Carson

So whenever I come upstairs to do something and Carson is with me he always climbs into the chair by the books and stand on the chair and then leans back in it and grabs a book so alot of the times he just sits there and looks at books, then proceeds to just play around on the chair and then I get to scared the he is going to fall off and break something so I take him off and he climbs right back on. So I just thought that these were some reall cute pictures because he climbs it all the time and grabs a book which I think is cute and then he just sits there and looks at me and smiles. He has such a great personality when he happy and we love it, so here is a glimps at what he does upstairs on the chair.

He found a book and is looking at it, the parrott in the books squeeks and so he was trying to do that I think.

I know it is upside down but i am glad that he likes books maybe he will be like Madison and love to read like she does.

I got him to do a pretty good smile for me, it isn't very often I get a smile with teeth showing, usually it is just with his mouth wide open.

Our first camping trip of the year

Last weekend we went on our first camping trip of the season. We went to a place called Cape Dissapointment. It is in a city called Ilwaco. It is on the border of washington and oregon, we were on the washington side. We went with my sisters and there family. So as we left on the friday the 29th is was a beautiful day ninety degree's and so i thought that for sure it would be sunny there. Well we are driving along and as we get closer it temperature starts dropping to the sixty's and high fifty's. Now this car ride was about a five hour car ride and Carson wasn't making it very much fun to drive. He better get used to it because are going to be doing alot of camping this summer and I don't know how far we are going to have to drive. Anyway so we get there and it is cloudy but it is also six o clock in the evening and we are also right on the coast so the water is right there. So we eat dinner and then we put the kids to bed and know that tomorrow is going to better and sunny and the beach won't be so windy. Anyway we had a time, it wasn't warm like it was at our own house but it was still nice to go camping and spend time with the family. I mean what can you expect camping on the coast it is going to be a little chilly especially because it isn't even summer yet. We had a great time and so did the kids. We played on the beach a little bit and watched my nieces and nephew's go swimming in the cold water. So here are a few pictures of our trip. I did have a good time regarless what I said at the begining.

Zach still in his pj's at the beach it was Saturday morning. I didn't even know he went to the beach in the morning, I guess larry must have taken the kids to the beach. Right when the kids got up in the morning they wanted to go outside and play.

Madison throwing the ball for Tango(my sister Angie's dog).

Zach and Adeline must have been really impressed with this crab shell.

This was the beach near our campsite.

On Saturday morning we went to Seaside and looked around there while we let the clouds go away back at our campsite. Here is Madison and Zach on a carousel in seaside.

After we got back from Seaside we took a walk on the beach because Carlee said that while she was running that morning that she thought she saw a dead shark or dolphin on the beach so we walked to see it and it was a long walk. Now we had the wind on our backs while we were walking to see it but on the way back we were walking against the wind and I carried Carson both ways by the time we were done I didn't think I could make it back to our campsite. I think it was like a mile both ways.

This is Zach on our walk on the beach, this is the begining.

Madison at the begining of our walk and for some reason she didn't take her helmet off from riding her scooter. She wore it the whole time.

And this is Carson I don't remember what he wanted here but it was something.

This is when we got back from our walk and by the way it was a dead dolphin. Carson was much happier to be able to get down and not be in the wind.

My Mom

So I didn't really wan to post anything about my mom because it is still sad for me, but a couple of weeks ago we went up to my parents house to get the trailer and my mom head stone was in and I haven't seen it yet. This was the first time I have been up to my parents house since my mom had died. Anyway I need to hurry and do this post because I get very teary eyed when I think about my mom and look at these pictures. I just wanted to post these pictures because I think that her head stone is very pretty and the pictures don't do it justice.

It is a granite stone and it looks much better in person.

The music notes are because my mom was very musical. She led the ward music during sacrament and she sang and she played the piano. She loved flowers. When you go to there house she has all kinds of gardens of flowers. She also had a hummingbird feeder outside of her window and loved to see the hummingbirds come and feed. So that is why there are music notes and flowers and humming birds.

Five

Zachary is Five. I can't believe that he is that old. It seems like the time has just gone by so fast. He is doing great and he all boy. He loves to do boy things and hang out with the boys. I can't believe that he is going to be going to kindergarten next year. He just doesn't seem old enough. He can not wait though. Zach is very energetic and loves to laugh and play. When we went to his dr appointment the dr said that he is doing great and that he had to have four shots. Three of them were for kindergarten. Anyway he did really good on his shots and barely cried which was nice since when I took Madison I had to hold her down to get her just one shot. Anyway Zach is five and he turned five on May 7th. Yes you saw that correctly I have two kids who have birthday's just days apart. I don't know what I am going to when they get older. Here are a few pictures of Zach's birthday.

