately....and I am more than a year behind on my scrapbooking...so this is the best place for me to record stuff about Carson...so if you don't want to read this I'm ok with that...its mostly for me to remember all these little things about him anyway....he grows up way too quickly!

-Lately when he gets hurt he immediately asks for a bandaid. The other day he hit his tooth on our coffee table and he kept asking for a bandaid on his teeth!! And if he doesn't ask for a bandaid--in his sweetest little sad voice, he asks for a "magic kiss?" Oh it melts my heart. Then he usually says, "All better."

-Carson never ever ever walks out of a room without closing the door behind him. Even when he wakes up in the middle of the night, he walks of his room- closes the door. Walks into our room- closes the door. There is something so precious about finding all the doors closed in our house. Also when he gets up in the night he used to come out of his room, but wait outside of our room, and quietly knock on our door until we came and got him. I don't know why...its not like we ever lock our door... but now he just comes on in.

-(This one is one of my favorite things he does) When we are in the car and the sun is in his eyes, he says something to this extent, "Ah, moon, eyes!" He always thinks its the moon in his eyes! I love it! I don't know if I will ever have the heart to tell him its the sun.

....I suppose that will do for now. :) ....by the way, I finally did lots of updating on my blog...so scroll on down for more posts... oh and I tried to put on some videos, but i have not been able to get it to work lately, so if anyone could explain how to upload them through YouTube or an easier method...that would be awesome! Thanks.

Emily's Birthday Party!

2009-12-02T19:06:00.000-08:00

Carson went to his first birthday party on Saturday (Emily's our cute little neighbor, and one of Carson's best friends!)--and oh boy did he love every second of it!! We took all the kiddos to Chuck-E-Cheese!! He loved all the games and little rides (if you can't tell by his giant cheese ball grin). It was so hard to even pull him away for pizza and cupcakes. I could only get him to eat one piece of pizza...barely. And if you knew his love for pizza, you would understand how crazy that is. He just kept saying "Games, Games!"

Here he is giving me his "money." Good thing one of the workers thought he was cute enough to give him all the tickets when she was clearing out on of the machines...or he probably would not have had enough to get anything :)

Carson and the birthday girl:

Oh boy this face cracks me up. This is what he gives me for pictures. He juts his bottom teeth out and kinda grimaces....I can't get enough of it.

So pretty

2009-12-02T14:56:00.000-08:00

So the other day Carson found these in my closet after getting out of the bath. He loved them because they clicked when he walked. He called them his "loud shoes." (Don't judge our messy closet...Craig was in the process of organizing it.) and check out this cute little bubble bum!

Also, I just had to document Carson's "pretty toes." He saw me pain mine and just kept asking for "pretty toes"--so I gave in. Luckily he was satisfied with just a little dot on each one. ...Nail polish and high heals...probably not Craig's proudest moment as a dad :)

Time to play catch up again!

2009-12-02T14:12:00.000-08:00

Here's just some random pictures from lately. I've been so busy with school, I haven't had a spare second--but I figured I better update before its time to put all my Christmas pictures up! (And there's only 9 more days of school--I've completely finished 2 classes- only 4 more to finish up! ah--it will be such a relief!)

This is cute baby Luke (Our friends Adam and Erin's little guy). Carson is so good with him- he loves him and gets so excited when we get to see him! He has a friend in our ward who is Carson's age also named Luke and Carson started calling him "Big Luke" it was so funny when we heard him saying that at church. It was so hard to get him to look at the camera-- he was so concerned about Luke and didn't feel like he could take his eyes off him while he was holding him. He is gonna be such a good big brother!
Just listenin' to some tunes...or maybe just pretending. Who knows.

We were trying to get Carson to wake up the other day cuz it was too late in the day for him to take a nap, and no matter what we did he would not wake up. Craig was just holding him straight up...still dead to the world. Isn't it crazy how when we want him to wake up he can sleep through everything short of dumping water on him, but when we want him to sleep he'll wake up to the sound of a door clicking???

We went and watched Dad play flag football the other day (he is officially multi-stake/region champion...so proud) and Carson was loving playing with all the kids and running down this hill. He particularly loved going down backwards....he has a thing with walking backwards lately (I think he gets it from Mater in Cars).

