Goodbye Summer

Summer is officially wrapping up. Sad, sad...well not for me really. I LOVE the fall, it is my absolute favorite season and in my opinion it is way to short. Summer lasts to long and winter comes to fast. I adore those few glorious weeks in between, where the air is crisp, red, yellow and orange are everywhere, and of course candy corns and those little pumpkins. Who doesn't love those. I have been so anxious for September to get here, and here it is. Yeah! Anyways, we had our last family reunion of the summer last week. It was as fun as family reunions go. Lots of food, a whole bunch of people you don't know, and of course games for the little kids. Carson was a good sport and participated in everything, he loved the pinata. He gave it such a good whack, all the other 3 year olds were kinda wimpy. But not my boy, he went up there and gave it everything he had. He may be small, but he can definitely take care of himself. Anyways lots of fun. Good way to end August, and welcome in September!!

Piggy Banks

Three year olds are just too funny. Lately Carson is so into money and his piggy banks. We give him all of our change and loose dollar bills, and he will hold on to them until we get home to put in his piggy bank. He loves to shake it all out and put it in over and over. Also, lately whenever he loses something or breaks something...he will say "Oh well, mom just buy a new one". I keep trying to explain that money doesn't grow on trees, and we have to be careful.
Well, yesterday he was just to cute. Him and Lance were in my bathroom in the tub playing around. I had a brand new bottle of shampoo that I had just barely opened sitting on the edge of my tub. Not just any bottle of shampoo, it was a special salon brand that Ashley gets for me and it costs like $20.00. So kinda pricey. Anyways, I walked out of the bathroom for a minute, and came back in and the tub was full of bubbles. I had not got out any bubbles for them , so I leaned in to see where they had come from. Sure enough my brand new bottle of shampoo is laying with the cap open in the full bathtub. It was full of water now, mixed with a little shampoo. I was sooooo mad. I started going on and on, telling Carson how sad that made me that he had wasted my brand new shampoo. He looked at me and sad "oh mommy, just buy a new one". I then told him that I will have to, but I am not made of money and that he just wasted my $20.00. He can't stand when I am mad at him, so he comes up and hugs my leg and his little lip starts to quiver. Then he says "me have money, in my piggy bank". I was so mad, but as soon as he said that I just had to smile. What a sweetheart he is, he makes mistakes like all toddlers do, but he truly has the sweetest little heart. I love him so much and am so grateful for the little life lessons he teaches me every single day.

County Fair Fun

We have been out having fun at the Box Elder County fair. My dad's family all lives in Tremonton, so we go each year with them. We went one night with my dad, and another night with my mom who lives in Perry. I loooove county fairs, well I mainly love the food. I have to try a little of everything every night I am there. I am sure I have gained 5 pounds in the last couple of days, but oh well. It was worth it. The first night we were there, we went to the Tremonton parade first. It was fun, once we actually got there and got settled. We parked on the wrong side of the parade, and had to walk an eternity to get to where our family was. It was just me, Jen and Ash and the 4 boys. (Thiago and Souli met us up there, after work). So here we are trying to drag the boys and our chairs, blankets, and all our other crap. By the time we got there, we were all hot, tired and a bit ornery. But it was fun once it started.


Carson wouldn't put this stupid stick down, pretty sure I got jabbed about 20 times with it. Don't mind me in this picture, I look completely huge. Gotta love the last 3 months, just get bigger and bigger.


Carsy was scared when the sirens would go off, he would just bury himself into Ashley 's side and not look up until they passed.


What an odd little child I have. He doesn't like candy. He would open every piece take a bite and then spit the whole thing back out. Takes after his dad, who doesn't like candy either. I myself, can't get enough of it.


Carson and Lance at the fair, they loved this little duck game. The guy kept giving them free turns. That was nice I thought.


4 cute boys enjoying the rides!


Another cute boy, enjoying his $5.00 lemonade. Sounds like a lot, but it was soooo good!


Here we are the next night with my dad, eating a little fair food.


Funny boys, told them to smile and this is the pose I got.


Carson watching a cow pee...he was fascinated by this. Kinda strange, he wanted to stand there all night and try and catch the cow doing it again.


Oh, how cute is he!!


More rides, they loved it. Especially Carson and Lance, they just wanted more and more.


Good times...we will be back for more next year!

