A whole lot of Firsts...

Okay wow I suck at blogging I know!!

And here I am and not a single picture to show. You have to understand I'll get on the computer at home and I'll start uploading pics and then walk a way. When I come back to the computer they aren't uploaded so I get frustrated and find something else to occupy my time, like some Mario Brothers 3! :) We are loving the old school Nitendo games at our house lately...I know what a complete waste of the few short hours I have at home each day!

Well this month has been a month of firsts around our house! It has been a lot of fun. We started out the month with Carter's first real laugh (not sure exactly what I mean by real:))

Then he his 4 month check up (a first because he has never had a 4 month check up before) and blew us away with his growth he is 26 inches long and weighed in at 14lbs.

Then we move onto his first really big chuckle, not just a small laugh but many laughs in a row, that was awesome! It is hard to get it out of him sometimes but well worth the effort once he lets go!

He had his first solid food (a piece of avacado) and then his first bowl of cereal came shortly after that.

We are rounding out the month with him being able to sit up on his own (no rolling yet, which I am so okay with!)

AND last but certainly not least are his first TEETH! (No not tooth, there are two of them). This one I am not ready for...I am just not looking forward to that FIRST BITE, if you know what I mean.

Yeah so the doctor told us a few weeks ago that his bottom 2 teeth were starting to bud, meaning they'll be coming in the next month or so. So I don't know why I was surprised when I looked in his mouth on my lunch break (because he was being abnormally fussy) and found that his two lower middle teeth had made a special appearance. I know people nurse through this and hopefully there won't be too much of an issue there, my goal is to make it another 3 or 4 months before we move to formula...but that could be a lot sooner if it becomes unpleasant for me!!

Anyway I will try to update some pictures on here soon because I really have a ton of cute ones, you maybe on over load once I start posting them!

Oh and yes there was also a first for me...or 31st that is... :)

Christmas and The New Year

Well I haven't updated since Thanksgiving...once again no time!! We had a wonderful Christmas this year. We were able to drive to Portland and spend the whole time with my family. I hope they all didn't get too sick of hanging out so often! :) We had a great time so thanks to my parents, siblings and their families for making so much time to spend with us while we were there.

We started the trip with an amazing Blazer Game thanks to Joe and Rachelle for letting us go with them to the game and sit in their awesome seats! Carter went with us as well and did great; he even slept with all that noise. The Blazers played Phoenix, it was a close game and the Blazers won...man it was so good to be back in that arena. I hardly get the chance to even see the Blazers play on TV these days, let alone in person! Afterwards we all met up with Wes at El Gaucho’s in the Benson hotel downtown. That place was great! And it happened to be that it was mine and McKay’s 4th anniversary and the Benson is where we went after the reception, so it was funny we just happened to end up there that night. Thanks again to J and R for treating us to yummy crab cocktails and bananas foster....even though mine was a bit strong! Here is Carter at his first Blazer game. I will be doing my best to insure that he is a Blazer fan NOT a Jazz fan!!



The weather in Portland was absolutely crazy, for Portland anyway. We still got around pretty good but didn't have much time to do a whole lot extra besides hang with the fam. For those reading this wondering why I wasn't able to see you while I was in town, sorry we really were just too busy! We did the Blazer game, and then went wedding dress shopping the next night for Alyssa. She found a dress, it is beautiful! I would post a pic but people will just have to wait for the actual wedding to see her in it!!! The next day was Grants B-day, then Elle's. Then we actually wanted to just relax the next day and stayed out in St. Helen's at my parents, instead of going into Portland. We were able to meet up with Lauren and Rick the next night and it was good to catch up with them. Then it was basically Christmas activities and more hanging out at Joe and Rachelle's and Grant and Erika's. Anyway the whole trip was great! I wish the weather had been a little better so that getting from point A to B wouldn't have taken so long. I may have been able to see a few more people that way. I will work on getting the pictures uploaded to share with you all, hopefully soon. Here are a few of the snow.McKay couldn't believe that nobody cleared their driveways or sidewalks. I was like you have to understand, this just doesn't happen here. Nobody has snow shovels and when it does randomly snow here and there it just melts the next day anyway, so there is no need. So here is McKay clearing all the snow at my parent's house...he did this every day we were there! Thanks McKay!!







