Happy 1st Birthday Carter!

July 26th was Carter's 1st birthday. I can not believe that it has already been a year. (and just for the record, this is the longest I have gone with out being pregnant since I've started having kids! my mom pointed that out to me.) Anyway, we had a party for Carter on Sunday and on Friday Nick's parents came over. Carter was so cute. He had a lot of fun opening presents and he didn't really like sharing too much. When I asked him how old he was he put up his finger and was so proud that he knew how to do it. (I put up mine first)

He had fun getting messy in the cake but he didn't really like it on his fingers. He just wanted to feed it to everyone else. We had a lot of fun and are so thankful to have Carter in our family

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"Daddy, Bad Guy"

I should have posted this before now, but I am not very good at remembering to do it. Anyway, In Kemmerer every year they have a big fossilfest and it is a pretty big deal (we just learned), and Nick was asked to be in the melodrama. He was the villain and did a great job. The kids always talk about Daddy being bad. We were saying a prayer the day that he was to perform and I was helping Trevor, I told him to say help dad to do good in the play and he quickly said "please help dad to be bad." He turned to me when the prayer was over and said, "Mom, we can't say help daddy to do good because he is a bad guy." It was pretty cute. Abby was not to sure about dad being naughty, she cried after he came up close to her with his costume on. Now anytime we drive past the park where the play took place the kids say, "that is where we watched dad be bad." "Daddy, bad guy." Pretty funny kids.



I was also asked to be involved in fossilfest. I was asked by my bishop a week before if I would get together with the other wards and do an LDS float for the parade. I didn't get much help from the other wards but a few people from my ward came and helped me and we came up with this float to go along with the "welcome to the jungle" theme.









Abby was a fan of the cotton candy!

Home again, home again!

We are finally home for a little while. I have not posted anything for a long time because we have basicallly been gone the whole month of June. We have been home a day or two here and there but not much. A lot of our time was spent in Idaho, like I said in my last post we were there for an anniversary and family reunions. Then this last weekend we went to Boise because Nick's good friend from high school got married. Nick took of friday and monday and we just made a big vacation out of it. His other good friend and his wife came down too and we stayed in the same hotel and played and hung out with them. We went to a birds of prey museum and thay was really cool. We saw some really big birds and the kids really enjoyed it. We went swimming at the hotel a couple of times and that is always fun. We bought some cool little rafts that have squirt guns in them and we sure had some fun with those. We just really enjoyed being together as a family and taking it easy. We liked Boise, in fact Nick liked it so much that he just kept mentioning it and asking if I wanted to move there. Don't worry though, I told hime that I am not moving again for a long time. I am sick of it. He quickly agreed, but still really likes Boise. Anyway, We are home and just getting back into the swing of things. We had a couple days of laundry and watering the yard really good but I think we are back to just being us and back into our normal everyday schedule (ha, ha like I really have a schedule).

Dinosaur Park

My sister Nikki and her husband Trent came home from Arizona to visit for a week in June. While they were here we went to Utah and stayed at my parents time share condo and spent a day in Ogden just playing around. My sisters, Trent and I went sky diving (kind of). The have an indoor sky diving place and we decided to try it out. It was really a lot of fun and if anyone is interested we have it on dvd. Anyway, we also went to a dinosaur park and boy oh boy was Trevor in hog heaven. Here are a couple of pictures from that.



























I am not going to lie when I say that my favorite part didn't have anything to do with the dinosaurs. We saw a mother duck with ten little ducklings playing around in the water. It was so cute. I don't think that I had ever seen baby ducks before. Anyway, the dinosaur park was really cool and we had a lot of fun. Thanks dad for taking us!

Alaska bear shirts

My parents, brother and his girlfriend all went on a cruise to Alaska the first part of June. My parents brought the kids these really cute t-shirts that have polar bears on them. We had just got back from bear world when they gave them to us so the kids really really love them. They also got stuffed animals from bear world, Trevor chose a polar bear and Abby chose a white wolf that actually looks like a bear. Carter's shirt has a moose on it, which worked out good because we got him a stuffed moose. Thank you mom and dad!

The first week of June we went to Island Park in Idaho. We went for Nick's great Grandparents 100th Anniversary. Yes, that is right, if his great grandparents were still alive they would have celebrated their 100th anniversary. So the family all got together and did a session in the temple and then had a big get together afterwards. It was such a neat experience. There were probably 70 family members present at the session and over 300 at the luncheon. ALL BECAUSE TWO PEOPLE FELL IN LOVE! Anyway, we decided to make a big trip out of it because Nick's grandparents have a cabin in Island park. There was alot of family at the cabin too. It was really good to see everyone. The day before we went to the temple we went to Bear World and then stayed in a motel that night. Bear world is owned by Nick's mom's aunt. Anyway, the kids had a blast. At first we just drove through the park and looked at buffalo, elk, albino elk, bears, and wolves. Then we went to the petting zoo where the kids got to pet deer (brand new babies that were a week old, so cute), pet all kinds of birds, feed some goats and just have fun being that close to animals. We watched the baby cubs play and play, and then the highlight was the rides. The rides were free with the park admission fee so we just rode all of the rides over and over. Carter was not a fan of the rides that were bumpy but he liked the train ride and the spinning bears. Trevor and Abby had a blast. The first picture is all of us in the spinning bear and the second picture is all of us on the train. We sure had a lot of fun. To end the exciting day, we went to our motel, ordered pizza and went swimming. It was almost more than the kids could handle and the slept really well that night. We love to play hard!