More Soccer...

We seriously have no life lately...so I am struggling to come up with posts. Don't worry my May is more exciting than April has been...so sorry if you think these are completely boring. The other night, we went to Thiago's indoor soccer game. He has done this every Friday night since we have been married...he just gets with a bunch of his Brazilian friends and family and they go play. Usually the games are past nine so it is to late for me and Carson to go. However this one was at 7:30, so we went. The Kofoed's came with us, the kiddos all love this kind of thing. Me and Thiago got something to eat before the game at this sandwich place that Carson doesn't like. So on the way there, we stopped and got Carson and Hallie anf Brev a kids meal (Tanner didn't want one, until we got there with the food, then he tried a little of everything). The games are about an hour, I never watch much cause I am usually standing over by the vending machines, which Carson is fascinated with. He just stands there and stares at everybody who comes to get something. Very embarassing. Oh well, we had fun...pretty exciting Friday night, I am sure you all agree.


Me and Cars before the game



All the kiddos eating their kids meals




That was about the best smile I could get out of him, he is always to busy lately to stop and smile for my pictures.


I guess I'll show a picture of Thiago since it was his game and all. I tried taking a picture of the field, but they all turned out to dark.

Soccer Star!

Look at my little soccer star. With Carson's brazilian heritage and his dad, grandpa, uncle Gus and uncle Souli's love of soccer. He doesn't really have a choice whether or not he plays, he is going to play if it is the last thing Thiago ever does. Every day when Thiago gets home, they grab one of Carson's many soccer balls and start kicking it around. When the weather is nice, they head outside. However this year, appearantly Utah is not getting a spring, we will go straight from cold to hot...do I sound a little irritated, cause I am. Anyways they keep playing inside my house and have knocked over so many decorations..drives me crazy. Carson loves it though, sometimes he forgets and tries to pick it up and throw it to Thiago. His dad is quick to remind him that he can't use his hands, so to kick it instead.




Look at those sad eyes, this is the look I got while trying to take his picture. He was not pleased with me for getting in the way of their game. Instead of smiling he just kept pouting and told me to move.

Blast from the Past......Sisters!!

Our life has been a little boring lately, not to mention my camera is going crazy on me. Soooo...I have not gotten a whole lot posted this last week, I thought I would at least do a blast from the past, so I had something new for you all to see. So here it is...I kinda copied my friend Ashley's idea for this one. She just did a flashback Friday on her sister, and I thought it was so cute. I think I am the luckiest girl in the whole wide world, to have my two sissies. I love them so much, Jen and I are only 18 months older than Ashley, so we have been closer than close our whole lives. I have never really needed a whole lot of friends, cause I had my 2 best friends living in the same house with me. We have done everything together, from the crazy games we played as little girls, to that awkward adolescence phase, dating, dances, hair, shopping, weddings, babies...I could go on and on. I heard one time that the best gift you can give your children is siblings. I could not agree more, I cannot imagine my life without my sisters. They have made me who I am, they have seen me at my absolute worst, yet they still love me like only a sister could. They have been there for me every second of my life, and I know no matter where we go or how our lives change, I KNOW they will still always be there. So my darlings, I love you two more than you know and am so grateful to have you. We truly are kindred spirits(as Anne of Green Gables would say), and I love you, love you, love you!



We got these little bunnies for Easter one year, don't you just love how we dressed them up as babies. Take a look at our hair, our mom sure knew how to get some volume. This was our "fancy" look, as we used to call it.


My little aunt Tam, went to Hawaii and brought us back these hula skirts. Ooh-la-la!! We sure thought we were something in those getups. By the way if you can't tell we are watching Wizard of Oz in the background.



Here we are all dressed up for one of our highschool dances. I think it was sweethearts dance for Valentines. Ash curled my hair like that, and I LOVED it!!


"Sisters by chance, friends by choice."


This is after we all got married, we are down in St. George staying at my Aunt Shelly's house (thanks Shel), we have the absolute best memories of our St. George trips. This is us at the bowling alley one night....the boys are there too, but we didn't want them messing up our picture.


This last picture is my moms absolute favorite, we all do look pretty cute if I do say so myself.

JAZZ game!!

We got tickets to last Saturday nights Jazz game for me, Thiago, Carson, Jill and
kids and Ash, Souli and Brev. We were seriously up about as high as you could be, (it was quite the hike up all those stairs) but we had so much fun. The kids were all so dang cute in their Jerseys. We went to Crown Burger before and ate so we could park there for free, which worked out really well.