Halloween Festivities

2009-11-02T10:51:00.000-08:00

We had such a fun Halloween this year! These pictures are a bit out of order, but I'm not really gonna worry about that. It was quite the ordeal trying to get Carson a costume! I started out with an adorable giraffe costume, but when I put it on him he would scream, cry, and yell, "OFF!" So that didn't work. I thought, maybe if he picked out his own costume he'd be excited- and he was until I would put it on him, then it would be the same scene (we tried Buzz Lightyear, Thomas the train engine, and a couple ohters). We finally went with a cowboy- it was most similar to normal clothes, and he liked the guns and hat--most of the time. He loved shooting people and making them fall down- then he shoots himself and collapses on the ground. (Don't ask me where he learns these things- I have no idea!)

Halloween night a bunch of neighbors got together for soups and treats- and of course Carson did some trick-or-treating. (I think he liked passing out candy at our house the best!) Craig and I kept it casual-baseball players.

Carson couldn't have been happier that Nemo was there! (even though he doesn't look particularly thrilled in this picture). He didn't want to leave his side.LOVED the cake walk- but he didn't ever want the treat when his number was called- he just wanted to keep playing.Fri. night our bro. and sis-in-law (Kyle and Alex) came over and we carved some sweet pumpkins.Friday during the day was Craig's work party. (cowboys and Indian- if ya can't tell). You'd like our costumes more if you could see my cute moccasins and Craig's awesome boots-- but this is what happens when you ask a guy to take a full-body picture :)I'm thinking of dying my hair black, what do you think? ha haLast but not least: Wed. we did some trunk-or-treating and games with my parents' ward. Here's the cowboy and my mom the crazy witch.

Park Day

2009-10-27T14:36:00.000-07:00

Not many days left to play at the fun little park in our neighborhood- and poor Carson is stuck inside so much with me doing homework-- so I had to take a break so he could go play for a while! He was one happy dude! He gives me the best cheese ball grins lately- love it.

He collected all sorts of fun stuff like dirt, sticks, bugs, garbage. ....All boy!

Nemo video

2009-10-26T10:13:00.000-07:00

Carson really likes all the Pixar movies now (Nemo, Toy Story, Monsters Inc, Cars, etc.) Here's a funny little video of him chanting along with Nemo- he always chants along with it...like Shark Bait.. oh ha ha. (if you know the movie- you know what I mean). It was hard to really capture it, because he kept thinking I was taking his picture--hence his cheesey little grin :) ....and you can kinda see part of our house in the background of this video. (he likes to speak "whale" with Dori also!)

Fountain of YOUTH??

2009-10-18T14:15:00.000-07:00

So uh...apparently at Winger's right now they are giving scratch coupons away when you go in there, but you have to be at least 18 years old. Last night the waiter asked me if I was 18? (um I was with Carson even!) Then handed one to my little sister- NO QUESTIONS ASKED! (she's not even 15!) What the heck??

When I was 14/15 I looked older than my age too-- and of course I absolutely loved it! But now I'm like in reverse or something! I think I looked older then than I do now. My mom has a wall with all the kids senior/missionary pictures frames...all but me. She has a pic of me from before my sophomore year because she said I look so young in my senior picture! ha ha its true though.

And....a couple weeks ago a salesperson came to my door and asked if my mom was home! I was like uh....I am the MOM!!

And....When I took Carson to a park this summer another mom asked me if I was Carson's SISTER!!!! (and she totally said it like: Ooh...how sweet of you to take your brother to the park- you cute little girl.)

I seriously get questions like this all the time..... what is the DEAL-IO!? I swear I'm gonna get pulled over one of these days cuz they think I'm too young to be driving or something. Maybe I should start paying children's prices at the movie theatres- to see if I could get away with it. There's gotta be a positive side to this.

