Great Weekend

Do you ever have some weekends that are better than others. Our's was super great, maybe it was that glorious sun shining and the perfect weather. I am almost positive that had something to do with it. We started out, by going out with our good friend Adam and the Kusuda's Friday night. We missed John and Monica, but still had a great time. These are Thiago's best buddies since High School and we just love getting together with them. So thanks friends for the fun night..


Saturday was my definition of a perfect day. Seriously could not have been better. Thiago and I did some serious yard work, and I do mean serious. The yard always has some major freshening up to do, after the cold winter months. We pulled weeds, tried out our new edger, mowed, weed-eated, sprayed our shrubs and trees for bugs, squirted out our driveway, killed the weeds growing in the cracks around the edge of our house, pretty much just about everything. It was so fabulous, and it looks pretty dang good too.


Yeah for our new edger, LOVE it. So clean and precise. Thiago wasn't quite up to mowing the lawn with his knee and all. So many thanks to good ol' Reggie for helping us out there. Very much appreciated.


You have no idea how good it felt to get my hands in dirt again. I know, I know I must be crazy, but I totally enjoy yardwork. I love the feeling of accomplishment at the end, and especially how clean and pretty it makes our yard look. Can't wait to plant my flowers, 3 weeks and counting.


Carson had a great time getting reaquainted with all his outside toys.



And hanging out with his little friend Noah, I am so glad cause we have quite a few little ones near our house. On both sides of us and right across the street, Carson has quite a few little friends available.


I am so glad I had Lincoln when I did. He is old enough now, where I feel comfortable having him outside with us. Also my yard is a lot of work for me and I spend a TON of time out there, so I am happy that the newness of baby #2 has worn off. We are all in a good routine, and he was absolutely perfect all day long.


I swear all I do is look at that little smile and it just warms me up. Who needs the actual sunshine, when you have got a little Lincoln around!





8 hours later, and we headed on into the house. Carson went straight to the bathtub. Dirty, dirty...I even stripped him down in our garage cause this kid was a mess. These are just some cute pictures of the 2 of them that night. Nobody can get Lincoln to smile the way his big brother can. So sweet..




We had a little family movie night later on. Popped popcorn, candy, drinks, pizza. What more could you ask for. Cars picked the movie, what other than "BOLT". Its new and therefor that is his number one choice lately. Cute movie...


Lincoln wanting in on those KitKats...lets start on cereal first, okay buddy!


Nothing better than being out working hard together with my honey. Sun shining, babies laughing, lawn mower going. Then coming in, settling down for a fun night together. Good times!

1, 2, 3, 4 and now 5

Months that is, 5 months. Little bug is 5 months old tomorrow. I know I say this all the time, but how is that possible. Seriously, seems like just yesterday I was meeting him for the first time and now he is a bouncing, laughing, happy baby boy. Lets take a look back shall we, on his first 5 months....


1 day old...


1 week old...


1 month old...


2 months old...


3 months old...


4 months old...


and TA-DA, here is his cute, little self at 5 months old. Oooh, I can't get enough of that little face.


As the 17th of every month rolls around, I stop and think about the day he was born. The 3rd best day of my life. Of course my wedding, and Carsy's day are numbers 1 and 2. Isn't it crazy how we have known them really for such a short amount of time, yet we can't remember what life was like before them. I can't imagine him not being here or being a part of our family. I love the little guy so very much, both of my boys!! I feel so blessed to be the one that they call mom, the one who can soothe their every fear, the one who gets to dry those baby tears. The one who holds them close every night, who gets to kiss those sweet cheeks. The one who gets to spend every second, of every day raising them. The one who gets them for all eternity. Love my sweet boys, I swear every time I look at them I feel like my heart is about to burst. It is a love like I have never known, my heart literally hurts cause it loves them so much. Oh gosh, their truly is no other love like that of a mothers. Runs deep, forever and ever.

"Hoppy" Easter

First of all my friends, can I just say I am lovin all these Easter posts. You all got some great pictures. I love the pretty, bright colors and everyone's cute Easter clothes. I spent way to much time looking through everyone else's posts and now feel no motivation to do mine. Oh well, here goes. Here is me and the babies before church. Kinda sad, cause Theo is still down and couldn't come with us. Most days I would have just stayed home but for heavens sakes it is Easter. We all had new clothes and all so we had to go.