I have many more pictures but they aren't uploaded yet. I will hopefully get those posted over the next week or so. For New Years Emily and Travis came over and we played some games and ate some food. It was good fun! They left around 10:00 because Travis had to work early. McKay also had to work early but we stayed up for a while, I think we fell asleep around 11:45 and then woke up just after midnight, laughed, turned off the TV and went right back to sleep. I think once we have kids old enough I'll get back into the whole New Years thing but for now I'll take 10 more minutes of sleep!!! :) Well hopefully I'll post again really soon!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

Oh and PS...I did not have time to do Christmas Cards this year, I am so sorry!! But thank you to those that sent them our way! I promise to get them out next year, so please don't take me off your list!!! :)

Thanksgiving

So we haven't updated in a little while. I am still just a little too busy for this blogging thing. Work is going well. I actually enjoy being back at work, I really thought that I would hate it after having Carter. But I actually think that I like it even more, I know weird! I don't love leaving Carter but it seems to be working out really well leaving him with Emily a few times a week. McKay still has him a couple of times a week as well.

Last week I came home at lunch and Carter was outside in his carseat while his dad was working in the back yard. He looked so cute with his little brown beanie hat and cute shirt....then I took off the blanket and saw that McKay then proceeded to dress him in green plaid pants and green socks. I said, "what is this McKay?? This does not match at ALL." Usually McKay dresses him just fine but he just said "what? What's wrong with what he has on? The pants have blue in them and so does the shirt." I just thought to myself he can't be serious. Then after I gave him some crap he finally admitted that he saw the pants and saw that they were from Pottery Barn for kids and figured they cost way too much money. So he put them on Carter so they got at least one more use because they are getting too small. It is always about money...I was like seriously??? I paid like $6.00 for those. That is why I got them. Anyway as you can see in the below picture, Carter also wasn't pleased with the choice of wardrobe his dad picked that day! :)



Carter sporting a sweet outfit thanks to his dad!

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving! We had a good one. We had a first, McKay worked at the Fire Station that day. So Carter and I got in the car and drove up to Park City to spend our Thanksgiving with McKay and his crew. It was really good. We had all the basic Thanksgiving foods and that was good enough for me. We were the only family that showed up, the other crew members families already had plans. So it was just me eating with McKay and his crew. It was fun though. It was nice to be able to just relax and spend time with McKay. Of course since we were at the fire station we took a couple of pics of Carter around the place.


Carter driving the Engine like his dad. Their Engineer was gone so McKay was driving that day.


Big shoes to fill!!! Here is Carter in McKay's boots.


McKay loves to balance Carter on his hand... I was a little nervous at first, but have gotten used to it. I tried it myself and realized that he is pretty sturdy.


Here's our little family by the engine Thanksgiving Day.

We were able to spend the next day with McKay's family, his sister was in town with her family so we all had dinner together. It was so good to spend time with all of them. After we ate, all the girls went and saw Twillight. It was pretty good, I didn't go in with any expectations, and I thought they followed the book pretty well. I am not one of those that really gets over the top about books and movies, so I wasn't even sure I was going to see this one. But now I am glad I saw it.

So things with us are good. McKay is busy trying to build up his side business. He is currently working on a remodel for some people in our ward and sounds like he's got a couple of other jobs lined up. He manages to do this as well as have Carter a couple of days a week, Fire and still does his glass installation job when they need help. Also did I mention he cooks dinner almost every night??? Seriously what a guy!! I really can't complain!

We are looking forward to spending the Christmas Holiday with my family in Portland! We are excited for Carter to meet the rest of his Uncles, Aunt, cousins and Great Grandparents!!! We are driving up, so I am hoping the decent weather we have had so far this winter will continue! I have never driven home at this time of year because of weather, but with Carter, all his stuff and 2 dogs, the decision was made to just drive. That way we don't have to dump the dogs on people when they already have to much going on for the holidays. And with the gas prices dropping so much, we are pretty happy that we made the choice to drive!!! We were paying $3.00 more a gallon when we took our trip this summer...that is just crazy!

Anyway we hope everyone has a wonderful and safe holiday!

One Word Game

"One Word Game".

Where is your mobile phone? Purse
Where is your significant other? Home
Your hair color? Blonde
Your mother? Alike
Your father? Kind
Your favorite thing? Vacationing
Your dream last night? Nothing
Your dream goal? Jeans
The room you're in? Work
Your hobby? Shopping
Your fear? Heights
Where do you want to be in 6 years? Caribbean
Where were you last night? Home
What you're not? Fake
One of your wish-list items? Coat
Where did you grow up? Portland
The last thing you did? Phone
What are you wearing? clothes
Your TV? DVR
Your pets? Dogs
Your computer? Mac
Your mood? balanced
Missing someone? Adam
Your car? Grey
Something you're not wearing? Earings
Favourite shop? Nordstrom
Your summer? Prego
Love someone? McKay
Your favorite color? Green
When is the last time you laughed? Today
When is the last time you cried? Blessing

To all of you who want to , play along and add this on your blog, but fill in your own answers (obviously)

The big weigh in...