We had just a little family party on his actual birthday and had Adeline, Heather and Jason over. Carlee was working that day. We had taco's for dinner because that is Zach's favorite.

Anna made him this cake

On the following Saturday we had a birthday party with his friends. We had almost all boys there with a couple of girls mixed in there. We went to 3-2-1 bounce and the kids had a great time. My wonderful friend Beth in Arizona was kind enough to make each child a cape with there first letter of there name on it. I forgot to get a picture of the cape but it was a hit with all the kids. There were purple ones for the girls and then green and blue for the boys. So thank you Beth for making those for me. And if people are actually wondering yes I do have a friend named Beth, I am not making her up.

The cake, it is "The Hulk"

One

It was one year ago on May 2nd that Carson had entered into our family. Carson from the start has been a go getter to say the least. He has to be involved in everything that you are doing. Carson was kind of a fussy baby but only because he had to be up and seeing what you were doing. There had been many times when Larry would come home from work and I would have Carson in the front pack just so that I could make dinner because he had been fussy and wanted me to hold him. Once he saw what I was doing he was fine and happy. As he got older and became more mobile he became happier. Carson LOVES his dad. He loves me to but when Larry gets home it is all about dad. Carson will be eating and when Larry gets home Carson will not want to eat and start to whine until Larry picks him up and then he wants to just sit with larry and eat with him. Anyway Carson's one year dr. appointment went really well he is still on the 100 percentile in height and he went from the 25th percentile to the 50th in weight. He is a very long child. He comes up to Zach's armpit so that can give you clue. Carson is 32 inches long and Zach is 42 and a half inches. I have a feeling that Carson is going to be taller then his older brother. Carson loves to play with the kids and be involved in what they are doing. He loves to play with balls and throw them. We had a great first birthday party for him. We just had a couple of friends over and then just family. Nothing to fancy.

Here is the cake. Carson also likes cars and trucks.

Some of the older children that were there.

Me and the birthday boy before all the chaos.

Madison and Zach helping blow out the candles.

And so he starts eating the cake.

He isn't quite to sure what to think or what to do with it. Go figure that we had to show him that he needed to use his hands to eat this. Sometimes he doesn't like to get to messy when eating.

He got the hang of it and he began eating his cake and ice cream.

He is saying "give me five". I am saying"I don't think so not like that".

This is the end result. He got it all over the place. In his hair everywhere.

This is him before I took him to go have a bath before presents.

Opening presents. He did pretty good actually, he had a little help with the ripping but he got the hang of it eventually.

This is what happens when we are all done and he wants to play with his toys.

Finally

So it has been a while since I have blogged. Part of it has been that we have just been really busy and the othe part is just pure laziness, and then the other one is that I can not find the cord to plug into the camera to plug into the computer so I can download pictures. So today I was just about to go to Best Buy and buy a cord for the camera until I talked to Larry and suggested that I just put the camera card into the computer, I would have never thought of that, I am sure glad that Larry thinks of those things. Anyway so I am sorry that it has been so long since I have blogged. So here is the begining of a bunch of blogs.

These pictures were probably taken at the end of April probably. So to start if off Carson loves to be outside, if only he would walk that would make things much easier. He loves to ride on the kids scooters and for the big one, Madison has finally learned how to ride her bike without training wheels. Well she will ride in a straight line and then get off her bike and turn it around just so she can go in another straight line and then get off and well you see where I am going with this one. The reason she does that is because she was doing really well riding without training wheels and the one day she had a nice spill on her bike and skinned her leg and hand and well she did it while she was making a turn, I told her that she needed to make sure that she turned wide and not to sharp well guess what she did, she turned really sharp and fell. You would have thought that she was dying or something by the way that she was crying. She just had a nice scrape on her knee and then on her hand. Anyway so she knows how to ride her bike without training wheels but she chooses to rider her scooter more then her bike.

Carson having a ride on the scooter.

Madison riding without her training wheels.

I think she needs a bigger bike and maybe not so little girlish.

Carson going for a quad ride.

Carson loves balls.