Should Have Stayed In Bed

You know those days where you wish that you'd never woken up. Well today is one of those days for me. Both of my children are screaming in the other room right now. They are driving me CRAZY!!!! The day started off just fine-actually really great. I slept in until almost 8! Then i decided we would run some errands this morning. Obviously this was a bad idea. Carson threw the biggest fit in the world while we were at Target, but I had to get some stuff there so I couldn't leave. He kept crying and screaming while we made our way to the front of the store, and then while we waited in line at the ONLY checkout that was open. He screamed all the way home so when we got here I just put him in bed and told him to stay there. After about 15 more minutes of crying he fell asleep. While he was crying I fed Halli in the living room which lately has been so difficult. All she wants to do is play with the bottle and not eat the food. It take forever to get her to eat. Then she wanted to play after eating, but she was super sleepy so I laid her down. She started crying when I put her in the crib which woke up Carson and so now he apparently thinks it is time to get up. He came out of the room 5 minutes later and I sent him back in so now he woke up Halli who had fallen asleep, so they are both screaming at me in there. Is there anyone out there who can come save me from this madness?!?

New Starts

We went home to Michigan for Christmas this year and had such a great time. Everyone's blogs are talking about their holidays so I thought we should probably post about ours too. We got to spend 2 wonderful weeks with our families, and had such a great time. It was a really nice vacation-the perfect amount of time too. Here are a few photos of things we did. While we were there we got to see our friends Jon and Becca.  We were so excited to get to spend a day with them, and had a blast-just like old times! We also got to hang out with my sister Aubry, and her fiance Michael, as well as his family. I'm glad Aubry's in-laws live in Michigan too so we'll probably see her more often.

Carson on Christmas morning

Erin-Ryan's sister-Christmas morning

Carson as a hotdog at the Henry Ford Museum

Other new news...Carson is finally potty training. People kept telling me he would do it when he was ready, but I finally realized that he's been ready for a while...it was me that wasn't ready. I thought it would be this really hard, long, drawn-out process, but it has been fairly easy, so far. The first day was rough, but Sunday he had 2 accidents, yesterday 1, and today none! So we are working on having only one child in diapers-hooray!

Halli is 7 months old-as of Saturday and is doing pretty good. She welcomed in the New Year with a tooth, and her second one looks like it is about to poke through any minute. She is sitting on her own really well, army crawling, and trying to prop herself up to sitting. We took her to the doctor last week and she is a whopping 19 pounds 3 ounces already....and she makes me carry her around all day. I'm not quite sure why I'm not super buff by now. Maybe I should try arm curls while I walk around-that might help get rid of the extra pounds I'm still carrying around from her!

We are all doing well and happy for the coming year, and the exciting things ahead. Hope you are all well and happy too! I wanted to load some more photos, but my computer is refusing to do so-three is all you get for now!