Thanksgiving In Utah

The week before Thanksgiving my Mom came up to Vegas and picked me and Carder up to bring us back to California.  That week we celebrated Jaxon's 4th birthday and I got some much needed help with the little guy while I was having some pretty bad sick days with the little bambino in the belly.

Saturday we flew from California to Utah to meet up with Jake and his family.  Carder was amazing on the flight! Oh my gosh he just sat there and watched the little TV (even though once he did change it from the cartoons I had on for him to ESPN College Game day and let me know "Mom I want to watch this" ), read books and looked out the window.  I guess I haven't flown with him since I had to fight him to stay on my lap, so this experience was SOOO refreshing!

For Thanksgiving week this year we went to visit Jake's family in Utah.  I don't know what it is about me but every time we make a trip up there there it decides to dump snow (even when our trip is in May!?!).  Carder was excited about my curse though since our first night there he got to go outside and play in the fluffy white stuff and build a snowman with his Grandma. (Is it just me or does he look like the little brother in "A Christmas Story" with all his winter layers?).

Carder is usually not a fan of being cold, but he had such a blast with Grandma he could have stayed out there all night

Carder loved playing with his cousins Caleb and Jaynie...

and getting to see all his aunts and uncles...

Carder loved all the time he got to spend with his uncle Coleman.  Cole just got done with his first season of pop warner football, and also takes guitar lessons (two things that Carder thinks are pretty much the coolest things ever), so he would just follow Cole around everywhere.


One day Cole let him wear his football helmet...Carder wore it all morning...


He posed with it...

He watched "wiggles" wearing it...

While we were up there we had the opportunity to go see the exhibit at BYU's Museum of Art.  Its a bunch of paintings from Carl Bloch...super cool if you are there anytime from now til May I would definitely recommend going to that.  Anyway we are trying to explain to Carder we are at BYU, we show him the Y on the mountain, point out the campus etc.  Then as we are leaving, we drive by the football stadium and he starts yelling "BYU!" and then goes on to tell us he is gonna tackle the guys and put points on the scoreboard.  Seriously thats what it takes for him to realize he's at BYU...Oh Jake what have you done to him!

It was a fun week with the Fam...Thanks everyone for a great Thanksgiving!

Nauseous

A couple weeks ago we found out that we would be expecting baby number 2 in June of 2011.  Carder is so excited to be a big brother.  He'll lay across my belly giving it a hug and a kiss and say "I'm your big brudder."  Or the other day when Carder and I were talking to my sister Brittany on Skype she asked him what kind of baby was in his Mommys tummy... he told her "a sister" (I am not sure if he really wants a little girl or has just only really been around girl babies so he just figures all babies are girls?).  Then Brittany goes on to ask him what we should name his baby.  He thinks about it for a second and then tells her, "nauseous!" (He got quite the response from her on that one, so will repeat that whenever anyone asks him that same question now).

I was really scared to do to pregnancy thing again since I got so sick last time with Carder, but he has been so good with everything and such a good little helper.  I have been feeling sick the past few weeks and he has been so cute about it.  He'll give my tummy kisses to make it feel better (oh the magic the boo boo kiss has to a toddler), or when he and Jake took Carder to the grocery store the other day, Carder tells Jake "We need to get Mommy some ginger-ale so she doesn't feel nauseous."  (I have been trying everything to kick the nausea, and the current studies are saying ginger helps, so I've tried that and even popping chunks of sushi grade ginger...I still don't know that I am too convinced).  Or when I am having a tough day he''ll go run over to the pantry and say, "I'm gonna get you someping special," then he'll grab something totally random to bring to me (i.e. a tostada shell, toddler teething biscuit (why those are still in my pantry I don't know) or whatever else he can reach) and asks "that make you feel better Mom?"  So even though I haven't been feeling my best, its hard to get too down with him being so sweet and helpful all the time.

