JAKE, HOLLI, CARDER & BRENN: August 2008

Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Whirlwind

This week has been a whirlwind of events. We had both sides of our family come into town, it was my Mom's birthday, we blessed Carder, my best friend Whitney got married and I was in the wedding party, my best friend Brittney and her daughter Skylee were in town from Georgia and we found out that we are relocating...IN LESS THAN A WEEK! I know whirlwind is definitely an understatement.

We were preparing for the family who were coming into town. I came home from running some of the preparatory errands, Jake sat down and checked his email and was informed that he had been accepted as a transfer student to University of Utah's S.J. Quinney College of Law. The first of our family members arrived a couple hours from getting that news, so this week was filled with fun times with the fam coupled with the stresses of planning a move!!! It'll be a great opportunity for Jake, but I will def miss my fam. With Jake being gone so much due to school and work, I've been over there a lot with the whole pregnancy sickness and then the new baby. Its been great to have them so close. Well, now the heat is on, the last of the Family left this morning and Jake picks up the moving truck on Saturday. We finally secured housing this weekend, so now we've just got to get it all ready in the next 4 or 5 days. (I guess I should be a pro by now since this is our 4th move in less than two years of marriage!) He leaves with the Uhaul Sunday, then Carder and I fly up Thursday.

So here we go back to the cold! Wish me luck because I think I've become a wuss being spoiled with the beautiful San Diego winters!!! But, its going to be great for Jake's law career and I will get to finish school as well (yeah Independent Study, sounds better than it really is)...On that note there will be no allegiance to the U, we still bleed blue through and through!!!

Other than that we had a wonderful week with all of our family who came down for the blessing, it was just nice to spend time with everyone.

Here Are Some Pics from the Last Week:

OCEANSIDE

Carder loves the Beach...I swear he never naps better :) Here is one of our Beach days with the family from last week

WHIT & RYAN'S WEDDING

Blackey, Whitey & Holli all Married Women!!!

Mama with Carder lookin' GQ

CARDER'S BLESSING

Holli & Brittney with their babies

The Fam (not pictured Gma & Gpa Watkins & the kids who were in Primary)

MOM'S BIRTHDAY

Oh my, like my mom and sister don't make me look albino enough...I am pretty sure my son who's never seen the sun has more of a tan than me!!!

CARDER

Carder is smiling all the time these days...here are a few attempts at capturing the smile that melts my heart

Sunday, August 3, 2008

2 MONTHS

These are of Carder when he turned 2 months. He had to go to the doctor and get his 2 month shots that day. It was horrible, my mom came with me and held him while he got them because I couldn't even watch. I don't think I appreciated how good of a baby Carder is until this. After his shots Carder was definitely not himself for a few days. But we were able to capture a few of before his shots (while he was still happy).

A swing is an amazing thing! Carder is not a normal baby, he doesn't sleep. I'll get him to sleep and then put him down and when I come back to check on him there he is just staring at the ceiling wide awake. But the swing puts him right to sleep as well as allows Jake and I to eat dinner with out having to take turns eating :)

This weekend we went to San Clemente to the Beach. Carder absolutely loved it! The waves made him take the best nap ever and he loved just sitting on our laps and looking at the waves. He is smiling a lot these days, these are the closest thing I have gotten to capturing his smile, not the greatest but better than nothing.

JOHN MAYER

For my birthday Jake got us tickets to go see John Mayer in San Diego. So this last Tuesday my mom watched Carder and Jake and I had our first big night out since the baby. We went to dinner Downtown at one of our favorite places that looks over the bay and then went on to enjoy Mr. Mayer's musical talents. It was way fun, though the next morning Jake and I realized we aren't as youthful as we used to be as we were struggling to stay awake because of our late night (this is def a new phase of life because a couple years ago it would have been considered normal if not an early night...man we're getting old!)