La Verne Ward Christmas Party

We went to our parents ward Christmas party on December 3rd and the kids got to see Santa. Carson could not have been more excited! You can tell in the first picture that he can't even keep his tongue in his mouth because he is so excited.

Bailey on the other hand got VERY excited to see Santa but that was about all she wanted to do. She had no interest in sitting on his lap!
But she made sure to wave to him and tell him bye as we were leaving.

This is Bailey watching Carson talk to Santa...she looks a little worried!

Good Times. Maybe next year she will want to sit on Santa's lap!

Christmas Pajamas!

Thanks Grandma Z for our cute Christmas pajamas!!
12-2-2010

Trip to L.A. with the Hatch's

The day after Thanksgiving we went with my family down to L.A. where we first visited Olvera Street for some yummy taquitos. While we were there Carson saw this awesome guitar that he really wanted, so with a cute smile and a really sweet please, Ryan caved in and bought it for him!

Here is everyone except me getting ready to go on the Metro down to Hollywood Blvd.

For those of you who have been...it is CRAZY down there. It was not easy trying to push our double stroller through all the crowds, but we had a good time!

Carson loved seeing all the people dressed up down there, and he really wanted a picture with these guys!!

Then we got back on the Metro and went to Universal City Walk! Markie was clearly not happy with Matt! :)

Here is the WHOLE group waiting for the metro!

My kids loved getting to ride on Paul and Dad's shoulders!
(I love Paul's face in this one!)

I just like this picture!!

And this one is Bailey on the Metro singing "no more monkeys jumping on the bed." It is her favorite song right now and at the end when the doctor says "no more monkeys jumping on the bed"...this is her face!!

We had a blast with my family. We really missed Chad and Laura who were still in Arizona getting ready for their sweet little Jaylee to come!

Thanks Mom and Dad for everything!!

Thanksgiving

I was so lame this Thanksgiving and didn't take any good pictures! We did have a great Thanksgiving though! We spent Thanksgiving with my family this year and my mom made a great Thanksgiving dinner. I am actually not a big fan of Thanksgiving dinner, but if I was, then I would have been in heaven!! So here are the very few pictures I did take that day!

My kids LOVE wrestling with Pa!!!

And of course Carson had to be naked at one point during the day!

Later that day we went and saw Tangled, which Carson loved...I also enjoyed it!! Then after that movie we came back home and hung out with the family and enjoyed some leftover turkey sandwiches...which I do LOVE!!

Broken Bones

On November 13th Carson and Bailey were outside helping dad in the yard. I was down at my sister Katie's house taking engagement pictures of her and Jesse. On my way home Ryan called me and said that Carson had fallen off the trampoline and hurt his arm. Now when we say fallen, Bailey actually ran into him which made him tumble off of the trampoline. He said he couldn't tell if it was serious because Carson wouldn't calm down enough for him to really check it out. So when I got home Carson had fallen asleep on the couch, so when he woke up his arm was already swelling and I felt like we should take him to urgent care. They took x-rays and said that it didn't look broken, but it is really hard to see a break in the elbow. They told us we should take him to his primary doctor and have it looked at. At this point they put it in a sling, which Carson hated and we were on our way. So on Monday we made an appointment and my doctor sent us to an orthopedic to have it looked at again. So a few days later we saw the orthopedic and he looked at the x-rays that they had taken at urgent care and said they same thing, that it didn't look broken, but it is really hard to tell in children. So he wrapped his arm up in a soft cast and said we should come back in two weeks for more x-rays just to make sure.

Here he is in his soft cast.

We went back a few weeks later and they did another x-ray on his elbow. Turns out it is broken, not bad, just a crack in his elbow, but he will be in the cast until December 29th! At least it is still just the soft cast so we can take it on and off for bath time! So convenient!!

Forts

Carson LOVES to build forts. He will ask anyone who is willing to help him build one. Well one night I was upstairs when Carson came running up and telling me to come see what he had done! This is not always a statement that you like to hear as a parent! :) So I went downstairs and he had built this fort!
(I had to add a blanket to the top because it was too hard for him, but other then that, it was all him!)

I sure love this kid!
Good job Carson!

Trip to Arizona

At the beginning of November my mom and I took a trip down to Arizona with the kids to visit my brother Chad and his family! My kids had such a great time with their cousins! One day we took them to a train park, which they LOVED! Sadly that is the only day that I took pictures, but we had a great weekend with them! Thanks Laura and Chad for letting us stay with you! We had such a great time!

Carson and Lilly are so cute together!

There was a carousel there, and Bailey loved it! Jensen liked it too, you just can't tell in this picture!!

There was a train there that you could ride around the whole park! So fun, and if you can't tell...Carson was in heaven! The picture below is what Carson's face looked like right before we went through a tunnel. He was so excited!

Here are the kids in the tunnel! Keep in mind you couldn't see anything in there...it was really dark! I LOVE Jensen's face!

These next two pictures are some of my favorites! This is Carson in the tunnel! He couldn't see anything because it was so dark, so he was opening his eyes really REALLY big.
SO FUNNY!!

Bailey was pretty indifferent about the whole thing. The only time she had any kind of reaction was when we tried to take her off my mom's lap! Not a good idea! :) Bailey is definitely Grammy's girl!!

We had such a great time in Arizona. Carson can't wait to see Lilly again! A couple weeks after we left Chad and Laura had a little baby girl named Jaylee! I have only seen pictures, but she looks ADORABLE and we can't wait to meet her! See you all at Christmas!