Happy 50th Birthday mom

I had to do a blog today to honor the best mom in the world! My mom turns 50 today, and I hope I look as awesome as she does at 50 when I'm 50! She is such a selfless person and I hope to someday be as good of a person as she is.
Happy Birthday mom, we really wish we could've been there to celebrate with you! We love you and can't wait to see you soon!!

Father Son Campout

This weekend was our stake father son campout (for our church) and Rick couldn't wait to take Carson. He went last year and took one of the boys in our ward who's dad couldn't go, (since Carson was only a year old) but this year he decided to take Carson, he was so excited about it, it was really cute, and of course, so was Carson. He loves to do anything with his dad. So off they went driving an hour and half away to camp (Carson is less than excited about the car). I am told Rick bribed Carson to be quiet (after he ate the sandwich and fruit I gave him in the first fifteen minutes) by getting him a soda at Burger King. Awesome.

Carson loved camping a few months ago when we took him before Brynnli was born, and had a great time this time playing in the tent....

Running around with all the older boys (since none of the other kids his age came) and playing with the flashlight......
He took this picture of Rick in the tent, I think it's pretty good:)

So he played hard and had a blast the whole night, they barbequed hot dogs, ate chips, and then it was time for bed. All I can say is that at midnight I recieved a call from a very angry Rick, who had been trying for over two hours in numerous ways to get Carson to sleep in the tent, and had finally accepted defeat and had thrown the tent in the passengers seat of his mustang with all the sleeping bags, clothes, etc. still in it, and decided to drive the hour and a half home. You name it, he had tried it, believe me I asked. Rick does not get mad easily and he was fuming. Carson just kept saying "Home, bed." And pointing to the car. Of course, as soon as he put Carson in the car, he fell asleep. The little nut.
Once Carson got home he was obsessed with watching a movie on his sleeping bag with Rick in his sleeping bag next to him on the floor, he couldn't stop talking about the camping trip, he apparently had a blast, but kept telling me when I asked why he didn't sleep in the tent that he was "mean to daddy." Rick finally cooled off the next morning .

Meanwhile, a very sick Brynnli and I took off for the mall to do some shopping for our girl's weekend. She was great sleeping in the Bjorn, but I think we will have a little more fun next year when she is a little older and not so sick, poor sweetie!

Our week...

The "spring" (meaning temperatures sometimes under 90) I think is over and so we decided it was time to take Brynnli in the pool in the backyard.... Carson was practicing his swimming....
This was my mother's day photo session with the two kids... aren't they cute?

We decided to try to revitalize our garden and Carson helped, it was so fun!!
Just thought you'd like to see some pics of the kiddos!!

The one that got away...

In doing this blog it occurs to me that my husband just has way too much fun playing!!! So this past weekend Rick and two of his friends went fishing all day Saturday in the Gulf of Mexico on his dad's boat and had a blast! His dad caught a huge Cobia (I think that is how it's spelled) which our friends have since cooked (seeing as how I don't eat or cook fish) and it was actually pretty tasty.. Chris caught a shark
and John caught a HUGE shark
I am told this shark was huge, they of course caught it and threw it back
I am glad I was not on this trip, how scary! You may be wondering where Rick is, I am told that Rick caught a HUGE fish at the beginning of the trip but that they couldn't get it on the boat in time and it broke the line, maybe next time....

You may be wondering what I got to do while Rick was out fishing.... I was back at home with Carson, Brynnli, and the other five kids we were babysitting for the weekend, Happy Mother's Day to me!!! We actually had a great time, so it was a good day for all:) Once again, no pics though of my adventures, since Rick brought the camera fishing.

Boys Weekend

Rick took off this weekend to his friend from freshman year of college, Joe's wedding in Philadelphia and Washington D.C.

According to Rick the traffic in Philadelphia was insane!!

The wedding took place in the Washington D.C. Mormon temple, so beautiful!
What a happy couple...... I remember those newly married days....
It was so fun for Rick to have a mini reunion with his friends from freshman year, it sounds like they pretty much acted like freshman boys again while they were together.... staying up really late to eat like four times.... driving fast.....(Left to right, Nathan, Joe, Rick, Naaman, and Jeng)

For the reception Joe got into traditional Korean garb

Needless to say Rick had a blast with his friends, I was especially jealous that he got to stay in the Hilton with Nathan, I don't think he's ever taken me to a Hilton:)

While Rick was gone I had a fun time with the kids, but he took the camera so I couldn't take any pictures of our adventures, so I figured I'd take a few today.....

I have been meaning to clean Carson's toys for quite some time now, and finally today I felt up to the task (I just really wanted to get it off my to-do list) and didn't realize what a task it would be!! I filled up the bathtub with Carson's toys that were washable and could barely fit him in!! He had a blast with all his toys in the bath!! The only problem was that he dropped the toy he was playing with and we couldn't find it anywhere!! He has way too many toys!!


And our sweet Brynnli is so nice to let me take her picture every Sunday before church... what a sweet girl!! I love the lavender!!!

Our Randomness....

What a busy week we've had! I couldn't help but do a post about two cute things:

Carson "helped" Rick and hid dad this week build a "vroom vroom house" for grandpa's racecar (as Carson refers to it, it is actually an rebuilt older car and they are building a garage for it)

Carson built a little house of his own out of the extra materials using his play tools

We also built a vroom vroom house at our house out of legos, but I couldn't take a picture because our camera was with Rick in Philidelphia, Carson is such a fun kid!!

I couldn't help but take pictures of my other little cutie before church last week.....

And of her newest hairstyle, piggie tails:)

What fun girls are!!

Goodbye to an old friend

So Saturday afternoon Rick was working and Carson and I were playing and Carson came to me and said "pappi, garbage?" and I said, you want to throw your paci in the garbage? To which he responded "yeah!" So, I went along with it and told him to go get all his pacis (littered in random places around his room no doubt) and we threw them in the garbage. Carson was very excited about it that day and that night, and so was I until the next day when Carson didn't take a nap before church...... he didn't actually ask for his paci again until Monday at night, and luckily the garbage truck (which we watch twice a week when it comes for our trash) was coming the next day so I told Carson we would get up early and watch the "garbage men" take the pacis.

Rick was less than thrilled with this idea, it meant his naptime being disrupted as well:)

I was very embarassed to be taking pictures in my jammies as the garbage truck came by, they must think we are nuts!
We let Carson wheel the garbage out himself.....poor kid
And off they went, what a miracle those paci's were in our lives for so long, and now only a memory.... just like the long naps Carson used to take with that paci......ahhh....

He is however doing way better than I expected, no real difference except shorter naps, and as I keep telling him, he is such a BIG BOY!!

On a side note: Carson asked me today in the car if we could throw Brynnli's paci away, I told him little babies can have pacis, but not big people!!