I had a heck of a time trying to get some cute pictures. Some days the kids cooperate and some days they just don't. However I loved this one, sometimes candid shots are the best. Love my little angels, and am so glad that they love each other too.




Gotta love a new Easter dress. Most days I feel just fat and frumpy with stupid hair. But a new Easter dress does wonders for your self esteem. Felt cute for like half a second until I got all wrinkled from a certain little baby.


After church, Carsy and me went outside to find his eggs that the Easter bunny left. I think this was Carson's favorite part about Easter, he loved finding those eggs. He kept making me rehide them cause he just didn't want to be done. Crazy kid!





Went back inside and low and behold, the Easter bunny left us some baskets. Yeah...Carson was kind of weirded out thinking that a giant bunny had been in his house. He just couldn't get over it, kinda freaked him out I think.


He loved his basket though, lots of good treats.


And then there is my little one. He did not have a good day. Poor baby, he struggled all day to get in a good nap. Had a hard time at church, we spent most of the time out in the hall. Came home, cried and cried cause he had a belly-ache. Finally would get him to sleep and he would wake right back up. By this point in the day he had about had it. Hence the above picture, he did not care about his basket, treats, picture-taking....nothing!


Stopped crying for a minute, while Carson showed him his toys.



Here's honey, just takin it easy on that knee. He is doing so great, already walking around without the crutches. Still taking it slow, but gets stronger and better every day.

For dinner we went over to my sister in laws parents home. It was a great meal, and we were glad they invited us. They also had a fun easter egg hunt that Carson loved. Would have made for some cute pictures, if I could have dragged my lazy butt off the couch where I was sleeping. I have had a rough couple of days playing nurse to my honey and taking care of the kids all on my own. Sleep was just to precious at the time. Well thats about it, another great holiday!

ACL Repair...

Ohhhhh, poor little honey had to have his knee operated on this last Thursday. I don't know who remembers last August, when Thiago was playing soccer and tore his ACL. He ended up having an MRI, and indeed it did need to be operated on. It was a minor tear so the doctor told him we could hold off a few months until he needed surgery. So lucky us, we finish paying all the Lincoln bills and we get to start all over with more hospital bills. Fun, only this time we don't get a cute baby out of it. Oh well....what do you do. At least we have the money, not exactly how I wanted to spend it, but could be worse.


Here is his support group...me and Lincoln!! Carson spent the day with his Tou and Tia Shalae (Gus and Shalae for you non portugese speakers). They took him to the Hansen Planeterium and he had a grand old time. Lincoln, the lucky duck got to come with me. Didn't want to leave both kids with them and didn't want to have to worry about pumping all day. So my little bug came to keep me company.


He was a perfect little angel, just like I knew he would be. Stayed and played during all the pre-op stuff. As soon as they took Thiago back, he fell asleep. Stayed asleep for about 2 1/2 hours, and woke up just in time to greet daddy. What a good little boy.


Here is Thiago, looking pretty chipper after all was said and done. He is tough, and really handles things like that pretty well. He was ready to go after being awake only an hour or so. Not a big fan of hospitals, he just wanted to get home.


The hardest part for him was the femur block. They gave him some stuff that would knock off all feeling in his leg, kinda like an epidural for us moms...just in his leg. He didn't regain feeling for 24 hours. He had a hard time dragging that dead weight along on his crutches. So sad, cause the first night home he totally fell. He was on his way to the bathroom and I was standing close by, but lets face it, what can I do. He is about 3 times my size, and I am not a whole lot of support. His mind was working faster than his crutch, and he just kinda toppled over. He let himself just fall straight down, cause he knew if he tried to catch himself that would just mess things up. Kinda scary, watching my big guy lose total control and just flop. Luckily no damage done.


Oh and then there is my Carsy-boy. He just CAN'T stand seeing his poor dad down and out. We are just not used to it. Thiago just goes, goes, goes....always doing something. Carson was just so concerned to see him just laying there all bandaged up. The minute Carson got home, he plopped himself down by Thiago and has literally not left his side. He is always telling me that daddy has an owie on his knee, and that he needs to hold his hand. So cute, he keeps patting Thiago and telling him that it will feel better yesterday (he means tomorrow). So sweet. Anyways, he has started physical therapy and is doing better every day. By this time next week, I guarantee he will be out and about like nothing has happened. This guy can't stay down for long.