This is about the best shot we could get of all the kids...Carson was completely uncoorperative all night as far as pictures went. He looks pretty dorky in all of them. Not to mention he fell asleep on the way there, and made his hair look all crazy. (I know you were all thinking that.)

My cute friend Deeann is a Jazz dancer and she got it arranged so we could go down in the tunnel, where the players come out and meet the Jazz bear. So very sweet of her. Here we are waiting for the bear to come out of his little cave.

Carson just loved the bear, usually he is afraid of that kind of thing. However he went right up to him and held his hand and sat on his lap. I was quite surprised. Tanner was a good sport too, Hallie and Brev on the other hand...not so much.



We bought Carson a souvenir for his first ever Jazz game. A cute little silver Jazz ball, he loved this. Probably his highlight of the night was this ball. However, he spent most of the night kicking it instead of dribbling. Thiago was in heaven , he kept saying Carson was a true soccer player.

They were doing this cool thing out in the lobby for free. You could take pictures in front of a curtain, as many as you wanted. Yet when they printed out they had this cool background. All the other kids smiled so cute, except my Carson. He was in a mood. All in all, we had a great night. Tons of food, got to meet the bear and the Jazz won. Couldn't have asked for more, although Tanner was a tad disappointed he didn't get to see any of the players. Oh well!

Kiddo Tag-Carson Jeffrey Cano

Carson got tagged by his cute friend Hunter Davis. I have been tagged many times, but Carson never has, so I am excited about this. All you do is list 5 facts you all might not know about my little guy...here goes.

1. My little one has the softest heart. He is the most compassionate person, I have ever met. He hates crying, fighting, yelling, anything that brings contention. Anytime I am sad, he comes and puts his arm around me and pats my back and gives me kisses. It is so sweet and just melts my heart. He loves to cuddle, loves hugs and kisses, loves to sit close to people and hold their hand. He is such a little angel!!

2. Most of you who know us well, already know this but Carson is turning three in June and weighs a whole 26 pounds (fully dressed). He is sooo tiny, he isn't even on the charts as for as percentiles in weight and height go. I used to worry about this, but he is growing (just slowly) and I was the same way when I was little. There was nothing to me, same as Carson. I guarantee what will end up happening is my boys will be tiny and petite like me and I will get big, husky girls like Thiago. Shouldn't it be the other way around.

3. Carson is so very good with his hands. He is so detail oriented and notices everything. He observes everything around him and then mimics it. Ever since he was tiny, I have loved to watch him. He can put anything together, he is so careful and does it exactly right. He also has a great memory, I tell him or show him something once and he never forgets.

4. I know I previously mentioned this, but Carson is obsessed with movies lately. The only problem is he picks one movie and then watches it over and over for a few weeks. Eventually he will move on to a different one and we start all over again. I don't know if all 2 year olds do this, but I find it so annoying. He doesn't even watch it half the time, he just likes it on for noise and then when I try to change it he gets mad. Makes me crazy!!

5. Carson is bilingual. He understands and can speak English and Portugese. Ever since he was born, Thiago and his family have just spoken Portugese to him. At first I had my doubts cause I couldn't understand what they were saying. But I am totally amazed by it now. He mainly speaks English, every once in a while he will throw in a Portugese word but he completely understands both. I will ask him a question in English and he will answer, Thiago will ask him the same thing in Portugese and he will answer. It is pretty cool!

Okay, now you all know some fun facts about my little guy. We are now tagging Lance and Luke Smith, Brevin Phongsavath, Taylor Downs and Mitchell Meldrum.

Two Little Helpers

Thiago has been getting our yard ready for spring and summer. The past 2 weekends he has been fertilizing, mowing the lawn, edging, weeding, that kind of thing. He got most of the big weeds pulled that have grown throughout the winter, but he left a few stragglers that I went out and worked on. As soon as Brev got to our house that morning, I bundled the kids up and we headed out. Notice their goofy outfits (they are still in PJ's, doesn't Brevin look cute with his shoes on over his sleeper). Carson tries to help me, but he just ends up flinging dirt everywhere, so there was no point getting them ready before. Brevin just sat in the stroller all morning, perfectly content to watch and eat Applejacks, while Carson got all his little play tools out and helped me. Fun, fun...I just can't wait for May and to get my flowers planted. I just love this time of year, our yard is definetely alot of hard work throughout the summer, but well worth it. It brings me such satisfaction and happiness, I just can't wait!

