Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Our Fathers Day!!

Our family had a great fathers day. We went to church in the morning, where my sunbeams were an absolute nightmare. Some weeks they can be so good, and then some weeks I seriously want to kill them. I pulled Thiago out of priesthood so he could come help me control the little monsters. Between the two of us, they were still insane. Needless to say, I came home in kinda a grouchy mood. I snapped out of it fast though, cause we had a busy day. We went to Cano's house for a little bit after church. And just hung out for about an hour or so...

Carson spent most of his time their outside messing with the sprinklers. I don't know what it is with this kid and water. He is OBSESSED!!

Three cute generations of little Cano men!!!

Me and my honey

We then headed up to Tremonton, to spend time with my dad and my Williams side of the family. My cute Grandma has had Sunday dinner for our entire family since I was a baby. We used to go every week, but when my parents got divorced we started going a little less. And then when I got married, well we now just go occasionaly. It is hard trying to split our time between so many people. It makes me sad we can't go as often, cause I love this side of my family. I have so many cute cousins, and the greatest two uncles in the world!! And of course two cute aunts. Plus I love my Grandpa and Grandma's home...it is something that never changes. In a world where things our always changing, my grandparents home and their love is constant. It always stays the same. It is such a comforting place to be. Here is a picture of Carson and Thiago throwing rocks at the road, Carson thought this was grand.


My grandpa keeps the absolute nicest yard and garden I have ever seen. I love it, he has so many beautiful flowers, and the greenest grass ever. He also plants a huge garden, and every summer we get the most delicious vegetables ever. I love it!! Carson had fun running around on the stepping stones and of course playing with the hose.


Me and my cute dad...who I love so much!

Carson and his papa...what a great day!

Friday, June 13, 2008

Our Daddy







With fathers day coming up I just need to do a quick post for our little family's dad and tell him how much we love him. When Thiago and I were dating and newly married, I always knew he was going to be a great dad. He just has this special way with kids. From the time Tanner(my nephew) could walk, Thiago has been his absolute favorite. As well as each of my nephews, especially Brev...they all just adore him!! I couldn't wait for the chance to have kids of our own and to be able to see Thiago as a dad. Carson came four days after fathers day in 2005, and in an instant a bond was formed. I know all dads love their kids, but watching my two boys together...I can't even explain. He is such an incredible dad, he would give anything in the world up for our little boy. His love for Carson and little Lincoln on the way shows in everything he does. Me and our babies are everything to him, and I love him so much for that. Happy Fathers Day to the worlds best dad, your little family loves you soooo much!!!

Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Poor Sick Baby!!



Well, it finally happened...Carson is sick!! He seriously has not been sick in over a year, it was last Memorial day that he was feeling under the weather. I have been waiting and waiting for him to come down with something. All of his cousins were sick, and it seems like about every kid in nursery had some kind of bug. But Carson was as healthy as a horse, well up until a few days ago. He just has a really bad cold, but every time he gets a cold he always gets a fever with it. The poor little guy just has not been himself the past few days. I can't stand when he gets sick, he just looks so miserable. The other night I was getting him out of the tub, and he said "Mommy, me hurt" and then I said "what hurts" and he said "my body". It was so sad. Anyways, when he is sick all he wants to do is sleep. He has slept in until 11:00 in the morning the past 2 days. He also doesn't want to eat anything, well he doesn't eat much on a regular basis, so when he is sick he REALLY doesn't eat. When he finally woke up this morning all I could get him to eat was a doughnut and orange juice. I had apple juice and tropical punch but he insisted it be orange. I hurried and made up some frozen orange juice. Then he insisted that I pull his little table into the family room, right smack in front of the TV so he could eat and watch his Georgie (Curious George). Oh the things we do for our kids, especially when they don't feel well. I know I am a great mom, juice and a doughnut for breakfast. Oh well, there is worse things in life I suppose.

Tuesday, June 10, 2008

It's Your Birthday...Shout Hurray!!