EGGcelent Easter Fun..

More holiday fun with the sisters and kids. And this time cute Stace, Mitchell and Faye. I love that we do this, it is kinda crazy and chaotic but Carson just loves it. He just talks and talks about it afterwards and the smile never leaves that cute little face of his. I know we are giving them great memories and that is what it is all about. Thanks Jen for hosting this time, it was super fun!


Of course we started it all off by coloring easter eggs. 10 different colors, about 60 or so eggs, 12 little arms flailing about and not one spill on the floor. Not bad, not bad at all!


Me and my boy getting in on the action!!



I do not know why I appear yellow in this picture, my camera appearantly was having a rough day. I also got a few blurry shots, huh, who knows...


Quite the cheeser, this one is. Carson's eggs turned out very interesting. He does not have the patience to keep them in one color for long. So he speeds through all the eggs, and then is sad that he is done, so he re-dips them. They turn out some very intersting color-comboed eggs.


Whoila!!! Finished product....good job boys!! Faye was having a mood swing, and Luke was off doing something else. Here are the other 4 kids though. Brev, Cars, Lance and Mitchell!


After that we went and got some lunch real quick. Then came back for an easter egg hunt. We were at Jen's apartment complex so I hurry and hid the eggs, while the kids were inside. I was kinda nervous somebody would come along and take off with some of them but it turned out fine.



Stace had to head home, so it was just our little guys after that. As you can see Lance and Cars were on a mission. They got almost all the eggs between the two of them, not leaving a whole lot for the 2 year olds. No worries, they shared the candy though.


Our sweet baby girl, mixed in with all these crazy boys. She is the rose amongst thorns, haha!!


Jen and her culinary skills...she is always coming up with cute, festive treats. What else on a pretty spring day, dirtcups. Yum!!




What my little bug spent his day doing...just being his perfectly delightful little self. Sleeping, watching and smiling. Do babies come any better than this one, I don't think so!

A couple of Tags..

I always save tags for when I don't have much else going on, so here is the 2 I got tagged on forever ago.

First is that 8 tag, or whatever....

Goes like this

8 favorite TV shows
The Bachelor
Dancing with the Stars
Law and Order SVU
Grey's Anatomy
Friday Night Lights
The Office
Today show
Yes, Dear

8 favorite Restaurants
Cafe Rio
The Greenery...Rainbow Gardens
Tepanyaki
Tony's Pizza
Ruth Chris Steakhouse
Braza Grill
El Matador
Olive Garden

8 Things I did yesterday
Excersised
Drove to Logan with kids
Dropped off picture of my boys to get framed
Ate lunch at Cafe Rio with mom and sisters
Bought a new easter dress for me and a couple of spring shirts
Dropped Carson off at Cano's so he could watch the Brazil soccer game there with Thiago
Came home and bathed and fed a very tired Lincoln...put him off to bed
Got caught up on Thiago's ironing

8 Things I am looking forward to
SPRING...if it ever gets here. Can't wait to get out there in my yard!!!
Watching Lincoln through all his cute baby phases, its been awhile since Carson
Carson's 4th B-day
Our Disneyland and Island Park trips this summer
Watching my food storage grow and grow
Thiago graduating...YEAH!!
A new house in the next year or two
Baby # 3...sometime in the future, this is most definitely not an announcement

8 things I wish for
Someone to find a cure for cancer, it is my hugest fear
Good health for all of my loved ones
A stable economy again
To raise good kids who have a testimony of their savior and the gospel
To always love my husband as much as I do today
To always have enough money to supply for our needs
A baby girl at some point, what mom doesn't want a daughter
and most of all just to be happy!!


2nd tag is 6-6-6 (I didn't choose the name). You know how it goes, 6th folder, 6th line, 6th picture.....


TA-DA



Not to exciting. Me and Ash at the zoo last year. Kinda fun though cause I had just found out I was pregnant with the little bug not long before that. Happy times, always fun to look back.