So Many things to be thankful for...

There are many things that I have to be thankful for this year. I am not sure where to even start. So I will just make a list...

My Family

The Gospel in my Life

My wonderful hard working husband

Carter and his sweet love that he brings to our lives

My Parents and Brothers and Sisters

My testimony

My Husbands testimony

Devin's Job

Our roof over our head

The food on the table

and all my friends.
There is plenty more that I am thankful for, but those are big ones. For this thanksgiving the plan was to stay in Idaho and have dinner at Devin's parents. However, Devin's sister Nat, had her baby 2 weeks early and they wanted to go and be with her. Which is totally understandable. So they decided to go to california, Hily and Adam went to Boise and we thought, well lets drive to Colorado and surprise my family. So in one hour all of us who were supposed to stay here and have thanksgiving together, had plans to go to all different states. Pretty funny. So we decided to go. We left wednesday morning and drove all day. I talk to my mom probably every day, and so it was very hard to keep lying to her about what I was doing and what Devin was doing. But I have gotten to be a pretty good liar, (which is not a good thing) So it worked out pretty good. So we got to my parents house at 8:30pm, parked down the street and walked. The plan was to put Carter in his Car seat on the front porch and ring the door bell and run. And we were going to video tape the whole thing. So that is what we did. We rang the door bell and ran and left Carter on the door step. Wesley, my little brother came to the door, and said "there is a baby on the porch", then my sister vanessa said "no way", then she came to the door and said "there is a baby on the porch." Then my dad came and said" No way". He really thought someone wanted him to raise their baby. And dad, if I wanted someone to raise Carter, it would be you. :-) Anyway, they saw us, and told us that my mom wasn't home, and that she went to the store. So we found out what store, and went to that store. I walked up to her and said "excuse me, do you know where the cereal is?" She looked at me and the look on her face was priceless. Oh my goodness. we have it video taped, and I will post the whole thing once I find out how to edit it. It was so wonderful and it made my whole year. Thanksgiving was wonderful at Aunt Rhondas and it was great seeing everyone.
Great Grandma and Grandpa Great Grandma and Grandpa

Happy lil' man

I love saturdays.

"I'm So cute"

Our First family picture. I know sad, because he has gotten so big.

So I was watching Oprah the other day, and they were trying to help teach everyone how to organize their houses. So they were offering a free gift, where you can go online to snapfish.com and create a custom cover photo book for free. (I guess to help organize all the pictures you have in boxes that are not organized.) So I went online to make my free book, and could not decide how I wanted to do it. So, there is a book called I love you through and through, it is a little kids book, and Carter loves reading it. So I kind of copied the story line, and put my own pictures in it. These two pictures of him smiling were taken this morning, when we were trying to get some other pictures of him. But we will take a smile any day. And he is looking at the camera. Which is a shock, because he will be smiling all day long, and then as soon as he sees that camera, his little face goes blank. Ha ha. So melissa I know what you were talking about. They don't like those cameras. Or they are just wondering what it is. :-) But as soon as I put the camera away, he is all smiles. Oh well, the ones we do get make my day.

Yes... Carter does have a mom

Devin has been nagging me to include a picture of me on one of my posts. So here it is...

Man Hands

So we went to the dentist a couple weeks ago to get an imprint of Carters hand. Well... this is what turned out. So Cute. IT shoes every detail. His nails, wrinkles, and rolls. They compared it to another little persons who is only a week younger, and Carters was about twice the size. We think he is going to play basketball. He could probably palm a baby basketball right now if he knew how. Anyway, it is very nice of this dentist to do it for free. and we will have it forever.

Visting Daddy's Work

Yesterday, Carter and I brought daddy some lunch at the cube farm (finance division at Melaleuca...). He usually won't smile when we are taking pictures of him, but I don't think he has realized that our cell phones can take pictures. So that is how we have been taking pictures lately. :-) (don't you love his double chin)

Just a picture of father and son. Carter is the one with the old man hair line. As for Devin, it's only a matter of time!
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Just another cute smile.

Going For A Ride

We have been having some pretty nice weather. So Carter and I have been taking our lexus stroller for walks whenever we can. We got him this hat so he can look around while we are strollin'. Sometimes we walk all the way to daddy's work. (It is about 3 miles) and then daddy gives us a ride home. Its pretty fun.

Oh and just so everyone knows, Carter slept im his crib last night by himself, almost all night. He only woke up once. I had to check on him to make sure he was still alive. That is horrible to say, but the past couple of nights, he has woken up every two hours on the dot. So it was a change. But he did so good. We have been getting on a schedule of this...
We wake up around 7, and Carter kicks for about an hour and then he is ready to take a nap. So we both go and take naps for about another 1-2 hours. It is so nice. And then he helps me cook, and clean and shopping and whatever else we need to do.

**** Carter****

Just some cute pictures that I took with my phone.

We took this video today before going to the dentist to get an imprint of Carters hand, and this is just to show you how happy he is almost all the time.

2 Month Doctor Appointment

So, Carter had his two month appointment this last week, and he weighs 14lbs 4oz and is 23 inches long. He is in the 95 percentile for weight, (big boy) and 65 percentile for height. They said he is growing wonderfully and to keep doing what we are doing. Here is a picture of him, almost naked, but not quite.

Carters First Camping Trip

So this last weekend, we decided to take Carter camping. We had planned on going to the Crater, however it was supposed to snow. So with our friends Brooke and Steve, we decided to try camping another way. They have a very large 10 bedroom cabin in Lava Hot Springs that we stayed at. Devin went hunting for the first time, and unfortunatly did not catch anything, but he looked good in camoflauge and said he had fun and would go again. Carter, unfortunalty does not like sleeping anywhere other then our home. So he did not sleep very well. But as you can see the boys stepped up and changed diapers while the girls rested.