"We May Not Have It All Together But Together We Have It All"

0 comments Friday, August 1, 2008

Lately when Evan says prayers he has been saying “help mommy to obey the rules”…. after a few days of this I asked him what he meant;

Mom: Who’s rules are you talking about in your prayers?
Evan: Miles, Lucas, and mine
Mom: What are the rules?
Evan: You know like teaching us stuff
Mom: What else
Evan: I don’t know, I don’t remember

I wish he could remember so that I could obey their rules and be a better example.

Posted byRae

at8/01/2008

Lucas 7 Months

Lucas is 7 months old now! Crazy how time flies when you have three boys. We were getting ready for the day and looked up to see Lucas standing in his crib. I figured I better get a few pictures that very day before he changed (which they do overnight). By 7/18/08 when I took the pics he was standing up to things and crawling on his hands and knees a few feet then giving up and doing the army crawl which was faster. He was also following me around the house. Ten days later he is on all fours and pretty fast. He loves his new found freedom. He is now pulling himself up standing at the couch, loving the door stoppers and playing with all of brothers toys. He is also biting on everything, my shoulder, the couch, any toy he can get his hands on. He doesn’t really like solids; he prefers milk so that has been a slow start. He looks at us when we call his name. He is handsome, has red hair that I wish would stay and is healthy. We are blessed!

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at8/01/2008

We got a bunch of good books this month from the library but these two are the most enlightening for very different reasons.

When Evan pick out the left book, The Gas We Pass The Story of Farts at the library he came to me and said Mom can we get this one its about farts. I rolled my eyes of course and asked how he knew that (he can’t read yet)? He opened up to a page which had a kid in the bath tub showing bubbles in the water coming from his bum. Now I had a decision to make; be a kind and open minded mom and allow him to be educated on what his body does or be the mean mom and just say no way that’s gross. Well since Ryan seems to be getting after me lately about being an overly precautions mom I figured what the heck. Evan was so excited to show Dad his new book and when he did Ryan said to me “I can’t believe you let him get that book”. It was worth it, the first time we read it I just had to enjoy it because Evan laughed, and laughed, you know the laugh that you can’t breathe. He hasn’t done that in a long time and I enjoyed hearing it! Did you know that “A healthy person releases almost half a cup of gas in a single fart…..and….. In one day, just over 2 cups of gas are released in farts.” The boys in my house are heeaalltthhyy!

The book on the right, Sidney & Norman a tale of two pigs is a book about a pig (Norman) who is neat and organized, always goes to church and every thing seems to come easily for him but he is always looking down at others that are not like him and yet he thinks he is a good pig and his neighbor (Sidney) who is always a mess, always late and things just are always hard for him and does not think that he is such a good pig. Well they get a chance to meet God; God told Norman three things; “First of all, I love you…., Secondly, your goodness is not the reason I love you……, third you’re not as good as you have led yourself to believe. You are prideful. You’re selfish. You look down on others….” Then it was Sidney’s turn. God told him three things; “First of all, I love you. Secondly, I love you. And thirdly, I love you”. It was a good reminder and a good story for the boys to hear. I might have to buy this one!

Posted byRae

at8/01/2008

2 comments Monday, July 28, 2008

Ryan started his new job last week with Lexmark as a Systems Engineer on the Boeing Account and back up for WaMu. He needed a change and the move up. He likes his boss and co-workers. He enjoys it so far but who wouldn’t when your first day on the job is to fly to CA, do lunch, meet people, fill out some paperwork, and then go to a ball game. We are very grateful for the opportunity for our family and hope it will bring Ryan happiness and success!

Posted byRae

at7/28/2008

0 comments Thursday, July 24, 2008

Happy Pioneer Day

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at7/24/2008

2008 Summer Fun

We have been able to get out and have some summer fun the last few weeks. Mom and Dad have a membership to Thousand Trails camping resorts which has putt putt golf, play grounds and swimming. We have been there twice so far (just for day trips); once with cousins w/o Dad and once with just our little family including Dad. Evan loves the golf and does not ever want to leave the swimming. Miles on the other hand hung out on the sidelines most of our swim time. He takes time to warm up to things and he was a little nervous about the water. Once he got use to it he had a blast and Lucas loved the new experience, he kept on splashing everyone

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at7/24/2008

Happy Birthday Evan!!!

1 comments Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Happy 5th Birthday Evan!!

WE LOVE YOU

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at7/23/2008

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Evan's B-day parties

We had two birthday parties for Evan this year, a school/church/friends party and a family party. This was the first kids party we have had. It was a lot of work but so much fun! Evan had a blast. He picked most of the activities we did; coloring, relay races, pinata, water balloons and just running around playing (even running a friends Dad up a tree). The family party was a lot of fun too. We got Evan Nerf dart gun set (his first guns, I had a hard time with this one but Ryan just rolls his eyes at me and says he's a boy!) he and his cousin Carter had so much fun. We need to have you over again Carter to play good guys and bad guys! Thank you family and friends for such a wonderful time

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at7/23/2008

2 comments Friday, July 11, 2008

Does it mean you are a bad mom if you can't stand your kids voices by the end of the week?