1 Project down...2 more to go.

In getting ready for our little Lincoln, I have had 3 major projects that needed to get done first. The biggest and longest project is finally done. Yeah!! We needed to clear out the basement of old junk, we have made about a thousand trips to the DI and dump to get rid of everything. Then we rearranged and organized, cleaned and scrubbed so that we could make room for our little office and play room down there. I love how everything turned out, kinda dorky having it downstairs in an unfinished basement. However, I think it turned out really homey and comfy. I come down and do my computer stuff while Carson sits and plays and so far it is really working out. Here are a few shots..



I am most excited to have an organized space to put some of Carson's toys. His toys are literally taking over our house, we have a space in every room upstairs to accomadate his stuff. Kinda nice to just start throwing some of them down in the basement.


The TV is not quite hooked up yet. We actually aren't going to have the television channels and all that, just a VCR and DVD player. That way if I am down here doing my ironing or that kind of thing, I have something to watch.


Computer..from now on when you read my posts you can picture me sitting here in the basement clicking away on the keyboard. Ha-ha!


Carson is down here with me, looking at me like I am crazy as I snap pictures of the basement. So of course he wanted a picture of himself too. I have been cleaning the house and doing laundry all day, so I am not ready at all. And Carson is just in this goofy little play outfit. I thought he still looked pretty cute though.

Well, like I said 1 project down, 2 more to go. Carson is moving into the old office and Lincoln gets Carson's old room. So watch in another month or so and I will post those updates as well.

Stupid mom moment & update on MRI

Okay..I definitely had a stupid mom moment yesterday. Carson got locked in the car!! Yikes, I always think to myself how does that happen, well yesterday I found out. It was like 10:30 in the morning and we had just got back from the grocery store. Carson was up playing in the front seat, while I hauled all the groceries in. He eventually came inside, we did a few things around the house and about a half hour later we were ready to head out again. So I take Carson out to the car and go to open the door and the alarm starts going off, he must have hit something while he was playing around in the front. So I grab my keys and just start hitting buttons to make it stop. It stops, and I get Carson strapped in to his carseat. Once he was in, I started picking up a few wrappers that were in my car and took them out to the garbage can. I come back and shut all the doors, and head around to the front seat. Uh-oh. Locked, everything!! When I was trying to set off the alarm I must have hit the lock button instead. So here I am freaking out with Carson trapped in his seat in my driveway in the hot sun. I automatically start trying to call Thiago, he has the other key but he was in Salt Lake so that does me no good. I couldn't get a hold of him anyways, so I grab the phone book and try a locksmith only to be on hold for forever. Finally my mom calls, and tells me to just call the police and tell them I have a small child locked in the car. So I am on hold, while they search for a dispatch....and all the sudden I get an idea. I explain to Carson to wriggle out of the arm straps and lean forward to unlock his door. Ah-ha!! It worked...why did I not think of this a half hour earlier, who knows. I was so proud of Carson, he was so brave, didn't cry once. I just went on and on telling him what a good boy he was, and how proud I was of him. He now tells this story to everyone..only he will say "Me mommy locked me in the car". I kinda sound like an idiot..but oh well!

Next, we got the results from the Thiago's MRI...not great. Could be worse I guess. Come to find out, it is indeed a torn ACL. However it is minor and surgery can be put off until we have the baby. I don't know why we just don't do it now, but the recovery doesn't sound like a whole lot of fun and we just want to get Lincoln payed for first, before we add more hospital bills. Anyways, right now he has to start physical therapy 3 times a week, for the next month and then the doctor will check it again. Sigh, sigh..life is just full of little bumps in the road, but like I say...could be a lot worse!

Island Park...Part 2

Okay..second round of Island Park pictures. The next day we went out on some little river, not sure the name of it. We rented 3 big rafts and headed down. It was so shallow in parts that you could feel the rocks on the ground through the raft. That was just fine with me though, it was so tame that it was completely safe for little kids.

Here we are at the dock before heading out. I didn't take my camera with me on the rafts. Our family has had one to many bad experiences with cameras and water lately, that I decided it wasn't worth it. (Tam and Jill, aren't you proud). So the only pictures I have are before we set out. As I have mentioned Carson loves water, he could have stayed all day.


