What we have been busy doing :

This is Devins Cherry Galette - it was yummy!

White Chocolate Pumpkin Cheesecake with a Pecan Gingersnap Crust

Chocolate Mousse Toffee Crunch Cake

Candy Cane Brownies for Festival of the Trees

Ho Ho Ho!!

Oh i know that its still a week away from thanksgiving , but really i cannot contain myself any longer! It is so time for Christmas decor to go up! And along with christmas decor comes the discussion of CHRISTMAS CARDS! so my family has never done christmas cards because well we haven't ever had cute pictures to use but this year will be different we are getting some great family pictures done and are so excited. But what i am more excited about is how fricken cute SHUTTERFLYS new holiday card collection is! Here are my favorites :



Just go to Shutterfly.com and upload a picture of your family and pick out a card design and voila! its that easy! and shipping is quick and affordable as well! Its a great way to let distant family know that you are 1. still alive and 2. think about them! now if that doesn't give someone the warm holiday fuzzys i don't know what will!
Do you know what is really awesome? is that if you are a fellow blogger and you want to talk about how great you think shutterfly is, you can get 50 free Christmas cards! WHAT?! FREE!! sweet! http://bit.ly/sfly2010 Really though, we have a photo book from our wedding that was done through shutterfly and it is so beautiful and such good clear quality.

Happy holiday card sending friends!

a long time commin!

Wow so have we been blog slackers or what?! since our last post we have changed out babies name, moved to california, and devin began a new job! CRAZINESS! i have been postponing updating our blog until i had some pictures of our new home to post but i am such a procrastinator and haven't 100% unpacked everything yet! its sad, its terrible, and i should be ashamed but when moving you can unpack to the point of 100% full functionality and then lose the motivation to finish unpacking the last few boxes. But fear not we only have like two boxes left and some decorating upstairs to do before we unveil the pictures of our new home that we absolutely love! We had originally decided on naming the baby benjamin but have since changed it to Brody. We aren't sold on a middle name yet so im not even going to throw out the ones we have been tossing around. I am so excited and grateful for my dear friend Allison and her family for being kind enough for planning and throwing me a shower in December. I love getting together and spending time with family and friends especially when celebrating a little baby! Carter is doing great and still growing tall. He has enjoyed having his mommy at home to take him to the park, play with him, and to be his personal jungle gym and occasional punching bag. I have an ultrasound on the 18th to see if i still have placenta previa, if so i will have to have a c section. Devin started working for his dads business as the office manager. He is loving this new job and excited to start school in January. He is a bit discouraged about the wait times to get into a nursing program but plans on applying to every program within a 50 mile radius! Holiday times are upon us, its my favorite time of year. Friends and Close family and bound to bring cheer! :)

A Birthday Surprise From Allison!

The package arrives!

CUTE Tissue paper!

i LOVE the bracelet! it reads "Forever Friends" on one side and "Share Hopes Fears" on the other!

Aww and a present for baby Benjamin! look! it already fits!!



I love you alli
<3 thank you for being the wonderful friend you are <3

Carter Turns 2!

So Wednesday night was carters actual birthday. I cannot believe i have kept a human alive for two whole years! It has seriously flown by. Sometimes i don't think you notice in just your day to day interactions but when i got back and look at little videos i took or pictures its CRAZY! Carter has been such a joy in our lives. His little personality, which isn't quite so little, can be such a smile maker. And that cute little smile of his and his giggle gets him out of SO much trouble.. he must have learned from his cute cousin Landon who has also mastered the " im way too cute to get in trouble" look. We are so blessed to be parents to such a great little man and look forward to watching him grow and learn :) So to celebrate he got to open up his present from his Grandma Bell and have cupcakes! We are having his pool party on Saturday.

Cristopher Creek

the temperatures have been horrible lately up to 116! I have been so sick that its hard for me to even walk out to the car without the heat making me even more sick. So needless to say i have been cooped up in our air conditioned apartment. Well i tend to get a little stir crazy when held indoors too long so we decided to take a drive up north a little bit past Payson to go to the creek. We had a little picnic and carter played in the creek, it was so nice to sit on the creek bank and feel the breeze against your skin and be able to enjoy the beauty of the outdoors without getting overheated. Carter loved the creek and did great in the car there and back.

So far so good :)

This was me 6 months preggie with carter!

So i had my first doctors appointment and she said that everything looks good and i asked her about my worries because of the mirena and she said there is nothing to worry about! woot woot! We are so excited for this next little journey! I have my first ultrasound in two weeks to get a more accurate measurement on how far along i am and to make sure the little bean is growing well :) I have been experiencing some morning sickness which is not too fun when it hits while i'm doing a facial! yikes! i feel really bloated and the cravings have already started! i have been loving chick-fil-a chicken noodle soup, its seriously delicious, why am i craving soup when its already 100+ degrees outside is beyond me :)

Carter and i leave Wednesday for my family reunion in Paragonah, UT. Devin couldn't get the time off work :/ I'm not looking forward to the drive by myself at all. i'm hoping it will be a lot of fun and that i can feel pretty good during it. It will be fun to take carter camping and i hope that maybe i can get his little booty on an atv with me! haha going VERY slow only through the campsite at first. It would also be great if there was fishing near by so carter could see some fish catching action, i think he would think it was pretty neat!

We have already been throwing some names around for boys and girls and they are pretty darn cute!! :)

a new addition

Devin and i are so excited! We are also very surprised and feel truly blessed at how fast it happened! I am already terrorizing Devin with countless baby names and baby bedding ideas! I have an Estimated due date of Jan 25, 2011, so far away! :) I have my first prenatal appointment tomorrow and am a little nervous just because i have heard some sad stories of woman who got pregnant right away after mirena so keep us in your prayers :)

Could i PLEASE call this home?!

Zoo

We went to the zoo yesterday and had so much fun! My cousin Katie came with and we met up with kelsey and the two kids the nannies for. It was 90 out and felt great! Our first stop was the petting zoo where carter was in love with the little goats! they were so sweet and loved him too! He was funny because he would stand and pet one, he insisted on sitting down with them!





Carter is really great at animal noises. When he saw this african lioness his response was to scream "kitty kitty" really load over and over! lol

This is his first sno cone that he got to share with his cousin Katie! he didn't do to well trying to bite it so we ended up getting a spoon to make it easier. his response was " mmmmm!"

Oh the sting ray encounter exhibit! by far the highlight of the day, so much that we went twice! he loved petting them! he would squeal and just die of giggles every time one would swim up real fast and splash him! it was SOOO hard keeping him out of the water. he seriously wanted to get in and swim with them!









this was such a special treat! a little baboon was sitting right next to the glass with his little face smushed up against it and kept falling asleep. It was so neat that we got to sit so close to one!



Oh it was so much fun! i cannot wait to take carter again next week! With Lyndsey South and her girls!