We had a doctors appointment earlier this month and everything is looking good.  I was a little nervous about finding a new doctor since I had such a good experience with the one I had in San Diego, but after the appointment I feel optimistic.  He told me we would do everything we could to keep me off of at home IV since taking the Phennergan suppository up through my 7th or 8th month isn't really an option this time since I have a 2 1/2 year old to take care of.  So he sent me home with something like 5 or 6 prescriptions so that we can try and stay ahead of the sickness (I seriously felt like my great grandma as I walked out with my shopping bag full of meds from CVS), but so far it has been controlled well and even though I don't feel the greatest, I haven't had any major episodes that would send me to the ER like I did with Carder (formally known as the parasite), so I can't really complain.  We are excited for the new addition to our family this summer (its just too bad the whole stork myth can't be true).

Halloween Weekend

Halloween is my Dad's favorite holiday.  To him it may just be bigger then Christmas.  He and Jaxon kept asking us if we'd come down to go trick or treating with them, but since we'd just made the trip down, a couple weeks ago, we declined.  But Saturday, Jake and I decided what the heck, and decided to make the road trip and surprise them. I'm glad we did too because Carder had such a good time.

Saturday was my Parents ward party/trunk or treat.  This time Carder was adamant on wearing the pirate hat.  Jaxon is Octomus Prime (the transformer).

I experienced the most amazing Chili of my life this night.  There was seriously 30+ pots of different kinds of soups and Chilies, but there was this one Cuban style one that sort of reminded me of a Cafe Rio Shredded pork burrito made into a chili...SO YUMMY! 

(Mom & Dad I seriously need you guys to get me that recipe!)

After dinner the kids went inside for some games and a costume contest...Carder won best costume for the 3 and under category.

Carder showing of his prize for winning...it was a light up ghost necklace.  I don't think he understood that he won a contest really, but he was quite happy about the prize.

Me with the boys

This guy in my parents ward came dressed as a member if KISS and Carder was totally infatuated.  He has seen the Dr Pepper commercial a few times and every time he sees their (KISS) picture (in the grocery store etc) he says "The Cherry Song!"  It took me forever to figure out what he was talking about (Its amazing how young they are affected by commercials!)...anyway at the party he kept asking us if he could go see Dr Pepper.  But then when Jake took him over there he got a little scared (as you can tell in the picture).  But he just wanted to stand next to "Dr Pepper" and look at him all night. Since then we have had to download "Calling Dr Love" from I Tunes and this has been his rock song of choice as of late.

Checking out their spoils from the Trunk or Treat

Halloween night was a little bit colder then I anticipated, so we raided Jaxon's dress up box and Carder decided to be Iron Man since we could put warm clothes under it better then the Pirate costume.

The Super Boys

 We started off with the mask, but it kept falling off or sliding down so he couldn't see, so by the time we left, it got ditched...

And the trick or treaters were off...

 They were so stinkin cute holding hands down the street

Carder may have loved the peoples decorations more then the candy.  There was this one that he called "The Ghost Ball" that he was especially intrigued by.  When you walked in front of it, it talked to you.  Lets just say, he is still talking about the ghost ball and how he needs one at his house.

 I couldn't get over how ginormous Carder looked walking hand in hand with Jake while he was trick or treating!

Another night of scoring a ton of candy...

Happy Halloween!!!

Trunk or Treat

Last Tuesday we had our ward Halloween Party/Trunk or Treat.  It blew my mind that this what the first Trunk or Treat Jake had ever attended.  Carder loved it.  He was a little timid with the games inside, but did really well going up to the cars, saying, "Trick or Treat" and "Thank You."

Carder in his Pirate costume (It took a little coercion to get it on him, but no matter what I did he wouldn't wear the hat)

He would only do one game...It was this one that he put a fishing pole over a sheet and when you got it back it had a prize attached to it.  He was quite proud of his glow stick.

Carder thought he was so big trick or treating with Will (who is 6, and who Carder absolutely adores)

Will & Carder (he was so sweet to stay with Carder the whole time)

Carder was WAY into the candy aspect this year.  We have had to hide his bucket from time to time.  He must have gotten that from his dad because at my house growing up we never finished our Halloween Candy.  By the next Halloween our candy bowl would still have candy in it from the last year.