Potty Training....kinda

2009-10-07T13:28:00.000-07:00

We got Carson a little Elmo potty chair cuz he kinda seemed ready to start using the potty, he was super excited about it at first and always wanted to go "poo poo" on "Elmo." He's a little less excited about it now, so he only uses it occasionally. So I think he's still a ways away from actually being potty trained, but we're gettin there. This was his first time- successfully- using the potty. (Sometimes he just pretends: he gets on, grunts, pushes his tummy, gets off and looks, then he says "nope." and flushes the toilet-- oh boy this kid-- I always say- good practice!!)

Real pushes :)

So proud of himself!!

He wanted to document every detail- he had a scratch on his hand, that he re-hurt by scraping on the inside of his seat, and he made me go back and get the camera so he could show his scratch!! He is so funny I swear.

Sorry if this post was a little much..... but this is what my life entails.

GREAT NEWS!!

2009-10-06T14:29:00.001-07:00

FINALLY.....if you haven't already heard...... I've got a bun in the oven!! We are so so so excited!! I don't know my due date, I haven't gone to see a doctor yet. We just told our families, so now we can let the rest of the world know! Carson gets that there is baby in my tummy: he'll point to my belly when we say "where's the baby?" or he'll give the baby kisses on my tummy....but I don't know if he REALLY understands what that means. He'll be a great big brother though!! We are all so happy about it. ....I'm still super super busy with school...so hopefully I can get around to some other posts/pictures soon. But I'd thought I'd at least let everyone know!! YAY!!!!!!

Camping!

2009-09-25T16:26:00.000-07:00

Over Labor Day weekend we went camping up in American Fork Canyon with our new friends/neighbors. We had a blast and Carson loved it. ...One of Carson's favorite things in the world is throwing rocks in rivers. Seriously, when he sees rocks he says-- "river, splash."

The girls: Karlie (the one in the hat) even brought their cute little one-month-old baby, aren't they brave!? We should have gotten a pic of the 7 cute little kids we had there.

The boys:

Look how excited Carson is about finding more rocks to throw in the river!!

Carson and his girlfriend Emily (or "Eminy") He loves her.... and hot dogs :)

MOVIES!!!

2009-09-25T16:19:00.000-07:00

I've been waiting for this moment for a long long time...Carson finally enjoys watching movies. This really helps me to be able to get stuff done. The first movie he got into was 101 Dalmations. For the first couple of weeks this was the ONLY movie he would watch, and he would ask for "doggies" two or three times a day! Now he asks for a few other movies, but he's still pretty picky. He'll watch: 101 Dalmations, Finding Nemo, and Mickey Mouse cartoons (Mickey Mouse clubhouse or the really old school ones he doesn't care he loves the Mickey Mouse gang!) ....oh and Jurassic Park when he's at my parents' house.

I know, I know...

2009-09-25T16:10:00.000-07:00

I haven't done this in a while, but I have reasons....I've been so extremely busy!! For one: We moved into our NEW HOUSE!!! We now live in Eagle Mountain - hopefully this will be our last move for a long time! I'm sick of moving! We absolutely LOVE our new house- love the neighbors, the ward, the area, all the kids for Carson to play with, everything! We actually moved over a month ago...but I don't even have pictures of the house yet. I have some before it was fully finished...but that's not as exciting. I'll work on that. Below are some of the move: Carson was such a good helper :)

I've also gone back to school!!!! That keeps me more busy than anything!! This is definitely the hardest semester I have ever had in my life!!! 18 credits--all online--all upper division courses--I've been out of the swing of school for a year now-- not a good combo!! One teacher inparticular is like nothing else I've ever encountered in my history of school--at any of the colleges I've ever attended!! I don't even know how to explain him!! Luckily I have so many people willing to help me-- especially my mom who helps me with Carson all the time! I just can't wait to be done with school-- there is an end in sight!! I will try and keep on top of my blog- especially cuz I don't have time to scrapbook right now-- this is my form of recording our life.

Bear Lake!!!

2009-08-11T14:36:00.000-07:00

We got to sneak away for a couple days this week for a much needed break to Bear Lake!! We were there with lots of family and cousins. It was awesome, kind of cold windy weather for water though. So my favorite activity was paint balling! I'd never done it outside in the woods before. I have so many bruises all over my body right now its ridiculous- I have one like the size of a softball on my thigh. (it was worth it though- we kinda want to buy paint ball guns now).

