Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Carson and the camera


nice "up the nose" shots

his foot

one more in pjs

Whenever we download pictures off our partly broken digital camera (Derek recently ordered a new viewing screen and we are hoping he will be able to replace our broken one!!), we find pictures taken by Carson. Above are some of his best shots . . .

Baby Andrea






Derek's youngest brother Nick and his wife Becky had baby #3! Andrea Nichole is super small and super cute. We stopped by with a frozen meal and diapers & wipes. Camille (of course) was in heaven! After meeting baby Andrea we headed up to Provo for dinner with Laurissa and Blake. Dinner was yummy and the girls learned to play GO FISH! with Aunt Laurissa while Garrett checked out Uncle Blake's coin collection.

Snow in April


Spring in Utah is weird. We had a bunch of snow a couple of weeks ago and Derek and the kids made a friend. The next day he was doing a strange back bend as the temperature kept rising. Day two--only his hat was left behind.

Happy Birthday to Me!


My birthday was last Saturday (April 17th). I turned 33?!?! Strange. I ran 20 miles that morning in honor of the day. . . .we only have 7 more Saturdays until June 12th and our marathon. Yeah! We are looking forward to being done!

The rest of the day we spent watching Brayden (8 months) and Chandler (9) (my brother's two boys). It was fun to have them here--Chandler kept Garrett busy and Brayden was a good baby. Throughout the day Elena kept asking me when I was "gonna make yer [my] cake?" Much to her relief the anticipated birthday cake was purchased by Derek. Yummy chocolate cake from Sams! That night Derek and I went out for dinner. Thanks for another great birthday!

Happy Birthday Carson!




Carson turned 3 on March 9th. We think he is such a great boy. Carson enjoyed his truck cake and an assortment of fun gifts including a toy shotgun and LED flashlight. Carson will probably always be our baby (which is why he is still in a crib and diapers . . . ) and he is definitely a momma's boy. Life would not be complete without Carson!

Happy St. Patrick's Day


Late, yes.
But so cute!!

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Where does the time go . .






I hate to post without pictures so I keep putting off posting. The viewing screen on our camera broke on our hike in the fall and its just too much effort to take pics now. Anyway, I want to do better with this and keep in touch and all. . . . so here are is what I dug up for your viewing pleasure and I will try to get on the ball and post about Derek's birthday and Carson's birthday and Easter and my trip to Kokomo and such soon.

The top is from an outing Derek took the girls on in February. They loved making jewelery holders at Lowes. The bottom is also from February. Derek and I took the kids to BYU to check things out. We got a little nostalgic for our college days and visited both the English building where I spent my time and the "great and spacious" building- I mean business building- where Derek spent most of his time. Funny while we were there Derek was explaining to the kids that these were the buildings we studied in to prepare for our futures. Camille said, "yeah, like this is where mommy learned to make dinner and clean the clothes and the house." Nice. So glad it took me four years and a degree in English to get that down.