Little Lance turned 3 years old yesterday!! Yikes...that means my Carsy-boy is next. Jen, how is it possible that we have 3 years old, I just can't believe it. It feels like just yesterday that we sat there in your hospital room, holding little Lance. All 4 pounds of him, he was so tiny. I thought every time we changed his diaper we were going to snap his leg right off. Now look at him, he is the tallest 3 year old ever, and also the absolute cutest. This year was extra special, because this is the first birthday we have ever got to share with our Lance. The past 2 he has been in Kentucky, so we are so glad they were here, and we all got to celebrate with this little guy. We had a great day, the weather was perfect (now tomorrow it is supposed to be back in the 60's, nice June). We started off by taking the kids to the Treehouse Museum in Ogden. Believe it or not, I had never been. I thought it was so much fun, the kids were in heaven getting to run around from one thing to the next. It was great to just watch them have fun, and not be worrying all of the time about what they aren't supposed to be touching.


Here is Ash and Brev sticking theirs heads out of a little tree, Carson wouldn't hold still long enough to take his picture.


I didn't get one picture of Carson smiling all day long. He was just way to busy!!




The birthday boy!!


Two little firechiefs...this is the only thing these two fought over. They both wanted to be the one sitting up front steering, and Carson did not understand the concept of sharing. He was so mad he flung himself out, and cracked his lip a little bit, oh well, a little blood never hurt anything!




Carson and the kitchen...probably his favorite thing there.


He also loved this little baby...like I say he has the softest heart. He just kept hugging the baby and patting her little back. What a great big brother he is going to make. I hope!


Later that night we went over to Jen's inlaws with our family and Eric's family for a BBQ and cake and icecream. Yum!!


Carson having a heart to heart with Tam....don't you just love his necklaces. Weirdo!


Little Luke, what an angel baby. He is so good ALL the time. Half the time we forget he is there. He sat in this little baby swing all by himself staring at a fence for like a half hour. He is such a sweetheart!


What a chicken. Carson begged to get on the trampoline, but he didn't want anyone else to jump cause he didn't want to fall. The only way he would stay up there, is if my mom held his hands and jumped with him. Good old Grandma...thats what they are for.


Lance opening his presents. He was so funny, my mom gave him Mack off Cars (the big diesel that carries Mcqueen). He has a big back that opens up into a race course and he can also store all his little cars in there. It was the first present he opened. It would be an understatement to say that he LOVED it!! He wasn't interested in opening up anything else once he got his Mack.

Thursday, June 5, 2008

Reflections Tag!!

My family has all done this tag, and I have had so much fun reading all of theirs. I decided I had to try it myself. I tend to ramble quite a bit, so I will try to keep it simple. I thought this would be fun for me to think back on, but I realize it might be kinda boring for all of you. Oh well.. here goes.

20 year ago? Well I was 5, so that is hard to think back that far. I loved my childhood, I have the best memories. I loved growing up with my 2 sisters, we had so much fun together, and did the craziest things. We lived in Tremonton with the rest of my dads family, including my Grandpa and Grandpa Williams, and my two uncles and aunts and their families. Like my sisters have mentioned, I was running around with the 2 of them and my cute cousin Randy Jo (by the way, thanks for the phone call the other day, that made me laugh). I had the best parents ever, my mom was forever helping us come up with new games and ideas, she was the best mom. I always felt so safe and happy and loved. Can't ask for more than that.

10 years ago? I was 15, I think just about ready to start highschool. Crazy, cause I had just met Thiago, and we hung out a lot that summer. Well, as much as 15 year olds do. I had my crazy group of friends...Jen, Stace, Teryl, Deeann and Beka. We were as weird as ever and always together. I was saving up every penny I had for new clothes and all those other girly things. Oh fun times.

5 years ago? I was a cute little newlywed, for less than a month. We were getting settled in our little townhouse and I was loving it. Alot of people say their first year of marriage was the hardest, but not me. I LOVED it!! We were so carefree and were having so much fun being on our own. Thiago was going to school and we were both working full time. I was moving up the America first career path, I had been a lead teller at a branch for about 2 years and was making pretty good money. With both of us working full time, and not really a whole lot of bills to pay, we had more than enough money. We spent all of our time playing, and didn't have a whole lot of worries.

3 years ago? This was also a great time. I was 37 weeks pregnant with Carson and so ready to be done with the whole pregnancy thing. Jenny was about to have Lance, and I was so irritated, cause my due date was before hers. And there she sat with her little newborn, already looking skinny. While I was still huge and uncomfortable and scared to death of labor and delivery. I spent all my time washing and rewashing his little clothes, going through his drawers, organizing every thing and just wishing 40 weeks would get here. I had high blood pressure, so I wasn't going to work, I was on partial bed rest. Which basically just meant be careful.

