So, I just wanted to tell everyone Happy Holidays. Jared and I moved to Rexburg. Now we live in a little apartment. Oh well. It is good being on our own. One bit of fun news is that my brother John is now at the MTC. He is going to Thailand. Crazy, I know. So nothing else fun is going on. Bye

Our spooky little man.

Trying to be Uncle John

Uncle John is leaving soon, so Carter is turning into a mini-me. My brother loves this hat. He wears it all the time.

Cute Pictures

These are some pictures that we have taken of Carter over the last couple weeks. Our stylish little man. We love this outfit.

Dancing with Daddy.

Carter can laugh now. It is so cute and so much fun!!!

Tough Love vs, Spanking

I thought this was funny.

Tough Love vs. Spanking - Good Argument- Most people think it is improper to spank children, so I have tried other methods to control my kids when they have one of those moments. One that I found effective is for me to just take the child for a car ride and talk. Some say it's the vibration from the car, others say it's the time away from any distractions such as TV, Video Games, Computer, IPod, etc. Either way, my kids usually calm down and stop misbehaving after our car ride together. Eye to eye contact helps a lot too. I've included a photo below of one of my sessions with my son, in case you would like to use the technique.

Check me out!

How cute am I in my sweet lazy-boy?

Here we are out boating. It is September and we are boating in 64 degrees. We are crazy, haha.




Carter just chilling in his favorite outfit the life jacket. No, he really does like it. And boating.








This is my brother John. Having fun wake boarding. I took lots of pictures and I put my camera down and
he did a flip and landed it. I was so mad.



Here I am wake surfing. I am not very good. But I can stand up for a little while. On the other hand.......







My mom is very very good. She can go forever.









This is my dad. He skied and wake surfed.
Jared came too, but he didn't want to get wet this time.

Carter's Blessing. We had lots of family over, had dinner, and talked. It was a beautiful day. Carter was so good too. Isn't he so cute.

This is my first real smile caught on film so we thought we would post it for everyone to enjoy!!!

Cahokia Mounds

These mounds are from 900 to 1200 A.D. On some of the mounds people lived, like this one behind us. And others were burial mounds. On mound had one man and 300 women in it. He had his work cut out for him. HAHA

We really enjoyed visiting the mounds. The mound that we are standing on is the kings home. It was a pretty big mound. The top was flat and very big. Well, there is not much known about the cahokias, so I cannot tell you to much more.

Here we are at the end of the road trip

So here we are at the St. Louis Arch.

Allyn, Beckie, Dana, and Heather at the base of the arch. It was a very windy and rainy day.

Okay, so this is a fun little story. This is the POD that we had to ride up and down in. It was very little. And as it moved so did you, right off the sits. We were sliding around especially if you had a dress on. (which I did) They were very hot also.

Downtown St. Louis. Pretty

Dana and Allyn. This is at the top of the Arch. It was just a long hallway, filled with lots of people and windows.

This is my surprise Birthday Party. And Jared got me Rock Band for my birthday present. It was sweet.











We are changing in a hospital parking lot. We didn't want drive all the way to St. Louis in our Sunday clothes, so that was the alternative. We were getting ready to go to the temple.















Here is the St. Louis Temple. It was so pretty. We all enjoyed it. Get this we went on July 2 and 3 which was Wednesday and Thursday. And I went into labor the next Tuesday. HAHA cutting it close.

So this is back tracking a little. This was in the middle of June. Jared and myself plus Blake and Heather went to the church sites in Independence.

















I thought this picture was funny. It was so HOT this day that the boys thought of sitting in the fountain. Don't worry they didn't.









The person on the end (that is not me) is Heathers little sister, Becca.

These are new pictures. Taken July 25-27. The big two weeks old!!!!!