Carter's Birthday Pics

I can't believe how long it's taken me to post these - better late than never! Here's his first birthday!

My Baby is One

I can't believe that a whole year has come and gone since Carter was born. We celebrated his birthday on June 19th and it was so fun! We just spent the day doing things that he loves to do. We took pics to show what a big boy he's become! I haven't downloaded pics of his party yet but here are the ones of us playing outside that day. I also included pics that we took for Paul for Father's day. It was a great to celebrate what Paul means to all of us. He's literally the perfect husband and dad. We love him so much! Keep checking in for pics of Carter's party!

Sweet Baby Boy! This was the picture he gave to Paul for Father's day.

He really is this happy ALL the time! We spent lots of time outside on his birthday cuz he LOVES it!

Kate's picture for Father's Day - isn't she stunning?

Lizzie's picture for Father's Day. She kept giggling and I thought it was so cute!

In a Nutshell

Wow, May really must have been a crazy month because it's been forever since I posted and I'm feeling out of the loop! To start with, Kate and Lizzie started their first semester of preschool together. This is Kate's fourth time but it's the first time they've ever gotten to do it together and Lizzie's very first time. I have actually liked the time with just Carter and I. It's helped me regain a little sanity and free time. Then we celebrated Kate's fifth birthday on the 21st and had a blast! She was so excited to turn five cuz she knows that this is the year that she starts school and gets to start a lot of new things. She had a birthday party with just the family and then she had a birthday party with her friends for the very first time and although I was a little nervous about it, it was SO fun and I loved it! The night before her party she was playing around in our bedroom and hit her eye on the corner of the windowsill and got a MAJOR black eye. She was so distraught and in a fit of tears turned to us and said, "I can't have my party tomorrow! I don't want my friends to see me like this cuz they will all freak out!" I was trying so hard not to laugh because it was so cute and it was the first time that I had ever seen her concerned about her vanity. Of course by morning she was over it and we had a High School Musical Birthday party that was one to remember! What a fun month!

Kate and Liz on their first day of preschool together. Cute!

The birthday party gang!

Kate in her new skirt and shirt - also sporting a new black eye!

Happy fifth birthday Kate!

A monster High School Musical cake! It was SO yummy!

Fun at the Park

Last week finally produced some decent weather and we went to the park three times! The kids have had major cabin fever and so we tried to spend some of the week working that out. Here are pics of the kids just having fun.

Kate, enjoying the no-jacket-weather!

Liz would spend hours in the swing if I'd let her!

Carter is happy to do anything fun, as always!

Kate and Liz did a choo-choo train on the slide!

Here they are on double slides racing!

The Last Little While

Well, the last little while has been so busy!!!! So here's a recap of the last month or so:
First, we celebrated Lizzie's third birthday. I can't believe how fast she's growing!!! We threw her a little party at our house and she had a blast. We had pizza, ice cream, cake, candy, and opened gifts! HAPPY BIRTHDAY LIZ!!!! Then we celebrated Easter. My parents put together an Easter egg hunt for the kids in their backyard and they had a blast! The weather actually cooperated for an afternoon and they just thought that it was so fun to find eggs everywhere! Thanks mom and dad! Then we barbecued afterward and just had fun! then the next day the Easter bunny came to our house and filled our Easter baskets with candy and goodies. We went to church in nice outfits. Then we had an Easter dinner that night at my mom's. Then later that week my brother Daniel graduated from BYU-Idaho. We threw a huge party for him at our house and had a wonderful time!

She's a little candle-shy!

Opening a gift with Jessica

My mom and Anna took Liz to breakfast and the park for her birthday! She had a blast. They also did her hair and nails at grandma's!

This is the cake that Liz picked for her birthday: Diamond Barbie Castle

The Easter bunny visited our house and filled every one's baskets with goodies. Carter is checking out a new rattle and car!

Liz wearing her new Easter dress!

Kate in her new Easter dress before church!

Liz and Anna hunting for eggs!

Kate showing her basket full of eggs she found! There are tons! The sugar high lasted a while!

My wonderful brother Daniel on graduation night at BYU-Idaho! I'm so proud of him! He's off to Ohio State University on a full-ride scholarship!

Anniversary Photo Session

As I mentioned in my last post, Paul and I just celebrated our six year anniversary and he planned a photo session for us. We had our engagement pictures taken at this park a little over six years ago and here we are six years later at the same park. We've both agreed that we're a litte "rounder around the edges" since then! This wasn't all of them but these were some of my favorite! Enjoy!

Love Stories

Wow!!!! I can't remember the last time that I went more than like a week without posting and here I am at over a month!!!! This past little while has been crazy and I hardly know where to begin. But mostly our life lately has been all about wonderful love stories. Let me explain. Paul's grandpa died about a month ago so we took a two week trip to California. We left on a Wednesday, had his grandpa's funeral on Friday, and then while we were visiting there his grandma died two days later on a Sunday!!!! It was totally unexpected but such a happy moment for all of us because now his grandparents were together. They were terribly in love while they were living and just couldn't live without each other and they died exactly one week apart. Isn't that just amazing? I want to do it that way! So we had her funeral three days later to celebrate their re-uniting and then Paul's youngest brother got married two days later in the Oakland Temple. Another beautiful love story!!!!! Kate and Liz were flower girls and LOVED getting all dolled up all day. Carter had a little suit on too. All three kids looked just adorable! And then we came home and celebrated our own anniversary and love story of six years. Paul was SO cute and planned a photo session (stay tuned for pics coming soon!) for the two of us at the same park that we had our engagement pics taken at!!!!! It was so fun and then we went shopping and out to dinner and just had the nicest night!!! Also big in our lives right now is the fact that we're trying to sell our house!!! the day after we returned from Cali we were told that Paul was being transferred to Blackfoot. so we talked that week, put our home on the market and here we are hoping it sells so that we can move closer to work to have more family time. Whew!!! What a mouth-full! Life has been so crazy lately, but if it wasn't crazy what would it be?!

Daddy and his girls at the wedding!

Carter, my little man all dressed up.

Kate in her flower girl dress and her little bouqet! So Pretty!

Can I just say MODEL? She looked so pretty and loved playing princess for a day!

Paul and I with his grandma LaVonne Fairbanks just two days before she died. We were at his grandpa's funeral. We're so glad that we got this picture and had the time to spend with her.