The only day we took a boat out- Kyle's (my bro-in-law) hat blew off, and he just dove right in after it -- into the frigid water. Very impressive swimming. Good show. I was gonna pee my pants I was laughing so hard. Even in the cold, Carson loved the lake! He likes anything that has to do with water!! He was swimming all over the place (and he seriously can swim as long as he has his life jacket on) If you look closely at the next pic- you can see a pretty good welt on Craig's back from a paintball.

It eventually got too cold so we had to take him out of the water .... although...

...slowly but surely....

he would creep in deeper and deeper to play.

This kept him out of the water pretty good though :)

So Carson picked up this new thing... He calls Dad "Craig." It is so funny to hear him say it. It started when we were out in the water and I yelled to Craig, "Hey Craig watch how he swims." Every time he was swimming after that he kept yelling, "Craig, Craig." (more like "Ceg") He does it all the time now, especially when he hears me say it. Oh boy- so funny.

24th of July

2009-08-11T14:08:00.000-07:00

I know I'm a bit late on these pictures..... I went up to my cabin again the week of the 24th. Craig had to stay and work :( but we had a blast. Carson LOVED the rodeo! I could not get him to look at the camera for the life of me! He would not take his eyes off the action!!

Only in a small town would you pay $3 to sit in a big spinning thing, surely made by hand, spun by hand, while being sprayed with a hose!! Good times.

Once again- little rascal loved the parade! It was insane how much candy he got this time! He was going crazy, coming back with armfuls! (notice the hair elastics on his wrist- he insisted on wearing them- he wants to be just like Mama :) )

Fortune Cookie!!

2009-08-11T13:44:00.000-07:00

If you haven't been there... you've got to try it!! It's my new favorite restaurant! One of the first times I took Carson there, all the servers kept coming over and watching him eat cuz they thought it was so hilarious. Carson loves it just as much as I do!! One time I forgot to ask for lemon in my water, so they brought some out to me on a plate...Carson just reached over, took one, and ate the whole thing- like it was no big deal. I mean literally the WHOLE thing!! Peel and all!!! He likes to serve himself out of the big bowls, onto his own plate, and eat with chopsticks!! (he thinks he is such an adult I swear). Though... he often resorts to his hands.

Here he is eating another lemon:

Does life get any better than this?

2009-08-04T10:18:00.000-07:00

....I submit that it does not :)

Romney Reunion!

2009-07-30T16:21:00.000-07:00

We had the good ol' annual Romney family reunion at the ranch a couple weeks ago. Oh boy does Carson LOVE the ranch!! He gets so excited when we even mention it and starts making horsee noises and pretends to throw rocks in the river. This particular day was full of playing in the river (we couldn't get Carson outta there- and its not like it is warm, this is the Provo river we are talking about), making "soup" in the sandbox, riding some horses, bonfire, horseshoes, and of course a good game of baseball in the meadow. Good times.

4th of July!

2009-07-16T17:31:00.000-07:00

I know this is a bit late but... I had to post these. We took Carson to the Sandy parade- which he absolutely loved! He was getting all excited and cheering for everyone!
This is what he would do when people/floats would come by and not throw candy, "uh?" It was hilarious.

(don't know why this picture wouldn't flip?)The night of the forth we went to Murray's fireworks- which Carson loved again. Everytime we say fireworks now he says, "boom boom." Then a couple days later we let him play with some sparklers! Of course he loved that too.... surprise surprise. I'm excited for the 24th to do it all again!

FUN at the ZOO!

2009-07-02T14:54:00.000-07:00

Craig and I took Carson to the zoo yesterday, and we had a blast. It took Carson a little while to warm up to seeing all the animals- but then he started having a lot of fun. His favorite were the little penguins- he was laughing his head off at them and kept waving to them.

Favorite moment of the day: (at first he was more into all the birds and bugs that weren't apart of the zoo than anything else)

Craig: "Carson look at all the monkeys"

(Carson starts checking out the little info. sign and finds something way more exciting than monkeys)

Carson: "BUG!"

Craig: "This is the last time I spend $18 to take him to the zoo."

