One Year Old

I can't believe that my baby boy is one already! Where did the time go?! One year ago today I was headed to the hospital ready to have my baby. After going into pre-term labor exactly a week earlier and being in the hospital for a number of days I felt ready to have my baby. I remember holding Carson for the first time and realizing that my life would never be the same again. I remember feeling filled with joy as I held him knowing that he had just come from the presence of our Heavenly Father. Since that day Carson has continued to bring so much joy and happiness into our home.

Today my poor little birthday boy is sick. I took him to the doctor yesterday after being up all night with a high fever and he said he has a bad cold and sore throat. Just by looking at him you can tell he doesn't feel good. He's wanted to be held by me pretty much all day and just wants to be snuggled with and rocked to sleep.-Which is totally uncharacteristic of him. Normally he isn't snuggly at all and is too busy and wiggly to be rocked. So although I am horribly sleep deprived from being up the past two nights with him I am enjoying every moment snuggling with him because I know once he starts feeling better that my little wiggly boy will be back to himself and back to no snuggling.

Here are some things about the birthday boy:

-He weighs in at a whopping 19 pounds even. Just tall and skinny like his Dad.
-Has 5 teeth and one on the way.
-Loves to read books.
-Loves when I sing Primary songs to him at night.
-Loves playing with his friends and trying to keep up with the big kids.
-Loves other kids. He will laugh and smile at any little kid wherever we are.
-Has figured out how to crawl up stairs. He saw my friends little girl do it once and decided he could do it too.
-His favorite foods are pancakes, pizza, cheese, yogurt, muffins, eggs, burritos, cherrios. He can eat 3 whole wheat pancakes by himself and one whole piece of pizza.
-Cruises around furniture and walks with help.
-His favorite thing to do is to get into the pots and pans cupboard and pull everything out.
-Loves playing hide-and-seek.
-Still drools non-stop and has to wear a bib full time unless we want his shirt to be soaked within 5 minutes.
-Says mama, dadda, and babbles like crazy. So cute!
-Loves to giggle.
-Can always bring a smile to my face and make me laugh.

So happy birthday to my Carson bug! Love you!

Halloween fun

This year we had so many fun Halloween celebrations to attend. It seems like we just ran from one party to the next. This post is all out of order, but it'll have to do for now. :)

Saturday night Chad and I had a little date night and made these little Halloween cupcakes. It was going great until I knocked the sprinkles over. I am still finding little sprinkles all over my kitchen.



Thursday morning Carson and I went to playgroup and they had a little Halloween party for the kiddos. Carson was a little young to understand most of the activities, but it was so much fun to see all the kids dressed up and be there anyway.
Carson spent his time at the party doing a few different things. Fighting over this fun guitar with his buddy Akoy.-Who by the way was the cutest hamburger ever!

Eating his fruit loop necklace...yes this was a nasty mess.

And eating the fish from the fishing pond station. I think he had a great time at the party overall. :)

Thursday night our friends hosted a Halloween party at their house. For this party Carson was dressed as a scarecrow. This kid will NOT hold still for a picture. All the pictures I have of him are of him wiggling away. Little stinker.

Carson chugging his bottle and playing at the party.

Carson and his girlfriend Riley playing letters together. So cute!

The Johnson family

Jace and Avery. We missed you Dayna!

The Ellis family

The Greggory family. Thanks to them for hosting such a fun Halloween party with great food and friends!

The Burgin clan. Chad put together his own costume without me knowing about it until he showed up.

Friday afternoon we went to the law school do go trick or treating. Lots of the students brought their families and went around from office to office. Saturday night we also went to our ward trunk or treat and Carson and I had a great time. He filled his entire bucket with candy that I'm sure I'm going to have to hid it from myself so I don't eat it all! Hope you all had a great Halloween!

Martin's Hillside Orchard

Last Friday a few of us convinced our hubby's to leave school a little early and come join us for a little trip to go pumpkin picking. We all headed up to Ceresco, which is little town just 15 minutes north of Lincoln. We had a perfect day to go pumpkin picking! The weather was great! We had such a fun time there! They had a corn maze, apple orchard, butterfly garden, John Deere bikes, apple treats, and of course the pumpkin patch.

The kiddos were hilarious! Parker patting Carson's head saying "I don't want this here anymore." haha Too funny!

The Greggory's in the teepee

Little family picture on top of the haystack.

Chad giving Carson his first tire swing ride.

Carson investigating his pumpkin

Parker being such a big helper pushing the stroller.

Carson cruising around on the bike. He looks like such a big boy!

Parker and Riley. Love Parker's new smile!

Chad and Carson about to enter the corn maze.

Winding through the maze.

Carson doing a little apple picking.

Conference Weekend

It's that time of year again that General Conference rolls around and I just love it! I always look forward to having our traditional conference breakfast and inviting some friends to join us. This time we had quite the spread, complete with pancakes, two different homemade syrups, two types of sausages, bacon, eggs, and fruit. Seriously it was delicious! We had a great time hanging out with our friends and enjoying the yummy food! We have been so lucky to be able to meet so many wonderful people out here and have made such great friends. Just thinking about leaving Lincoln this spring after Chad graduates makes me sad to move away from all of our friends. We just love all our friends here who have made being out here so much fun!

After the breakfast we watched General Conference, which was wonderful as usual. I just love being able to hear from President Monson and the other apostles. Between sessions on Saturday me and a couple of friends went to a neighborhood near by that was having yard sales. We had a great time finding good deals and walking around in the nice weather! Can I just tell you how much I LOVE getting a good deal on something! Seriously it makes my day! There's nothing better than walking out with a load of good things that you spent less than 10 bucks for. Carson is the main person that benefits from my bargain shopping sprees and as far as I can tell he is loving all the treasures I bring home. :)

The Greggory's... and Lydia jumping into the picture :)

The Wyatt's

The Mellor's

The Johnson's

The Ellis's. Got to love Parker hiding his eyes. haha

Carson cuddling up with his buddy Cade.

My mom sent Carson these cute pajamas. Aren't they so stinkin' cute?!

I try to make sure and take a picture of Carson and I together at least once a month....usually the pictures end up looking something like this. Maybe one day we'll get a good picture of both of us. :)

Friend Visits

Sometimes blogger can be really frustrating when it comes to uploading pictures. I had many more pictures that I tried several times to upload, but every time it would come up with some error. Lame! So this is as good as it's going to get for this post.

I always love it when one of my friends comes to visit. So fun! My cute friend Kristi came to visit last week. I have known Kristi for a long time and she lives just two doors down from my parents. She is a SUPER busy girl getting her masters in nursing, teaching clinicals and working at the hospital. Needless to say it was an extra special treat that she took some time off to come visit us out here in Nebraska!

She arrived on Thursday and since the weather was kind of crappy we just hung out at home. Saturday we ventured out and I took her to the Sunken Gardens. I always love going there and it is so pretty. We had a great little time playing around and taking funny pictures.

Somehow I managed to get this great shot of this butterfly. So cool!

And no visit to Nebraska would be complete without a trip to the Winter Quarter's temple and visitor center. I'm losing track of how many times I've taken the tour there. I've probably been enough times by now to give the tour myself. :)

Carson just chillin' at the temple. We had a great time hanging out with Kristi for the weekend! Thanks Kristi for coming out to visit!