Goofy Hubby

OK, so only a very few of you get to see the goofy and hilarious side of Michael. He saves it for home and family. He cracks me up though and is way more goofy than I am. Anyway, so you know I got a lap top recently... I have opened it a few times to find goofy shots of him... this was the latest and I HAD to share... HAHAHA It is so hilarious!!!
he is going to kill me for putting this. (He once told me, if you have to start the sentence by saying "Michael will kill me for telling you.. just don't even go on, just stop talking". hahahahah sorry hon, I can't resist and you made this too easy to do.
Here is one he sent me about 5 years ago when I was in Texas. (You will notice this was before he got his gold tooth replaced, yes folks, that was his real gold tooth. Cute huh.) I actually really grew to love the gold tooth and was sad to see it go.
(Carma is watching me do this post and said "is taht daddy? he looks like a funny guy". She is so cute.

When Dana, my sister, was 4 my grandmother bought her this dress. Here is a picture of her... how CUTE IS THIS. I LOVE this picture. The funny thing is I think Dana looks exactly the same. You can look at her baby pictures and tell who it is. Isn't this adorable! After so many years, we wont say how many.. tee hee hee... the dress is still in excellent condition.

My mom had the idea to have Dana photograph both of the granddaughters in the dress.( I wish I would have had the cute thing that my mom made for Dana's hair to put in their hair. That would have made them perfect.) Dana did a fabulous job on these pictures. They are so cute!

Here is my beautiful niece Belle. She is so opposite of Carma. She wasn't excited about the dress or taking the pictures. She had to be bribed. But they turned out so beautiful anyway. I think she had fun in the end too.

Carma was SO excited when she saw the dress. She carried around held it up to her and twirled around and danced with it. It was so hilarious. She was equally excited about taking pictures in the dress. She posed for us. I have to admit, it isn't easy getting good pictures of this girl. Not because she isnt' beautiful, but b/c she is so fast. She goes from one facial expression to the next in milliseconds and holds a pose for no more than a second. But Dana managed to get some really cute ones. Carma is SUCH a cutie pie, I just want to squeeze her! There is definitely only one Carma. I know she is my daughter, and I am biased, but I have never met a child so innocent, imaginative and sweet as she is. I am truly blessed to be her mama.

More pictures of baptism & Birthday

I know many of you hate the slide, but I just couldnt' resist adding more pictures. Some of these are just way too cute. I especially love the one with Grandma Carma with Judson & Carma. My only regret is not getting pictures with maw-maw, paw-paw and Nonnie. I can't belive I forgot.

So, I forgot I had a bday too.... ok, so enjoy the pics of me pregnant. I don't do pictures, but esp not pregnant. But this was a special occasion.

I had so much fun on my bday for being on bedrest. Ashley, my neighbor, threw a tea party for me... with a bunch of yummy treats from Kneaders. There were 3 of us in the neighborhood with bdays all within days of each other. It was so fun to get t ogether and that was so extra sweet of
her to do that for me and for everyone to come celebrate with me. THANKS ASHLEY.

Bed rest STINKS!

OK, well it has been a long time.... again. In my defense I have been on bed rest for 2.5 weeks and sitting at the computer makes me contract, so I could never be on for more than 10 minutes. So, after I whined and pouted Michael bought me a laptop! Hurray! I didn't know how I was going to make it 6 more weeks on bed rest without one. Thanks hon! Now I can catch up on my blog as well as all of yours! I miss reading your blogs so much. For all I know a few of your kids probably graduated from college.

No time is a good time for bedrest, but this was ESPECIALLY a bad time. Judson had his first day of second grade. (that day was the day I spent in Labor and Delivery/ER for 6 hours). He made it just fine, sometimes I forget how competent Michael is:)

The next day he turned eight. Michael also was in charge of the birthday. We had over a few friends and all the boy cousins that live here. I actually cried that I couldn't do it my way b/c Birthday parties are my thing and I like to make a big deal about it. But you know what? Judson didn't even notice that the decorations were missing and there wasn't a theme. He had so much fun anyway.