He is such a cheese ball now in pictures! --even more so than usual.

family pics

2009-07-01T17:10:00.000-07:00

Craig is finally home! We thought since we haven't gotten any family pictures in a way long time we would just take some snap shots in my parents backyard. (plus Craig wanted to document how long his hair is right now.)

16.5 hours....

2009-06-27T22:17:00.001-07:00

....until Craig comes home!!! Finally!!!!

Happy Day

2009-06-21T23:02:00.000-07:00

Happy Dad's Day to my hubby, Dad, Father-in-law, Papa, and Grandpa Joe, and all the other dads!

I was sad to have to spend this Father's Day without Craig (who also missed my birthday a few days ago). He has been in Asia for 4 weeks now- but I can officially say he will be home in less than a week! (He gets home next Sunday) I can not wait!!! He went with the school's business department, and they've gone to Korea, China, Hong Kong, and are now in Vietnam. I'm sure he will have some super awesome pictures for me to post when he gets back!! (sorry this post will have no pictures- he took my camera, and I haven't gotten pics from my mom or sister, but we've been up to my cabin a few times lately so I'll have some of that soon.)

I just had some funny stories I wanted to share about Carson-- seriously I do not know how a one-year-old can be so dang funny! I bet he is going to be a little jokester his whole life.

He likes to walk in on me while I am going to the bathroom (I don't usually bother to lock the door.) but today he came in, took the toilet paper roll off the holder, and just walked out with it. He was laughing so hard. He kept walking back to the door, holding it out to me, and run away again when I would try and grab it from him. I eventually got it back, but it took awhile. He thought it was hysterical... what a stinker huh?

A lesson to me (and the rest of my family): we've gotta be more careful with what we say. He imitates everything he sees and hears. And he picked up the word "crap" from my sister this week. Luckily the word hasn't stuck.

This migtht be the best story of all (but maybe you had to be there.) We went to the Fortune Cookie for my birthday (I heart that restaurant!) And I asked for a lemon for my water, so the waiter brings out a couple on a plate- I put one in my water and Carson just took the other one. He ate the whole entire thing without even blinking an eye!! And when I say entire, I mean ENTIRE- he ate the rind and everything, just kept biting it like an apple! It was so funny. I've never seen him eat as much as he did that night! He kept serving himself rice and meat onto his plate from the serving bowls (he looked like such an adult, using the serving spoons!) Then he would eat it with his fork or chopsticks!! He was such a crack-up, the waiters and waittresses kept coming over and watching him and laughing at him. It was quite the scene!

Cake Snitcher

2009-06-11T22:02:00.000-07:00

I just found these pictures on my parent's computer (I guess my mom took them) and I started laughing way hard. This was Craig's graduation party, and apparently he was sneaking some of someone's cake. Sometimes he reminds me of that chocolate cake kid off of Matilda. Does anyone know what I am talking about??

GRADUATION!

2009-05-30T12:50:00.000-07:00

Craig graduated this semester!! Yahoo!!! Finally!! It was slightly bittersweet because we were on schedule to both graduate this semester- but I needed to take a little time off. I am so proud of Craig and so happy that he is finished!! It was the best graduation I've ever been to- USU did a pretty good job of keeping it short and sweet, and it was surprisingly casual- anyone could just walk on down there and take pictures or pretty much do whatever they wanted.

Super Cross

2009-05-30T12:44:00.000-07:00

Here's a couple pictures from when we went to Super Cross with our good friends Erin and Adam. It was quite cold- but it was a blast!

Salt Lake Temple

2009-05-30T12:36:00.000-07:00

I took Carson to the temple grounds to just walk around and look at the flowers. He loves smelling flowers, and he loved going to the visitor's center and looking at all the huge pictures of Jesus. He would point to every single one and say "Jesus." The pretty temple

I snapped this right as he was coming up from smelling the flower- this is his "smelling" face. I was dying. I'm so glad I caught this.

Bowling Night!!

2009-05-30T12:28:00.000-07:00

We all went bowling as a family for my little brother's B-day the other day (well about a month and a half ago) :) Carson loved it. He wanted to help everyone bowl. He sits like this all the time.

