The Goods from the Boutique

Finally, here are the pictures from the boutique. It was tons of fun but totally exhausting. As far as turn out, it was better and worse than I expected. Better because it was our first year and we knew it would be small but worse because Thursday and Friday ended up being way better than I thought they would be and so we were super excited for Saturday thinking it would be way busy but then it totally wasn't. So we ended on a disappointed note which was unfortunate. But like I said, I loved planning it and getting to know so many people or getting to know them better so I am totally going to do it again next year. As far as details go, I had I think 26 vendors in the end, which was way more than I planned on but was thrilled to have them. And we did make a profit just not very much once we subtracted the costs and split it between Jodi and me. Luckily, I did sell some of my crafts which made up some of the difference. But it was a great learning experience and I am so glad that I did it. Carson was so over it because he did not like not having my attention. And he did streak the event twice, once in front of our bishops wife, luckily she is a mother too so I hope she wasn't too appalled. Nothing like a naked toddler to livin' things up!!!!

Becky's Wedding

Yea, Becky is married. I am so excited for her and Scott and way glad that they will be in Vegas with us once Scott graduates in April.

So cute

This is us waiting for them to come out of the temple

It's been a really long time since Chyler and I have taken a picture together The little family

The bridesmaids, question is, where's the bride

Yep, all 3 of us are prego, due in February

Finally, the bride

Cute cousins, too bad I am three times the size of her!!!

My Little Scarecrow

I was so excited about Halloween this year. Way back in college, I helped Michele and Trina make this costume for Trent and Cole who are now 9. So this year I used to it put on Carson. It was so cute and I am shocked that Carson actually kept it on.

He is so ready to scare those crows away

He loved getting all the suckers but he wasn't a fan of the walking around car to car. He just wanted to run through the parking lot all night.The night before our ward party, we went to Jodi's ward party and Presley wore Carson's bear outfit from last year. So cute with the pink bow.

Egan's Baptism

In October, Chyler's nephew Egan was baptised. And surprise, surprise, Chyler did the baptising and I gave the talk on the Holy Ghost. It was a very interesting experience for me which I won't go into details but I will say that I am so grateful for my parents and being raised in the gospel.

19 Months and Driving Us Crazy

This post is a little old but I wanted to catch up. I meant to take Carson's 18 month picture but I never got around to it. So we are just going to skip over that and I will scan in the picture I took at JC Penny. I just wanted to write down all the crazy, funny, and sometimes frustrating things that Carson has been doing lately. The Pantry-Carson has discovered the pantry. Since he could open doors, he would hide in the pantry but now he has discovered that there is food in there. He will go in there and get any food he can reach and bring it to me. Since he is such a picky eater now, I will give him what he brings me thinking he might actually eat it but nope, he still doesn't. Sometimes he brings me the crisco and corn starch and gets so mad at me if I won't feed it to him. The Dark-Carson is not scared of the dark in the least bit. Since power is so expensive in Las Vegas, I am really good at turning all the lights off except for the room we are in. However, that doesn't stop him from wondering off and playing in a dark room. One night, we were watching TV in our room so the only lights in the whole house were the tv and my bed side table lamp. Carson wondered off which isn't unusual but when Chyler went looking for him a while later, he found him about to climb back up the stairs with the huge box of Cheerios. That was one of the first times he brought food out of the pantry but we couldn't believe he did it in the dark. Hands-Carson has been able to go up and down the stairs for a long time by himself, we never even shut the gates anymore. We started holding his hand while going up and down so he could walk like us, however, we soon discovered that we are no longer able to walk up or down without holding his hand or he will just sit and scream until we do so. He is big enough now that he can walk up and down himself yet we still have to hold his hand. And if we have something in our hand, then we just better figure out how to hold everything because he still demands that we hold his hand. And being the daring kid that he is, he will just dive forward and expect us to hold him which cracks him up but totally scares me because sometimes I'm not prepared. He also has discovered how to take us places. Whatever we are doing, he will come and grab our hand and pull us to where ever he wants us to go. It gets really annoying because he just wants to go up and down the stairs for no reason at all. TV-Carson hasn't really been into TV until recently. Most the time I would have it on but he would mostly just play and stop occasionally to watch. But a few weeks ago, I got some DVDs from the library of Baby Einsteins and ever since then he has been hooked. Last night he sat and watched almost the entire Bee movie, we were shocked. It is to the point now, that in the last few days, if the tv isn't on, he will bring me the remote so I can turn it on, we have created a monster. I haven't been watching much TV lately because I have been on an craft fix lately so it hasn't bothered me that he always wants to watch his shows. But last night I wanted to watch So You Think You Can Dance so after his DVD was over I turned on my DVR to watch it and a few minutes later, Carson drags Chyler in to turn his DVD back on. We couldn't believe he was already trying to play us against each other. I was on the phone with my friend Sylvia planning our activities days and when I got off I found Carson surfing in the living room in this broken egg. The eggs were old so I had put them on the counter by the trash to go outside, obviously Carson had other plans for them.