The biggest news was Judson's baptism. It was so sweet. I was in awe about how much I could love this amazingly sweet boy and what a great kid he is! He is growing up so fast! Sometimes I forget that one day he wont want me to cuddle him in his bed before he goes to sleep or he wont need me to help him with his homework... (which will be very soon since he will be passing me up by the third grade.)
My parents and Dana came all the way up from Louisiana to see the baptism and that meant so much to me, and I know it did to Judson as well. Dana stayed for a week and a half and my parents stayed for 3 1/2 days. ~They had to get back to check on the house after the hurricane. (Everything was fine... HURRAY!)
My mom gave the opening prayer. Dana gave a talk on Baptism and Rachelle (Garrett and Renton's mom) gave the talk on the Holy Ghost. Michael baptized Judson... on his way down into the font he almost slipped and fell into the water. (We actually think he broke his toe, it still is swollen and red). I think it helped put Judson at ease and when I asked him what he remembered most about the baptism he laughed and said "that daddy almost fell and got baptized again." Jon baptized Garrett and Renton. They were all so cute!! I thought my heart would burst with love for these boys.

Best Friends and Cousins

Judson, Garrett and Renton are not only cousins, but best friends. Garrett and Renton are twins and were born 19 days before Judson. Once these boys got through the biting stage (around 18 months) they have been inseparable. Judson asks at least 5 times a week if they can come over and play. Good thing they only live 6 minutes away.

So it is time for these boys to get baptized and we decided it would be so extra special for them to share this important occasion. (which will be Aug 30... email me if you would like to attend ..you know I am a paranoid freak about information on the web). They were, of course, thrilled!! I am so excited I can hardly stand it and can't believe these boys are almost baptized. Has it really been EIGHT years??? Where does the time go.

They were such good sports go get in their Sunday best and let me take pictures for their invitation. Rachelle and I were going nuts trying to get them to smile with out looking fake or scary. It was so funny. Rachelle finally had to start doing tricks that you we have seen aunt Cynthia use at Kiddie Kandids.... bbbbbbbbb.... bbooo booo! They finally laughed.. guess you had to be there! The important thing is that after about 50 pictures we finally got 3 cute ones to use...hahaha arghhhhhhh But seriously, aren't these boys THE CUTEST BOYS IN THE WORLD!!! I just want to eat them up!!!

I am still alive....

I can not believe I have gone this long without posting. I have had a rough couple of week with being so tired and depressed. This was just something I had to put on the back burner.

We haven't been too busy.. I have been too tired to have an exciting life. My poor kids... they have to find fun with other people. Well Judson does... Carma is fine playing with a paper box. But Judson needs much more stimulation. So he plays with friends... a lot. Mario is his BEST FRIEND who he can barely breathe without. Pinky, Mario's mom, took these adorable pictures and I stole them from her blog. I just LOVE these pictures!!! Aren't these boys adorable???!!!!

I have an appointment with the Paranatologist (spelling?) today. I am excited and LOVE getting ultrasounds as much as possible. Nothing is wrong.. that I know of... they are just checking to see how large the fibroids are and making sure they are not effecting the growth of the little guy.

Speaking of the "little guy"; we still don't have a name. We can't agree on anything. I like Warren Eli, but Michael doesn't. He likes Zachary Eli, and I don't. We only have 11 weeks or less left since I have c-sections a week early. ahhhh There is so much to do in 11 weeks, but I think I will just make sure I have diapers, a co-sleeper bed and do everything after the delivery. Hopefully I will feel better after. I have WAY too much stuff to do with Judson's baptism, birthday, school starting, my parents and sister are coming (HURRAY!) and I made a promise to Judson to paint his room and buy him a cool new bed. YIKES... too much. I guess I will have to read "Breaking Dawn" next month.

I will try to do better with posting more regularly. I missed it. I will also have to spend an entire day catching up on all the blogs I haven't read in a month.

Dana, my sister, who we affectionately call Nonnie (Judson named her that when he was around 18 months or so) is visiting from Louisiana. We have been somewhat busy, and have had lots of fun!
We went on a picnic to the canyon, we took them to the park (OK, well I slept and she took them :), we went to see Wall-e, we played laser tag.. (our favorite tradition), we played Settlers (our other tradition.. and Michael won AGAIN!! He is no longer allowed to play!), we went out for dinner to celebrate her bday. I am sure we did more than that but I am too tired to think. Which is why I haven't posted.. I am always SO DANG TIRED!
OH yeah, we celebrated Independence day. It was so fun. We went to Jaren and April's and then to the T's. Dana took so many cute picture another slide show is needed. So for those of you who hate looking at slides I will have to choose some favorites.. it will be difficult.