It's been a While

It's been a while six my last post so I decided that it was time to post again. Since last time we have moved to Arlington, WA and we are apartment managers. Some days we hardly do anything with that, and others it feels like all we get are complaints from the tenants. Austin is working for ACCA which is a funeral home and really enjoys doing that. Some days we don't seem him at all because work is really busy. In January Austin will be going back to school full time so he won't be working as much. Hopefully we will see him more.

Carson has grow up so much in the last few months. He is still a very active little boy and talks all the time. Most of the time we have no idea what he is saying. Some of his most common words are; all done, here you go, what's that, bubbles, no more, ready, night night, bye bye, ball, bath, no, yea, blocks. He is also learning to count. He will sometime repeat 1, 2, 3 and hold up his fingers for 1 and 3 but he skips 2. Lately Carson has been pretty picky with what foods he likes but his favorite food is still spaghetti, I can get him to eat that all the time. He loves playing catch, being thrown around by daddy, building things with his toys, reading books and playing Xbox with daddy. If we would let him he would take baths all day. He loves to play in the water.

We finally went to the Dr today for his 18 month check up. He is 29 lbs (85%) and 33 inch (75%).

It's fun watching him grow and learn. We can't wait to see what he will be like as a big brother. I guess we will find out in May. I'm due May 23rd. We are really excited and in a few weeks we get to find out what it is. They will be 2 years apart and hopefully Carson won't be the jealous type!

We went to a Mariners game a couple weeks after we moved here

Baseball player for Halloween!

Carson likes to go to his room and read his books on his bed.

The Saturday after Thanksgiving we went on the Santo train to go see Santa.

Carson wasn't a fan at Santa, but with his cousin right there he was able to tolerate it.

He really loved the train ride though.

Carson would not take a picture with Santa. I'm surprised that he isn't crying

in this picture but it was fun to get a picture with Santa as a family.

Update

So this is going to be a long post. A lot of things have happened since my last post. We have been busy busy busy. A couple weeks ago we found out that Austin will be done with school at the end of this semester, so at the end of July we will be moving to Washington and Austin will start Mortuary school in September. We are really excited and now are just finalizing details till we move.

Happy 1st Birthday

On Sunday Carson turned 1!!! He is growing up so fast. We celebrated his birthday on Saturday at Austin's work. Valerie, Keagen, and Chad came to celebrate with us. We went bowling, ate pizza, had cake, and opened presents. Sunday he had a few visitors that stopped by to wish him a happy birthday too.

A little about Carson...

• Weighs 22 lbs
• 31 inches tall
• Has 6 teeth
• Loves books
• Loves being outside
• Always happy
• Gets into everything
• So close to walking!
• Favorite food- spaghetti
• Loves climbing all over daddy

Georgia

At the beginning of April Carson and I took a trip to Georgia to see my parents. It had almost been a year since the last time that we saw them. We had so much fun spending time with them. We played at the park, went to downtown Atlanta, did lots of shopping, and even took a little trip to Savannah so that we could go to the beach. We were sad to leave them and wish that we lived closer.

Playing at the park

Fun in the pool

More pictures from Georgia

Downtown Atlanta

At the light house after we climbed 178 stairs

Carson LOVED the Beach

Easter

I think that I was more excited for easter this year than Carson was. He really didn't know what was going on but I think that he had fun finding the easter eggs. Austin's work had an Easter Egg hun on Saturday and then the Easter bunny left eggs for Carson to find Sunday morning. We had fun watching Carson crawl around to find all of his eggs.

Bye Aunt Bailey

At the end of March Aunt Bailey went to the MTC. We were able to see her for a couple days before she left. We miss Aunt Bailey living so close, but happy that she is serving a mission.

Mema and Carson

Aunt Bailey

Disneyland

At the end of February we were able to visit Austin's aunt and uncle and go to Disneyland. We had so much fun. The weather was perfect, and we couldn't believe how much Carson actually enjoyed it. He loved all the characters.

9 Months

I can't believe that it has been nine months already. Where has the time gone? Life is busy these days but we are enjoying everything. Carson is growing up so fast. He is 20.5 lbs and 29.5 in. and he gets into everything. Just recently he started crawling and now it seems like I can't leave him alone for a minute without him getting into something and he is starting to pull himself up on anything he can. He is developing his own personality more and more each day.

-He loves to play with and eat shoes

-Loves Loves Loves baths

-Doesn't ever stop babbling

-Likes eating his finger foods ( I think that's what really got him to start crawling)

-Doesn't ever sit still

-Waves bye bye

-Claps when he watches mommy clean

-Loves playing with daddy

-Always happy and full of smiles

Christmas 2009

This year we spent our Christmas in Washington with Austin's family. It was good to get away from Rexburg. We enjoyed making and decorating cookies, spending time with family, and celebrating the birth of our Savior. I think that this Christmas was more fun for me because of Carson even though he didn't know what was going on and we ended up opening his presents for him anyways. I'm looking forward to him getting older and being able to explain why we celebrate Christmas and him enjoying the holiday season. We are looking forward to the new year and seeing what 2010 will bring us.

Carson didn't know what to think of Santa

Reading the traditional Christmas Eve present

from my parents

My favorite present

My Little Santa

December Fun

December was a busy month for us. Austin had lots of projects at the end of the semester for school so Carson and I didn't see him too much. We also went on a little trip without him. We went to Salt Lake City to see the lights with my sister and her family. It has been a few years since I have been to the temple during Christmas time to see the lights and have wanted to go back for a while now. It was fun and the weather wasn't too bad. We also went to Thanksgiving Point during the day ad went to the dinosaur museum. That was fun to look around.