I felt bad all summer because Carson was couped up inside all the time because of my morning sickness, so on a good day, I decided to take him to the splash park to play. He loves water.

Rice crispy treats are a favorite in our house and when I make them we like to eat them warm while we watch a movie. Carson jumped right into this tradition and grabbed a piece as big as his head instead of waiting for us to feed him.

Going to work-Chyler wears a hat to work so it is always downstairs and Carson always plays with it. One night we were downstairs and Carson puts the hat on, goes and opens the garage door and went and stood in the dark garage until we went out to get him. It was so funny and Carson was so proud of himself for going to work like daddy.

Since I have been watching Presley, I have pulled out Carson's bouncy chair and the walker and Carson LOVES them both especially the bouncy. He is always in it and he takes his naps in it and watching tv in it and just cuddles up with his blankets.

Carson has discovered that pens write. In addition to writing on himself, he has drawn on books, my floor, the office drawers and one day he even wrote on Presley's head, just a little bit though. Now we have to constantly hide them all and can never find them when we need them.

Carson still doesn't have much hair but he still has a few hairs from birth that are way longer then the rest so after giving Chyler a haircut one night I decided to trim his few strays that like to stick strait up. So I don't even know if you can call that his first hair cut. Since fall was coming, I decided Carson needed some shoes since he was growing out of his sandals. I held up two pairs to him and he picked these black ones. When I got home and showed Chyler, Carson decided he wanted to wear them, sting and all.

And try to run around the house in them.

Since Michele is done having kids, she sent up all of her baby girl clothes for me (I didn't know yet that I was having another boy). Carson took it upon himself to open up the boxes before I put them away and pull out a pair of 0-3 month pink pants. I pretty sure he had some help putting them on!! Carson decided for a little while that he was too old for his highchair and insisted on eating at the table which isn't good for my fabric chairs.

This picture is self-explanatory, he discovered our game closet. I need to post his funny things more often so I will remember them because there were way more things I wanted to write about that I can't remember right now.

Tyler's Visit to Vegas

My favorite nephew named Tyler graduated from High School this year and so he came down to Vegas to celebrate with his friend Kinsey. We went down to the strip to show him the sites which I typically don't like to do but I never get tired of the water show at the Bellagio especially at Christmas time.

Isn't Tyler so cute!!!

I couldn't even watch the show because I was watching Carson's reaction to it. He is so funny because he doesn't show any emotion at things like this, he just likes to take it all in.

Jodi, Carson and I at the Bellagio gardens, they are always so pretty.

Forts with Dad

Now that Carson is older, he LOVES playing with his daddy. Especially when daddy makes cool forts with the couch cushions.

I have had Carson's baby blankets out when I watch Presley and he has really enjoyed playing with them. This is him being a ghost.He cracks himself up. Notice how his onesie isn't bottomed at the bottom. Well, Carson always has his finger in his belly button and this morning he didn't want me to make it inaccessible so this is how he walked around all day.