The not so fun...

I was looking back through all my previous posts...and I came to a realization. I only post things that are happy and fun. Things I think are really cute, or funny, or things that I am proud of. This is fine, because what else is a blog for, but I think it gives a false picture of my life. There are plenty of things that just thinking about them, make me go UGHH!! Do you know what I mean, not serious, depressing, dramatic things, just the simple day to day things that we kind of roll our eyes at. So I decided to do a post on the not so great things in life, they are kinda silly and not really that big of a deal, they are just things I wish I could change but can't...So here goes, just a few of my not so fun moments!

First of all, my bathroom. Seriously, have you ever seen a smaller bathroom than this. Even our townhouse bathroom was bigger than this. Look at my cabinet space, or should I say lack of cabinet space. When I first moved into our house I did not know how I was going to handle this. Like all girls, I require ALOT of crap to get ready, I need at least 3 plugs, not to mention all my other hair supplies. I am proud to say I have adjusted in the 4 years of living here. Carson's bathroom is a bit bigger than this, but not by much. But you get me, Carson and Thiago all trying to get ready at the same time, and well its not a pretty picture. We usually end up with Carson being trapped in the bathtub until his water is cold cause I don't want him in my way, and Thiago yelling at me, that I have been in the bathroom all morning, so could I possibly get out of the way and let him get ready. Which of course my answer is no.




Next on the list, my laundry room. If you can call it that. I would give anything to have my washer and dryer upstairs. I have to go down in the stupid basement to do my laundry. I hate this! I am lazy quite often and don't like walking down there, so I end up leaving loads in to long and then they start to smell so I have to wash them again. I get scared going down there at night, the minute I am done I turn off the light and literally book it upstairs. I think someone is always going to jump out and get me. Also in the winter it is sooo cold down there. I hang dry all of our clothes, so I am already freezing and then having to hang up a huge pile of wet clothes does not help.



I don't know about the rest of you moms...but I have certain movies that I see Carson walking towards me with and I just want to scream. What is it with 2 year olds and watching the same stupid movie over and over and over. These are his favorites. I swear if I have to watch Monsters one more time....Ughh, I get so sick of it. I have bought him a whole stack of movies that he won't even try cause he just keeps watching the same ones. Needless to say, I have that Barney episode on the farm memorized, Clip-clop, clip-clop riding on a pony...stupid Barney!



Then comes the garage. With winter dying out and spring on its way in. There is much work to be done, I have started my spring cleaning. Scrubbing walls, organizing closets, shampooing our carpets and all of that. And while doing this, we are also getting going on our yard, we have been pulling weeds, fertilizing, straightening up our flower beds, you know that kind of thing. Well the garage is next on our list. It is so dirty, everytime I walk out there I get depressed. Carson even told me it was dirty and I needed to vacuum it. In the summer we are outside so much, that I keep it in tip top shape, in the winter we have just thrown stuff everywhere...notice my cardboard boxes along the side. Those were the boxes for the entertainment center and TV, that my dear husband has just left sitting there. Honestly is it that hard to get rid of them.






Last but not least, this stupid bush. It died for some reason last summer, I don't know what happened. Everything around it did fine, except for this. And it was beautiful, up until it died that is. Now we need to pull it and figure out what to put in its place, it sits right next to my garage in my side flower bed, and it is a constant ugly reminder.

Well there you have it, do you all just feel so sorry for me. Don't get me wrong, I don't lose sleep over any of these things, they are just stupid and constantly annoy me. Life goes on though...of course!

I've been TAGGED!

-What were you doing 10 years ago?
Well, lets see....I would have been a Sophmore at Northridge High, Thiago and I were dating and it was about this time of year, that he broke up with me. (For another girl, all though to this day he won't admit it. ) I was heartbroken, I couldn't eat, sleep, smile, nothing....I know so sad! I would have also been running around with my crazy friends, being all kinds of weird.

