quick update

It has been another busy two months filled with lots of travel and not a lot of photos. First thing first, Carter turned 13 months! Shortly after Mr. Man got really sick so I took him to the pediatrician and turns out he had a double eye and double ear infection and the stomach flu! Poor guy!!! The only good thing was he LOVED cuddling!

For the super bowl, we had some friends over. This was the only football looking shirt. Too bad it wasn't in either teams colors. I think my favorite commercial was the e-trade baby commercial with the taylor and the dorotios commercial where the guy licks the other guy's fingers.

While we were all watching the game, Carter was able to reach the chips on top of the table and pull the whole bag down. Here is the end result!!

Daddy and his boy watching the game!!

Not much else happened that month besides Carter turning another month old! On that day Daycare called because he had "boogers" in his eyes again so I thought we would have a quick trip to the dr's office, get some antibotics again, and be on our way home. Turned out Mr. Man had a pretty severe case of RSV and we didn't even know it. The pediatrician commented on how tough of a kid he was because he was running circles in the doctor's office. Let's hope we can stay sickness free for a least the next month!!

We actually celebrated Valentines Day on the 13th since we both had to work on Monday. We had our traditional take out (this year from Cheesecake Factory) and chocolate covered strawberries. This year we added a homemade chocolate chip cookie for fun! No gifts this year. We are going to go to San Fran for a week in May instead. Plus we are both horrible about getting each other gifts since we both buy stuff we want for ourselves. I did get Carter a Spot Zoobie. He LOVES the book and opening all the flaps. The Zoobie (which is a stuffed animal, blanket, pillow in one) not so much of a hit. Maybe next year....

The Wednesday following Valentine's Day, my mom called advising me that my grandpa had taken a turn for the worse and he passed away Thursday morning. He had battled a horrible disease of alzhimers for more than 15 years. So Jason, Carter, and I headed down to St. George on Friday morning. Carter even got to meet his Aunt Mindi for the first time

Carter loved all the attention he got all weekend long. He thoroughly enjoyed playing with everyone, especially my parents dog Missy. Missy on the other hand did not enjoy Carter as much.
On Saturday morning we all got to say goodbye to Grandpa after he was dressed in his temple clothing. I had never done that before. It was a very calming experience and I could tell that my grandpa was there with us and was reassured that he was at peace and was happy where he was. He now has his mind back and gets to play with all the children in heaven. My grandpa always loved children. Wherever we would go he would always talk to the little kids. He looked more like the man I remember from when I was a little girl. I will miss you grandpa and look forward to the day that I get to see you again! Please don't come asking for grandma yet...

Here we all are at grandma's before the graveside service. It rained the whole day!! Sorry I couldn't crop and zoom the photo in blogger...

Happy Holidays!

It has been a busy month!! Hopefully life will slow down soon!

Well the Friday before Christmas, daycare put on a little Christmas program and than Mr and Mrs Claus showed up too. We weren't really sure how Mr. Man would react, but he seemed to have cared less.

I got this balloon for Jason on his birthday. Carter LOVED playing with it! We finally had to let it go yesterday.

I was a little worried putting up a Christmas tree with a wobbling toddler. However, we did only loose two ornaments this year, which neither were broken by Mr. Man. He would simply walk up to the tree, look at the ornmanets, and than walk away.

We had our traditional Christmas Eve. We went to church, opened our pj's, and than had a late Christmas Eve dinner of steak, mashed potatoes, mushrooms, green beans, and wine.

On Christmas moring, Mr. Man didn't wake up until 8am! That was a great present!!! He still didn't understand the present stuff and we ended up opening most of his gifts for him. I'm still not sure where to keep all his toys and books he got. After presents we had our traditional breakfast with mimosas.

Later that afternoon, we had to have the traditional gingerbread making. However, this year we got a kit to make it a little easier.

For New Years, we headed down to St. George to hang out with my family (well minus Mindi). It was the first time Jason and I had made it to midnight in YEARS! Thanks grandma for the fireworks!!!

My little brothers couldn't figure out how to get Carters seat belt on and Mr. Man was a little tired of sitting in the car seat....

All of us playing a game of phase 10---or should be say "skip Jason"

Carter loved going up and down golden grams stairs

My mom brought this chair for Mr. Man. It was mine when I was little. He LOVES it!!!

On New Years Day we went and visited my grandpa in the nursing home. We played some UNO while Mr. Man ran ammock

Well I can't believe it is 2011 now....not sure where 2010 went. I am super excited to see what the year has in store for us. Hope everyone had a great holiday season.

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It has been another busy couple of weeks. On Sunday December 5th we decided to go and see Zoo Lights. It was REALLY foggy that night which I think was fun (and made it a little warmer). Carter LOVED looking at all the lights and I got to have some hot chocolate and a fried smore (not recommended)

The 6th was Jason's 29th birthday. The only photos we took were after dinner when everyone came over for cake. We had a great time at Fridays for dinner. My hubby was definetly spoiled by all!!

On Saturday the 11th both my grandma and my mom came down to help us celebrate Carter's first birthday. We decided to go down to temple square. It had to have been the busiest Saturday night downtown. We lucked out though with some VIP parking.

Sunday was the big day! My baby turned one! We had quite the turnout of people. I didn't think that I would be emotional about it, but I just can't believe how much he has grown and learned this year. It was also very touching to see how much love and support he has. Thank you everyone that was able to make it.

Cake smashing

I can't believe my baby will be ONE next week! We decided to let him have his cake a little early and get a little photo shoot in since last week we tried to do his one year photo shoot and he cried the whole time. I'm pretty sure he enjoyed this photo shoot a little bit more. Plus we were getting him warmed up for his real party where he gets to smash a whole cake!! He ended up eating SIX of these cupcakes!