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at7/11/2008

4th of July

3 comments Tuesday, July 8, 2008

So we started out the day like almost any other arguing with the kids to hurry up so that we can meet up with everyone for a family hike. Then arguing with Ryan about how I am a paranoid person just because I said I hope our house doesn't burn to the ground while we are gone (our neighbors seem to like doing fireworks in front of our house the last few years). Then we got to our hike. It was a good hike (Boardman Lake right by Evan's Lake in Granite Falls) especially for the boys, not to hard for them and not too easy for Ryan and I. We got to play in the snow and have a little excitement of loosing the trail due to the snow. It was crazy how much snow was up there. The lake was still frozen over. I don't think it will all melt away before next years snow fall. Evan was thrilled to find out that a lake had the same name as him. Then we got to enjoy fireworks up at Carleen and Mike's, well until Lucas decided to hurl all over me. It was good to get out and get some fresh air and spend time with family! (Sorry the pics are a little dark we used our old little camera that we haven't used in a long time)

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at7/08/2008

4 comments Thursday, July 3, 2008

OK, so maybe I am vanilla

Now I'm going to go have ice cream to try to make myself feel better. I blame Val for making me curious :)

Posted byRae

at7/03/2008

4 comments

wash

You know its time to clean the play kitchen toys when you are pretending to eat the wonderful meal that was prepared for you by your 2 year old and you are gaging from the bad breath smell.

Yes, we have green and brown play kitchen for our boys. What if they want to become a chef?

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at7/03/2008

Zoo

0 comments Saturday, June 28, 2008

A few weeks ago we were able to take a fun family trip to the zoo. We spent all day there. It was tiring but a lot of fun. We hadn't been to the zoo for a couple of years- crazy I know.

Posted byRae

at6/28/2008

Talk

3 comments Saturday, June 21, 2008

For some reason I keep getting bugged (not by an individual) to post my talk from last Sunday, well I am not going to do that since it is all a little jumbled but I will post the references that I used for my talk.

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This is now a favorite poem (I have some cool ideas for this poem):

Walk A Little Slower
Author: unknown

“Walk a little slower, Daddy”,
Said a little child so small.
“I’m following in your footsteps,
And I don’t want to fall.
Sometimes your steps are very fast,
Sometimes they’re hard to see;
So walk a little slower, Daddy,
For you are leading me.
Someday when I’m all grown up,
You’re what I want to be;
Then I will have a little child
Who’ll want to follow me.
And I would want to lead just right,
And know that I was true;
So, walk a little slower, Daddy,
For I must follow you.”

Just remember; A son wants to become like you, a daughter wants to marry someone just like you-It is a righteous father.

Posted byRae

at6/21/2008

Father's Day

1 comments Friday, June 20, 2008

Father's Day at our house was a little crazy. Ryan got biscuit and egg breakfast and Pot roast (cow is what we call it in our house) and potato dinner is about it with a quick Happy Father's day thrown in there. Ryan and I had to give talks in Sacrament (we have 1:00pm Sacrament so we got to worry all morning and afternoon) so we had a busy week and were pretty stressed/nervous on Sunday so the day really didn't seem to be relaxing for Ryan. After church and dinner we got to go visit with Grandpa Carter. Once we got home Ryan called his Dad to wish him a Happy Father's Day and was reminded that it was his parents anniversary- 40 years! Happy (belated) Father's Day to all those that I didn't get to see or talk with on Father's Day (that includes you too Gary)

Dad & Mom Carter

Dad & Mom Weeks

My Handsome and the boys

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at6/20/2008

1 comments

Moving up in the world

Evan Graduated!

June 13th was Evan's last day of preschool school and graduation day. They had a fun little ceremony in the backyard of the preschool. They had asked the kids ahead of time what they wanted to be when they grew up. It was fun to hear all of the occupation's from policeman to artist but my little man of course had to say he wanted to play video games when he grows up.

Katie (she says she going to marry Evan), Connor aka: Dude and Evan

Ethan and Evan

Ethan and Evan became good friends. Ethan will be going to Evan's school next year which we are very excited about.

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at6/20/2008

Big Boy Now

You can't tell but Miles is showing me his gum. He actually chewed it for about an hour and a half. This is remarkable since he usually only chews it for about 2 mins and then swallows it. Isn't this some kind of mile stone, where you're a big boy when you can chew gum without swallowing it?

Posted byRae

at6/20/2008

One of Lucas Favorite Things To Do

0 comments Thursday, June 19, 2008

I am always finding Lucas under the bed now. I have a feeling that is where he will be hiding when he is older.

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at6/19/2008