Family Pictures

My fabulous friend Tori (torithompsonphotography.blogspot.com) took family pictures for us and I think they turned out great!! Thanks Tori!!! (This is just a small sample of all the wonderful pictures she took. Our internet is SLOW so I don't have the patience to post much more than this at one time!)

Carter Bday Pictures and Ryan's New Job!

As promised, here are some pictures from Carter's 3rd Birthday. I still can't believe he's 3!!!

Also, I keep forgetting to post about Ryan's new job!!! He started working for the Church (of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints) last Monday. He's a Project Coordinator in the Audio/Visual Department. So now we have a decision to make about moving. The reason we moved to Utah County in the first place was for Ryan to go to school, but now he's graduated and we would like to be closer to family. Half of my family live in St. George so that isn't an option, but the other half and most of Ryan's family live in Davis County. So here is our dilemma... we LOVE our ward and friends here and we would miss them A LOT. But, we spend $30+ on gas each time we drive to visit family and if we move we wouldn't be paying an HOA fee (yea!) and grocery stores, malls, Wal-Mart wouldn't be 15, 20, 30 minutes away thus saving even more $ on gas!! But, condos just aren't selling right now so we're not sure if it's even worth it to try. I want your input, vote on my poll and/or comment and tell me what you would do.

Quirky Tag!

My sister-in-law tagged me. I'm supposed to come up with 6 "quirky" things about me, list them, and then tag other people. I've done something similar to this before so I'll try to think of new things!

1. I can't stand to be disorganized!!!!!! You would never know this to be at my house but trust me, I daily talk myself out of a serious nervous break down. My home/stuff isn't nearly as organized as I would like it to be. Ryan always tells me that if it bugs me so much to organize it while the kids are napping-has anyone EVER organized an entire house in under two hours??? If so, I'll pay you to come do my house "while the kids nap."

2. I love, love, love to shop but ONLY if I have money to shop with and not feel guilty about later. If I don't have money I DESPISE shopping. I don't like to just look what's the point???

3. I have this problem growing my hair out, I always get to the same length and I have to cut it, it's almost an obsession. Once my hair is just below shoulder length, cutting my hair is all I can think about until I actually do it. I just don't know how and don't have time for long hair (those of you who have ever tried to do your hair with a one year clinging to your leg and screaming know what I mean about not having time). An interesting side note about this is that my hair is exactly that length right now so any guesses on how long it will be before I cut it?

4. I absolutely have to have a "break" everyday. I require that my children take a nap so that I can just "be" for a little while in a quiet house.

5. I can't stand to be in my house if my bed isn't made. Our bedroom is in the back of our house away from view, but if I know that the bed isn't made it bothers me until it is done.

6. I don't like exercise, but I always feel better when I do it. Lately I've been running in the mornings. Everyday I wake up and whine about not wanting to do it and I hate it while I'm doing it, but I LOVE the way I feel when I'm done. I feel like I can face the day of craziness that usually is ahead of me. Hopefully it will start paying off and I'll lose some weight!!!

I tag...ANYONE who feels up to it!

Carter is 3!!!!!!!

So before I say anything else, let me just explain why there aren't pictures of his actual birthday with this post. (The pictures above are a scrapbook page of pictures from this summer) It all comes down to two words LAZY and IMPATIENT. We took pictures, but in order for me to post them I would have to turn on our slow computer (I am on the laptop) and upload them from our camera and then save them to a jump drive, then upload them to my laptop and then post them. I will post them soon I just have limited "down" time right now!!

ANYWAYS...CARTER TURNED 3!!!! I can hardly believe it. It seemed like just a short time ago we found out we were going to have him join our little family and now he's so grown up. He has been my easy-going child. The first night we were home from the hospital he slept 7 hours straight!!! It was amazing! I am so grateful for his fun and loving personality. He is such a blessing to us. For his birthday we went to Ryan's mom and dad's cabin in Bear Lake (Carter's favorite place) and we had a Cars cake and some ice cream. He was so excited to be with family and to open all of his presents. Happy Birthday Carter WE LOVE YOU!!!