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.

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.

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!!

It's a....

We are having a BOY!!! We are so excited, especially for Carson. Every boy needs a brother, I am so happy that we can give him that. There were no if, ands, or buts about it...the ultrasound said it all. Clearly a boy!! As I mentioned before our scanner is broke, so I can't scan the ultrasound pic on right now..but it was so cute. You could see his little spine, and all his cute little parts. We are going to name him Lincoln, the minute they told me it was a boy...it just felt right!! I have had a feeling from the very beginning that it would be a boy, I just can't wait. Everything is still going well, my cervix might or might not end up giving us some problems. There is a small area on the inside where it looks like it never healed completely from when I had Carson. I had an episietomy (I know that is not spelled right) and I tore pretty bad and it never healed up completely. My doctor thinks it should be fine, we just need to watch it. The baby may come a little early, which scares me. I just hope it won't come to early. I have felt peace throughout this pregnancy, and really feel as if my little Lincoln is meant to come to us right now. Sometimes I get scared with the different complications I have had, but I am trying to remember to have faith and to rely on my father in heaven. I know he is directing my life, and I am confident that things will be fine. However, if you would like to keep us in your prayers...I would be just fine with that.

Memorial Day!!

Grandpa showing everyone exactly where he wants to be buried


Best Buds







Aunt Shelley, mom, Grandpa, Tam, and aunt Susie




We have always done the same thing for Memorial Day, for as long as I can remember. We go to my Grandpa Woodyatt's (my moms dad) house for lunch, my cute grandma always gets pizza and makes a salad and dessert. We just eat and visit while the kids play in my grandpa's huge basement. They love it down there. Then we head over to the graves where my Great Grandparents are buried. My grandpa is such a goofball, he will be turning 80 this next month, but you would never know it. He is a cherry farmer, and has been a farmer his whole life. He is in better shape than any of us, and still runs around like he is 20 years old. He is so funny, he just makes us laugh and laugh. The kids call him Grandpa Cherry. Every year that we go to the graves he makes a big point of telling us all that this is probably his last year, and we had better come visit his grave when he is gone. This year the little kids were all over sitting on top of the grave with my grandpa, we walk over there and hear him telling Tanner and Hallie that next year he will be dead, so they will be sitting on his grave. You should have seen the kids faces, they were horrified. What a thing to say to kids, especially Tanner. That kind of thing terrifies him. Oh grandpa, he is so funny. After that, we drove over to Logan to visit my cute Granny O (my moms mom), and to go up to her husbands grave. My grandpa died about 6 years ago, he was the first grandparent I have had that has passed away. We still miss him alot, but know he is in a better place where he is no longer suffering. I love memorial day, it is so fun to get together with family, but most importantly to remember our family that has gone on. They are waiting for us on the other side, and I truly believe they watch over us all. My friend Jill, had the most interesting thought....she said that it is reassuring to her to think that her loved ones who have passed on, are up in heaven taking care of and loving her future babies. I think that too, my little one is up there in heaven being held and kissed and hugged by the many wonderful, people I have only heard about. That is such a comforting thought. What a great memorial day!

Zoo Pals!!

We actually went to the Zoo last Monday, I just haven't gotten around to posting about it yet. Thiago has so much vacation time built up at work, so he decided to take the day off and take me and Carson to the zoo. Monday is usually the day I hang out with my mom and Ash, so we decided to let them come along. It was hot, hot, hot that day, but I loved it. And Carson and Brev had so much fun. We packed up a lunch and took it with us, and then just wandered around and saw all the animals. Carson got a bigger kick out of all the waterfalls in the exhibits and the little pond at the front of the zoo, then the actual animals. I don't know why my kid is so obsessed with water, he is fascinated by swimming, hoses, sprinklers, waterfalls, whatever. He also really liked the monkeys. He LOVES Curious George, we have about every episode saved on our DVR (me and Thiago go crazy everytime he watches it, cause we have seen them all a thousand times). Anyways, so every monkey we saw whether it looked like George or not, Carson would say "Oh, its Georgey". We also bought him a ton of treats...popcorn, snowcone, some toys at the gift shop, all of that was a hit with him too. It was a lot of fun, just wished Jen and the boys could have been with us too. But they will be here in 3 days....can't wait!!