The whole gang. Minus my mom and Craig

Camp fire

2009-05-30T12:06:00.001-07:00

We went and had a campfire in Logan canyon the weekend before moving- and it was a lot of fun. Our friend Chandler caught a fish, and Carson wasn't so sure about it. But he loved playing by the river. We had to keep ahold of him, cuz the second I let go of his hand he would run right in!

Misc. and Easter

2009-05-30T06:56:00.000-07:00

Yeah, I know Easter was forever ago. But here he is at the South Jordan Easter egg hunt! He got lots of candy. (pet peeve: when old grandmas run around grabbing all the candy they can for their child in the 2 and under area! I'm not even kidding! -other than that it was great!) He was so excited to get started!

We were havin a little fun with some sticker labels:

So he went through a phase where he never wanted to wear clothes (which he still does occasionally) or he had to wear the weirdest stuff. This particular day- he had to wear this "hat" which is actually the hood off his coat.

cute boy

2009-04-15T15:13:00.000-07:00

Wow my little guy won't stop growing up! Everyday his personality comes out more and more. And let me tell ya- this is a very opinionated little kid! He says so many words now... lately he has had an obsession with ducks (all birds are ducks) I think it started when he fed a duck at my parents. So his favorite word right now is, "quack quack!" Anyways here's just some fun pictures: He's pretty serious about playing the piano, and he turns the page of the music when he wants to play a different song. He is also kinda goin through a phase of not wanting to wear clothes- especially shirts! I call him Tarzan now, cuz he's always runnin around with no shirt.
This particular day he not only refused to wear a shirt- he wouldn't wear pants-- and he had to wear his blue shoes!!! Silly kid.

and a fun little video:

Are you kidding me??

2009-04-01T18:51:00.000-07:00

For TWO DAYS in a row now Carson has POOPED IN THE TUB!!! And of course both times Craig has not been home to help clean it up. ....oh the JOYS of motherhood!!

2 years and counting!

2009-03-19T13:57:00.000-07:00

Last week (March 13th) Craig and I celebrated our 2 year anniversary! We had tons of fun- the usual dinner and movie, then we got a hotel in Salt Lake. Though most of the evening we spent driving- we seriously drove to three different movie theaters! Because of being sold out/bad times, etc. We were going to see a movie at 8 and didn't end up seeing one until 10:20. (bad planning I guess) But we still had a lot of fun! (and Craig got me a super cool really big clock!) Anyways- Happy Anniversary babe- I LOVE YOU! Here's a little blast from the past, a picture from our dating days: And now just a couple pictures to make you smile: I love when he gets diaper wedgies!!
He loves to "drive" the car. He mostly honks the horn forever!
And now- my first ever video on the blog: Carson dancing along with Dancing with the Stars! He's so funny, he loves to dance and he really tries to imitate what they are doing! You kinda get the idea with this video, but he kept getting distracted.

And last thing: Carson is really startin to be a chatter-box. He has been able to say Mom, Dad, and dog for a long time, but its pretty much this past week he has learned so many new words and he is constantly trying to imitate what we say. His vocabulary now includes: Mom, Dad, dog, ball, shoes, hot, night-night, and Jesus! His little voice is too adorable!

ps my phone has not been working! I'm sorry to all who have texted/called me and I haven't gotten back to ya. Sometimes my phone won't let me do anything and it starts erasing my texts, numbers, etc and when its just sitting there it occasionally goes crazy like I'm pushing a million buttons, but I'm not touching it. Its crazy. My new phone should be here in a couple days. I wasn't ignoring anyone on purpose!!

Ah.. Stitches!

2009-03-02T15:55:00.000-08:00

Little bug had his first big run in with the railing on the stairs. We were visiting my grandparents in Rexburg and the first night there we had to make a trip over to the ER. Carson was so tough though- it was amazing! While we were in the waiting room he was just staying cuddled up to Craig, until he heard a Progressive commercial come on the TV- he sat right up and watched the whole commercial then laid back down when it was over. I don't understand his love for those commercials. (This pic is off my phone) And here's his stitches now: It doesn't get much better than this face does it?