A little update

I'm not going to take the time to edit any of this so all the writing is at the bottom. There will be more pictures of our new house coming soon.




I grew these tomatoes at our apartment

Kyle left on his mission to Peru

Carters and his cousin Natalie. She is a month older than him.

We moved into our new house so that's my excuse for not blogging. Any way Carter is almost 8 months now and last night was his first time sleeping without waking up every three hours. I painted his room blue and I read that babies sleep better in blue rooms. I'm sure that's not why he slept but it's going to be my excuse for all the hard work that I did painting on our wonderful textured walls (that's sarcastic! Textured walls are horrible and very hard to paint).

Lucy is almost 3 and is even more sassy than ever! She doesn't like to share with other kids but she is usually good about letting Carter play with her stuff. Yesterday, the At&T guy was here fixing our computer and he walked into our office where Lucy had left a game spread out on the floor. Lucy says hey don't step on my stuff (imagine that with attitude head bobbing and hand motions) I was kinda shocked and embarrassed. What do you say to that?! Hopefully she will be starting preschool soon and then maybe she will learn some social skills that don't require bossing other people around.

New things and cute things

A cute thing


My new hair color


Lucy is a bug

our new stroller

Zack came home

Christian got old all of a sudden

watching the super bowl

Disneyland and Baby blessing

We blessed Carter last Sunday. We waited till everyone could be here. That means that Carter was two months old and extra Large. I wasn't sure if the guys in the circle would be able to hold him through the whole blessing. At his two month appointment he weighted 13.10 and 23 in. long. The Dr. said he was as big as a 4 or 5 month old. Since Tyler's whole family was here we took the opportunity to go to Disney land. We also had David take pictures of Brooklyn and Lucy. Thanks David!
Carters Blessing!

Cute pictures of The Doxeys and Browns. (Feel free to steal these Heidi and Nikki)

Baby Carter

I know it's been forever but I hate to blog. This blog took me four hours to do so you better enjoy it. Haha. I love to hear peoples birthing stories I hope you do to cause here is mine!
By December 1st I swore that I was going to have him any day. I had contractions all the time I was dilated to a 3 and 60% effaced not to mention the fact that I was huge! Well, I past my due date which was December 31st. My Doctor had me come in on January 5th for an ultra sound and stress test. Carter was measuring over 9lbs and was turned face up. I thought oh great this is going to hurt! He sent us to the hospital to have them monitor my contractions. When I got there they checked me and I was dilated to a 5-6 and was having regular contractions. My contractions really never hurt me. I was having the same type of contractions for the past month. They usually don't give an epidural till your dilated to a 3 so since I was almost a 6 they gave me an epidural and then started me on pitocin. I didn't feel pain the entire time. At around 1:30am I felt my water brake and that I needed to push. The Doctor came in I pushed like 3 times and he was out. 8.08lbs 19in long. He had trouble keeping his temperature up so he had to go to the NICU that night to be under a heat lamp but other than that he was perfectly healthy. The pictures are out of order (one of the reasons this has taken me four hrs) but at least I did a blog!



this is Lucy right after she was born.

Carter loves to lay on my lap

Brooklyn and Lucy

He had super long finger nails and I couldn't wait to cut them.

Before I had him. No pain!

We Love Our Lucy!

"Jacket-lantern"

We carved pumpkins. Lucy calls them "Jacket-Lanterns." She loved cleaning the pumpkins out and we ended up with some creative "Jacket-Lanterns," two of Lucys favorite things!




Lucys Monkey

DJ Lance from YO Gabba Gabba!

Papi, the master carver!

Lucy is two!

My little Lu is two! She is 31 pounds 95% and 35in tall 85%. I blew up a bunch of balloons for her to wake up to in the morning. Actually Tyler and Jennifer blew the balloons up. I tried but my belly felt like it was going to pop every time I did one. We threw a little birthday party for her at Lindsey and Davids house.

I made Lucy a monkey cake. The mold that I used was supposed to be a bear so the whole time I was worried about it looking like a bear plus Tyler and Jennifer's husband Justin both thought it looked like a bear. So after it was finished (the night before Lucy's birthday) I held it up to show Lucy and asked her what it was. She ran over to it with excitement and yelled out a monkey cake! She knew what it was!


I was surprised at how excited she was to open presents. She loved every moment of it!

Everyone was so generous and Lucy ended up with lots of gifts! To many for a two year old.



One of the presents that her daddy got her . Yetters!!