1 year ago? Kind of a hard time, we were still trying to get over the last miscarriage and wanted another baby so very bad. Thiago was forever optimisic and so reassuring. I was kinda losing it, I honestly don't think I have ever felt so sad and dissapointed in life. I was getting terrible headaches everyday from the stress of the losses and of trying. I was not a very fun person to be around, I was trying to fake my way through life, trying to be happy and carefree cause I knew that is what Carson and Thiago needed and deserved in a mom and a wife. But it was hard, I learned alot of lessons about myself and having faith and trusting in my father heaven. Looking back I am grateful for these trials, I have grown from them and learned much.

So far this year..Our lives really dont change that much from year to year. Obviously the most exciting is our little one on the way. Funny how life works, I would not have thought that at the end of 2008, I would be a new mom again. My greatest little Christmas present will be arriving just in time for all the holidays. Thiago will be just about done with school, cross your fingers that he can just push through. We are hoping a year from now he will be done. I keep getting closer and closer to being a stay at home mom, I went from 40 hours, to 30, to 15 and now finally 10. Love it, love it.

Yesterday..boring day!! Cleaning day, never very exciting. Got my whole house clean and all my laundry done. It was actually kinda nice, cause it rained and rained yesterday so it was a good day to be all cozied in. Made a new recipe for dinner that turned out well, and then stayed up to make chocolate chip cookies for a soccer meeting that Thiago has tonight.

Today..even more boring. It is my one long day to work, so I am here from 8:30-6:00. Oh well at least it is just the 1 day. And my sisters and dad are coming to take me to lunch. Thiago is having a soccer meeting at our house tonight for his new team and their parents. Hopefully we can have it outside, cause I sure as heck don't want all those people in my clean house. If not we just cleaned out the garage so we will pull it in there if we have to.

Tomorrow. Much better day, Carson's B-day is in 2 weeks so I am trying to get everything ready. Having Brazilian heritage we like to throw huge parties. I need to run around and get the rest of the decorations and that kind of thing, plus run to Toys R Us and get him a few more presents. I need to finish my primary lesson for Sunday so I don't have to worry about that on Saturday. And then at night me and Jen are going to see my friend Teryl's new baby boy. Cute, little Cohen born on June 3rd. Nothing like a newborn.

Monday, June 2, 2008

CrackerBarrel







My absolute favorite little group of kids..Luke, Lance, Carson, Hallie, Tanner and Brevin

We had another crazy Monday...we always get together with my mom, Ash and Brev, Tam, Jill and kids for Monday fun (thats what Tanner calls it). Only this time Jen and the boys got to come too. We mainly just run around on all of our errands...Target, the Mall, Walmart, those are our usuals. We throw in random places every once in awhile such as Distribution Center and Inkleys today. It is kinda crazy with all of us and 6 little kids but we love it. We always end up going to lunch somewhere. Today we ended up at CrackerBarrel cause we were all craving breakfast foods and they serve it all day. By the end of the day we are all exhausted, and we never really get all that much accomplished, but we sure have fun pretending like we did!!

Night on the Town

Jen and her family are here visting for a few weeks...we kicked off her visit with a girls night out. I LOVE girls nights, especially when that means I am with both of my sisters and my mom. Doesn't get much better than that. Our hubbies all stayed home with our kiddos and we got to go out to dinner and a movie. We went and ate at Boston's, I had never been there. Well, actually none of us had been there, and we all really ended up liking it. I got some kind of pizza, and it was sooo good!! We then went to see "Ironman", which I totally loved. I usually am not a fan of Robert Downey Jr., but he is HOT in this movie. Seriously, I thought he was so cute and so dang funny. It was a great show, I am even tempted to go see it again, that is how much I loved it. It was a great night, spent with my 3 best friends and no kids. Perfectly Perfect!!


The four of us


Two cute sisters...love these girls


Me and my mommy-dearest


This picture doesn't have anything to do with the post, I just thought it was to cute to not put in somewhere. Carson and Lance are the cutest of friends, even though they don't see each other as much as they would like, the minute they get together they are inseparable. This was earlier that day, they were both sitting in my room watching "Curious George". I walked in and Carson had his little arm around Lance and they were talking and laughing about something. It warms my heart, seriously to see my little boy interact with his cousins. How great is family!!