I was planning on updating this last week, but now that I am back to work that didn't happen. I am tired at night and usually have a lot more to do than update the blog. Tonight I thought I would take the opportunity between bath time and bed time to get this updated. So far going back to work has been okay. I hate leaving Carter every day but I am so thankful that I can leave him with Emily when McKay can't stay home with him! There is nothing like being able to leave your baby with one of your best friends, who you know is a wonderful mother to her own little girl. It deffinetly helps put me at ease while I am at work. McKay is able to be home with him 2 - 3 days a week, I am also so thankful for that. I think I would have a harder time if one person got to spend more time with Carter than I do! :) It is nice to be able to split it between the two of them! McKay has been great with the whole thing. Today I came home and dinner was ready, he worked one of his side jobs but got home just before Carter and I. Then he cleaned everything up so that I could just spend time with Carter. He really is a great husband, how did I get so lucky???


Anyway onto the weigh in. We took Carter to the doctor last Wednesday and here are the results.

Birth: 6lbs and 18 Inches


2 Months: 10 lbs 4 Oz and 22.5 Inches


The doctor said he looks great. He had his shots that day and did great. He slept the rest of the day, it was McKay's first day home with him and he didn't even want to wake up to eat. So it ended up being a pretty easy first day.


Here are a couple of pics that Erika took while she was here. She always captures great photo's with her nice camera. It so makes me wish I had a nicer one!


I love this one of my mom, Carter and McKay, it just captures McKay's constant goofiness.


Happy Halloween...

We didn't get Carter an official costume this year. Since he has no idea what is going on. We did find this great little owl hat though, so he wore that all day. This is just before bed time so he is wearing his Halloween PJ's that his cousin Jace picked out for him! Thanks Jace, Livie and Sonja for the cute PJ's. :)

2 months old today!

I thought I would post some pics I took this past week.  Carter is getting so big.  We go in this Wednesday for his 2 month appointment so we'll update his stats later this week.  In the mean time here he is in his car seat sleeping, his favorite thing to do in his car seat.

His feet really aren't this giant, it is the picture!

Here is Carter giving a pretty good smile for me.

Carter hanging with Griffin.

Here he is kicking back on MIles and Griffin.

One last picture of the boys hanging out.

I can't believe how fast the grow!!  Carter is 2 months old today...I go back to work Wednesday...I just realized that maybe I should have left him more often to get myself used to this transitition.  Oh well to late now.  I just realized today that I have only left him with McKay and only for a hour or two at a time to run some errands so this will be a hard week for me. :(  Anyway we'll update on life as we go.

It has been a few weeks since I have updated the blog so I thought I would go a head and throw a few pics on here.  Carter is getting bigger every day, I can't believe how fast they grow!!  He is still small according to lots of people but he is over 8 lbs now so to us his parents, we feel like he is getting really big! :)  We are still enjoying every moment with him, especially since I am going back to work in a week and a half or so...Yikes.  I am very hesitant on leaving him for so much time.  I actually hate the idea but we are still going to do it and see how it all goes.  The first week I'll go back I'll go on a Wednesday and McKay will be home.  For some reason I feel like it'll be easier to not have to drop him off anywhere the first week or so. 

 

Anyway here are some pics from the past few weeks as well as from his blessing day.

Here is one I took of Carter and I because nobody ever takes pictures of Carter and I together I had to just take one for us.  I am usually the one behind the camera.

Carter about 5 weeks old here.

2 weeks ago I took Carter on his frist trip to the Fire Station to visit McKay:

McKay and Carter in front of the Ladder Truck

Carter laying on McKay's Fire Jacket

For those that don't know McKay is the Tiller which means he drives the back of the ladder truck.  Here he is in the back cab.

We blessed Carter this past Sunday.  It was great and McKay gave Carter a very special blessing.  We had a lot of people over after for food, my parents and one of my sisters and her family were able to make it.  It was nice to have them here for the weekend and so wonderful to have a little of my family at the blessing along with McKay's and some of our friends!  Thanks to everyone that came to share the day with us, we really appreciate it!!

 I wish I had my camera so we had more pics of everyone.  Below are a few pictures that McKay's dad took thank goodness!  Thanks Stan!

McKay, Carter and I.

McKay and Carter

My mom, Carter and I

Carter with his Great Grandma holding him

And just another sweet picture of our little guy!  I will post more pictures from the blessing day as I get them from Stan and Debbie as well as from my sister Erika.