All of us cousins...we have 11 girls and only 4 boys in our family. However, all of the great grandkids so far have been boys, Ashley's will be the first girl. So we are becoming a bit more even. I love these cousins of mine, we have always been so close..they are the cutest girls alive and I love them so much!


I liked this picture of my little family, I think the scenery behind us is so pretty!


Next day, we went and did a little more shopping. Of course, as I mentioned we have a lot of girls..and girls love to shop! After that we headed up into actual Yellowstone Park. I had not done this since I was little, so I loved it!


On the way in, we stopped at a little picnic area and ate lunch. Why does food taste so much better when you are outside. At least to me it does. Carson fell asleep so I just made him a little lunch for when he woke up. It was so dang cold, at least it felt cold compared to the hot weather we have been having. That night on the way home though, my cousins truck said it was 54 degrees outside. And to me, that is cold!!


Of course, you can't drive through Yellowstone without stopping at Old Faithful. I hadn't seen it in forever, so I thought it was pretty cool. Carson was more interested in playing in the rocks and dirt than they actual geyser. But to each their own, I guess!


Just a cute picture..we got icecream on the way out. And Carson is sharing his with Kamryn. How cute is that Kamryn, she has the sweetest little personality. Carson thought she was the greatest!



Here we are the next day, ready to head home. Well, I wasn't really ready but all good things must come to an end. Williams family, thank-you soooo very much for inviting us along. You guys all made this one of the greatest vacations I have ever had, we loved every minute of it. Thank-you again and we can wait for next year!!

Island Park!!

We just got back yesterday from our little Island Park trip. We had sooo much fun, seriously you know it was a good vacation when you are not ready to come home. We went up with my whole Williams side of the family. My grandparents and 2 uncles and aunts and all my cousins. There were 27 of us all together, and it was a blast. We rented this huge cabin, with like 6 bedrooms and 4 bathrooms...and the best part was it had a little apartment above the garage that me and Thiago, Ash and Brev and my mom got all to ourselves. It was great!! My cute family put so much effort and money into it, I hardly had to pay for anything cause my grandparents and uncles just kinda took over. We had so much fun, and are so appreciative that they invited us to come along!


I obviously took a ton of pictures in the 5 days we were there, so I think I will split them up into two posts. We left Sunday morning and made the drive up, which actually wasn't bad. I spent my time reading "Breaking Dawn" (which I absolutely loved) and Carson was a little angel the whole time, just sitting there playing with his toys. We made a few stops along the way, including Bear World. I had never been before. Wow...it was so weird to see all those bears right next to your car, just walking around. Carson was amazed.





After driving through and seeing the bears, we walked over to the petting zoo. Carson and my cousin Markell, spent all their time chasing ducks around. Carson would hold her hand and the two of them would just charge on the ducks. Kinda funny. He found this little egg laying around, and was not all to happy to have to give it to the ranger guy. He wanted to keep it for himself. Gross!


After that we went over to their little ride park, and spent about an hour there. Oh how this boy loves his rides. He just runs from one ride to the next with this huge smile on his face. He just can't get enough of it. Thanks to all my cute cousins who played with him and took him on everything. He made so many memories with you guys, and keeps asking me when he gets to see all of his friends again.




The second day we headed into west Yellowstone, to hit all the little shops and everything. Here is me standing in front of our little apartment stairs that morning.

I seriously have the weirdest family. I have never laughed so much as I did in the last 4 days. Here is a picture of my weird uncle dressed up as some crazy trucker, don't worry he is normally a very handsome, well dressed guy. He got this dorky wig, and outfit, just to see how many weird looks he could get. My crazy cousin found this little (or not so little) nose ring, and Thiago was wearing these nylon sleeves that look like he is covered in tatoos. And then these idiots roamed the streets like this. So embarassing, but so dang funny.

Carson and Caton on one of the many buffalo's. Did you all notice Carson's extremely short haircut, Ash got a little carried away and practically buzzed him. He loves it though, nice and cool.

My little cowboy!!


All of us girls, spent like 2 hours in this little bead store making baby bracelets. Ash started with just making 2, but as you can see we all are a little excited over our baby Elle and we kinda went crazy. We ended up making 7, and they turned out so cute!!


Carson and his cousing Gehrig..these two had so much fun together. Well thats it for day 2, stay tuned tomorrow for more.