-5 things on my to do list today?
Cleaning day today, so this is not going to be exciting...
-Order cute outfit for Carson at GAP online-done
-Run to Walmart to get more vacuum bags- done
-Loads and loads of laundry- almost done, last load is in the dryer
-clean my whole house- 8 hours later and I can finally say done.....and boy is it sparkling
-update my blog with this wonderful tag-work in progress

-6 snacks I enjoy
Strawberry milk (the kind in the bottle, I don't like to make it myself it tastes chalky)
Starbursts
Plain M&M's (never used to like these, until Carson started liking them , know I love em)
Any kind of cheese (most favorite is swiss)
Apples and peanut butter (don't knock it til you've tried it)
Honey nut chex mix

-If I were suddenly a billionaire, I would...
Pay off our car loan, find the house I want to raise my kids in and pay for it outright, pay off my family's debt, make a huge Contribution to the church and other worthy causes, go on a HUGE vacation and go shopping for clothes, decorations, toys for Carson etc.

-5 Places I have lived
Logan, Ut (until I was 9 mo)
Tremonton, Ut (until I was 8)
Layton, Ut (until I got married)
Layton, Ut again (1st year of marriage in townhome)
Clearfield, Ut (for the past 4 years)

-5 Jobs I have had....hmmm, not much
-Baby-sitter when I was young (if that counts)
-Nordstroms but only during the sales, so I could get a discount
-America First Credit Union-many different job titles, but it has been 8 years now
-most importantly wife and mom...which is my absolute favorite


-5 things people may not know about me
I kind of answered this in a previous tag...but I will try to be original
-I have never been in the hospital besides the day I was born and the day I had Carson, to go along with that I have never broken any bones or had stitches
-I don't like meat...I will eat occasionally but I would have no problem being a vegetarian
-5 out of my 7 callings in the church, have been in the Sunbeams (only exception was when I was the 2nd couselor in Young Womens and in the nursery...guess I must do well with that age group)
-My mom thought Jenny and I were boys up until the moment we were born...my name was supposed to be Jacob
-I am afraid of any new technology..I don't like self checkout lanes, electronic car washes, ATM's anything with a machine I don't really know how to work. I will waste my time and stand in line for help rather than use these types of things...I hate feeling stupid when I can't figure it out (which is always)

-5 people I tag
Jenny, Randy, Stefanie, Tammy, and Aleese

LCD Flatscreen

We have finally joined the world of the flatscreen TV's. We got this new 47-inch LCD flatscreen. Thiago has been begging for one for awhile now, I finally caved. It really isn't fair that he is the one who makes all the money, yet he never gets a say in how we spend it. I must admit though, I LOVE it!! We also changed our Dish setup, so we added HDTV as well. It is amazing, I can't believe the clarity. Of course if I was getting a new TV, I had to get a new entertainment system to go along with it. I had a hard time finding just the right one, we had the TV for a few weeks, before I finally settled on this one from RC Willey. I think the end result turned out quite nicely. Next on my list is a new end table and coffee table..I couldn't afford to do it all at once.

I also wanted to show my other new purchase. Deseret Book had these beautiful pictures of Christ on sale. The were originally $350, but we got them for $150. They had this print of Jesus with the little children, or another one with sheep. They were both beautiful, but I went for the one with the kids. There is just something so wonderful about it. It was still kinda pricey but I just couldn't pass it up. I hung it in my front entrance. I think it is so beautiful, everytime I walk into the house, I just feel peaceful and happy. Well worth my money.

Girls Night!!

Carson taking a picture of me, as I take one of him!

Here are me and my best buds (besides Jen) having yet another girls night out. We usually have girls DAY out, but the guys were all at priesthood. So we decided to make the most of it. Obviously we had to bring the kiddos along, so the little men don't count. We did what we do best, EAT and SHOP! Our two favorite things!! We went to Mimi's for dinner, I was a little disappointed with mine. I order chicken fettucine that was supposed to come with tomatoes, mushrooms and pine nuts...but I told the waitress I didn't want the chicken. Well, my fettucine came with just noodles, no tomatoes or anything else. I am not the kind of person that says anything, I just say thank-you and eat it. Oh well. After dinner we went and checked out the new ROSS and DSW shoes...Ashley and Tanner both had a hayday. We are not usually discount store people, but we definitely found some good stuff. I found Carson a little NIKE outfit, so it wasn't a total loss for me either. Then we went back to my house and just let the kids play. If you will notice the last pic of all of us crammed on to my little loveseat. My mom made caramel popcorn, and we all wanted to be close to it. So we piled on so we could stuff our faces with popcorn. YUM! Another great girls night (with 4 little ones tagging along). We wouldn't have it any other way.