Hilarious!!

So, one day back in May (quite poetic isn't it) the boys and I went on our big grocery shopping trip. This usually takes us four or five hours. It's a big long event!! We got home, put things away, and then proceeded to the bathroom to give the boys a bath before dinner. Carter was getting ready to get in and this is what I saw....

Do you see it? Can you tell what it is? Here's a closer shot for you...

That's right, it's a little lizard imprint on Carter's left leg/cheek. Apparently, when I told him we weren't going to take toys with us he promptly put his lizard in his back pocket. This my friends, is what you get if you sit for a long time with a little plastic lizard in your back pocket. HILARIOUS!!

Random Pictures

Shades!

Carter had his so Austin needed his too.

For some reason, this was his "smile" that day.

Brothers.

Carter loves my rain boots. Austin does too for that matter, but his legs aren't quite long enough.

Carter found some of his Zach's biking gear and wanted to try it on. This was the result.

This is a little swimming tube that Carter used to use. We were trying to see if it would fit Austin and then he wouldn't let us take it off him.

Swimming

Here are some pictures of Zach and the boys swimming.

Easter

Yeah, I know this is way late but here it is anyway, our Easter picture post.

Me, the boys and the loot. The eggs have been emptied and their innards are contained in those two plastic containers by the sand bucket. It came to a grand total of ten dollars and 15 sweedish fish.

This kid loves balls!

Austin went right past the eggs to get to the ball. It took him a while to get it out because he was trying to get it from that angle instead of just rolling it out from under the piano bench.

Kaput

So, as I was drying my hair this morning my blow dryer died. It wasn't a quiet slow death. I saw smoke, then something popped, there was a flash, more smoke and then nothing. This blow dryer went out with a bang as it seems all of my dryers do. Because of my previous track record with hair dryers (I think I went through four in my two years at college) I keep a spare on hand so I was able to finish my hair. Thank goodness for that! It would not have been pretty if I had just stopped when my dryer died, not pretty at all!!

Now I have the task of finding a new one. I'm sure some of you are wondering, "Why no just use your spare?" My answer is, Because I don't like it but I keep it around for situations like this when it's better than nothing. The dryer that just died has been a good one. I think I've had it for six years. I'm pretty sure I bought it soon after I got home from my mission in 2003. That's a long life for a blow dryer, at least for me it is. I'm trying to decide if I should just get another one like my last one (the current model) or if I should try something new. What do you think? What kind of hair dryer do you use? Help me out here, Ladies! Thanks!

Weaned and other random happenings

Well, I think I've done it folks. Austin is now off the bottle. Yippee! When he hit one year I got him down to two bottles a day. He got one when he woke up and the other right before he went to bed. This last couple of weeks I gradually got him off his morning bottle and tonight he went down without his night bottle. My next challenge is to get him to drink milk. As of right now he drinks juice great out of a sippy but will only have a few swallows if it's milk. It really makes no sense because he drank it great out of his bottle. I guess it doesn't taste the same coming out of a sippy. Go figure!

Now for the random stuff. Today I told Carter that it was time to clip his fingernails and he informed me that while I was doing that he needed to be doing something and ran off to find his phone (one of my old broken cell phones). As I clipped away this is what Carter's saying with the phone up to his ear....

Oh hi..... Yeah...... HaHaHa(fake laughing).....yeah....HaHaHa....Ok, buy.

I was talking to Grandma Tracey. Now I will call Grandpa Kevin.

Oh hi.... Yeah.... HaHaHa....... Did you poop today?......Yeah.....HaHaHa...Ok, buy.

Totally made me laugh. Where does the kid come up with this stuff??

Austin has discovered the garbage in a new way this last week. He used to only pull stuff out of it but now he puts stuff in. Yesterday he found a string and came over to me and said "ku-ku". He then proceeded over to the kitchen cupboard, opened it up and put the string in the garbage. I chuckled, and told him good job. Later on I discovered 3 toys in the garbage as well. Sometimes he gets it right and sometimes he doesn't. I think putting things in the garbage is his new thing because he did it again tonight with the cover off the book I'm reading.

Last thing. Tonight Carter was a crab. He would only respond to "Crab" or "Crab Carter". All through dinner we had to ask Crab carter what he wanted to drink. And tell Crab Carter to eat his food. And tell Crab Carter to go get washed up. If ever we called him Carter He informed us, "I'm not Carter, I'm just Crab Carter." Every thing's an adventure with kids!!


**Sorry for the lack of pictures. We're experiencing some internet difficulties. For some reason the internet won't work on the computer that has all of our pictures on it. Hopefully soon I'll get it worked out.

Small Blessings

Thank you everyone for all of your support, kind and loving words, prayers and service. I want you all to know how much we appreciate it. I just thought I'd post a little update for y'all. We are all doing great. At every step of this trial the things that stand out to me the most are the blessings.
Every stage of the miscarriage was taken care of through doctors visits. I think this helped me stay more emotionally stable than I otherwise would have been.
I had fantastic doctors. My OB/GYN was so kind and loving. She and her office lined up all of the doctors visits I would need. They made sure insurance pre-approved the surgery, they got me in with a specialist to perform the surgery. They were wonderful!
I have had no physical pain. Seriously, none. Originally they thought they would have to give me a lot of medication and things to prepare my body for the surgery and it was going to be fairly painful. It turned out that the fetus was small enough that none of those things were required.
Surgery went really well. They give you the same kind of medication you have when you get a colonoscopy, you aren't "out" but you don't remember anything. I remember getting up on the surgical table and then waking up in my recovery room. What a huge blessing.
Seriously, who could ask for better friends? Girls, you have been wonderful. All of the meals, visits, hugs, babysitting, you name it they did it or offered. Being so far away from family wasn't easy but I never worried about how things were going to get done. I had a list of friends who I could call but never had to because they just came to me. Thank you all.

It never ceases to amaze me how the Lord has his hand in everything. Here we had this sad and difficult situation and He was with us through it all making sure that we were taken care of and knew that he loved us.

Thanks again to all of you for your love and concern.